Favorite delay pedal?

I'm currently using a Boss DD5. It's a great pedal, but I'd be interested in trying an analog delay to get more "vibe". I seem to remember really liking a Maxon delay. T-Rex Replica seems to be highly regarded, but is extremely pricey. What about the EH Memory Man?

I'm currently using a Boss DD5. It's a great pedal, but I'd be interested in trying an analog delay to get more "vibe". I seem to remember really liking a Maxon delay. T-Rex Replica seems to be highly regarded, but is extremely pricey. What about the EH Memory Man?

I'm really liking my TC Nova Delay.

my first act delay pedal has been a hugh suprise, nice and cheap too, I realize that dirt in the repeats may not suit everyone but it suits me just fine. Bil

It's digital but a warm sounding delay; it gets good reviews in this regard.

Picked up a Danelectro Dan-Echo on ebay for 30.00, great for slapback, pretty analog sounding. Friend of my has a Line 6 DL4 , does the clean digital thing great, but expensive.

well the Dan-Echo is none-too-shabby for the price of a used one these days
but I really like the Digitech 1002 from the 1980s - it's a blue rectangular
box with a "repeat" feature much like an Echoplex.. I've been using the
same one for about 12 years now and I picked it up used from my local
GC for way less than $50 if I recall correctly?! can't recommend it enough
y'all.

I even dig the cheap lil' plastic-cased Dan-O slapback for live use as ain't
nobody going to be able to tell it's sucking some tone up there!! :lol:

but I'd take a Roland Space Echo or an Echoplex were I to ever come
across a great deal for either..

I might get laughed out of here but the biggest surprise pedal I've got is the Dano mini pb&j delay. I've had it a number of years and its held up well and sounds incredible. The slap back is awesome and the longer delays even more so. It's a very organic delay and I love it. I'm curious about the Boss RE-20 as the space echo is the sound I really like but I don't want the hassle of maintaining one. The pb&j gives an approximation of the space echo sound (very non-digital sounding) on the cheap.

I just picked up a used memory man deluxe for $75 bucks. It's very warm and very very COOL! I owned a DL4 for a short period of time it was really versatile and had tap tempo, but i just didnt have the funds to keep it.

I really like my Danelectro Wasabi Rock-A-Bye for slapback echo sounds!

I like my Danelectro 'Reel Echo' pedal. It sounds somehow more 'natural' than my Boss RV3 ( Delay / Reverb ). I use it mainly for 'slapback' echo.

maxon ad80 never play with out it

I've been using a Dan Echo for a while and have been *very* happy with it. I decided to try the Line6 Echo Park, and though I haven't had much chance to play with it, it seems pretty danged cool.

I took it to a jam with fellow TDPRI-ers this weekend and those who tried it said that the slapback effect is worth the price alone, and it has so many other different modes that I don't see how you can go wrong.

If you'd asked me a coouple of weeks ago I'd have said a boss dd3, but for sheer value & great tone Im absolutely blown away by the 1st act delay....its warm, it has vibe, & its cheap!Possibly the 2nd best purchase Ive ever made...(the 1st being a tele).

see the thread located a bit further down this page....

For analog, really WARM, "blooming" repeats, I love my Retro-Sonic Analog Delay, 600ms is always enough in my world. For a little clearer, but still warm, vintage sounding, but more in the tape realm, I love my Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay. Fantastic "ambience" type delay. Two fantastic delays, better reliability and sound compared to the Replica, IMHO.

Boss DM2


For once the hype is justified

I've become partial to the smart people factory I-5 Delay.

http://www.asharpmusicco.com/effects/effectart/spfi5.jpg

eh memory man is very warm. slapback to psychadelic.

I really like my new AnalogMan AR20DL - nice warm sound, 300ms, although Mike also sells an XL 600ms version. Great with my 5e3 and BF deluxe. They're hard to catch in stock at his online shop, though.

More info here: http://www.analogman.com/delay.htm

Red Repeat by Carl Martin is affordable, great sounding, mellowish, tape echolike delay.

http://www.carlmartin.com/product%20red%20repeat.htm

For analog, really WARM, "blooming" repeats, I love my Retro-Sonic Analog Delay, 600ms is always enough in my world. For a little clearer, but still warm, vintage sounding, but more in the tape realm, I love my Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay. Fantastic "ambience" type delay. Two fantastic delays, better reliability and sound compared to the Replica, IMHO.

The sound clips for the Retro-Sonic delay sound great. I was interested in their chorus pedal a while back but they didn't have any sound clips at the time. That one sounds great too, but I think they have the depth set too high.

Honestly, for my money nothing beats (Or even comes close) to the sound of a tape delay. I love both the tube and solid state driven versions of the Echoplex, and the very expensive Fulltone Tube Tape Echo is a whole 'nother world.

