On August, 14th I received the Memory Boy from Hotroxuk.com (great service!).
Surprise! It is a “Lucky Boy”! It has more than 2 seconds of maximum delay time, instead of the usual 550ms! And used in conjunction with my Moog EP-2 expression pedal, it has more than 4 seconds of delay!
At 3 o’clock of the Delay knob, you have 550ms; as you increase the delay time past the “Memory Man Territory”, the repeats become progressively dirty, fuzzy and sort of “ring modulated”; past 1100ms they’re just “too Atari style” for cleans, but they do wonders with my Sovtek Green!
I read of another Memory Boy with longer delays here: http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=2403913(the guy writing the first post says his Boy has 1 second of delay; mine has 2200ms).
I e-mailed Electro-Harmonix, and a very gentle John Pisani explained that there is no trim pot inside to set maximum delay time; my Memory Boy is just a “special one”.
Strictly soundwise, I think the Deluxe Memory Man is a better delay: deeper and with a better attack. But the Memory Boy is beautifully dirty, and does insane things the Man cannot even imagine! The square wave is fantastic, the range of the modulation depth and rate (via exp. pedal) are MUCH wider than with the Man; the Boy produces an endless number of chorus, leslie, vibrato, pseudoflanger, pseudotremolo, pitch shifter, ring modulator effects, and an endless number of SERIOUSLY CRAZY previously unreleased sounds!
Moral of the story: BOTH the Man and the Boy are on my pedalboard!