Boss DD-5 Digital Delay

Very easy to get a good sound out of it. It comes with a manual. But it's best just to fiddle with the controls until you get your sound.

I use this with a Boss Chorus CH-1 mostly. It's very quiet. You can tweak this thing anyway you like. I have two amps, both Marshall. One all tube, and one solid state. It works well with both. You can get an arena rock sound with this thing right in your apartment! Think Frampton comes alive minus the talk box. This pedal is very addictive! I couldn't stop playing it the first couple of days I got it! And I'm not lying! My right hand hurts because of it. It's high quality. I even like the backwards setting. I use this pedal mostly for the arena rock sounds and spacey stuff, because I'm mostly a metal player. It's a very good pedal though.

I hope it lasts a long time. I won't be playing out with it. And I baby all of my gear. And all of my other Boss pedals are still working, thank GOD!

Never delt with them. I wish I could email them sometime just to ask them questions about specifications etc. But I don't know the email address. Their stuff is probably so reliable, they don't need any customer support. After all, quality is the best customer support.

I play rock and metal and it is a good match for that. And I wouldn't want a delay effect that simulates a tape wearing out. To me that just seems ridiculus. I think this pedal will delay for up to two whole seconds. I don't think I need a delay longer than that. For the arena rock sounds, it really sounds authentic. It is an amazing pedal. I would buy it again!

Pretty easy to get to work... I especially recommend using a tap pedal. Boss sells a tap pedal for 30 bucks, but if you get a cheap 5 dollar sustain pedal for keyboards, you can do just as well. The strumming is a bit tricky to get down... It took me a few months to really become comfortable using it, but now i love it. only thing is that i havent gotten used to everything on it...i usually keep it on "10" with the rate tapped, volume at 3 oclock, feedback at 1 oclock, and delay on 1 oclock. the other settings are a mystery to me thus far.

it changes your sound a little bit... not too bad at all though. it especially sounds INCREDIBLE with an overdrive on... i usually use the dual channel on my peavey classic 30. i play a gibson blue teal sg through a TU2-DOD Grunge- CS2- DD5- PS3- TR3... its a nice little set up and the DD5 is the best addition to it! its great for getting those u2 sounds (atleast for the price...try a rocktron replifex if you have more money... get that lincoln brewster oh so sweet sound). you can also use this for leads and accenting quieter songs. ive read about people using the backwards settings well too, but i havent found that useful just yet. im using this mainly in church and leading praise and worship here at school... it is bliss.

i put a pretty good amount of trust in boss pedals.

i love this thing and until i can get something nicer with a tap setting, it is AWESOME! i totally recommend it to anyone looking for the oh so famous u2 delay sound... its also fun for some 80s emulation. i recommend, before going to guitar center or something, going online and looking for cheaper prices and bringing in the ads...i saved a bundle doing that with this and my other boss stuff.

This is an excellent pedal. However- it is hard to get anything other than a basic echo right out of the box. With a lot of patience and expirimentation, though, there are many useful and interesting sound to be had. Also, it would be nice if there was a way to use different presets, like the Line6 DL4. And, the hold function is hard to get down. Just stick with it.

My current setup: Fender nashville tele->Morley Wah/volume->Hughes & Kettner Tubeman->DD5->Direct Box. This works perfectly for my purposes. I play lead guitar in a christian rock band, but the majority of my playing is not lead solos, but rather 'backup lead' playing. With this pedal, I can simulate strings (by killing the attack with the volume pedal and setting a short delay), get a funky reverse thing going, set a slapback, pacey indefinate repeats, and if you turn the feedback and level up and the delay to 15-35ms, you get the wierdest drone/ feedbak type sound. Great pedal. It's digital, so not a lot of noise added- but it will echo on your noise that you put in, so your setup needs to be quiet to start with. Sounds really cool with a wah. Also, sounds cool with an Acoustic.

It's a BOSS.

Got it from a reputable music store and they were helpful. Never dealt with BOSS.

