MatrixClaw
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I agree, I tend to like brighter delays, but most of the delays I've gotten rid of in the past were just too bright. I LOVE the way tape delays and other analog style delays sound when other people use them but they never sound that way for me LOL!I generally dont like really dark delays, because they get buried too much. I tend to like that 80s/90s rack Delay type tone. Digital with hi/low filters to cut the mud and glass.
I do like darker Reverb though. I dont like when Reverb gets that fizzy glitchy type thing in the tail. I like dark and clear. I have been comparing my Lexicon and TC Electronics rack units lately, and I tend to notice the Lexicon has more of the brighter fizzy thing going on, and TC tends to have that smoother, darker thing going on. That seems to be the 2 major families of Reverb.
I have been wondering if I would like the Flashback/Hall of Fame combo, or if that would be too much of a downgrade.
The Vox DelayLab and Double Deca were two others I had. I actually really liked the DelayLab. Not sure why I got rid of that. I don't think I had any major issues with the Double Deca either, but I just wasn't using it, so I sold it. FWIW, I had the HoF with the Flashback and, for about the same price used, I'd 100% just get a Collider.
One of the biggest things to me lately in a delay is being able to see the actual milliseconds I set it to on the actual interface. Aside from the brighter sound of the Collider (mostly on the reverbs, I liked the delays), this was one of the major drawbacks of that pedal to me - I HAD to use the app to get this functionality. Since most of my board is MIDI now, it's nice to have presets precisely dialed in to tempos I generally play in. I could definitely always use a tap tempo, but I only find that useful for just jamming out to an unspecific track or with friends. I could always sync tempo with a click track if I was playing live, but I'm not, so I like being able to set exactly to 500ms, 250ms, etc. especially if I'm using dual delays. It weirds me out when one delays at a tempo that's not a perfect division of the other
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Fair. I haven't tried the RE-202, but I tried the RE-2 next to my Stomp and the Cosmos Echo is VERY close. Helix has a ton of really great delays in it though. Adriatic, Transistor Tape, Heliosphere, Dynamic, Reverse, etc. are all heavily used in my patches. The main issue I have with most of them is that they chose to put the stock settings for most of them with modulation turned on and I generally hate modulation, which makes it difficult to demo the different delays. Once you actually learn how to use them, they are fantastic.Nothing wrong with the HX delays imo (I have an HX one) that said, for my daily driver delay I prefer my RE-202 by a very wide margin to the similar models in the HX.
if I'm using HX delays like to utilize the more unique/oddball stuff on there. Which is kind of why I got the HX one in general to begin with... wildcard pedal slot that allows for a lot of different FX I wouldn't dedicate a permanent space on my pedalboard for