Re: Digitech PDS mod--Is there a pedal that does this?

[Carsten Wegener <carsten@tyfoo.de>]

am 15.10.2002 3:52 Uhr schrieb Adrian Likins unter alikins@redhat.com:

> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 12:08:12AM -0700, hqr@earthlink.net wrote:
>> Hi--
>> Today I got a strange bird out of storage--it's a Digitech 2 second 
>delay
>> mounted on an old Morley pedal I had made for me back in the 80's . . .
>> Here's what it does--
>> There are three knobs on the side which control feedback, delay volume 
>and
>> delay time--the pedal can be switched to control either feedback or 
>delay
>> time.  Changing delay time also changes pitch on this puppy.
>> Is there a commercially produced pedal that does this?  I managed to get
>> this unit to function, but it definitely needs some tuner cleaner and
>> general attention--thought I'd share . . .
>> Gary
> 
>  The Danelectro "Shift Daddy" seems to be a digital
> delay with a pedal used to control the delay time. See:
> 
>       http://www.guitarist.co.uk/gear/gear_page.asp?ID=1750
>       http://www.danelectro.com/shiftdad.htm
>       http://www.danelectro.com/shiftdads.htm
> 
>       Never played one myself, and finding useful info
> on what exactly it is is difficult. The second danecectro
> url was recently added since there seemed to be some confusing
> as to what it was (reading the first url, the marketing text
> of which is plasted all over the net, is definately vague...)
> 
>       As far as I know, you can only use it to control
> delay time though.
> 
>       Also, the Digitech Space Station seems to have
> a couple of preset which are sorta-kindof pedal varied
> delay times.
> 
>       I belive some of the Zoom pedal boards allow you to
> alter delay time via the builtin expression pedal (gfx8 manual
> seems to indicate as much). Some of those things have some
> pretty bizzaro (and _very_ digital) sounds on them. Looks
> like you can map the pedal to feedback and wet/dry mix as
> well.
> 
> 
> Adrian
> 
The Line6 DL4 can do this. Itīs a cool unit with a looper included. You can
connect an volumepedal to control the delaytime and feedback as well as 
some
other parameters. No Midi implied.
CW