Joined the forum just to rant about my new boy wonder. My Memory Boy came yesterday!!!
New $88 w/free shipping (Made a best offer on ebay)
First off, I play keyboards , not guitar. But many of my keyboards are pick-up based (Clavinet, Hohner Pianet T) and all of them are analog. Ive also tried on my line level keyboards and it works equally well with those. Most of my delay use is for an old 1973 Korg/Univox mono-synth
Ive been useing a DOD FX96 analog delay for years and loved it but its falling apart.
I play sorta space-rock, so i prefer longer delays and have always enjoyed the low-fi feedback of analog delays and the ability to make noise via knob twisting(which can now be done w/exp pedal on Memory Boy!).

If your anything like me you’ll absolutely LOVE this pedal! And even if your not into the noises you can get nice clean delays. One thing that takes a sec to get used to:
DEPTH knob its strictly for modulation. If you dont want trippy modulation this knob must be down to 0.
(^In answer to an earlier post complaining about the modulation always being on, it can be turn off)

In addition you get a great chorus effect and a decent vibrato. Both can be used alone or in combo with the delay.
I got an expression pedal and controlling the modulation rate with it is a blast. You can create a rhythmic modulation and play melody over it.
You can always switch and control delay time with exp pedal and do the space-ship thing hands-free!
Exp pedal extends delay time quite a bit as well.
Only one night of tinkering so far but I’ll update if I find anything negative.

Honestly , this is an amazing deal. Im guessing theses $90-$100 deals will dissipate as the pedal becomes more well known, then youll have to pay $139 at guitar center, get one now !!!

I’ve owned a Memory Boy for about three weeks. Don’t get me wrong. I dig it. Especially the weird square wave effects. But I tried a Memory Man (XO) at Guitar Center the other day and, well, the repeats seemed much more distinct. And the whole presentation was cleaner. And it has that gain control that adds a little tape-like overdrive to the sound when you’re really ripping Edge style. It was very appealing to me. Of course you lose the square wave with the Memory Man. And the Man is three times more expensive. Anyway I’m thinking of trading in the Boy for a full fledged DMM.

One other thing. Has anyone compared the old school sheet metal Memory Man with the new die-cast version (XO)? Is there a consensus?

I don’t have the budget or the space for the Memory Man, so this was the next best choice. Here is what I love: the warmth and decay on the repeats, the expression pedal (optional of course), the fact that it is small, that it is in die cast aluminum, and that it is cheaper and variable than the digital delays I had.

This was the pedal that won me over.

I got a memory boy since 2 weeks, and basically I love it, but I’m very disappointed. In the manual it says if you turn up the feedback to the maximum it would run away and self-oscillate. and that was the reason why I wanted an analog delay. but the feedback dies away pretty fast even when the knob is turned up to the max. ARRRH.
I’m using the power adapter it got shipped with. has my problem anything to do with power issues??? should I use an adapter that gives more than 9V??? or a battery??? I’m really a guitar player not to deep into electronics, so I’m kinda helpless and very disappointed. I want to crank up the feedback so I can get this pitch shifting tape delay effect when I change the delay time with a foot pedal, but my memory boy won’t self-oscillate.

Can anybody help me? Thanks!

HEY GUYS…i make my first post here so wish me luck!!!))…i have checked some posts here,where it was mentioned that delay time of Memory Boy can be increased through the use of an expression pedal…Has anyone else accomplished that??? I mean the extra time u get is a still “clean” delay or gets a bit “fuzzy”??? And if there is any possibility to do that which is the suitable exp pedal for that??? Roland EV-5 or Moog EP-2 or something else???

I just received my MB yesterday. I placed it after Big Muff but before digital delay. Its not like any delay I’ve ever heard, its far out. I’m inclined to suggest calling it something else, maybe “Psychedelic Repeating Madness with Drones”. Not a very marketable title though.
It is a difficult pedal to operate sometimes. Careful operation is required to prevent runaway oscillations. I’m wondering how much my experience will enhanced by adding a expression pedal.
In the box was a warning about using the power supply provided and no other. The funny thing is that the power supply is marked “for BOSS and Ibanez”. Has anyone used a DC Brick or similar device without turning the MB into a paperweight? I need to clean up my power supply cable mess, but I don’t want to fry any of my pedals in the process.

I don’t know what can cause your MB to act like that, but I have to say that not everything of Boss is digital, and the POG is digital