RE: qualities of reverb/cool vitage delay units

["L.A. Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

Bill you rock thanx for the hinsight the delayed
mysteries are gone!
cheers
Luis
--- William Walker <billwalker@baymoon.com> wrote:

> "are they still irreplaceable and worth
> Getting"
> 
> The answer I believe is no. There are still some
> very good  delay and reverb
> units available from TC, lexicon, Eventide and
> Roland. I have a very
> inexpensive TC G-Sharp that does great sounding
> delays and reverbs, and has
> lots of knobs for tweaking as well as storage for
> presets. The new TC Nova
> delay and reverb, are outstanding floor pedals that
> have studio quality
> sounds and really cool interfaces. The Eventide
> Timefactor is one of the
> greatest delays I've ever tried. I think I actually
> drooled on one at the
> NAMM show. I've owned several delays on that list
> including the Korg SDD,
> The roland SDE 100 and 3000 units, and MXR delay,  a
> delta lab effectron,
> and an Ibanez DM1000 and I must say my cheap TC G
> sharp blows them all away
> in sound quality and flexibility, hell, my Keeley
> modded Line 6 DL-4 sounds
> better and has a wider range of cool delays than
> many of those old machines.
> As for the shimmer effect,  you can get that out of
> one of the new Digitech
> expression factory pedal, as well as whammy effects,
> without the noise that
> earlier whammy pedals exhibit. Also check out the
> new Roland space echo
> pedal, which does great simulations of old Roland
> tape echo units. There are
> just a lot of cool delays available now days though
> the trend has been away
> from rack mounts and on to the floor. Unless you
> feel sentimental about
> vintage gear, I just don't see the need to search
> for the older rack gear.
> Even the vaunted TC 2290 can be sonically
> replicated, the new nova delay
> sounds that good. 
> Bill
> 
> 


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