More Zoom 508 Delay Fun

Sorry it's been a few weeks. Busy lately. And yes I promise I'll post pics of my pedalboard. I've been re-doing (read: acquiring) some pedals on it so I wanted to get the right pics up. I'll get to that in another post. Boss RT-20 review coming soon!

Onto the Zoom... I can't believe I tried selling this pedal recently. I won't do that again. I was thinking I needed to get rid of it to get a Boss DD-20 back on my board. I changed my mind after I "found" a setting on the Zoom that made the universe align for me. This setting would be the Stereo setting. Not that I use stereo on my board, but the stereo apparently is more of an analog emulator. Actually I'm thinking the stereo is split w/ the digital delay on the right, and the "rolled off" sound panning left, which rolls off Soooooo nicely when I dial the tone control down. I could be wrong here and maybe that's what both channels sound like. ...Anyway, I like it.

It now sounds more like that Deluxe Memory Man sound, minus the noise and modulation. Only with this, I have up to 4 seconds to play with, not 330ms! And tap tempo! Woot!

To be honest, I liked the DMM sound on the DL4 but HATED that pedal (size, volume drop, etc) and that's what this sounds like. I love playing a big fat droning chord, then switching seamlessly to the next patch and playing over it. It sounds so amazingly analog, minus the noise. I just couldn't believe it. It really made me feel better after I just sold that Ibanez CD10 Compact Delay.

I get some funny looks for having that pedal, but it's everything I need except for a looper (it's only 4 seconds.) I really wish they still made it. Plus having that built in tuner is handy at times. There's no knobs on it, so one may hesitate to be "push-programming" like crazy, but I never have to do it in a gig and it's easy to edit anyway. I just hope it keeps on lasting me forever.