DigiTech DigiDelay

The effects on it are good and do what they say except for how the delay turns on and off.

When you stomp-off the pedal, any delay will keep playing until it runs this course... this is understandable, although different to pedals I have used previously. When you stomp-on again the previous delay keeps playing, which in my mind makes the effect unusable.

Sound is good.

Only had it a few days... not broken so far.

Phoned up customer support with query about how the pedal works (see above). Phone answered in seconds. Friendly and determined staff.

I'm considering either sending this back, though it is the only pedal in my price range above a Behringer delay that clapped out on me.
All good other than the huge programming oversight of not clearing the memory when the pedal is reactivated.

very easy to use. Despite having a good amount of features, it's easy toget the sound you want

EXCELLENT sound. The normal settings are just as clear as a Boss DD3 (and without the harsh digital sounds of a DD5 or dd6). What you put in is what you get out...

The Digidelay also has an analog / tape mode, which is EXCELLENT. It really does sound like an analog delay (see the other reviews here...), but with less backgroun noise. It also has a reverse , and a loop facility -I don't use these but they're good for getting strange / spacey sounds out of.

these units have a very long delay time (4sec), which is better than many Boss units. To be honest, I don't use anything above 700mS, but for people wanting to make strange noises, its a useful pedal.

strong metal case. Been to many gigs and always worked perfectly. Bright LED. Good quality jack sockets.

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I've had a Boss DD3 and DD5 in the past, and an analogue Aria Series 5 delay. Sold the DD5 a month after buying it. The Aria sounds great but only has a short delay time. The DD3 was a good workhorse delay but failed when I plugged in the wrong adapter and put 24volts DC into the power socket!! I went to the shop to get another DD3 and tried it head-to-head with this Digitech.... and this one was cheaper, just as well made, sounded just as good, but had a longer delay time. The analog sound on this was like my Aria, but without the hiss. Now this is the only delay pedal I use.

Easy to use, intuitive, yet flexible.

Great. I was very surprised. I have a Boss-DD3 I am very happy with and never would have bought one of these Digidelays on my own, but I got it as part of a lot on e-bay. The tape delay sound is incredible. Set the effect high in the mix with a long delay and you can sound just like Rush's first live album on "By-Tor and the Snow Dog". But what I really use it for is its clarity and hi-fi sound. The Digidelay adds some highs and polish and fidelity to the tone. I set the unit on tape delay with about three repeats and a medium delay, then set the mix control at about three so I can leave it on all the time. I put the Boss DD-3 after it in the effect chain, and use that for longer and louder echos for leads. It might be better to have a second Digidealy but the Boss-DD3 sounds great for loud lead use echos. In front of the Digidelay I have a Fulltone Clyde Deluxe Wah, a Keeley modded TS808, and an Analog Man mod TS-9. I use the Digidelay to split the sound into stereo going into two Marshall Studio 15's. I tried a true vintage analog 300ms delay in place of the Digidelay, but that is going low fidelity and is not the sound I am looking for. Who would have thought this Digidelay would sound so good?

Very reliable, solid case. The one I got was ancient and pretty beat up but works perfectly.

No idea.

Great pedal, and you can get them very inexpensively.

Ther's several options coming within this pedal. One want to buy it may see in manual. Although you should stick to one or two options. It's imposible to use all specialy on live gigs. My favorite are analog for comp and solo and chorus for arpegiates clean comp. Sometimes I use very long delay to mimic sustained tone on slow solos or intros.

The pedal is silent and overall sounds good. I keep it in FX loop of my Marshall JVM 410C all time. Analog delay permanently follow my sound set to 11h for first three pots. It make my sound warmer and brighter. I dont switch it off at all and when I do, I wonder how I liked my marshall sound withou it. However, on very high gain it tend to thiner the sound so I have to compensate in upper middle freq. It brings kind of echo that I was missing in my tone cause marshall's own reverb although good, wasnt enough. I tried boss delay earlier and this one is more versatile and gives less digital tone, at least for analog and chorus

Appears rugged, works fine so far but dont rely on 9V battery, this is delay pedal, thinks to plug it in the wall

Not needed

I play clasic rock covers as semi-pro for more than 30 years, recently on HSS strat and marshall tube. I rely on tubes and have very few other peddals in rig keeping it simple. It's nice add-on and I'll keep it until I found something else that could be found only in upper range priced stuff.

My experience of delays goes back to using Watkins Copicat tape echoes in the 70s and 80s (and mine were old then). They were great (but noisy) and formed my view of a good delay unit. I really only want to get 3 maybe 4 delay sounds in an evening, ranging from slapback to soft halo to big solo time - I can get these on the Digidelay with very little fiddling, and the mod delay setting is a very useful bonus.

This does its job perfectly. No noise, just the delay you dial in is what you get out. I don't go in for looping and tapping in tempos so any shortcomings there would not really bother me - I just need it to be short or long with controllable repeats and level, and it is.

No problems.

