delay pedal advice

[HTH AMPS]

I'm wanting to add a delay pedal to my board and am looking for suggestions.  The requirements are quite specific though, I hate clean and crisp repeats and really like repeats that are darker and slightly distorted, possibly filtered in some way too.

The Stryman El Cap comes to mind, but I'd really like to keep the budget under £150 if possible - anything more for a delay is just silly.

This is also going into the front end of my amp, but its run fairly clean - it's the normal channel of a Boogie Studio Preamp run with the gain on 8-10, so we're talking breaking up amounts of gain.  I then add fuzz boxes to the mix, so running into the front end shouldn't be an issue.

[dvorak]

I can really recommend the TC flashback.

There are several modes of analogue sounds, the Tape sounds are especially nice.  And there are ton- of tone prints to download if you aren't satisfied with the stock sounds. I have an X4, and it will stay on my board for a long time.

[HTH AMPS]

This one (Earthquaker Disaster Transport Jr.) seems to be pretty close to what I'm after... http://youtu.be/vbEKie_WjPw

Anyone used one?

Would be good to get the repeats a bit more f*ucked up though.

[gwEm]

It's quite specific, but I've got the Space Echo reissue pedal.. or rather my girlfriend's nicked it. She loves it, the repeats get nice and crunchy in a warm way.

Worth looking into if you like that sort of thing.

[HTH AMPS]

I'll look into those ones guys.

Mind, the bigger Earthquaker delay is pretty impressive, lots of tonal options for a boring old delay...  http://youtu.be/L8vQQ01uIFk

[Lew]

I've got a delay from Juan on the way. Madbean zeropoint super deluxe delay. Juan thinks it's one of the best sounding delays out there and he would know. Looks like we run our gear the same too, Ian. It'll be going infront of a 100W clean amp with a tiny tiny amount of grit from volume and I use pedals for overdrive/fuzz/distortion. You should get in touch with him. I know he wants to make a pedal with that delay and a reverb in too.

Here's the best youtube I can find of it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KKDvEWruC8 

[tekbow]

Can't speak as to the earthquaker delay specifically, but they're a quality company, will check the vids out as soon as youtube isn't blocked..

What has the fullfat version got over the junior version?

[bucketshred]

MXR Carbon Copy. Only thing I wish it had was an additional output so I don't have to use my cr@ppy Marshall one to split my signal.

Paddy

[Andrew W]

MXR Carbon Copy. Only thing I wish it had was an additional output so I don't have to use my cr@ppy Marshall one to split my signal.

Paddy

I had a Carbon Copy but it wasn't reliable and I wasn't alone in having problems with it. Mine was one of the earlier ones so it's possible that they've got more robust but though I loved the sound, I'd hesitate to recommend it because of the flakiness.

[JJretroTONEGOD]

before owning the el cap I used an EHX memory toy, it's small uses normal polarity works with power supplies and sounds great, only downside is the 550ms max time, but for the money it's amazing value.

The daddy version looks like the EHX deluxe memory boy which is still under £150, I've heard they are amazing.

e.g:

memory toy:

Electro Harmonix Memory Toy Analog Delay

deluxe memory boy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqpltimLpXU

[Twinfan]

When I used to use delay, the Maxon AD-9 was the best one I found into the front of an amp.  Very old skool and natural.

[Telerocker]

When I used to use delay, the Maxon AD-9 was the best one I found into the front of an amp.  Very old skool and natural.

That's how I run my 1981 AD-9 at the moment bec of the tonesucking loop on my Rockerverb. Sounds fine. Max. delay only 300ms though.

[BigB]

When I used to use delay, the Maxon AD-9 was the best one I found into the front of an amp.  Very old skool and natural.

That's how I run my 1981 AD-9 at the moment bec of the tonesucking loop on my Rockerverb. Sounds fine. Max. delay only 300ms though.

Yeps - had one, sounded great but I only kept it for a couple weeks, was just too short a dely time for my needs.

About the memory toy : still my fav wrt/ tone, but mine is starting to cr@p out  - bad contact in the input jack and it looks like a real pain to service - and it's only 4 years old. Ok that makes for quite a few rehearsal and gigs but it's the first pedal I have reliability problems with :(

I tried a couple delays last week at my favourite store, including the Disaster Transport which was not bad and rather funny for some weirdos tones, but the one I liked the most was the Catalinbread Montavillian Echo, lots of great tones really, just missed the modulation. Sounded great on front of a cranked amp too, which is how I use delays anyway (yes it's dirty but I like it that way :mrgreen:).