The Boss DD500 appreciation thread

BluesyDave · March 2016

Threads like this really don't help my gas. Whilst I love the Obscura pedal it would be great to have a few pre-set delays like slap back, ambient, ducking etc.......What to do???

randomhandclaps · March 2016

BluesyDave said:

Threads like this really don't help my gas. Whilst I love the Obscura pedal it would be great to have a few pre-set delays like slap back, ambient, ducking etc.......What to do???

Whilst you make a good point, you have to admit that a thread that encourages you to buy a really great musician's tool is far better then the next 20 you'll see that'll be someone creaming their pants over some obscure pedal that they read about on TGP and assume no-one here has ever heard of, telling you it's the elixir of tone and then flogging theirs the next month moaning about sucky tone.

BluesyDave · March 2016

randomhandclaps said:

BluesyDave said:

Threads like this really don't help my gas. Whilst I love the Obscura pedal it would be great to have a few pre-set delays like slap back, ambient, ducking etc.......What to do???

Whilst you make a good point, you have to admit that a thread that encourages you to buy a really great musician's tool is far better then the next 20 you'll see that'll be someone creaming their pants over some obscure pedal that they read about on TGP and assume no-one here has ever heard of, telling you it's the elixir of tone and then flogging theirs the next month moaning about sucky tone.

...lol, True. Doesn't help my bank balance tho'.

Deijavoo · March 2016

Drew_fx said:

Let's give it up for the best delay pedal in the world guise!

You called?

Heartfeltdawn · March 2016

^^

Not even top 5.

Deijavoo · March 2016

CUZ ALL THE TOAN SUCKZ.

Deijavoo · March 2016

Heartfeltdawn said:

^^
Not even top 5.

Actually, it's a good point. What 5 are "better"?

Heartfeltdawn · March 2016

Pedals I'd have ahead of the Timeline:

EHX DMM and SMMH - the first is in a position all its own, the second offers so much experimental stuff in a small package.

Pearl AD08 - best of the old Japanese analog delays. Very simple but sounds lovely and the four I've had were not noisy like a DM2. I like the feedback, it doesn't shriek. Really good for drones.

Boss DD7 - for me, I prefer it to the Timeline and it offers so much for the money (the routing options are excellent)

Flight Time - headroom and width of sound. Not as many options as the Timeline but I prefer it.

Timefactor - experimental stuff especially on this one gives it the edge for my uses.

Ibanez DE-7 - one of the best low priced delays ever and the oscillation is excellent.

The Timeline is not a bad pedal but I think there is a certain 'Strymon sound' that you either love or don't. I've had two and just didn't feel the love.

Deijavoo · March 2016

Personally I'd be happy with the TL, DD500 or Flight Time. It just so happened I ended up here. However for flexibility, quality of sound and options/ease of use"on the fly" (I fucking hate that term) the TL cannot be beaten.

Obviously all in my personal opinion yadda yadda yadda...

Drew_TNBD · March 2016

BluesyDave said:

Threads like this really don't help my gas. Whilst I love the Obscura pedal it would be great to have a few pre-set delays like slap back, ambient, ducking etc.......What to do???

Well I've had a lot of delay pedals. I kept coming back to two Boss DD7's, because I like running two delays at once - a reversed delay, and a standard digital delay - and it worked great, but.... no presets.

The DD500 gives me everything I had before and more, and sounds great doing it.

BluesyDave · March 2016

Drew_fx said:

BluesyDave said:

Threads like this really don't help my gas. Whilst I love the Obscura pedal it would be great to have a few pre-set delays like slap back, ambient, ducking etc.......What to do???

Well I've had a lot of delay pedals. I kept coming back to two Boss DD7's, because I like running two delays at once - a reversed delay, and a standard digital delay - and it worked great, but.... no presets.

The DD500 gives me everything I had before and more, and sounds great doing it.

I see from your board Drew that you're still using a Boss reverb as well as the DD500. Do you stack em or run them on their own?

Drew_TNBD · March 2016

BluesyDave said:

Drew_fx said:

BluesyDave said:

Threads like this really don't help my gas. Whilst I love the Obscura pedal it would be great to have a few pre-set delays like slap back, ambient, ducking etc.......What to do???

Well I've had a lot of delay pedals. I kept coming back to two Boss DD7's, because I like running two delays at once - a reversed delay, and a standard digital delay - and it worked great, but.... no presets.

The DD500 gives me everything I had before and more, and sounds great doing it.

I see from your board Drew that you're still using a Boss reverb as well as the DD500. Do you stack em or run them on their own?

Yep! I stack them!

Heartfeltdawn · March 2016

Drew_fx said:
Well I've had a lot of delay pedals. I kept coming back to two Boss DD7's, because I like running two delays at once - a reversed delay, and a standard digital delay - and it worked great, but.... no presets.

The DD500 gives me everything I had before and more, and sounds great doing it.

Is it possible to run a reverse delay into a delay that is set for different ms times for left and right?

Drew_TNBD · March 2016

Heartfeltdawn said:

Drew_fx said:
Well I've had a lot of delay pedals. I kept coming back to two Boss DD7's, because I like running two delays at once - a reversed delay, and a standard digital delay - and it worked great, but.... no presets.

The DD500 gives me everything I had before and more, and sounds great doing it.

Is it possible to run a reverse delay into a delay that is set for different ms times for left and right?

I think in A+B mode the delays run parallel rather than series so you can't run one INTO the other, but you can specify different ms times for each of them.

If you run two dual delays at the same time, you could have four different time values all at once.

I actually mostly run the thing in normal mode, which is two patches in one bank, but it's fun to do the other stuff too.

Heartfeltdawn · March 2016

Ah, I see. It sounds like there are a ton of routing options, something I really liked about the DD-7. It sounds like a really good pedal.

RMJ · March 2016

Given mine a quick play and I'm very impressed. Lots of sounds to explore!

Fretwired · March 2016

Drew_fx said:

Let's give it up for the best delay pedal in the world guise!

First dibs when you come to sell it .. ;-)

Teetonetal · March 2016

I think the dd500 is great. Took me a while to get into it but now it's my favorite delay pedal. Very versatile and sounds great.

Fretwired · March 2016

I hate you bastards .. having seen some videos I think I want one ... oh well it's only money.

Drew_TNBD · March 2016

Fretwired said:

I hate you bastards .. having seen some videos I think I want one ... oh well it's only money.

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