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Keep It Warm
Posted by octoberweep@yahoo.com from Central NewYork on Jan 1, 2010
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Hobbyist
Reviewer's Play Style: rock noise rock
Give the Manual a good read, this pedal creates a very nice anolog Delay sound, I have it on my board next to an old Ibanez Digital DD10, sounds very warm. According to the Manual Maximum Delay is reached with the expression Pedal. Also: It takes at least 20 seconds to warm up and reach it's maximum delay, if your practice area has a cold floor (like my basement) it may never reach that time, all I got was slapback until I moved it to a warmer location. Also the Vibrato and Chorus (different speed of same effect) are great for making space sounds but not for the normal use. I did purchase it mostly for space sounds, so this makes me happy. As a bonus it will self Oscilate forever, which can be very cool. Awesome pedal, tons of fun, needs tweaking and maybe to be set on a hot plate to be great.
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Not What They Have Claimed
Posted by Gomer529 from Alabama on Dec 25, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Gigging Musician
Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Blues, Funk, Soul
Ok, here's the deal. The delay time is not what they claim. I was hoping that all of the other negative reviews that I've read on the internet were just isolated cases but now I know how they feel. I was hoping it would be the 550ms claim but it now seems to come short. It's quite frustrating. The square wave function is downright useless except for one cool sound that I've gotten out of it. Also the depth knob is pretty much useless past 9 o'clock because the sounds just go way out there. As a normal delay it sounds pretty good considering that this is my first venture into analog delay. All of the standard delay knobs work such as Delay, Blend, and Feedback. The vibrato mode is fairly difficult to use considering the fact that once you put depth barely past its "0" setting, you'll wish you never had it on. I will be contacting EHX shortly and if they don't have a solution to my delay time issue that many others have had, I will be bringing my analog delay search to something like a Carbon Copy.
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Avoid
Posted by James Willaman from Pittsuburgh, PA on Nov 8, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Professional
Reviewer's Play Style: Rock
The Memory Boy has a number of nice features for its low price, but its problems are for too serious for it to be used for the professional or the "tone snob." Whenever it is engaged, it boosts a rather nasty section of your upper mids. This makes your overall volume jump up and it also radically reshapes your tone. Also, it has nothing like 550ms of delay. At most, it has 370ms. When contacted about this problem, EHX will demand you ship it to them with a money order for 12 dollars to fix their mistake. Unacceptable. Avoid this pedal. It has an obnoxious sound, does not have the delay time specified, and EHX does not stand behind its products. Consider a used Carbon Copy which will cost just, and is a far superior pedal.
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PRETTY COOL!
Posted by Ian Y from Rockford, Il on Nov 7, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Hobbyist
Reviewer's Play Style: Noise, Punk
This is a very useable delay, with alot of amazing one of a kind sounds. You can get normal sounds out of this also, so in that case it would be pretty much the cheapest analouge delay out there. The only two bad points are that all the knobs go to extreme settings that are occasionally out there (ie; blend knob goes to 100% wet) and it doesn't self osciallte very well.
if you canovercome those shortcomings, this is sweet.
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Cool pedal!
Posted by Joshua Weiner from Tucson, AZ on Oct 19, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: passionate hobbyist
Reviewer's Play Style: bluesy psychedelia
This is a budget conscious version of the Deluxe Memory Man; it has the same features (delay with mondulation), but doesn't sound quite as gooey and warm as the Memory Man (but it's half the size and 1/3 of the price). For the price, it sounds plenty good enough. It actually sounds great. It also has expression pedal capabilities that the Memory Man does not--you can either control the rate of modulation (from slow chorus to fast vibrato, with everything in between) or the delay time with an expression pedal. This is very cool.
The modulation starts to become pretty extreme with the depth knob set any higher than 9:00. In the lower ranges it's subtle and very pleasing. Higher depth rates produce very extreme pitch shifting warble that aren't very usable to my ear, but experimental/noise aficionados might like it a lot.
One can also select triange wave or square wave modulation. The square wave is to extreme a warble for me. I prefer triange wave modulation with just a little depth--this approximates the warble of a real tape echo and is very pleasing indeed.
Great pedal, especially for the price.
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