Boss DD-6 Digital Delay

Its fairly easy to use. Except I don't even understand the advantage of the whole tap-tempo thing that everybody raves about. Who is actually gonna be able to have such perfect rhythm that they can do that live on stage? It's just not practical. Besides that, the knobs are pretty self explanatory and easy to use.

For me its a really big deal that the delay echos smoothly into one-another, because you cannot use this pedal with distortion on. Its very very digital sounding and it just sounds horrible if you are planning on playing any solos with this thing on. There is nothing you can do with the settings to get rid of this either. With clean though, I will admit it does it's job just fine.

It's pretty solid I've had mine for about 10 years and it hasn't broken yet. It definitley CHEWS through batteries though, as someone else said below. I'd be suprised if you can get 2 hours out of this thing. You need an adaptor.

No experience.

I would look for something where the delays run smoothly into each other so you can get a good, clean sounding delay instead of a digital, noisy nightmare when trying to use it with distortion. I mean come on, if you were trying to play the lead solo in "Comfortably Numb" for example, it just would sound like wood chips splitting instead of a nice smooth delay. I haven't looked into whether there are any other pedals that CAN do this, I'm sure there are though. The delay on my amp is much better and does exactly what I'm talking about. Plus I think $160 is way too much for a delay pedal.

Using a boss pedal is a no brainer.If you had tried a DD3,the only things to learn is how to use the Tap Tempo and Hold function of this pedal.It took me only 3 minutes to find my ideal settings for the delay.

It's digital,dead quiet when not playing anything while the pedal is on.Unless you set it to self oscillate,or depressing the pedal while in warp mode-(produces that same effect),it is quiet.The label on the box,and on the pedal reads "digital delay",so i did not buy it and expect it to sound like an analog delay.In fact,i expected it to sound like the DD3,and it does,but with more clarity,specially on long delay settings which this pedal is capable of (5.2 seconds).If your basic clean or overdriven tone tone is toppy,has ear piercing highs,or in short,if you have bad tone,this pedal won't help.It only does what it's supposed to - add clear high quality digital delay to your guitar signal.

Totally dependable,been using a battered Boss DD2 pedal for years,it never broke.I'm expecting the same with this one.I would use it on gigs without a backup.Just be sure to use a power supply with it,delays eat up batteries pretty fast.

Haven't had the need for one so far.

I play a wide variety.From satch-vai type instrumentals,to pop/jazz/rock type of songs.A digital delay helps me achieve spacious,groovy sounds specially for solos.I can't live without this pedal.That tape delay setting on the Digitech digidelay is a nice touch but other than that,the DD6 is the best in it's price range.I just wish it had an extra tone/eq bias knob for more flexibility-will help tremendously if you wanna change the tonality of your delay sound.

Not too difficult to figure out what the knobs do, but it takes a lot of playing around with to finally figure it out.

First and foremost, this is a Digital pedal, and there is a major problem with digital signals from digital pedals.

The signal from your electric guitar is ANALOG. That analog signal from your guitar gets changed to a DIGITAL signal as it runs thru any and all digital pedals. Then the signal gets converted back to an ANALOG signal when it goes into any TUBE circuit or TUBE amplifier because TUBE circuits are ANALOG. That is why analog effects always sound better than digital effects thru TUBE amps. I find analog effects also sound better thru solid state amps too, much better sounding than digital signals.

The converting back and forth from analog to digital to analog causes a lot of degrading of the signal. That is going to effect the sound quality.

This Digital Delay sounds somewhat better than other digital delays I've listened to, but still sounds cold, tinny, cheap and weak.

My 2 biggest issues with this pedal are it is very noisy, and I cannot stand that obnoxious digital "clunk" and "thunk" that is attached to every single note and chord I pick when I am using this terribly bad sounding pedal. For the $140.00 this pedal cost new, I expected a LOT better quality.

It looks like Boss has devolved into making poor quality Chinese crap and selling it to consumers for over inflated prices. IE they have become a rip off.

I replaced this DD-6 with an MXR Carbon Copy.

Moot point. It sounded so bad I replaced it. So, I'll never know how long this overpriced piece of terrible sounding plastic would last.

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Boss used to make good pedals. But they seem to have devolved into making poor quality, over priced, bad sounding junk. I'll bet the inner components are actually made somewhere in China for about $10.00, assembled into the mediocre plastic case you all know and own, and are then passed off as $100.00+ effects pedals to an unsuspecting public.

Well, I will never buy another Boss product again. I paid $140.00 for this piece of bad sounding junk. An MXR Carbon Copy is the same price and sounds 100 times better. If only I'd known !!!!

GOOD BYE BOSS !!!!

Very compact and feature-packed design, so user-friendliness needs to compromise a little here. Personally I'd rather have a tone control for the delay than e.g. that lame "warp" feature.

Great delay sounds,the different presets make sense, very useful. What really annoyes me is the high overall noise level - EVEN WITH THE DELAY TURNED OFF the noise floor is rather unpleasent. That's why I sold the pedal and got a Digitech Hardwire instead.

No problems here, famous Boss quality as usual.

Fair piece of equipment like all Boss stuff. Used to be a mainstay on my board but the noise issue kept bugging me so it had to go. The DD-7 isn't any better at that I heard.

There are many settings so it takes time getting used to it. Once you have your sound, play away without change. Some of the loop functions are very difficult to work.

