Boss DD-3 Digital Delay

ease of use huh ?? well, i guess its as easy as something this great sounding could possibly be. in my humble opinion - EVEN IF THE BOSS DD-3 WAS 10-TIMES HARDER TO USE THAN IT ACTUALLY IS, IT WOULD STILL BE WELL WORTH THE EFFORT !! i got a used one on ebay, went to the Boss website then downloaded and printed the owners manual (thats very convenient actually). i only had to take a few minutes of looking at the owners manual and the front of the pedal itself with its little "roadmap" of " S - .50ms , M - 200ms and L - 800ms " so, after playing with it a few minutes i pretty much thought i had it all figured out, but then, i saw the little "direct out" 1/4 inch jack and it was like "hmmm, i wonder what that thing does??" ........thats when it got interesting.........

let me first say that i bought this thing because recently i have been seeing some live guitarists with incredible tone and i knew they all were using some type of delay. so, i wanted to expiriment. i went to harmony central (like i alsways do before buying gear) and read alot of info about the delay effects that are available. now, i have an older, MIJ, Boss CE-2 that i love, so i went with the older, MIJ, DD-3 (mine is the very first generation, this was mentioned specifically by some of the previous reviews). so..........

i first set it up like this, 1998 PRS CE24 > Boss DD-3 > Mesa Roadster head > Mesa 4x12 cab W/ V30s and let it rip. WOW !! WOW!! is all i can say. there was a guy who said it best in a prior review, this pedal LOVES you, it loves you, your cable, your pick, your guitar, your amp, your tone, your ears, your fans ears, i can not say enough about this thing ! when i get the Roadster really cooking all by itself, guitar stright-in, on the heavy rectifier crunch of channel 4 its an incredible thing, but when i add just a slight amount of the DD-3, like maybe 40ms, with the effect level and feedback at about halfway, it is flat-out rediculous. the chunky thickness it adds to the sound is addictive, i could not stop smiling, then i moved up the neck and started to hit single notes and bends, it is truly spectacular. i also have a line 6 pod XT live i use to direct record with my band, i have used the different delay effects on it and honestly i did not know that the right delay could do what the DD-3 does. ..........now for that "direct out" i mentioned, this thing will let you (if you have 2 separate amps) run the guitar into the DD-3, the "output" will be the "effects only" signal (no dry signal) and the "direct out" will be "dry only" guitar signal so i went like this :
1985 les paul standard>
Boss DD-3> "effects-only" signal to the Mesa roadster, channel 4, all gained out>Mesa 4x12
then i sent the other "dry only" signal from the DD-3 through an entire regular live rig amp/effects chain :
Boss NS-2>
Keeley modded MT-2>
Boss CE-2>
EHX small stone nano>
MXR phase 90>
Mesa Express 5:50 head
Avatar 4x12 cab (2 greenbacks, 2 V30s
set up like above the sonic possibilities were endless.

also, the DD-3 has a "hold" feature, so if your set it right and chop a fast "chug-chug" then press down the pedal (and hold it down) the "chug-chug" will continue forever (or until you let your foot up) and you can play like crazy with the reapeating CHUG-CHUG in the background, fun as hell to play with, i just haven't got it incorporated into a live performance yet.
also, my pedal is not noisy at all.

my pedal is 20 years old, so who knows. i think if it was a weak product it would have died by now. i would gig without a backup because it's just a delay, it's not like i can't play if i don't have it. but, if this thing breaks i will find another exact replacement for it ASAP.

once i ordered some of those funny little round rubber grommets for the battery access screw holes that all boss pedals have, boss had those things in stock, they were expensive, so boss expensive but helpful.

i spent alot of time and money to get to this point, there are many facets that make up my whole guitar sound (amps, guitars, effects, experience, technique) i am amazed by the fact that one single product seems to have helped all of the separate things that make my sound. a hundred bucks for a product like this is basically free.
i don't let this thing go to far so i probably won't lose it and please don't steal it.

I'm reviewing this pedal on the grounds I knew exactly what it was capable of before I bought it.

All mentioned before, four simple controls - effect level, Feedback, Delay Time and delay time mode.

A huge reason I wanted to check out one of these is that I want something simple to use live, no messing around - and I think it does that really well.

The 'Hold' function is pretty useless, if it could loop sound a bit longer it would be cool, but I didn't have any plans of using this pedal as a looper anyway.

I use a 50w valve amp, running the delay in the FX loop with a rocktron Tremolo.

I've been looking at delays for months, analogue and digital. I was really close to ordering an EHX Memory Boy but after listening to a heap of sound clips - it's just too dark.
Analogue pedals sound AMAZING when you are playing by yourself, or recording - but they disappear when you are playing live, completely.
I know of a few people who bought Analogue pedals to later sell them a buy a digital pedal for live use.

Now the sound of the DD-3 is very simple and clean, it really does just what it should - create repeats of varying time and feedback, without introducing ANYTHING.

I play mainly classic rock and blues, so I wanted a no-frills delay to do classic delays - slapback short and medium length delays - and it's perfect.
The clean repeats will also be heard live easily.

One thing I was worried about was the bypass, some Boss pedals kill your signal when bypassed - but this pedal is quite transparent, it sounds fine in the FX loop.

I'm going to give this a 9 too, if you know what you want and what this pedal does - its great.
If you want thick muddy analogue echos - you're going to hate it.

Don't get me wrong, I want a good analogue echo - but for live use, this pedals sound and simplicity can't be beat.

Bought 2nd hand and its working fine.

As I said I play Classic Rock and Blues mainly, we do throw some psychedelic sorta parts in there too for contrast.

I play a G&L Legacy, A Modded Squier, through a modded Vox V847 - EHX Double Muff - then Rocktron Tremolo and DD3 in the FX loop of my 50w Ashton valve amp.

All I wanted was a pedal to create simple delays, I want Slapback, medium and longish echos for Pink Floyd kinda lead.
I don't need looping, over 1 second delay, reverse, modulation etc etc.
This pedal is great because it has no gimmicks, it just creates nice clean delays.

I'm thinking I might throw a switchable Low Pass Filter on the feedback so I can darken the repeats.
I kinda wish the Hold function was in some way useful, even then I don't think I'd use it.

In Conclusion -

Buy this delay if you want something which will cut through in a band situation, is cheap, is really versatile in classic style delays, and is simple to use.

Dont buy this delay if you actually want something that sounds different than the signal you're putting in it. It will NOT sound like a vintage delay, EVER.
Don't buy it if you want it to be able to do 100 different types of delays and other crap. It only does simple delays.

compared to rebote/mimic man analog delay which i already had, this is perfect! copies the reproduced sound exactly it was played, unlike analog delay, which the sound decays fast, this one lingers like a nostalgic memory, also it is warm enough to be mistaken as analog.

I was skeptic before purchasing one but I was wrong.

This unit is very easy to use. 4 knobs, volume of delay unit, feedback
and last 2 knobs for the lenght of repeats.

Sound quality on this is amazing. Pristine quality, this is digital, but
its so warm. This unit loves you and your guitars signal. It can make you cry, thats how it sounds.

never had problems with boss units. totally dependable, would use without backup in any gig.

Out of all my equipment, guitars, amps, effect units, cables..
this is the first unit, I knew from the beginning, I will never give up.
Its important to have that little edge, little something added to your guitar sound that doesnt leave it dry, especially, when you play
pop/rock music, coldplay, etc.

Very easy to use

Everything said here positive is true. straight out of the box I started having orgasms. For now this thing is just sweet for me, it sometimes makes me cry, It loves you that much, you and your guitar
this is just warm.. digital, but warm

just bought it

just plain simple digital delay, nothing more nothing less..
but it does it nicely.

the features are already described in the past reviews. this was my first delay and as a newbie i didn't had any problems getting out the sounds i was looking for, it's pretty simple to use.

it's a digital delay, not analog... but still it doesn't sounds that cold or something. i use it with a gretsch 6120-59, a marshall super lead + the boss od-3 (as a booster) and this setup is not noisy. also, didn't notice any significant colouring of the sound.

for now this is my only delay. might get a re-20 in the near future, but not for replacing this unit. i use it at gigs, no backup. it's a boss, it's solid as a rock.

never had any kind of problems with boss pedals... so i have no idea about that.

i use it for slapback or for fattening up chorus's of some songs and it does the job really good. i have it for years now, i would miss it if it was stolen, i'd probably get another one. the other boss dd delays doesn't really interest me as i don't need longer delay times or other options that those are offering. i like the simplicity of it.

Simple enough to play with and figure out in a short time.

The DD-3 definitely sounds better than most other contempoary Boss digital delay models. It definitely sounds many times better than the DD-6 I have which sounds far too cold and digital for me.

The DD-3 has a lot more warmth than most digital delay pedals I've owned or tried at stores. Now, it isn't as warm as the vintage older analog delays or expensive boutique models that can be bought, but for around $110.00 it is unlikely you will find a better sounding pedal.

This pedal is QUIET, too !!! There is no line noise, no pop or click when it is engaged, no volume increase or decrease, just a wonderful pedal in this respect.

I wish I would have found this DD-3 before I bought the DD-6, I could have saved $120.00 !!!

For a digital delay pedal, this DD-3 sounds REAL good, and has a surprising amount of warmth to it, not much of that digital coldness that most other digital's have.

I play a 1977 Les Paul Custom thru a Fender Bandmaster or my Fender Twin. The DD-3 sits at the very end of the line in a pedals board with 9 analog pedals ahead of it. This pedal does not change the tone I have grown to love from my Fenders, either.

Boss has a hit with this one, I don't know why they need to make other delay pedals. They really didn't improve on the DD-3 with subsequent models.

No Opinion.

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This is a pretty decent digital delay pedal, and I am NOT a big fan of digital pedals, or Boss pedals for that matter either. Every other pedal I have is either old world Ross pedals or boutique analog pedals. I started with all Boss pedals because of reviews I read on this site and hated every one of them. Digital just isn't the sound I am looking for. That is what surprised me the most about this DD-3. It DOES sound as good as everyone here has stated. I wish Boss made their other pedals as good as this one.

Buy one, you probably won't be sorry. They are good sounding pedals !!!!

For all of you that never had a delay pedal, and are thinking about getting one, they are easy as pie. you have 3 basic knobs on most of them, delay time(range), feedback(repeats), level(delay output) with adition on the mode knob on the DD series, that alows you to choose the differen ranges of delay available to make things easy. just play around two minutes with this one and thats it, every single setting on this box is good for a different purpose, everything its on your fingertips.

i always found it stupid buying a DD-3 instead of a DD-6 and now the DD-7, cause of the price difference and features, now that im more experienced i think that the DD-3 its maybe all you need, depending on the style you play of course, dont spend money in something you dont need. also the quality of sound is not the same with more components in most of the cases.

ok i have a dd-3 that has a blue sticker on the bottom that says MADE IN JAPAN that is really old... dont know about the new ones, but this pedal is awsome!!! alot of components are analog in my box. sounds WAY BETTER than any digital delay found on multi effects, sounds metallic but not ear piercing on slap backs like other digital delays (digitech digidelay). i wasnt a fan of delay until i got this one, i cant stop playing it now!!! i traded it for a ts-9 reissue (i just got a maxon od-9, needed to get rid of the ibanez) i glad i made that move. sounds perfect for what it is, no strange noises or nothing, just good quality delay. i cant explain it, lo-fi but pristine maybe?

im sure is more than 20 years old, no problems at all so far, as i said, no hiss or nothing like that, and previuos owner didnt had problems either, the pedal never got repaired, the only thing is that the knobs are a little bit loose now, no big deal HAHAHA

the best customer support is the one you dont need to contact, all i needed on the past from BOSS i found it on their web site. i think they are great. i work on a call center as customer service and tech support for a dsl and telecomunications company, i know how things work... i dont expect alot, like having my cloth washed and dinner cooked by BOSS. now days this pedal is kind of cheap, if you think about it, you get more than what you pay on customer support thats a 10!!

im not a veteran, i've only been playing for 9 years, i have alot of pedals on my studio, but only 7 on my pedalboard, i dont think i'll remove this one in a while, sounds great!!!

this pedal is extremely easy to use. 4 knobs, all pretty simple.. if you don't understand how to use it, just use your ears. i bought it used so i don't have the original manual, figured it out no problem

I am using a new orleans custom guitar, fender fm 100h amp, boss me-50, carl's custom tonebender/fuzzface, dunlop vintage crybaby, and this pedal. the pedal is very quiet, no white noise or anything, it seems to work well with my other pedals. i'm trying to phase out my me-50 and use just single effects boxes and i chose this for my delay. it does everything i need it to at the moment. i mainly use the delay for solos. it can achieve pink floyd type sounds, but i only really use it for soloing really. it sounds good, not as good as the carbon copy, but i got this for half the price and money's tight right now

this pedal is build pretty solid. i got it used and you can tell it got smacked around a bit, but it's still in overall good working condition. i assume years from now it'll still work just fine even with regular gigging. however, i don't know how well i'd depend on it if i used batteries. when i first bought the pedal, i didn't have an adapter and this thing uses up batteries in a matter of hours. to keep the battery life lasting longer, you should unplug the input cable when it's not being used as with most all pedals like this. i put brand new batteries in it when i got it and left everything plugged in (the pedal was bypassed) and left it like that all night, and the next morning the batteries were dead. i made a mental note not to leave the input cable in again, but a couple of days later the same thing happened.. so.. i invested in a 9v adapter for it, you should too if you expect to do any gigs with it, i wouldn't trust using it live with just batteries.

never needed to deal with them

this pedal is definitely about as good as it gets for the buck.. i wish the battery thing wasn't so bad, but other than that, it sounds good, pretty versatile.. get's the job done. if it were lost or stolen, i don't know that i'd run out to replace it, i'd probably save up and get a nicer analog pedal like the carbon copy or the deeelay (mcats?) pedal.

DD3. Easy, intuitive and efficient. Instant gratification

I love this pedal, specifically because it doesn't contain the fidelity of more modern delay units. It samples @ 8 Bits, which is why it sounds the way it does. Also it contains a unique QUANTIZING component that rounds off delay time to a small ratio in relation to input material.



I give it a 9, because if it was pristine, it would have no character and suck.

After a nuclear war only three things will be left on the face of the planet:

1. Cockroaches,
2. Keith Richards
3. The Boss DD3.

LOL!

You'll never need it. EVER.

Unique application: 2xDD3's in series:

Not even EVENTIDE, Lexicon, TC can even approximate the amazing configuration of two Boss DD3's in SERIES, in mono.

In this configuration, setting the first delay shorter and the second longer (2-3 ratio and effect level slightly louder), the DD3
performs a remarkable SELF OSCILLATION, slightly quantizing the summed output to a profoundly beautiful and unique and dynamic poly-rhythmic tapping that to this day, no other device on god's green earth can replicate... Seriously, no one has ever managed to come even close to this effect, and for that alone, it's worth every cent.


I challenge any company to attempt replication of this application.

Very easy to use, it's simple, my favourie delay. Mine is an original blue label 1980s MIJ (made in Japan) version.

Amazing, the MIJ is noticably much much better sounding than a normal DD3, it's basically more analogue sounding, and a lot warmer, you can get much nicer sounds with the feedback controll, best delay I've ever owned, even over a WEM copycat tape delay from the early 70s. The MIJ version is the one you should be going for though, it's much nicer. I'd give it 12 if that were possible!

It's never let me down, the only slight thing wrong with it, is the circuit has to kind of 'warm up' so it takes about 10 seconds to first come on, but after that it works flawlessly. The MIJ versions were even better made than any new one, and they are bigger, and more rugged around the edges, even the screw and rim has a much better design, and is made form better quality rubber, it's basically indestructable!

I've never delt with the company, but these MIJ version, don't need it, you won't find a better delay than this one!

