I love my Boss space echo - it's taken me a couple of years to really bond with it but it's now permanently on the board (in fact I bought a Metro 24 specifically to fit it on), everything else is dialled in nicely with it, I love the sounds and find it super easy to dial in.
It does have one or two quirks which mildly bug me occasionally - I'd rather have the choice bypassing the COSM preamp and input gain for instance, but at the same time I can dial in the amp etc to adjust for that, and the slightly raised noise floor is inaudible unless I'm playing at home, right next to the amp and actively listening for it between notes.
I have looked at other tape delay pedals, including the posh ones, and realised that basically what I'd most like is an RE20 with a couple of minor updates, for instance:
Choice of bypassing the preamp
Control over modulation/tape 'age' etc - would be brilliant to have USB editing of the tape, heads and preamp modelling.
I'd very tempted by the DD-500 if the tape model algorithm was a straight update of the RE20. Anyone tried both?
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Its is a really deep pedal, if you spend time with the manual really exploring it there’s a lot of sounds in there. If tape sounds are your thing. The extra Easter eggs like the looper, reverb and boost etc. It’s my first real boutique pedal so some of this maybe the afterglow, watch some demos, it’s as simple or as complex as you want it to be. Favourite switch is a must IMO.
The rv-500 has an RE-201 emulation in it. Might be worth investigating?
I'm guessing, as UnclePsychosis said, the RV-500 would be the best bet.
As yet I can't get the dd500 to sound much like the re-20. The dd500 does have a re-201 setting but without the clanky reverb and pre-amp (which are vital to the space echo vibe IMO) it really is a just a facsimile of what the re-20 can do.
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