Re: BOSS DD5 (was:delay question / Vortex?)

[philip raath <philraath@yahoo.com>]

...Boss DD-5 Digital Delay..."

>very cool pedal if you don't need long delay times.  

i started out w/ this when i was sixteen and it has
remained at the front of my setup. simple and
powerful, it's so reliable as a standard delay before
running into everything else. 

>if you connect a
>footpedal you can tap your tempo. 

very accurate

> it also acts as a non-overdub looper
>(just hold down the pedal while in loop mode).  
always thought this sucked, actually. i remember being
annoyed from the start w/ it only being two seconds,
and glitchy as hell because the loop point is preset.
it work for drones, but that was about all i could get
out of it.

>there's one setting 
>(#7, i
>think) if you set the feedback and level to 100%,
play >a note, and mess 
>with
>the delay time knob you get this really weird
>enharmonic resonance
>thing...very very cool, although i think this
>"feature" is accidental.

use this quite a bit, actually. i know i've mentioned
this twice here before, but i have beats in my sampler
that i created by dragging the guitar cord across my
hair (clipper cut) w/ full to near full feedback on
the dd5 (any setting that responds to delay time will
do this), and then tweaking to delay time knob to pull
out rythms w/ the "enharmonic resonance". kind of
sounds like sweeping ringmodded drums.

peace,

phil

peace
-jim

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