I saw all the videos on youtube before getting this pedal, now it's in my hands. It has all the goods that everyone talks about, but no one, not a single video, is mentioning this big flaw. That is, when you go in looper mode, the delay is AUTOMATICALLY ENGAGED!
I mean, you start in delay mode, with delay disengaged, you jump in looper mode, and the delay gets engaged by itself!!! I mean, what the heck is this useful for?!?!?
The normal behavior, what I'd expected, is that if the delay is on, going on looper keeps it on, if the delay is off going on looper keeps it off, right?!?! When I've found that this was not the case I just thought my pedal was defective.
The manual doesn't clearly tell that, it only writes that "if you want no delay sound in looper mode you have to set to zero the blend know". Well big deal!! This means that in looper mode I couldn't use delay! And also that when in deelay mode the wysiwyg setting would be useless (because with blend set to zero you get no delay sound).
With this behavior the looper is at 10% useful.
Another thing that doesn't work as expected: the wysiwyg setting (the sound of the delay coming from how the knob are set on the pedal, when no preset is active) does only activate the primary functions (the ones that you can directly set without pushing the feedback knob). That is, say that I'm setting the tone all the way up (bright tone), then I switch to preset n.2 that has a dark tone. Now if I go back to the wysiwyg setting I still got the the dark tone from preset n.2, while I should got the brigth tone coming from how I set the tone knob! Not very nice...
PROS:
- good sounds
- lots of tweaks and functions
- looper mode (see below...)
CONS:
- looper mode automatically switches on the delay!!
- wysiwyg setting only recalls primary knob controls
- only tape delay sounds
- bypass and tap tempo leds are close to the switches, it could be hard to see them when you have your foot over and/or at a certain angle of view.
