Peavey Delta Stomp Digital Stereo Multi-Effects

What a sleeper and a pleasant surprise this pedal is!

What you have here is a fairly decent digital multi-effects unit with stereo outs at a killer price. Very easy to use once you get it set up properly..the manual is helpful but not really necessary.

(BTW, I G N O R E the manual's `suggested settings'..you'll be better off).

It is very easy to get a great sound out of it. You have volume, wah (with selectable frequencies) various delays and reverbs, tremolo, flanging,a wonderfully gloopy chorus and a leslie effect, which has a seperate footswitch to `ramp down' and change speeds on the fly..

The Delta stomp is extremely versatile because you can not only set output and input levels, but mix the dry/effect blend. You can control the wah, volume and probably the leslie speed through a seperate footpedal, though I haven't done so. Another cool feature is the ability to switch off the FX without switching off the preamp, which allows youto set volume accurately to avoid volume drop offs when the FX are on...very useful, and something others should copy.

I give it an eight because of the small knobs and the fact you can't save patches or layer effects.

That doesn't effect me much, since I basically bought it as a leslie simulater, which is does superbly well.

I use this mostly with a pair of vintage Marshalls and various guitars, including a Mark Lacey custom axe, a warmouth Strat and a couple of vintage Les Pauls. My pedal situation is still evolving, but I usually just use this and either a Fulltone Fatboost, a Double Drive, a Texas two-step or an old Yamaha compressor to boost leads.

I have also used it on keyboards, usually straight into the board.

If you set the output and input controls properly, noise is negliable.
There is a little bit of a `whooping' noise on the leslie setting, but I think that was intentional on Peavey's part for realism..if you've ever played through a real Leslie, you know what I mean.

The effects are good and very useful, for the most part. Unlike some people, I'm more of a `pick up and play' guy rather than a tweaker, and I like that there are really only three knobs...the mix knob to blend the effect into the straight signal and two others, that control thing like speed, intensity,sweep, depth, width, etc depending on which effect you use.

The various reverbs and delays are fairly spacious sounding and realistic without being `boingy'...I would probably just made one setting for each rather than 5 different ones, but the way Peavey set it up works well once you're familiar with the setup.

All of the modulation effects are really, really good. The tremolo doesn't have that real `swamp' sound you get from a Fender amp, but pretty close. The chorus and flange are just about as good as Fulltone's choral/flange, at a fraction of the price. You can cop Hendrix or SRV easily without a problem

The real champ is the leslie effect, which is killer...very realistic, and with the dedicated footswitch you can do the `ramp up, ramp down' thing in very realistic fashion. Very organic and musical sounding.

I never use ANYTHING without a backup...so I might just pick up another one of these if I happen to see one.

It's made of metal and appears very solid. I've used it on a number of gigs and studio sessions with no problem.

The small knobs and the inability to operate from batteries worries me, (you need a power supply) but so far so good...I'll give this an 8.

never dealt with Peavey.

I play various types of music, but a lot of my sound is oriented towards blues rock. I've been playing for almost thirty years and have used lots of different gear in that period of time, and the Deltastomp is a very underated sleeper, as I said at the top of this review.

I bought this mainly for the leslie effect, and it does that job very well and very realistically for both guitar and keyboards. The other effects are just an extra bonus! I give it a ten because it is superb sound for a reasonable price..what more could you ask for?

Easy to edit and get a decent sound out of it. Manual is fairly helpful;

The sound quality is good--not too noisy.

I bought this expressly for the Leslie/Rotary effect, and it is a bit too "vanilla" for such a dynamic effect. It doesn't sound bad, but it is just too mediocre. This is the best of the pedals that I eventually rejected for Leslie effects. The other effects were pretty good, but I didn't buy it to use them; I just wanted the Leslie swirl.

I have finally found the perfect Leslie effect in the Boss RT20 Rotary Ensemble (see my review of that effect).

Very durable and reliable--occasionally, I would have to power the unit down and re-boot it; it would start generating very plain or bad tones.

Peavey makes really good stuff, for the most part--I think they get a bad rap. They make some of the best amps for the money (especially their less-common tube amps).

Very easy to use, good manual. What more can I say? Great

My setup:
-Fender Mex strat/Les Paul Studio/ESP KH-2("personal" use)/Fender Clapton strat
-Delta stomp box
-Preamp rack with noise gate, EQs,and all the regular studio stuffs
-Fender Deluxe 85 Combo (solid)/Marshall JTM45 100w half stack

The best non distortion multi efect I have ever used, and I have used alot (LINE 6, Digitech, Behringer, etc) for studio use. I'm a studio recording artist for alot of big pop stars (I dont wanna be a name dropper).

Very clean sounding, no extra noise/hum. Alot of real(analog sounding) and useful effects. Keeps the same tonal color whether it's clean or distorted.

I never gig it, so I would never know. But I used it extensively on recordings. They were built like a tank

Never dealt with.

I play mostly pop, so it really fits well for clean sounding stuffs.
Anything I wish it had? Distortion.
If it was stolen I'll have to get another one fast.

