DigiTech DigiDelay

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The DigiDelay™ pedal gives you loads of delay time, with up to 4 seconds of delay available. This is more than is found in many studio-quality, rack-mounted delay processors. And thatfs just the beginning! The DigiDelay™ also lets you select various delay types such as stereo ping pong and tape delay, and other phat delay sounds, plus tap tempo so you can set the delay time exactly to the beat (just hold, then tap the switch). Controls feature Level, Repeat, Time, and Range. Outputs include Left/Mono and Right.

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Submitted by Mark from Buffalo, NY (10 points) on Jan 29, 2012
Solid box with a great loop mode. I rarely, if at all, use the delays; I find them a little too digital for my taste. I mainly use this guy for the loop mode to make layer upon layer upon layer until I have a giant wall of sound. The stereo outs are great to send my wall of loops in two different effect chains.
Good Points: two outputs. loop mode.
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Price Paid: US$35.00
Purchased At: ebay
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Submitted by Claude from Philadelphia, PA (10 points) on Dec 7, 2011
Pretty solid, versatile and affordable delay pedal.

This pedal is really fun to mess around with in feedback loops and makes it easy to create rhythmic feedback loops (which are great) because of the infinite repeats feature when you max out the repeats knob.

I have a dd6 also, and while i end up using both for different things, i greatly prefer to have this one in a loop.
Good Points: - infinite repeats when repeats knob is at max

- up to 4 seconds of delay time - surprisingly versatile - easy rhythmic feedback loops, as already mentioned.

