All this homo and racist and other stupid s***…
I’m looking at my Behringer VD400 Vintage Delay guitar pedal, which was/is seriously cheap, it was $35 Canadian 2 Christmas ago, I believe. That’s seriously dirt cheap for an effects pedal, by any standards. I bought one for my brother as a gift and one for myself and it’s really amazing. The only downside I can see, is the plastic housing, which if you go easy on it, SHOULDN’T break. Take the battery out, never open the compartment again, use and adapter the chances of it breaking lower even more. When it comes down to tone, it’s an exact clone of the BOSS DM3 Analog Delay which was discontinued in 1988. You have it’s predecessor the BOSS DN2 who ch is lacking certain small things, a buffer I think and noise reduction, but it’s not all that different. Bother of which are $300 used. BOSS currently has a reissue “Wazacraft” DM2W with some extra features for $240 new. If I wanted an analog delay, I’d buy that before an old original, but I would buy a Digital Delay before I bought another analog delay which I wouldn’t because this clone (sound-wise) IS one of the best technically. I don’t need it. I would buy it and it would sound identical. You can look at the youtube VS clips. Identical. Exactly. Behringer makes everything that goes into every pedal out there. They CAN make exact clones. I so had the Behringer Digital Reverb, which is a clone of the BOSS Digital Reverb and it is probably wired exactly like the BOSS pedal, it’s harder to clone a digital pedal than analog pedal. I’m not an expert, but I understand it’s not easy to tune the pedal to the correct parameters of a digital pedal. Which ch I believe is true, the ranges of the settings, parameters, how wide the setting are from one extreme to the other don’t seem very wide. It worked, it was pretty cool, it just wasn’t great. I gave that pedal (another $35 pedal) to my brother the other day after I picked up the Electro Harmonix Oceans 11 Digital Reverb.
BUT yeah. Indo love that I have that VD400 Vintage Delay. It even has the “stereo” feature the BOSS DM3 has where there’s 2 outputs. If you plug in 2 cables going out (you would need 2 amps or an amp with 2 inputs) one of the cables would carry the delay echo, the other would carry the guitar signal unaffected. I could (but haven’t) tried it in my digital 8 Track. I probably will try it out sometime.
If you wonder “what’s the different between the sound of Digital vs Analog Delay. I don’t know how to explain in an educated way, I understand it but Analog delay, the “bucket Brigade” circuitry basically get it’s name from firefighter back in the day carrying my water to a fire, passing a bucket of water along, to the next guy, and then the next guy, bucket after bucket over and over which is how the
I’m just noticing L&M doesn’t sell Behringer Stomp Boxes anymore.
