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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Analog Delay
My dad offered to get me a guitar pedal for my birthday, so the other we picked up an MXR analog delay pedal at guitar center. It's got an incredible, warm, incandescent tone that just...gives me a wicked boner. It's super easy to use, and doesn't have any useless, extra functions like most digital delays. It also, obviously, has a much nicer, livelier tone. But, it has far fewer features, and doesn't have all that long a delay. But, it has all the features I would ever actually use. It also has a modulation switch, which seems to basically just give a mild 'harmonizer' effect to the delayed (wet) tone, which results in a sweet but subtle, chorusy tone that reminds me a lot of Bill Frisell's heavily processed tone, which he frequently uses but never relies on. Also, compared to most of the other analog delays I've read about, it's about half the price (at $150) and seems reliable and easy to use. And it's got this beautiful, piercing blue light that's much easier to see in the dark than the dull, red, HAL-like light your vast majority of other pedals have. Now I've got to get my strat fixed up (replace the input, maybe switch out the pups for higher quality versions, maybe get the intonation and action tweaked. Then I'll get a higher quality trem pedal, run the strat through the delay and trem right into the reverbed clean channel of my hotrod and just get a wicked Marc Ribot hard-on.
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