I paid more than a new one would cost, and I used to own a new one, and the MIJ version really is so much better, mainly in the way it sounds, it's apparently completley different internally, but this pedal is the pedal I was searching for many a year to find. I got mine off ebay, from Canada, one of the finest purchases I've ever bought! It's just so warm, so full, and unlike the normal DD3, the delay fades in tone with each echo, like an analogue one, yet it's still clear and defined.

It's not a difficult effects box to figure out and you can get some great sounds out of this with minimal effort.

Sounds good (warm) with the extended delay times to tinny with the shorter times. Overall great sound, although I'm no David Gilmore at least I can pretend with this one. Also great for shoe-gazer type rhythms (my bloody valentine & slowdive type stuff) that what I used it used it for until it broke.

It broke when I stomped it during a live performance. Started making terrible cracking and popping noises. Really upset at this because of the high price I paid for this and the fact that I only had it for about a year or so. I don't get all this talk about boss boxes being indestructible; I've had two and they both inexplicably broke.

I don't know, I guess I could have called them when it broke but I hate talking on the phone.

sounded good for the short period of time it functioned properly but it is a really expensive paper weight now.

Bought 2nd hand, worked it out pretty quickly.

This pedal is just excellent.
I've used it for vocals, bass and guitar, sucks the batteries, but with the powerpack, never stops bringing the love.

I have had it for I guess 9 years and how old it was before I got it, no idea.
I have thrashed this thing. It's been gigged heaps, recorded in studios for vocals and bass, never had a box, just kept in a bag with leads and other pedals.
The jacks have never even crackled.

Asked the company for a manual via the net and they emailed me it the next day. Only got the manual because I had a needed a manual for my ME-50 which was all in Japanese and thought 2 birds with one stone.

This pedal is just the best.
If you don't have one, you're missing out.
Delay decay on this is one of the underrated and most important features on these pedals.
If I have to replace it, it'll be because it was stolen. It will probably outlive me.
Hopefully not, in hindsight...

It takes a while to get the time right for the song.

There is no sound like boss delay it is very metalic and tingy. I have a Line 6 DL-4 which I love but there are times that pull this pedal out to get certain sounds I just can't get with the DL-4.

BOSS

I have 4 delay pedals this one the DL-4, a Boss PS-3 and an old DOD delay(not certain if it is analog or digital). I might not replace it only because I have the PS-3 which gives the same metallic delay, if not for that I would replace it if it were broken or stolen. It is a great pedal but it will not give you any kind of analog or tape warmth it is very digital.

It's relatively easy to use. All the knobs do exactly what they say they do.

This is where I might get a bit nasty. I'm going to subject my overall opionion on (specifically) Korean made boss pedals.
Bottom line is, they are generic sounding comsumer grade pedals meant to satisfy the 'common' consumer. They are good enough, that's it. I have owned this pedal for 3 years and I'm finally ready to get something that will actually make me say 'wow, that sounds REALLY good!' First let me say I own a boss cs-2 compressor (Japanese) and I LOVE it and will play it until one of us dies. I also own a boss ge7 equalizer and it does what it is supposed to do but then again, there is no sound quality involved, only functional value. I recently tried a TC electroncs vintage delay and it made the dd-3 look and sound like a TOY. This is generic delay, period. If gereric, lifeless sound is what your looking for, this will satisfy your pedal board. The first delay I ever owned was a dod dfx-9 and even THAT sounded better to me than this thing. It had more character and a more clear distinct delay sound. I have never been happy with this delay and since delay is my favorite effect, I have to say like many other boss pedals I've owned, this is a big disappointment.

I have to give them credit for this, I've never had a boss pedal break or malfunction on me.

Never had to deal with them, which is a good thing.

I may be a bit of an audiophile snob, probably because I have worked in high end audio stores and I prefer to buy the best once than cycle through several models of the same effect to get what I'm looking for. I'd rather research the best delay for example and pay more than settle for 'boss'. Boss to guitar equipment for me is equivalent to Bose or Denon for a home theatre system. Why would I settle for that if I could put my mind to it and get a Marantz, or better yet a Bryston. If your happy with your dd-3 (and other boss pedals for that matter) take this with a grain of salt and don't attempt to try a REAl delay like a tc electronics. If you own a boss phaser, don't try an EH polyphaser and I could go on for any pedal boss has made in the last 15 years. With everyone loving boss so much, its no wonder that 99.999% of guitarists are always looking for that "Magic" tone but never finding it. To do that you have research and spend a bit extra, not settle for this consumer garbage.

This is extremely easy to use. If you cannot get good sounds out of this, please just put all your guitars away and go back to acoustic.

This can achieve any kind of good quality digital delay, from short repeats to long sounds. It does not colour your signal at all.

Boss!!

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Really good pedal. One of the best for what it does. Very usable (unless you do not like delay)

Very easy to use, manual was written clearly.

My set up is US Strat>BOSS NS2>Cry Baby Wah>DODFX84>MXR phase90>BOSS Ac3>BOSS DS1>BOSS DD3>Marshall 100W 1959 Super Lead head>Marshall 1960A cab. I found the delay quality to be excellent, everything I play is accurately repeated. Great for getting that U2 delay sound. The Hold feature may be useful to som ebut i dont use it.

Its a BOSS pedal ,no more to say!

Never needed to deal with them

Overall this is great pedal for me. I am the only guitarist in my band, we play funk/fusion and I need to cover a lot of ground sonically an this spedal helps me achieve some extra umph when playing lead parts.This pedal really fills out the sound especiallyas we have no second guitarist to play rhthym under the lead parts. If lost I would replace imediately!

maybe 5 minutes and you know whats going on here.
and another 5 to have a practicable setting to use.

Mh, its Ok, its just a digital delay wich exactly repeats the tones you play! without adding there some " warmth " or " noize " or whatever !! Nothing !! Steril repeatings !! But that is what I want !
You know, I play very " warm " sounding equipment, wich has MY Sound
imaginations, perfectly. So I dont need a delay to manipulate my tone, I need it only to repeat my sound as it is, pure !!
Not more not less !
For that its great. I have a " allround setting " at 600 - 700 msc.
and the volumen is set from 11 - 12 oclock !! Notice ; The Delay must be a part of your main sound but not BE youre main sound !!
So, too much delay kills youre tone ( set it at low Volumen ).
I play a Fender std. Strat and a Thinline Tele, a Prs Single Cut and a Music Man Petrucci ( Piezos ) as my new "Baby". These Guitars go to a Korg Dt 10 Tuner and direct in the Input of my Mesa Lonestar or Engl Souvereign 1x12er Combos.
In the effect loops, comes the DD 3, a Roger Mayer Voodoo Vibe, a Maxon Ts9 ( boost ) and a Cry Baby GCB 95 F. Thats it !! Oh, yes, dont forget the Footswitches for Amp chanels.
With this Rig I play anything from 30`Jazz, 40?? Blues, 50` Rock and Roll, 60?? Rootsrock, 70??Psychedelic, 80`Metal, 90`Grunge or 2000 New Metal....And guess what.... I do play all of it !
Live or in the Studio, the DD 3 works fine for me!
So I think 9 points are enough.

A Good one, Its fixed on my Pedal Board since 3 years and I never had any problems. Locks well build, Feels well build. So maybe it is well build ?!

Never need them....no Points for the unknown

Mh, in my ears, a delay is a " must have ". First comes a great Guitar, second a great Amp and at 3th, a good delay. But the biggest part of making music is youre soul and youre fingers, without that, the biggest Equipment let you sound S*** and nothing can change that, FACT !!!
What can I say ? If you need a " simple " delay and not a tone manipulating - so called " analogue delay " - then Test one of the Boss DD 3`s.
I test it against the DD 5, 6 ( both bad ), the digidelay ( nice toy for only playing home ). Maxon and Ibanez AD 9, AD 900, AD 999 ( good ones but not for my needs ), T REX Replica the same as good ( or better ) as the DD3 but to over priced...And the biggest jokes from Danelectro.
But thats me ! So test your own likings !
Me ? 38 years old, since 16 years Pro ( means I earn enough money to live from music. ), 120 gigs a year, every month working in the Studio, in free times I teache pupils to play....Blabla....

For a delay pedal this is fairly easy: once youve selected the speed range and the effect volume, its just delay time and resonance: if you know what you're after then this is a pretty easy way of getting to it. Delays are a more difficult animal than most effects but this one should be pretty easy to use.

OK, some people are obviously buying this pedal thinking it'll get them that lovely warm tone theyve heard in all those 70s recordings (25 years before digital technology was fast enough to repeat a high quality sound byte within 20 milliseconds) and think that this will do it for them. Theyre thinking of analogue delay pedals (which, in my opinion is a very different effect from digital delay: just coz they both say 'delay' doesnt mean they should be compared).

What this pedal does, what all digital delays do, is repeat exactly what you played at precise intervals whilst degrading at a set gradient. The Boss DD3 is the DADDY of repeating EXACTLY what you played at EXACT time intervals. It doesnt lie and it doesnt cover mistakes and has very different applications from analogue delay pedals, if youre gonna pay #100 for a pedal then you should look into what it does.


My rig goes:
USA Fender Fat Strat/ MIJ Fender Jazzmaster - EHX Big muff-Fulltone fulldrive2-EHX Small clone-EHX Small Stone-EHX Pulsar Tremolo-Boss DM-2 analogue Delay-Boss DD3 Digital Delay-Korg DT10 Tuner-A/B Box with A into a fender hot rod deluxe (clean) and B into a Marshall JCM800 2x12 combo (dirty).

The DD-3 and the DM-2 give me massive variety in delays, where one fails the other can support and both together make the craziest noises ever.The quality of the output has been said to be sterile etc but its just doing what its supposed to, I guess if the 'attack' was lowered it'd sound less mechanical, but for me it does exactly what it says on the tin.If youre rig sounds rubbish this pedal will make it sound worse.

Boss are solid, ive got or had a few of them, and though the japanese ones feel more sturdy (like my DM-2 and ive also got an OC-2) the taiwanese ones are much better built than other similar units. This DD-3 is tiawanese (I think there are only a few japanese DD-3s, but the DD2 was made there and its pretty much the same). Ive gigged and will continue to gig without a backup. IM not rich enough to get another one and i dont think i care enough: if it craps out mid gig ill pull it out and use the dm-2 to compensate and vice versa.

never dealt with them

I like it. Others may not. Im into indie, grunge rock and some other stuff and I really like the smashing pumpkins, sonic youth, nirvana, trail of dead, radiohead, manic street preachers, jeff buckley, PJ harvey, Bloc Party etc etc. this pedal is indespensable: if lost id probably gewt a DD-6 for the tap tempo but I really do like this pedal: boss excel in making stright to the point pedals that do what they are told, thats why the pitch shifters and delays are great but the distortions and modulation pedals suck a bit. If you buy it dont think itll make you sound like gilmour in a second, youve just got to learn to use it. After overdrive this is the most used pedal on my board. Worth it, every penny.

the four controls are pretty self explanitory. this pedal comes with a well thought out manual so you shouldn't have any trouble getting the best out of it.

spot on sound wise. another good one from boss. the signal sounds a little metallic the lower you set the repeat rate but who buys a delay pedal and sets it so you can hear little or no delay. a few people have moaned about the sound of the pedal. these are the people who don't realise that with every new pedal you add to your chain you have to tweak your amp and guitar controls a little. nothing just fits straight in

well its made by boss, you could turn it on and off with a tank

never had to deal with boss as i've never had a problem with there gear.

well worth the money, even at brand new prices this is a total bargain

Only 4 knobs, comes with a manual with how to get a good delay sound. Just step on it to turn it on, step on it again to turn it off. It's not brain surgery.

I cannot really compare the delay sound to any other but the DD-6. To my ears, the delay is very good. It does what it is suppose to do, repeat every note the way it was played. However, I did not buy it for the delay. The only thing I wanted this pedal for was the HOLD feature. The sound I wanted to achieve was the kind of effect Eric Johnson uses on the beginning of "Soulful Terrain". I will say that this pedal does it PERFECTLY and I have no complaints as far as that function is concerned. The ONLY problem I have with this pedal is that you have to keep your foot on the pedal as long as you want the HOLD to last, which if you are on stage can tie you up when you want to change channels/pedals.

I have 2 other Boss pedals, a Blues Driver and Flanger, and both are indestructable.

It is a very cheap delay, considering the prices of most boutique analog, rack mount, and echoplex type delays. You may find a better deal with the Danelectro Reel Echo, Ibanez Tone Lok, or something along those lines, but they do not feature the Hold function. I love how this pedal can make someone sound like a one man band, and is also fantastic for practicing. I know it will make me a better player and sound better and that is what it's all about. Probably the coolest thing about it is how you can hit say, an Am chord, and explore all over the entire neck and find complementary scales and notes that you can use over the key of Am. Overall, a great pedal and a great price.

Ok, this baby is easy to use if you can read the lettering on the dials etc... Simple on off thing as well!

NO! Not good here. My main problem is that I play vintage music, so whatever famous sound I dialed in, it wasn't right. To start of with, Apache by the shads... each repeat was too clean and twangy when compared to the original input sound... I need warmth. Next up would have to be some Gilmour tones from through the ages, but first a little bit of Syd Barrett in there. Syd and Gilmours main delay for years was the Binson echorec, either set to wicked slapback (which tis pedal can just about do!) Or big long swells made of repeats all cascading around. Sadly this pedal cannot deliver. Gilmour used an echrec to flesh out solos (Think Cymbaline from the KQED bootleg DVD). Sadly the clean-ness of the repeats buggers this right up.

Ok it might be good for U2 fans or Radiohead, but I am unimpressed with this gadget. I own a Marshall Echohead which gets slated as a bad unreliable pedal. It might well be! Mine hasn't done a nasty on me yet, and it seems bombproof and much more interesting. This delay pedal is for shred guys afraid of putting emotion in their music.

Damn, this is 5/10 more because people THINK that Boss pedals are bombproof... they go wrong like everything else.

Didn't buy it.

Its on ok pedal for delay in the simplest sense of the word.

One last gripe! When you turn the time knob while its repeating the repeats speed up and change pitch, now this is common for all delay pedals and is cool. But speed up the Boss and yes the pitch changes, but bring it back to original tempo and the signal is depleated rather badly. Shame that this isn't an analogue pedal or anything.

It doesn't get much easier than this - very user friendly. There's nothing worse for me than to have some sort of digital screen that you have to scroll through to get different sounds - this one is as simple as it gets - four knobs that easily adjust everything you need to be able to adjust.

I find the sound quality to be excellent. I use this pedal as part of my acoustic and electric set-ups and it responds excellent to both. The sound for this model is excellent.

Seeing as it was made over 10 years ago, and I've owned it for about half of that - with no problems - I'd say that it's fairly reliable! I do not use a backup for this pedal (granted my night wouldn't be ruined without a delay pedal).

Never had the pleasure to deal with BOSS customer support.

Overall, an all around excellent pedal. If this one ever dies, I'll be on the hunt for another. I've been saying that for over four years now and it shows no signs of slowing down.

Bought it used with an included power supply. It's the older Japanese model. Quite easy to use. Set the deleay time, feedback, level and play.

I use this sparingly to reinforce my reverb and add a bit of echo. The repeats do sound a bit sterile. I modified mine with a tone control on the effect sound/feedbacks. Using this new control to get rid of some treble on the delay repeats helps this unit a lot. With the mod it sounds almost as good as a nice long analog delay (without the pricetag) and gives me a new option to tweak my sound. It's not particularly noisy but it isn't true bypass so it dulls the sound when used with more than a couple of effects in the chain. I use an enhancer at the end to clean up the mud on a long chain.

Very reliable. Never had a problem. I fix a lot of pedals and the only broken Boss ones are either abused beyond belief or are broken as a result of botched modifications. If you don't know what you are doing, please don't waste your time by opening up your effects.

I fix and modify my own stuff so I rarely deal with Boss support. Ordering parts from them is another story. Boss can be very difficult at times to get parts, especially for discontinued/older pedals.

Good quality delay for the money. Easy controls and above average tone (excellent tone with the feedback-tone mod). Boss has been making these forever even though they have made newer models. I would definately replace it if it was lost or stolen.

perfect setup - nice arrangement with the delay time ranges.

