New "Two Timer" Analog Delay Pedal

Al.C

Al.C

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So years ago I used to run a boss digital delay through the effects loop of my boogie. Had it set low in the background and just left it on all the time. It filled out the sound just a bit. I was fairly happy with it live but whenever I recorded with it the sound was very sterile, didn't care for it at all. Well after being left on for probably a year or so without ever being turned off it got noisey so I retired it to the closet. Did without a delay for a long time, well recently after reading several posts about analog delays I ended up at my local guitar store last week looking for an analog delay pedal. I was looking to try out the Memory Man, Ibanez and Carbon Copy. The only one that they had was the new BBE Two Timer. I had never heard of it or the company for that matter and I did not like the look of the pedal at all but since I was there I tried it out anyway. The thing blew me away, so much more warmth than I remember the old boss having. The pedal has two separate time settings that are footswitchable but share one repeat and mix control (kind of neat, but definitely would have been better if they could have complete separate controls for time setting). The pedal only goes to 330msec but that is the most I ever used anyway. For you technical guys the pedal features "bucket brigade delay" (???), and is true bypass.
The tone is absolutely transparent!
Here is a little clip I threw together tonight.
I used my PRS Santana 1 with neck Antiquity pu>zendrive set mid>two timer delay set 2/3 of max (so probably about 240 msec) with about 3-4 repeats and 40% mix.
Ran it into a clean amp setting and recorded straight to my computer without any processing at all.

http://home.comcast.net/~al_az/twotimer.mp3
 
Re: New "Two Timer" Analog Delay Pedal

Sounds great! Nice music and very fitting for that PRS Santana! I think it would help to have a little more presence and turn the delay level up a little bit. Could barely hear it but still sounded transparent. Pretty good. Never heard of that pedal but I'm going to demo one now. Thanks!
 
Re: New "Two Timer" Analog Delay Pedal

You are right I tend to be subtle on my use of delay. I like to use it just to fatten up the tone. If you can count the repeats it is too heavy for me. It may be subtle but if you turn it off you can immediately hear the difference. That is one of the reasons I didn't like my digital delay, it did not mix well, you cauld always hear the repeat clearly on the recording.
 
Re: New "Two Timer" Analog Delay Pedal

that *is* warm sounding for delay .... just kinda rounds off into the distance a bit to give it some space, without being gimmicky

nice as always, al

cheers
t4d
 
Re: New "Two Timer" Analog Delay Pedal

Very cool sounding pedal, thanks for posting... I'm going to be looking for a new delay once things pick up for me! Cool clip.
 
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