Ok for the price. Don't expect an "organic, warm, lush" analog sort of tone. It is a digital sampling delay which does just that. Good for the floyd "wall" sort of muzak.

Here's where my DD-6 fell flat. Mine is hardly 3.5 years old. It started going all nutsy on me a month ago and refused to turn off. If I left it unplayed for about 8-10 mins it would automatically shut off! Now it's going even more stupid, and the rightmost selector switch has totally flaked out. Rotating it to change positions doesn't do squat.

I expected a little better from the great Boss, given that I have some old drive pedals from 1985 that still work like champs.

Not used - out of warranty and boss is not responsive.

Nice effect, junk quality (maybe mine is a dud).

It's extremely easy to dial in the delay you want and the feedback and intensity of said delay.

Good luck getting the tap or loop functions to work. It's completely impossible.

But since it's so easy to dial in the delay you want, you don't really need the tap either. You can just turn the knob a little bit.

This was my first delay pedal. I used it for three years until the MXR Carbon Copy came out and I realized that I prefer analog delay to digital delay.

But if you're going to go with digital, this is the pedal. It's the most versatile, it sounds excellent, and it gives you near-infinite ping. Seriously, it is virtually impossible to overload this thing with feedback looping. It'll echo for like a minute if you calibrate the settings right. For ambient noise, the reverse delay gives you a fun alternate option. In fact, I'm starting to consider buying one back off of ebay when I get the money.

What the DD-6 does mostly is that it makes the exact sound that your guitar made, and echoes for as long as you could possibly want. If you want something more organic and natural-sounding, go analog. If you want perfection, go digital.

Boss.

Boss. No need. They probably don't even have customer support. Seriously, has a Boss pedal ever broken anywhere?

I play alt/electro/rock and since I can't shred or play too fast I like to use a lot of delay, and the DD-6 gives you that in spades. I eventually switched to the analog MXR pedal and I'm glad I did, but this is a good pedal and I'll almost certainly end up owning one again someday.

Especially since, thanks to the DD-7 now coming out (is there any difference between the DD-6 and the DD-7? I can't tell) you can get these things for like $80 off of ebay now. And that is a STEAL.

pretty easy to use its not all that tricky

nice clear sound quality however it sounds very artificial and cold to me but then some people like that sound. the reverse delay is kinda cool but i couldnt think of a practical use for it

no problems with it

it good for a digital delay but digital delays suck

Simple EFFECT LEVEL, FEEDBACK, DELAY TIME, DELAY MODE.
This pedal can do some things other stomp box delays can't. For a compact pedal, it has a lot of settings that are useful. And the manual explains everything.

No noise for starters:D.

As far as the sound goes, the enchos aren't very warm, definatly a DIGITAL delay. NOT an analog sound or anything like it.
But the sound you have isn't terriable, it's definatly workable. I personally love it. Not a perfect sound but I don't want to get too picky.

The modes it offfers in a compact pedal is simply ggreat! A short loop time of 5.2 second, not enough to get a really melodic rythum in it but that's the improvment they made on the DD-7.

THe reverse effect is great. In slow sounds, you can let the delay do most of the work with the volume pedal letting of trail of echos of notes is great.

ON the tap tempo feature, you can get quarter notes is 3/4 time, eighth notes, dotted eighth note sand quater note delay times which is usful.

The Warp mode can go on forever if you hold the pedal down which is cool but I never use it, no need for it really.

You get a lot of reverb feel when the pedal is engaged BTW.

TANK

Only down fall to this pedal besides the warmth of the delay is that the tap tempo thing.
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO KNOW ABOUT THIS PEDAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: To tap the tempo in, you have to hold it for more than 2 seconds so to change it on it off during parts of the song, it sucks. When you want it off, you have to wait for it. That's why I pefer the DD-5 over this.(But the DD-5 knob for modes is very small but that's another story)

The overall use of the pedal couldnt be more simpler. It has a quick manual that explains some of the more complicated fetures like the tap tempo hold and looper feature. The ony complaint i have here is that it is hard to distinguish which mode you are in on a given time.. or maybe my eyesight is just bad.. The looper feature is hard to use.. this catagory gets a 7

Its Digital.. What goes in = What goes out. What I cant understand is people swearing about analog delays.. why would you want a muddy sound with a delay. Delay... hence the name should do exactly what it sounds like. delay the sound but produce the exact same noise that was made in the first place. Here you cant beat digital delay clear pristine delay that sounds exactly the way it came in.

Its Boss nuff said

never dealt with them

A very god delay pedal. The extra features are just icing on the cake. Some are hard to use and like i mentioned earlier sometimes its hard to see which mode your on. As a general rule you cant go wrong with a boss digital delay

First, I'm taking the time to submit this review because I'm really tired of ill-informed people whining about "digital" effects as if they are somehow tainted or inferior to analog products.

I've been playing for 32 years, and a lot of that time was spent kicking around undependable, quirky, over priced, static-riddled, short-prone analog boxes. Ask any (honest) older player and they'll tell you about the bad-old-days of all-analog gear, and picking up an effects box right before a gig to hear something rattling around inside the case (hand wiring right there for you - that doesn't happen with a circuit board, but that's another post).

MXR went out of business 25 years ago because their boxes were so unreliable and overpriced. The NAME was purchased by Jim Dunlop, and they resurrected the look. Same thing happened to numerous others. Only recently has the infatuation and nostalgia with all things "vintage" dredged up some of these psuedo-good-old-feelings for analog gear.

