Mike Thomas
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I don't get the whole digital/analog hybrid delay craze of the last few years. I get it, people want a delay pedal that is analog and true bypass but where the delays repeat cleanly, not having to deal with the darkness and regeneration loss of bucket brigade based analog delays.
I know there are some coveted PT2399 delays that have come along one that comes to mind immediately is the Mad Professor. However, I just don't get the love. To me a pt2399 based delay next to a bucket brigade is just lifeless sounding. The darkness that people supposedly do not like with bucket brigade delays has never really been so noticeable to me that it bothered me so much so, that I just had to get rid of the pedal altogether. I also get that not all pt2399 pedals try and mimic bucket brigade delays, in fact most are probably trying to go more for a tape echo sound than anything else. Even so, as someone who has owned a few coveted vintage tape delay units, I still think bucket brigade delays do a better job when it comes to resembling an actual tape echo verses any of the pt2399 delays that I have heard. The only benefit that I see with some of the pt2399 pedals is that many of the pedals seem to offer a lot of other variables and controls that can be tweaked such as things like tape wow and flutter for example. Where as for the most part besides maybe some modulation control,most bucket brigades will typically just feature your standard delay settings. I'd like to see a pedal come along that was like the Strymon El capsitan as far as having all the different features and controls to perfectly mimic an actual tape delay except for its time delay ic's have them be actual bucket brigade if possible? But then again if they did something like that it would probably cost as much as just buying a fulltone real tube tape echo?
I know there are some coveted PT2399 delays that have come along one that comes to mind immediately is the Mad Professor. However, I just don't get the love. To me a pt2399 based delay next to a bucket brigade is just lifeless sounding. The darkness that people supposedly do not like with bucket brigade delays has never really been so noticeable to me that it bothered me so much so, that I just had to get rid of the pedal altogether. I also get that not all pt2399 pedals try and mimic bucket brigade delays, in fact most are probably trying to go more for a tape echo sound than anything else. Even so, as someone who has owned a few coveted vintage tape delay units, I still think bucket brigade delays do a better job when it comes to resembling an actual tape echo verses any of the pt2399 delays that I have heard. The only benefit that I see with some of the pt2399 pedals is that many of the pedals seem to offer a lot of other variables and controls that can be tweaked such as things like tape wow and flutter for example. Where as for the most part besides maybe some modulation control,most bucket brigades will typically just feature your standard delay settings. I'd like to see a pedal come along that was like the Strymon El capsitan as far as having all the different features and controls to perfectly mimic an actual tape delay except for its time delay ic's have them be actual bucket brigade if possible? But then again if they did something like that it would probably cost as much as just buying a fulltone real tube tape echo?