Tag: delay pedals

Best of The Best: 24 Delay Pedals With Tap Tempo

You just can’t imagine how many times I wished my Memory Boy had a tap tempo function… I looked on forums, watched countless YouTube demos, searched for mods regarding this pedal, to finally ending up empty-handed. My ignorance about this pedal capabilities and what I could actually achieve with it is evident by now, but back in the day, I...

Delay Pedals for Worship: What you really need.

Delay pedals are used by a lot of guitar players ranging from the most diverse styles of music, but if there’s a genre that really exploits the benefits (and misuses) of delay effects it must be Worship music. I know a lot of people don’t like to label contemporary Worship music as a genre, but for the sake of simplicity,...

What Is Lo-Fi Delay?

The delay pedal realm has never been more fantastic, because there are so many different types of units to choose from! But that might also produce some sort of confusion to the newcomer at the time of finally picking a delay box. Lo-fi delay pedals might probably be the new kids on the block on the delay industry, but they’re...

Affordable Echoes: 5 Great Delay Pedals under 100 $

What if you just want to start experiment with delay pedals, but you’re not willing to spend a lot of money? Delay units are great, but a new stomp box can easily go beyond the 120 U$ range. I’ve been there, I wanted to have a delay that could mimic the Boss DD-5; so I bought a cheaper version (I’m...

How to Calculate Delay Times (Part 2)

I remember the first time I was trying to get a proper delay time subdivision for a song we had to play at church. Back then I had borrowed a Digitech RP 55 and I was excited because it had the possibility to adjust the delay time according to the milliseconds; in those days I didn’t understand the formula very...

How To Calculate Delay Times (Part 1)

This is going to be a very interesting post. I’m pretty sure not a lot of people actually understand what’s going on with delay times; I have to admit I was one of them. The reality is that having a strong notion about how to calculate delay times and how you can apply that to your playing can make you...

How To Combine Two Delay Pedals

Having one delay pedal can satisfy pretty much most users, but your sonic boundaries can really expand if you have more than one delay unit on your board. If you learn to combine the two of them, your sound pallet suddenly gets new colors and former simple, gray arrangements can come into new life. On this post, we’re going to...

Where To Put Delay Pedals In The Signal Chain?

This is for sure one of the most common questions that can arise once you begin to play with three or four different effects; what’s the right order in my guitar signal chain? Where do I put delay pedals? Do I put them before gain pedals or do I put them after gain pedals? Should I first put my delay...

What’s The Difference Between Analog Delay and Digital Delay Pedals?

This is a question that always comes to the discussion once you get your feet into the land of delay pedals. In the first post, we’ve covered a brief history of the development of this effect. If you recall it properly, we first mentioned echo machines or tape delays. Even though they basically do the same (get a signal and...

How To Use A Delay Pedal

On this post, we’re going to cover the basics on how to use a delay pedal. We will discuss the main parameters and how they affect the sound being produced. To finish, we will wrap it up briefly reviewing the main usages you can have with these units. Let’s keep going. The Basics In order to understand how to use...