Unbeatable for its price range ($99) - any other delay at this price would not sound as good. If you are more advanced though - this will leave you wanting more . . . more something. You get what you pay for, this is ok for the bedroom but i want something amazing. Good sound but not amazing.

Looks fairly sturdy but i trust my digitech pedals much more - i wouldn't trust it traveling - kind of sounds like tin if you tap it. A little cheap if you ask me - i would probably buy something better sounding if i had a gig booked . . .

i play rock - i want a huge saturated stereo-chorus sound and this doesn't do it - this is too trasparent - i think i will exchange it for something else.

Takes a little experimentation to learn how to dial in. Very easy once you've got used to it. It's nice being able to snap to different ranges of delay time. Feedback knob is brilliant. You can go for infinate, noisey feedback by cranking it on full. Or be really carefull nd get it to just the point where it doesn't overload....and be in bliss.
Hold function is nice....but SHOULD BE A LOT LONGER!!!! then agin, its hold, not loop.

Ok.
I have a new taiwan made version.

It's stupidly noisy! even at the first rep. Set the volume on full, delay time long, and feedback to wherever and listen out for the first rep. You can instantly notice a hiss.
Crank the feedback on full and you can hear this noise build up. Now i paid for a digital pedal. So no noise please. If i wanted noise I would have bought an analogue pedal. But even then....the noise would sound awesome.

The processed sound is weak and lacks charecter..

because of its sound quality, I use it AS my backup.
But, Boss' sturdy, tank like designes have never failed me...the same cannot be said for other boss users.

Only for novice ears... or students.

It's worth looking into getting an older one...one which is made in Japan I believe. They appear to sound fantastic....and have no noise!

Get a second hand DD-6, or an old japanese made DD-3... don't buy a new one...

ive had this pedal for a while now and ive found it real easy to use. its really simple and just takes a little bit of time to get used to it when you first use it. there is so much you can do with this pedal and so many different sounds you can make. the more you play around with it the more you find out about it.

i use a fender strat with it and you can create some awsome psychadelic sounds with it alone. it ranges from some really creepy spacy sounds to buitifal magical sounds. its real awsome if you love that kind of stuff. its also great for sweetening up solos.

when using try hitting some notes with your finger and turning the rate dial at the same time, depending witch way you can make cool doiyng type noises or diehw type noises.

the sound is perfect. there is nothing special to it every note simply sounds how the played note was repeated. it is great for using other effects with. to me it can sound very white and dark blue, or it can sound very clear and watery/dreamy, or blue or purple with some sweet fuzz or something. great sound.

you can deffinetly depend on this pedal. it is extremely tough. ive kicked mine around a bit and its better than ever. it even lookes better to me the more i use it. the only thing is the black rubber thing has ripped a bit on the back were you screw the pedal in. but it doesnt effect it, it just means i gotta keep it screwed all the way in. but this is nothing to worry about.

you wouldnt need a back up at all. just maybe a spare battery.

i tried to get it repaired just after i bought it but i found out it was the adapter i was using.

its fine, i havent had any problems with it and the support was good.

this is a perfect match for my type of music. our band plays original music, and by that i mean original, not ripping off someone elses style but creating our own. its the way everyone who is serious about music and what its all about should play. i love this pedal for our band because it is just so needed. youl have to listen to find out.

been playing 7 years.
yeah id buy it again.
havent compared, dont need to.
the only thing i wish it had was a reverse option, but ill sus out something else for that.
it only helps, unless i over use it or abuse it.
my band is called luph, we are from adelaide and we are on: http://www.myspace.com

Dirt simple. Could have been even simpler if they didn't have the extra knob to select the range of delay time, but what this does do is allow you to have much finer control over the delay time than if you had one knob that covered the full sweep from 50ms all the way to 800ms. I haven't gotten the hang of the HOLD feature yet, but I really didn't purchase this pedal for fancy tricks, just a simply delay to fatten up the sound.

OK, I've been on a search for the Holy Grail of delay/echo pedals for about a year now. I was previously using a Line 6 DL4, which is a digital delay pedal that emulates different classic digital, tape, and analog delay effects. The DL4 has some geat sounds, but after a while I found I really didn't want or need a dozen different delay models. What I wanted was ONE good delay sound that was pleasing to the ears and didn't mess with my tone too much. I also wanted something with a much smaller footprint that would allow more room on my pedal board. In my quest I tried many analog and digital delays including the T-Rex Replica, Maxon AD-999 abalog delay, and Line 6 Echo Park. Well, I finally sucked it up and decided to try the common, garden variety Boss DD-3. The verdict: this is the perfect delay for my needs. My search for a delay is now over! I found that many of the (much more expensive) boutique delay pedals have special effects and tricks that I don't want. The Boss DD-3 is just a basic, simple delay that to my ears does not sound cold and sterile like most of us assume a digital delay will sound. If you check out the Analogman.com website, there is an explanation of the technology in the DD-3 and why it sounds "better" than many other modern digital delays. Apparently, the DD-3 uses the same compresser/expander circuit that Boss used in their previous analog delay pedals, which re-samples each repeat and accounts for the fact that it is "warmer" sounding than most other modern digital delays (including the DD-5 and DD-6) which just spit out exact carbon copies of the original bit-stream signal. Do I completely understand this technical talk? No. But what I do understand is that this pedal does not sound cold, shrill, or sterile to my ears. Sure, it doesn't have the warm, fuzzy repeats of a true analog delay, but after much experimentation I've decided that I really didn't want that kind of sound, anyway. Just a few soft repeats to add some spaciousness to my dry signal. For this the Boss DD-3 suits my needs perfectly. I also used to be obsessed with having all of my effects be true bypass, but what I've come to realize is that when I'm after a pure guitar sound I tend to just plu straight into the amp, anyway. So true bypass, buffered output, it doesn't matter to me anymore, just as long as the pedal sounds good. And the Boss DD-3 sounds good!

Have never heard of one breaking.

I currently play several guitars depending on my mood or the specific sounds I'm after: PRS Custom 24, Gibson Custom Shop '58 Les Paul, Fender Custom Shop '60 Strat, and Ibanez Prestige RG2550 (for playing Vai/Satriani type stuff). Amps are all low wattage, vintage style, single-channel, non-master volume types. When I use my pedal board I generally keep them turned low for a cleaner sound. My effects chain is GUITAR > Fulltone Clyde Wah > Fulltone mini-Deja Vibe > Fulltone Fulldrive II > Boss/Keeley DS-1 Ultra Distortion > Boss DD-3 > AMP. Effects are all powered by a Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2 and cabling is George L's. Considering this is the cheapest delay/echo pedal of all the ones I tried, and in my opinion has the best tone with no extraneous features that I don't need, I consider it a fantastic value. If you want an analog sound, get a Maxon. If you want a tape sound, get a Fulltone TTE. If you just want a simple, clean sounding delay and don't need special effects or more than one second of delay time, this is the best route to go and will save you $$ for that next toy you just gotta have. After years of shunning Boss because they weren't a small boutique manufacturer, I've recently come back to them. Some of their pedals need some work to sound their best (the DS-1 is greatly improved with mods from Robert Keeley or Analogman). However, the DD-3 is a real winner right out of the box. My next purchase will be a Boss OD-3 overdrive. Very warm and natural sounding, with enough volume boost to push a slightly dirty Tweed Deluxe into SRV territory!

Easy 4 knob pedal to use, sounds good right out of the box! Little bit of tweaking will get you the sound and speed you want.

This pedal sounds very good to me and the amp I had before had on-board delay and this delay sounds so much better to have a separate pedal going through my Tele and Deville 212. This pedal is very spacy and atmospheric sounding, you can get all kinds of weird sounds from it and experiment with already existing songs you have. The thing about this pedal is that it doesn't take away from the tone of your amp or guitar, it sounds like it should on or off.

It's like any other pedal really as far as being sturdy. It also sucks up battery life so buy an adaptor for it because the sounds do change when the battery is low...

i dunno

I am very happy I bought this pedal over all. I was looking at buying an echo park but heard it was noisy and the boss dd-6 was too much and sounded the same to me anyway. I like playing this thing more than my Distortion pedals! Delay is very fun and this pedal was very simple to use to allow me to enjoy my first Delay pedal. I play alternative indie rock and this pedal would be made for anyone into whatever really, so go get a boss Duh Duh Duh, Delay! Today! (OK that was stupid) I also love the color of this pedal as well somthing about "white" going with what this pedal does...I'd buy another pedal like this one if I lost it, yes sir

Very easy to use.

Only a small noticable change in quality and tone, although this is only 16 bit I believe.
Also it only trails behind the dry louder notes anyway.

Are you joking, its buggered.
You have to turn the volume of the delay full to get just half the volume of the dry sound.
When the volume knob is at half you can't hardly hear any delay.
Boss are absolutly useless in customer support if your pedal is out of the 3 year warranty.
If its under guarantee Boss throw your fautly one away and just send you a new one.
BUT if it not in warrantee they charge #78 AN HOUR to repair it, and thats if after who knows how many hours they find it CAN be repaired.

So as the pedal only costs a bit more to buy, they expect you to just throw it away and buy another one.

Thanks Boss.

I and tired of seeing "Its a boss what can I say" in this section, Boss pedals DO go wrong and I have seen plenty of Boss pedals on ebay which need repairing.

USELESS VOMIT.

Boufgt in 1990, never been gigged, now broken, hardly used because I bought several multi effects machines soon after I bought it.
I have never been happy with the delay length, I need about 1.5 seconds and at the time NO pedal did that.
There are now better pedals than the Boss which do not cut off the delay when you switch it off, like the boss.

Three sweep rotary knobs and one incremental mode knob. All clearly labelled and unambiguous in what they do. And, of course, that great slab of a Boss footswitch plate. This unit is delay made easy.

As it is mounted on my pedalboard it is powered from a mains converter, so failing batteries are not a consideration. HOWEVER when I first acquired it I did notice how willingly it ate PP3 9 volt cells. There is no way I would use this pedal without mains power.

I generally use the DD-3 to colour clean blues solos, so it is used in a fairly subtle way. But when the mood takes me I like nothing better than to crank up the delay and feedback and have a bash at some John Martyn Inside Out-type stuff. Getting the sound? no problem. Hitting the right notes? well that's nothing to do with the DD-3...

The HOLD function I played with at home but would never risk using it in a live situation. Come to think of it, I can't think of any reason why I would need to use the HOLD function in a live situation.

Very transparent sound, with little or no sound colouring as far as I can tell.

The DD-3 is the final processing stage in my pedalboard. Like the other FX units it is powered by a 9 volt 1,000 mA stabilised power supply. Why it took me so long to put a pedalboard together is beyond me! Apart from mains power, secure patch leads, a safe, robust flight case to protect the stompboxes and much reduced setting up/breaking down times, what have the Romans ever done for us?!?

But I digress. Guitars {2x Les Paul, 1x HSS Strat) go into:-

Boss CS-3 >> Morley Power Wah >> Rat II >> Boss DD-3 which then feeds either a Hiwatt Dr103 or a Marshall 30 watt combo, depending on venue size.

When I fitted the DD-3 to my pedalboard I didn't tell the rest of the band. At the first gig when I used used it for the first time on a Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac number, our keyboard player was seen leaning forward over his keys mouthing "what the f*ck was THAT?"

I assume he was taken aback by the fattening and sweetening of a clean out-of-phase Les Paul sound. It really does make a massive difference to clean sounds. I don't tend to use the DD with huge overdrive.

It is a pretty versatile unit, I can easily get a good Shadows approximation to seriously upset our drummer when the Apache lick is thrown into a solo. Mostly I don't want an overly intrusive "daaaang-yaaang" delay. A more subtle, atmospheric quality to simple yet emotive blues lines is all I seek. The DD-3 delivers but I can't always say the same for the guitarist!

Overall I am impressed with the DD-3 and find its quietness and lack of colouring as satisfying as its versatility and ease of use.

This pedal was bought second-hand, albeit only six weeks after it was initially sold. Being a Boss played a big part in my decision to buy second-hand. They are known for being rugged and reliable, and working pretty well. I can't ignore the fact I paid half RRP for it though!

I play regular gigs with a blues band and the odd pick-up rock'n'roll band with some mates.

I find that four FX units (or five if I opt to use my old Electo Harmonix talkbox) are enough to give me plenty of total variety for the blues band. Compression, wah, distortion and delay provide the principal characteristics. Pickup selection and use of guitar volume and tone pots provide the subtleties.

The DD-3 has added an extra dimension to my sound that is both subtle yet noticeable. When I need a bit of slap-back for some good old Rock'n'Roll I am confident it is easy to set up the sound and the DD will deliver. I would have little hesitation in having another DD-3 if my current one were lost or stolen. The chances of it actually failing are pretty remote. And the fightcased pedalboard means that knobs, switches etc. are far, far less vulnerable to damage.

It's a Boss. It does what it says on the tin. Yeah, I'd have another one! Actually I'm quite happy with the one I have...

easy enough to use 4 knobs . i pulled this one out of the drawer after my 4 month old sib mr echo switch went bad.and after not using this pedal for a while i forgot how weak it was......oh did i mention it is dark and weak?

i use about 6 different guitars through a fender hotrod deluxe and vox ad30vt.this is the 2nd dd3 ive owned.the first one back in 1993 wish i still had that one because i really liked the realtime feedback control it had.......now the new taiwan made one is weak, dark,and just all around crappy sound.it is next to useless. the repeats dont have any umph at all.

it is a boss ive never had any realibabilty problems i will give them that.

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i play psycadellic rock and like to add feedback while changing the delay time in real time this pedal is not up to the task.i also use an sib"mr echo" which is much mor bright and musical and smokes the dd3 by a mile.but this pedal needs a new switch which is a common problem with that model...i also have a ds1 distortion which does not sound like the old ones......in short all their taiwan made stuff is junk. boss has declined from a top notch company to making useless crap...i could go on about the me50 multieffects processor but thats another story.i need a good delay for my pedalboard and may get a digitech digdelay as the line6 is noisy.

It is pretty easy to get the sound you might want out of this pedal. I had no problem getting what I wanted and don't even have the manual ! Pink Floyd/Radiohead sounds are super easy to get.

The sound kicks A$$ for what I have as far as gear, which isn't that much. I play through a 2004 American Deluxe Tele to a Fender Twin Reverb, my pedals in order from left to right are DD-3, PS-5, Mt-2, and BD-2 (Keeley mod), what can i say, i like Boss.

Like i said above, very easy to get Radiohead/Pink Floyd sounds, The BD-2 going through the DD-3 sounds great when playing "Comfortably Numb"

With the PS-5 and DD-3 together you can get somw Bad ass RADiohead sounds, spacey,spacey,weird, great stuff.

Boss has always been reliable, extremely, but i never had to call them or anything.

Never had to call

I play just about everything exept death metal. I've been playing guitar for 6 years. With my gear it sounds awesome BUT it is the only delay pedal i have owned but i dont think i'm missing anything by not getting DD-5 or DD-6, IT suits my just fine with the style i have which i pretty broad.

Not too hard to use. I imagine if you need to sync to midi gear your clocks would wander, but thats the beausty of live sound.

I would play this through any set up. It does sound very good, however keep in mind it is a digital pedal. i took this thing apart and looked at and I was like, WOW this is a serious work of circuitry. It may be digital, but it has all the integrity of a botique shop analog pedal. This is made in Japan.

Made in Japan. Rock solid

No need.

