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  • May 13, 2010 at 12:13 am #80211
    BlueSteel
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    i’m finally gonna get around to reviewing some of the pedals i have

    well first, i love how there are a ton of different features and modes that can be used. some are cool, like the reverse echo, but are kinda useless to me. i love the preset feature, because i dont have to search around for the sound that i want. also i dont need to memorize different settings. i LOVE the tap tempo! :love: it makes this pedal so much easier to use. tap tempo makes it so much easier to switch delay times without spending a lot of time looking to the right tempo. the loop section is cool. when i bought this, i thought i’d be using it more, but its still really awesome to just keep layering and layering stuff. or have a simple loop and just solo or something over it. uh, what else am i forgetting? the 300ms+mod section is pretty cool because i can get some pretty crazy sounds with it! when i first got it, it didnt take me that long to learn what every knob does, and thats always good.

    overall, its a great, fun, easy to use pedal!

    May 19, 2010 at 2:01 am #109115
    The Ghost of Sim Tut
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    I love tap tempo in loop mode for time stretching stuff. Its cool to set the hazarai knob preset to somewhere other than noon, for a different note. So you lay down a loop, then you can carefully press the haz knob with your foot (I play barefoot) to change pitch and then tap the tempo back in, which makes it revert to the original key. Great songcrafting thingy.

    June 1, 2010 at 4:59 am #102973
    John J
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    it’s been my go-to delay since early 2008 – i love it, and i don’t think that i will replace it when its successor rolls around. just last week, i was at band practice and i suddenly remembered all the rad stuff that happens when you turn the knobs in certain ways… don’t let yourself get caught up on the presets! there is so much more there than what meets the eye.

    June 1, 2010 at 2:05 pm #102950
    The Ghost of Sim Tut
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    Totally. The fade-ins on multi-tap modes are killer and twisting the knobs definitely give unexpected results. I’m only now getting acquanited with it as a reverb, the decay knob by itself (with repeats/delay turned low) has shown me some beauty.

    June 1, 2010 at 3:41 pm #102943
    DarkAxel
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    if you like reverb, try Reverse mode with decay on full

    great ambient sound, I LOVE IT :)

    June 1, 2010 at 5:51 pm #102910
    The Ghost of Sim Tut
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    if you like reverb, try Reverse mode with decay on full

    great ambient sound, I LOVE IT :)

    Ooh, I will try that.

    June 1, 2010 at 6:46 pm #102913
    DarkAxel
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    if you like reverb, try Reverse mode with decay on full

    great ambient sound, I LOVE IT :)

    Ooh, I will try that.

    i’d totally want to see your face when you hear that :)

    it sounds like… angels playing harps made from awesomeness… in a big cave

    (play around with repeats and blend alot!)

    June 1, 2010 at 8:36 pm #102999
    The Ghost of Sim Tut
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    Dude I’m totally getting one (or two) of these, for all this knob twiddling

    http://www.optionknob.com/

    June 1, 2010 at 10:50 pm #102935
    BlueSteel
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    Dude I’m totally getting one (or two) of these, for all this knob twiddling

    http://www.optionknob.com/

    WHAT!!! that is soo cool!!!! i need to buy some of these

    June 2, 2010 at 7:01 am #102923
    DarkAxel
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    for 10$ it’s cool but not when you need it shipped to the europe :(

    anyway… i started to explore The Mars Volta and i dialed kinda crazy modulated delay :) short time, wide pitch shifting, long repeats… it’s not as cool as omar’s analog warbly sounds, but it’s very cool…

    unfortunately with this, i lost my through-zero flanging :D

    June 2, 2010 at 3:41 pm #102880
    The Ghost of Sim Tut
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    That flange is sweet. Yeah I love this pedal.

    June 4, 2010 at 6:12 pm #105743
    The Ghost of Sim Tut
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    if you like reverb, try Reverse mode with decay on full

    great ambient sound, I LOVE IT :)

    Ooh, I will try that.

    i’d totally want to see your face when you hear that :)

    it sounds like… angels playing harps made from awesomeness… in a big cave

    (play around with repeats and blend alot!)

    So I gave this a try. Wonderful! Since you couldn’t see my face it looked like this: :love: , which is how my face often looks, with hearts flying off it. Strange condition. But anyway, after my Fuzzhugger Phantom Octave the sound was floating through my house and just destroying everything. I need to paint my walls now. Good tip.

    Point is there are many new things to discover in this very cool delay.

    June 23, 2010 at 7:45 pm #109762
    The Ghost of Sim Tut
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    Dude I’m totally getting one (or two) of these, for all this knob twiddling

    http://www.optionknob.com/

    So I went ahead and got some Option Knobs. I put one on the REPEATS knob of the SMMH. It has really opened up some possibilities. I play a simple delayed riff and then slowly crank up the repeats into ridiculous-ness, then crank it back down like I used to do with my DL4, but without having to look down at that giant ugly green monster and its crappity expression pedal, waiting for the whole thing to break down like so many other DL4’s.

    I put a second option knob on my Boss DD-5’s LEVEL knob. I use that pedal’s sample/hold for short 2 second loops and now I can easily fade them in and out. I bought a third Option Knob only because it was discounted to buy a third. Good thing I did, because I dropped my Hazarai and broke one of the knobs right away.

    Overall, this simple product is a winner, without a doubt.

    June 23, 2010 at 9:07 pm #109765
    DarkAxel
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    if you like reverb, try Reverse mode with decay on full

    great ambient sound, I LOVE IT :)

    Ooh, I will try that.

    i’d totally want to see your face when you hear that :)

    it sounds like… angels playing harps made from awesomeness… in a big cave

    (play around with repeats and blend alot!)

    So I gave this a try. Wonderful! Since you couldn’t see my face it looked like this: :love: , which is how my face often looks, with hearts flying off it. Strange condition. But anyway, after my Fuzzhugger Phantom Octave the sound was floating through my house and just destroying everything. I need to paint my walls now. Good tip.

    Point is there are many new things to discover in this very cool delay.

    what a great face! but srsly – you need to see a doctor about that :D

    yeah, octave solos just kill… when i drive my SI fuzzface clone into Dan Armstrong Green Ringer Clone into SMMh, it sounds pretty unique…

    this pedal is a must-have when it comes to digital delays

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