- sounds less digital than a dd6, at least with what i've done with it so far - for affordable digital delays with a good amount of delay time, this is a good choice
Bad Points: - none off the top of my head really
Price Paid: US$44.00
Purchased At: Craig
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Submitted by tapesss from Brooksville, FL (344 points) on Feb 15, 2010
Nice delay...the 4 seconds of loop time are nice, quick pedal action to capture those split second machine gun sounds. stereo outs are nice. These are pretty inexpensive, and the options you have are pretty numerous. Having several of these at once( i was running 3 at one time at one point) are awesome, because you can capture multiple loops, kind of loop juggling. The case is a normal heavy duty metal casing. Nice for the price, overall.
Good Points: many options, 4 seconds of sample time, good construction
Bad Points: uh.,,?
Price Paid: US$0.00
Purchased At: trade
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Submitted by Jon from New Haven, CT (80 points) on Dec 18, 2009
I never took to this one and resold it, I have a Boss DD6 and it is just so much better in my book. If you can get the Digitech cheap then I guess it is ok and it should be said that I'd take it over a bag full of Behringers any day.
Good Points: Clean, digital sound and feels pretty sturdy. 100% Dry/Wet mix which is essential I think. Still, it's ok as a cheap second delay for studio use ( but not for live use since it's not very trustworthy...). Better than most cheap delays.
Bad Points: Glitchy. In a bad way. The mode button slips between modes and sometimes drops out. It's kind of like a bad, buggy version of the Boss delays.
Price Paid: US$45.00
Purchased At: ebay
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Submitted by AULOS from Hereford Uk (488 points) on Dec 9, 2009
This is much better than a Boss DD5. The Reverse delay is actually a full wet ouput which sounds great and the looper is way more effective. Also stereo out!
Good Points: STEREO GOOD REVERSE GOOD LOOPER
Bad Points: Looks shitty. But that doesn't really matter.
Price Paid: US$30.00
Purchased At: Muzo Records
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Submitted by AQ from Saint Louis, MO (52 points) on Nov 21, 2009
By far my favorite delay, that I use in nealry all of my recordings and live shows. Great for creating rhythmic loops to run into other pedals, by setting the repeat knob to the max it will loop forever. I use this a lot to chop up field recordings from cassettes or mini-disc's into insane loops that I record to tape for source material. Live I put it into the fx loop of my mixer, so that I can use delay on all four tracks of the mixer with only one pedal. It handles it extremely well and never get overloaded or to muddy. The stereo bouncing is also extremely nice and really opens things up.
Good Points: Strong build, great pedal.
Bad Points: Nitpicking: Running this off batteries in kind of practical way is out of the question. You get 30 mins. max with a high quality battery.
Price Paid: US$110.00
Purchased At: flores music
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Submitted by john from Portland, OR (10 points) on Jan 26, 2009
This was my first delay, and I love it. I took it off my friends hands because he didn't have a power supply and this thing eats nine volts This sucker is built like a tank, with enough settings that everyone will find something to like. the tape setting adds plenty of warmth and tape like warble to your noise, twisting the delay knob from zero to maximum quickly will destroy whatever was being fed into it.
Good Points: tape setting 4 sec. of delay plenty of options stereo
Bad Points: knobs kinda flimsy when in loop mode it sometimes just stops working
Price Paid: US$0.00
Purchased At: friends house
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Submitted by nkondi from Portland, OR (610 points) on May 10, 2008
I bought this in search of a lot of delay time and repeats. Unfortunately they sacrificed repeat quality for delay length. Unlike the Ibanez DE7 Delay/Echo, this thing loses a lot of volume in it's repeats too quickly for my tastes. Not a bad delay, and I deffinately suggest someone less picky to buy one, but me I like repeats as to not decay as quickly and thus get lost in the mix.
Good Points: Quality build long delay
Bad Points: repeats tend to go sour quickly the reverse mode is kind of useless
Price Paid: US$65.00
Purchased At: second hand shop in pdx
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Submitted by Ferox from Los Altos, CA (432 points) on Dec 29, 2007
Nice little delay pedal.
Good Points: Up to 4 seconds ain't bad, great in loops or for making walls of noise. Putting the reverse mode in a feedback loop adds some great dynamics. Tape mode. Tweaking the knobs makes for some interesting digital scraps.
Bad Points: You can't adjust the rate of the sample in the loop.
Price Paid: US$70.00
Purchased At: Starving Musician
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Submitted by drikudaz from montreal (88 points) on Oct 8, 2007
one of the best delay pedal for the price.
Good Points: reverse mode. tape mode. stereo. 4 sec.of delay time. inexpensive for what it does.
Bad Points: the battery compartement
Price Paid: US$120.00
Purchased At: steves music
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Submitted by apewrist from Kielce (310 points) on Oct 5, 2007
This pedal is one of the best things I have EVER bought. It can give you hours of great fun! Put it at the end of your chain and apply a quick start-stop action for echoed blasts, use the second output to build 10-pedals-long feedback chains, set it on the "tape" mode and keep on twiddling the TIME knob for crazy quasi-scratch effect, use the LOOP option for infinite rhytmic patterns! This toy is unbelievable, I just can't imagine NOT having it in my set-up!
Good Points: - Heavy casing - Lots of different sounding types of delay - Double output - double pain! - It is pretty cheap (at least in Poland)
