I just got back from trying it out at the shops again. TLDR; it aint for me. It's too expensive, and too complicated. I think the UI and UX is pretty poor overall, even if the sounds are sometimes impressive.
So these are just my opinions.
But I think the key word there is 'sometimes'. When it comes to "monster delay with all the typical sounds you could ever hope for" I actually think it's kind of lacking.
If you want a few dozen presets with spirally atonal pitchy delays, you got it.
If you want a bitcrushed anti-music delay, you got it.
If you want glitchy granular textural stuff to play over the top of, you got it.
But if you want whole suite of tape delays spanning various hardware units, various decades, various tape qualities.... I think you're gonna be a bit miffed at all of the hoops you need to jump through to get it. At least I was. It isn't at all like something like the Strymon El Cap or Volante, where you can just dial in a few high-level parameters, and totally change the character of the whole sound.
This pedal
requires you to get into the nitty gritty to get the tones you want, and tbh????
The one thing I really like about this pedal is the ability to put things into the feedback loop. But it's not really that intuitive at all, and there does not seem to be any control over the order of the things in the feedback loop... so you could put the preamp into the feedback loop, then the modulation... but you can't seem to swap them around in the signal chain. Seems like an arbitrary limitation for something that is supposed to be so powerful.
If you're not a fan of the Polymoon thing... and if you're not a fan of pitch effects... and if you're not a fan of delay that smears into a reverb tone... and if you're not a fan of parameter tweakiness... then I'd avoid this.
£629 is way too much for how annoying this pedal is to use, and I just don't think it sounds that great - IMHO.
I still think the DD500 and Timeline are better pedals. Volante too, I might add.