Have you ever actually used a tape delay? (and held your finger on the tape to slow down the playback?) I have, and man it sucked, in more ways than I can count -- and was a really good way to ruin an expensive piece of reel-to-reel gear.

To all you younger players - don't be so quick to buy into this whole "vintage" thing. It smells to me like a way to get you to part with lots of cash so you won't feel inadequate about your gear. That's BS - buy what SOUNDS GOOD. Use your ears and your heart only.

Anyway...that being said...

I absolutely love being able to dial in a delay perfectly, than switch it on and get exactly what I played returned back to me, with no coloring of the tone. If you use a DD6 and don't like what you hear, it's your playing pal - pure and simple - because this box gives it exactly back the way it goes in. The DD6 has all the features and flexibility that a session player needs, without being overly complex or requiring you to mentally climb into a rack effects unit to figure out how to do something simple.

And it's indestructable. I have a whole pedal board full of Boss "chock blocks" because they work, sound awesome, are quiet even in a long series, and are fairly transparent and let the tube tone come through.

Awesome, but there again, this delay doesn't do anything to your tone, other than repeat it back in millsecond intervals as you specify. Totally transparent, as it should be.

My gear as follows:
custom Strat w/ EMG 81 and SA
Marshall JVM 410H and 1960A to FX loop -
Boss TU-2, MT2, DD-6, DD-3, BF-3 and CH-2.
Fin.

The reason I have the DD-6 and DD-3 is that I like to use the DD-6 for deep, sweeping delays for solos and an atmospheric quality and as a looper. The DD-3 acts as a background slapback for regular play, where I need an echo or just a little signal thickening. The two together are just scary cool. You can do anything you can imagine, including get chorus and flange effects with mucho depth.

They're Boss. Nuff said.

Never had to deal with them, in years and year of ownership.

If you are a working peformer or session guy, you will eventually end up using Boss pedals at some point (after your expensive boutique analog boxes cough up a hair ball...) Everyone does. Petrucci even has the TU-2 in his road rig, and all his footgear is custom made. For the tone, price and simplicity, you can't beat them. In fact, go to guitargeek.com and look at the rigs - the chock blocks are everywhere.

The controls are easy enough to use on this pedal, but that is about the only good thing I have to say about it.

Sound quality? There is none. If you want an over priced digital delay that goes "clunk" everytime you pick a note or chord, than this is the pedal for you. I've had a DD-6 for about a year and there is really no way to "tweak" the maddening and annoying "clunk' and "thunk" sound out of this pedal.

I bought two other Boss pedals, the Super Chorus and the Flanger. The sound is equally "digital" and poor on them, too.

I've been playing guitar for over 40 years, have been in dozens of Rock and Blues bands from Chicago to New Orleans (my current home). I have heard countless better sounding pedals, and I have a hard time understanding how so many people think this pedal sounds good.

There are better sounding and less pricey pedals out there.

If you like a pedal that goes "CLUNK" on every note like this one does, buy it. Otherwise look elsewhere.

This is a moot point. This pedal sounds so bad I removed it from my pedal board. I'll never use it long enough to find out if it is reliable or not. I do not like plastic pedals, but the plastic case will likely outlast the poor quality electronics inside it.

Never had to deal with them.

There are MANY other better sounding and less expensive delay and reverb pedals on the market.

This part of the review is very relative. The pedal has a ridiculous amount of options and features and as always, the more features the more complicated the pedal. However, for a pedal with a footprint as small as it is, its fairly easy to use. The most important thing you can do is READ THE MANUAL! If you don't read the manual, its near impossible to take advantage of everything this pedal can do. The DD-6 has a tap tempo function built in as opposed to the DD-5 which had to use an external tap tempo pedal. However, the tap tempo function is kind of a pain to use and it cannot be done quickly since you have to hold down the pedal for like 3 seconds to go into tap tempo mode. This is one part where it is vital to read the manual because different settings have different tap tempo beats.

The pedal sounds great, and if you can take advantage of all the features it has you will agree that this pedal is amazing. I like to play with a natural jazz type tone and this pedal does not detract from the natural tone at all. It's not true bypass just like all other boss pedals but the buffer in it is decent. For a digital delay this pedal does a great job and sounds great.

Just like all other boss pedals, this thing is extremely solid.

Never had to use it

There is a missing subject here and that is value. The pedal sounds great and it's one of my favorite pedals, but I think it costs too much. If the pedal was stolen or lost I would need another one but I may try getting a DD-20 since they do not cost that much more.

Considering all of the options available, this pedal is pretty easy to use. The hardest thing about it may being able to see which delay setting you're on on a dark stage or situation like that....even in a well-lit room with my glasses on I sometimes wonder why the "Reverse" mode isn't working only to figure out I'm really stuck on "Hold" or something. But looking past that, it's really an intuitive pedal with not much of a technical learning curve to deal with. If you're familiar with Boss delay pedals, you'll be able to work with this one easily. I had never used or owned any kind of unit with a Tap Tempo function, and I had no problem getting the hang of it with the DD-6 without even consulting the manual. While I can see how an external footswitch would probably make that feature a bit easier to use on the fly (especially if you didn't have to hold the pedal down for two seconds first), the fact that you can tap your own tempo relatively quickly and easily without using any sort of external device is pretty f****** cool.

