Whether you want to add crystal-clear repeats to your leads, or soak your playing in vintage-tinged ambient textures, the BOSS DD-8 Digital Delay delivers the goods. Modulated echoes are also on tap, as are specialty effects like shimmer and reverse delays. Want to combine digital precision with analog warmth? Then you’ll appreciate the BOSS DD-8’s Warm mode. Conjure up dynamic ambient textures with Warp mode, then explore glitchy, out-of-this-world frontiers with the GLT mode. When we demoed the DD-8 Digital Delay Pedal here at Sweetwater, we enjoyed playing lightning-fast runs through the +RV mode — this delay/reverb combo epitomizes the hyper-processed guitar sound that was all the rage in the late ’80s.

• Analog — Classic analog BBD delay.
• Standard — Crystal-clear digital delay.
• Tape — Vintage tape-based delay.
• Warm — Digital delay with a softer sound.
• Reverse —Backwards delay.
• +RV — Digital delay with reverb.
• Shimmer — Lush, pitch-shifted delay.
• Mod — Digital delay with modulation on repeats.
• Warp — Delay with expressive pedal control.
• GLT — Creates rhythmic, glitchy machine-gun effects.
• Loop —Loop recorder with overdub capability and 40 seconds of recording time (in mono).