DigiTech Rack Delay System RDS 3.6
User Reviews of the DigiTech Rack Delay System RDS 3.6
- Submitted by flies from Edison, NJ (44 points) on Jul 13, 2006
- cheap, 3.6 seconds of digital delay, infinite hold function, feedback invert, modulation LFO w/rate and depth, dry/wet. One thing that really bothers me is that, according to what i found online, it has a sampling rate of 7.5khz. this means you're only going to get audio frequencies below 3.75khz. This really sucks because you put a sound in on a long delay time, turn the looping on, then decrease the delay time, the sound pitches up and up and then it just disappears. Way before it starts sounding like a hearing test, mind you. no high treble passes through the delay chain! (the treble of the dry signal doesn't go away, of course.) when you switch delay time, there's silence while the buffer fills up or s/t. The delay is longer when you're going to a long delay time, and i think it's a full 3.6 seconds when you switch to the "up to 3.6 seconds" delay range. this is no fun if you like live tweaking. Also the LFO is kinda funny, it's not a sine, it's kinda skewed so it takes longer to rise than fall, and it kinda shelves in certain places too, like it's a 4 bit lfo or something weird like that.. this may just be my unit, and it's quite un-noticeable at higher LFO rate, and, to be honest, it's kinda cool, actually, to have a weird effect like that. It does attract attention to itself, however, so some may not want that. the delay time knob scales the buffer by a factor of 8, so if you you get something in it at the minimum delay time and then increase the delay time to max, it drops 3 octaves! rumble rumble...
- Good Points: that price includes shipping. (it was missing a knob so that affects the price i guess) really really cheap, and 3.6 whole seconds of delay! sounds great fed back on itself and overloaded to shit, really sputtery and disgusting.
- Bad Points: some annoying idiosyncrasies (see left). max frequency of 3.75 khz
- Price Paid: US$27.00
- Purchased At: ebay
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