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ive had an early 90’s DMM reissue for a couple weeks now.
i love it. its a great delay that just sounds amazing.
i ended up adding a 3pdt because i didnt like that it was recording what i was playing before i engaged it, therefore having trails of what i previously played. i also wanted to avoid overloading it when it wasnt on. and finally, when i made it oscillate and disengaged it, some oscillation leaked through, so i wanted to put an end to that.
now its perfect. gorgeous delay with a hint of vibrato on the repeats. excellent. would love to pair it up with a de7.
I own one of these units, recently bought in eBay. I own three more reissue versions of DMM modded or stock True-Bypassed (90’s-2000, early 2000-2002, 2.003 and after 2.005), but this is the one I was looking for to complete my “DMM team” (although I have no intention of getting rid of any of them of course because they are great too, but each one has its own style). It creates trails when the effect is bypassed and the preamp stage is always active, which allows you to match levels of effect on and off signals. Weird but acceptable to me.
I’m very happy about getting this DMM because is exactly the same I owned seven years ago and this is the one that “caught” me forever. Others are or have modded to TBP or they have it from stock, but I’ll leave this as it came (with its black-pointer knobs and a DPDT Carling-look switch – very silent).
After testing it, in a long signal chain with a mixture of TBP’s and buffers, I have to say that I don’t appreciate tone-loss issues [sorry, but “tone sucking” is an “ethereal” (and sometimes nonsense) concept to me] and/or bad soundings.
The delay time is slightly shorter than later reissues and cleaner.
As I’ve tried (based on years of playing experience with DMM) I think overloading is not a problem once you set the level to an appropriate value, even more, you can take advantage of this to add more punch to the signal chain. This preamp has a very natural drive and enough performance above half values until it begins to get the overdriven sound (I place it at the second row in my pedal board so I can’t kick level knob or move it accidentally). In fact, when pushed level to max you can get a warm but solid overdrive, and most important, very friendly to playing dynamics.
Despite being reissues, are these 90’s DMM still based on the design of Howard Davis?.
Undoubtely, DMM is one of my favorite pedals from the EH catalog, and one of the best sounding analog delays I’ve ever tried.
My recent interest on EH boxes is focused on 90’s-early 2000’s period (until 2002) reissues, and honestly, they sound good without any kind of mod (sorry I’m not very friendly to mods), I’ve noticed they are underrated and sometimes dismissed.
I have found difficult to find some reissues of that period because I wanted them originals without mods but, at last, I’ve managed to get some reissues of Deluxe Memory Man, Q-Tron, Stereo Polychorus and they’re great!.
And this is my early 2000-2002 reissue, just like the 90’s-2000 but without the AC cord and an external power supply instead.
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The unit served as demo in a USA music shop and was almost never used, so it has a mint condition.
Regards
Nacho
I’d still like details of those mods.
I just got a Made in Taiwan (90s?) reissue. Sunds pretty good, but I’d like to TB and have the LED as an effect indicator (did the same mod on my QTron a while back).This is mine, not as clean as yours:
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