Analog Delay pedals

[mullyman]

Yeah I really want analog but it's worthless to me without tap.  :dontknow: With my playing style it's pretty important for the repeats to be in time with the music and I'm not about to start forcing the band to start each song based on my delay.  :laughing11: We'll see if I ever can afford the Deluxe Memory Boy.

Hey, you're the guitarist, the band.....no, the world, revolves around you.
MULLY

 

[Cagey]

MXR pedals are not true bypass.... Some of your tone will still bleed into the circuit. I know this b/c i modded all my MXR pedals to be true bypass 

Maybe on the older pedals, this was definitely true, but MXR says on their website for the Carbon Copy, "True hard wire bypass".

http://www.jimdunlop.com/index.php?page=products/pip&id=366&pmh=products/p_and_e

True hard wire bypass

I'm no techy guy or anything, but I remember reading on this and another forum that the hard wire bit makes it not really true bypass at all. It's like a fancy pants way of saying 'Almost true bypass, but not really'
But then again, it's not all that bad to have one or two buffers in your signal chain if you got a few effects goin' on, it is?

There may be some manufacturers out there who are trying to pull the wool over their customer's eyes, but a true hardwire bypass is not difficult to implement. It simply means the input is directly connected to the output when the effect is turned off. No transistors, ICs, resistor, capacitors, inductors, etc. are in the path. It's actually pretty easy to do, but sometimes requires a more expensive switch than the OEM is willing to pony up for, so they lie. Or, at least mislead/obfuscate the truth.