The 4 BEST Rockabilly Slap back delay pedals COMPARED! 

Results below! I apologise - I thought I had entered in all the chapters but it didn't save - The blind test is at "12:30" !! Don't forget you can support the channel here: www.patreon.com/Adrianwhyte If you want to learn via 80 transcriptions, courses and more checkout my online guitar resource for rockabilly and psychobilly players: adrianwhyteonline.com/ A: Boss DM2w B: Mystery Brain C: Memphis Sun D: Strymon El Capistan

Buddy I just got a Tell ya… I really appreciate how thoroughly you dive into the vast world of rockabilly and Psychobilly sound… you’re a touchstone for all of us Who love and chase this wild world of music.

Great stuff, Adrian!! I really appreciate your open and honest presentations. I don't recall if I bought the MB before I watched your review of it or afterwards...your's is an opinion I regard quite highly. And to see/hear how the pedals react to the same passage, pick ups, etc. gives a very good comparison. A comparison, I might add, you can't always stroll into a GC (or other big box store) and conduct yourself. When it comes to pedals, I am rather lazy in that I don't spend a lot of time learning all they can do so tutorials (GOOD tutorials) are an important aid. You keep presenting and I'll keep clicking that like button!!

Great Video Adrian , thanks for the comparison! I used the mystery brain all over the album we recorded, it sounded great, but my nephew dialed it in for me and it was his pedal. I’m too cheap to buy expensive pedals. I’m currently looking at that Memphis sun pedal, or the Jhs milkman. They are currently on sale and I have a gift card to GC! Take it easy !!!

The Boss is probably the most boring but I find the texture of the echo works so perfectly for me. It’s so dark and mushy that it’s almost perceived as something between a delay and a reverb. And I find that useful because it doesn’t rhythmically clash when I play fast staccato lines. It just fills in the space between the notes without making a mess. Plus there’s a nostalgia factor because it what my friends and I played through when we started. I instantly recognize that sound.

Big fan of the Keeley Memphis Sun and believe it or not the DanEcho slap back is a superstar in my book

Nice playing!

Grate review Adrian I have the keeley boss re20 space echo and a original boss dd3 but back in the 70s early 80s I used a mk1 Watkins copy cat.if I could only keep one it would be the space echo mainly for its flexibility but all grate pedals in there own right.thanks for the review buddy 😀

Hi Adrian, loved the comparison and great playing! I was wondering if you're ready to release which pedal was which in the blind test?

I have a Danelectro Reel Echo which I love so much but it takes up a huge chunk of pedal board real estate. These are all tempting alternatives. Great video

Thank you for the compassion. I’m just starting to get into rockabilly and I’m looking for a slap back delay for my Gretsch 5420 and Vox AC15. I was kind of partial to the Memphis Sun. I’ll have to check out some of your other videos

Im sure Brian Setzer used that Boss DM2 on the first Stray Cats album. It was the engineer i think said it as the late great Dave Edmunds produced/mixed it.

Have the Memphis in my right amp, and JHS Milkman in the left.. It's trippy cool.

I have two on my board, I have a hotone set up as slapback and a flashback x4 for the rest, though I have used that as slapback. As I am quite progressed in years I have accumulated well over 10 delay pedals and they all do a mean slap. Cool post, now I want another delay, the missus will not be pleased 🤣 Like deployed 👍 😎🎙🎸✅️

When I can play well I will deal with it 😂😂😂😂 thanks for the video Adrian 😎 TCB Rockabilly Rules ☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕

Nice video. At 3:45, I think you forgot to turn off the Mystery Brain when demoing the Strymon. So the first section you may have had the MB on all the time. You turned the MB off the in second go round.

Sorry for the geeky question, but would love to know your setting for the Boss DM-2

Oh man. I have two of them and I hope my favorite one is one that I have.

A and D seemed pretty similar. B was much softer for me. C seemed like it wasn’t even on relative the others lol. I like the A or D. No idea which is which. I have a mysterybrain, but my favorite is my DM-3 running at 12 volts. Thanks for all your content.

Hello Adrian, i would very much like to know what's on your pedalboard!

I liked C then D the best. I'll bet one of those was the Mystery Brain. I have a Memphis SUN which I love and you're correct about it being all about the 'vibe'.

Awesome ...

holy crap you have to teach me "smoke gets in your eyes"

I’m just curious what happened to the volante you had at one point?

Great shootout Adrian. My thoughts and experiences: The Mystery Brain sounds the best. I have never played a Roland Space Echo Unit or Boss Space Echo pedal to compare to this holy grail pedal in our music circle. Also the creator Tavo is an active poster on the Gretsch Talk Forum and I've learned a lot form him there. The Boss DM-2 is my 2nd choice. It sounds great just darker at times. For anyone looking to get into the slapback I'd recommend the Behringer Vintage Delay pedal which is $20-30 and a clone of this pedal. Vintage rockabilly to me sound best with bucket brigade delays like this. Modern stuff (Setzer and Rev Horton Heat) digital sounds better. I have owned and sold (twice now) the Keeley Memphis Sun. I do like the delay alot but not the other two modes (Double Tracking and Sun Room) and found the pedal too noisy with both Solid State and Tube amps. Could just be my 100 year old house with ancient wiring... I did not like the El Cap at all. I now its a widely used and praised pedal. Just not for me. If I ever gig I plan to get the Mystery Brain and the Tonemaster Princeton and call it a day. Cheers from Portland, Maine USA

How old am I? When I was in high school, the Echoplex was state of the art...

Oh that's hard to tell for me 😳So I turn the knob a bit until I think it fits. I would like to try them all 😂 

Any decent slapback pedals that have spring reverb as well? A 2 in 1.

I always LOVED the old blue D.O.D. analog pedal... But the price of those went nosebleed.

As you played them from right to left; 4321⬅️, I think 3,2,4,1.

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Sounds great, but... those prices are out of reach for some of us. Maybe a future video on decent, cheap pedals?

Great demo Adrian, but...... I was interested on your opinion about recreating a reasonably accurate early R’nR tone, but you did not really demo that. The early guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Carl Perkins, used splapback that was heavily damped to one repeat only and very high in the mix. Realising that adding spring reverb started to lower the definition of each note, they solved it by playing very simple one note at time, rythmic chops. My point is that they did not want to beat any speed records and every note was strong and clear. You play really well and I like your technique, but I dont think any of your demos here sounded like Rockabilly, just too twiddly and jazzy.

A. El Capistan B. Mystery Brain C Sun. D.Boss

A al capistan B mystery brain C boss D sun

Partial to the Mystery Brain.

i've got the Mystery Brain and gonna make an idiot of myself and guess that was B.

The MB was D.

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this is not serious, without the Danelectro BLT, and secundo,, you talk too much