For pedal type echos I love the Freakshow Digilog. It's digital, but it sounds like a great analog unit.

I have tape haunting my dreams!

DM-2

The Dan Echo is great for the money. I prefer it over the Boss DD series.

i still use my fender delay from the 80's. i love it.

I love my Deluxe Memory Man. Little pricey, but it does quite a bit.

Rocktron Short Timer Retro Delay

Not expensive

Just works for me, I guess.

What's the opinion on the Ibanez AD9?

Digitech Digidelay!

For those of you liking the Boss DM-2, the Retro-Sonic Analog Delay is modelled after the DM-2, but is supposed to sound at least just as good, but also has much better reliability, AND less noise.

I got a Marshall Echohead, to replace a Carl Martin Red Repeat. Been a month or so, really pleased so far.

DL4 - so far, so good...

I currently use three delays, two on a board, and one extra when I don't want to drag the board out. On the board is a DM-2 set mostly for slapback, and a DD-5 set for long delays and a footcontroller attached to do tap tempo. The dd-5 was my first delay pedal, and I actually hated it when I first got it. It sounded way too digital and ate batteries in about 30min requiring a power adaptor to be used. I had analogman mod it many years ago and now with the high cut mod, I actually really like the sound. My extra pedal is an old ibanez ad9, which is a bit brighter than the dm-2. I once owned an old echoplex, that sounded pretty funky but was a pain to use and was noisey. The pedals are just way easier to use. I've been tempted by some of the newer pedals out there to simplify my board. I'm interested in an older maxon ad900 or the retro-sonic delay. I have the retro-sonic chorus and think it is fantastic, especially since I'm not too much of a chorus fan to begin with. I would loose tap-tempo with the retro-sonic but I would gain 3 spots on my pedal board as it would cover both slap and long delays with the press of a button. The diamond memory lane pedal also looks good but it is a bit too pricy for me, as well as the t-rex. I think I would like the eh deluxe memory man but the thing is just physically too big. Alternatively, if I ever found the analogman delay in stock, I think I would grab it. All in all, I just like the older bucket brigade based designs. I'm glad a few companies are still making clones.

For simple and warm analog Delay I use my Analogman AR20DL.

I saw an Boss DM-3 delay on musicgoround.com for $199

I'm happy with my Danelectro Dan Echo.

Tried a Boss DM-2 the other day. It was cool, but not all that.

/ Tony

EH Deluxe Memory Man

EH Deluxe Memory Man

Me too!!
I also like the little Guyatone MD-3 and MD-2.

I love my old Digitech PDS-1002.

I've had it since the 80s, and other than replacing the footswitches, it's served me very well.

I saw an Boss DM-3 delay on musicgoround.com for $199

I bought a used one from a shop not too far from me last week for $35.

EHX Deluxe Memory Man. It goes where I go. My favorite pedal, period. :grin:

I also had a Boss DD-2 (1984 made, I think), which was also very good, if you can find one used at a decent price, go for it.

I use a visual sound H2O and it sounds very analog,plus it also has chorus and is very quite.

woo, yeah.. that Visual Sound H2O is not bad AT ALL!

I'd plumb forgot I even had one but I do and I like it although
I haven't used it recently for whatever reason..

I love that tape echo sound, so probably will own an EPlex or space echo someday. In the meantime, the H&K Replex sounds so good I feel no urgency about investing in a tape unit. This is a digital unit, but you'd never know it from the sound. A real tube in here, and real tone. My main delay for years has been a Maxon AD 999. Love that warm analog sound. But now the Replex is number one ... I can't turn it off.

After much experimenting, I really love the Blackbox Quicksilver. It is very flexible, plus it has a "secret weapon"; an effects loop. Why you say? To add a compressor to the delay signal. It has two switchable channels for long and short delays. The compressor in the loop is what makes this thing sound like an old Echoplex. Love it. If you really want that big, expansive Edge or EJ tape echo sound, this is it.

I like my Dan Echo as well. Plus, I saw a page that had pictures of some of the gear that the members of Pearl Jam have used on different albums and Stone used a Dan Echo around the time Riot Act came out. That's enough for a fan like me.

I bought a used one from a shop not too far from me last week for $35.

Gee does the guy have anymore?

I've been through many delays, cheap and expensive, over the years, and my favorite warm delay is the T Rex Replica. The way the repeats decay is ideal to my ears.

