DELAY - ELECTRO HARMONIX Nano Deluxe Memory Man ...NEW released today!!!

ELECTRO-HARMONIX 

NANO 

DELUXE 

MEMORY MAN 

$200.00 USD

In the last couple of years EH has gone back and and took their classics and has gone to great lengths to reproduce the originals that if are not identical twins but so close you have to put them beside the originals and listen over and over just to find some lint to pick.

The unique thing EH had with their original delay was a very chimey sound that on record might have you thinking it was digital. Being analog it still had it's analog warmth. The Deluxe added vibrato and chorus long before it was in digital pedals.

It uses the new Xvive MN330X chips which are repro's of the totally defunct Panasonic and Reticon chips. The result is startling as any difference in sound is imperceptible.

CONCLUSION

I am impressed with what I hear in the comparison demos.

I have had everything from the original Echoplex tube model tape delay to the high end literally state of the art chips Empress Echosystem. If tech made a better sound 

then no one would want a Stradivarius violin they would want a carbon fibre one.

New tech can, will and does come up with new pedals that neither better or worse than the old pedals. boss continues to make what technically low fi Digital Delays just because they sound good. So my point is owning all 3 types of delays, analog, digital and tape simply gives you 3 great but equal choices.

In nature if you hear echos the space between them is not equal neither is their tone the same. My point is a delay from a pedal is artificial from the start. How you make it is irrelevant. If it sounds good  ...it is.

WHY ANALOG ANYWAY ???

On the whole I prefer analog delays since the highs and overtones are muted and do not make a noticable clash with the direct signal. The problem with any delay is the note or chord that being repeated is landing on top of the following note or chords you playing after it.  For example, if you play a 'g#' then play 'g' the sound of both hit your ears at the same time.

CHOICES 

On most tunes I have an analog delay in the background all the time much like using the reverb on an amp. It sounds killer but with a digital sound ...NO! If digital is used to mimic tape delay then I find it also works very well as tape delays are also very limited with highs and overtones.

For tape I can fully recommend the Dunlop/MXR Echoplex and for analog the NUX DCP-03 Analog are both exceptional. The NUX $60.00 USD and is literally the classic Ibanez AD-80, chips and all.