Totally love this thing. The reverbs are great, the leslie sound is great, and good generic choruses and flanges. Also has a wah-wah you can use with a control volt pedal, and an auto -wah I really like. e use this recording on all kinds of stuff, like when a kick drun lost it's click, we used the wah setting tuned to the beater and mixed it back in. (I don't have any eq's). Threw out the manual day one. C'mon, who needs it??

We use the reverbs and delays on recording, and the modulation effects on live guitar. The delay + Reverb is pretty cool.

Very reliable, Gig with it all the time.

Support for a pedal?

Looking for another one, I built an effects switcher that switches in and out rack fx and stomp boxes, so am going to get another and leave them on diferent settings.

The easiest multi-effects unit there is- that's why I got it. I'd recommend it to any player who prefers the lay-out of stomp boxes to multi-effects units. Just play with the knobs until you get an effect the way you want it. I've tried other multi-effects units and found them to be a pain to edit and adjust. I can actually tweak this thing while playing. Be forwarned- It will only do one effect at a time (except for one delay/reverb combination), and it might not be the best for shows- You get one sound tweaked just right, switch to another effect and find you need to re-adjust everything.

I use a strat and a hollow body through an old Fender deluxe reverb. I have very particular tastes for distortion and have dedicated analog pedals for that. I don't often use other effects, but I do like to play around with them occasionally. That's where this pedal comes in. It's great for anyone who has no modulation or ambience pedals. It's very clean on all settings (hardly any noise at all). The sound quality of the effects ranges from good to great (nothing sucks- very rare for a cheap multi unit). Tremolo, flange and rotary speaker are as good as any I've tried. The rest are fine too, but some need a little more tweaking than others, like the reverb (digital sounding if you don't fine tune it), chorus (which can sound good, especially if you run it in stereo through two amps).

Very sturdy, as long as you don't step on the knobs themselves. Probably not the best gig pedal.

No idea.

I play a wide variety of archaic pop styles, and this one box definitely increases my array of colors/flavors. There are little touches that make this unit impressive- like the speed shift for the rotary, the delays allow you to switch off and still have echoes fading slowly over uneffected playing, the two bypass switches (line AND effect). I wish it took batteries (It needs a 16v wallwort) and I do find myself wishing I could layer delay onto the other effects, but for 10 pedals in one, this is a great deal.

Fine, OK. In, mix, out, effect choice, and two parameter knobs. I only use it for the Leslie sound which is very easy to modify. Foot
switch to speed up and slow down like a real Leslie! Wide range input and output levels.

For Hammond RT3 organ (bigger than a B3, bigger than a C3)
to get a Leslie sound which is quite good. I've had a real Leslie and this is great for the money. I'm only commenting on the Leslie sound as I think guitarists or organists will like it. With distotion it makes the coveted whooshy GRIND!

Seems fine. No problems in 2 years but knobs are not protected as in the peavey Dirty Dog pedal which is the same basic sloped box shape. In the dirty dog the knobs are recessed but not on the delta stomp.

We have a local place that does all things Peavey in a big way but I
haven't needed them for this.

If you want a good leslie sound you just might love it, I really think so.
It speeds up and slows down like the real thing. I was playing
guitar for a bass playing soul music fan and he imediately said it sounded like a Leslie.

The Delta Stomp has six knobs and two buttons (a bypass and a mysterious button that can either bypass the DSP or control rotary speaker speed). This would probably make it difficult to use on stage, as there is no midi interface. I would still do it, though, if I were only going to use one or two of the effects during a show. It is easy to get good sounds out of it, however.

I usually use the Delta Stomp with my Juno 106 Synthesizer, but I've also played my Yamaha acoustic guitar through it miked (sounded great!), as well as a Gibson SG and an Epiphone Sheraton through a Fender Princeton amp. All the combinations I've tried so far have sounded good. It's quiet as stomp boxes go, no complaints there. All of the 16 effects are solid, if not amazing, with the exception of the wah-wah preset which doesn't work on my unit. The chorus could be better, but I'm very picky in that area and most people would probably find it usable. There are several nice reverbs and delays which don't sound overly digital, and the reverb+delay patch is pretty cool. Auto-wah is nice as well. Be forewarned that there are no distortions, but this is actually a plus as I'll get to later...
Oh, yeah, did I mention this thing is stereo?

It's a big, red metal box that's built like a tank. As I mentioned before the wah-wah patch on mine doesn't work but seeing as this feature isn't even documented in the manual I'm skeptical that it ever did work; nothing has broken since I've had the pedal and I'm pretty confident that nothing will.

Never had to deal with Peavey; from the looks of it I probably never will.

This box does something pretty rare in that all the effects are usable. Also, Peavey didn't try to add a bunch of half-assed digital distortions or anything, which I appreciate; I'd rather get a dedicated Pedal for that. I play a lot of clean guitar and keyboards and the Delta Stomp deals with this setup almost perfectly, in stereo to boot. Solid but generic is how I would describe the sounds. At the price I paid (90 bucks) I'm very happy with it.