I've been chasing a certain delay sound since a long time. Was when we recorded our first demo in 1989, the guy used a EMT delay, and I cannot get the sound of it out of my head.
In the past months I've been looking for a pedal that can give me that sound: transparent but not harsh, warm but not muffly, and that certain HiFi quality that reminds you of a top end late 70s HiFi system, sounds fat but not overprocessed and not analog.
Well, I found exactly that sound that I had in my head from that first demo recording, in the Providence 80's Delay. They give you that promise, that the pedal has the same circuit and components as those 80s high end rack units. Not their features though. I mean this is a simple pedal, no modulation, no multiple delays, no tap tempo, and it's in the price range of the Eventide Timefactor, which has all the crazy features and then some. But the Eventide doesn't have that sound.
I tried to capture it in a vid, I think what comes across is how transparent its repeats are without being thin, even at extreme effect mix. Keep in mind that the pedal in real sounds better than on the vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAEwW4MQtM4&fmt=18