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It gives you wide control over a wide range of delays with no noise. I've also got a Danelectro delay which is warmer but it lacks the bright clarity and diversity of the Digitech so it's horses for courses.

Fairly easy to setup. Has lots of differnt delay types to choose from.
Nice features

I've had this unit for a year now and swear by it. I heard all this new buzz about the mxr carbon copy delay and bought one to compare with my Digidelay.. The tape/analog mode on the Digidelay sounds WAY better than the MXR CC. I ended up returning the mxr cause it was too noisy. The Digidelay is very quiet. I haven't messed with all the different delay types because I mainly use the tape setting with a short slapback. It sounds a lot like the old echoplex, moreso than any other delay units I've tried.

Seems to be holding up well.

This unit is miles better than the new mxr crap. Perfect for my setup which is an EVH 5150III stack, Boss SD-1, Phase 90, Boss Tuner

basic functions
just got know where to find them

for the money, it sounds great.

solid

no idea
i believe

not an eventide

that being said,

you cant touch anything like for the $

esp if you buy it used

very creative, fun pedal for $40

The Loop feature is almost useless because it is so hard to get the timing right. Also, the Tap Tempo is a pain, turn on, hold, 3 seconds (but not more then three seconds, tap, wait, hold for three seconds, wait, and then press again to turn off. Therefore, if you are in tap tempo mode and you want to quickly turn off the delay, it wont happen. Not having an external tap tempo is just plane dumb, and a necessity if you care about getting your delays dead on.

Bypass is clean and adds nothing to the signal path. But, once you are in tap tempo mode the pedal sometimes gives out a quite high pitched squeal. This is only in place with a less then great power source, so pretty much every club we play in.

I have had it for 3 years and never had a problem, maybe because I never really use it, it just sits on my pedal board.

All good here

This pedal has some great features, but with the noise and headache of tap tempo it is often a pain to use. The biggest problem I have with the pedal is the inability to set dotted eighth notes. All other major brand does this. Therefore, save a little extra money and get the boss (not the DD3, but the DD5, DD6 or DD7). I regret I ever bought this, and it has an almost 0 resale value. It is nice and shine though.

This pedal is super easy just a few notche from the 4 knobs and its done... another sweet feature ids the tap tempo that can be controled through the same pedal

this pedal has some of the sweetest ounds one can get. . .their is no noise... i use this pedal with a prs santana model and in a rig with a behringer hell babe wah pedal, a digitech grunge pedal,a digitech tone driver overdriver pedal, a digitech RP80 as well as a gmx 210 by behringer . . .this is what makes it sweet that it does not change your tone

yould us ths pedal on any stage at any gig . . . just dont use a battery with

never had to deal with them

this is a great pedal its just a good buy any time...

Es muy facil sacar un buen sonido, todo es auto-explicativo. Cuatro potes, nivel, repeticiones, tempo y tipo de delay (6 + looper)

Cristalino, no colorea mucho (dir??a que nada) pero no dispone de true by pass. Las posiciones 1 a 3 del selector de tipo de delay modulan los intervalos de repeticion en 0-250ms, 250-1.500 ms y hasta (4,4 sg?), todo ello con el caracter??stico delay digital tan majo de la marca que encontrar??as en los rack de toda la vida (tipo GSP 21 legend, GSP 7 etc)de la ??poca en que los que emuladores de recinto y ampli s??lo estaban en los pedales san amps.Luego te encuentras en el selector la parte m??s interesante del delay, el 4 da un echo tape muy org??nico (lo mejor del pedal), el 5 un delay con modulaci??n en las repeticiones, el 6 un delay inverso y en el 7 un looper que no me convence, ya que tiene un desarrollo muy corto y vale para peque??as frases, esta opci??n no permite la memorizaci??n as?? que no sirve para usarlo en serio con miras a un bolo. Otras caracter??sticas son el emulador de recinto para pinchar en PA o bien directamente a un multipistas casero (todav??a algunos tenemos viejos tascam de cinta jeje u el tap tempo (que no vale para nada ya que se pierde la memoria al deshabilitarlo). Vale para cualquier amplificador que cumpla un m??nimo de calidad, yo lo uso con un JCM 800 y un hot rod deluxe y va de escandalo. Una cosa que hay que tener controlada es que no todos los presets dan niveles de salida iguales, sobre todo el 4 (echo tape) que tiene uno o dos puntos menos de presencia en el nivel general que el resto, pero conocido esto de cara a un bolo donde tengas que usar indistintamente varios tipios de delay basta con compensarlo manualmente en cada caso.

Es muy robusto y algo pesado, como un cuarto m??s que cualquier pedal boss..

No ha hecho falta.

Es la mejor elecci??n en su rango de precios (la mitad que un boss DD6) y tiene m??s prestaciones (salvo el rango de long delay (5sg en el dd6), y un sonido si no mejor igual. Vale para cualquier estilo que neccesite de una paleta amplia de delays (yo toco blues rock) pero se adapta bien a otros registros.En los 28 a??os que llevo en esto es una de las compras m??s efectivas que he hecho en la vida.