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Post by StratMatt »

I've collected a bunch of nice pedals to make myself a nice wee pedalboard. Have a tuner, wah, a couple of nice overdrives and a EQD Dispatch Master doing some lovely verb with a touch of delay, but I want a dedicated delay to take care of that properly with the aim of making some nice ambient/backround music (my AX8 does everything else well that is straight forward enough).

I haven't even looked at pedals for the last 5 or so years; whats the go these days? Get a Timeline and be done with it?

I'm really close to pulling the trigger on a Meris polymoon, (that looks so frikken sick) but I want to be well informed before I commit a good chunk of money.. The new Walrus D1 looks the biz too.

I don;t particularly need midi or too many presets, if any, I just like the simplicity of turning knobs and getting a result.

What do you guys reckon?
Loving it so far

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Dude a bit busy, I'll come back to you on that one...... etc
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.

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I have a SDD3000, absolutely gorgeous echoes and preamp... snag one if you find it.

But there's so many good options these days.


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Heres another worthy contender!

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Walrus ARP-87/Fathom pedal on TM looks mean af too

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I hope you're not going to procrastinate.

Good name for a delay, The Procrastinator. :lol:
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Loving my Alter Ego 4. Cops some really good tape delay.

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IMOCD wrote:Loving my Alter Ego 4. Cops some really good tape delay.
Another vote for the Alter Ego.
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I use the Strymon DIG, Casey in the forum is selling one as well

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Post by StratMatt »

So much to choose from.. really don't think I could go far wrong with most of the options available. I definitely know the Timeline well and I liked the fact it had a looper. So expensive to get one brand new though.
Loving it so far

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KNNZ wrote:I use the Strymon DIG, Casey in the forum is selling one as well
I'll check that one out.
Loving it so far

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Post by Reg18 »

Timeline is a good ambient delay and if you know it already it’s easy to use. I now have a GFI Specular Tempus and the stereo field/width and the way the dotted 8 delay comes through is defiantly superior to the timeline. Quarter note tape delay might be better on the timeline though. I miss the looper in the timeline though, it was awesome and so easy to use!

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Dude a bit busy, I'll come back to you on that one...... etc
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.

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Best delay I ever had was the Strymon Volante. Amazing pedal and easier to work than it looks (if I can do it anybody can)

Carbon Copy always seem to be popular. Currently I have a Deluxe Memory Man, great too. So many options with probably not that many being shit nowadays

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