What is the OSG Delay Flavor Family of Choice?

Everyone needs a stompbox.

What flavor of delay is your favorite?

Digital
12
16%
Analog
39
51%
Tape
22
29%
Steel Drum
0
No votes
Oil Can
1
1%
Other
2
3%
 
Total votes: 76

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What is the OSG Delay Flavor Family of Choice?

Post by stevejamsecono » Fri Sep 09, 2022 10:23 am

Figured I'd throw this out there since the OSG Dirt one was a lively good time.

What's your favorite dirt flavor, and why? I've been using a Source Audio Nemesis lately but I find myself largely enjoying the Analog setting the best. The darker repeats just seem to speak to me more. I love the clarity on the tape and digital modes but they get messy, quick!
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Post by sal paradise » Fri Sep 09, 2022 10:28 am

I like two types of delay:
- crisp digital delay for trem picking soundscape stuff
- dark analogue for everything else

Always regretted selling my old blood noise oil can delay. That was amazing. Although the Jam Llama I just got does a similar enough sound & it’s super simple to dial in.
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Post by marqueemoon » Fri Sep 09, 2022 10:52 am

I think my avatar says it all.

I don’t hate the sound of digital, but musically the dark and murky analog thing works better for me.

After owning a DD-7 for a while I realized I have zero interest in tap tempo or subdivisions.

I’m definitely oilcan-curious, but delay is not a big part of my sound.

I’m too lazy/cheap to deal with tape or spring for good emulated tape, but there is a good amount of Space Echo on the Half Tail EP.
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Post by MrShake » Fri Sep 09, 2022 11:25 am

I came up with a DD-5, never outgrew it. Took 15-20 years for me to even get to tap tempo and rhythmic dotted eighths.

I have a few analog delays, I like them. Nothing does modulated delay to me like the Memory Man family. It's so good it almost makes me angry and a Memory Boy does the trick for me.

But other than early U2 aping for a few minutes, I can't make the analog ones work for me.

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Post by parry » Fri Sep 09, 2022 11:35 am

I'm a digital (w/tap) + (dark) analog kind of guy.
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Post by hulakatt » Fri Sep 09, 2022 11:45 am

I stick to mostly analog but I do appreciate a good DD. I really have a thing for weird delays like the DBA Echo Dream 2, the BluffChill Shagpile Deluxe and stuff like that though.
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Post by fever606 » Fri Sep 09, 2022 12:05 pm

I voted for tape because the RE-150 has been with me longer than any effect other than my Big Muff. DDs come and go, but the Space Echo is eternal...

I'll often pair it with a DM-2 or a Boss DD (in the past a DD-3 or RV-3, though I just got a DD-7 because reverse). I only ever achieve dotted-eightedness by mistake.

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Post by hulakatt » Fri Sep 09, 2022 12:29 pm

I had a TTE for a long time. Nothing else sounded like it and it ruined me one normal sounding delay stomp boxes for a long time but it was such a pain to use and could be temperamental so I sold it recently. I have a few old Boss DD2 and 3 and a pair of the DM-2w and that covers most of my delay habit.
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Post by fuzzjunkie » Fri Sep 09, 2022 1:01 pm

I voted tape because I use a Space Echo quite a bit and when I don’t I use tape emulation. I really enjoy my E-1010 and DMM analog delays, but the E-1010 only goes up to 350-400ms and the DMM I used as a tape replacement.

What I really want is a slightly modulated delay that doesn’t get in the way of what’s going on top, and there are a few digital delays and simulations that do that, but mostly I prefer the frequencies and random modulation of tape.

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Post by Flurko » Fri Sep 09, 2022 1:39 pm

I have a DD7 but I use only the analog mode, so I guess I'm in the analog camp. I guess I figured out early on it was the mode that was the closest to the Dead Man guitar tone, and stayed happily like this since.
It also does some random wiggles once in a while where it sounds like I moved quickly the time knob, not sure if it's a bug or a feature.

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Post by blacktiger » Fri Sep 09, 2022 3:04 pm

My choice in a perfect world would always be an actual tape echo. I used to own a Guild-branded Watkins Copicat, which was a tube tape echo. That thing was pure magic. What I use these days is a Malekko Ekko 616 analog delay. It does what I need it to, including some tape-like modulation. I can’t see myself dropping the kind of money an actual tape echo costs these days, so “good enough” will have to be good enough.
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Post by andy_tchp » Fri Sep 09, 2022 4:16 pm

It took me the longest time to realise I just wanted digital delay. The humble DD-3 is all I need after trying a bunch of (sometimes very fancy/expensive) analog stuff that just never quite hit the mark.
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Post by MayTheFuzzBeWithYou » Fri Sep 09, 2022 5:42 pm

I voted for Tape because I love my RE-201 - for live and most rehearsal or living room situations I use my DBA Echo Dream 2, Behringer Vintage Time Machine or Ibanez DE-7. i don‘t know where this puts me exactly… I like Echoes and more specifically Slapback Echoes very much.
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Post by JSett » Fri Sep 09, 2022 9:22 pm

I like analogue stuff as a rule but for live use a digital normally makes it through the mix better. And I don't think you can beat a DD3 for something easy like that.

I only use delay at home and I currently use a Maxon AD999 but I do wish it had a bit of modulation going on so might swap it out for something else but don't know what yet.
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Post by soggy mittens » Sat Sep 10, 2022 5:49 am

Digital, digital, digital.

I love the sound of analog but it is mostly the same thing I feel about fuzz, I love the sound but I struggle to make it work for me in more ways than one so it ends up feeling like a one-trick-pony. Finding an analog delay that can get nice and bright without the noise has always been a mission and I've come close but nothing has remained in my hands for too long. I miss the sound of the rubberneck but ultimately the dd-7 and dd-200 will always put the biggest smile on my face I think.
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