Today’s guest review comes to us from Coe S. – find him on Instagram (@coeschneider) and say Hi!
Hey! Those Seymour Duncan guys make pickups! But this, my friends, is a pedal. I picked this bad boy up used at a screaming deal. I was looking to get a delay with tap abilities, but outside of that I didn’t have any preference other than cost.
The feature set on this delay is great, not only does it have tap functions like I wanted, it also has a digital/analog blend function. The repeats on the delay can either come from the digital brain, being nice and clean and crisp in texture and sound, or the analog setup, which gets modulated and slightly dirty depending on how you have the modulation knob set, or anywhere in between as you desire to dial it in. In addition to tapping in you’re timing you can set it with a knob, and this knob doubles as a ratio knob, giving you choices of 1:1, dotted eighths, 2:1, 3:1, and 4:1. That’s a lot of choices. If you read the manual, there are instructions to make it function as a looper as well.
Let me get to my favorite part, the effects loop. Labeled “wet out/insert” it gives you the ability to plug a TRS cable in and run other effects that will only effect the repeats! This is a game changer for me, I love this and I’m not sure why every delay doesn’t have this ability. I have spent hours swapping different sounds in and out of this loop.
There is also an expression control insert for the feedback rate and a sweet little switch for either true bypass or buffered with trails. I usually leave it in trails mode.
I’m very happy to have the Deja Vu Tap Delay, and it has been an inspiration in my playing – what else could we ask for from a pickup company?
Specs:
Tap Tempo
Ratio Control for multiple delays
“Heartbeat” flashing LED for keeping tempo
Modulation control for flange/chorus effect
Wet/dry and analog/digital Blends
Feedback control
