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Jul 13, 2016
Awesome all around delay
2 of 2 found this helpful The flashback delay is a "jack-of-all-trades" delay pedal. It does many different delay effects and it does them all well. It has your standard delay controls (time, feedback, mix) and effect type. It nails the 2290 digital delay (as it should) and the analog and tape delay emulations are very usable, if not quite as good as the real thing. The other settings I don't use as much but having them there is a plus. The looper on the pedal works, but there are much better ones out there. It would be fine for practice at home but I would not recommend for professional use; not a big deal though as I see it more of an extra feature anyway. Speaking of extra features, the flashback has many. This is a 'tone print' pedal, which means you can find or create a setting using the tone print apps and flash it to your guitar with your smart phone. That's right, I said FLASH... WITH YOUR SMART PHONE! You literally select the effect your want, hold the phone up to your guitar pickup (guitar connected to pedal) hit send and it uploads to the pedal. Pretty freakin' sweet if you ask me. I have a nice John Petrucci created delay installed right now. Another cool feature is the tap control. While most delay pedals I've seen with this feature use a tap button, this one you actually press and hold the effect button, strum the beat you want and release. BAM, delay time set. Very Convenient. Final feature I'll get into is the time control switch. This 3 pos switch at the top of the pedal allows you to switch between quarter note, dotted eighth and quarter plus dotted eighth. It is much more convenient than trying to dial in those tricky tones with the delay knob. Overall, lots of effects and lots of features, combined with analog pass through and true bypass make this a top of the line pedal. 5 stars.