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I think it's easy to buy into the nostalgia/hype/vibe for certain pedals, but really it's just a delay, it's not gonna make me play any better.
Flight time was a great example of that, by itself I thought it was wonderful, in the band, I felt I was constantly having a battle to get it right at soundcheck. vs the dd500 being more or less plug an play.
Congrats on the pedal and a little story...
Years ago my i knew someone who played guitar and not being able to afford a delay, rigged up an Akai reel to reel. He then saved up and bought a DM2, which was an improvement. Then then got one of the first DD2's, which was also an improvement. I even agreed at the time.
Tastes and sounds change. The comment about sitting in the mix is spot on. If a 1300 delay makes one play guitar more than play with knobs (sic) then go for it.
Yes, very much - and more importantly, completely different signal routing.
On the DD-2 and DD-3, the *only* part that's digital is the actual delay line itself - all the rest, including even the feedback loop, is analogue. That's why it's possible for Cornish to use one as the basis for a tape-echo simulator by adding filtering in the feedback loop as well as modulating the delay time - which also changes smoothly on the 2 and 3, but goes in little steps on the 7.
On the DD-5 and later the entire wet side of the delay is in the digital domain including the feedback loop - although as far as I know in all of them the dry mix is still analogue.
The DD-2/3 is also 12-bit processing (even on the new-chip ones as far as I know), whereas the later ones are 16.
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