Digital Delay Questions

[Old Guy]

Re: Digital Delay Questions

If you want pristine reproduction of your signal at any gain level, I would recommend going digital. The Boss Digital Delays are really the industry standard unless you want to go super high end and get a Strymon.

It's also a matter of how much gain you use. To my ears, analog delays just don't sound good at super high gain levels. It just sounds thick and muddy to me. YMMV

 

[Nacho8807]

Re: Digital Delay Questions

I had been using a DD-6 for a long time before switching to a Carbon Copy. I sold the DD-6 not thinking I needed it, but honestly I wish I had it back now because they really can be used in different situations. After using both having one of each sounds really ideal to me.

 

[IMENATOR]

Re: Digital Delay Questions

Can a digital delay like the prophet get a classic analogueish delay sound?
Answer: Don't know about that pedal but there are digital pedals that can do both voices very nice: Digital voice means pristine clean repeats while analog voice means warmer repeats ala Analog Man or Carbon Copy. I use an H2O v3 Chorus/Echo which as an analog voiced digital delay, in a live situation the analog voiced digital pedal works for me just fine so far. I think stereo spread of a rhythmic digital delay can be great too, I plan to get me a versatile digital delay some time.


Also s will it turn my entire signal digital when engaged?
Answer: It depends on the pedal, some have something called analog dry thru which means your dry signal is analog and the repeats come from a digital signal processor (DSP).