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What dealypedal is the best for pedal steelguitar in your opinion?

You're gonna get many varying answers from Boss to Boutique to Vintage to "no delay pedal at all"!

I like my Ibanez Modulation Delay III from the 80s but that's pretty obscure.

I get along fine with a Boss DD-3.

very good and cheap:
Behringer DR400 (it is the clone of Boss RV3)

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopi ... a671c0aada

I second what Patrick says - amazing value for money. I may get something fancier one day, but I doubt it.

I had a DR400, but man, mine was noisy. Constant hiss when activated. Maybe I had a bad one? Have you two DR400 users had the same problem and found a way around it?

Strymon ...

http://www.strymon.net/products/

but not the same price

I've used a lot of different units through years, probably the longest was the peavey profex that was loaded with Jeff Newman settings. The newer stuff is much less noisy than the older electronics, and that's certainly important to me. What you really need to establish is what sounds good to you. It may be a less expensive one ( I get a good delay setting with a rp-155 I use with a practice rig paired with a fender Vibrosonic and using the amp reverb) these are very inexpensive these days, I really enjoy my stage rig that I use delay from the Benado steel Dream, expensive though but worth it to me on how it sounds. I also use the Strymon brigadier, great sounding delay. Many choices, but to me the most important is what you want to hear and that's up to you.

Strymon El Capistan. Sounds amazing. Has a built in reverb & tap tempo too.

Here it is. No delay. I use a Wet Reverb. No need for delay !

I use the ones that are in my Boss and Roland multi-fx units. I'm also lucky enough to have an old Ibanez AD-80 analog unit when I'm using just a single NV400.

I think you'll find that a big portion of steel players here use stomp box Boss D-3 digital delay and the RV-3 is popular too.

There are still a lot of yesteryears' Ibanez DM1000 and DD1000 rack units bouncing around in the used bins that can be had for $100 or less. Unless you are looking for specific delay times or sounds, any of these will work well for just adding a little halo like many steel players do.

I have used several and I find that I prefer the "Line 6" unit. It has digital and analog settings as well as other programs that can be timed with the beat your using.

I use a Boss DD-3 but I am sure there are a lot of other good ones out there.

I've been happy with my DD-6,although it eats batteries fast.When I feel like carrying more stuff around,I use a rack with an old Alesis Quadraverb and a newer Alesis 3630 limiter.

any digital delay stomp box will eat batteries. i use a one spot power supply for up to 4 pedals or so.

My favorite for delay only, is the Boss DD-20 which
has a lot of settings and a tone control. It also has
a nice display and analog and digital settings. It is
also programmable with stereo inputs and outputs.
Other than than that, for small amps I use a Boss RV-3.

I love the Bossâ„¢ DD-5, DD-3. I think that's the model. It's the "DD" series from Boss.

I don't have them now, but did. I have a built in Delay, in my Roland Cube 80X Amp, plus other effects. It still sounds great using the Amps delay, but I have decided to return to using individual PEDALS again. Much more control! I can only turn effects on & off, from my remote switching pedals. It was a good thing, when I first got the amp...& needed to save every penny. Still do, but not quite as bad.

I see some posts here on the forum, where some just hate delay. If overused, or set too high...I agree. But I think they are must for Pedal Steel Guitar, especially on slower songs. Also nice with overdrive, on rock music. I'll always enjoy rocking out...but love Country Music. It's all good...if it's good music. Not everything exactly. Not a fan of new country, & whatever this "bro country" is?

It adds the depth & sustain I like a lot. Most of the time I have it set on a low setting.

I recently bought a DrJ Analogue Delay,



Just like the old tape units, only solid state. Very impressed with this, nice & clean compared to the early solid state analogue delays, and at around $100 not too expensive.

Does up to about 700ms delay and has a modulation section if you feel the need to modulate

Warmer and more natural than a digital delay. The first digital delay I had I built from a kit back in the early 1980's, 19" rack. Still got it and use it, not exactly Hifi but has a certain "warm" quality about it.

Think this comes from the repeats being fed back to the input after going through the D/A process, so essentially feeding back an analogue signal which is prone to deterioration, whereas with modern digital delays everything is done digitally. So the repeats in a DD are non-degradable whereas the repeats in an AD get dirtier the more they go around the circle.

It's like the old photocopiers where the "repeats" degrade in quality as you photocopy the photocopy.

Sounds more like a natural echo to me.

Wampler Faux Analog Echo for me