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The 104 is a great analog delay, can be a little hard to find and expensive. Worth it though. I think it s a good idea to have several different delays available. A fun thing with the 104 s to put another delay o effect in the loop.

Vsyevolod wrote:MoogerFooger 104...duh...

An obvious choice, but he wanted delay and/or reverb, not just delay.

- G

Brian G wrote: I think it s a good idea to have several different delays available.

+1

Every delay is a little bit different in the way they work and the effect you can get out of 'em. Given that delay often sits better with synths than does reverb, delay often becomes the 'go-to' effect of choice for many applications, and having more than one gives you a lot of creative options.

FYI: The MX-200 has two independent processors; it allows you to have two delays running in series or parallel, with the potential for some interesting sonic mayhem.


- G

^ You know your Lexicon well, Greg ... Great machine!

About delays : i do have an MF-104 btw... awsome fooger. It is fixed with a chain and padlock on my guitar rig... Need a second one for synths

The Lexicon is so cool... This is my guitar rig... I wanted to try the 2 delays of the Lexicon plus the MF-104M at the end (and an MF101 up front). Done. Wild.



So what can be wilder than that? How about 5 delays? Next set up was using the 2 lexicons delays on left channel, input into the MF-104, then using the FB insert of the MF-104 into two more delays of the Lexicon's right channel. Wilder crazy!!!

Reverb and delay junk here

With synths (Moog or Clavia VA and Electro) I use an EHX Cathedral as stated before. It can't go Massive Attack's pristine, but it's quite complete and tweakable for the price and footprint. Mine is quite all the time set on spring settings as they can give a nice vintageish character to the sound.
Same for the Boss RE20: the reverb gives a nice color, however it's not tweakable. A pity.

The 104 can -under certain settings- sound like a springy-boxy reverb. I like it a lot, it's like just wetting a bit your synth sound. It's obviously a nice delay.

Oh: I tried a real spring reverb stompbox, the Headroom. I think there is something wrong with impedances or... (well I'm not too familiar with that ) anyway: I often make springs distort, as if the synths' had too hot outputs. At low settings though, I can say that it does not behave like with guitars: spring reverbs can make the sound character of a guitar part. Here, it only wet up your synth sound, again. That's cool but more restricitive.

I also use an EHX Deluxe Memory Man with TapTempo. Another character, wilder, more in the mids than in the dark shades. Very tweakable, very reactive. Great for synths if you want something with more attacks and less paddy. Just as the 104, it has this external feedback loop (I burnt mine once with a POG2 set to -2 oct in the loop...)
I tried the EHX Deluxe Memory Boy as my guitarist has one he makes sound gorgeously: quite different than the former and not my cup of tea for synths. That being said, a lot of people like it.

Hope this helps

muksys wrote:Check out the Strymon El Capitstan. Great delay pedal with spring reverb as a hidden feature.

Really?... I didn't remember it had reverb. That's what discouraged me from getting one, with respect to the RE20. The later is quite huge and I prefer a light set up. Thanks

EDIT: ...or... I gave up when discovering the reverb setting was a feature set via a button combo.