Two new toys: Hardwire Reverb and Boss DD-7

[jimd]

So my wife bought me an Orange Tiny Terror amp for my birthday. It's a great amp. Perfect for me and I love it. But it doesn't have reverb.

So I went pedal shopping on the internet. I ended up with a Digitech Hardwire Reverb. I also wanted a delay, so I got the Boss DD-7

The Hardwire pedal is great. It is really well put together and looks to be a quality piece of hardware. The sound is excellent. There are several reverbs to choose from. The only one that won't get any play from me is the reverse reverb, more of a gimmick than anything. The spring reverb, hall, room, and plate sounds are all great. I would definitely recommend it.

I went with the Boss delay because I couldn't beat the features for the price. I really wanted to find something with true bypass, but I ended up punting and buying the boss. I wanted to mess around with some U2 songs and the dotted eighth tap tempo is great for that. I also like that it has a 40 second looper on it. I haven't messed around too much with it beyond the U2 like delays. The slapback type setting seems very usable to me. It seems like you typical boss pedal, good not great.

[Bozo Bus]

Sweet wife! Have her give Mrs. Bozo a call, would you?

It's my understanding there is a mod to turn the DD-7 true by-pass, I could be wrong.... If I remember correctly, if one can burn oneself with a soldering iron, one can perform this mod...... Having said that, if Mrs. Bozo saw me taking a soldering iron to a new toy I dropped some scratch on... Well, you know the story.
Merry Christmas!
PEACE,
Phil

[cowie86]

I love my DD-7, like you say it's got loads of features to play around with, huge range of delay, easy to use, interesting and usable extras. Obviously it doesn't sounds like a boutique delay but I'll switch to one of those if I ever get a recording contract of start playing arenas and stadiums.

I don't know if you can mod it for true bypass but it's certainly the first pedal in the DD line since the DD-3 that offers that quality of repeat (DD-5 and DD-6 sampled the previous repeat for each subsequent repeat while DD-3 and DD-7 sample the original signal for each subsequent repeat).

Basically, very good choice - well done!