BOSS DM-101 DELAY MACHINE £449
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What You Need To Know
1 Another Boss delay?
Yes, the Roland/Boss designers have been quite prolific recently with the digital RE-202 and RE-2 versions of the Space Echo, the SDE-3000D floor-pedal based on the SDE-3000 rackmount digital delay, and now this!
2 What’s so special about this one?
It’s completely analogue. This unit uses bucket brigade (BBD) chips in the tradition of the fondly remembered DM-2 and DM-3 pedals, but it goes way beyond their capabilities by using eight 2048-stage BBDs with targeted CPU control.
3 BBDs are old technology. Do we really need this when we could just have a digital emulation?
Well, a lot of players really like the sound of a real BBD analogue delay and you get that here combined with the versatility that digital