Great pedal. Useful, but it takes time to get the sounds you want. I have been playing 3 years. I would buy it again if it were stolen, and I had enough money. I love the versitle delays, but i wish it had a built in tap tempo. Boss sells one for $35, but I made one for $10. Otherwise a great pedal.

Very clear-sounding digital delay. Relatively antiseptic, yet extremely useable sound for simply duplicating the signal. As well as it works it takes a while to go through the manual and understand how each mode works. Unfortunately you can only use one mode at a time. I mistakenly thought the tap tempo function could be used without an additional foot-tap pedal, I was wrong.

My setup changes every day. I use this primarily in the studio. It is useful as a helper to put layers in my sound. For what it does it sounds great. Incredibly clean sound, faithful reproduction of the signal, noise free. I wouldn't judge any Boss pedal low in this category.

This pedal is very reliable with one exception: I feel it can only be used consistently with an ac-adaptor, as it sucks batteries fairly quickly, usually much faster than most of my other Boss pedals.

I have never dealt with Boss. I feel that their reliability IS their customer support.

I play many styles of music, some of which fit well with the DD-5, while others benefit better from an analog delay such as my Memory man or an Ibanez AD-80. If it were lost or stolen I would explore the possibility of other sampling pedals before buying another one of these, although it gets points for versatility in a small package. They need a DD-6 that has about 10 seconds of delay with layering possibilities, along with a backwards-delay that you can eliminate the dry signal in. With today's technology they could introduce just such a pedal and at a lower price than these go for new (as you can see I waited till I found one less than $100 to buy it). I'm giving the DD-5 a 7 in this category because there aren't many compact digital delays this versatile around, but I still think Boss could do better. This is a very musical pedal and is wonderful for composing ideas on the fly. One should try one out themselves to determine if it is their cup of tea, don't take my word for it.

This thing has more settings than most pedals--way too many to memorize. If you gig with it and plan on using it for more than one song, you'll need to draw/write a setup schematic (e.g. effect: 3 o'clock, feedback: 2'oclock, length: 3 o'clock, etc.) for each song or else spend a few minutes setting it by ear. That said, it is pretty easy to use if you set it and forget it.

I use it with a pickup-equipped violin (thru a fishman preamp/eq) and with a Hagstrom Viking 1N (hollow-body electric with dual humbuckers). My amp is a Fender DeVille 4x10, 60W tube amp. Pretty great range of sounds, and not too much digital/fake sound. There's a little bit of transistor cold-crackle on the end of the wet signal at longer delay settings. But whaddaya want? This isn't a tape delay unit--it's a stompbox. Chances are, unless you are playing an unaccompanied solo and you let each echo totally decay, no-one will notice.

Never had a problem. Just don't touch the knobs once you set them! You'll have a hard time getting it back the way you want it on a dark stage unless you do another mini-soundcheck. You don't want to do that to your bandmates, nor do you want to give away the cool effects you're about to shower on the audience.

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I play the perennial "everything"--this pedal is good for everything from neo-psychedelic or shoegazer stuff (spiritualized, cocteau twins, MBV) on the longer delay settings, to late-beatles psych stuff (has a reverse delay, which you can have modded to eliminate the dry signal and forward-played wet echo), to old-skool surf or country slapback echo. You can get your setup to sound like your're playing in a bathtub, an empty swimming pool, a gymnasium, or the Grand Canyon depending on delay length. Another really cool thing is that this pedal takes on totally different properties based on what other effects you put in front of it. If you go through overdrive/distortion first, you get a weird, zeppish or psych-metal sound (a little wankish for me), if you play clean (like only a good tube amp can do), you get a flowing, bell-like cascade of notes, if you play chorused, flanged, or phased, you get echoes that our out of phase with the dry signal, meaning major sonic vertigo! Here's my advice--get it, but wait until you find someone that doesn't know/care what he/she has before plopping down 100+ bucks. It's not essential--it's a nice toy that won't sound great on every song.

Easy to use. Great sounding unit. Manual?? Who needs it.

