Liko
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I basically need a delay in pedal form that will give me one exact copy of the input, delayed by a sixteenth-note interval. Obviously it should be able to do far more than that, but a pedal that can't do this doesn't meet my short-term sonic needs. That generally shakes out to the following feature list:
* Digital, and not one trying to emulate analog
* Tap tempo, ideally as a second onboard switch
* Subdivision down to 16ths
* Repeat setting independent of decay
* Reasonable cost (like, not $400)
Pretty simple, but I haven't yet found one that checks all the boxes:
* The Carbon Copy Deluxe has the feature set and a decent pricepoint, but is a bucket-brigade circuit. If I were looking for delay as a more traditional effect it would be perfect, but even with the bright setting it just loses too much of the input tone.
* The Strymon DIG sounds awesome and looks like it can be configured to give me what I need, except the subdivisions only go to triplet eighths (yeah, I know I can just tap double-time with straight eighths, but there's a limit).
* The Strymon Timeline and Echolution 2 Deluxe both have all of the all of it, but that makes them very complex effects, and expensive ones (both are $400-$450 new).
EDIT: After some more searching, the Earthquaker Avalanche Run looks like it checks all the boxes, and used prices are reasonable on the 'Verb at just over $200. It's kind of stereo, in that it will delay a stereo input but won't create ping-pongy stuff, but I didn't ask for that so I can't really fault it, and as a pedal I'll be using it mostly for live (mono) stuff anyway, while when I'm laying down tracks in Reaper at home I have more VSTs than I know what to do with including about a dozen ways to set up true stereo delays.
Any others I should look at?
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* Digital, and not one trying to emulate analog
* Tap tempo, ideally as a second onboard switch
* Subdivision down to 16ths
* Repeat setting independent of decay
* Reasonable cost (like, not $400)
Pretty simple, but I haven't yet found one that checks all the boxes:
* The Carbon Copy Deluxe has the feature set and a decent pricepoint, but is a bucket-brigade circuit. If I were looking for delay as a more traditional effect it would be perfect, but even with the bright setting it just loses too much of the input tone.
* The Strymon DIG sounds awesome and looks like it can be configured to give me what I need, except the subdivisions only go to triplet eighths (yeah, I know I can just tap double-time with straight eighths, but there's a limit).
* The Strymon Timeline and Echolution 2 Deluxe both have all of the all of it, but that makes them very complex effects, and expensive ones (both are $400-$450 new).
EDIT: After some more searching, the Earthquaker Avalanche Run looks like it checks all the boxes, and used prices are reasonable on the 'Verb at just over $200. It's kind of stereo, in that it will delay a stereo input but won't create ping-pongy stuff, but I didn't ask for that so I can't really fault it, and as a pedal I'll be using it mostly for live (mono) stuff anyway, while when I'm laying down tracks in Reaper at home I have more VSTs than I know what to do with including about a dozen ways to set up true stereo delays.
Any others I should look at?
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