Glad to own a pedal like this!!!!!!1

its real easy to get good sounds out of it. takes a little getting used to how to dial in what you want it to do, but that makes sense since delay pedals are a bit more in depth than your standard 3 knob overdrive pedals. the manual is alright. okay, i never read it. i guess that goes to show how easy it is to use this.

my main setup is as follows: Les Paul > Maxon OD808 > Boss DD3 > Blues Junior. it isn't noisy, so thats a huge plus. the effect sounds great. i got this for a few reasons. one being that i'm a lone guitarist and i wanted to make my sound a bit bigger in some songs. i also wanted to add some atmosphere in a few tunes. also, i just think that delay, when used sparingly, is an awesome effect. i picked this unit because its been around for so many years and there are a few bands that i love that use this pedal. also, it was in my price range. i bought it without trying it and its absolutely a keeper.

seeing as though there are about 120ish reviews for this pedal and only 15 people put down scores for customer support and i'm sure that out of the 15, not even half of them contacted the company because of a defective dd3, i think this is very reliable. also, i've had several boss pedals before. boss doesnt always make the best sounding pedals, but they are among the most reliable.

never had to contact them, which is how i like it

I play brit-rock and the like. Influenced by Oasis, The Beatles, Coldplay, Dave Matthews Band, BRMC, Interpol, and other bands. I've been playing for almost 6 years and have owned a lot of gear for only playing for <6 years. Aside from multi fx units, i've only had one other delay/echo pedal and that was the Danelectro Dan-echo. It sounded great, but i could never get exactly what i wanted out of it. Not knocking it though. I did have it a few years back, I'm sure if i had it now i'd be more capable of finding use for it. If it were lost, i'd definitely by another one. this pedal has given me a lot of inspiration. I was contemplating either this or the Line 6 Delay (whatever its called...) but went with this for a few reasons. One is that its Boss and I know that it wont break on me (unlike EHX pedals). Another being that there are a few bands whose delay sound i wanted to somewhat emulate use this pedal, and it wouldnt have been smart to get any other delay pedal other than the one i'm trying to emulate.

Very easy to use, simple and straight forward. Didn't even look at the manual, there's pretty much no reason to.

The DD-3 is probably THE most popular digital delay floor pedal of all time. It's easy to use and gives you a good range of delay setting to work with. Not noisy, doesn't color the guitar's sound when off. The repeats on the delays have a specific sound to them though. I can tell the DD-3 apart very easily - the repeats have a hint of coldness to them. It's a digital delay after all, but the point is that digital is supposed to copy the note exactly as it comes in and it doesn't. Some people like the sound of it, I don't. It's a matter of taste I guess, but the point is that it definitely has it's own digital/cold sound.

It's a BOSS. Don't need to say much more :)

Never needed it for BOSS.

I play everything from jazz to rock, funk and blues. I play on recording session of all kinds, on my own projects and live. I'm a professional musician in Los Angeles. I've been playing for about 15 years and have owned and played A LOT of effects - I'm very picky about sounds :)

You kind of have to learn how to use it, but once you do its very easy to get a desired sound out of it.

Use this with my Fender stratocaster and a charvel 15 watt amp. It doesnt create any extra noise. The sounds are always great! I can always get the exact sound I am looking for and its beautiful. It repeats sounds perfectly. I also sometimes plug this in through my microphone and it creates a perfect echo of my voice. Perfect for many uses.

It will never break, but the battery will die after about an hour of playing. But that doesnt mean you'll actually get an hour of playing in, since the quality starts to go down after a half hour and you'll have to re-adjust the knobs to get the desired sound again. Basiclly, if you get this you MUST get the boss power adapter. If you do, this pedal is perfect.

This seems like it would be good for any kind of music that uses effects. If it were lost or stolen I would replace it pretty quickly. I love all the sounds that you can get out of it, you can even make it sound like there are 2 guitars. I use it all the time, it adds a noticeable flare to my music.

Not as easy as most boss effects, but it has a lot of versatility. Minor adjustments with any of the three "main" knobs (EV, Fdbk, delay)produce a wide variety of sounds. I generally keep the right-most knob on 800.

Basic setup: Les Paul Studio or Fernandes Retro Rocket Pro -- Vox wah--TS9--TS9/808 mod (analogman)--Mini Bicomp (analogman)--FX Loop--Dunlop Univibe--Boss Phaser--DD-3--to Fender Hotrod Deville 410.

No new noise when I added the DD-3, and at "band" volume who hears it anyway? After playing around with the DD-3 for an hour, I found several different settings that improve my sound/tone a ton. I'm the lone guitarist in a 3-piece band, and this does a great job "fattening" up your sound. Chords and leads now take up more space musically in a nice subtle--but very noticeable to your ear--kinda way. Band mates commented immediately the first time I ran it. Really amazing what it can do for leads. Again, the versatility of it let's you go from Van Halen to Radiohead pretty quickly/easily. One downside, if you consider it one, will be the constant tweaking during a set. I can already see the need to write down my various settings for certain tunes, so I don't have to dik with it too long. It has quickly become another one of those pedals that may be tough to live without. If I was at gunpoint, I'd take my TS9/808 and Mini Bicomp to the grave, but this wouldn't be too far behind. A good test to see what it does is to play a favorite riff/chord progression with it on...then play the exact same thing with it off....It's tremendous.

I give it a 9 because the fastest modes aren't really applicable to my playing style (kinda tinny and 50's ish) but what I get out of the 800ms setting far outweighs that shortcoming.

Uh, Boss...brick sh!thouse. period. Definitely need the boss adapter (or other power supply). Will suck batteries through a garden hose.

Uh, Boss...Customer service not their strongsuit...luckily some quality effects are!

I play a wide range of stuff...From the Bob Dylan to Beck. Doors to Phish. Mostly bluesy or rocking jams. The DD-3 performs. Great for spacey solos/jams. Lots of possibilities. If stolen, I'd demand a federal manhunt, but would buy another without thinking twice. The hold feature is OK to practice quick solos, but I don't use it much. And Battery Eater could be a nickname for this box--get another power supply. Would love to take a nice analog delay for a comparison test drive, but I'm an impulse buyer and that could get expensive! This will open up creative doors that you never knew you had! End of story: Just get one, you won't regret it--you'll never know what you were doing without one.

Takes a little learning, but if you have any experience w/ delays it?s nothing too complicated. The Level nob is very responsive, as is the Feedback nob.

I play a 1991 strat plus, mid 70?s Aria II, and a Gibson 1949 BR 9 lap steel. My effects chain runs so: Ernie Ball Volume, Crybaby wah, TS-9, Seymour Duncan Booster, Boss DD-3. I play through a 1971 Super Reverb and Mesa Boogie Subway Blues.

The DD-3 and I have been through a lot together. After I retired my old Crybaby it became the oldest pedal in my arsenal. I have over used it, under used it, abused it, forgotten it, and cherished it. Still, when it?s all said and done, I love this thing. I almost gave up on it to go to Line 6 DL-4. I LOVE the DL-4, but I?ve realized that the DD-3 is a cool little mofo. I really like the sound of it better than the DD-5 or DD-6. It just sounds warmer to me. If you disagree than buy one of the others. As for the DD-2, I?ve never had the privilege of playing one, so I don?t know. The DD-3 is not just a ?delay pedal?, it?s a sound effects unit. Really! Given some time and ingenuity you can get rockabilly sounds, Gilmour sounds, space ships, and sitars. It really I very cool.

The only thing that is pretty useless is the hold function. If you had more time it be great, but you really don?t enough. It fun to play around with though. You can do some interesting loop sort of things. Every time you introduce a new sound it will slightly change the fist sound that is repeating it. As you introduce more sounds all of them start to change. It?s a bit unpredictable thereby making it unreliable for on stage use.

I have the same pedal for close to 10 yrs. It has never given me any problems.

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As a delay unit it serves a specific function. It woks for me b/c all I use a delay for is Gilmour stuff and slap back stuff. You have a broad range of slap-back sounds. Likewise, the Level and the Feedback nobs are very responsive. Through all our trials the DD-3 and I work well together. You just gotta giver time and find the little things you love about her.

I picked the DD-3 due to its simplicity, ease of use and because Boss uses more analog components. I also do not use excesive delay times or any funky sounds, like reverse or space echo, etc. Just a straight-ahead delay the way I like it.

Quite easy to change from one setting to another. Manual is not really necessary unless you don't understand type on the pedal. Mike's website gives you instructions on the high-cut switch, which is helpful. But other than that, it's easy to use and sounds great.

Lots of different guitars and different amps. I use the effects loop on my Rivera, but do not on my Vibro King. The King has a loop, but any Fender sounds better with pedals in front, so there you have it. I also have a deluxe reverb that uses the pedals in front. It all sounds great. I don't have that much modulation. Just delay and a phasor. With the pedals in front, it sounds good too. I have a compressor and a couple of overdrive pedals that don't hamper the tone at all. The wah can sound weird with the delay on with too much level, but wahs sound weird anyway. The high-cut filter really does add an analog deminsion to the pedal. The middle position of the high cut switch leaves the delay in stock digital form. So don't worry if you think the mod makes the digital delay unuseable. Some folk like digital delays. I do not, but after paying out the butt for an analog that could give me only 300 ms. of delay, I had to do something else. Far left the delay is darkened, but still has lots of bounce. Far right the cut is great. You hear the first couple of repeats, but the sound really starts to drop off just like an analog pedal. Perfect! Just great for what I was looking for.

Boss makes reliable stuff. I don't know how well this will last after the mod, but since Mike has been doing this for a long time and there doesn't seem to be many issues related to reliability, I am not worried. He's a good guy and backs up his stuff. So there you have it. I wouldn't kick the switch with your foot or drop the pedal off a tall building, but it seems to be modded with great care and precision.

Mike is great. Follows up and personally signs the receipt. Lots of folks use him, so that's a testament of his commitment to customer service.

I tried different digital delays that claimed to give analog sounds. Well, they really did not. Still metallic sounding and stiff. I didn't see myself paying over $200.00 for a delay pedal that had tons of sounds just so I could get one or two. After all, I could just spend another $150.00 and get an analog with more delay time. Instead I thought I'd try this guy from Analog Man. I'm very happy I did. I feel this pedal sounds great. In fact, I'm so happy with the pedal, I will not hesitate to send more pedals I think could be great if they had one or two things different about it. I owned a DD3 before and sold it because of the boingy and semi-harsh sound. This simple mod changes everything about it. I'm not knocking people who like digital delays. Many have found great use for them. I just like a little bit of slap back or a subtle amount of echo. For the money, I just think this is a great deal for those wanting an analog sound from a digital delay. If you can get a hold of a DD2, I would bet that would even sound better.

I'm sure some people may have trouble with it but I'd mastered everything there was in about a day, and this is my first delay pedal. getting the exact level of feedback or delay time may be a little trouble.

i was looking for the guitar for the verse of dredg's "same ol' road", which gives out that quick clicking sound. i got it. this is great for post-rockers, and i know the guys from explosions in the sky and mogwai use this.

yeah, haven't had a problem.

never needed them.

i play post-rock and 60s stuff. this thing is pretty damn versatile. and i'd buy another if i lost it. i wish the hold feature lasted more than a couple of seconds though. i don't know about any of boss' other delay pedals, so i'd check them out before getting this.

Very easy. 4 nobs to control effect level, feedback (length of delay), downtime (frequency of delay) and delay setting. Its a stomp box tbh how difficult can it be?

With bass and guitar I generally use the long delay setting as it is soooo much fun. In my opinion it adds so much to your sound if ur looking for warm, ambient tones. You have to be careful that it doesn't become a mangled mass of notes though...

The very short delay setting is excellent for making an electric sitar sound (whack the feedback right up and the downtime right down, or the inverse I can't remember actually) and u get a sitar! Wahey!!!

Well hasnt broken yet and I doubt it will

They prob don't need one.

I play a kinda ambient rock and it is a perfect match for the style. It may destroy you creatively however as hours can be wasted without producing anything constructive (although that may be just me). I play bass in the band and write using guitar.

For bass I would say it is pretty unneccessary although unbelievably good fun.

Granted, if you're a delay fiend/fanatic, you're gonna probably gonna have a DD-6, or something along those lines, but if you have a little experience with delay, this thing is rediculously easy to use. Because of the nature of the knobs, it'll take a few moments to get the exact time you want. But is that a problem for normal people? No.

I have a rickenbacker 650 through a fender deville 212 combo. This rig sounds fantastic, and this pedal doesn't take anything away from it. No noise whatsoever (anyone who complains about it should replace their battery). On the first mode, you have extremely fine control over the delay time. I LOVE the digital-ness of this pedal. When you crank the time so it's very short, the echos actually oscillate to produce notes. It'll boost certain notes, and produce interesting harmonics on others. On the second mode is a good range of slap-back effects, which can be almost reverb like, or make it sound like you're playing inside of a metal container. On the third mode are more atmospheric sort of sounds, which can really thicken up your sound. The hold function is a little bit enigmatic to me. I don't quite understand what you would use it for. Also, i don't quite understand the means by which it finds the "last sound you play," which can make it kind of awkward when you try to make it play the middle of a note, but it gets cut off so just sounds like a series of pops. You CAN make some neat sounds using it though, from a short riff to jam over for a few bars to weird pitch bending effects. 800ms is enough to satisfy me, although i'm quite sure that it wouldn't be enough for some people. Overall - very good sounds come from this little thing. It doesn't have the surreal swelling and reverse modes of some pedals, but it's definitely enough get you through the day.

Are you kidding? BOSS.

Never ever had to deal with them. It'll probably stay that way.

I play alternative rock and other styles which don't really have names. Think along the lines of Radiohead. This pedal fits right in.
Needless to say i'd want another if it disappeared. I love pretty much everything about it, that's there. Of course, i had to experiment with it a little to find out how to use it well, but that's a given with any good pedal.
It gets a 9. It's stellar, but it IS a little limited, just by the fact that it's simple to use and compact.

if you're not familiar with delay pedals, it might take several minutes or so to get used to it. but it's really pretty simple. it's not exactly rocket science to get a good sound out of it cause i guess every sound is a good sound in this pedal.

im using an ibanez rg470 >> boss ds-1 >> proco rat2 >> boss dd-3 >> marshall mg15cdr practice amp.
i must say...the dd3 is excellent. i mean it's one of those pedals where after getting, you wonder how you ever lived without it. i know its a digital delay. but it doesn't seem to color my guitar tone at all. so that's a +.

i'd think it's totally dependable on. i got myself an adaptor, so no battery problems for me. (i prefer all my effects to be on an adaptor)
there's no doubt that's it's gig worthy in terms of sound quality and it seems to be built like a tank. i'm pretty sure if i threw it down a flight of stairs it's still be in tact, but i would never try that anyway.

i play anything and everything i can handle from metal to jazz. and this pedal is game for anything i put it through. i love the depth the pedal brings to my sound. i mean although in my opinion i've got a pretty decent sound even without it, with it, it just put's iceing on the cake. if this thing was stolen i'd get a new one for sure. it's just one of those pedals...

Slightly hard to use, only because you can get so many different awesome sounds out of it. Very hard to make this pedal sound bad. Although if you turn the feedback to 100% it will extend the noise forever, so it will get so loud it will eventually blow your amp. You can get the hang of this easily.

As I said, hard to get a bad sound out of it. It works very well, whether you are playing your guitar or plugging it through your microphone. It won't work as well once the battery starts to run out though.

The battery life on this is about an hour, but it will start to go dead and lose quality after 20 minutes or so. I wouldnt use this in a gig unless you change the battery after each song. Basiclly, you have to get the adapter. This thing is a tank though and you could play trampoline on it and not break it.

Boss makes it so it wont work with any 9v adapter except for theirs, and they design theirs to short out very quickly so you have to keep buying it. The actual pedal however does have a 5 year warrenty.

Once you have an adapter, there is no limit to the fun you'll have, and the awesome sounds you will make. I've found a use for it in all but one of my band's songs. This item, although expensive, definitely has many useful purposes. But you don't really need it.

If you are familliar with delay its simple....if not it will only take a few minutes to suss it out and years to master the art.

Simple controls and layout. Not a complete no brainer but delay is not a complete no brainer effect.

The sound is very good indeed. It gives nice lush textures to a lush guitar sound. The repeats are exact in tone as the original signal and to me thats a good thing. If you have a nice guitar sound then this pedal will echo that nice sound......as much as you want it to.

