DigiTech Digital Delay
When the rackmount craze hit, I caved to a small degree by buying the DigiTech digital delay unit. I got a great deal on it, probably because it had been discontinued. The nice thing was that the sound quality was good and it covered everything from doubling to chorus and flange, to echo up to a ridiculous 7 seconds. It could also do sound layering by capturing a played part and looping it back. You could then play over the top of that. The times were displayed so you could set a delay consistently as opposed to my analog pedal which was always somewhat of a guess. The down side is that it could only do one of the effects at a time and it required some fiddling by hand to set, instead of just stepping on a pedal.
I was never all that much of an effects user, so the DigiTech did the job nicely, and I sold my Ibanez “9″ series pedals to someone. That guy probably had no idea what a deal he got (it was a kid).
The DigiTech died after about 8 or 9 years and I replaced it with a Boss GT-3.
Tags: DigiTech, Effects, Guitar