Picking one up today. Looks totally sick. Can't wait... in addition to actually being an analog delay, it will do the one thing my Memory Man with Hazarai does not... allow me to specify a subdivide (e.g. 1/8th triplet) then tap quarters and get the 8th note triplet... which every fan of the Edge knows is the golden ratio for guitar delay...
Here are some atmospherics comparing this one, the Memory Man, and the Line6 everything pedal...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZIsXLD4E2E&feature=related
Nice. I don't think you can go wrong with anything from the EH Memory line, never hear complaints, only praise.
Oh my oh my. At the jam tonight I almost died using this thing. It does a shitload more than I even realized. It's got a freaking GAIN control. So no more "I turned on the delay and my signal dropped"... at the higher ends, it pused my sovtek clean channel way into crunch. Very handy. The tap divide function was slick, and with the tap tempo, invaluable. Unbelievable that you can get 750 ms of analog delay with a tap tempo for $179. I was floored. But wait... there's more. It slices. It dices. It has a freaking expression control input, and you can choose from 4 different parameters you can control with the expression pedal... including, of course, feedback... which means you can friggin send the pedal into mad self-oscillation on command any time you want, just for the hell of it, and then not have to grab the knob to back it off. Slick. And... an fx loop? That's right, an fx loop JUST FOR THE DELAYS. Oh, hey, I want to send the delayed signal through my bitcrusher, then into a harmonizer. No problem! Or throw an EQ pedal into the delay chain. And for the modulation of the delays, you've got variable triangle or square wave chorus... or you can turn it off... I think this thing is even more fun than the Hazarai beast... no looper, but it does way more shit... awesome.
It's got a loop? I only know of one other delay that has that and it's a lot more expensive. Loops on a delay are awesome! The possibilities on it are endless. I may have to snag one of these myself.
Oh yes it does... there's some pretty cool vids on youtube of people doing stuff like running the loop through a pitch shifter...
two other features I missed (read the manual last night and found these out)... you can change the frequency of the low pass filter by holding down the exp pedal knob, then moving the rate knob. And... there's an "easter egg"--hold down the subdivide button for two seconds and the delays start rotating through the subdivisions... at a rate that you can control with the rate knob... this is truly bizarre.
Gotta love EH. They make truly interesting fx and somehow make them still be usable.
And also, learned that by tapping tempo, you can get 1.5 seconds of delay... and it's really grungy at that resolution. Gonna try to throw up some clips today.
the easter egg mode is actually in this video starting at around 48 seconds... somehow I missed it yesterday...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZIsXLD4E2E
Damn you Charger!! You gave me G.A.S.!!! LOL!! Easter Egg mode rocks. The only delay I've heard is cool is the up octave reverse delay on the Empress Superdelay. It costs a shit-ton more. This is easily as cool!!!
Well, don't delay then - go get one! ;)
Our shop just got authorized as an EHX dealer. We're getting one in on the first order. I tell you once, I'll tell you again: employee discount = crack!!
I take it they frown on you buying multiple items and reselling them to friends, eh? ;)
That's pretty cool.
I got a deluxe memory man awhile back. I just love it to death. So useful.