mjriley

For me, the best analog delay out there is the MXR Carbon Copy. Delay is something that I'm very particular about and this pedal is the best for sound, functionality and price (@$150). I've owned several of the more popular delays (BOSS DD series, Line-6 DL4, TC Electronic, etc.) and they were good, but the MXR is by far the best for analog delays. True bypass, modulation control, easy setup. Check these out!

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pete

Hopefully I will own one someday..

REVO

Hello from Kansas City, Owned an early ''''80's AD9 Ibanez. Nice warm sound. My vote for utlimate delay device is the Rockman Stereo delay 1/2 rack unit ,vintage 1986. Not as easy to use as a regular stomp box, but if you are running a stereo image as I did for years you will never want to go back to mono. And the Rockman sounds awesome. REVO

3volved

I own an MXR Carbon Copy - great delay for the price.


Though if you're looking for top-of-the-line, check out Strymon's El Capistan delay:

Easily one of the best on the market.

darkhorse

Problem with analog is the ms range, too short for my use, OK for just slap back.
One reason I love the TC Flashback DDL is it has all the modes of tape, analog and lofi which I like a lot plus the 2290 modes but the ms range on analog is much more than most pedals, true a digital platform tweaked to sound analog but if you need more than 500ms you sort of have to go digital.

I know Boss is popular but no thanks for me, hate their buffers and no true bypass. The TC kills the Boss. There are a million delays out there and prices that go as much as you can imagine, for the options it has and the tones, I like the TC Flashback Delay for just $160.

MonkeyBoy

Ive got 3 delays.

Eventide Timefactor
Boss DD20
Boss D3

I like the DD20 cause of the memory bank, and the delay trail it leaves when switching setting or turning it off.
Im currently running effects (chorus/delay) thru Loop, and my BB preamp into face. I'm switching all this around to find the best results and be able to kick in more delay for solos. The DD20 gives me options, but not true bypass.
Will need to look into this further & experiment more.
I Eventime is a great unit with memory settings too, but I've had a few issues with it and it's rather complicated, but I'm learning.
The TC unit sounds great but it's a one-trick pony since there are no memory settings to store user programs. I've got my chorus sound started, but still working on delay happiness.
Any suggestions are appreciated.

Tally-Ho !!!!

darkhorse

Delay trail is because it is not in true bypass mode, true bypass cuts off right at switching.
I've always wanted an Eventide unit the newer floor models just seem to be great pedals but high dollar and those Strymon units seem really cool. I have never played or heard of Strymon until hearing about them on guitar web sites and killer high end boards.

Delays are a picky thing to your guitar/amp and touch chemistry as well as what sort of delay thing you are looking for. One would think they would be pretty much the same circuits but there are differences in how they feel and what you are trying to get out of them.

I love the little TC Flashback at $160 it just does more than anything it its price range, plus it has that cool toggle for 1/4, 1/8 or both for that cool multi tap Edge kind of thing. Love some of the modes on that puppy plus it has that cool DYN 2290 which only repeats on pause playing. I went through several like the Timemachine and Hardwire (a series I really like for the bucks) all are great delays I would not say any are "bad" units really, just depends on ones rig and the type of delay sounds they are trying to hit. Not sure in the modern tech age any unit is crap, just what one likes for the chemistry of their rig. Once read one guy did not like Strymon, so there you go, depends on your rig and how you are using the pedal.

I had a DD20 and the preset capability made me choose that over others at the time, very cool feature, it was before the TC came out. Be nice to have more than 1 toneprint slot or user preset modes but only so much you can pack into a small footprint pedal. There is a switch inside just about all units to get trails or true bypass cut (if it is a bypass wired pedal).

Analog is cool with its characteristically "warm" roll off of the high and low end, down side is delay range, if you are just using a slapback or fast delay it is hard to beat them, heard a lot of good things about the MXR.
I also like the Wampler delay which being a fan of Wampler pedals would be a nice one to have. Nothing beats a digital platform for extremely long delay ranges upwards of 6 secs which is probably overkill, but the loop functions of like 20-40secs are too cool, but it seems the delay range I like is just above what an analog can get.

MonkeyBoy

Great reading darkhorse !!
I'll have to ponder some more about my set-up.

Never a dull moment !!

With all the pedals I have I have to believe I can find a comfort zone.

darkhorse

Thanks for reading. I just try to toss what I have run across in a lot of years of playing.

I love effect pedals and learned a lot from Trower's old chains back in the day. The band guys and the gang used to love hearing me play with the bands as I would sit in and demonstrate how important it was to develop a sense of improvisation as I could play in with anyone and would use my pedals to become a part of the overtone rather than just strum through an effect as something apart from the tone. My warble in Vibe tones were legendary when I would fast warble into a opening and slow pulse the phrase, miss that foot control these days, but I left the band scene when I got remarried.

You should have seen the faces when I was running a stereo twin guitar synth under my main Marshall heavy drive tone, I had this Diary of Madman thing on one guitar with a human choir undertone, it was amazing and took some heads off when it came on. Lots of fun that was. Sort of a dimension of heavy no one ever heard before.

I find I enjoy looking at the packed and dense layout of a lot of pedal boards but for me I need things more in a line or a chain to be able to get at them and make more use of the knobs. I like how Satriani or Vai rig their's out.

Dense boards look really cool but sometimes it seems like they are trying to pack them just for loading sake. A pedal has to bring the tone for me or it goes off into the trade pile pretty quick. Cool if you can patch into a switching system, I have thought about getting into that at times. Really like that Carl Martin Octa switcher but a bit of an overkill for me at this point. Plus I run 2 separate chains.

I am not a big fan of Boss in general but I liked all the dual pedal size larger series they have, good stuff. I miss those presets on the DD20 for sure, every pedal should make an effort to let us store settings. Electro Harmonix has come a long way in adding that feature.
My latest rig I posted on another thread, loads of fun this one.

sagieiland

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