Product Reviews by KVR Members

Atrium.

Digital delays are one of my favorite things. My very first digital delay was a Roland SDE1000. Hard to imagine this machine is over 40 years old.

I just checked Amazon, and the SDE1000 is selling for about the same amount as it did initially.

All this to say-

Soundtoys Echoboy has been around for at least 15 years. In the digital audio world THAT is forever. The fact that Echoboy still outshines most delay vsts in terms of sound and versatility is unprecedented.

For whatever reason there have been a LOT of delay devices to hit the market in the last couple years. I feel like Echoboy has lost a little of the attention it deserves. It IS a tad pricey compared to many other delays, however- Echoboy is so much more than a simple delay plugin.

With all the attention being on "lofi" these days- Echoboy has all the bases covered. You can get all the character, saturation, wobble, wonky timings that you could ever want using only one or two instances of Echoboy.

Will I continue to buy up many of the new delays that hit the market? Probably. I'm kind of an addict;P.

That said- Echoboy will always be one of my all-time top 10 favorites.

There are a LOT of delay devices out there.
That probably goes without saying. But it does bear saying that in preface to my brief review of Nusofting's Prima Delay.
This one has been out there for a while and I have to admit that I myself demo'd it initially and did not really give it a chance... I suppose at the time, I did not have the little patience that it takes to scratch the surface of what this little gem can do... so here we are over 6 years later and Prima Delay STILL pretty much stands by itself in terms of what it can do. the only things that I can think of that could possibly come close would be SoundToy's Crystallizer (which is awesome in its own right ...and about 4 times more expensive ;) or Valhalla DSP's UberMod
The point here is that Prima Delay is pretty much totally unique- it can create sophisticated reverse reverbs, rubber ball like effects and much more...but with so much more possibility when you factor in the ability of your DAW to automate some of the settings: decay curve, stereo amt, taps amp decay, tap numbers...its quite the pandora's box and RIGHT NOW it's available for %40 off the regular $45...

I do own a metric sh*tload of delays and I love them all... they all have that certain something that they do... some more than others... and in the case of Prima Delay, there really is no overlap. it's in a class by itself.