New Boss DD-500

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All jokes aside I think I might really like this one. I'm a delay fiend... I used my DD20 for almost 10 years and got rid of it recently in favor of a Duncan Deja Vu I picked up for cheap.

The DD20 was a good pedal but there were always a few things that bugged me about it. This pedal might actually be more up my alley. I had a Strymon Timeline but it was just too friggen much.
 
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My buddy at GC says they'll be in stock September 19th or thereabouts.
 
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Sweetwater just put up a new demo recently:

 
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That pedal is too religious for me. I like my delay dark and filthy.....hence my T Rex, Pigtronix, and Deja Vu. :saeek:
 
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Gearjoneser said:
That pedal is too religious for me. I like my delay dark and filthy.....hence my T Rex, Pigtronix, and Deja Vu. :saeek:
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I have a Deja Vu and it's fantastic. However, for what I do I do need a few different flavors of sounds and some presets. I had a Strymon and the sound quality was great but I wasn't using all the options - it was like taking a Lamborghini to go to the corner store for milk. I think the Boss will do me just fine.

If Duncan were to make a Deja Vu 2 with a few more delay flavors and presets, I'd be all over that thing.
 
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Has anyone heard how much this thing is going to be? Thats the kicker for me .....I have the DD-3 and i only wish it had a tap tempo switch on it....
 
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It has a shimmer setting. Cool. And a Tera Echo setting. And I like the filter effect on echoes too.

Listening to the guy in the Sweetwater demo from 2:10 to 2:15 in the demo. That's entertaining.
 
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I just listened to the Sweetwater guy demo the shimmer effect. It is lame. The pitfall with pitch shifting guitar, or guitar delays up an octave is they end up sounding brittle and glassy. An effects unit with a good shimmer effect uses a low pass filter to filter off some of the high end when guitar tones are pitch shifted up an octave. I heard Garnett Rogers play a piece using an Empress Delay with the backward delay setting that plays the delays back at double speed which transposes them up an octave. The Empress unit has a low pass filter. It sounded glorious. Chimey and angelic, but no harsh brittle high end.
 
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Kosh Naranek said:
It has a shimmer setting. Cool.

Listening to the guy in the Sweetwater demo from 2:10 to 2:15 in the demo. That's entertaining.
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Kosh Naranek said:
I just listened to the Sweetwater guy demo the shimmer effect. It is lame. The pitfall with pitch shifting guitar, or guitar delays up an octave is they end up sounding brittle and glassy. An effects unit with a good shimmer effect uses a low pass filter to filter off some of the high end when guitar tones are pitch shifted up an octave. I heard Garnett Rogers play a piece using an Empress Delay with the backward delay setting that plays the delays back at double speed which transposes them up an octave. The Empress unit has a low pass filter. It sounded glorious. Chimey and angelic, but no harsh brittle high end.
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LOL... that was a rapid reversal.

How do you know there isn't a high end rolloff in the menus on the pedal?

I never did like The JC amps... too glassy.
 
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Boss is really stepping up their game. I guess after DoD, Digitech and even MXR started rebranding themselves and are now making really kickass 'boutique' (don't crucify me Vasshu!) level gear, Boss has finally realised it needs to step up. I have an RV-6 on order and I'm pumped for it. (Although it's shipping to Canada so I won't see it for another month when I move home)
 
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Well I actually got to spend about 30 minutes with one of these things today.

Should I post my review here or start a new thread?
 
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guitarSQUIRELL said:
I say do it in this thread. Your post moved the thread to the top of the list anyway.
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You're right, I might as well.

Overall I'm very impressed with the pedal. It's more compact than I expected - roughly the same size as the DD20.

It takes the concept of the DD20 and takes it one step further - nowhere near as many sounds or cool effects as the Strymon Timeline, but almost as many I/O options and editable parameters. Very, very tailorable to the sound of a guitar or amp. It's good for people like me who wanted more out of their DD20 but a Strymon was overkill.

The sound was very good, didn't lose any clarity or body of the dry signal, quiet operation, not thin sounding at all. Especially in the analog models - dialed up some pretty dense sounds with this thing.

Having the three footswitches on the face made things much easier to navigate than the DD20's two, especially when using the looper (which in itself is a breeze to use).

The controls are very intuitive - there's a lot of customizability here but you don't get lost in menus. Parameter changes on the physical knobs are reflected and shown in a pop-up menu on the screen of the unit.

Overall it's a great pedal, well worth the money. Now I just gotta sell some stuff to get one!
 
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