It is a pro piece of gear with pro sound quality. It is used by alot of top pros who are not restricted by what they can afford so yes this pedal has a professional sound quality.

For my needs the delay time at 800ms is long enough and a nice slap back is acheivable aswell if thats your bag. Rack unit quality in a handy floor ready package.

Well built, durable and strong. I've had mine for 4 years and it is still in perfect nik. Dont abuse your gear and it will always be there for you. A six monthly clean and tightening of the screws and stuff helps to keep these things well in check.

Never needed......touch wood!!!

Great pedal for me....my band is a Pearl Jam/Radiohead type rock band and it suits my style perfectly and works well with my other pedals. I use a '72 thinline telecaster and a Vox AC30TB with overdrives like the TS-9 and the BD-2, sound quality is very important to me and im very happy with the DD-3.

If you've never used a delay pedal before it might take you a bit of time to find the sounds you want, otherwise dead easy.

Les Paul copy with lots of pedals with this one at the end of my chain into an ashdown p60 tube amp. The sound quality is excellent. For a digital delay it has a good warm sound. I mainly use it to get a claer delay between notes with a medium amount of feedback. There are loads of possibilities with it. I have a carl martin analogue delay pedal and inmy opinion this is a better sounding more usefull and cheaper box.

Bought when my carl martin pedal concked out as a back up. The carl martin can't get back in the chain now. Have gigged with it and i leave my other delay pedals at home.

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My chain at the minute is jacques bat fuzz --> jacques fuseblower 2 --> pharoe amps tone engine --> jacques meistersinger --> akai intelliphase --> Vox Wah -> EH mini q tron --> ibanez fl9 --> boss dd3 --> amp.First up, i hate boss pedals. There the mcdonalds of the guitar world. Cheap effective and everywhere. I bought it cuase there was nothing else in the shop and i had a gig that night. I was desperate. I took it out of my chain when my carl martin pedal came back, then put it straight back in. In a word : excellent. I'm still not buying any other boss stuff though.

This is pretty easy to use once you've messed about with it for a few minutes. I couldn't quite see the point of the 'hold function' exept using it as a weird sort of pitch-bender but as soon as you play a new note it doesn't stay at the 'bent' pitch and will return to it's proper pitch.

The manual's not very brilliant. There's a reference to a 'stereo mode' which as far as I can tell doesn't exist. The pedal theoretically is a mono delay and what makes it stereo is that you can have an untreated signal coming from the other channel so the first note you play will come from channel A and the delayed repetitions generated by the pedal will come through channel B rather than swapping between channels like a stereo delay would.

I'm a keyboarder and use this pedal for creating echoey arpeggios and spaced-out chord sequences. It works really well as well in conjunction with a chorus and then you can hold chords down and get the illusion of slow attack pads as the effect builds up over itself. I don't recommend trying this without a chorus though because it sounds metallic, phasey and generally not very nice.

I find that balancing the effect level with the direct out signal while the effect is switched on actually helps to reduce the level of noise. If the effect level is turned up to full, the direct sound gets drowned out so you lose the stereo effect.

I personally don't think much of the really short delay or (echo) because it sounds like everything has been put into a metal box. If you turn the feedback right up it will self oscillate and gradually get louder and louder - and probably blow your amp if you leave it long enough!

The best delay is probably the 800ms one with the delay time somewhere between 12 and 2 O'clock.

It's Boss, it's a stompbox - will last forever except that thin battery wire. Experience teaches me that keeping a soldering iron to hand means this pedal will live longer than you will.

Nope...

I play all sorts of music from Dance/Funk to Progressive Rock. I only just bought this pedal after I realised I could use it in conjunction with a chorus pedal to simulate really washy, slow attack pad sounds with the most basic of equipment (believe me I can make an old Casiotone sound like a million dollars through this pedal and my Super Chorus CH-1!). This set up works well on FM strings as well. They almost sound real with this tratment added.

I think this pedal would be cool if you could detune the delayed signal against the direct out signal so you could do basic chorusing all in one.

My other stuff:

Korg 01/wFD
MicroKORG
Oberheim MC1000
Yamaha DX7
Yamaha DJX
Yamaha PSS 470
Casiotone 101
Technics EX 50L
Evolution MK-125
Stylophone(!)
Boss PW-2
Boss CH-1
Boss RV-5
Behringer MX-2004A
Fostex VF08
Peavey KB-100 x2
Marshall MG10CD
Yamaha PAC112
Ibanez GSR200
J&D Brothers 5-String Bass
oh and about three miles of cable!

Very easy in using, especially on stage. Never needed a manual. Best when used with a Ac adaptor (no need to buy the original, but keep regard to a larger current capacity, else you'll get a humming).

State of art sound in the late eighties (when I bought it). Nowadays rather old-fashioned.

absolutely perfect.

never needed

I've been playing lots of styles for 24 years now. In the 80's the DD-3 was perfect for delay dominated Pop music like U2. Nowadays modern equipments offers better opportunities for creating special sounds. i wouldn't buy again if it was stolen.

This pedal is extremely easy to use. the knobs are clearly/logically labelled. If that isn't enough the manual is very helpful as well. 99% of users should find the sound they need in minutes like i did.

I had been using a Zoom GFX 707, and i was impressed with the delay on that initially. I also tried the POD and my Spider amp has delay as well but something about those didn't feel quite right either. Recently i phased out my GFX and made the transition to a pedal board and stompers, so a good delay unit was in order. Within minutes of taking the DD-3 out of the box and sticking it too my board i had the delay sound i needed, and i was very impressed. the sound i needed BTW is The Edge (U2) sound.

Also of note, i am using a Powerall with five pedals and there is no noise.

I gigged with it the first time last week and it worked very well. 2 of my 6 pedals are Boss and they stand out construction wise next to my other pedals. Very heavy, very durable.

I am the guitarist for a rock band (www.revolutionofthevoid.tk) who does a number of different styles. I think everyone should have a delay pedal but that is just me. I am a big fan of the Edge and U2 but my playing is funkier than that as i am also a HUGE fan of Tom Morello and RATM/Audioslave. Both players use delay differently, and i like this pedal because i can do both.

Guitar -> Digitech Synth Wah -> NexFx Fuzzstortion -> Cyrbaby Wah -> Boss DS-1 Disortion -> Ibanez SC-10 Chorus -> Boss DD-3 Delay - Line 6 Spider 210.

Like i said above, i had been using delay on those multi FX jobbies, and even though they aren't bad they don't compare to a dedicated delay unit. When i first started playing i was in love with delay but got bored with it. Now i feel like writing with it again! My band mates are going to kill me lol.

As for the reason i wanted this pedal, it was the last piece i needed to complete my collection and i splurged (yes splurged, not alot of cash in MY pocket) on a brand new Boss. Everything else on my board was used, and used delays aren't that much cheaper than a new one so there ya go.

No secrets here; you get three ranges of delay, dial-in echo length and wetness.

You have to accept digital delay for what it is -- a reasonable facsimile of analog. You can always complain: even though there are people who believe in the digital world on its own terms, most of us intuitively favor analog sounds -- that's why I play a guitar and not a synth. However, used live, very few people can tell the difference between analog and digital delay. (I'm not talking about guitar geeks like ourselves but the normal person sitting there listening to you -- ask them.) Works better with a good reverb behind it (puts more air in the delay, as my son says), and you need to keep the mix reasonably dry. Generally, the cleaner the better, since distorted sounds delay to mud. Higher frequencies work better too, since they chime more -- so play up on the neck. You have to be careful not to let the pick clip your strings without playing (between beats or at the ends of phrases), since that produces the annoying click. I run a Tele or Gibson 333 into delay, chorus, tremolo, fulldrive, Rivera 55. Use delay for slapback, plate-type reverb, and (occasionally) echo. Can get a very nice, mysterious-type sound for blues. Overall, the sound is adequate to good.

Haven't had trouble with Boss pedals. Don't have a backup.

Never tried.

Play church worship music, blues, folk, some jazz. Have 35 years experience. This pedal accomplishes what I want for the money; it's an acceptable compromise on that score.

I bought this device new in 1995. Very easy to use. The manual can be read in 5 minutes and you will understand entirely how this works.
I didn't really like the "Hold" mode, however.

The sound quality is very high. I used it with a Fender Performer 650 and Marshall MG30R. The possibilities with this device seem endless. Whether you like long delays like, let's say Pink Floyd, or something that sounds more like an extra reverb, this will do it. You can also achieve very short echoes like that 50's rock sound (think of the Stray Cats). In the end, there are so many possibilities you will end up custumizing your own sound. But you have to be willing to test it massively.

This device comes with a five year warranty but I doubt you will ever need it. Boss pedals are very reliable.

never needed any

I have a couple of Boss pedals and this one is my favourite. As I said before, the delay can be modulated like you have no idea. IT'S EXTREMELY VERSATILE. When I bought it, I tought I was paying a lot of money for this, but I have no regrets. I play mainly blues, but I like other styles and this pedal fits them all.
Just one warning: if you play a live show and plan to use it a lot, buy a power supply because it will eat your battery in an hour!!!
If it got stolen, maybe I would try one of the subsenquent versions (DD-5, etc...) to compare, but for someone who's looking for a delay effect, I strongly recommand the Boss DD-3

Only 4 knobs. Very easy to use.

Ok, this peadal sounds crystal clear. Effect is very strong. If you play melodic solos, then this is the right pedal for you. It suits with any amp (valve heads or solid state combo crap). I would racmount it, because it sounds better, than most of rack effect proccesors (I'm not talking about EVENTIDE).

It is BOSS!

Never dealt with the company.

I play blues, jazz, funk, rock, metal. I am shred-guy, so this is a must-own pedal for me. This is the best delay pedal ever PERIOD.
I think I go and buy another one.

as with any decent pedal, it takes a while to play with the settings. i laugh when i read reviews by people who have had it out the box five minutes. 4 knobs, but theres so many varied settings and extreme ranges it takes months to truely master.

my setup is=

'mongrel' guitar (EMG 81's) -->autowah pedal-->EH muff --> crybaby --> HM2 -->DD3 --> 5150 half stack

bit of a shoegazer setup, the variety and quality of sounds are just crazy. theres the 80's 'handbrake' delay (think van halen) all the way thru to 'mush' (thats *good* mush). all pretty quietly done. the hold function could do with a longer sample time mind.

it seems to sound ok with tranny amps as well, my practice amp has no problems.

ill avoid the usual 'nuclear holocaust' cliches about boss pedals, ill just agree with them all. they are totally invincible.

however, at 60 quid a pop, gigging without a backup is the only option :(

dunno about the horror stories mentioned elsewhere, but i asked for the manuals for the DD3 and HM2 pedals (both totally obsolete + ancient) and they arrived, good as new, a few days later. good stuff.

all in all, a jolly good pedal. versatile effects, nice sound, subtle throbbing to balls-out mayhem.

and best of all, senor, eets built like a breek sheethaus :D

only problems - the battery eating, and the price. both easily overcomeable.

i would like - longer delay times. possibly a precise delay time display. and another one. delay effects are the best for turning 'two note' riffs into really decent song-backbones.

if stolen - id save and save and save.. and steal it back :P (seriously, id go for a DD5 for the extra delay time)

4 knobs thats it, doesn't take long to get the sound you want

Personnally, I find the only useful setting on this pedal the 800ms and hold mode. These 2 modes can give you beautiful, lush sounds such as mogwai or pink floyd as well as experimental sounds. The rest is pretty useless. But my biggest problem is that it makes my tone sound too metallic and treblely, though it could be my guitar(i'm in desperate need for I new one, and am slowly saving up).

its a boss, built to last.

Even though i only like half the features on this pedal and it mucks up my tone to a nasel high pitch far too often, just for the 800ms mode it deserves a 8. I'm going out to try a Ibanez de-7 and if its any good I'll use it for my main delay-echo and keep this for when I want to play(make) noise-art rock.

easy to setup n use and the manual isn't really necesscary as it is so user freindly.

the normal delay sound a fantastic but the hold function is a bit useless. i play it in a loop with a chourus pedal the guitar i use most of the time is a Burns Marquee through a Marshall amp

i've heard a rumour that after a gig one night a rather careless lead guitarist put it on the ground forgot about it and ran it over!! there was only a tire mark on it and it worked perfectly. in my experience the only reliability problem is the short battery life.

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overall it is reliable, dependable and very easy to use. if it was stolen i would kill the guy who took it and if necessary buy a new one.

Very easy to use. The manual is one page..and really it only needs to be about 0 pages.

I have Guiatar > Fender tuner > Zoom gfx 707 > Boss DD-3 > Amp. (unfortunaltly i dont have an amp right now, so im using my computer speakers) This pedal makes no extra noise whatsoever. I have heard that this sounds better than the DD-5 or DD-6, but i have never used those, so i cant say. I really wanted a Delay pedal when i heard the begging part of Comfortably Numb (you notice a VERY warm peaceful giutar in the background, which Dave bends the note down and with Delay) that is one of the best sounds i've ever heard. so i bought this =) If you listen hard, you can notice that it adds a slightly warm sound to the tone, like compression, but its very hard to notice, and i like that sounds anyway. I dont really see a huge advantage that a rack has over this. I mean if you can find some use for 1 minute of delay..i guess you should get a rack. But if your just playing normal i would STROGNLY recommend this.

It's made by Boss.

Dunno. but with such a great effect i imagine their a good company

It's not a matter of what style of music you play, its a matter of if you want Delay. (but i play rock/alternative). I have been playing for 7 years. If it was stolen, (after killing the guy and assuming i had any money) i would definatly buy this again. One thing I havn't really found a use for is the HOLD feature. Its kinda cool if you hold a note and then play with the Delay Time while its repeating. But I dont think i would use that in a song. Also, the 50ms feature is ussually way too fast to notice it. I mostly only use the 800ms feature, and it sounds wonderful. I can't think of anyting they should have added to it (although i think the DD-6 has like reverse, and i kinda wanna play around with that). Again, if you're looking for delay, and you dont need 5 minutes of it, than i would get this instead of a rack. And perhaps you dont want many pedals in your setup...than i soppose a rack would be better, but this is the most Band for the Buck. I Highley Rocomend this pedal!

Set it. Step on it.

Two lines to parise this thing. The DD3 is the best delay pedal ever. I use it in loop, together with a wah. That`s my setup basically. Sounds great, always, everywhere, on any sound.

dependable. If U R unlucky the knobs break.
It was some money to fix it but I only want my DD3, so I fixed it.

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I normally don`t write reviews on pedals.
Too many factors can bias your sound....DD3 is special. I tried many delays from rack units, other pedals and all that, but nothing delivers like this little brick.
The sound is so real, so organic, and psychedelic
I used to having six seven effects in chain, but I got bored after 15 yrs. of playing: too much hassle to set up, to many transformers.....
The only one I kept is my DD3 and my crybaby. And my sound has never been so complete and personal.

Easy to use!

I play a PRS Custom 24 through a Fender Twin Reverb and it sounds great. WARNING: I got LOTS OF NOISE using the 9 volt adapter that Guitar Center pushed on me since they didn't have the 9.6v Boss PSA-120 adapter in stock. Don't let them tell you that 9v = 9.6v, or you'll pay with NOISE even when the pedal is off. I returned the 9v, got a PSA and now it's silent.

I depend on all my Boss stuff.

Never had to deal with them. Nothing breaks.

I needed a delay that sounds good when manipulating the delay time while playing. DO NOT BUY THE DD-6! It sounded like garbage when I changed delay times while playing. I returned it and got the DD-3, which sounds much much better. Key: Make sure you get a PSA (or other) 9.6v 200 mA adapter!

Easy enough to use unless you're a complete idiot. Good instructions and all that.

Delay effects are good, alot of flexibility in them. No problems getting most any kind of delay you want. The downside is that it does have an effect on tone. Try your rig with it plugged in and bypassed, then try it without the pedal at all, you'll see. It leaves a very slight muffling effect on tone when not in use.

