[Glice]

Originally Posted by fluxequalsrad

I use a Boss DD-6 Digital Delay, its feature that doesn't get old (beside messing around with huge long delay) is the 'hold function' which allows you to loops like 5 seconds of jammin' over and over... My next delay pedal will be able to loop much longer due the function's usefullness in improving your improvisation etc. (I.e. Jamming blues for hours, jamming over 'hits of sunshine' riff for years, makin' up your own stuff)

Glice's answer a) Being a miserable fucker, I no longer approve of delay. I had one for a bit. Everyone has one it seems. It makes terrible players sound space-y and a bit post-rock. It makes good players sound space-y and a bit post-rock. As ever, it's down to the user, but I'm sick to tits of hearing people improvise with fucking loopstations and/ or delay pedals.

To qualify that a bit - improvisation is often at its most interesting when there's an element of danger, of the possibility of collapse. Most of the best players, for me, actively seek that moment of collapsing to find new ways out of it. The danger, in improv, is mostly replaced by space-y echo if you're using delay. Every improviser has crutches, or little motifs they can return to, of course, but for me delay pedals just make the player's fear of sounding 'shit' more obvious.

Not directed at anyone here necessarily, but I'm personally very, very tired of hearing delay pedals.

Glice's answer b) AHHHHH! GEEK THREAD!!!

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

That's why I don't use my delay in typical ways anymore. I used to be guilty of making everything sound echoey and ambient, but I'm over that. I use it mainly for looping- I'll loop a really screwed up sounding 7th and let it ring out and then turn it on and play it once overtop of my riffing then shunt it off and turn it back on when I get to where I want to hear it again.

The other thing I'll use it for besides looping/sampling is for the reverse delay. I turn it really short because it gets to sound interesting and unique when you have this fwafwafwafwa sucking sound going and if you let a chord ring out these interesting harmonics will start to form and percolate and shit.

[king_buzzo]

Originally Posted by CHOUT

where the fuck have you been?

haha around man, around. I'm bored of this board. And the other ones as well.

[CHOUT]

there's a song on our new album (also gonna be on our 7") that uses the Multi Tap function in stereo very prominently on a few parts before i sold the smmh. it was cool...i'll probably buy one again once i find the ultimate compact analog delay.

[CHOUT]

Originally Posted by king_buzzo

haha around man, around. I'm bored of this board. And the other ones as well.

careful for the hairy palmz, bro.

[king_buzzo]

eh. whats a hairy palm?

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

What you get after you whack off too much.

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

Originally Posted by CHOUT

there's a song on our new album (also gonna be on our 7") that uses the Multi Tap function in stereo very prominently on a few parts before i sold the smmh. it was cool...i'll probably buy one again once i find the ultimate compact analog delay.

you thinking about the Malekko?

[Everyneurotic]

i use it as a noise device, like most of my pedals.

[CHOUT]

Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead

you thinking about the Malekko?

I may pick up an Ekko 300 Dark...I realize if i need long delay, i got the dd20...i barely ever use long delay.