Providence Delay 80's vs Modded DD2 vs Others

Gassage

Bumping this to fish for TES compliments from @ThorpyFX as he's spent a week in a barely legal relationship with my TES....

ThorpyFX

Gassage said:

Bumping this to fish for TES compliments from @ThorpyFX as he's spent a week in a barely legal relationship with my TES....

Let's get the elephant in the room dealt with first, the TES is an obscenely expensive pedal. But...... it sounds very very nice. There are a few things that it does very well.

1) it's buffer is great,
2) it's noise free, no clock noise and no bullshit
3) the repeats are very very sweet sounding
4) the repeats get out of the way of your main note and as such the delay is very easy to play
5) the delay is nicely bright and present
6) plays incredible with dirt.

anyway, I compared it to my moog and I have to say for a core delay sound I prefer the TES, that being said the moog has more bells and whistles including a tap tempo option. So all in all it matters not as I have the moog and that's that. 

mgaw

i wonder this...if it is the delay pedal to end the "search" for good, it probably represents good value for money considering how many pedals delay hounds must go through looking for the one

Gassage

mgaw said:

i wonder this...if it is the delay pedal to end the "search" for good, it probably represents good value for money considering how many pedals delay hounds must go through looking for the one

All I'll say is my 2290 was low rent without the TES around.

ruoma

ThorpyFX said:

Gassage said:

Bumping this to fish for TES compliments from @ThorpyFX as he's spent a week in a barely legal relationship with my TES....

Let's get the elephant in the room dealt with first, the TES is an obscenely expensive pedal. But...... it sounds very very nice. There are a few things that it does very well.

1) it's buffer is great,
2) it's noise free, no clock noise and no bullshit
3) the repeats are very very sweet sounding
4) the repeats get out of the way of your main note and as such the delay is very easy to play
5) the delay is nicely bright and present
6) plays incredible with dirt.

anyway, I compared it to my moog and I have to say for a core delay sound I prefer the TES, that being said the moog has more bells and whistles including a tap tempo option. So all in all it matters not as I have the moog and that's that. 

Thorpy, are you talking about the mf104m super delay? Does yours hiss a lot? Mine does, it's almost annoying. The moog dealer here checked it out but said they fixed it. Still the same hiss...

mburekenge

Gassage said:

1. TES are 1000 not 1800 2. They are incredible and very very good 3. Are there things as good? Well a 2290 is better for digital, and the flightime is close to the tes for sure. 4. Re the dd2 myth...the only thing he uses is the dd2 long chip, which is also found in many high end rack units. Inside, there's 2 PC buffers, parallel mixing and much tweaking and magic. A good analogy is saying I would never buy the R8 turbo as the turbo chargers are the same as on a TT (which they are). 5. I'd have another, for sure.

Gibson are turbocharging their reissues now? 

And people say there's not enough innovation.

ThorpyFX

ruoma said:

ThorpyFX said:

Gassage said:

Bumping this to fish for TES compliments from @ThorpyFX as he's spent a week in a barely legal relationship with my TES....

Let's get the elephant in the room dealt with first, the TES is an obscenely expensive pedal. But...... it sounds very very nice. There are a few things that it does very well.

1) it's buffer is great,
2) it's noise free, no clock noise and no bullshit
3) the repeats are very very sweet sounding
4) the repeats get out of the way of your main note and as such the delay is very easy to play
5) the delay is nicely bright and present
6) plays incredible with dirt.

anyway, I compared it to my moog and I have to say for a core delay sound I prefer the TES, that being said the moog has more bells and whistles including a tap tempo option. So all in all it matters not as I have the moog and that's that. 

Thorpy, are you talking about the mf104m super delay? Does yours hiss a lot? Mine does, it's almost annoying. The moog dealer here checked it out but said they fixed it. Still the same hiss...

Yeah same delay as you, Nope mines dead silent 

Wazmeister

ruoma said:

ThorpyFX said:

Gassage said:

Bumping this to fish for TES compliments from @ThorpyFX as he's spent a week in a barely legal relationship with my TES....

Let's get the elephant in the room dealt with first, the TES is an obscenely expensive pedal. But...... it sounds very very nice. There are a few things that it does very well.

1) it's buffer is great,
2) it's noise free, no clock noise and no bullshit
3) the repeats are very very sweet sounding
4) the repeats get out of the way of your main note and as such the delay is very easy to play
5) the delay is nicely bright and present
6) plays incredible with dirt.

anyway, I compared it to my moog and I have to say for a core delay sound I prefer the TES, that being said the moog has more bells and whistles including a tap tempo option. So all in all it matters not as I have the moog and that's that. 

Thorpy, are you talking about the mf104m super delay? Does yours hiss a lot? Mine does, it's almost annoying. The moog dealer here checked it out but said they fixed it. Still the same hiss...

The SD are sometimes known to be slightly noisier than the 'standard' 104m... Ive owned both (and Thorpy's is my old one), but the noise is often rig dependant. Mine was dead quiet.

ruoma

Wazmeister said: 

The SD are sometimes known to be slightly noisier than the 'standard' 104m... Ive owned both (and Thorpy's is my old one), but the noise is often rig dependant. Mine was dead quiet.

Well I'm playing it through my J20 and it hisses quite badly. Have gotten the logic board replaced and still the same thing. Doesn't hiss as bad when I use it as an insert in my audio interface with my daw