can a boss dd7 kick off of my pedalboard a carbon copy?

[gianluigi]

I'm using a carbon copy just to enlarge ambience of my super spring reverb.
would it be the same with a dd7 analog mode?
I use short delay time with low feedback and level

 

[Coldacre]

anythings possible in this crazy, crazy world

 

[Ed Boyd]

Depends on what you want. I prefer the DD-7. I prefer digital over fuzzy degraded analog delay.

 

[artdecade]

I like analog with cleaner signals and digital with dirt.
Works for me.

 

[getbent]

it would kick the carbon copy off my board.

 

[Pete W]

It did kick the Carbon Copy off my board.

 

[6Shotsdown]

Just get a bigger board

 

[Mike Simpson]

I use an Ibanez AD9... I had a DD5 that was stolen, I don't miss it.

 

[simonsp]

I prefer the DD-7. I prefer digital over fuzzy degraded analog delay.

I'm with you on this. It seems a bit crazy to me that people drool over that decaying analog thing, when, truth is, the people who originally developed analog delay would have loved it if they could have achieved the clean decay that digital can give.

Digital delay can give you a really *natural* sounding echo, like if you were standing in Cheddar Gorge* with your tele

I recently acquired a DSD-3 (DD2 or 3 style?) and even though it is 12 bit with compression it sounds really nice.

* I was going to say Grand Canyon but I've never been there. (yet!)

 

[chris m.]

I am old enough to remember when the only Echos you could use were the tape-based Echoplex and Roland Space Echo. I remember when the first digital delay pedals came out, too... in the early 80s, I think. I don't recall seeing analog pedal delays; I just remember one day it was big old tape echos, the next it was digital delays. This was in my hair metal days, and we loved those digital delays and ditched the old tape echo machines, sometimes just chucking them into the dumpster, basically.

Now everybody is building analog boxes that try to duplicate the old tape echo machines. In retrospect, what you are calling "fuzzy" others would call "warm", or "less sterile". So it all depends on the sound you hear in your head and what you are trying to do. I for one could get by with just about any echo, I'm not all that picky. I happen to have a Carbon Copy right now and like it a lot. To my ears it does seem a little "warmer".

 

[Ed Boyd]

I like dirty analog delays a lot for somethings. Namely Chorus. My favorite Chorus of all time is my old EHX Memory Man. It is really thick. The only things I have heard that come close is the old Roland JC120 amps I used with the university jazz band.

OMG that was 30+ years ago.

 

[simonsp]

My favorite Chorus of all time is my old EHX Memory Man. It is really thick.

I've been something of an analog snob when it comes to Chorus, the digital versions I tried just didn't cut it. My favorite up until recently has been CE-2 for mono and CE-3 when running two amps. But that was before I scored a Boss PS-3. This pedal gives *really* beautiful Chorus effect using two individually adjustable incidences of detuning. If I'm really up for it I run the CE-2 into the PS-3 for a really lush sound. It takes some dialing in and probably would not work live but for recording it's great.