DigiTech X-Series Digital Delay

Tape delay only !!! Use it in the effect loop !!!
In a Band and live setting, its allright.
You play alone, than you will notice that the tone gets smaller sometimes...nothing dangerous...but dont compare it to a t rex or maxon...but for the price im pleased.

5 years of trusty work.

I change to a hardwire delay now, I use it only at gigs, because when some beer is washing my pedals I get a new harwire delay, but when the same would happen to my Trex or fulltone i go crazy... because they are expensive....

Very straigh-forward. Effect Level, Repeat, and Time knobs. The tap tempo feature is a little cumbersome as you have to hold for three seconds and then tap (while the effect is engaged). This compared to the Line 6 Echo Park where you can simply tap and do it while the delay is bypassed. I have not had a chance to play around with the loop feature as I am not a loop sort of guy, but it's there and it's probably pretty intuitive based on how easy the rest of it is to use. Put it this way, I didn't look at the manual at all. I considered it after a while, but when I glanced at it it didn't tell me anything I didn't already know from using it for 15 minutes.

This thing is clean and noise free. I does not color the signal. It is surprisingly warm for a Digitech and considering it is not an analogue delay. Before purchasing, I comped it next to the Boss DD-3, Line 6 Echo Park, Ibanez AD9, and MXR Carbon Copy. I knew that the last two were out of my price range, but I really wanted to compare a "warm" digital to a true analogue. As has been pointed out, analogue delay is a totally different animal from digital delay. That being said, the Digidelay was far and away the most warm out of the three digital delays I played. This held true over all of the settings on the pedal.

The only tonal complaint I would have is that there is a high pitched tone when the tap is engaged. It didn't occur when I tried it at the store, but when I got it home it happened. This is a problem for those who use tap tempo a lot. I don't mind dialing in things by ear so I'm willing to use that feature sparingly to retain the benefits of the rest of the pedal. I may return it for another one to see if it's just this particular pedal, but I'm not too concerned about it.

I've only had it overnight. I very much plan to gig out with it, starting this Friday night and I do not have a backup delay. I'm not too worried about it. It seems very ruggedly constructed. The knobs are particularly sturdy, especially compared to the teeny flimsy little things on the Line 6 Echo Park that I was afraid I'd break off just while I ws trying it out.

This would be a near perfect digital delay pedal for the price if it had a less cumbersome tap tempo function. In a perfect world I'd put the tap feature from the Echo Park on the Digidelay and it would be a 10.

Try out one cool set up and play !
For me :
level - 3 oclock
repeats - 9 oclock
time - 2 oclock
mode - 9 cklock

in the loop of my Amp. NOT IN FRONT INPUT !!

I use US Strats, Teles and Paulas.
Marshall Plexi, Fender Pro Twin, Engl Screamer Amps.
I use the Digidelay only in the effect loop of the Screamer ( 9-oklock ) and only at live gigs... because it has a good sound with my live setup, it works since 4 years without any problem and its everywhere to get and "cheap" to replace when something will happen !! My Setting is shown above. And never use this delay in front of youre Amp the clean sound can work when you like to play with the setting of youre amp but overdrived its the noizyest **** **** I ever must listend at.
In the studio i use other Stuff ( Fulltone, TC Electronics, T Rex ).

4 years, 100 of gigs, works ! perfect.

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I play Blues, Jazz, Roots, Hippie, Hard, Grunge, Alternative, Metal.
And this works for that.
Somebody would steal it ? I buy it again.
I like the easy simple little box because is set it once up and never must care of anything depent on it.
Play, its all in youre Hands and mind, not in the effects you use.