The one mode that requires a little bit of practice to use is the mode I bought this pedal for specifically..."Reverse." The pedal will try to guess where your phrase ends on top of only having so much delay time to work with. Sometimes it can sound a bit clunky, with notes that didn't get squeezed into the time period popping up a few seconds later and sounding cut off and a bit out of place. For instance, let's say you have the reverse delay time set at 1 second. If you play a phrase that goes 1.10 seconds and stops, the part of the phrase that fell within the 1 second setting will be reversed, you'll hear silence for .9 seconds, and then the little .10 second blip. Two ways I've figured out to make this feature work the best are: A) adjust the Delay Time on the shorter side and stick to quick single-note phrases and doublestops, dialing in a delay that works with your natural phrasing tendencies and B) set the Delay to the longest time possible, get a feel for the time and craft your phrasing so that you're just finishing up your riff as the playback is started. This isn't as hard as it sounds, and the "Reverse" mode is very cool, musical and usable.

I also love the Warp feature, which is another setting I use quite a bit for droning, atmospheric sounds.

No doubt about it, this is a DIGITAL delay, meaning that whatever you put into it is going to come out sounding practically identical. Which, in my opinion, makes it better than a "warm-sounding" analog delay. I'm not anti-analog, mind you...I just prefer that something like a delay not mess too much with the tone I feed it. I don't want to warm it up or add a subtle fuzziness or anything like that.

And this pedal, with the exception of softening the attack of your notes just like most delay pedals do, does exactly that. I put in a warm, neck pickup tone...I get warm delays. Bright and twangy Tele bridge pickup? Comes out just like it went in.

On slapback settings it does tend to be a bit brighter than I'd like...if you're looking for something that can provide a lot of slapback, then you might want to go analog here. I just roll the tone off at the guitar a bit and it's fine.

Boss is well-known here...I don't think I need to add anything.

Have never had to contact Boss/Roland for any reason, and I've been using Boss stuff for years.

I've been playing guitar just about 20 years now. I'm a Fender guy...Fender amps (tube and solid state), Fender guitars (a Strat and two Teles). I also have an SG Jr., a Rickenbacker 360/12 and have owned a coupld of Fender Jaguars, a Les Paul and a Fender Mustang. I pretty much dabble in everything except reggae...my true loves are classic and indie style rock, old school electric country and the blues. As far as pedals go, my pedalboard changes every now then, but basically around the same handful of effects. For overdrive I use either a Boss SD-1 or Ibanez TS-9, fuzz is either a Fulltone '69 or Big Muff USA RI, phasing is pretty much always an MXR Phase 90 and other swirly stuff comes from either a Dunlop Rotovibe or Option 5 Destination Rotation Single. I also have a handful of chorus pedals and several other distortion pedals that will I use from tiem to time to keep the ears fresh...including an old Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal which is one the coolest, most underrated pedals ever.

As I mentioned, I got this pedal specifically for the Reverse feature. I've been listening to the Beatles and some of the trippier Oasis tracks for a while now. I have a Boss RV-3 Digital Reverb/Delay which I use for nomal delay duty (I like the delay+reverb settings there) and use the DD-6 for kookier delay setting like Warp and Reverse. Sometimes I'll use the straight-up delay setting and set the DD-6 long and the RV-3 short.

Overall, I think this is a fantastic pedal that can be used a lot of different ways. Boss puts out high quality products that sound great, are easy to use and affordable and the DD-6 is a great example of that. It is certainly priced at the upper end of the scale, but is not unreasonable at all IMO. If it went missing I'd definitely by another.

The operation of this thing is pretty easy, considering the amount of functions and modes it has. Overall, the user interface is well thought out. I only use standard delay on one song, so I just set the knobs and leave them. I checked out the tap tempo feature anyway, and although it's a little confusing and takes practice to match the delay perfectly to the song, it's seems to work OK. I'm going to give it a 7, because it will take some practice and dedication to really learn to get the most of this unit.

I use this pedal with several others, but my set up is still fairly basic. '62 reissue SG through a Monster cable into an Ernie Ball VP-Jr. volume pedal (with a Planet Waves pedal tuner in the Vp Jr.'s tuner dedicated tuner output), then to a Morley Mark Tremonti Power Wah (douchebag guitarist, AWESOME wah), followed by a Boss NS-2 noise supressor. In the NS-2's FX loop, I have an Electro-Harmonix LPB-1 Nano and Big Muff Nano. After the NS-2, my signal goes to a BBE Sonic Stomp (if you own only one pedal, do your audience a favor and PLEASE make it a BBE Sonic Stomp). I run a Boss PS-5 Super Shifter, a Boss OC-2 Octave pedal, and then the DD-6 in the FX loop of my amp. All of this is linked together by various jumpers and patch cables on a home-made plexiglass pedalboard, and then sent to my amp via a Stage Magic PedalSnake. My amp is a Lee Jackson XLS500 w/EL34s, into a Marshall JCM800 angled 4x12 with English Greenbacks. I think I just realized that my rig is getting complicated.

Anyway, this is a digital delay, and it sounds like a digital delay should. Cold, crystalline repeats of whatever signal you put into it. It is very accurate, and I don't mind that it is not "warm". It's not noisy, and I can't notice any tone loss when the unit is bypassed.

