ratherdashing
Kablamminator
Fatal for me at least.
I bought one today at Daddy's in Orange CT. They had a used one for $70 and I also got 10% off because of their customer appreciation sale this weekend.
Here's my problem with it: it has a tap tempo feature, which I need because in my set I play at least three songs where I want the delay to match the tempo. Tap tempo seems like a good solution for that.
So why am I complaining? The problem is in how the tap tempo is engaged. To use tap tempo with the Digidelay, I have to do the following:
1. Turn on the delay by pushing the pedal
2. After the delay is on, hold the pedal down for three seconds
3. Tap the tempo
It gets worse: To turn the delay off after it is in tap tempo mode, you have to hold the pedal down for three seconds again. Simply tapping the switch counts as extra tempo tapping. Once you turn the delay off, you lose your tempo and you're back to square one.
This is not so bad (though it could be better) if you want your delay running through the whole song. If you want to engage the delay partway through the song though, you're screwed. The way it is set up, I would have to leave it off for the duration of the song, then click the pedal to turn it on at the wrong tempo, hold it for three seconds (which is a fracking long time in the middle of a solo), and finally tap the tempo. It's impossible. The only way around it is to put it in a bypass looper, but once you're spending that kind of money you might as well buy a pedal with a workable tap tempo feature.
I'm going to take it back tomorrow. It's too bad, because aside from that it's a fine pedal. The delay modes sound very good, and I had a lot of fun playing with the looper mode.
I don't understand why Digitech didn't just do it the same way as the BOSS DD-6. With the DD-6, holding the switch for two seconds puts it into tap tempo mode regardless of whether the effect is on or off. You tap your tempo, then hold for two seconds again to save the tempo. This would let me tap the tempo at the beginning of the song, then turn the delay on at that tempo whenever I like. The Line 6 Echo Park is even better: you push the switch lightly to tap the tempo, and stomp hard to turn it on and off. It would probably take some practice to figure out what it thinks a soft tap is though.
Now I know where the "Digitech it back yet?" expression comes from.
I bought one today at Daddy's in Orange CT. They had a used one for $70 and I also got 10% off because of their customer appreciation sale this weekend.
Here's my problem with it: it has a tap tempo feature, which I need because in my set I play at least three songs where I want the delay to match the tempo. Tap tempo seems like a good solution for that.
So why am I complaining? The problem is in how the tap tempo is engaged. To use tap tempo with the Digidelay, I have to do the following:
1. Turn on the delay by pushing the pedal
2. After the delay is on, hold the pedal down for three seconds
3. Tap the tempo
It gets worse: To turn the delay off after it is in tap tempo mode, you have to hold the pedal down for three seconds again. Simply tapping the switch counts as extra tempo tapping. Once you turn the delay off, you lose your tempo and you're back to square one.
This is not so bad (though it could be better) if you want your delay running through the whole song. If you want to engage the delay partway through the song though, you're screwed. The way it is set up, I would have to leave it off for the duration of the song, then click the pedal to turn it on at the wrong tempo, hold it for three seconds (which is a fracking long time in the middle of a solo), and finally tap the tempo. It's impossible. The only way around it is to put it in a bypass looper, but once you're spending that kind of money you might as well buy a pedal with a workable tap tempo feature.
I'm going to take it back tomorrow. It's too bad, because aside from that it's a fine pedal. The delay modes sound very good, and I had a lot of fun playing with the looper mode.
I don't understand why Digitech didn't just do it the same way as the BOSS DD-6. With the DD-6, holding the switch for two seconds puts it into tap tempo mode regardless of whether the effect is on or off. You tap your tempo, then hold for two seconds again to save the tempo. This would let me tap the tempo at the beginning of the song, then turn the delay on at that tempo whenever I like. The Line 6 Echo Park is even better: you push the switch lightly to tap the tempo, and stomp hard to turn it on and off. It would probably take some practice to figure out what it thinks a soft tap is though.
Now I know where the "Digitech it back yet?" expression comes from.