I'm currently using a Boss DD5. It's a great pedal, but I'd be interested in trying an analog delay to get more "vibe". I seem to remember really liking a Maxon delay. T-Rex Replica seems to be highly regarded, but is extremely pricey. What about the EH Memory Man?

i made some sound-clips, using a Stratocaster and a cheap Laney LC-15 amp to compare a Boss DD-3 a BBE Two Timer(Boss DM-2 clone) and a T-Rex Replica:

http://delay.hu/post-delay-osszehasonlitas.html

I just retired my '87 DD-3 in favor of a cmatmods deeelay. I absolutely love it.

For something a little different I really like my Roland RE-201 Space Echo reissue, the BOSS RE-20.

CARBON COPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!

Love my digidelay on the tape setting.

It's a toss up between my Boss DM-3 Echo Delay and Boss CE-2 Chorus.

I just retired my '87 DD-3 in favor of a cmatmods deeelay. I absolutely love it.

Hey BaltimoreDan. Welcome to the TDPRI.

Funny you should mention the deeelay from cmatmods. I was looking at it earlier today and am somewhat interested.

My favorites (I like digital delays):

Line 6 DL-4 - holy-crap-everything-and-the-kitchen-sink delay. I love its looper more than anything though.
Boss DD-3 - almost the de-facto standard of compact delays (well, this or the DD-6 depending on how much time you need). Oh, and self-oscillation - sweet.
Boss GigaDelay - Warp. Nuff said.
Digitech Digidelay - hands down the best $100 you can spend on a new delay. It's not the best at any one thing (IMHO), but it does a good job at lots of things.
Danelectro Dan-Echo - my first delay pedal. God, I was (and am) in love with that analog warmth.

I have 2 delays on my pedaltrain board the T Rex Replica and the Carbon Copy delay.I'm diggin' the Carbon Copy it's great for the chicken pickin' stuff Love the analog warmth.I've had the T Rex for over a year now and I simply LOVE it.I've never been a HUGE digital delay fan but this box sounds awesome it's a bit expensive but it's gonna be on my board for a while.HeyBatimoreDan welcome to the Tele Page I live down in Wheaton Silver Spring area give me a shout sometime i'm doin' a bunch of live gigs around town.DblStop aka Mark Moree

Boss DM2
For once the hype is justified

I've had one of these for about 10 years, and it's my favorite delay. I'm kind of a delay freak, so I've owned and tried a ton. This includes, but is not limited to the following:
DOD FX9
DOD DFX90
Digitech PDS-1000
Digitech PDS-8000 rack
Boss DD-3
Memory man
Line 6 DL-4

Plus a bunch of multi effect rack units
Digitech Valve FX
Various Alesis units

On a budget, the Ibanez DE-7 is great.

Also, teh BBE two timer is a great clone of the DM-2.

Ben Adrian

i use both a ibanez ad9 and a boss dd2.
they are both great pedals, very good sounding and i use them as a slap back effect.
the ibanez is a bit darker as the boss dd2, which is also very warm sounding, though it´s a digital delay. i normaly use the ibanez delay for slower songs and fake steel bends and when it comes to a fast twanging, i use the boss delay. it´s hard to say, which is my favorite one....

zoppotrump
:O)

I love my little Carbon Copy...nice slapback,warm sound and zero noise! :wink:
http://www.americanmusical.com/ProductImages/Large/49323.jpg

Mine is an early 80s Ibanez DL10. Warm, analogue-y sound though it is digital. I've used several boss products, but this pedal is a diamond in the rough.

+ on the Boss DD2. It's one of the MIJ models which I have read are better than later models but I've never compared them side by side.

I've had mine since the early 90's when I got it second hand.

http://www.protoolerblog.com/wp-content/uploads/boss_re20.jpg

http://www.protoolerblog.com/wp-content/uploads/boss_re20.jpg

i second that!

my first ever post! :mrgreen:

The fantastic Maxon AD-900 has been on the board for years now, the nice and dark echoes never seem to bore us. That said, The tap-tempo/modulation circuit/very flexible hi+lo pass filter and other goodies on the new Moollon Delay that just ended up in my hands is honestly proving to be quite nice...We're doing a proper studio demo early next week and will post for those interested.

Did this quick demo for the shortscale.org bunch... http://youtube.com/watch?v=B3NGmB3YT2g

Belcat

Subdecay Echobox. Check out the demos on youtube.

i use the Ibanez AD-9 right now. These things actually sound good to me! I have an orignal Boss DM-2 the i love as well (more brighter than the AD-9)...dunno the AD-9 has a certain meat and potatoes yet really tight and focused kinda sound to it....both have good buffers btw to me as far as bypass tone goes etc... i am kinda seeing that even though these delays only go up to 300ms, they so easily compliment your actual sound that they are great for just creating some atmosphere to your true sound....which is all i look for or need

i have a dd-6 too for the digital needs....but try not to go down that road...personally speakin' of course :roll: