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Best Multi-Mode Digital Delay Pedals in 2023

For a more comprehensive take on delays, see our Best Delay Pedals, by Type article. [lwptoc depth="4" hierarchical="0" numeration="none" title="TABLE OF CONTENTS (click to jump)" titleFontSize="125%" titleFontWeight="semibold" itemsFontSize="110%" skipHeadingLevel="h3" skipHeadingText="Related Delicious Audio Posts:"] For the guitarists who live and breathe delay and enjoy tweaking and experimenting with this effect’s…Click on the title for more

Best Multi-Mode Digital Delay Pedals in 2023

JET Pedals Eternity Delay

The JET Pedals Eternity Delay is the latest release by an emerging Kansas City-based builder that, with this circuit, has joined the small club of pedal companies able to fit a stereo, multi-mode delay circuit inside a compact stompbox case. Although that's an understatement since this device also features full…Click on the title for more

JET Pedals Eternity Delay

New Pedal: BOSS SDE-3000 and SDE-3000EVH Dual Digital Delay

The new BOSS SDE-3000 and the slightly more expensive SDE3000EVH are stereo stompbox recreations of the vintage (and mono) Roland SDE-3000 rack unit from 1983 - actually, of a pair of them, since each unit offers two delay channels. The latter (pictured below) also offers 8 exact settings from Eddie…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: BOSS SDE-3000 and SDE-3000EVH Dual Digital Delay

BOSS DD-8 Digital Delay

BOSS has been at the forefront of digital delays since the early days, and even now that the field is crowded with many excellent competitors, the Japanese company doesn't miss a beat with updates and new, powerful designs (see the recent DD-200). If the DD-200 was a brand new, fully-featured…Click on the title for more

BOSS DD-8 Digital Delay

Intensive Care Fideleater V1 Lo-Fi Chorus/Vibrato/Delay

London's Intensive Care Audio is one of the most interesting emerging boutique makers of the new decade, and the Fideleater, just released in a more compact version, is their take on the lo-fi modulation chorus/delay. This is primarily a chorus with selectable LFO (you can pick from 8 waveforms) and…Click on the title for more

Intensive Care Fideleater V1 Lo-Fi Chorus/Vibrato/Delay

Updated Pedal: Electronic Audio Experiments Sending V2 Analog Delay

Released in its first version in 2018, the Sending is Boston’s Electronic Audio Experiments' love letter to the Bucket Brigade Device, the chip that makes analog delay possible. Based, just like the original, on a pair of MN3005 reissues, this stompbox was completely redesigned with the goal of extending its…Click on the title for more

Updated Pedal: Electronic Audio Experiments Sending V2 Analog Delay

JAM Delay Llama Xtreme

Presented at NAMM 2020, Delay Llama Xtreme is the latest addition to JAM's popular series. It emulates tape machine wildness but also paves new ground. Three 3205 BBD chips deliver up to 800ms of classic delay tone, adjustable through an intuitive layout of three knobs (Time, Release and Level), three…Click on the title for more

JAM Delay Llama Xtreme

Sonicake Levitate Delay + Reverb

The Sonicake Levitate launches a new format for Chinese builder of (mostly) mini pedals Sonicake, which could be described as an insanely affordable, non-mini, dual-effect pedal series. The two effects, in this case, are a classic combo, beloved by guitarists with ambient leanings: (digital) delay and (plate) reverb, in that…Click on the title for more

Sonicake Levitate Delay + Reverb

MXR Carbon Copy Deluxe

The MXR Carbon Copy Deluxe is an expanded version of the classic Carbon copy with more delay time (1200ms), programmable presets, tap tempo, and subdivisions. It also sports a bright switch for a more vibrant tone and two external controls for the modulation's speed and width (internal trim pots in…Click on the title for more

MXR Carbon Copy Deluxe

Diamond Pedals Tremolo

Of all the new effects released by the new (SolidGoldFx-driven) team behind the venerable Candian pedal brand, the Diamond Pedal Tremolo is probably the most intriguing - with the exclusion, of course, of the legendary Memory Lane delay. This compact version of a pedal that already received rave reviews in…Click on the title for more

Diamond Pedals Tremolo

Mooer Ocean Machine

Mooer got us used to tiiiiiny pedals, so the large stompbox called Ocean Machine stands out, to say the least, as an unexpected device from the Chinese manufacturer. The product is a collaborative effort with Canadian producer/guitarist Devin Townsend, and it has gathered a lot of fans since its launch…Click on the title for more

Mooer Ocean Machine

Diamond Pedals Memory Lane Delay

The original - and now vintage - Diamond Pedals Memory Lane Delay went down in history as the first (analog) delay with tap tempo, but the unit received plenty of great feedback for its sound too. It was a big pedal and based on a chip that went out of…Click on the title for more

Diamond Pedals Memory Lane Delay