It's a Boss. You can't kill them. But WHEW!!!!! It will CHEW UP BATTERIES!!! I strongly suggest an adpator unless playing on stage in loud situations where an adaptor can make more noise than it's worth. My solution= batteries live, adaptor for rehearsals.

Haven't had to.

The effects are quite good- the only downside is the tone suck and the appetite for batteries. But, I still use it, so I guess it's ok with me.

very bloody simple...read the manual for the newbies ....or aska friend

very nice...feedback is hard to set right

boss....enuff said

whaqts a repair??....boos pedals dont need them

i bought this from a place called "Happy Hockers"....it was 150 bux ....but i did the "this all my money"(including change).

It came with a power pack(Boss issue), found out later it doesnt work....but i have one for my other pedals anyways...small loss for the quality product i scored

It was in the box it came in....with the original price sticker on the side...$319.00AUD...inside the box i found the pedal....pristine condition....even the battery adapter had never been used....the original plastic bag it came in....the manual...and the warranty stuff...Definatly the best thing i have ever scores

It is very easy to use this pedal. It has four knobs, labeld, and every one of them efects the sound very clear, so there could not be any mistake. I have not receaved any manual with it.

Well, it is not some kind of change-sound pedal. What comes into it, it gets out, onla with deley efect. Beside that, sound is unchanged.
I am using a Sqire Strat MIJ->CryBaby Wah-> Boss DF-1->ProCo RAT->EHX BigMuff-> Ibanez Chorus->Boss Bf-2-> DD-3 -> Fender Bassman head with homemaid 4x10 cab. I play some kind of noise (SY, Husker, Shellac, JAMC, Pixies..) and it is great for making those chaotic noise-walls. Great filter when playing some kind of solos, it just isolates The Guitar when you need some detail to expose... When playing some more silent music, it is perfect for making guitar sound fater, heavyer, and with three distortions it is an orchestra itself.

It is a Boss. It means, you can use it as a weapon, as a instrument, as a brick, as a balance on a tanker. And in the end, you can take it in your grave, for some next generation!!!!

I never needed any for boss products.

My opinion is, that this is an all-weather pedal. It is precise, it is simple, it forces you to play more and more, and it's a great frend when your sound needs to explode. You can use not only vith guitar, but with any instrument, even vocals. So, a great delay, for any taste.

Like most bosses (i have used a few) this pedal is pretty easy to use, though it make take a little time to get the sounds you want out of it. Everyone has different perceptions of what a delay should sound like, i'm a more the edge-meets-keith richards guy, so i'm pretty pleased. WORK EVERY KNOB and you'll find something you like!

i'm using this with my epi les paul standard and it comes after my marshall guv'nor 2 in my chain. i play through a little marshall practice amp, and tomorrow i'll be playing it though a big marshall amp when i play in church, so i'll see how it does live. This pedal seems to make a little noise when you set it up close to the amp, but its not really noticeable, so don't worry about it (maybe its my gear...). Last night i was messing around with it and i turned the feedback and effect level all the way up, with the delay set on 12.5ms (the shortest time on this unit)... the amp started going crazy, it made this really loud noise like a chainsaw, so i turned the pedal off... whew! So far i've only experimented with the longer delay (>200ms), and i've been pretty pleased. I can get some really cool echo stuff on this, and it thickens up my sound really well, although it can be better... i'm still havent found what i'm looking for! (if you havent figured out by now, i'm an edge FREAK)

no problems so far, though my co guitarist in my band has had a ds-1 for about 3 and a half years, its still holding up very well... i have a good feeling this pedal will accompany me to my grave.

I dont like using customer support, never have, never will.

I play mostly rock/classic rock, and my church worship songs. This pedal is great for what it is, a basic delay pedal. So far i have been able to meet a lot of my delay needs and expectations, though I haven't quite been able to get that 'where the streets have no name' sound yet (its my favorite song of all time, especially live). If it gets stolen, I'd probably track down the arsehole and tie him up to the subway tracks... and I may get this again, but I'd like to try the more high-end boss DD-6 first. This pedal does great echo stuff and some shorter delays, I love the sound I'm getting! I am impressed with this pedal, I'm still a young player (1 year and 2 months) but i'm improving quickly, so i expect i'll be able to find better pedals out there, but for the price it is super.

Takes a little bit of time to figure it out if you're not using the manual, but once you know how everything works, you can play around with it all day and not get bored.

I use an adapter, because the battery runs out fast, and I always get a nice, clean sound from it with no extra noise that I don't want. Yeah, it can sound metallic with some of the modes, but I think it sounds cool. My setup is Standard Strat> Marshall Jackhammer Ov/dist> VOX wah-wah> DD-3> KMD 130

Haven't had any problems so far...

Good for the money... Very fun to play with, and many options if you use it right.

It took me a few minutes to figure out what exactly each knob did on the DD-3. Everything seems cluttered and figuring out the labels to the knobs takes a keen eye. I bought my DD-3 through Daddy's Junkie Music in Burlington MA, I guess it was used since they said there was no box or manual for it. I went online to get a manual for it but I couldn't find one there either. It's a good thing that I'm familiar with delay lingo (feedback, Delay time, mili-seconds) and the functions of the terms. Someone who knows nothing about delay pedal functions may spend a while figuring their DD-3 delay pedal out.

I am used to a Johnson J-Station (a multi-effects preamp) which offers delay and other effects. I was hoping that a seperate delay pedal would sound nicer since the J-Station tends to replace the good sound of my amp: Mesa-Boogie Dual Rectifier-Tremoverb (I have a Les Paul Classic by the way). My hopes came true I guess. After only twenty minutes I was able to get some great sounds from the pedal. The only thing is that when used with distortion my tone got a little muddy and fuzzy as the delay time increased. Otherwise (in my clean channel) the DD-3 sounded great.

I like Boss's DD-3 pedal because it's durable, it stays in place, it clicks on and off when you push it down. It does what my J-Station doesn't do which is make the delay easily turned on or off, and easily minipulated when needed. I never felt comfortable playing a gig with my J-Station, now I can play gigs because I have the DD-3 delay pedal.

I was very disappointed with the customer support. I visited the Boss website and the Rolond website and I found that they don't even post an address to email them at! I don't feel like calling them on the phone during my busy week and trying to reach the delay department after having to go through a dozen departments. I even went to the "help" desk that they have at the site. I typed in DD-3 and only one link showed up which had almost nothing to do with my pedal! I then went to the product search and I clicked on the DD-3 only to find a message saying to call for customer service!

I play blues, rock, funk, and jazz. I think that every serious guitar player needs delay whether it comes in the form of a pedal or a mult-effects pedal like the DD-3. If you are going to get a $130 pedal you have to be a sound/tone freak like me. If you don't seriously and just like playing for fun I suggests spending your money on something else. My J-Station which has good delay, chorus, phaser, and tons of other stuff costed less than the DD-3 pedal. If you need your sound to be the best, and you don't want your guitar and amp's true sound to be filtered out by a multi-effects pre-amp then you should get a seperate pedal.

For the amateur guitar player, it may be a little difficult to get a good sound at first. Do no give up though if you are one of these people, because once you figure out how each knob changes the sounds, you can dial in anything from classic Hendrix to Pink Floyd, to experimental industrial metal. I give it a 9 only because the hold fuction isnt as long as the DD5 (Tim Reynold's choice for trippy dealy sounds)

It is not analog, but it does a great job for a digital unit. It does not drown out your other effects and goes quite nicely with a Boss Chorus pedal (the blue one). It distorts very nicely and can also add wonderful tone to your clean work when you turn the amount of delay down and get just a little slap back. It is one of my favorites in my Jazz Guitar setup. For the money, it is top notch...

I havent had any problems with it and I have had it since 1999. I have gigged many times without a backup and It has worked wonderfully everytime.

I have never had to call them. I hope I never do but I think they would be very helpful. They have a history of making good stuff...

Overall, for the money, this pedal is a good solid way to go. If you play vintage rock,blues, or Jazz, this pedal forgoes all the fancy trippy stuff (mostly) and gives you a nice clean sounding delay pedal. To get trippy sounds, you have to really know how to manipulate it good. The hold function works great for drones (i play experimental acoustic music with it) but doesnt serve much use if you wish to record more than like a second. If you want to record short progressions or riffs get a Boss Loop Station. I am actually thinking about getting one to go with my Acoustic setup mainly because i play acoustic by myself. If you are curious about this pedal's role in my set up, go to my review for the Electro Harmonix LPB-1 and LPB-2. It is described in full detail.

It's very easy to use, but it might take a while before you get exactly what you want.

this pedal is great because you can get all sorts of sounds out it. i use this with a roland JC 120, so the amp doesn't color the tone at all. it's not analog, but it's good enough.

works well with my RAT and my Guv'nor.

It's very dependable. I would gig without a backup. I also use my TU-2 as a power supply so i don't worry about batteries.

never had to deal with them.

this pedal is fantastic. i love sitting around with the HOLD option and playing other parts over it. tweaking the knobs and slowing and speeding up the delay is very fun. you can get all sorts of weird experimental sounds out of it.

i am very happy with it. i'd buy it again if stolen.

I used several delays before this, anyway, delays are easy to use

Very clean, and the delay is amazing, i would never play a solo without this. Im using this delay after a Jackhammer and a RAT in front of my amp.The sounds are really wonderful. Yes i must say it sucks tone, cos im very particular about my RAT's tone, just a little bit of difference i could tell immediately...but i could accept it cos of the great delay sound it produces.

THat's y i got a BOSS, i had a Ibanez before this, its obvious y i made the change

If u need a simple, reliable, cheap, good quality delay, this is the one i garantee.

I've had my DD3 for 3 months; this pedal was my first dive into the delay pool.

It took me a little while to figure out which settings sounded best, but I have since found my "sweet spot".

A previous reviewer stated that he could "kill a whole day" playing with his DD3 - I agree. Even though it only has (3) modes and (4) knobs it took some time for me to figure out how to make it work for me.

The manual was descent at explaining each knobs function...

My signal chain is as follows:
Tele (w/ SD HB's) > Boss TU2 > Fulltone Fulldrive II > Vox Wah > BOss DD3 > Ibanez AD9 > Marshall 50w JMP w/4x12. Cables are George L's...

The DD3 was purchased before the AD9, BTW...

This pedal is totaly silent, whether ON or OFF. I keep the pedal set to repeat at 500ms, with the Rate set to 9 o'clock. This setting is perfect for repeats...actually this pedal is perfect for any repeat requiring over 300ms of delay time.

Any setting below 300ms really brings out a metallic "ping" - not good to my ears. I would not recommend using this (or any other digital delay for that matter) to create an echo/slapback type of effect - that's where an analog delay will shine.

The repeats the DD3 creates are EXACT duplicates of your incoming signal. No artificial flavors or colors added...

I would bet the house that any Boss pedal will stand up and give time the bird...well any Boss pedal except for my BF2 that took a dump on me.

They tried to dime me $5 for a manual for a BF2 I picked up used.
Just post them on the internet you bunch of jabrones...

Overall this is a great pedal. I cannot stress enough that this pedal is perfect for a repeating signal due to its crystal clear signal duplication. With the amount of delay times available it should keep most players extremely satisfied.

I would not reccomend this pedal (or any other digital delay) for an echo/slapback purpose - get an analog delay for that purpose.

I would definately entertain the thought of aquiring another DD3 if I lost mine, but then again I might also look into the DD5 (I do not like the DD6) to get the cool "keeps going after it shuts off" feature which would really be welcomed for my application - sometimes I shut it off a tad to early...oops.

Great pedal, and great tone though. No doubt about it.

Took me a while to suss out the full range of sounds available, as i got it used there was no manual. most of the options sound good and it does what i wanted it to perfectly. i agree that some of the sounds are harsh and pointless, but i guess that's part of the range of any delay pedal. i'd say it's hard not to find the sound you want, even if it takes a while!

i use this pedal for one sound only, and that is echo for solos. i think it sounds better on long delays than short. it's very quiet, and doesnt colour my tone. im playing a custom sg into a cry-baby >rat2>dd3>crlsbro 50 top head> 2x12> 4x12. it sounds awesome, nd nails that acid king/ fu manchu solo sound perfectly (right on stoners!!)

of course, but it does eat batteries!

i play heavy stoner metal, and this pedal is essential. flawless sound, but takes some mucking around with to get your sweet spot. an infinate repeat (like the ibanez de7) would be a cool feature, but otherwise this rules!

Straightforward enough: Effect Level, Feedback (how long it repeats), Delay Time, and Mode (Short, Medium, Long, and HOLD)

This is a really fun pedal. The range of delays you can get with this pedal will leave you playing with it forever. I could prolly kill a whole day playing with this thing. I know a lot of people dont like the HOLD feature because on the DD3 it IS a bit short. But I actually like to shrink the delay time down on the HOLD mode and then HOLD a noisy, distorted sound - it serves as sort of a drone or background noise when you're really rockin out.

Another kewl thing that the DD5 wont let you do is to mess with the knobs while your delay is playing. This is craziness. Get your delay loop going then crank up the feedback and switch between modes and delay times for some crazy motor-cycle / helicopter sounding sounds.

Boss = TANK

Never had to dealt with them and shouldn't have to - its built like a TANK

I play post-rock and I really dig this pedal. It is TOTALLY essential for the music I play and it gets the job done mind numbingly. These eerie delays are so awesome. I DEFINETELY reccomend this pedal. Yeah, so there.

Very easy - just point and shoot. Instant The Edge, Li'l Fripp, whatever. A favorite cheapie of the avant folks I know.

I would give it a 10, but I know high end sound people would laugh at me. But it's legendarily clean. Daisy chain em and it's still very quiet.

This is where I get mad. I used mine occassionally for about 4 years, then it broke. I can't afford to get it fixed, so it just sits on a shelf. This is frustrating, I can't help but feel a little ripped. 10 years is the minimum life for a guitar pedal or I feel SERIOUSLY owed..

Never tried it. Lost the warranty (DOH!) - assumed it would last over the five years it was protected....

Waaaaah. I'm writing to bring this pedal down a few notches! I loved it when it worked.

Four knobs, very easy to use except for hold (rather useless) function you have to get the hang of. If you know the right value (in ms) of the delay you want well, games are made!

I really like this pedal sound(I've bought two). To the ones wich say it's a digital sound i say "What you expect from a digital delay?".
Obviously it's sound colder than an analog delay but among the digital ones I've tried it's one of the warmer. A thing I really like (and that with DD5 you can't do) it's turning quickly the delay time knob while the DD3 is on in a way you can change the pitch of your nots. It's sound very psichedelic, or however, i think so.
For my psichedelic music I also like the endless mess it makes when the feedback knobs it completely turned clockwise even if it would have been nice have the opportunity to obtain endless MESSLESS feedback... I give it nine since 800ms of delay isn't so much...

INCREDIBLE : I BROKE IT ! I must say i've bought it used but however I was very "surprised" (well, not the RIGHT WORD...) when it died (chip gone). I've already bought a new one!

Never!

I would like to write psichedelic songs but I often end up by playing grunge... however this stomp box is really cool for playing psichedelic music when you need delays to create wall of sound or lead the song to a completely mess for ending. I REALLY LOVE IT, it's a pity is only 800ms... After BREAKING IT I've bought another one at once (luckily it was XMAS)!

Very easy to use.

"10" is for "Pristine Sound Quality". I wouldn't call it that, but it is a very good digital delay pedal. Better than the Ibanez digital delay I used to own by an obvious margin. There is a very slight metallic "pinging" that can sometimes be heard, but it is not a problem and is typical of digital delays. I use this pedal for clean playing, and for solos that sound like they are coming from outer space. Although it is not true bypass, Boss bypass is good enough that I own a few of their pedals (OC-2, TU-2, and this one). This pedal does not make any extra noise whatsoever, which is very nice.