When you get into the various modes, things get a little more complex. In reverse mode, the delays sound very good, providing a pretty wild sonic character. However, it doesn't trigger fast enough when the effect level is all the way up (which mutes the input signal, spitting out only reverse delay). It takes a while to get used to playing a little bit behind the beat to keep the reverse echoes in time. I may find some different uses by speeding up the delay time (thereby reducing latency in the output signal). Overall, still pretty cool and fairly useful feature.

The Warp mode is fun, and offers pretty much limitless experimentation. Subtle knob twists produce wild fluctuations in sound, and it can make some reeeeeeeally weird noises. This mode is super fun to improvise with on the fly. Truly killer.

In 22 years of playing, I've never seen a Boss pedal that didn't function exactly the way it was supposed to.

Never dealt with them, but I've heard they suck. Their website definitely sucks.

I play very aggressive rock'n'roll, in the vein of Turbonegro/Fu Manchu/QOTSA/Appetite-era Guns'n'Roses. Most of the time, in fact probably 95% of the time, my tone is guitar-straight-into-the-amp. I think effects should be used sparingly, because it makes them (pardon the pun), more "effective". This thing allows me to make several interesting sounds, and I think that makes it extremely valuable

Quite easy to use in my opinion. It obviously has several modes and is therefore not totally straight forward. But it is simply laid out, select what type of delay you want and then blend the wet and dry signal with the level knob (nice and tweekable without being overly sensitive). Feedback and delay time are also easy to set and relate clearly to each mode.

You have to turn the knob to change modes, this is possibly a minor bad point. I suppose it could have been rectified with a up/down foot pad, but those things can break and that could be a pain.
The tap tempo is a good idea. not so good for in-song changes because of the time it takes to access it, but if you set it before a song it's great. Having a jack for an external tap tempo pad would have been better.

But you have to remember this is after all a Boss pedal. It could be more advanced, but it is really a small highly functional stompbox. If you want something more advanced buy a rack unit with a MIDI foot controller.

I'm going to give it an 8 just because of the tap tempo difficulty, and that you can't switch between modes without using your hands (only a minor irritation). But in my opinion a clever pedal like this should never get a 10 for ease of use otherwise it wouldn't be so versatile.

You could get away with having a couple of these pedals for a very powerful and intricate live performance especially with one on warp mode.

Okay, many years ago I used to own a Boss PS-3 Pitch-shifter with delay. It had quite a nice and very easy to use delay function on it. I used to use it for standard pulsing delay and for a big screaming fadeout at the end of songs. (I never really used the pitch shift functions because they were pretty useless) It wasn't the best tone in the world, but at the time it worked really well.

I sold it after about 3 years of gigging with it, after i had started using a Electro Harmonix and some MXR effects. I started getting rid of BOSS pedals and buying more boutique effects. I've gone through loads of different effects brands, searching out the perfect tones and sounds for each aspect of my playing. I never found a delay that i liked since that PS-3.

I have finally gone back to a BOSS pedal, this DD-6. Personally i prefer the crispness of Digital delay. I find analog delays too warm or muddy for the kind of music I play. This pedal does exactly what i want it to; gets all the sounds i need from a delay.

I don't get any hiss from my unit, and I am using it in a fairly loaded signal chain. I do run it out of a bypass box on my board to cut it out fully when I need to. Maybe those with hiss have a faulty one?

I'm going to give it a 9 just beacuse i love the sound from this thing, but i think there's probably a pedal out there with a slightly better tone somewhere. And BOSS pedals are tone suckers (reason why i bypass it.)

You don't need to what gear i have, suffice to say that i have a few custom guitars and I regularly mess around with my effects chain. This thing is still in there and I'm thinking about getting another one.

It's a BOSS pedal, they are built like russian tank parts. Not from russion tank parts like Sovtek pedals.

I've never managed to break a BOSS pedal.

I'll give it a 8.8 overall just to be fair. I think that if it had a Tap tempo EXP slot it would most likely be pushing solidly into the full 9s.

The reverse function is pretty good for a stomp box. I've used a few and this one makes less of a clicking noise than most. The WARP function is a great thing. I use it a lot when jamming.

Delay pedals can be so expensive (especailly analog ones) and in my opinion under ??100 for a good one is a bargain. If you like Digital delay and need something with a small footprint i would recommend this.

its not super easy but it gets a ten cause you dont want your delay super easy. three knobs leave you needing other pedals to compensate for what its not doing. if you only want the most super simple dealy cause your just like that get a combo pedal.

ok if this pedal gets anything less then a ten people are to damn picky or stupid and dont know what there looking for. the damn thing says digital delay on it. why the hell did you buy it if you wanted analog delay? no but honestly this is the clearest delay ive ever heard. as a matter of fact thats its only fault. i imagine the next model will have a analog setting since its obvious theyve pretty much mastered the digi delay now. if you were waiting around for it to get better cause you used a dd 3 back in the day. well it has. i thought the dd 3 blew. sounded weak and didnt do too much. this ones great. yeah id rather have a analog delay. im not gonna lie. but its like a car do you want the one thats gonna break down and require a lotta bucks or the reliable one. i use a dod stereo reverb with it when i want a good analog simulation. i dont reccomend this cause your odds of getting a analog delay are better then a analog reverb. i just happen to be lucky enough to own one. for gigging this seems to be the best delay pedal on the market right now. what gives it the status of that is the reverse. its basically two pedals in one for that. youd pretty much be either a analog nerd or a idiot to get anything else. dont get me wrong most boss pedals are waaaay over praised and are for the most part crap. you buy them cause they last not cause they sound incredible. but this one is good. delay seems to be one of the few things boss gets right most of the time. i have my own fair share of analog pedals i do care about tone. but with most of the analog delays for sell out there being already busted and the fact that there so rare now you have no business gigging with them id go with this one.

overall id say its almost perfect. a good analog repro setting and it would be. now dont get this and expect all other boss pedals to be this good. but if your gonna get one boss pedal on the market still get this. and beware all the previous models. the other dd's arnt quite as good. get it used. theres so many right now youll pay next to nothing. though i do plan on replacing it when they make a new model. they definetly have my attention now.

