Delay with SLO???

[ceremony5150]

I apologize if this has been done to death, but can anyone recommend a delay pedal for the SLO that will work for the clean, Crunch, and OD channel of the SLO? I find that if I dial in the delay for the OD channel, it sounds terrible in crunch or clean.

 

[IntenseJim]

Apology not accepted. It has been threaded to death.

 

[Racerxrated]

Rack only is my advice. Get a cheaper unit, intellifex that you can bypass with a pedal. Even then I got frustrated. Just stopped using fx. My Jubilee loop is better, and that's from 87.

 

[marshallmel]

Yngzaklynch used a Hardwire DL-8 through mine and it sounded great.

 

[AmpliFIRE]

Any line level delay and an EQ before it in the loop. Problem solved.

 

[Deanmachine]

Carbon copy or tc flashback sort of works .

 

[Moshaholic]

I apologize if this has been done to death, but can anyone recommend a delay pedal for the SLO that will work for the clean, Crunch, and OD channel of the SLO? I find that if I dial in the delay for the OD channel, it sounds terrible in crunch or clean.

Wet Dry is the way to go...

 

[IntenseJim]

Line level means +4 which includes some pedals.
DL-8 is much better than DD20 or Flashback in the SLO loop in my experience..
Suhr Mini mix is your friend too.

 

[s_swanson]

Rack only is my advice. Get a cheaper unit, intellifex that you can bypass with a pedal. Even then I got frustrated. Just stopped using fx. My Jubilee loop is better, and that's from 87.

I agree with this, you should get something designed to run at line level. Ebtech makes a line level shifter, but I've never tried one so I don't know how well they work.

 

[Racerxrated]

Thing about the SLO is, part of the magic is because of where he puts the loop in the circuit. At least I read that somewhere. So what Mosh said is true. Try to go wet/dry so you have an unmolested SLO tone through one cab, wet in the other. Because it does color the tone, like any loop does when used. Too much for me even with a line level rack unit. So I stopped using fx with my old SLO.

 

[jrgrady]

You might want to try a Strymon El Capistan or Brigadier. The max input for these pedals is +8 dB which should work with the SLO loop. I personally haven't tried them in the SLO loop but I've read people have use them with good results. Wish I had found these pedals before I sold off my SLO.

 

[FourT6and2]

It's not really all about the line level vs instrument level with the SLO. Yes, that's part of it. But plenty of pedals work with both nowadays. The real problem is where the loop is in the circuit. No matter what, it will never sound right with time-based effects. Period. You can get it to sound ok. But never great. The ONLY way you're going to make it work well is if you run a Wet/Dry setup using the line out. That way, your time-based effects will be AFTER all the distortion and clipping.

People have had their SLOs modified with a loop bypass switch and the amp doesn't really sound all that different without the loop. And in many cases, people who had the mod done actually like it more without the loop in the circuit.

tl;dr = Wet/Dry, fuck the loop.

 

[Mesa\Kramer]

It's not really all about the line level vs instrument level with the SLO. Yes, that's part of it. But plenty of pedals work with both nowadays. The real problem is where the loop is in the circuit. No matter what, it will never sound right with time-based effects. Period. You can get it to sound ok. But never great. The ONLY way you're going to make it work well is if you run a Wet/Dry setup using the line out. That way, your time-based effects will be AFTER all the distortion and clipping.

People have had their SLOs modified with a loop bypass switch and the amp doesn't really sound all that different without the loop. And in many cases, people who had the mod done actually like it more without the loop in the circuit.

tl;dr = Wet/Dry, fuck the loop.

This^

Doesn't matter what you use, due to where the loop is located in the SLO, you will never hear your delay slapbacks "while playing" with gain, you will only hear them during quick stops. (Clean is fine)

Anyone who says the loop in the SLO is fine has never owned an amp with a proper loop or used a loop before period

 

[Voron]

I might agree, SLO loop not as good as it should be at this price point
I've trien ElCapistan with it and it works well. But I still prefer Diezel Herbert over SLO, but it's just my opinion
Maybe you can try to use G-System to manage SLO loop? but I have no personal experience with it.

here is my El Capistan:

 

[Bronco]

I apologize if this has been done to death, but can anyone recommend a delay pedal for the SLO that will work for the clean, Crunch, and OD channel of the SLO? I find that if I dial in the delay for the OD channel, it sounds terrible in crunch or clean.

Wet Dry is the way to go...

Absolutely.

 

[moltenmetalburn]

wet/dry.