Choosing the Best Delay Pedals for your Setup

19 Apr 2023 by Jef |

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Choosing the Best Delay Pedals for your Setup. · Source: Providence / Bernie Almanzar / Unsplash

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Even if you don’t play guitar, Delay is still one of the most versatile effects across any musical style. We’ve picked out some of the best delay pedals to add to your effects chain and increase your creative potential.

Delay is an effect that allows you to generate quite complex sounds, even with the most basic of pedals. Once you have a feedback loop going, you can get some interesting results by playing with the delay time.

The Best Delay Pedals

Delay pedals range from simple set-and-forget designs to more involved sound sculpting tools with features that come in handy in studio and on stage.

Don’t assume that because a pedal is digital rather than analogue, that it isn’t capable of producing warm tones. We’ve chosen a range of pedals with strengths in different areas, so let’s dive in and see what’s available.

Way Huge Smalls Aqua-Puss

It’s plain, simple, and it sounds great. The Way Huge Smalls Aqua-Pussis one of the most popular analogue delay pedals around for a reason – it gets results.

Stompbox designer Jeorge Tripps makes a mean pedal and this all analogue delay is definitely one to check out if you haven’t already. A simple control layout consists of Delay, Blend and Feedback knobs. Which, is all you need really.

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Way Huge Smalls Aqua-Puss

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JHS Pedals Milkman Delay Boost

The JHS Pedals Milkman Delay Boost is a design collaboration between JHS and Milkman Sound essentially offers two effects in one. Delay and Boost, can be used separately or together, making it a versatile delay pedal.

The maximum delay time on this one is 240 ms. It has controls for the Slap (Delay) channel: Slap, Mix, Repeat, and EQ, plus a dedicated Boost control.

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JHS Pedals Milkman Delay Boost

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Providence DLY-4 Chrono Delay

With a range of extra features, the Providence DLY-4 Chrono Delay is a little more advanced than the previous two pedals. It is a digital delay with a high resolution along with tap tempo plus parallel signal routing, which makes it more versatile.

In addition, you also get controls for Mix, Echo Hardness, Feed Back, Time, and Beat Split along with switches for BPM / mSec, and AB / Tap.

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Providence DLY-4 Chrono Delay

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Red Panda Raster V2 – Delay

Going even further beyond what you’d expect from a delay pedal is the Red Panda Raster V2 – Delay. It offers 1600 ms stereo delay time in three ranges. In addition, the daily has both pitch and frequency shifter functionality as well.

The controls consist of Shift, FDBK, Delay, Blend, Rate, and Depth, plus switches for preset, and wave. With 7 modulation waveforms on hand, plus things like MIDI clock synchronization and a web-based editor that provides access to presets and “hidden” parameters. There is a lot to play with here, and I’ve only scratched the surface of all the features with this one.

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Red Panda Raster V2 - Delay

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Fairfield Circuitry Meet Maude

With their formidable brushed metal enclosures, Fairfield Circuitry’s Meet Maude takes us back to basics with an analogue delay pedal. Here you’re paying for the sheer sonic quality and the level of analogue circuitry used in the design, rather than features.

The Maude has a dark band echo-like sound, with controls for Volume, Feedback, Tone, Mix, and Time. What’s more, the switches give you access to compression and random modulation.

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Fairfield Circuitry Meet Maude

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