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Posted: **Sun Sep 17, 2006 4:32 am**

At the risk of igniting the hate oft displayed when alluding to the dirtitest of all guitar effects: the humble delay pedal, i'm nevertheless after some advice.

I need to get hold of one of these irresponsible devices, not to sound like a party of poodle hairs, but for one specific purpose and one alone: I want to smooth out all those nasty to nice transitions.

Thus I need a pedal that, upon switching off the effect, allows the repeats to carry on their natural decay; that upon switching off the effect, will no longer feed the dry signal into the delay circuit, but will just let the existing delay finish naturally. All the boxes i have tried in the past cut the effect completedly when stomped off.

So has anyone used a unit with the aforementioned characteristics?

Many many thanks,

m.

Posted: **Sun Sep 17, 2006 6:13 am**

I remember being told the line 6 delay pedal can do this. I dont own one so I can't verify this though.

Regards,

Phillip

Posted: **Sun Sep 17, 2006 7:42 am**

Boss DD-20

Posted: **Sun Sep 17, 2006 8:17 am**

Guyatone delay you should check it out to see if it has the turn off and still delay feature but I think most do in as much as you are not turning off the delay but the input.

http://www.guyatone.com/microeffects/md3.html

Posted: **Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:07 am**

I know that my Boss DD-6 let's the delay trail off

Posted: **Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:36 am**

The Line6 DL4 does this, if you hold down a combination of the switches when you power up. More here.

Posted: **Sun Sep 17, 2006 12:13 pm**

This one here does what you're after.

If you're doing ultra-clean, softer-type stuff you might want to avoid it though. It imparts some high frequency noise that is somewhat annoying.

Not noticeable when loud, however.

It would be nice to have the option to have the delay trail off or just stop. Anyone make a pedal/device like that?

Posted: **Sun Sep 17, 2006 12:27 pm**

http://www.line6.com/tonecore/echoPark.html

That line 6 delay pedal actuall has a tails on/off switch.

Ben

Posted: **Sun Sep 17, 2006 12:27 pm**

i think the Yamaha Magic Stomp does it. it´s multi-fx tough.

Posted: **Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:18 pm**

The Danelectro Reel Echo, though not the best delay pedal ever, has a "loop" button you can press that lets you play over the signal as it decays.

I got mine for less than $100, so if you need something cheap, its a pretty decent route.

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