BOSS DM-2W Delay Waza Craft Guitar Effects Pedal

This is a no brainer. Get off the cork sniffing vintage hunt. Vintage is a glorious 300ms of delay but doesn't give you a lot of play with a delay pedal. I've had AD9's, vintage Memory Man's and they sound great but not a lot of range. I'm a Delay Head and I'm still looking after this. It doesn't stop for me. I'll keep this in the collection. I love the added custom versatility. If you want vintage chips, look early 80's EHX stereo Memory Man and DOD fx-90. But these are just 300ms delays. Understand you're getting quality and very small versatility. Ibanez wise, look for the Echo Shifter. Excellent pedal with up to 2s delay. Even the Tone-lok series is impressive. You want a modern compromise of both worlds? Look no further than a Boss DM-2W. The custom setting takes most of the standard and adds more than double delay time for most scenarios and doesn't kill the vibe of the pedal itself. I dropped an Ibanez AD-9 plus some for it and I'm not looking back.

Its an easy to use delay pedal that sounds great. Easy to dial in. I bought expensive delay pedals before this that were so frustrating. This pedal blows them away.

Awesome analog delay!

Great instrument cables

Great in front of the guitar amp for quick echo or custom setting for longer delays

The day this pedal arrived, I put it on my small pedal board and practiced for about 2 hours with a band I'm in. My hope was to use it as a slight slap back echo with the occasional longer delay time there if need be. With the different groups that I am currently in, I have no need for a delay beyond 800ms. I felt that the range of delay time was great and easy to dial in. What drives me nuts about a lot of delay pedals on the market today is that you have 7 seconds of delay time on the sweep of one knob. This makes it nearly impossible to change from 300 ms to 360 ms to 410 ms. The custom mode ended up being my favorite over the standard mode. Even so, I found the noise floor almost unacceptable in the delay back wash. I can live with the analog wash under the notes but what drove me crazy was a high oscillation frequency within the repeats. This oscillation was overbearing on the standard mode. I believe it was a three or four octave up Ab on every delay repeat. For the last 4 years I have been using a Free The Tone Flight time delay and have owned a plethora of digital and analog delay pedals( wampler, Digitech, Ibanez, joyo, catalinbread, Empress, echosex2, baby echosex, custom echosex2, etc...)in my 30 years of playing but I have never experienced this type of high frequency oscillation from any other pedal. It might've not been so noticeable within a band setting but at home it was overbearing. I plugged it in through several different amps from a 1973 fender deluxe reverb, a 1967 super reverb, a 1967 bandmaster reverb, and a fishman acoustic loud box. Each time the noise was there especially on the standard mode. Now it has been some time since I played an original boss DM-2 but I do not remember this oscillation being an issue. Also, maybe this pedal could have been a defect? If not, I don't know how this design flaw got past Roland/Boss. Regardless I returned it and will try some thing else. Still a proud owner of many Boss pedals and a Boss fan boy!