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Jay Allen wrote: > I will disagree with you on the backwards delay. It isnt that great >compared to > my DD5. Anyway-- What does everyone think about the reissue memory man? > i am > thinking about buying a second delay pedal and having trouble decideing >which on > to get. I just got one a while ago, and have been in the process of breaking it in. Here are my first impressions (and I am using my Ibanez AD-9 analog delay and my Boss pitchshifter/delay [pd-4?] as benchmarks. Good: The quality of the delay is warm, round, organic and fuzzy. No irritating pick clangs repeated a la Boss (or any other modern digital delay I have used. Good: Volume of your guitar does not drop significantly when pedal is engaged (like most analog delay pedals I have used) I could never figure out why this was, but never ceases to piss me off. Good: The vibrato, in particular, is a lot of fun. Too bad there isn't a separate switch for it. Bad: The feedback on it is really weird: you get one really loud tap, and several much quieter repeats. This is the pedal's main drawback, IMHO. I like one or two good repeats (like a tapped delay) with medium delay times. The quality of the delay makes up for a lot, though. Bad: There is a gain control that cannot be bypassed. Perhaps on further inspection, one of us could figure out how to do it, but it would be great to be able to set the volume of your effects pedals (see addendum). Bad: If someone can get useful runaway out of one of these badboys, let me know how. If you jack up the feedback and start it whistling, the output has no effect so you squeaks are way too loud. The AD-9 is the king of this. Addendum: I am giving away the trade secrets to my spectacularly successful fx box company that exists only in my own mind. Anybody who wants to use these ideas is free to, so long as you make me a few pedals as well: 1) fx pedals should have their own volume and tone controls. Digital delay pedals need to have a knob where you can roll off the highs (lows would be nice too). Distortion pedals need to have (IMHO) a guitar type pot with a low value cap (like old tele's did) to roll of the highs BEFORE you hit the clipper. Compressor need to have the ability their tone rolled down (or have your own tone settings). I built (with a lot of help from a friend of mine) a passive effects looper that had their own volume and tone controls for each loop. It's great, but hassle to use, because I use just about every conceivable combination of the 4-7 pedals on the floor. 2) fx pedals never seem to have enough gain going out. I don't know why. Maybe you do. Maybe it was too many Husker Du records as a child, but I firmly believe that distortion should be louder than your clean sound (except for that extra pedal you keep set low so you can be insanely distorted at very low volumes). 3) Can we agree one where the in/out jacks are going to be? I have thirty different patchcords (straight to straight, angle to angle, straight to angle, etc. etc.) so that I can keep my fx boxes within two feet of each other. Personally, I think having the jacks on the top is kind of nice. 4) Wouldn't it be great if pedals had interlocking tongue and groove locking systems on the side. Bolt all your pedals together, and who needs a pedal board?