Andromeda Delay Review

Smalltownjon

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Fantastic digital and analog delay sounds no problem! The issues are as follows...
1. Tapping in a tempo is extremely inaccurate.
2. Tap divisions are programmed incorrectly, ie selecting the quarter note division produces a dotted eighth note instead.
3. Engaging the effect occurs on release of bypass button as opposed to the initial press so it’s difficult to have the delay turn on at the beginning of the musical passage you’re trying to apply the effect to.
4. There is a short hiccup or “delay” once turning on the effect as the effect so your first note played is glitchy or perhaps has no effect applied at all.
5. This pedal NEEDS its own power supply or it will have some very strange, loud and consistent noise issues
6. The drive knob has a nearly useless range, meaning it’s almost hard to tell if it’s even adding any grit to the delay.
I’ve recently updated to the latest firmware and have been anxiously awaiting a fix for these bugs as this is a $300 pedal that seems to be getting no support. I’m going to try and use this pedal with midi to see if I can sort out the issues going that route. I’d like to keep and use the Andromeda but I’m not sure if it’s in the cards.
 
The best thing to do is let Seymour Duncan support know. Point them to your review here.
 
call support, ive played with one of these recently and it didnt have any of those issues that i could tell
 
Sounds like a disaster. For that price point you can get a dozen or so high quality pedals that actually perform and function.
 
I run mine through a switcher pedal and switch the patches via midi. I haven’t experienced the issues you described.
I’ve never tried the tap tempo feature.
 
I can't say that I have had any of these issues with mine, although I admittedly haven't had a 'deep dive' into everything it does as I was able to quickly set up what I needed. It's probably too much of a pedal for my needs, but it's excellent. I did upgrade my board's power supply a while ago to a One Spot as it was extremely noisy with the cheap supply I was using, but the One Spot solved that.
 
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