Is it worth it? Yeah, probably.

I bought this pedal for $30. While I'm reminded of that fact every time I look at it, or move a knob, or turn it on, I don't care too much. I, personally, use this pedal as a wacko noise machine, as I already have a really nice analog delay on my board that I love. While it's a total piece of techno-junk destined to be e-waste, and a total ripoff of someone else's creative work, it does its job at being my wacko noise machine.

It has quite a large range of self-oscillation, and none of it being all that subtle, but if you can dial it into the sweet spot of "this pedal is really trying to self oscillate but as long as there's signal from my guitar it cant" it gets really fun. It becomes vocal, and has a bit of a temperament. When I have it dialed like that, it feels like I'm arguing with my guitar. I've recorded some pieces where that's been a useful creative element, but its so specific that I don't find myself needing this pedal too often.

After all of my experimentation, I'm only 90% confident on what the knobs do, so bear with me. I believe "Intensity" to be the mix knob, i.e, how much of your dry signal stays unadulterated by the delay. The "Echo" knob controls how many repeats happen, and the "Repeat Rate" knob determines how quickly those repeats happen. Playing around with the "Echo" knob is the key to self-oscillation, and messing with the "Repeat Rate" is how to get really weird textures with it. You could also back off the "Intensity" and have a changing droning texture under your instrumental, adding who knows what qualities.

This pedal will break at some point, and I've accepted it. I will likely not buy another one, and instead upgrade to a device that is better at making wacko noise.

Best cheap analog delay out there

I ordered a pack of Behringer pedals to put them head to head with it's Boss counterparts. They sound is amazing for their price, it's a fact. Only con is the plastic shell and footswitch that don't inspire much confidence, I would happily pay extra for a proper metallic casing. But tone-wise they are awesome.

I compared it side to side with an original 1984 DM3. They are very similar indeed. The DM3 costed me 300€ and the VD400 30€, and it features and identical CoolAudio MN3205 Bucket brigade... This chip alone costs around 6-9€, of course Behringer has the upper hand since it owns Coolaudio.

So, comparing both here's my thoughts:

• Obviously DM3 is built like a tank, VD400 feels like a cheap toy.

• DM3 has a less noise and a softer/rounder character, which makes it more musical.

• VD400 will oscilate like crazy at any delay time setting, DM3 is much more controlable and only oscilates above 3 o'clock

• DM3 has more pad-like repeats that sustain in a more controllable manner, VD400 has dirtier repeats with more top end clock noise.

• VD400 has way more volume available, the max echo setting on the DM3 is about 50/50 (dry/wet) equivalent to 12 o'clock on the VD400, so the Behringer can even boost the repeats making them louder than your dry signal.

• Overall DM3 is MUCH easier to dial and more polite, VD400 requires finer and more regular tweaking.

Make no doubt the DM3 is a superior pedal, but for 90% less €€€ the VD400 is a good alternative if you want to spend the least possible. If 300ms are enough for you anyway (I wouldn't mess with the trimpots to make it longer, it will just sound like trash).

a very great and simple delay :)

this was actually a gift from my parents (along with a behringer super fuzz) for my birthday and continued to spark my love for gear and what not, the delay was my favorite even if it is a cheap clone of a boss delay, again, i love behringer for that, they are pretty good for the money and i recommend them to anyone who is starting off :)

however, what really depresses me is that mine broke somehow unfortunately, however i've been looking into what has occurred since apparently i may or may not be the only one facing the same problem/issue, however when i do get it fix, i will be willing to use it again and again.

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Terrific analog delay at a bargain

This thing sounds incredible—it's circuit is a clone of the Boss DM-2 which is an iconic analog delay. The fact that this pedal does true bucket-brigade analog delay and only costs $25 is insane and makes it a must-buy for anyone who hasn't tried this flavor of delay pedal.

Why only 4 stars? I have doubts about the durability of those Behringer plastic enclosures. They certainly seem too flimsy for gigging or touring, but you could always re-house them in a metal enclosure.

cheap and powerful

When I started to get into pedals, I'd buy loads for Behringer effects thinking that they'd be the same as a Boss or a MXR etc...

Some of these lived up to my expectation, the VD-400 was one of them! For a cheap version of a Boss DM-3 it does the job amazingly! It has a really cool echo response and fiddling with the intensity is a lot of fun.

It's not staying on my board, but for now it does the job perfectly.

yup, it's an analog delay.

Super cheap, and sounds pretty good. Not really much to say about it, it's an analog delay doing an analog delay's job. My only real gripe is that the repeat rate doesn't quite go as low as I'd like, but it's not a huge issue. Also, the build quality is pretty crap, it's made of plastic, but as long as you don't stomp on it with your Doc Martens, it'll be fine.

Decent analog delay

It does what you would expect from an analog delay. The repeats go darker but in a subtle mellow way. You can get it to oscillate. It's a clone of the Boss DM-2, I never played one of these, because I don't know why I should spend 200+€ when I can get the Behringer-clone for a tenth of the price. Definetly does the trick.

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It's a delay

I really don't know what else to say I mean its an excellent delay pedal, but shortly after using it I didn't really think it matters with my style of music, I can knock down the repeat and make it have a nice creamy reverb.

Have 3 of them

Just good, dark sounding, BBD delay, worth its money.

You'll never get this quality with spending $25.

It's the best delay pedal ever! It is absolutely compatible with Boss effects and any other major brands.