Very dependable. Although I have had two Boss pedals break before, a PS-5 Super Shifter and a GE-7 EQ pedal, they are very reliable. The two I had that broke were not made correctly, which is uncommon enough with Boss pedals to not worry about it. If the pedal comes working perfectly out of the box, it will continue to do so for a long time. That's how Boss pedals are.

I did not ever contact Boss/Roland, even with the two pedals. I just took them back to the store and got a refund.

"10" is for "Fantastic Value", and I agree that this is the case with this pedal, at least for the price that I got mine for. Some places sell these for $120 to $130 new, which I think is too high. $99 or less is about right. Very nice delay pedal.

Very easy. 4 modes and three extra knobs. It will take a little while to get the hang of if you've never used a digital delay before because it handles slightly differently to analog. Nowadays most people will only use digital delays anyway. You need to learn that if you max the feedback knob you will get a multitude of layers and it will sound like a horror movie.
Hold mode takes a little while to figure out. Setting the speed to fit the tempo of your song takes practice.

Very good clean and crisp sound. It's digital so it will exactly repeat what is played in. This can sound slightly false because a real echo will decay as it repeats. Analog delays also decay their repeats so that they loose treble as they repeat. This is why some people say digital delays are "cold". However this pedal has a very good sound and is very clear and presise.
I use this pedal to get very short delays in electronic music. Analog delays blur the sound together at extremely short delay times and it sounds more like a filter. I need a digital delay for this. At a very short delay and high feedback time you can also get lots of weird sitar like noises. Want to get that "Brrr" sound in On Your Own by Blur? Use this pedal at a short delay and a long feedback time.
The max delay time is 800ms (less than a second) so it isn't that useful for sampling. The hold mode is next to useless because the time is so short. Unless you want to play over white noise or sustain a note forever it's pointless. You can get lots of ambient sounds at longer delay times.

It's a boss pedal.

Great no frills digital delay for basic delay needs. A DD5 (or DD6) has more features but this covers all basic delay needs. A delay time of 800ms is fine for most delay uses. If you want more delay time buy a sampler or looper pedal. This is the only digital delay I use and it does me fine. I also use an analog delay but I view analog and digital delays as two completely different things. They have completely different uses.
I stupidly bought this pedal new. Don't bother, they are half the price second hand and will still work just as fine.
There is a trim pot inside the pedal where you can increase the delay time to just over a second(at the expense of some delay quality).
I have the black label version. I have also tried a pink label and it sounds exactly the same except the pink label one self ossilated at minimum delay time with the feedback maxed. Which was cool. I'm not use why this is. Good pedal.

Simple and clear. Only flaw is the small slit between editing knobs. Although it ain't really a problem.

Epiphone SG --> MetalZone --> Laney TF300 and DD-3 in the effects send/return. No noise since I bought a stabilized adapter. When I used it in chain with metalzone in mixed the sound very muddy. But now DD-3 being on the effects loop it works like it should. Tone is very natural and the pedal is versatile.

Yes I would gig without a backup. Since I use an adapter, I think, I wount have any problems in the next 100 years.

I play most music styles at times. But I play rock from Sabbath to System Of A Down. I can't find much bad things about this pedal. What it does it does it well. Even Dream Theater player Petrucci uses it. Want more would u like to know....

This effect is fairly easy to use, I got good delays without a lot of tweaking. 'Hold' mode is kind of confusing - you have to play the part and then punch the switch (so if you are too slow it sounds weird). Other than that, controls are pretty intuitive.

I use this pedal for my PK-6 synth mostly, occasionally through my Squier also. It delays as it should, just be careful of turning up the feedback for short delays - it will make all kinds of noise at you. Hold mode is not very useful, just something nifty to play with. There are some other weird things you can get out of it too - try playing with high feedback, long mode with delay at about 12:00. Then move the delay knob around - you get a tape-whirly sound kind of Hendrix-like. Like all Boss pedals, it is versatile and I have used it on vocals and bass also.

It is quite reliable, the eight is only because you have to get used to the controls before you play with it at a gig.

I play a lot of classic rock and fusion, and the pedal sounds good here. I run the pedal through the PH-3 Phase Shifter and distortion. The delay seems to hold up when I record also. Overall, you should get this effect if you are looking for a delay. The other sounds you can get out of it are a bonus but not a primary feature.

My DD-3 was a store demo, purchased without a manual, but I had already owned a DD-2 and had no trouble using it. The essentials have already been stated in prior reviews, so I'll cut to the chase. The hardest part is getting "your" sound, which is a matter of experimenting with the various settings. I get some use out of the Hold function as a lead guitarist, but for the most part, I kick this pedal in for long delays with a slight volume boost.

I use a few different amps, some with effects loops and others without, so I run my pedalboard straight to the amp input. My order of effects is: tuner, compressor, distortion/multi-fx (for chorus and reverb) and finally the DD-3. From there, it's into solidstate or tube 212 combos with matching cabs, and a tube parametric EQ and noise gate if I'm recording. There is really very little noise to speak of, but if you have a noisy signal to begin with...you get the idea. The DD-3 also doesn't cause any tone coloring or signal loss when bypassed, which is just as important. If I have my noise gate on, and then turn it off, there's no audible difference. Now that the noise factor is covered, on to the good stuff.

After owning a DD-2 for many years, I needed a second delay pedal so I could have one at home and one at my practice studio. Since I use similar setups at each location, I wanted a delay pedal that could match the DD-2 in terms of sound quality and reliability. The DD-3 has exactly what I was looking for, really adding a "wet" effect to cleans and that soaring Maiden-style sound to distorted leads. (If you've ever listened to "Live After Death", that's an old DD-2 delay pedal.) I'm sure that there are better delays out there, but for under $100? This is a pretty great little stompbox.

The only real problem I've had with any Boss pedal has been power-related. Effects like digital delay suck down batteries really fast, so a wall wart is a must, but I've seen Boss pedals suddenly quit working...until I switched back to batteries. In the case of my DD-2, it intermittently quits working until I pop a 9V in, and the adapter for my DD-3 starting to cause a buzzing sound when the pedal was engaged. So was it the fault of the pedal? No, but there is definitely potential for problems. For the time being, I have had no problems with the DD-3 itself, but I never say never.

I play lead guitar in a thrash/death metal band, but have been using basically the same setup through several bands over the years: Jackson and Hamer guitars, ART and Boss effects, and Peavey amps and cabs. If something happened to my DD-3, I'd probably try to find another, as the DD-5 simply didn't impress me much. It's become an integral part of my sound, and it's hard NOT to like it.

I tried DOD and Ibanez pedals first (keep in mind that this was before some of the newer Line6, Digitech and Boss models were available), as they cost less than the DD-3, but they either lacked the long delay times I wanted, or colored my tone when bypassed. The DD-3 was worth the extra cash, and sounded better to my ears than the more expensive DD-5 that had just been released. It really doesn't lack anything that I can think of, and when I am writing or rehearsing with my band, it's the one effect I always use.

i find that this pedal is way easier to use than its newer versions the dd-5 or dd-6(which i havent gotten around to playing yet, but seems like it isnt all that different from the dd-5). the hold option is really not that great and pretty much useless.

i would give this a ten however, the hold option is pretty retarded. it holds only one second or so of what you play into it. as well, the first delay mode, is too metallic sounding, i suppose you could use it for a sitar like sound, but it is shoddy at best.

all that aside, i give this pedal a nine because of the middle two delay settings. they are awesome, clean, and unlike most boss pedals it does not suck the tone out of your guitar. as well, it sounds just as clean and clear with overdrive or distortion, if not better.

oh, one more thing, my pedal board/setup...(from amp to guitar) Fender twin reverb-- boss dd-3 -- Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi (which my friend is letting me borrow) --Fulltone fulldrive 2 -- Marshall bluesbreaker -- Epiphone CAsino.

one great thing about boss pedals is their construction.

never had to call anyone about any of my pedals.

you are probably wondering how i bought this so cheap...my great friend had just bought a dd-5 and decided that he would give me a discount of a lifetime. little did i know how big of a discount he actually was giving me. these boogers still go for $100 dollars on the market. wow. hey, thanks shell (if you ever read this review).

back to the pedal. ive been playing for only 2-3 years but i am very serious about guitar, as you can see from my gear (not many 3 year old guitarist invest as much money as i have, at least from the people i know). i play mainly rock, and find that this pedal is great for that sound. i have played other delay pedals as well and i think this is one of the better sounding ones. one thing that i do not like about it is if you have to change tempo you have to adjust it manually, (that is why my friend switched over to the dd-5) and why i may as well. i play a fair number of gigs and fiddling with my effects mid-show annoys me. that however, has nothing to do with the sound of this pedal. it is a great pedal and for the price i paid for it i got a super deal. if i had paid the actual market value for this pedal, i do think i would not like it as much.

if it were stolen i would be very sad, because delay pedals cost more than most pedals do. damn.

How easy is it to get a good sound out of it? 9
How about Editing patches? 5
How is the manual for it (if there is one)? Yeah is there one?
Do you know the firmware revision number? Has your unit been upgraded? Nope, but i want to get it fixed cz the time selector switch has already fallen off...(after around 7 years of my abuse)

What setup (i.e. what guitars and amps) are you using this with? I use alot of guitars, I haven't had nay problems between the guitar and the pedal...
Is it noisy? Only Hums when I put an adaptor instead of a battery...
On what settings? on all...
Are the effects weak or do they always sound great? Hey there's the feedback and level knobs use it!

What amp are you using it with? A marshall, a fender, what ever, they're ok with me...I love using it through the parrallel loops, sounds great...
Can you get the sound of your favorite artists? Nope, don't try to nail them...Who are they? Smashing Pumpkins...Madder Rose etc...
Are certain effects (distortion, chorus, ...) very good? Very bad? Boss has so far made the best pedals i've known...but this one sux batteries a lot...hope they fix this...

Can I have another one...yeah I can use this without a back-up (coz I'll probably use the back-up at the same time...)

I'm trying to contact them, but I can find em anywhere here in Cebu, Phils...hey why don't you start a shop here? Most players here use boss pedals...(either that or those multis)

I just need to get it fixed, it's time selector knob/switch has fallen off...some one licensed fix this thing! But it still works and is a major part of my rig...

This was a pedal given to me by a former band mate (well i used to all of the time). It's easy to use without manual just thin of the sound you want a tweek the pedal!!! hey presto...

The pedal has a fairly nice sound. I'm not sure about the metallic sound that other reviewers have lumbered this pedal with, i kinda like the sound. There are no erroneous sounds (hiss). I'm currently using a Marshall VS230/ Mesa-V-twin and Gibson Studio the Delay adds an extra dimension which i could not do without.

Mmmm... okay this pedal is over 7 years old, the switch has failed on me a couple of times yet i've managed to fix it. The newer problem is the input jack socket. It either needs cleaning or replacing due to the fact that when i plug in the guitar sometimes the sound quality is low (damn those intermitent faults). Other than that, the build quality is as sturdy as the Mesa V-twin (Brick sh*t house)...

Never dealt with then so i have no opinion...

Would i buy a replacement... yes!!! But i would prefer to get it free!!!

Although it is easy to understand how "E.Level", "F.Back" and "D.Time" works, but different settings gives really different sounds, and you really have to spend lots of time to it if you're very particular about getting the best delay sound to your ears like me.

This is really great, I can get delays sounds from all the songs I hear. Long or short delays, it sounds really good. It's certainly not warm considering it is a digital delay, but it does not seem to give annoying digital sounds so I consider it a bonus. I may sound like a salesman trying to sell the dd3, but honestly, I have really no complaints on this pedal since I have been using it one month ago. If I find anything bad about this pedal, I will sure to post a update review for it.

I use it with a adapter, but battries can last quite a while before it dies, you can definitely use it on a gig without adapter, unless you are going to perform for several hours. No backup needed of cos, that's how BOSS pedals got it's reputation.

This pedal is great if you're on budget and want a delay pedal. I recommend this is a neccessity for any type of music that you're going to play. I can't imagine any solo without a touch of delay. With the dd5 around and the dd6 coming out, you can be sure to get this pedal cheap/used easily, I say grab one if you can find one cheap, even thought you think you won't need it, you should also get it to try for god's sake. It has become an indispensible part of my rig.

The instructions are pretty crappy, but once i found out what each knob does, i mucked around for 15 minutes and had it sounding great!

i use Ibanez SA160 > DD3 delay > DS2 Distortion > Laney combo. it can get a bit noisy with the distortion on, so i swapped the pedals around and found it worse that way.
The delay sounds great and the hold function is great for "detatchable penis" lol. the pedal sounds like metallica style.

Well, as long as the batteries were fresh.....
it is possible to wedge these pedals behind the wheel of a truck to stop it rolling away ...hmmmm

i doubt anything will go wrong besides maybe the little screw on the front. plus the 5 year warranty!! probably wont ever need to talk to customer support

i play alternative, mainly rammstein, orgy and system of a down, so there arent many oppertunities to use the pedal, but i will implement it into my own style.
Although it is expensive ($369 compared to $229 for ibenez DE7), but the quality, hold function and 5 year warranty did the job for me

It is easy as eating chocoloate.

I had it 5 mins and I understood the direct retuen and the hold thingo. I mean, i don;t know <i>how</i> it works but the hold is just sweet. Its easy to work out and its easy to time, but if u cant do it, then its not the pedals fault, alright?

What you do, is have your distortion/OD in front, then u do the hold function and play a c, then you slam the OD on w/ ur other foot and play a pentatonic solo, when u get board, u flick off the OD, and do the hold playing a F, and then a G, and then u start again.
This makes urself a backing chord and delighful crweamy solos w/ two pedals and one guitarist. Try this one, cos it took me 5 mins to master and it sounds sweeett!! This sound for like #150 and virtually no skill (like me), its almost like cheating.


I agree with the other peeps; it is a wee bit zingy, and the max delay is too short (800ms). a coupla seconds would be nice.

I think i heard a story of sum1 throwing a boss out a 3rd story widow, picking it up out of the hole in the tarmac, and playing it fine.
Thats it. Its a tank. Its steel, but not as weight as a guvnor (marshall).


Of couse it sux batteries, its digi!
A weirsd thing tho, i run it off a varibale supply, and if you run it on 9v, it buzzes like guck, but if u run it off 7.5 or 5, then the light goes dim, but the pedal worx fine. what is going on????
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I like it that if you have it plugged in in a gig, u can stick a normal battery in so that if you go mad and oick the power suppl into the crowd it still worx.... although not for long!

Its a company in the music equipment industry.

So, by default, it gets a great bif fat 0

i haven;t tried anything else. I dont know what id replace it with if it broke cos lets face it, its not gonna.

4 knobs, 1 switch

I scored it 5 because the shorter delays are very metallic sounding to my ears. I tend to stick to the top two ranges.

I have used Boss pedals on and off since 82 and only had an LM2 fail after I had it 10 years.

I wasnted a delay pedal and was interested in the Dano reverse delay (until I tried one). I hooked up a DD3 and bought it. I have used the DD2 and therefore cannot get that exited about these pedals. They do the job. Yes they can be 'cold' what do you expect for #99?

I was using a Guyatone 16 bit delay that would work when it wanted to. I darent use it live and the band is gigging again. I scored it a 10 as it does what I want it to without breaking the bank.

I'm sorry to whoever said that the delay gets weaker every time it delays, but you have know idea how to use one of these. OF COURSE the tone's going to get weak if you put it before your preamp, which I'm guessing is what you're doing. The volume diminishes with each delay, and if it's before a tube preamp the tone is automatically going to get weaker because there's less signal to the tubes. you have to put it in your effects loop if you have a tube amp.

Fairly easy to use.Four knobs,(effect level, feedback and delay time and the last one acts a switch from 12.5 milliseconds up to 800 milliseconds and all the way up to HOLD, which can hold the signal from here to eternity simply by pressing the foot-switch down. It`s my first delay pedal ever, and I`m very happy with it. However, I`ve experienced that you need to practise to play with a delay, but you`ll get used to it. If any of you are big Tool fans,such as I, you can pull off "Eeon blue apocalypse" without any problems. Simply set the effects level to MAX, feedback to zero, delay time to MAX and set the last switch to HOLD. Then, hit the high D string(if downtuned to dropped D) 4 times down-up-down-up strokes and press the foot switch down right after and hold it there. This allows you to play the rest of the song since the D string is being repeated forever. It needs to to be practised on, but once you get it right......imagine your own reaction.

