This is probably my favorite pedal. It can do everything I'd ask of a delay, and nothing more. It's no Line 6 DL4, which has over a dozen "types"--those types are modeled on delays like the Memory Man. I'm fed up with modeling. Just get the real thing and play with it. You can date a dozen people or you can marry one and have a life together. Line 6 is the "speed dating" of the gear world. Tube amps and stompboxes are holy matrimony.
This pedal has a dedicated tap tempo switch, which gets used all the time. It has 8 modes including reverse delay, a modulation section that can emulate ring mods, flangers, chorusing and a mutant slapback depending on the settings of the other knobs, some regular, good old delays (multiple modes allows you to save a couple different settings)--all of which are split up into 3 sections--Echo, Multi Tap, and Deja Vu. All of this is in stereo, too!
There is also a dedicated looper, which gets the job done, but if you're looking for looping and layering as a significant part of your setup (and I am! I am!), look elsewhere. It won't start/stop loops, they're just always running underneath everything you're playing, so that when you bring it back in, you'll never know what part of the loop you'll be starting from. It's cool for pads, atmospherics, and textural stuff, but if you need to bring back, say, a riff, you're out of luck. The looper's essentially a bonus feature.
There's also a high/low pass filter to get this thing to sound more like a bucket-brigade delay with lower fidelity repeats. This thing is digital, but sounds closer to analog to me. It is much harder to get pristine repeats than to get swirly, modulated repeats with lots of...character.
This is a pedal you can get lost in for a long time. There have been a couple days where I decided to play a little guitar before getting down to work grading papers or something, only to find that three hours had passed.
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