Dual Delay question

DropKick74 · 11-18-2010, 12:30 AM

Do you have to be running dual delays stereo (but separate) to get good results or can I still get some good droff tones running them in series with each other. I was watching droff's gear talk thing and he said he has one that does quarter notes and the other does triplets but he runs each of them separatly into different amps. Can I still get a decent daul delay gallop with them in series going to just one amp. I want that galloping delay sound. Also which do I put first in line quarters into trips or vice versa.

Sorry if I'm digging something up but I looked around and was surprised I couldn't find more info on the subject around here.

**thesteve** · 11-18-2010, 10:13 AM

I do it all in series. I'm pretty sure most people do it this way.

Gaetano Paul · 12-01-2010, 11:50 AM

I have not beem able to get the Droff Gallop tone in parallel, I have tried and tried

The closest I have come is parralell, quarter first I think.

DropKick74 · 12-01-2010, 01:22 PM

how do you hook pedals up in parallel using one amp? do you mean series?

Gaetano Paul · 12-01-2010, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Gaetano Paul

I have not beem able to get the Droff Gallop tone in parallel, I have tried and tried

The closest I have come is parralell, quarter first I think.

Easy, you can buy Y adapters for a few dollars at radio shack, or with a good MFX with internal routing and multiple delays you can set it up in there

DropKick74 · 12-01-2010, 06:23 PM

so you could go like this
Delay one
======< > ========
Delay two

Hope that makes sense but anyway basically can a Y adapter merge two seperate signals into one mono signal? I never new this. I know a multi fx unit (I assumed that's what MFX meant) can do this. It was actually while looking at how axe fx does signal routing that I got the idea and I wondered how you could do that with live pedals. (i've gone the Multi FX way and I'm not really running back to that anytime soon. I like my plain old school pedals)

Also does this produce any degradation of signal. Also how does it sound when turning off one pedal but not the other. would you have a sudden jump in dry signal and very little repeats. (i'm gonna overthink myself to death. lol)

boxman2000 · 12-10-2010, 03:14 AM

I run my pedals in series, delays are DD5 into a DD7 and can easily get Droff tones and even Edge U2 double delay.

Don't bother with stereo delay as it sounds good enough to me.