Just read my first Digidelay review I did 3 years ago here on HC. I must say, after 4 years of continued use, the digidelay is still going strong and I still dig the tones it provides. It has become an indespensible part of my tone chain. These days, it's mostly set for a slight, modulated delay that fattens things up so well. I also use the tape and solo settings, but the mod delay is so lush and beautiful.....with two amps, kind of a poor mans ( very poor! ) TTE. Well, that may be quite a stretch, but I can get some heavenly tones running stereo with two amps. It sounds killer with overdrive and distortion, but I find myself playing much cleaner as the sweet, fat sound is so addicting. All in all, a great pedal and one of the great bargains for all the tone and features they packed in. I still don't use half of the features, but it's nice to know they are there if needed. Still keeping my original 9 rating on this bad boy.

It has lots of options, which is great, but it does make it more complicated. having said that, it shouldn't be beyond the intelligence of most musicians.
the basic models are easy to get a good sound out of, the multitap and reverse take a bit more time, and some may need to practice the tap tempo feature, although i was impressed with how easy it was.

All things considered, not too hard really.

Sound quality is good, no lack of tone. nice and crisp, but also warm on the tape mode and mod delay.
it does a great range of delay sounds, from slapback to ridiculously long.
the reverse is funky and weird, although i'm not sure how useful it will be for most.

one slight problem is that with my Telecaster, engaging the tap tempo feature brings a bit of a high pitched squealing sound, not loud but annoying... don't know if this is because of excess noise from the tele pickups, plus it's at the end of a fair length chain(??)

(incidentally, my setup is Tokai 335--> Rocktron wah--> Seymour Duncan pickup booster--> Belcat Chorus--> Danelectro Wasabi Tremolo--> BOss BF-2 flanger--> Digitech Delay.

i've only had it 2 weeks, but i'd say it seems very sturdy - would be surprised if it let me down. i'd take a chance without a backup.

don't know. you'd hope a big company like Digitech would be ok, but you never know....

i've been play 16 years.
i gig in a cover band, i use this for Dave Gilmour style atmospheric delay and some short stuff, even slapback sutff.
overall i think it's a good buy.
if you're looking at this it's probably for it's versatility and the different modes. in tha regard it's great.
sound quality is solid.

good alround pedal.

Muy usable, intuitivo y facil de sacar un sonido convincente, no hace falta leerse muy por encima el manual, s??lo para enterarse de las funciones que no son evidentes, como la activaci??n del emulador de recinto y la habilitaci??n del looper y del tap tempo.

Muy buen sonido sin colorear la se??al en exceso, no creo que lleve true bypass pero es limpito. Lo estoy usando en el loop de fx de un fender hot rod deluxe junto a un CF7 y un PS5 de boss y da un delay bastante neutro. El pedal da los registros que se esperan hasta los 4 segundos (creo) y viene dividido en tres secciones (hasta 250ms?) (hasta 2) y hasta 4. Estos delays digitales dan un sonido estandar que se puede equiparar f??cilmente a los boss m??s caros, pero a partir de aqu?? empiezan los extras. Lo m??s musical y utilizable del pedal es el emulador de echo tape, que es muy org??nico, si bien pierde cierto volumen con relaci??n al resto de setups y conviene ser generoso con el volumen de delay en este caso. Existen otras rarezas como el delay + chorus del selector 5 que une al sonido seco unas repeticiones moduladas que evitan en ciertos casos prescindir del chorus sin sustituirlo. El delay inverso del selector 6 esta bien pero no lo veo muy ??til. El looper con poco tiempo (creo que 8 segundos) se lo pod??an haber ahorrado y meterle otras prestaciones adicionales que har??an del pedal el m??s potente del mercado econ??mico (abstenerse de comparar con los TC), como un on off independiente para cuando se usa el tap tempo ya que hay pasajes de algunas ejecuciones que exigen el silencio de delay y luego no es posible memorizarlo. Ser??a tambien muy bien recibido un display digital para controlar los tiempos de delay, pero ya es pedirle mucho por ese precio.

Parece muy robusto.

No ha hecho falta, espero que nunca la haga, en cualquier caso si se rompe igual pruebo ya solo con un emulador de echo tape, que es realmente lo que mas me mola.

