http://diamondpedals.com/products/memorylane.html

Anyone seen this one before? Seems pretty choice, but maybe not $400+ choice...
Can anyone justify why almost all analog delays have such STUPIDLY HIGH PRICE TAGS?

Come on, someone has to make an affordable analog priced for the average chump. (I'm looking at you, Effector13...)

I assume it is because they are a bitch to build.

A unique fuzz is far easier to make then a well voiced and unique analog delay, esp with tap tempo.

And I saw it yesterday, hjust teh thought to post it here slipped my mind.

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The tap tempo, I assume, would be a pain. But I'm sure component pricing/availability doesn't warrant that big of a bitch to justify such a ridiculous price tag jump over, say, your average fuzz face clone.

Yes it is. The chips are more expensive, and the Tap Tempo requires a digital portion and PIC programing.

That does not come cheap. Think of this thing as a DD-6's tap tempo meets a DMM and it give you a idea of the cost involved in it.

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A couple of BBD chips only run about $15-$20. I'm not even including, for the sake of the argument, the tap tempo circuitry; I understand that that is completely digital circuitry, and not inclusive in an all-analog style box. It's more a seperate "side-chain" sort of thing going on. So I understand that the TT would be more cost prohibitive. But even the most basic three knob analog delays still run upwards of $200, and that just doesn't seem to add up.

I'm thinking of cracking open my electronics textbooks and taking a shot at making one for under $100...

What about for companies like Ibanez/Maxon or Boss or other producers of mass quantities?

Cost per unit would be much less than boutique builders for their delays (analog or digital, even), but they are still priced nearly as high.

Up here pretty much any half decent delay is over $200.
(excepting the DE-7 which I am so glad for...and have to pick one up...before they go up in price)

Exactly. $350 for a Maxon AD999? **** that.

In a world where a seek tremolo goes for as much, that price doesnt bother me, and remember the AD999 has chips created by maxon, so R&D is quite a bit more.

I dont know, $400 for a delay seem like a better investment then $400 for a klon centaur. Plus boutique analog delays are a small market in comparison to boutique fuzz's

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I didn't know that Maxon made their own chips. That's an interesting bit of trivia.

I agree, delays tend to be a better investment than nearly any other type of pedal. And I've been pretty lucky in picking up my gain units of choice for under $120.

Well, I don't think the price is too crazy and, as of now, I am planning to sell my dd-20 and DMM to buy one this summer.

And if you want a cheap analog delay, here you go- http://www.music123.com/Ibanez-Analo....music?match=1

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I'm afraid to say, but because this analog delay has features that other analog delays could only dream of, they have every right to make it as expensive as they want-and if people buy it, there is no reason they wouldn't keep it like that except for pity for more poor musicians.

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if i had the money that would seem like the perfect delay.....

for me i like to use analog and digital and that is the perfect analog delay

It's a boutique DMM. Considering those go for $200, I wouldn't say the memory lane price is crazy. Plus it's got tap tempo, which is virtually unheard of on analog delays, right? And it looks like it has more control than the DMM too.

I can't help but be intrigued by it, since the DMM is my favorite pedal, but it would be nice if it had more delay time.

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Come on everybody, give props to a boutique pedal company breaking out from dirt/ boost boxes. Although I agree more delay time (atl east 1 sec) would be nice. . .

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