BOSS DD-500 Digital Delay Pedal

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Weight	2.2 lbs
Dimensions	5.5 × 6.75 × 2.5 in
Product Condition	USED

A Full Featured Delay Monster

Packed with twelve distinctive, fully editable delay modes, the BOSS DD-500 digital delay pedal provides you with unlimited creative possibilities. The DD-500 also gives you a graphic display that’s incredibly easy to follow while performing and editing, onboard patch memories for storing your favorite effect configurations, a phrase looper for creating mind-blowing layered performances, and customizable control settings for real-time expression that’s second-to-none. And with 32-bit/96kHz processing throughout, you can expect studio-level sound every time you stomp on the DD-500. When we evaluated the DD-500 we conjured up everything from basic echoes to lush spatial textures to spot-on emulations of vintage delays. The BOSS DD-500 is a one-of-a-kind digital delay pedal!

Twelve Versatile Delay Modes and Deep Editing Options

With the DD-500’s 12 delay modes, you can create any delay sound from warm, gritty vintage delays and tape echo to complex modern delay lines that employ pitch shifting, filtering, and other unique processing. With the hands-on knobs, it’s easy to shape essential parameters and create great sounds immediately. Each delay type also includes a semi-parametric four-band EQ, modulation, ducking, and many other parameters, allowing you to dive deep and refine tones with great precision

High-Quality Sound Processing

In the DD-500, every delay mode has been carefully crafted for a unique sonic personality and highly musical tones realized by 32-bit/96 kHz processing throughout. And while the DD-500’s delay effects are digital, your straight guitar tone remains 100-percent analog at all times, with your choice of buffered or true bypass operation. In addition to strengthening the analog dry signal, buffered bypass has the added benefit of enabling carryover, so delay trails are not cut off unnaturally when the effect is disengaged

Advanced Features for Stage and Studio Use

The DD-500 has a large, integrated LCD which fully supports the pedal’s immense capabilities, giving you clear visibility of delay time, patch ID, and more on one screen, plus navigation for detailed parameter tweaks, naming, and system management. Via USB, it’s simple to connect to your computer for patch backup and MIDI I/O opens up many additional control options with advanced setups such as a pedal board incorporating complex switchers like the BOSS ES-8 Effect Switching System

Deep Real-Time Control

With its freely assignable controls, the DD-500 delivers creative expression and performance flexibility. By default, the A, B, and TAP/CTL switches offer intuitive control for two patches, bypass, bank selection, tap tempo, and more. However, they can be customized to operate in alternate ways, such as providing top-level access to three different delay patches, or allowing you to use two patches at once for layered delay sounds. Instead of tap tempo, you’re able to assign the TAP/CTL switch to various real-time functions like Warp or Twist for a wide range of expressive effects. Even more parameters can be manipulated via an optional expression pedal or external switches, and MIDI I/O opens up many additional control options with advanced setups.

DD-500 Delay Modes

Standard: Clear digital delay
Analog: Emulates classic analog “BBD” delays like the BOSS DM series
Tape: Emulates the warm sound of tape-based delay units, including the Maestro Echoplex and legendary Roland RE: 201 Space Echo
Vintage Digital: Emulations of early digital delays from the 1980s, including Roland’s famous SDE-2000 and SDE-3000 rack units, and the BOSS DD-2
Dual: Two different delay lines that can be connected in series or parallel
Pattern: Sixteen different delay lines that can be set independently for all types of unique rhythmic effects
Reverse: Backwards delay for cool psychedelic effects and other unique tones
SFX: “Special effects” delay with a highly unique sound character
Shimmer: Pitch-shifted delays for lush, heavenly textures
Filter: Delay with a sweeping filter
Slow Attack: Ethereal delays that fade in with playing dynamics
Tera Echo: Spacious, animated ambience effect derived from the innovative BOSS TE-2 pedal

DD-500 Assignable Control Functions

The following functions can be assigned to the DD-500’s onboard TAP/CTL switch and/or optional external footswitches. These assignments are stored as part of a patch.

Tap: Set the delay in time with a song’s tempo
Hold: The delay’s feedback is held continuously while the switch is pressed
Warp: Increases the delay’s feedback and level simultaneously for powerful expressive effects
Twist: Adjusts multiple delay parameters with a single press, creating wild sounds similar to twisting the panel knobs in real time
Moment: Outputs the delay sound only when you hold down the switch
Roll ½ / ¼ / ⅛: Cuts the delay time to a fractional subdivision of the current setting when you hold down the switch
Fade In: Fades in the delay sound
Fade Out: Fades out the delay sound
Assign 1-8: Allows you to assign and control up to eight different delay parameters at once