Es por supuesto una elecci??n muy interesante para gastarse poco, y en su nivel de precios es la elecci??n m??s potente comparable de igual a igual con el m??s caro boss dd6, (que no s?? que le ve la gente en gastarse el doble por lo mismo), se adapta bien a todos los estilos que requieren de delays.
Llevo tocando (??a ver cuantos eran?) 28 a??os y ya vengo un poco quemado de los rack de efectos as?? que despues de una peque??a crisis musical he vuelto a los origenes de los pedalitos (stomps) y amplis de valvulas, para sacrificarlo todo en favor del tono.
Si se perdiera o rompiese igual me tiraba a por un TC (algo carillo) o un danelectro dan echo (muy baratillo)que aunque es solo emulador de echo tape va m??s por mis preferencias actuales que pasan a rayar el integrismo vintage

Using a delay pedal in general can be a pain in ass if you're new to it, but I've found it has the relatively same learning curve as most Delay pedals do. Once you figure out exactly what you need to hear, it should become a cinch in no time as the captions are completely self-explanatory. "Repeat." "Time." There's no real mystery there, but it takes some time to feel the increase and decrease of each out.

The sampler itself is a good necessity, but it's going to take some getting used to an timing if the use of a sampler is new to you. The reverse function is.. well.. pretty worthless, but it's a good addition to have if you're like me and the last five minutes of jamming is pulling all the noise you can out of your guitar, like Sonic Youth.

And, like what's been said, the first time my battery blew out in a Digitech pedal, I thought my amp ate itself. Turns out this thing goes through batteries like Adema go through labels. Save yourself a lot of trouble and pain and buy an adapter, it even tells you what kind you need on the back of the device.

Sound quality is where this effect pedal excels. I've played a few other delay pedals, and outside of spending more than $120, this is hands-down the best sound you're going to get.

Everything about it is clean and shimmering; the tape delay sounds extremely glassy and smoothe, while you can even bring your pedal into complete psychadelic overdrive in Mod Delay and create a wall of pentatonic waves. There is really absolutely nothing the setting won't let you voice, if you take the time to get the feel.

One thing I've noticed about this pedal, and it's something David Gilmour used for Pink Floyd: Using a small bit of delay or reverb on a guitar played through a distorted or overdriven channel can really smoothe out the raw frequencies and provide a much more bright and smoothe notes on the high-end, or even beef up some low-end crunching.

The sampler is another selling aspect of the stompbox. First of all, when I bought this, I didn't want a sampler. I didn't want a sampler, because I didn't think I needed a sampler. After playing around with it, I not only realized how much of an asset it is for writing things like dual-guitar harmonies, or intricate dueling riffs, but it completely reshaped what kind of music I wanted to write, which now is Psychadelic metal. The only real complaint here, which should be standard, is that after overlapping four different layers, certain ones start to become muddy, but let's be real, it's a small problem, and there's no real way around it. There's definitely some worth, though. It makes you feel like you're Tripton and Downing, but you don't need someone else.

Battery life is absolutely artocious, like I mentioned before. It would barely survive an hour-long jam session, so using an adapter is key.

However, the only problem I have had with my pedal is a local band I lent it to somehow managed to lose the rubber piece that connects the pedal to the hardware. It's easily mended by anything. Paper, a pencil eraser, anything.

Other than that, this thing is built like a fortress. I have the feeling I could throw it out the window and I'd still have a pedal afterwards.

Never dealt with Customer support, mainly because I didn't need to.

I play a concoction of Pink Floyd, Atheist, Meshuggah, Neurosis, The Clash, Cave-In and Cynic, and I just call it Psychadelic Metal. This pedal is key, because if you're able to set the controls accurately, you can play with time and create layers to use as rhythmic subdivisions, or create extremely melodic and stellar walls of sound that feel all-encompassing. You can pretty much shift the mood of your music from extremely beautiful, calm, and placid, to something nightmarish just by changing your picking speed.

