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Originally Posted by dafreeze
Holy smokes TV, are you gettin' some weather, or what? I heard they had 90+ mph winds and 8 tornados in Orange county. Have family there, and my Mom's in San Diego.
I would like another delay...only have a Carbon Copy at the moment, but I don't wanna end up with as many as you!!
I'm an ol' rocker (Beatles-Zeppelin) getting into some rockabilly...can you recommend something? Don't wanna spend the coin for the real deal but wouldn't mind spending 2-3 bills.
TC's Nova Delay?
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We havent floated away yet. I'm inland a bit by 35miles, so we only have had "mild hail and 60mph winds". Its so cool.. our pool is full of dirt and debri, our roof is now leaking or should I say our ceiling is now leaking. I guess the flashing around the chimney has given up the ghost after 55 yrs.
If you like the sounds of of Zep and you are movin towards roots.. you cant
go wrong with the new Deluxe memory boy for $180.. yet if digital doesnt make you grimace with the constipated facial contortions of most booteek guitarists you might enjoy the line6 DL4. It is a very very intuitive, versitile
delay pedal. full of gadgetry yes but how can you mess up a knob that points to 2 versions of the famous Maestro Echoplex (EP-1 tube and EP-2 solid state) as well as the Deluxe memory man and Dm-2 analog sims.
True bypass and tap tempo.. plus a 30 second phrase trainer you can actually
jam with when working out solos. Simple.
Even more simple and much more organic though is this new Tech21 Delay with modulation, tap tempo, triplets,etc..
If you want the program headaches and learning curve joys of other really nice digi devices the Nova delay is a sweetheart, or even better the Eventide.
I had both the Empress Vintage Modified Superdelay (a programable digi box) and the Wampler faux tape echo for a few weeks but let em go.
When I paired the Empress up with my DL4, it wasnt worth the learning curve and weird controls.. The Wampler was the most incredible sounding
Deluxe Memory man type pedal Ive ever played but its slap backs crap out when hit with a boost, Eq, or preamp due to the "faux" analog chip it shares with most of its kind out there, the "PT2399" digi lo res chip..
so it had to go as well.
The 84' DM-3 boss pedal is very limited to rockabilly meets late 60s rock but damn if it isnt the cream of the shorty echo pedals. i've found out the reason this thing works so well with drive and boost boxes is that it has a higher impedance input than its predecessor; the DM-2.. and it employs a unique compander circuit that keeps the delay side of the circuit from clipping and echoing smoothly. this is not unique to just the Boss analog delay but the manner in which it reacts with other boxes in front of it IS indeed. The end result yields an initial slap back/repeat that is very warm and dynamic while letting the following repeats smear like a saturated tape delay. Minus the "wow n flutter" effect of course as its just a little echo box but nothing has got my attention more than this thing.
..there are a zillion delays out there and they are all fun. some one trick ponies and others swiss army knives.. but its the ones in between that have so much character.