Peavey Special 212-----DD3---Boss FlangerBf2------Yamahah Rgz 612.
My guitar is not too good, but good enough for my needs. No noise. I play mostly Tool and the DD3 works perfectly for Adam Jones sounds (Eeon blue apocalypse, what can I say?)With my amp distortion it works fine, as I imagened distortion with delay. Try mixing the DD3 with the Boss Bf2 Flanger, and start experiencing. I was trying the DD3 in the store, and and the guy behind the desk suddenly asked in this weird cowboy-ish way: "Try it with some flange.I highly recommend it." I was blown away. They`re like Bonnie and Clyde(for me anyway).

Well, hopefully I can depend on it, thinking the thought that I`ve had it for two days. But it`s pristine sound needs power, and I suspect it from sucking the daylights out of the poor battery. I`ve played with it for approximately 6 hours, and the led is getting weaker, but no sound change i my ears. But the battery was in the pedal when I bought it, and maybe it has been tested several times in the shop and therefore a major loss of power could have occured. But I think I`ll see how long the battery lasts when I get a fresh one. If it lasts forever, no adapter needed. Think it out yourself if the battery goes out before the dinner gets cold. Let`s hope for the best.

Never had any problem with my pedal.

As mentioned above. I play Tool and some Pink Floyd.It`s GOOD. It`s a very good match. I`ve been playing for a year and a half (I`m 16 by the way, but don`t mistake me for a simple Nu-metal-Linkin-Park loving sod. To childish to me.)
If my DD3 was stolen, I would run to the store with my money and buy it again, and then run home and continue playing.
It`s hard too say exactly what I love about it, because it would be like saying"Well, your last baby was good and all that, but this one is a godess" you know?
There`s no nothing I HATE so far, but I wish it had a more smooth transition. When I play something and the delay is working, I turn it off, and stops so sudden. I wish it could be finished with all the delays after I turn it off, instead of just, well, stop sudden.
It`s cool as a sound effect as well. I love doing pick scrapes and other effects, and when it repeats itself it gets as good as many times as it repeated itself. See?
I``ll give it a 9, not a ten, because of the battery feast and the sometimes the sudden "off". Something I just have to get used to. But it`s only minor issues(not problems)
And last: These words I`ve written down the last hour or so, are my experiences with the Boss DD3 Digital Delay. Not yours. OK? So,if you are thinking of a purchase, you`ll have to try it yourself and see if it appeals to your inner Adam Jones. It appealed to my.

Let me tell ya this is not easy as u would think. Theres alot to be discovered. For example, when i first got it, i didnt like the sound, but after twiddling with it for a while, and finding some settings online, it made such a difference...and so for all of that, this sucker is getting a 7

Check out this dream ESP ALder body vintage HSS strat right into the peavey 5150 II with the DD-3 then the EQ-20 in the effects loop. absolutely wonderful sound. with these two, im so pleased. Yet this pedal still gets only a nine because its usuable range of options is not that big. Van Halen is the sound i get ... anything u want from van halen i got (except his amazing guitar playing)...

Boss Boss Boss....no need for repetition

Flat out good pedal for the price. If u have a good amp and would like to add a dimension to your sound, be my guest and buy one of these. Crappy amps and other equipment are not the home for the DD-3, its a very transparent pedal, making it sound bad in a bad environment and vice versa. Im satisfied with Boss once again.

These things are pretty easy to use, you can muck around with them and get a suitable sound. Four knobs E.Level, D.Time, Feedback Level and Mode. Hey no one ever said these Delays were easy to use did they!

You can get a good cavey echoe from this and multiple other things. Could be compared to Roland Space Echoe in a way echoe wise. It really depends what kinda music you like, and what style you play. If you like Radioheads weird cavey Space Echoes and can't afford one get the next best thing!

I've said it in the past and i'll say it again, these things are great and are as hard as rock! I wouldn't do a gig without it!

Never had to deal with them.

Great sound, great product all over really good i wouldn't go anywhere without it. I'm a good player and all, but this makes you sound even better. get one today!!!!

Ignore the manual - just fiddle with the knobs yourself. Very easy to figure out. Just know you may need to get an adapter for the pedal to work for you.

I'm playing a Rickenbacker 360 through a Vox Cambridge Reverb 30. For what the DD-3 is, you get EXACTLY what you're supposed to - DIGITAL delay. If you like Edge from U2's de;ay style, this pedal is for you. Try tweaking the knobs while you strum a chord or two to get some neat sounds and intro/outro soundscapes.

I haven't had it too long, but it seems like a tank to me. Boss products are pretty damn durable.

Never dealt with them.

If you like a more "modern" type of delay, this is your pedal. Edge of U2, some Pink Floyd type stuff.

This pedal is an effect I use almost constantly with lots of reverb and some chorus or flange. Soundscaping with guitar has endless possiblities and isn't done enough in music. Try and Ebow with this pedal as well - to really experiment with sounds.

It's Pretty simple. You got the main mode knob to set your overall delay time, then a knob to set it specifically, then the volume of the effect and a feedback knob which is how long it keeps delaying the sound for. Once you play with it for 5 minutes, you have it mastered.

I am using a Yamaha Pacifica and a Peavey Tube amp with many other boss effects and a dunlop crybaby. The Quality is decent. For its price....well...Its decent. For me, the hobbyist, its great, but for the pro guitar player or tone freak it would burn in the pits of hell for its crime against guitar effects. every time it delays the sounds gets weaker and has much less tone.

I bought my pedal second hand and it was prolly a couple years old when i bought it and i've had it for a nice few now, and I've had absolutely no problem with this or any of my boss pedals. They're all tanks!

Never dealt with em.

For the money, Its a decent pedal. If it was lost, I would at least buy the DD-5 or RV-3 boss pedal or something even out of the boss line. This pedal has a small delay time of .8 seconds as well...even ibanez tone lok delay pedals have like 2.1 seconds of delay!!
Crazy...

very easy to use.

I do not like the sound of this pedal at all. It works fine but the delays have a strange metallic "tingy" sound to them. i have a vintage ANALOG delay by boss, the DM 2, that i preffer a lot more than this pedal. Analog delay is the way to go.
i play an old yamaha sbg guitar through a metalzone and into a marshall valvestate. i play metal more along the lines of black sabbath and slayer and tool. i was hoping that with this new digital pedal i could do multi delays and alternate between really slow and really fast repeaters with no problem. BUT unfortunately the tone sucks so much out of the digital delay that i dont use it as often as my old one.
Anyway, there are some really GOOD FEATURES that make this pedal somewhat redeemable. first the loop feature is really cool if you want to loop a simple riff or chord and posibly solo over it or harmonize. the crappy metallic "tingy" sound is pretty good sometimes, but i can't use it for an entire song.

reliable yes. its not an important part of my equipment to worry about leaving it behind or using a backup

might get a BETTER delay pedal if i lost this one. its a mediocre pedal. if youre going to pay up to $150 for this, then might as well pay a little more and get a kick ass rack processor or something.

The DD3 is simple to use and is one of my favorite pieces of equipment. I like effects and they are an integral part of my sound. In my opinion, the challenge to using a delay pedal is determining where it goes in your signal chain. I have never had any luck using a delay pedal in front of the amp. I have alwyas had to put it in the effects loop (along with all other time-based effects). Reading through the other reviews, I have noticed that the majority of people use the delay pedal before the pre amp. Whenever I have done this, the delayed signal is always distorted (there is a name for this, but I cannot remember what it is). This distortion is also evident when you use a time based-effect such as a chorus pedal. This is one of the reasons why many people use a stereo (two amp set up). They will use one amp for the direct signal and one amp for the delayed signal.

I am wondering how people are able to use this pedal before their pre amp (in front of the amp) without getting the annoying distortion. Of course if you run a sparkling clean set up. You will most likely not have the distortion problem.

In order to run stomp boxes in my effects loop, I have had some minor modifications made to my Single Recto. Prior to the mod, the signal coming from the send of my loop would overdrive the delay, and any other time-based stomp box in the loop. Most loops are designed for rack equipment which can tolerate higher levels. In order to compensate for stomp boxes, I had a pot istalled which allows me to control the output level of the send. This has worked wonders. Not all amps have this problem (my Mesa 22+) does not have the problem that my Single Recto has.

I currently run the following in my effects loop... Boss Compressor -> Boss Flanger -> Boss Chorus -> TC Electronic Chorus/Flanger -> Danelectro PBJ (Delay) -> Boss DD3 -> BBE 482

Into the front of the amp I run... Volume Pedal -> Vox Wah -> Boss DS1 -> Boss Blues Driver -> MXR Phase 90

I am very pleased with the set up. It is dead quiet, even at high gain settings. There is some signal loss but I don't mind, in fact it softens my tone a bit.

See above.

The sound quality is very good. I am not a vintage person. I tend to favor more modern sounds. Do not think modern metal though. I am in two bands and play every weekend. One of the bands is a pop band (cover tunes). We play everything from Dixie Chix to REO. It is a lot of fun and has really challenged me to develop a versatile but simple to use rig. The other band is classic hard rock band. I enjoy playing all types of music (covers and orginal). I am just into making music. I have a great day job and music is all about fun (I am very lucky).

My rig is not unique but does have some unique aspects. It is built around a Single Recto that has been modified. I have been thinking about replacing my time-based pedal effects with a TC Electronic G- Major, but my rig is simple and dependable. (An NGM pedalboard makes things a lot easier.)

No problems with the DD3. I would recommend not using batteries. I use a Pedal Power.

No experience

Very happy with the DD3. I would love to hear from people concerning the sounds they get when they use the pedal in front of their amp.

Simple.

Very good a little sterile for my taste, but....

This is where things get ugly. It worked great, sucked up batteries, but otherwise great. I went on vacation and got back a week later, only to plug my guitar in and, poof, nothing. I am PISSED. Batteries dont make it work, AC adapters dont make it work, it just wont work. I basically threw a hundred dollars down the damn drain.

Tried to get help, but never could.

Good, but I am pissed as you saw, so I'm not the best to ask.

Its relatively simple, you just have to adjust it to the tempo of your playing.

Guitars: Kramer Baretta FR404S, Synsonics Strat Copy. Amp:Electar Century US (60 watts). FX Loop:Dunlop GCB-95 wah, Digitech Whammy 4, Boss DD-3 Delay, Electro Harmonix Small Stone Phaser, Ibanez CF7 Chorus/Flange.

The sound is perfect, at first through the fx loop the sound came out different than the sound from my guitar, so i adjusted the tone knobs on the amp and now the delay matches perfectly.

The thing is pretty strong and sturdy except for the battery clip, it can break easily.

Great FX pedal, it has more range than other brands for the same cost. Nifty and you can do a lot with it. I like to play Rage Against the Machine style(notice the different fx) it matches perfectly. I would get it again if i lost it.

As simple as it gets, folks. An effect level knob, a repeat knob, a delay rate knob, and a mode selector knob for short, medium, long, and hold settings.

I've used this pedal off and on in a variety of setups, most recently with a Fender Telecaster and a Fender Deluxe 112 Amp. I've never had any problems with this pedal making unwanted noise. However, the sound quality of the effect is a bit too glassy and hollow for me. It makes your guitar sound a little too processed in an overly digital, chop-your-tone-up-and-spit-it-weakly-back-out-at-you type of way. The best words I could use to describe the sound are sterile and cold.

I've had this pedal for ten years and it still works as perfectly. It's a Boss- these little tanks just don't die.

I play spacey, ambient, textural rock and roll. This pedal was fine for me when I first started, but as my playing has developed I find myself wanting more from my delay units than the ability to simply repeat a sound in a digitally perfect, yet coldly clinical way. For this reason, I've bought a few other delay units (the Ibanez DE-7 Delay/Echo and the Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler) that have a warmer, more analog old-school sound. This pedal only has a max of 800 ms of delay time, and I would like about twice that out of my delays. The one feature I really do like about the DD-3 is its hold setting, which allows for endless repeats without generating feedback. Mildly useful. If my DD-3 were lost or stolen, I'd probably not be in too big of a rush to replace it. I still use it occasionally because it's there, and, hey, it's one more delay unit to slap into the mix when I want to really head into outer space (using multiple delays at once on different settings is a highly recommended experience).

Another no-brainer.

Fender Strat-->Ibanez TS7-->Marshall DriveMaster-->Mesa Boogie DC-2-->FX send-->Boss DD-3-->FX return

Not noisy at all. Works perfectly. 800 ms of maximum delay time. Sounds like delay from a high end rackmount FX processor. Can nail short Eric Johnson-like delays to out of this world Steve Vai-like delays.

Never had a problem so far.

One of the best delay pedals you can get out there. Very natural sounding. Doesn't sound processed. Very versatile too. Delay time is not limiting. Should be the top choice for a delay stompbox.

An interesting pedal indeed. Easy to use? yes! if you want a basic delay. But this pedel is much more than a delay. I broke into it and tweeked some stuff here and there and now its my speical little effect(rather have my tweeked DD3 than the DD5) but if you want a simple delay sound here it is. The manual is garbage i never bother to read them , figure it out on your own

well the sounds you can make with this thing are great. I messed with mine so i have a secret little sound i can get out of it(mixed with other effects ofcourse). I use an american strat with home made pickups (i am 16 years old too, so never say kids are dumb and dont amount to anything) and thats all i will tell you people becaue i like to keep my setup private because the tones i get are unlike anything david gilmour ,eddie V, steve vai or any of those big guitar gods with master tone to there guitar but most of all its my own sound and this delay fits in nicley

yea even though i cant stand boss pedals cus everone thinks they are like master pedals witch is unture , yes i can rely on this hunk of metal, hell ide love to chunk it at my neighbors face

nah dont bother with those people

the style of music i play is my music and i dont like it when people try to label it, my playing style is blues/jazz/ and some minor shredding not too much like those 80s wash up bands those bastards shred so much it can make someone puke, but its good to show some skill sometimes but its really all about the music and how its composed(even though i lost intrest to tell you about the dd3)i look up to players in such ways like david gilmours awsome setup and sweet tone to eddies impressive skill of playing to the creativeness of the radiohead guy jonny greewood to the way angus young runs around on stage like a wild bastard. i dont know why i just told you more about my playing than the DD3 but heck i felt like it and it made me feel good beause hopfully someone would read this and say hey that kid is excited about his guitar

4 controls, I thought it would be complicated but it's really simple. Bit awkward having to bend down and change between the delays though. Otherwise easy and clear. Manual? Didn't bother reading it.

Perfect. I run a Rat before this and a zoom 707 after it, through a Laney Hardcore max. The sound is crystal clear, no buzz, and no on/off noise. You can do blur's ESSEX DOGS or ON YOUR OWN perfectly.

Reliable, with a capital BOSS.

Uh.....

Get one, even if you think you don't need one. You'll love it, even if it's just for the novelty value. It's expensive but can do so many things. I play kind of dark pop/rock, and along with my RAT, this is essential for me. I could play with this pedal for hours on end trying to come up with the scariest noise I can find.

It takes a little while to get adjusted but thats good experience anyways. For those of us not lucky enough to get a manual with it, finding the perfect delay time can be a headache.

I've got an older BC Rich Platinum going into a Fender Champion 30 amp. Some people complain about the distortion/delay mix (and how it's awful) but it sounds beautiful on my setup. Other than the hum from my MT-2 and amp, it is silent. I tried to play some U2 on it but I'm too lazy to reprogram all my effect pedals to make up not having a chorus pedal like The Edge.

I bought it used and it still works despite having the appearance of having been run over by a truck.

Never had to..

A handy pedal for adding variety to your playing. What can I say? Works great for a delay pedal. If it were stolen, I would steal it back.