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Originally Posted by fluxequalsrad
I use a Boss DD-6 Digital Delay, its feature that doesn't get old (beside messing around with huge long delay) is the 'hold function' which allows you to loops like 5 seconds of jammin' over and over... My next delay pedal will be able to loop much longer due the function's usefullness in improving your improvisation etc. (I.e. Jamming blues for hours, jamming over 'hits of sunshine' riff for years, makin' up your own stuff)
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Glice's answer a) Being a miserable fucker, I no longer approve of delay. I had one for a bit. Everyone has one it seems. It makes terrible players sound space-y and a bit post-rock. It makes good players sound space-y and a bit post-rock. As ever, it's down to the user, but I'm sick to tits of hearing people improvise with fucking loopstations and/ or delay pedals.
To qualify that a bit - improvisation is often at its most interesting when there's an element of danger, of the possibility of collapse. Most of the best players, for me, actively seek that moment of collapsing to find new ways out of it. The danger, in improv, is mostly replaced by space-y echo if you're using delay. Every improviser has crutches, or little motifs they can return to, of course, but for me delay pedals just make the player's fear of sounding 'shit' more obvious.
Not directed at anyone here necessarily, but I'm personally very, very tired of hearing delay pedals.
Glice's answer b) AHHHHH! GEEK THREAD!!!