Tapedelay

[Andrew Tarpinian]

On Sep 18, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Tony Scharf <noisetheorem at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Tony Hardie-Bick <tony at entity.net> wrote:
>> yeah..... caution.... i'm impressed, cos... it's way better than i've heard
>> before, but like Andy says, check out the online comparisons....
>> 
>> as a practical high quality stomp box, tho' , it's... very practical ;)
>> 
>> 
>> Tony (HB)
>> 
> 
> I actually had a tape delay on loan for a while (Roland 501).  It was
> really great sounding...but damn are they expensive if they are in
> good working order.  What keeps me from getting a hardware one is that
> it is a machine that needs to be maintained to a high degree and I
> don't know if I have the time and talent to give a real one the care
> and feeding it needs.
> 
> In any case this is a dream for another day.  I've got an album to put
> out at the moment.

I think it depends on what you want: something that sounds good, practical, able to use live, etc... Hardware petals, software etc... can cover multiple bases. I just wanted something old, weird, quirky and that quite possibly might sprinkle magic dust from the ether on something I might be playing one day. Plus it was under $400 and had been serviced recently.