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Your favourite delay

#2
TC Flashback - versatile, affordable, some very good sounds in there, and it has a no-frills looper that's good enough for practice use. The lack of a loop level control is a bit of a drag, but you can roll back your instrument volume for backing tracks and get by just fine. The strum to set tempo thing is handy too, as i can strum better than i can tap in time.

There are perhaps better sounding delays, with wilder sounds, but I personally dont need them, and it's analog delay impression is pretty close to a Carbon Copy, which is also very cool but a different animal. I like using toneprints more than I thought i would. I have a very minimal pedal board ~(4 pedals), and for me simplicity/versatility balance is important. I have a HOF mini too, which gets a similar thumbs-up review - simple, sounds good, affordable, solid.
 
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Line6 Echo Park. Compact. Affordable. Tap-tempo. Stereo ins and outs. Nice assortment of different delay effects - swell, reverse, patterns, etc... Nice overall sound. I like plugging into the left input, patching the left output back to the right input, and coming out of the right output. Even cooler - patch another modulation effect, like a phaser or flanger, between the left out/right in. Trippy!

~ Charlie
 
#5
I'll give my own favourite 2: tc electronic alter ego. Same as the flashback, but with 2 extra delay types. Like the versitality of the pedal. There are however beter sounding pedals than this one.

Only con: the strumtempo... i find it hard to use, not so handy. I would have loved for it to have an extra taptempobutton, or input for one
 
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Flashback x4
LOVE this thing. Tap Tempo, a few presets, great sounds.

I have owned and extensively used (real) Watkins Copicat, Echoplex, Space Echo, Boss DM-100, PCM42, Moogerfooger, MemoryMan....
Bad emulations and tone suckers bum me out (digital Space Echo, Line 6 etc).
When I dial up a tone with the Flashback, I am thrilled.

Unless you are looking for some crazy sound mangling/filtering/routing options, this thing HAS to be tried.
 
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So far, its the DOD DFX9 Digital Delay. It allows me to do oscillating sweeps that I havent been able to replicate on any other delay Ive tried. Simply bad a**. Love that old delay. for being digital it sounds pretty analogue as well. It has quite a few options on it and you can even sample/loop little parts. Its a great delay. Im also partial to my other delay, the Hardwire DL8. Lot of delay types and it operates and functions simply and easily. It also has a small looper in it. I would also have to say that I really dig the Line 6 DL4. Ive never had one but I will one of these days. Ive seen it in action and I think its one of the best delays around.
 
#8
I really like my Caroline Kilobyte. Nice modulation on the repeats, as well as the ability to 'overdrive' the repeats. But the best part is the chaos switch.

Then again, I should be receiving the Fairfield Meet Maude within the next 2 weeks. I definitely foresee keeping both, but we will have to wait and see which one gets more playing time. Or perhaps the combo will prove mind blowing...
 
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JensCambre said:
By the way, I'm suprised no one has mentioned any one of the boss dd's.
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DD-7. Versatile (analog mode, modulated delay, can be used as chorus) and sounds right to my ears. I sold my first DD-7 to get tuner pedal for incoming gigs, but missed it bad, so bought it back when I had finances and it has been on my board since.
I've tried Line6 DL-4, EHX Memory Man, but they didn't work for me at all.
 
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nodisco said:
DD-7. Versatile (analog mode, modulated delay, can be used as chorus) and sounds right to my ears. I sold my first DD-7 to get tuner pedal for incoming gigs, but missed it bad, so bought it back when I had finances and it has been on my board since.
I've tried Line6 DL-4, EHX Memory Man, but they didn't work for me at all.
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Great! do you use an extra 'tapper' for taptempo?
 
#14
I have a few delays in my collection. But when it comes to analog warmth, and just the sound of it, my favorite is the DOD Fx90. Although I will say this, it doesn't do the trails when disengaged which I love. But I'm not sure any OG analog delays do anyways
 
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I'm currently using the Boss DD-20 gigadelay. It's big and the bypass is a bit noisy, so I'll probably get a bypass looper. But it has presets! And trails and tap tempo and a looper and a few different delay types. and a tone knob, and it can do stereo if I ever need that. And the dry signal has a full analog path at all times, which is very nice.

Oh, and when you switch presets, you get trails from one preset overlapping with the next preset, very very cool.

The next step up would be a Strymon Timeline, which is way more money. So I'm pretty happy.
 

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