Boss. Delay - am I the only one?

roberty

Supportact said:

roberty said:

Looks cool. For digitally controlled analog, did Tom Cram's DOD get there first with the Rubberneck? Wish I'd got one when they were on sale for £160 recently

No idea if it was first but I love the Rubberneck. It's really got a uniqueness to it. Thomann selling them at £173 at the moment which seems like a decent price. Tempted to get a back up. 

Saw that actually after I posted this. Does seem like a good offer. Maybe the one I saw recently was even less. Either way I am interested now

AntonHunter

roberty said:

Supportact said:

roberty said:

Looks cool. For digitally controlled analog, did Tom Cram's DOD get there first with the Rubberneck? Wish I'd got one when they were on sale for £160 recently

No idea if it was first but I love the Rubberneck. It's really got a uniqueness to it. Thomann selling them at £173 at the moment which seems like a decent price. Tempted to get a back up. 

Saw that actually after I posted this. Does seem like a good offer. Maybe the one I saw recently was even less. Either way I am interested now

I wish I'd got one when they were being sold off around £120-130 (around the time the Gonkulator was £60). I thought I'd keep an eye on it, and it's just steadily crept up in price since. Ah well.

Creed_Clicks

What's the guitar Danish Pete is playing in the vid? My eyes ain't good.

digitalkettle

Creed_Clicks said:

What's the guitar Danish Pete is playing in the vid? My eyes ain't good.

The Heritage.

english_bob

english_bob said:

Creed_Clicks said:

What's the guitar Danish Pete is playing in the vid? My eyes ain't good.

Heritage. 

I'm not that familiar with the range, but I'm guessing it's an H-530

https://www.andertons.co.uk/heritage-guitars/heritage-standard-collection-h-530-antique-natural

allen

This is up my alley, but no screen for ms/bpm. 

Plus why only one ‘feature’ per algorithm- why not just have more knobs in all that space?

 I will probably end up getting one though. 

dindude

allen said:

This is up my alley, but no screen for ms/bpm. 

Plus why only one ‘feature’ per algorithm- why not just have more knobs in all that space?

 I will probably end up getting one though. 

I come at from a different angle, perfect feature set but why so bloody big! 

Keefy

The blurb mentions 8 BBD chips. If these are xx3025 or xx3005 chips, that's up to 2.4 seconds total at normal analog delay frequency range. More likely there are parallel paths eg for the multi-head setting. I do hope they've managed to do this with a relatively bright delay signal (like the EHX DMM, or the Boss DM-2w's Custom mode) - previous attempts by Maxon to do multi-head analog delay (AD9 Pro, AD999 Pro) have been disappointingly dark.

Springywheel

My opinion on these kind of advanced time based FX units...when you're playing live It's hard to tell the difference between a Moog and a cheap behringer delay for example. And if you're using something like this in the studio, they don't sound much better than plugins, at least not to the point where it's worth the hassle of routing the audio out from your daw and printing it back in again. Same with reverb and any modulation FX. I only find it's worth paying extra ££s for drives, fuzz, distortion etc. Just my opinion. 

GavRichList

Springywheel said:

My opinion on these kind of advanced time based FX units...when you're playing live It's hard to tell the difference between a Moog and a cheap behringer delay for example. And if you're using something like this in the studio, they don't sound much better than plugins, at least not to the point where it's worth the hassle of routing the audio out from your daw and printing it back in again. Same with reverb and any modulation FX. I only find it's worth paying extra ££s for drives, fuzz, distortion etc. Just my opinion. 

Ah, well that’s why it takes all sorts. I couldn’t disagree with all of this more! 

Jonathanthomas83

Can of worms officially opened.

chrisj1602

Springywheel said:

My opinion on these kind of advanced time based FX units...when you're playing live It's hard to tell the difference between a Moog and a cheap behringer delay for example. And if you're using something like this in the studio, they don't sound much better than plugins, at least not to the point where it's worth the hassle of routing the audio out from your daw and printing it back in again. Same with reverb and any modulation FX. I only find it's worth paying extra ££s for drives, fuzz, distortion etc. Just my opinion. 

Yet on another thread everyone is praising the Caline Blue Sky overdrive pedal that is £26 on Amazon.

Keefy

I’m convinced now:

EricTheWeary

Springywheel said:

My opinion on these kind of advanced time based FX units...when you're playing live It's hard to tell the difference between a Moog and a cheap behringer delay for example. And if you're using something like this in the studio, they don't sound much better than plugins, at least not to the point where it's worth the hassle of routing the audio out from your daw and printing it back in again. Same with reverb and any modulation FX. I only find it's worth paying extra ££s for drives, fuzz, distortion etc. Just my opinion. 

The sounds in my head are much more delays than they are overdrives (there’s just a bit of overdrive, quite a bit of overdrive and possibly too much overdrive isn’t there?)so I do like the look of the Boss. Yes, £450 for a bit of slapback buried in the mix is probably daft but if delay is a lot of your sound it’s cheap compared to buying, let’s say, a Les Paul. 

Anyway, I hardly play these days and when I do should probably make do with the four delay pedals I’ve already got but I do think Boss have come up with a nice product here. 

Keefy

https://youtu.be/MxapIxkDmAs 

allen

I was totally underwhelmed by the Anderton's video.

theatreanchor

Was thinking about this. Then I watched TPS and thought, ‘I don’t need that at all!’

EricTheWeary

I might watch the JHS video later. I thought the TPS one was interesting but they are so conservative in how they use delay (ooh not too much level; what? You are demoing the delay FFS!) that it was hard to get much idea of what the Boss actually has to offer. 

Keefy

theatreanchor said:

Was thinking about this. Then I watched TPS and thought, ‘I don’t need that at all!’

I'm very pleased to hear that - more chance that they'll be in stock when I get paid for my recent gigs and order one!

Musicman20

Keefy said:

theatreanchor said:

Was thinking about this. Then I watched TPS and thought, ‘I don’t need that at all!’

I'm very pleased to hear that - more chance that they'll be in stock when I get paid for my recent gigs and order one!

There are LOADS in stock. The price will drop.