Using this in my effects loop. Usually in conjuction with a Rotosphere or a chorus effect. Not noisey at all. Strong effect sound. using a Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier amp head. Definetly acheiving my favorite artists delays (Incubus, The Police)

Its BOSS. These things are built like tanks!!!

Never needed it. Its BOSS. Their products are solid.

I play modern rock (i.e. Incubus, Lostprohets, System Of A Down). Been playing for 9 years. Definetly something I would buy again. I loe the ease of use and the sound quality. With the tap tempo foot pedal, its the bomb. Was using a Line 6 Delay modeler unit. The Boss blows it away in sound quality and ease of use. Helps make alot of our music.

S I M P L E !
not to hard to figure out at all.

I love this little thing. It's a valuable asset to my keyboard and sampler rig. I use it with a crowther Hotcake and a crowther Prunes and Custard pedal (two of the best kept overdrive secrets in the world) and it allows me to extend the texture of my Rhodes, MPC2000, Farfisa and Juno 106 to even more bent places, i can get great rhythmical results with it. The only downside would be the audible stepping of the delay time setting being altered....that and you can't use it with batteries for more than 30minutes before you get a huge explosive type sound and a surprised look from your soundman....sorry dave...

It's been dropped, stepped on and accidentally thrown out a five storey window....always comes back ok...

I try very hard not to deal with anyone from music stores if i have to...

I play alot of styles...this thing is always with me.
Playing for 10 years, own a vast array of synths and organs vintage and new
If it were stolen, i would weep
Reverse function is cool, shame you don't have the option to mute the dry signal.
Used to own DD3 liked that...DD5 is great but you can hear the stepping of the delay time setting changes.
This thing is fun! Especially introducing an lfo-modulated signal into the reverse delay...ok...that's a little bit geeky isn't it.

If you know what sounds you like, you can get them.

My setup consists of a Fender Custom Telecaster, Marshall AVT150H head, and the Marshall 4x12 Cab. All the modes on the pedal are worthwhile.

I'm a big fan of Dave Genn (of Matthew Good Band), he's a lead guitarist who uses pedals as their own instruments and is like Tom Morello in a sense. This pedal is good for anyone looking to do anything under experimental and progressive rock genres.

As for the reverse mode.. anyone who's ever heard the song "Starla" by The Smashing Pumpkins would appreciate that mode of delay.

Since no pedal is perfect, this gets a 9 for sound quality.

I can depend on it. I would gig without a backup, being that these f---ers are expensive.

People are generally A$$h0les. Trust no one.

I've been playing guitar for 8 years now. I know a real guitarist doesn't need pedals to enhance his performance. However, using pedals makes it easy to avoid being criticized for having songs that all sound the same. If any of my equipment was stolen, I'd inflict pain on the person and take it all back. Which is what I've noticed a lot of people say for this. But in detail.. I would fill a supersoaker up with battery acid, knock on the door of the theif, and give them an acid bath. Then I'd take all of my stolen gear back. And while they were out of commission, I would ransack their house.

very easy look in the manual, very simple,

you have to arrange your pedals in the right way to get a good sound out of any pedals, so if you just stick it anywhere it probably will sound like crap. it is very versatile you can play it with dist, chorus, pretty much anything but you have tweak the settings a litlle until you find a good setting for everything you want to play.

very reliable

never had to deal with them.

great pedal go buy one.

Very simple - almost as easy as a distortion pedal....

I use a strat with a marshall combo amp, and various effects by Ibanez, Boss, danelectro, and others.... I think this pedal sounds great. I didn't think I would use the reverse mode very much, but now I use it almost all the time - very trippy. I would use the hold function more if it was longer than 2 seconds, but then again, this is a delay pedal and not a sampler.... But that would be my only semi-complaint. So as far as delays go, this pedal is rather versatile and has pretty much anything you could ask for....

ummmmm, yeah.... you should know the response by now....

never dealt with them

I love this pedal. Maybe if you were anal about tubes vs solid state and analog vs digital, then this wouldn't be for you. But as for me, I love it and would buy it again if it were lost or stolen. I wanted something to give my guitar a psychedelic/ambient kinda sound. This did that very well.