Re: ? re: digitech echo plus (bit rate)?

[Rainer Straschill <moinsound@googlemail.com>]

My suggestion: listen to how the thing works for you. If it sounds fine 
(by your standards), don't care about what the tech specs say. If it 
sounds ass (by your standards), don't care about the specs, either.

As others stated before, 8bit (in combination with 80ies converters 
especially) tend to give you some "electric grittyness" which you may or 
may not like. One example: the first version of the Korg Kaoss Pad has 
much inferior audio quality in comparison to the later models - that's 
why I still keep a KP1, because it's just got "that sound".

About the digitech: if it's really the PDS8000 AND if that is similar in 
sound to the digitech RDS delay I once had I have to say that I really 
liked the way it coulors the sound. Interestingly, not at all hard and 
gritty, rather soft - at first I suspected it to work with bucket brigades.
> the echo plus demo funny man said-that the device uses 8-bit vs. the 
> nowadays most digital pedals use 24-bit. could someone explain this to 
> me. i mean sound-wise i thought the echo plus sounded great. i know 
> there's been talk of this before here, (i probably tuned out), i'm 
> just going on what i heard heard from the vid (i'm sure not pristine 
> quality) but it all sounded good to me....
>