Digitech / DOD will be back in action
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The best news is Tom C will still get to stretch and make his Spiral effects. And Dawn will still do the arty knobs and things.
D_Malone
Tele-Afflicted
Tom is one of the best. I love all of his stuff, DigiTech and Spiral. I want that Gain Device so bad. I will have one someday soon.
The Carcosa fuzz, Obscura delay, and Polara reverb are still some of my all-time favorites.
TeleTwoTone
TDPRI Member
Great news that they are coming back, but does anyone know when?
bottlenecker
Poster Extraordinaire
I was just playing with this one the other day. It's really good.
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Origin Stories - Rubberneck Delay
The Rubberneck started out as a name and a drawing on a 3x5 card.
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RCinMempho
Friend of Leo's
I use mine enough that it never leaves the board. Perfect? No. It makes the right noise though.
wulfenganck
Tele-Afflicted
That's good, they had some great pedals. I love my Carcosa and am always tempted by the Rubberneck and the Obscura.
String Tree
Doctor of Teleocity
I have a Volume Boost with a Tone Control that has been on my Board since 2001.
It had a good ten years on it when I got it.
Still goes strong.
It had a good ten years on it when I got it.
Still goes strong.
gitold
Poster Extraordinaire
+one on the Hardwired. Great pedals and still relatively cheap on the used market.
schenkadere
Poster Extraordinaire
Not the RV-7...crazy prices.
gitold
Poster Extraordinaire
Funny, I never look at those because I bought mine years ago when they were blowing all the Hardwires out after they discontinued them. Just looked on Reverb, holy cow! Here’s my coffee table pedal board for this week.
The only compressor I've ever needed:
Ben Harmless
Poster Extraordinaire
Totally agree with this, though mine was a little inconsistent. It would be nice if they could do a dual model with up and down, like the Boss PS-3 offered. I feel like they'd clean up if they did that.
I also like my Obscura Delay a LOT, but I really, really wish I could make it full-wet.
Digitech, I feel as though these should reasonably be made your top priorities. Thank you in advance.
bluesholyman
Friend of Leo's
Music Radar just published an article about this...
Wyatt
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MattAndTheMachine
TDPRI Member
I use a DOD FX-17 volume / opticle Wha, I dont like crybabies any more this thing rocks
good news
good news
Gotta love it. This Bad Monkey was my first dirt box. I always assumed it was junk because it was so cheap, but as I kept playing it just kept out-competing everything else I tried. That now includes several TS clones and probably a real TS somewhere in there. It's a great drive pedal.
The Phasor 201 is just smooth!
The Phasor 201 is just smooth!
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MattAndTheMachine
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Just watched the JHS video (with Tom on the show) I linked above, really interesting.
Short version: they are trying to bring back all "current" pedals back into production immediately, but they of course have some difficulties finding the necessary parts and chips for stuff like Polara etc. So time will tell what can be done.
They want to develop new stuff and updates on older designs afterwards.
Exciting times!
I also learned that Digitech first made digitally controlled analog signal paths as a feature in the PDS series way back in 1985.
That's crazy.
Short version: they are trying to bring back all "current" pedals back into production immediately, but they of course have some difficulties finding the necessary parts and chips for stuff like Polara etc. So time will tell what can be done.
They want to develop new stuff and updates on older designs afterwards.
Exciting times!
I also learned that Digitech first made digitally controlled analog signal paths as a feature in the PDS series way back in 1985.
That's crazy.
SixStringSlinger
Poster Extraordinaire
I just watched a full run-through of all the Space Station's settings, so here's my tentative wish list for a Space Station re-issue, just on the extremely off chance that it will matter.
A heavy-duty enclosure like the Whammy V.
A "Chords/Classic" toggle switch like the Whammy V that will allow the user to select between modern hi-fi tracking and wonderful, old-school glitchiness.
A lot of the presets on the original are identical, except that one goes up while the other goes down, or one goes from clean to effect in one direction and the next pre-set goes the opposite way. So I'm thinking a toggle of some sort so that one preset and go in either "direction" depending on the toggle. This will help condense the number of presets, and perhaps make room for new ones.
The above aside, a lot of the presets simply sound very similar to each other, so perhaps either get rid of some altogether, or else have some kind of variable parameter on a knob or switch for variations on the same theme, to set the pitch shift, speed, etc. depending on the preset.
Some way of selecting presets that's not the original "foot button for up, foot button for down".
Perhaps get rid of the simple volume pedal function, unless it can also be used as an expression control for other pedals. Boy, would that ever help it fit on my pedalboard!
I've also heard of a mod that can make any of a series of 4 Digitech pedals from the same era (Space Station, Whammy-Wah and a couple others) that lets you cycle through the functions/presets of all 4. I would think that current technology would simply allow for all those functions/presets to exist within one pedal. But still call it the Space Station and make it gold.
I want this to happen.
A heavy-duty enclosure like the Whammy V.
A "Chords/Classic" toggle switch like the Whammy V that will allow the user to select between modern hi-fi tracking and wonderful, old-school glitchiness.
A lot of the presets on the original are identical, except that one goes up while the other goes down, or one goes from clean to effect in one direction and the next pre-set goes the opposite way. So I'm thinking a toggle of some sort so that one preset and go in either "direction" depending on the toggle. This will help condense the number of presets, and perhaps make room for new ones.
The above aside, a lot of the presets simply sound very similar to each other, so perhaps either get rid of some altogether, or else have some kind of variable parameter on a knob or switch for variations on the same theme, to set the pitch shift, speed, etc. depending on the preset.
Some way of selecting presets that's not the original "foot button for up, foot button for down".
Perhaps get rid of the simple volume pedal function, unless it can also be used as an expression control for other pedals. Boy, would that ever help it fit on my pedalboard!
I've also heard of a mod that can make any of a series of 4 Digitech pedals from the same era (Space Station, Whammy-Wah and a couple others) that lets you cycle through the functions/presets of all 4. I would think that current technology would simply allow for all those functions/presets to exist within one pedal. But still call it the Space Station and make it gold.
I want this to happen.
