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June 28th, 2010, 11:24 PM
I have been hankering for a delay pedal for a while now, but I find I just can't seem to justify the costs just now. I've pondered selling my Flying-V, even had it on sale for a while, just to cover the costs of my recent acquisitions and maybe that delay.
Anyway to the point: why is it that any half decent delay pedal seems to cost something like 120-140 euros, and even used they tend to go for 90 or so, when a distortion or chorus pedal of the same manufacturer can go for like 30€?
This brings me to ponder - you can get a Zoom 2.u. or something for 45-50 easy used - so how about getting one of those and just use the delay. And it could also be used to add some verb too if I like. Or I could get a half-rack Boss FX unit for 50 too which would do anything basically...only those would be bad in a pedalboard. But those Zooms...they aren't any bigger than many a delay box is and work with regular 9v power.
I have the true bypass CarlMartin switchboard/looper so not being true bypass would not matter - I envision I'd only use the delay in leads which are rare for me anyway. Also I would never be using the switch anyway, as it'd be in a programmed loop so mechanical structure etc. aren't problems either.
So what do we think - does it make sense? Any good reasons to pay three times the money to get a delay only unit with limited settings, instead of a much cheaper multiFX unit for the same? I don't think a zoom would be any noisier or worse than any other (digital) delay box...but are analogs like MUCH better, I have no idea. I'd like just a short(ish) delay to beef up my lead tone almost like a thick verb, not really as an echo/delay effect per se.
Anyway to the point: why is it that any half decent delay pedal seems to cost something like 120-140 euros, and even used they tend to go for 90 or so, when a distortion or chorus pedal of the same manufacturer can go for like 30€?
This brings me to ponder - you can get a Zoom 2.u. or something for 45-50 easy used - so how about getting one of those and just use the delay. And it could also be used to add some verb too if I like. Or I could get a half-rack Boss FX unit for 50 too which would do anything basically...only those would be bad in a pedalboard. But those Zooms...they aren't any bigger than many a delay box is and work with regular 9v power.
I have the true bypass CarlMartin switchboard/looper so not being true bypass would not matter - I envision I'd only use the delay in leads which are rare for me anyway. Also I would never be using the switch anyway, as it'd be in a programmed loop so mechanical structure etc. aren't problems either.
So what do we think - does it make sense? Any good reasons to pay three times the money to get a delay only unit with limited settings, instead of a much cheaper multiFX unit for the same? I don't think a zoom would be any noisier or worse than any other (digital) delay box...but are analogs like MUCH better, I have no idea. I'd like just a short(ish) delay to beef up my lead tone almost like a thick verb, not really as an echo/delay effect per se.