Bad Points: - It eats batteries like mad - It is so cool you just can't stop playing around with it.
Price Paid: US$74.00
Purchased At: Allegro.pl
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Submitted by RJ from Charleroi, PA (38 points) on Aug 31, 2007
This is a really good delay pedal. The loop function is great, though the sound quality obviously degrades after a while and if you're looping a bunch of stuff eventually it turns into a quagmire. 4 seconds of looping should be plenty of time (for me anyway, obviously some people do stuff that needs longer loops). The tape function is also really cool, especially if you tweak the time know for weirdy sped up/slowed down effects. The regular delay times are up to par, and the two weird ones (one that adds non-adjustable chorus to the delays, and one that reverses them) aren't that special and don't have really wide applications (sort of like the verb+flange setting on the Holy Grail, or any number of other pedals with pointless extra settings).
Good Points: Loop & tape settings, tap tempo, pretty sturdy it seems.
Bad Points: Two one-trick gimmicky settings (which really don't subtract anything but don't really add anything, either, except maybe increase the price of the pedal?). Occasional clicks when recording loops, but that might be me doing something wrong or something.
Price Paid: US$100.00
Purchased At: crappy music store
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Submitted by series_ from Portland, OR (184 points) on Oct 27, 2005
I can't believe this pedal does what it does! I've been wanting for YEARS a pedal that, in delay mode, the feedback knob, when set at full, switches to Loop Mode. This means you can play thru the delay, over time up the Feedback knob and eventually just capture/loop it. It doesn't keep feeding into itself, or degrade. Then when you want to add to that, you let up on the Feedback knob and add some then back to loop. As well, when you are done with the loop, setting it back down - Fades the loop, rather than cut it off - like almost all delays do. If it did not have this feature I would not have bought 2 of them. The delay time is only 4 seconds. The sound is surprisingly good. The analog mode is the most realistic analog modeling I've heard in a compact pedal. The CIT mode is great to for doing direct recording. It's cheap.
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Price Paid: US$60.00
Purchased At: Community Bulletin Board
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Submitted by aaron from Venice, FL (14 points) on Aug 5, 2005
i own two of these when in a feedback loop and in bypass it creates a low drone turning the effect on does different things to this drone i use it mostly for its loop mode and the "hold" function (in any mode turn the repeat knob to full and the delay will turn into a loop and your source is unaffected)
Good Points: up to 4 seconds of delay time hold function variety of modes
Bad Points: digital knob twisting isnt too fun here
Price Paid: US$80.00
Purchased At: local music store
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Submitted by timothy from Rohnert Park, CA (68 points) on Jan 11, 2004
kind of unnecessary, in my opinion. its sounds cool with delay time set low, but other wise was too muddied, never tried it in floop.
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Price Paid: US$0.00
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Submitted by Aaron from Cincinnati, OH (2 points) on Jan 3, 2004
Overall a good pedal, at a cheap price, (for a delay). I bought it because i needed a delay pedal, and i was sick of using the Boss DD-5. I like this pedal, much, better. It has a very cool, but, it does sound a bit corny when you turn the knob on the tape delay function, but, if you are running alot of high freq. feedback, its pretty playa. I use it at the end of my chain usualy on the the 3 setting, cuz it has the most time, and its is pretty cool when you play with the time knob. Intersting thing about this pedal is the 5th function, its pretty stupid in my opinion, but, if you bring up the time on it, with a lot going threw it already, you can get this rumble, but not a low rumble, its pretty cool, you can feel it in yo bones playa. pretty good, though, i like it a lot.
Good Points: Not the DD-5, overall, its baller
Bad Points: The feedback knob only goes up part way for most feed back, really stupid. and the baterry thing is not that cool either.
Price Paid: US$75.00
Purchased At:
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Submitted by matt from Billings, MT (126 points) on Jul 11, 2002
i've been waiting for this puppy for awhile now and the wait is over. this pedal is really nice. one of the cleanest sounding delay i've heard. first, digitech uses the same circuitry in the x-series pedals as they do in some of their multi-fx units. so it can do some serious shit. 10-250 ms, .250-1 sec, 1-4 secs of delay time. 4 secs is alot. plus it has tape delay simulation and modulation delay. also reverse delay, which sounds better than the dd-5's reverse and a looper function which can loop up to 4 secs. of sound and overdub over that, you can also tap in delay rhythm with the foot switch. it is stereo out. out 1 being mono and out 2 brings it into stereo. its built like a tank. very sturdy and easy to use. i've noticed that some settings don't work always, you'll need to fine tune the setting for it to get stereo. if you're looking for a good delay that is actually not that expensive than get this puppy. its nice.
Good Points: clean sounding, stereo, 4 sec. looper with overdub, sturdy, not as expensive as the boss DD-5 and probally better.
Bad Points: when you turn the time knob it blurs the sound in a nasty way(i don't like how it sounded but you might), also i don't like how they have the battery compartment set-up, other than that i love it.
Price Paid: US$144.00
Purchased At: hansen music
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