I've been playing guitar for about three and a half years now, and I run it using either an Ibanez GRG 170DX or an ESP Ltd. M-207 through a Peavey Transtube Bandit 112, with an Ibanez Weeping Demon Wah. It can handle a chain of effects extremely well, though, and if it were stolen, it'd be replaced immediately, I feel it's essential.

Another one of the small downsides is the reverse sampler. At times, it's cumbersome and annoying to operate and time. Though, it's a nice feature, it doesn't really make a difference stacked up against the rest of the features.

Essentially, this pedal is a must for an single-effect stompbox user. The customization is top-tier and well-worth the relatively decent pricing.

when you dont have any idea about a delay, you need maybe 2 houres to have youre good sound.
When you know about delays, 5 minutes.

Great, I have two of this !! The first is in tab mode, with a decent delay to give all of my sounds ( clean,chrunch,lead, whatever )
a littel extra dimension. I use it for nearly every song.
Its warm sounding, the repeats are soft and nice.
But attention !! you must use the mono input ( ther is a second input for left - right sounds, but for that you need two cabinets !! ).
Also, when you use the reverb or overdrive of youre amp, you MUST have it in the FX loop of the amp, becouse of overloaded noize !! The mono input has also a very great speaker simulation, that let any of my amps sounds a littel bit "bigger", when I turn the delay in.
I want for my effectboard a chorus, so I decide to buy a second digidelay and have it at mode 5, because this is a chorus + delay,
realy great for clean playing and also OK for Zakk Wylde Lead lines.
I have compare this against the Boss, Line 6 and Ibanez Stombboxes and
the sound was the first thing that let my buy it, the second reason was the price and the 3th the build quality...Its a buffered bypass and it makes no noize and dont influences the MAIN sound when its off.
I use them with a Visual one spot, no problems.
The other modes are ok but unuseless for me.

My Guitars; Fender pimpt US Strat, Gibson pimt Studio Paula.
Crafter Accustic.
My Amps; Marshall Jtm 60, London City Plexi,
Hughes & Kettner Trany at Home,
Engl screamer ( 4 chanels ) as my main amp.
2x12 or 4x12 cabs.
Standart effects ; Digidelay ( tab mode ),
Digidelay ( chorus Mode ),
Maxon TS9, Morley Tremonti Wah.
Korg Tuner.

Other "toying" effects; Mxr phase 90, Boss DS1, SD1, HM3, EHX big muff, small clone ( sick and deep chorus and no level dailing ). Fulltone 69 Fuzz, Deja Vibe. Reu??enzehn Black Face preamp, Nobels odr1....

The first one I have buy for about 4 years, giged it the whole time.
No problems.
The second one is 1 year old, also no problems.

I dont know.

I play since 16 years, now Im 30... Bluesy, jazzy and fusion stuff, but my main sound is "seattle" grunge orientated music ( Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Pumpkins etc. ). Im a semi pro and gig with my Band 2-6 gigs a month. The Digidelays are becoming a important, main part of my style and sound. If something happen with it, I would buy another one.
For me its perfect and I dont need anything else. Maybe if i had the money, I would check this Trex, Tc Electronics delays for about 400 euros...well.

There are a number of functions on this pedal, and despite what others might say ("its got knobs, you turn them around, duhh easy") it does take some getting used to get your head around the looping feature. Plus there are major volume differences between (say) the Tape emulation and the Mod delay settings, which can take you off guard if you want to switch settings on the fly.

