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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Digital delays will do whatever they're programmed to do - they might have repeats that are perfectly clear, better than CD quality, for as long as you like. Or they might be designed to degrade like analogue, or anything else - modulation, filters, whatever the designers want from the pedal.
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Delays also tend to be the stronger element of a lot of multi fx. For example the Zoom ms70 CDR is about £80 and will give you a whole range of delays to try plus chorus and reverb settings but it will need a bit more thought to use it than a 3 knob delay pedal will.
I have a Boss DD-6, which I prefer for "modern"-rock type sounds and longer delays. It also has a lot of features like warp and reverse, so is very versatile.
I also have a Visual Sound Axle Grease analogue delay, which I prefer for "Classic"-rock (IE Hendrix/Floyd) type sounds and shorter delays. More limited on the features, IE does straight delay with a bit of wobble.
Both are good, depending on what you want.
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Analoge delay adds ambience
Digital delay adds special effects.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
The axle grease sounds amazing if it's analogue you want, or the mxr carbon copy. If funds allowed, I'd get a deluxe memory boy from electro harmonix, which is bonkers - more of an analogue special effects pedal than ambience!
Overall I think I prefer digital; you can get the nice crisp repeats and you can also get the tape/analogue emulation and they sound perfectly good.
Also a Yamaha UD-Stomp, which is just epic.
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(b) Agreed. This is obviously an over-generalisation (not least when you consider the point we previously made about analogue-voiced digital pedals ) ), but normally digital delays (at least those ones which aren't masquerading as analogue delays) have hi-fi/clear repeats, whereas analogue delays have muddier, less distinct repeats. It just depends on what you want, really.
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