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Anyone here have an opinion on the Boss DD-20?

RattleandHum1988

Originally posted by Mr_TrekAnyone here have an opinion on the Boss DD-20?

Great, great delay pedal. I used to have one back when I used a pedal board. Great because you can store 3 or 4 presets in there, a tap tempo, and great sounding mod delays and other deals. You can change parameters of each delay too to make them sound how you want. The LED is nice and bright too. All in all, it's a simple to use pedal with a great tone. You should check out the Digitech TimeBender too: http://www.digitech.com/en/products/timebender
It's a straight clone, but I've heard great things about that too (some say it's even better than the DD-20).

Either way, they're both great pedals (but the DD-20 is for sure, used it fr a few years)

Alex

Mr_Trek

13 years

There's a used on on what's kind of Sweden's Craigslist... pretty good price, I'm gonna try to buy it. Thanks for your input!

RattleandHum1988

13 years

Originally posted by Mr_TrekThere's a used on on what's kind of Sweden's Craigslist... pretty good price, I'm gonna try to buy it. Thanks for your input!

No problem man! Good luck!

MattG

13 years

I'm thinking about picking up the Digiech JamMan looper pedal. I like the Boss Loop-Station, but the JamMan had a few other things I saw in a demo that I liked a lot, and it's a little bit cheaper (I'm on a pretty tight budget)

It's got a port in the back where you can load a USB thumb drive, and import sounds you want to use as loops/samples. For example, if my band was playing "With or Without You", I could load in the synth loop that backs U2 up when they do it (provided I could find an mp3 of it)

Or, if we wanted to do Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like a Lady", I could rip and import the audio of Steven Tyler's filtered "chye-yuh, chye-yuh", and hit the button on the pedal whenever I wanted it to make the sound. I have up to 99 presets

Getting excited about hopefully getting one soon!

LikeASong

13 years

Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3: (provided I could find ~~an mp3~~ a *.wav of it)

MP3s are lossy and have that common 0'x seconds pause at the start and/or end that makes them unusable for loops. WAV or FLAC is the way to go when it comes to loops - imho.

LikeASong

13 years

23546 posts, I like that number.

BTW, just being picky, Matt

MattG

13 years

I was just speaking in generalities, but yes- most loops/effects that are in lossy audio formats generally come in wav anyway I believe.

Thanks for the catch though

RattleandHum1988

13 years

I think I'm going to make some upgrades to my Fender Blues Junior. I've thought long and hard about getting an entirely new amp, but something about the portability and smallness of the blues junior appeals to me, as well as it's simplicity. I guess tons of people argue that a few mods and upgrades (notably a speaker upgrade) can make your amp sound entirely new, so I think I'll do that. Just ordered some new tubes because mine are going, and next up is a new speaker! Yippeee!

Mr_Trek

13 years

Yes. Awesome. Wohooooooo!!!!! My first pedal... and it's a massive delay one!!

LikeASong

13 years

hahahaha, I love how well does the GIGA DELAY thing with your statement

Any Streets cover already?

RattleandHum1988

13 years

I know it's been stated time and again, but just another reason why it's 98% certain that the studio version of Bad was recorded with a telecaster:

http://soundcloud.com/rattleandhum1988/bad-telecaster

I took a few seconds from the album track, and then recorded myself playing the riff with my tele, ONLY with delay, no compressor or anything added, through my blues junior. See what you think! Pretty damn close if you ask me

Something happened to the studio part after upload, it sounds a bit warbled, but you can still make out what's important, and I know you all know that tone all too well anyway

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