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Zoom 508 Delay

Delay/Echo/Phrase Sampler for Guitar from Zoom

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Published on 10/27/07 at 17:00
Specializing in delays, everything goes: ping pong, multi, echo, mono. 4secondes up is more than enough. Taken to tap tempo, cool.
Built-in tuner, headphone amp ditto, very handy. A great option is offered, it's seemless change or delay the end rehearsals when we already plays a different preset, very strong and absolutely musical.
The organization of banks is malignant, it can turn non-stop on the 4 presets of a bank. I mean if I sound like spring reverb and delay its kind beautiful solo long and I put them each two times I have to worry about the preset number seen it go from one to the other indefinitely. Very useful on stage, especially with the seemless changes everything is done without a hitch.
Note that this pedal can not produce the signal effect, but not more than 50/50. It's not going in a parallel effects loop as a marshall tsl example.

UTILIZATION

Nothing complicated, but a lot of options. You can not adjust the level of output, or by global or patch, it's a shame.
I do not use this machine as a time to the next I forget how it works.

SOUND QUALITY

Bingo, it sounds great, absolutely transparent. The headphone is great too. The stereo is fantastic, a sacred drug as soon as we are tasted.
I mostly used with a scraper, electric, and rather full. For rhythmic wall of sound stereo I have no better, and ping pong in the light leave me a little dizzy so it succeeded.
The tap tempo is very useful, you can also assign the hold delay instead, which allows you to make mini loops (I quickly abandoned, much too stressful).

OVERALL OPINION

Bon ben is the only real delay I have, and I really do not need as much.
I can only advise on the basis of its qualities, but his real failure prevents its use in a parallel effects loop (like the process is not always present this problematic phase, and the resulting sound is downright bad) but most of the delay pedal is well. The Behringer DD100 not, making it the best choice for a marshall tsl example.
I found a artec analog delay which is excellent, cheap and totally satisfies me. 3 button and go, and that's what I want. The other reason is the paradox of our times: more and more distos, digital and overdrives are really good so to avoid having more than one conversion cycle / deconversion the analog delay is ideal.
However, the 508 zoom is a great delay.