There are a lot of possibilities in there for a standard sized box. It will take a couple of runs through the manual. Once you've digested what's in there, you're all set.

There is a review on page 2 by some guy who calls himself Motorhead.
Have a look at it. I have nothing more to add. Right on Bro!!!!

I haven't owned it for long enough to comment on reliability issues.
All Roland/Boss products I own look solid though.

Well, they come with 5 years warranty if you buy new. Doesn't apply in my case because I got it as a swop for a guyatone MD-3. They are a big company so forget about calling them on the phone and talk to the designer himself, or lifetime warranties etc. Having said that, offering the 5 year warranty should earn them a good mark in this category.

This pedal is really close to a 10. Pristine sound quality and lots of features. Some of them might be not everyone's taste but let's face it. If you can play, and you are capable of setting up your gear properly, this pedal will deliver your meat and potatoes delay sounds plus AT LEAST a couple of USABLE wacky stuff to throw here and there when the occassion calls for it. The only thing missing from the stock pedal is a high cut knob. I did manage to get my desired sound without it though.
A solid 9.

Ease of use: ok this thing is great. If youve ever had a delay before it doesnt take much to figure out. id say the only thing that might make it hard to use is cause its easily the most versatile delay stomper on the market right now.
Editing patches: like i said
Manual: didnt have one didnt see the need.

Ok this thing sounds incredible. oh dont go and buy a dd 5 just because its discontinued. they changed it cause the dd 5 supposedly had a bad buffer or something so be smart and get a dd 6 these things are very cheap used and right now its pretty easy to get them that way. No noise, now i love analog delay. its great, but analog delay pedals are becoming less and less reliable on the vintage market and alot of the boutique models have mixed quality unless your looking to sell your amp to get a delay pedal! its just too expensive. the first thing that attracted me to getting a dd6 was the reverse. and man it sounds incredible. im so all about this pedal. it has to be the best digi delay boss has made yet. id say the only bad thing is the warp mode? which just sounds alot like the delay on the rv 3 if you ask me. the delays are incredible. it sounds really true to the signal. i used to have an dd 3 back in the day in the mid nineties. wasnt so impressed with it which is why i never checked out the dd 5. wow though the improvements on this one are just incredible. a year ago i sold my memory man. couldny stand it. it was incredibly noisy i dont see what the big deal is. what a hunk of crap! the only other delay id rather have is the boss analog delay. but its to risky dishing out the bucks for one with alot of them out there being jacked up now and still being passed around. i give this pedal the best score cause pound for pound its worth every dollor youll spend on it.

heres my setup

fender mij reissue jazzmaster with vintage jazzmaster sd neck and quarter pounder sd bridge.
fender tuner, whammy 4, jekyll and hyde, dd-6, rv-3,
fender hotrod deville 4-10

boss pedals are the most reliable on the market, funny enough there always way tougher then there 600 dollor plus or minus competitors which i never get. why pay alot for something you cant count on.

all the years of owning boss and roland never have had to.

i play mellow indie rock music in my band. on my own everything under the sun. if i lost this pedal id be pretty damn pissed, then id run out and buy another without thinking twice. i had made the horrible mistake of getting a boss me 50 a while back. its a decent pedal but you just cant replace boxs its just the truth. so i finally broke down and stopped using it in my band. sidenote why boss doesnt just reissue the analog delay i have no clue. so anyways i pulled my old pedals out stript a few of them out to go for better tone for now on in my band and i wanted to really make the delay count. well this one does that. without butchering your tone. no digitech no ibanez no other competitors in this price range can compare to the tone quality this thing can handle

I'd give it a ten were it not for the fact that you do have to do a bit of tweaking to get her going purrrrfect. Either way anybody with enough fingers to play a guitar can sit down and turn the knobs to a desirable setting no problem. Very easy to use.

If you want digital delay and not a tube delay then this is the way to go. I run it after a MT-2 and it doesnt distort at all - I play them through a marshall valvestate avt-50 NOT in the effects loop but straight from my guitar and in. I don't know why exactly but the combo of my MT-2 and DD-6 doesnt like to process so well through my amps effect send and return.. I think it might just be the amp but either way the pedal sounds great just going straight in. Nevertheless I feel the need to rate it a 9 since it gets so fussy with my pedal line on my amps effect line.

It's a boss.

Who needs it?

I think I over-paid for this BIG TIME. I bought it new for 279.99 from our local rip-off music store. Obviously the pedal was worth the money to me, but I certainly wish I went on ebay and saved myself 100 dollars. Nothing I can do though and if you cant get it any cheaper then I did I still recommend it, infact, im gonna go play around with the warp effect, oh what fun.