NOTE: You MUST buy an AC Adapter to get the full potential out of this pedal. I took one of these home, after just minutes the delay sound just decayed off and then this nasty fizzing sound started building up... I heard a popping noise and the pedal no longer worked at all. I honestly thought I had been sold a dud pedal. But when the same problem happened to the replacement pedal I figured it must be a battery problem (we all know delay pedals eat batteries). Buying an AC adapter completely solved the problem, and the sound quality (bitrate?) seems better too. This thing sounds fantastic, especially the Tape emulation and Mod delay settings. The other guitarist in my band has a far more expensive Boss-DD and even he has remarked about the sounds this one pumps out. Digitech should really be proud of this puppy.

Infact, there is one distinct feature that this pedal completely trumps my bandmate's Boss delay pedal: trailing. After a delayed section of a song, I can step on this pedal and deactivate the delay. However, the current delay signal just smoothly fades off underneath as per your "Repeat" setting. So you can make the transition from all out shimmer to a gentle strum so beautifully. I'm not sure if the newer Boss DD pedals do that, but certainly the DD-3 doesn't.

There is one minor annoyance however - the Reverse setting. It's fantastic that they squeezed all of this into a single pedal, however the sound quality of the reversed 'sample' is fairly low-ish quality (kinda like comparing a 96k bitrate MP3 song to the real CD). Plus it does have some popping sounds when the reversed sample pings back... but this is probably the sound of the guitar picking being repeated, but it just seems so pronounced. Still, an excellent pedal.

As mentioned above. Reliability with a battery is zilch. It wouldn't last a rehearsal, let alone a gig. This thing sucks mA multiple times faster than a regular distortion pedal. Save yourself a headache and get an AC adapter (ask at your guitar shop, or find one at your local electronics shop). With an adapter, this thing has yet to let me down. I haven't blamed the pedal for anything!

I'm into the sprawling instrumental rock (ala Mogwai / Explosions in the Sky) stuff, and this pedal is an excellent alternative to Boss' range... excluding the DD-20 which is pretty much the ultimate! I love the features on this thing, like flicking the Repeats all the way up and while the delay repeats forever, being able to mess with the Time knob to get some bizzare electro-pitch shifted sounds. I don't use the Loop function and the Reverse setting is a nice touch though fairly average. The delays are what this thing is made for and it delivers on every level. Most people love the Tape emulation (which rolls off the high end with each decay, leaving a warm bassy tone looping off to nothingness) but the Mod and standard delays sound sweet too. Combined with my nice Fender amp reverb, you can do everything off Explosions in the Sky 'The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place' and then some!

4 knops ? how difficult can it go ??

I have it since 3 years in my chain and its still great.
I use only the tabe mod. Volumen at 12 oclock, repeats at 9, time at 14 ... so this is a setting that, I can use for nearly everything.
Mod 5 ads a chorus wich is a nice " toy " when I get tired or want play some extreme psychedelic stuff.
The other mods are not important for me. Becouse when I play life, I want just put in some extra dimension to my sound with only one step to switch it on and off.
I test it against the boss dd3 dd5, Ehx deluxe memory man, Ibaneze and Maxon AD 9 and this is the winner.
Maybe when I have the money I will checkout this TC Electronic vintage delay or T Rex Replica.
The digidelay works fine at life gigs and in the studio.
A delay is a great but sensetive effect, that you can not use everytime with youre Band ( mudd sound ).
But Its also a "open minder".
Try one out, for the money good pice of gear.

My Life set up ; Fender Strat, Gibson LP, ESP MII in the Digidelay,
Fulltone 69 Fuzz, Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde red and a Crybaby GCB 535 in a Mesa Lonestar 2x 12er. ( Korg DT 10 Tuner ).

Studio; + Line 6 pro pod, Tc Electronic g mayor. Engl souveraign 1x12.

First I think its going down fast but I have it 3 years with out any problem.

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I play since 20 years the last 10 as session, party cover and private teacher and earn a bit of money with that, as my main job.
The sound, technick and "musician soul" that makes you to a great player is only in your fingers mind and soul. A great guitar player
makes magic with shit gear...a bad player is also bad with professional gear. Dont forget this.
If you want a good sounding delay try this one.