zach_jennings

Traded in my Strymon timeline for the dd500, not only more cost effective, but sounds better in my opinion. Tape sounds are amazing, and I love that they take the editing to the next level. Sometimes I feel like its almost too deep into editing, but comes in handy for recording uses and for super studio quality delays. Also fixes the buffer bypass love/hate relationship I had with boss. Where you can now choose buffered or true bypass. Fantastic. THE EXTRA FEATURES DO NOT MAKE IT MORE COMPLICATED though. I just want to make sure that is fully expressed. You don't have to go into the deep editing features to get great tones. Fantastic pedal looking forward to trying out the new Verb and mod pedal they put out.

My only issue is it hates power most anywhere. So she purrs loud, and I had to subsequently get a power conditioner. Other than that great fender cleans, to more modern sounding Marshall gain tones.

Tubescreamer-esque pedal, my favorite out of any I have tried (Keeley, JHS, Maxxon, IBZ), low noise floor, useable eq, and plenty of boost and grit. Has a TS9 flavor to my ears. On top of that it has an internal switch (which can be easily modded to be external), for a Zakk Wild setting, that makes the boost more mid heavy for a more dramatic, more compressed tone.

Awesome as far as the quantity of features, many of them being good to great quality. Delays are fantastic, Modulations and filters are great. Good verbs. Distortion, & comp aren't great, even without the noise problems (which I have a fantastic rant on below). Which brings me to the noise issues: My fast qualm with this pedal, is the fact that it converts all your signal to digital and back-- no true bypass-- buffered-- etc. It causes 60 cycle hum sounds if placed in certain types of effect loops. Not overly a huge deal, but the pedal didn't like my fender supersonic or mesa mark 5:25 loops, due to the digital signal conversion. I also think this conversion adds to the noise issue-- which is pure speculation. Also, I get a large amount of buzz from the unit, especially when using the drive functions-- which i avoid anyways. The gain and volume knobs act like noise levels and only make the pedal buzz louder, and louder. The buzz is also there in bypass and using non-drive effects. I've tried several power adapters, batteries, a new line 6 adapter plugged into a power conditioner, as well as a gig rig generator, and voodoo lab power supplies -- and still can't get rid of the noise. I've looked at the pedal myself (I'm an electrical engineer), and sent the pedal back to be looked at from the store I purchased it from, and cleaned the board and internals with circuit board cleaning spray and it looks/works/functions as it was meant apparently according to everyone who's looked at it. Strictly opinion: [ Pedal needs a switcher to be used in my opinion, so you can minimize the damage from the buzz. The lack of true or buffered bypass and the excess of noise created in the ASP to DSP back to ASP (ANALOG--> Digital--> Analog).] Well... sorry about the rant, but overall this is a decent pedal to use as a multi-tool on a smaller board, or as a Swiss army knife to get you by for live tones. Also, works well with basses as a side note.

Solid as is, but the best part is how easily modded the pedal is. You can easily get the pedal to fit whatever tone you desire.