The pedal has many settings so it takes some time to get the sound your want. The manual is limited but does the job...I'd like to see a databases that tells you how to get different sounds...what www.jfrocks.com does for EVH.

The sound is great - clean. No noise. I run it last in the chain just after by MXR noise surpressor.

New. No problems.

New. No problems.

This is a great pedal. I've had a DD3, Digitech Delay and I prefer this pedal...sounds great and is better quality that Digitech.

Very easy to get great sounds, especially if you are familiar with boss or delay pedals.
Ive never read a boss pedal manual ever! I knew the functions before I bought it, but the manual is clear and will be of help.

The delay effects are of great quality and can be used for a variety of styles excluding old tape echo sort of sounds. It quiet - I have it in the amps effects loop and I dont notice any extra noise or change in tone.

I play a whole bunch of guitars and as said run this through the effects loop. I mainly use it for a splash of delay on certain songs but when you start tinkering with it you end up experimenting quite a bit which is good for creativity. Thats one of the main reasons I got this - for versatility of expression. Rack mounted delays are usually much more flexible but not as spontaneous, whereas with this pedal you can tweak knobs on the fly or even use it in recording purposes for strange effects like changing the pitch of the delays by turning knobs manually. Its so small you can quickly change what applications your using it for.

All the settings are good quality and having the warp, tap tempo and long delay times are icing on the cake.

Im using this through a JSX combo all tube amp. I dont have the level up very high at all - just a splash and its wonderful. You can get some really triipy sounds from it though too.

It chews batteries so another question should be what batteries or adaptors do you depend on?

Many people say its built like a tank. Its made of metal, thats the only similarity. Many parts are cheaply made in taiwan and could easily break but its better than most other pedals. I only ever really use Boss, dunlop and MXR.

Never dealth with Boss.

I used to always want a delay pedal when I was younger to get that ambience. My 1st delay pedal was a DD3 and I loved it. I sold it when I started getting into combined pedal boards but always lost that sense of manual manipulation. I then didn't play live for a number of years and simply used the delays on my pod. Recently I have got back into gigging and playing loud through amps again and this pedal is awesome in the loop. I dont use it for any zany effectes really, just straight forward high quality delay.

You can get so many different delay sounds out of this, and they're all great. I enjoy just sitting down and experimenting with them. Its very easy to use, like all of the boss range. The manual is great too, covers all the little details and there are some great reccomended settings.

It sounds great, I've had no problems with it such as volume dips and what-not. You have the choice of 2600ms, 800ms, 300ms and 80ms delay options, there is also a very cool reverse dalay. I have never found anything to use the warp function for. The hold function is very cool though, you can record up to 5 seconds (i think)and have it looped while you play over the top.

I also think the tap-tempo is a very good feature. Easy to get the delaysn in time with the music. Great for using on the fly live aswell.

I use this with a Mesa Boogie DC-5 Combo amp. A Line 6 FM4, Line 6 DM4 and a Boss TU-2 tuner. My guitar is an american fender double fat strat.

The DD6 sounds great combined with other effects too.

It's built like a tank, as are all the boss pedals. I feel I can fully rely on this one.

Never had to use customer support. But with all the compact pedals there is a free 5 year warranty I think. So if something did go wrong I'm sure the customer support would be great.

I play a variety of music styles, from chilled out acoustic like stuff, to heavy rock and dancy stuff. This pedal is regularly used in all of it. If it were stolen or lost I would definatly get another, if not the DD6 I would get the Line 6 DL4, simply because of the longer hold time and the programable memory.

Overall the DD-6 is a fantastic pedal, If you're after an excellent delay pedal you must consider this an option.

How easy is it to get a good sound out of it?

I could right out of the box, it might be tricky for the new-to-pedal novest who has just started playing, but there is a manual to help them out.

Setup was easy: AC power, audio in cable to input, audio out cable from output, there is nothing rocket-sci about it.

However...

This is a pedal that is able to do meny things; you need to know a little about it or other delays, in order to get the sound you want.

This is why it comes with a manual and there are nice little stickers that go on the sides. This is for those people who hate manuals or people who have a bad memory (and suffer from C.R.S. like me).

Once you learn how the different modes work, you will have only to deal with the countrols: mix, feedback, and time.

I was able to do what i wanted; which is to put a delay that would not distort after my MT-2. I have a Boss DD-3 already, but it would distort with hi imputs. Boss has solved this, with the new pedal. I bought my DD-3, when the DD-5 was being taken of the market, It was cheeper, it was my mistake.

I like the new "warp" setting. I am able to do some new things with it, while feeding that part of me that loves space rock and will listen to the dark side of the moon for hours.

The reverse mode is tripy too, but I don't like to set the mix at more than 70%, most of the time, but there are times when I want to do something different.

You can use the Hold (sample) mode and play over it, but it's only a little over five seconds... so make it fast.

It is not noisy, aerosmith used it in the studio, on their "nine lives" album.

If you are a member of the anolog cult and feel that all things need a tube to sound good, you are not going to like it... Go buy yourself a memory man (I have one) and go home!
Pet your dog... poor thing has a tube sticking out of his "head", because of you! ("but... he is fully moded for that anolog howl... from that deep purpule album... It sounds... so warm... and... it has... TONE!!!")

You people make me sick.

