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Wellllll....................... I got mine for a barganous £70 inc power supply. I bought it to use as a vocal effect to add delay (a-la howie day live) and it works a treat,I have found it to be very quiet. BUT,and this is a good but........I decided to plug it into my guitar setup before my Delay pitch shifter and RC-20, Man this baby can do some great stuff. First off, for many of us 5 seconds is a lot of delay time to play with,you can get a two bar arpegio crammed in there if u like that kind of thing,or I can put down a rythmic groove on a shorter delay and fewer repeats then when i get something i like, i crank the feedback right up and record it to the loopstation,if you have a seond looping pedals such as this, you can use it to create longer mutated versions,then once you have that playing too kick the Digitech back on and loop a new part on it that will have (if your careful with your timing) exactly the same loop time(Heaven). The reverse guitar setting is also of note due to the huge amout of backwards time it has aailable think it ens up being strechable with forward and reverse to something in the region of 12secs. the pedal also gives you a build in amp sim, it aint perfect but it is a plus that you wouldnt expect, and it is available in bypass as well as when your using the delay ect. as for the actual loop setting, its pretty hot for such a small piece of kit, its initially a bit strange to use cos you have to keep you foot pressed on the pedal for as long as you want to record, this is the oposite to the loopstation where you foot tap the start and end, its not problem as such,in fact i recon with pratice its probably the more accrate of the two , it just adds an element of patting your head and rubbing your tummy if your using them both. anyway, basically your first press lets you set the loop legnth,and with a quick tap you can get VERY small almost constant sounding loops, then subsequent taps and holds add an overlay of what ever you are playing,(again the non latching effect i probably a plus cos you can rythmicly "stutter" the inserted loop if you get what i mean) Ive never ran out of layers so I conclude that eventually subsequent layers fade out to be replaced by the newer ones, also pretty good. I guess I should point out the few niggles (and most of these are minor) 1.the feedback is a little unconventional. In order to get full feedback you have to land the dial right on ritghangle 3 o'clock position. any less and it eventually fades, and more and you go into kind of a sound on sound mode, where the sound locks on a long fade but any guitar played goes straight through without getting added into the delay loop, it can work well, but its a bit hit and miss as to which setting you end up on, paticularly live. 2.The delay time knob cant be "detuned" like a boss pedal can, instead of a nice smooth increace in pitch and speed you get a glitchy sound then the sound lands back in the new time but shorter. again in sure this is something i'll eventuallt use as a plus point or effect, its just worth mentioning. 3. and i know this is probably picky, but nearly all other pedals ive ever used have the first (shortest) delay at the 6 o'clock position, this one is a little unconventional as it has the No1 setting at about 4 or 5 o'clock, this sounds like nothing, but the amount on times on stage i have to get from Loop sampler at the longest delay time (nomaly at 9 o'clock) and miss it comlpetly and end up in the mod delay setting. well there you go, sorry if ive gone on too long, just wanted to give a good overview of what i'd say is a cracking pedal. cu all soon Phill _________________________________________________________________ Use MSN Messenger to send music and pics to your friends http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger