TC Electronic Nova Repeater

The whole point of the Nova Repeater was to offer a simplified version of the Nova Delay. And in that respect, TC did a great job. This is a straight foward pedal and I never evern opened the manual for it. There is no screen and every button does one specific thing, very simply.

I'm running an American Deluxe strat-> EB VP Jr.-> G2D Custom-> Modded BD-2 -> Paul C. Timmy -> Nova Repeater -> Verbzilla -> Vox AC-15cc. There is zero noise, and the buffer is decent in it. There is a slight coloration of tone when this pedal is in the chain, but it's not bad at all. This is definitely a studio quality sounding delay pedal. I'm sure at some point you have heard the Nova Delay, or the TC2290. This pedal was based off of those famed boxes, and they hit the nail on the head.

I've only had it for about 2 weeks (since it is a brand new pedal lol)but, it is pretty heavy and feels very sturdy. If I had to describe it in one word it would be, solid. The blend of metal and plastic seems to be spot on. I don't have backups for any pedal lol. I'm not rich nor do I get paid to gig.

Never had to deal with them.

I play a blend of worship, U2-ish, and blues. Don't really use delay for the blues much, but for worship and the famed Edge, echo is a must. Even though this pedal was designed to be a simplified Nova, it brings it's own unique features to the table. My favorite part is the tone knob. Something I felt the Nova Delay lacked was, the ability to get super warm/muddy delay repeats. With the Tone knob on the Repeater, I can get this. I gave up my beloved Boss DD5 for this pedal and have not looked back. The ONLY gripe I would have is the lack of presets. I understand TC's approach of why it wasn't included (to keep it simple) but I want to complain about it anyways. All in all though, it's an awesome pedal and for $170 new?? You can't go wrong at all.

Very easy to use. There's no preset memory and no menus so it's relatively simple pedal considering the amount of options available.

A 12v, 300ma wall wart power supply is included although you can use a 9v power supply as well. The headroom will be decreased using 9v but you'll have to decide whether this bothers you or not. I added a power strip to my board and use the included power supply.

Delay ON/OFF footswitch and TAP TEMPO footswitch

2 mono ins, 'HI' is line level 'LO' is instrument level (I believe inly 1 input is active at a time) and stereo outs.

The knobs are: DELAY sets the delay time, FEEDBACK sets the amount of repeats, TONE rolls high end off the repeats, MODULATION increases chorus as you turn clockwise and vibrato counterclockwise with the center detent position being no modulation, FX LEVEL sets the volume of the delayed signal only.

The buttons are: SPILLOVER allows the effect to fade naturally after you switch the pedal off, KILL DRY mutes your direct signal and only outputs the effected signal (for use in an effects loop for example), RANGE switches between short, medium and long delay times, TYPE toggles through 6 delay types (studio (digital), analog, tape, dynamic, reverse and ping pong) and DIVISION which selects either quarter notes, dotted eighth notes, eighth note triplets or multitap delays quarter+eighth dotted, quarter+eighth triplet or quarter+eighth.

With a dedicated knob or button for each function dialing in a sound is very intuitive and simple.

The manual is detailed enough to be useful but simple enough to be...uh...useful.

I'm using a Suhr Classic, Barden pickups through a Bassman Reissue. My pedal board is pretty simple, comp>OD>dist>delay>reverb>amp.

The Repeater is at heart a TC digital delay and hence, has that 'TC sound'. Fans call it pristine, haters call it sterile but make no mistake, this is a TC pedal through and through. The ADA converters are above average for a unit in this price range. The TONE control and MODULATION really make this pedal hard to beat at this price IMO. The lo pass filter sounds good and really helps warm up the overall sound. From clean digital repeats or darker analog echoes, tone control is must for any digital delay IMO. The modulation gives you a really nice dimension and sounds quite lush given the fact that the knob just controls the amount of modulation, not the rate or depth. The slapback is no tape echo but perfectly usable if you keep the repeats fairly low. The analog setting with the tone knob at 12 oclock is my favorite. I imagine the various delay types (studio, analog, tape) are really just filters with different cutoff frequencies. The dynamic delay is not really my thing but I may find it useful at some point. Reverse delay can be fun at times but again, not really my thing. Forgetting about specific sounds for a moment and focusing on the overall sound quality of the pedal, I believe this pedal puts out a far more high quality sound than a Boss DD-7 for example, which TC must have been aiming for with the Repeater. Unless you have to have an analog delay, which I can respect, I haven't heard a digital delay with bone tone and modulation that sounds nearly as good. Incidentally, I could hear a little hiss coming from the Repeater when I really pumped up the gain before the pedal - clean boost plus overdrive at max volume (to see what would happen, not a nice tone by the way) but with the proper gain structure this pedal is pretty quiet. I found that my overall sound, which tends to be pretty pure, wasn't killed by the Repeater. I use a bypass looper for my delay and reverb pedals but even with it on my tone was still pretty round and full. I rate this an 8 because there are more pricey boxes out there that really sound ridiculously great. The repeater sounds really good. Under $200 it gets a 9.5.

Not sure yet. Hopefully yes. TC is obviously a well established company and their customer service has a good reputation. Sometimes they release products, like most companies, before they're truly ready to go. This is a really new pedal so maybe there are some problems yet to be discovered, only time will tell. So far, after an evening of being plugged in all is well. Overall construction seems solid but the power supply seems flimsy. I may look on eBay for a backup, power supply that is.

Never had to deal with them, all my TC stuff has always worked very well but I hear they are nice and deal with most concerns very professionally.

The repeater is a solid delay pedal with lots of versatility built in. I use it as a chorus pedal as well as a delay. It's professional grade sound quality, tap tempo switch, tone, modulation, easy to use and under $200. One negative is the red lights are obnoxiously bright and make the pedal a little hard to edit by sight. My guess is your fingers get to know the landscape and you do most editing by feel anyway. As a working player this delay was the perfect bang for the buck. I would probably buy a different delay if money were no object but...the Repeater is a winner.
Been playing 25 years. I play literally every style of music for a living but my personal sound is blues, jazz, rock, soul, funk - Scofield, Stevie Wonder, Coltrane, Zeppelin, Bob Marley...by the way Dereck Trucks is really incredible. I can't believe he flew under my radar until recently. I heard of him but never really dug into his stuff. I'd pay to see him in concert.

fairly straight forward layout. knob for delay speed, feedback, tone, modulation (vibrato or chorus) and FX level. buttons for spillover (delays continue after effect is disengaged), kill dry (removes dry signal so only delays are heard, mainly for parallel FX loops), range (changes the range of delay time that is controlled by the delay knob), type (analog, tape, digital, etc) and division (the rhythm of the delay in relation to the tempo tapped into the pedal, quarter notes, eighth, etc). has stereo outs and a instrument input and line level input for FX loops. has a tap tempo and audio tapping which allows you to hold the tap button down and tap the tempo on you guitar. very nice. i prefer this method to my foot. just hold and strum to the beat of the song. no patches to edit, what you see is what you get. i haven't used the manual yet. no need at this point, easy enough to use. also it comes with a power supply but any old boss style adapter will work. i have the godlyke powerall that powers my whole board.

using a PRS singlecut, AM tele, AM strat and custom warmoth guitars into EB volume -keeley comp -fulltone fulldrive -fulltone OCD -redwitch fuzzgod -line6 mm4 into a bogner alchemist head and 2x12 cab with the nova repeater in the FX loop. sometimes same chain straight into a Fender blues jr or VHT pitbull 45 2x10. the pedal sounds and functions superbly. does basically everything i want. i have a line 6 dl4 and in some ways this is a down grade when it comes to features. i liked being able to save 3 different delays on the dl4. i got this because the dl4 didn't seem to play nice in my new bogners PARALLEL FX loop and had a slight volume drop when engaged. i hate parallel fx loops but that is another discussion. the "kill dry" button removes the dry signal and allows the NR to funtion perfectly with the bogner. most delay pedals do not play nice in a parallel fx loop. they either need to be fully analog or a digital pedal with a "kill dry". i know the vox time machine has a wet out that you can use if you put a blank 1/4in cable in the dry out and the carl martin echotone you can pull the cable out half way to get a "wet only" signal. if that pedal had a division switch, it would be the best delay pedal on the market bar none except the diamond memory lane 2. sounds absolutely amazing. both are super expensive though. my only real gripe with this pedal is the lack of character and difference in sound on the analog and tape delay settings. you can use the tone knob to darken the sound a bit but to my ears, the two settings sound to similar to each other and could use a little more "analog" charater to them. also, it will not ocilate itself when the feedback is cranked like a real analog delay. not a huge deal to me but would like that feature as well. can get some great U2 and pink floyd esque sounds with the rhythmic delay settings, the tone rolled back and a little bit of either chorus or vibe to simulate the flutter of a tape delay. think run like hell... for the price and features it has, its a great deal.

brand new so hard to say. it seems well built, sturdy and a nice beefy weight to it. the knobs are the only thing that might worry me. i am pretty careful with my gear and the pedals are all mounted on a very well built NYC pedalboard so i am not to worried. with the way i have seen some people treat their gear, i could see someone stomping, dropping or kicking a knob off or cracking one since they are plastic. keep in mind its a thick solid plastic not a flimsy bendable kind. not really to worried.

i have a tc electronic powercore firewire for my studio. when i first got it around 2004 or 2005, i had all sorts of issues getting it to work. turned out the chipset on my firewire card on my computer was unfriendly. two cards later, i was told to go for a card with a texas instruments chip set. they should have had that on a big banner on their website at the time. they have since expanded the compatability and i don't believe its a serious issue anymore. i finally found one and it has been smooth sailing ever since. they were relatively helpful but it seemed to to take about a day for them to respond to each email i sent. all in all, there support was not too bad. also, i am in the US and i believe they are in europe somewhere (germany?) so that could explain some of the delay in the response time.

i play mostly rock, blues, and some heavier stuff. nothing too brutal. floyd, zep, tool, pearl jam, SRV, muse, kings of leon, incubus, etc. i have been playing for 16 years and fairly professionally for 11 years or so of that time. i am a full time guitar teacher with about 60 students and run a recording studio of my own. i graduated from the conservatory of recording arts and sciences and have been doing professional recordings ever since. i mentioned most of my guitar gear above but also have about $40K in recording equipement as well. i am not trying to sound full of myself but trying to show i am not a hack. i humbley think that i have enough expirience to know a good sound and product when i USE one. especially for the price and features, i would strongly suggest this one. are there better sounding ones... yes. are there some with more features... yes. are there cheaper, better built ones with as good of sounds and features... doubtful. might be the best bang for the buck in the delay market.

for me it is very easy to use...

the tap and select buttens are very smoothe when you step on them. it's very nice to use that smoothe tap tempo button.

I don't wanna gget into all the details - there are nice tutorial videos out on youtube.

I really dig this pedal.
it's a nice sounding delay with useful fatures!
the tone knob and the modulation knob(gives you either vibration or chorus) are totally cool...
I'm not that much into the different delay types you can choose between - the digital and analog modes ar nice.. the reverse is interesting and the dynamic is useless!! if you have some reverb on it too, the dynamic delays are gone! but I did not buy it because of the dynamic feature, so what the f***.
the sound of the delays are very nice and clean... I actually sold my Carl Martin echotone so I could get this beauty... It's way better than the echotone which is double the price of this baby.. nice!
one thing that irritates me is the fact that the flashing light that shows the tapped tempo does not always flash in time with the delays.

It's is a great delay pedal for the price indeed! the best out there at the price!!!! go for it!

don't know about it.. seems fine

don't know - but the tutorials that tc electronic made are nice

there is not much to say... this pedal rocks! and you can afford it!

I play post-rock/shoegaze/ambient/noise and it's nice for that kind of music... I play melodic and it fits..

The pedal is a beauty! very beautyfull! I'm in love with it!
the delays sound nice - not incredible - but nice, and thats good enough for me...especially when it's cheap as hell!