What's your favourite budget delay?

mike257

As the title really - I've got to put some funds into other bits besides guitar toys (outrageous, I know) and as I seem to have shifted from most of my gigging being on guitar back to my natural home on bass then I'm thinking of raising some cash by downgrading some of my pedals for budget alternatives while they aren't seeing much use.  

So, with that in mind, if I was to cash in my Carbon Copy, what cheap and cheerful delays are theFB's gear hounds enjoying?  I previously had a Joyo Digital Delay (the silver one with eagle graphic) that the CC replaced, that always did a pretty good job, but would be good to know where else you're getting cheap kicks from!

Cheers, 

Mike

Fuzzdog

Second hand Ibanez DE7.  One of my favourite delays regardless of price.

markslade07

Picked up a Marshall Echohead 2nd hand recently. Doubt it's the best delay in the world, but does a pretty good job with plenty of options

Fuzzdog

markslade07 said:

Picked up a Marshall Echohead 2nd hand recently. Doubt it's the best delay in the world, but does a pretty good job with plenty of options

I did like the Echohead, sounded pretty decent - mine just kept acting weirdly and would randomly decide to just make odd buzzing noises instead of letting any signal through.   :-O

meltedbuzzbox

Guyatone md3. Really simple and doesn't change your sound at all.

Jaded

I really liked the EHX Memory Toy when I had it, once you open it up and tweak the intensity of the modulation it can sound really great! 

ThePrettyDamned

Digidelay is great.

hubobulous

Ana Echo is good

vasselmeyer

Nux Time Force. 10 different delays, 9 presets, tap tempo. Currently £37.99 on eBay from China, £42.59 from UK.

markslade07

Fuzzdog said:

markslade07 said:

Picked up a Marshall Echohead 2nd hand recently. Doubt it's the best delay in the world, but does a pretty good job with plenty of options

I did like the Echohead, sounded pretty decent - mine just kept acting weirdly and would randomly decide to just make odd buzzing noises instead of letting any signal through.   :-O

Ah! Touch wood, mine's been ok so far!

xSkarloey

Fuzzdog;347655" said:

Second hand Ibanez DE7.  One of my favourite delays regardless of price.

I bieve this does self oscillation if you want to simulate the alien invasion.

Otherwise another vote for the Digidelay which is the Vauxhall Astra of delay pedals: cheap, reliable, easy to use and a safe choice rather than anything flash.

hugbot

Caline blue ocean, cheap Chinese DBD clone

Shark_Eyes

For basic no frills delay, I'd go for the Belcat Analog Delay, I picked up mine for a £10 second hand and it's on my board as a thickener after my delaylab.

dogload

I used an Arion DDS-1 that I got in 1989 until very recently. 

I also use an Arion SAD-1 which is a brilliant analogue delay

mike257

Cheers guys, loads of good ideas there - time to go and check out some videos and things.  I've currently got the Carbon Copy for my basic delays and the EHX Memory Boy Deluxe for my tap tempo shenanigans so if I can find cheap-but-decent alternatives I might offload both - that'll help me fill the gaps in my microphone collection for my PA jobs!

Lev

If you could find a second hand Line6 M5 it would give you plenty of delay options with lots more goodies to play with. Same with a Zoom G3.

carlos

Mooer Reecho, check it out.

mike_l

Third vote for the Digidelay. For the dollar, you can't really go wrong.

And yes I've said that about more than one Digitech pedal......

Gassage

MIJ DD2.

Utterly sublime.

gubble

My Belcat Delay. Cost about £18 and four years on it's still going strong and sounding great week in week out at gigs.

ThePrettyDamned

Gassage;347982" said:

MIJ DD2.



Utterly sublime.

I think early dd3 and dsd3's used the same chip and mostly circuit (albeit a bit different with the dsd3), and can sometimes be had cheaper.

That's assuming the chip does make that much difference - I've not had first hand experience and I'm going on Internet wisdom which can be a load of cobblers, so if I'm wrong correct me and I'll edit!