I have 2 and actually only use 1. A Rogue Analog Delay gives me a nice slap back for some honky tonk stuff. In reality I don’t often use pedals at all.
How many delay pedals do you have/actively use?
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Cosmic Cowboy
Tele-Afflicted
Have a bunch. But lately I use 2.. a TC electronic flashback with a toneprint for a single-repeat slapback. And a Line 6 DL4 for a longer tape delay.
2, 3 if you want to count the RV-6 (which I use for various reverbs). JRockett for slapback, Duncan Vapor Trails for longer repeats... used to use only the Duncan, but got tired of leaning over between songs to change the knobs...
Franc Robert
Franc Robert
Guithartic
Tele-Holic
Just the Boss digital delay.
But my Boss Reverb does have a delay setting that I don’t use, and the Boss Katana amp has a delay option that I don’t use.
But my Boss Reverb does have a delay setting that I don’t use, and the Boss Katana amp has a delay option that I don’t use.
dr. love
Tele-Meister
I use a TC Electronic alter ego x4 which has multiple delay types and three presets. So I don’t know: does that count as one, or three, or….? It’s one box…so I’ll say one.
Fiesta Red
Poster Extraordinaire
Hi…my name is Fiesta Red, and I’m a recovering anti-delayist.
When I first started playing in 1989, I detested the near-ubiquitous chorus + digital delay pedals everyone had and overused. This, for the first 15 years I played, I never owned or used delay, and rarely cracked open the reverb knob.
I have only owned two delay pedals in the entire time I’ve been playing.
The first was a Rocktron Short-Timer.
Goofy name.
Sounded pretty good.
Liked it overall.
Pedal was huge.
Tried an MXR Carbon Copy.
Sounded really good.
Much smaller footprint.
Doubt I’ll ever change it, but never say never…
Sold the Short-Timer to a friend who used it for ten years, then quit playing. I don’t know what he did with it.
When I first started playing in 1989, I detested the near-ubiquitous chorus + digital delay pedals everyone had and overused. This, for the first 15 years I played, I never owned or used delay, and rarely cracked open the reverb knob.
I have only owned two delay pedals in the entire time I’ve been playing.
The first was a Rocktron Short-Timer.
Goofy name.
Sounded pretty good.
Liked it overall.
Pedal was huge.
Tried an MXR Carbon Copy.
Sounded really good.
Much smaller footprint.
Doubt I’ll ever change it, but never say never…
Sold the Short-Timer to a friend who used it for ten years, then quit playing. I don’t know what he did with it.
JustABluesGuy
Friend of Leo's
I have never seen Vince Gill’s pedal board, but I guarantee one of the echoes on it is for slapback.
I always have a cheap Donner delay for that purpose. I keep thinking I am going to add a second one for “other stuff” but I never get around to doing it. I did buy a used Line 6 Echo Park on Tim Pierce’s recommendation. It’s cool, but needs some work (or replacement) before it’s trustworthy enough to depend on.
I always have a cheap Donner delay for that purpose. I keep thinking I am going to add a second one for “other stuff” but I never get around to doing it. I did buy a used Line 6 Echo Park on Tim Pierce’s recommendation. It’s cool, but needs some work (or replacement) before it’s trustworthy enough to depend on.
bluesintheblood
Tele-Meister
MemoryMan + Black Fountain
gkterry
Tele-Afflicted
I have several but only use the Source Audio Nemesis. None other needed.
Went digital and just got a deluxe carbon copy. Wow, forgot how nice analog is.
It sounds like a real instrument being played back at you, rather than just an effect.
Nice pedal!
It sounds like a real instrument being played back at you, rather than just an effect.
Nice pedal!
Danjabellza
Friend of Leo's
So, I use the HX effect and/or HX stomp…. So I have something like 30 different delays at my disposal at any given time. Of those 30ish delays, I regularly use 4, with another 2-3 getting some periodic/experimental play time.
teleforumnoob
Friend of Leo's
DD3 & DM2W.
monkeybanana
Tele-Afflicted
Does my Echoplex count?
I have one. I step on it maybe once or twice a night, every third or fourth gig.
loopfinding
Friend of Leo's
if i just need slapback or stutter (like glitchy version of ehx freeze) i use a flashback. i like the programmability of the mash switch and doing weird stuff with the presets. more important to me than the toanz.
if i'm playing more loopy music, i just use the sync'ed delay on my octatrack or in ableton.
if i'm playing more loopy music, i just use the sync'ed delay on my octatrack or in ableton.
Tobias
Tele-Meister
Just (3-in-)1, flashback x4 (v1 without mash). It’s on the gig board, but the covers that it was for are off the playlist, so it gets used at home for soundscapes and futzing. I hook it up with my beatbuddy sometimes.
NWinther
Friend of Leo's
Have three.....mostly use one, two of them are one a kind pedals, one I had made as I wanted to have one with two delays, and one that has a different type of toneknob, plus my old Boss DD-3 with the long chip, modded with an extra modulation circuit.
3 but I only use one at a time of course and only have a single pedal at a time on each of my two pedalboards. A digital delay with tap tempo, an analog delay for anlaog sounds and a tape delay for 60-s and 70s tape delay and slapback echo.
