$300.00 USD |
It is technically an analog delay but it is digitally controlled
and the voicing and modulation makes it sound like a the tape,metal disc and metal cylinder mechanical machines of the 50's.
I can not help but to laugh at myself. It is like designing a modern car to feel like you are at the reigns of a horse and buggy
Of course if you like the end results why not just get a pedal made to copy that 50's sound. If on a budget the best is the Foxgear Echosex Baby Delay for $125.00 USD.
I like delay for ambiance not for creating creative U2 or Pink Floyd type tunes.
You do not need much if you just want to enhance a solo with a bit of echo.
LET ME DIGRESS ?
I do not need anything more elaborate then even a Mighty Sound
M5 analog delay for $24.00 USD with a Panasonic MM3205 BBD chip. The chip that is probably in the Stone Deaf too.
Only guitar pedals use this kind of chip which is decades old ....and was out of production until reissued a few years back. It is cheaper to use digital for consumer products so other analog chips have been defunct out of production for decades.
The chip sounds excellent and to buy a single chip online is only $7.50 USD. So it is possible to make a pro sounding delay dirt cheap in China.
This damn thing sounds so good I use it more then my digital delay which quite literally cost me 20 times more.
CONCLUSION
It has endless features and it sounds wonderful. At the moment Stone Deaf sell it direct with another $100.00 off!!! ...Good deal??? ...only if you love it.
Keep in mind at the heart is an analog chip that they bought for five bucks. The digital chip is not for sound so it is probably not expensive.
I think it is a well made well designed pedal. But at perhaps a $175.00 to $225.00 USD price it would a fair deal to all. ....BUT.
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