Product: Boss DD-20
Price Paid: 240 (EUR)
Submitted
05/08/2003
at
06:24am
by
florian zenker
Ease of Use
:
4
Basic operation of this pedal is relatively simple, but as soon as you want to switch between delays or edit your sounds more in depth, you HAVE to reed the manual - there are a lot of things you can't find out without it. That would also be my biggest complaint - contrary to most other BOSS pedals I know this one is very un-intuitive to use.
Sound Quality
:
8
So far it sounds great, like you would expect, no noise, good sounding delays... I don't necessarily like all the different delays it offers but that's a matter of taste. It lacks really special/weird delays though, like the Line6 DL4 offers.
Personally, I think the "warp" and "twist" functions are nonsense and could be replaced with something more useful, like a reverse delay that does NOT repeat the forward sound, but only the reverse... but that's the same in the DD5.
Reliability
:
9
I just got it a few days ago but it looks like you really have to try hard to damage it. Like all the other BOSS pedals I guess.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
wouldn't know.
Overall Rating
:
8
I guess I'm one of the first people to ever buy this so I'm curious about other opinions... this pedal has a lot of functions so I won't go into too much detail. Just my personal viewpoint:
What I like about it:
finally I can program my BOSS delay! I''m using several DD5s to switch between different types of delay, now 1 pedal can do the job.
If you switch from one sound to the next, the first one rings out, for a long time if repeat was set long.
what I don't like: this is really an instrument that you have to practice with, a lot of it's functions like switching between sounds, editing certain parameters etc are working in ways that take time to get used to.
with the looping function, it is VERY inconvenient that you have to hold down the pedal while you overdub, and that you can't really switch the loop on and off - once it's switched off, it's deleted!
On the other hand, if you take the time to learn using this pedal you'll find out it behaves very differently from the other sophisticated delays like the Line6, the Akai headrush etc so it gives you lots of new possibilities.
If you are using delays a lot a lot (like me) this may be for you, if you just use it a bit for extra colour and space in your sound you may be better off with something else.
