Digitech TimeBender does literally everything

[@dustinsaunders2479]

Most underrated delay pedal of all time

[@PadraicPlaugher]

Agreed

[@henkehakansson2004]

Most definitely! Agree! Criminally underrated. Not even today 10 years later, with the Strymons, Eventides, and especially Boss DD-500 doesn't hold any candle to this one. The big bummer with me is just 4 presets. Since this pedal has "user pattern" where you could record an "tap" and "strum" your own intervals, the presets should be unlimited, since you could save all these patterns of your owns. So if one got tired of it, you bring it out again and strum in some new patterns. I had to sell mine, but thinking there where other pedals - now - that would have come up to this one, or at least near it. Not so. Maybe some other parts in the delay world they have covered but not this one. No other pedal than this one does the following better: 1. Reverse delay: if set on 5 seconds you should not hear the reverse coming back until 5 seconds. Just like with real tape turned over. Others chops it up in small chunks and it just sounds wrong. 2. Dynamic Ducking Delay. A feature I have yet to see on others. If you set repeats almost into self oscillations, and ends on a sustaining notes, this one follows the strings natural decay and turns up the delay gradually following it - BUT! - as fast as you put in a new note, it does not clutter it up, but starts a new one and the delay is heard only for the newly inputed note. Not anyone else does this, and it works a charm in all solos. You don't need droney ambient music for this. 3. Strum tap instead of tap tap. Altough this has tap-tap, that you set the delay with foot, strum works even more precisely with very fast delays, or very long delay. You can't be that precise with the foot. TC Electronic does this too, but it doesn't work that well, or at all. 4. Strum pattern. Endless possibilities. Alas you should have like 300 presets for this almost.

[@javiceres]

I really like what you play

[@thesaj1110]

The best most underrated delay pedal! Love mine.

[@borealico]

Great sounds! I like this pedal so much that I got two of them!

[@mattgilbert7347]

Mine arrived yesterday, picked it up this morning. Best 200 bucks I ever spent on guitar gear.

[@sirius_li]

Thanks for this. Great settings! I love this pedal too. Sometimes I give it a sustained signal (ebow, freeze...) and just tweak it for hours. Makes for great background. Love the pitch shifting voicings and those random, oh boy! Tone and Repeats knobs are so temperamental in its interactions like an EQD pedal. I could go on and on.

[@PadraicPlaugher]

Ha! It’s the best

[@eflamberson]

Fantastic pedal, I just put mine back on my board.

[@PadraicPlaugher]

Elmer Lamberson it’s so good- I’ll never part with mine. It comes off the board from time to time but always eventually goes back.

[@delivrance3961]

as usual...great stuff!!!

[@PadraicPlaugher]

Délivrance I appreciate the kind words!

[@martinmark5100]

Awesome!!!

[@PadraicPlaugher]

Martin Mark thanks!

[@Psyfonify]

420 duuuuuuuudeeeee

[@mrbungle8493]

Very percussive sound delay, I prefer one smoother...

[@robertalvarez9207]

You can do pretty much anything with this pedal

[@LuiskrlozMurgas]

Great sound, i have some questions. How many milliamps does this pedal need? Is the adapter center negative or positive?

[@henkehakansson2004]

Do not bother with center negative, as this is an AC pedal only! It comes with an adapter. Be careful so you don't put anything else into it! It runs on a whopping 1,3 A (not mA) = 1.300 mA ALTERNATE CURRENT. Not DC as all the others normally do.

[@fcknoise]

@@henkehakansson2004 Well, it is not exactly true this. The adapter gives this much power but I think something like 800mA is enough to power it. There is an AC version and a DC version also. I run mine (AC version) of a Truetone CS12 which gives 800mA of 9v AC power and it is absolutely fine

[@henkehakansson2004]

@@fcknoise "I think something like..". No, it depends, while 800mA is still a lot, if you connect everything to it, and make every input/output busy at the back, say a) Stereo input PLUS output b) External FSX-3 footswitch PLUS c) Expression pedal and START IT UP it needs more than 800mA. If you just use the pedal alone and connects one guitar cable in, and one out (not stereo), it needs maybe just 800mA. I had to run mine on higher than that, because I used the lot of it, regarding options and so on. It is the startup, more often than not, that requires initial power juice. After it's up and running you may very well get away with lower amounts. But I don't know how one should fix that... BTW, I've never heard of 2 versions, one with AC and another with DC. That's a first to me. Pix of it or it didn't happen.

[@fcknoise]

@@henkehakansson2004 I had not thought of the fact that stereo might be more power hungry. I have run my timebender on my CS12 for a few years and its never been an issue. It would be interesting to measure this with one of those mA metering units because if the external footswitch/exp pedal thing is true it would be good to know The later timebenders were in DC. They are exactly the same as the AC version but with a converter. There used to be a dedicated website for the timebender but I cannot find it. However, if you search "timebender power requirements" and go to the TGP thread called Pedalboard Power supply, Timebender etc you can see the Digitechrep mentioning the two versions as well. If it would've not been discontinued it would've been standard that we would know it as a DC power pedal.

[@henkehakansson2004]

@@fcknoise web.archive.org/web/2017*/timebenderdelay.com it is gone now, and no later than september 2017 is present on waybackmachine. There is no mentioning of a second version with DC. Again, I cheat looked in the manual again, and it says clearly: www.manualslib.com/manual/380857/Digitech-Time-Bender.html?page=39#manual Power Input: 9 VAC 1.3 A Although it says nothing about that it is minimum requirement, or recommended or anything like that. I powered it with a Modtone Powerplant. This AC 1.3 A is required for a lot of Line6 pedals too, M13, M9, etc. The included power adapter for TimeBender was an AC one at 1.3 A. I think you very well can start it and run it in mono at 800 mA. There were a lot of reasons I sold it, this power was one reason, and some of the others were the 4 preset only, plus that f***** blinking BLUE led that drove me silly as it "showed tempo" at 10 milliseconds and could give you an epileptic seizure for less. That led was probably the only thing that is visible on earth, from the moon, apart from the chinese wall... and there was some minor nit picking quirks when doing a HOLD in regular delay mode, which - if one let it run for a minute - the loop fell apart and the tempo and ping pong delays went askew in the stereo field, and was thrown off at the beat. It didn't sync to through the zero point all of the time. But other than that ... stellar .... ;-)

[@joshuafreedman7703]

I really wish to hell you had included more demos of normal sounds as well instead of exclusively doing that super-ethereal jackshit.

[@PadraicPlaugher]

Joshua Freedman hi josh! There are lots of videos on KZbin showcasing the more mundane aspects of the timebender- check out the ProGuitarShop video on it. My channel leans heavily towards “super-ethereal jackshit”-sorry!

[@luisfelipenicodemus2055]

@@PadraicPlaugher super ethereal jackshit is the reason people buy this pedal for the first place, at least thats my case

[@BrockDavisson]

Plenty of boring videos of this doing boring delay too :P