BOSS DD-500 Delay - In Depth Demo 

Fully fledged studio level effects in pedals. Brilliant.

The DD200 is awesome - I've got a few videos with it here if you're curious :)

@@LeonTodd man it’s hands down the best sounding delay I’ve ever used. It really blows the flashback away. You can get so many different sounds from 1 delay type just with the shaping features it’s so good. The big plus for me though is just how well it works with high gain. That’s really what I was after something that sat really well behind my main sound but still sounded huge and great. Boss totally nailed it. Has me curious about the other 200 series is the od200 any good? I’m kind of skeptical about the drive sounds.

I could easily see the need for a dd500 for all the "standard" delays and a Volante for the rest :D

No problem 👍

Great unit, BOSS hit a winner here

Do you know any pedals that do the dotted 8ths and the Brian May double repeat that don't cost so much?

I've only used it off the power supply so I can't answer that unfortunately. Live sets in the forest sound awesome though.

Get a Isolated Power Supply - it will Sound Better running at Full Power. Even a 1 - Spot. Its a Great Pedal.

Javier Aldan you can also use presets A and B at the same time, you just gotta set it up that way. so you can have a tape preset in A and a analog in B for example

Geoff F66 a bit late to the party, but you can actually hold the exit button and then use the time knob to quickly skip through the patches. Not optimal but better than the 2 footswitch option

. example..u have patch 1A and 1B.. if tap is set to patch 1A, ur marker (selector)on d display should be on patch 1A and not B

Late, but sure it can. At least some of the delay types. Haven't tried all of them in depth yet.

It's 10 seconds. However, if A/B simul mode is used, and on top of that SERIES mode, you can actually get a 20 second long delay. But here is the catch, only at the first initial repeat, the rest of the feedbacks are at 10 seconds, because the algorithm doesn't allow the feedback to be put in from B unit into the A patch again. It only feedbacks/repeats in B unit. When you play one note. it sails through the A unit (without feedback/repeats, set to 0, just one delayed signal) and then directly into the B unit since it is series, and then only there it starts to repeat/feedback to whatever that setting is at, and that one can only be set to 10 seconds. If you set this feedback setting (on B) to 0. It actually WILL sound 20 seconds after since this is the lone repeat. But it can only be set to sound once, with no decay feedback/repeat settings. The use for such a delay is quite limiting IMHO. They cut on the length because they thought 10 seconds on each A/B would be sufficient enough. And if people want longer you really can use the FEEDBACK LOOP (but in mono) to send AUX out to external gear (another delay perhaps) and then back in again, and then you can increase the maximum delay time as much as you want. That "another delay" hasn't got to be another DD-500, or TimeLine or posh fancy high end gear. Just another simple delay with long delay possibilites. Most small form factor delay pedals, has this long delays as a hidden feature. TC Electronics all FlashBack delays has 7 seconds if you want them to. But to set DD-500 to use it as an additional efx/send return takes up the stereo in and outs, and you can only use that feature in mono. It's a SYSTEM WIDE setting. Then if you keep that physical setting with 2 extra patch cables, you have to program every other preset for this setup too. In mono. Say for every preset that doesn't need that extra pedal in the chain, you must program every preset to 0 setting in the feedback loop, so the external delay don't mess with your settings for each preset. Just some. A serious trade off, for sure.

Try the enhancer block

Hey made a video on that

Using the AX8 for the amp tones, DD500 after the amp/cab models. Stereo out to a UAD Apollo interface.

I'd do a few things different about this demo now that I've done a lot more - exploring feedback/self oscillation definitely being one of them.

@@LeonTodd I’d love to see you explore it more! I’m currently thinking about replacing my timefactor

at 16 min it goes up to about 10: 30... so theres that. ;)

@@LeonTodd maybe is time for a revisiting video :D

I'm not 100% sure but the pattern delay should be able to get there. I'll try it out and let you know.

You can definitely do it, it just lacks the diffusion parameter the lexicon has. But you can have up to 16 panned delay taps on the Boss and modulation :D

Maybe using the 16 panned delay taps with modulation it's possible to recreate the holdsworth ud stomp modulated sound. Thank u Leon, i'm definitely buying one of those.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cXDqv42ArSs.html This guy makes a really cool preset based on the UD Stomp!

I love Chords of Orion! Yeah the Pattern delay would be all over those UD tones.

The DD-500 is a tad more versatile but the Timeline is a tad more "grab and go". They're both incredible.

@@LeonTodd yeah, ok, we got the differences... But which one would you prefere? 🤔

@@NuZTheRockerOFFICIAL I find the boss to be better for making presets and fiddling with the controls. I find it far easier to use. Tone wise the strymon is a bit better but harder to use on stage as the screen is smaller.