Behringer VINTAGE DELAY VD400 Vintage Analog Delay Effects Pedal, White

This delay pedal is quiet, adjustable and has a great delay that adds texture to your sound. Just as good as many others out there for a great price. In my experience, this pedal has less noise than some others, indicating good circuit design. Yes, it is made of plastic, so it may not be the tool for that hard core touring or bar-hopping musician. For the rest of us, it is a 5 star product.

Absolutely fantastic pedal. For a true analog pedal, $25 is a steal. Please note, this pedal has a actual BBD (Bucket Brigade Device) chip that creates the effect. Other "analog" pedals in this price range (for example, the Donner Yellow Fall for $35) are not really analog, they are digital devices that simulate analog. Is this a big deal? Well, if you want standard delay sounds that "sound" analog, then the digital stuff will do it very convincingly (a digital pedal can do a slap back delay and cut the treble so it will sound warmer). However, the great thing about analog gear is that you when you push it to extremes, you get all sorts of great over the top sounds. Think of the distortion from a tube amp as opposed to a solid state amp. I use this on the back end of an arturia minibrute analog synthesizer, and get all manner of incredible feedback sound effects when I crank up the "intensity" knob and start dialing around the "repeat rate" knob on the pedal. You can't do this with digital pedals without getting all sorts of unpleasant digital artifacts. By the way, the next pedal up that is true analog delay? The Ibanez analog delay mini pedal at $120. After that, the boss waza at $150. So again, this is an incredible value.

Overall, this is a great low cost pedal for those who want to experience a true Bucket Brigade analog delay pedal. I had been craving one for years ever since I accidentally fried my beloved KMD analog delay pedal because it didn't have polarity reversal protection and I plugged in the wrong 9v power supply. :(This pedal scratches that itch.The sound quality is overall pretty good however if you are using a humbucker equipped guitar, it tends to distort the delay sounds very easily. Rolling back the volume knob on the guitar usually fixes this problem. Also some people may really like that low-fi distorted delay sound. That is part of the sound of any analog delay. It's just more pronounced on this one. Still... it has a very lovely warm delay sound, so I can't complain too much. No it's not anywhere near as good as an Electro-harmonix Deluxe Memory Man pedal, however it will get you in the ballpark with some similar pleasing analog delay sounds. Aside from this, the pedal itself is of course plastic so probably not a pedal you'd want to gig with. However for light studio use where you are not stopping on it hard or leave it up on a desk, it's very practical and should last for many years.

Here's why I like this pedal.. 1. It is clean. The analog aspect of this has been thoroughly covered in other reviews so I won't rehash all that but would add that -for me at least- the effect has a warm quality to it that I really like even compared to other way more expensive ones. 2. Not over the top! Some pedals that offer Delay are really good too but don't allow you to really dial it down like this one from Behringer does. And I really like that you can dial in a very subtle effect to add just enough delay to accent the guitar tone without killing it and that's a very good thing. 3. Price. It was $25 bucks - cheap - nuff said. 4. Complimentary. This pedal compliments the other pedals I have on my board very well. It will definitely become a must-have addition of that I am confident! 5. Quiet. I am blown away by how noise free and quiet this pedal is. And yes, I am talking about relative noise as compared to others. Is it dead quiet? Well, no. but for me what little noise it makes is probably attributable to the florescent lights or even the power supply block I am running it off of. So no complaints there. 6: Plastic but feels solid. Yep - the Behringer pedals are made from a heavy grade plastic but I have not a second thought about all of my other Behringer pedals and have played out numerous times over the years with some of them.. in fact an older Behringer pedal I own has out lasted a much more expensive Digitech pedal that I purchased less than 2 years back! Final thoughts: Buy it. Its $25 bucks. It works great! Do recommend using it with an AC adapter or connecting to your board. Keep Rocking!

Well worth the cost