I would hate to brake it to you (not really), but the godfather of the doted eighth note delay, "The Edge", in all his U2 glory...

He uses Digital Delay! and has done so since the mid 80's!

I used: my fender strat, a jimi wah, in to a Boss MT-2, in to a Boss CE-5, in to the DD-6, in to my fender Blues Jr (amp). I was Happy with what I heard.

I did use a Boss OD-3, then moved to a Boss BD-2 "Blues Driver" (A sweet little distortion pedal).

It all sounded wonderful and I was convenced that I did not throw away my money.

I might buy a DD-5 (to go with, not insted of), to use the tap tempo that Boss did not put on this newer model.

This tap control is what made me keep the Boss PH-3 phase pedal. I do own a MXR Phase 90, but the tap countrol will make the Boss sing.

As for the DD-6... I was not looking for the tap control, I wanted a delay that could handel the output from my Boss MT-2. It passed that test and gave me a few extras.

Oh yeah...

The sound of the Delay is good. I can take the high-powered Boss MT-2 Rocket in to Space and land it on mars.

I would say that it would do any guitarest good to have it in their arsonal.

For you tube people: If you want to do the vintage swells and moans, you might want a Memory man or you might want to shop E-bay for a Boss DM-2 or "TUBE!" echo-unit.

A trick I use to get a "warm tone" (old lo-fi) sound out of the DD-6, I use the spring reverb in my Blues Jr. amp. It will give off all the classic rock sounds of yesteryear. Pink Floyd would be prowd

I could use it for Nuclear Testing and go play a gig afterwards!

I don't know what part of India they hail from... I know "Tom" or "Linda" would be happy to help me out.

I like: U2, Metallica, Recon, Pink Floyd, REM, Third Day, Led Zepplen, audioslave, Petra, and SRV.

Do I sound like "The Edge"? NO! I don't have the cash to buy half the stuff this guy hauls around with him.

I can get a good echo and other delay effects that give me the sound I want.

Is it a good Pedal and would I buy another, if something went south?
Yes & Yes

I wish it had the Tap tempo, but that is not the way boss made it. They did miss the mark, on that point. I also like the memory man I own. It has a vibe/chorus that makes an enteresting sound, for my swells and moans. The EH has more of a "live concert stage" sound, but it is to "closed in" and not as "open" sounding as the DD-6. This is really need, if you want to play the kind of space rock i do. I use a long chain of effects (9 or more stomp boxes), at times, the warm colord tone would get in the way of some other effect befor it.

I run: strat - 500H vol - cs3 - boost -jimi wah - dist (I choose between: od3,sd1,bd2,os2,ds1,ds2,mt2,md2,big muff,fuzzface, or the amp distortion (on my mesa boogie trip. rect. solo)) - (the following are in a the loop of my mesa, if I use that amp) - ge7 - ce5,ch1 or small clone - ph3 - bf3 - TR2 - dd3,dd6, or memory man - rv5 - in to my Blues Jr. or the return on the mesa (if i'm using that amp).

...I can really play some weird stuff or I can make music that can take you to the bottom of the sea to the outer reaches of space.

Then I play strait-up rock. I know what sounds good.

To make a long story longer:

If you want clean delay that lets the sound come through without alteration (U2 - Joshua Tree or Metallica Leads), this is a must have.

If you want to play in that old time rock and roll echo sound (pink floyd, the who or the Zep), you need go elsewhere.

I do both and I mix them! Ooooooooooo...


Thank you, for your time...

...Go in peace.

First, I have to give a giant "WTF?" to all those guys who claim this pedal is noisy. It's not the pedal. It's your lame (guitar, cables, amp, house wiring, sister's hair dryer, ceiling fan -- just pick one...)

My gear is whisper quiet -- here's the rig:

Carvin SC90 to Traynor 50 Blue + extension cab -- effects loop out via George L's to Boss TU-1 + Boss DD6 + Boss CU-1 + MXR stereo chorus + MXR flanger. I even have a Carvin FX2 rack unit for effects back up, and still no hiss.

Note to house rockers: if there's a fluorescent light on the same circuit as your amp, you'll get hiss and hum. Fluorescents have their own electrical ballast that hums like a drunk monkey.

Awesome. And I agree with "Motorhead": if you can actually here the difference between chips, you're either lying about it, or you need to go out and buy a $3k effects processor. Criticizing a pedal for sounding digital is like playing basketball with a retarded kid, and calling him foul for double dribbling.

Note to all: you CAN kill (or at least injure) a Boss pedal. 1) use the wrong adapter, and 2) plug it into the out jack on the tuner. I burned up something in the unit, so now it only works with an adapter -- no batts. Still, it works great...

Yea, right. Incidentally, the 5 year warranty is on parts only. If you blow it up somehow, it's hardly worth paying $65 an hour for a solder monkey to fix it.

Great pedal. Just a pedal, not a sophisticated rack system. You get what you pay for.

Extremely easy to use. Manual is simple and easy to understand.
Tap delay is OK, but could be improved by making it easy to shut off. Best feature of the pedal is the HOLD function. It can add sustain at the end of a chord run and will disappear quickly entering a solo run.

Good to excellent. No noticable noise. Used with Telecaster and Fender Blues JR amp. Good sounding....

It's a BOSS.

Not needed yet.

Good for country, rock, and blues. It will become a regular part of my arsenal.