TC electronics Flashback Delay

Steve Spitz · From: New Orleans, LA, USA

I'm looking to upgrade my Delay unit, and I like a bit of delay with the amp reverb.
Anyone use one of these for steel ?
Do you recall what settings ?
Thanks !

Jack Stanton · From: Somewhere in the swamps of Jersey

Steve,
I'm with you, I love a small amount of delay to fatten it up. I have a Flashback mini, which is cool because you can tone print a bunch of delays and it doesn't take up much real estate on the old pedal board. I pretty much ended up using the EP3 Tape delay setting with lower gain- I think it was one of the tone prints from Premier guitar..BUT.. I have since discovered the Caitlinbread Belle Epoch pedal. It has the tape emulation, but more importantly it had the preamp emulation that most companies put in separate pedals. It's pricey and needs 18 volts to run it's best (I've use it on 9 volts) but worth every penny. Only delay pedal that sounded better to me (and I've tried most of them) is the original Memory Man, oh yeah, and the original Echoplex, which kept breaking down.

Morton Kellas · From: Chazy, NY, USA 1

I use my Flashback all the time for steel on either the slap or analog setting. I own others but prefer the Flashback and also like the true bypass feature which is important to me.

Mike Sweeney · From: Nashville,TN,USA

Glad I found this because I've been thinking about getting one of these pedals.
Been using a Boss dd-3 and although it does a good job I want the true bypass.
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Zumsteel steel guitars, Telonics and Peavey amplifiers, GHS strings.

Johan Forsman · From: Sweden

One nice feature of the Flashback delay is the neat way of setting tempo of the delay, tehy call it "audio tapping"

The way this is done is that you press and hold the footswitch, play (pick) a few notes on your guitar in the tempo you need. Release the footswitch. A great thing about this is that the output is muted when you set the tempo this way, it is un-muted as you release the footswitch. Too me this way of setting the tempo is far more easy than tapping a pretty firm footswitch with your foot.

Johan Forsman · From: Sweden

Also, I really like the Dynamic delay, here is TC's description of it:

"The delayâ€™s output level is actively altered by the dynamics
of the input level. While playing, the delay
level is attenuated, and in between phrases
the delay level is increased. This allows you to
play with a relative large amount of delay without
muddying fast riffs."

Ben Waligoske · From: Denver, CO

I use a standard 4-knob Flashback on my steel board and really like it for it's tone, versatility, and ease of use. I keep it at the standard 2290 setting most often for a digital style delay, and usually just enough for it to thicken things.

I also like the tape echo and mod settings for weirder stuff with a little more modulation, and as Johan mentioned, the dynamic setting is useful as well.

Lastly, as Jack mentioned - if you're not familiar with the TonePrint technology the Flashback and other TC Electronic products have, you should really check this out: https://youtu.be/vMt_0WVx9XE

I too have an EchoPlex simulation (Jack, I think it's that same EP3 setting - we must have similar taste! Haven't tried the Belle Epoch but would love to someday) on my TonePrint setting currently, but it's pretty cool to be able to pick from any of these sound patches at any time based on your needs. Had no problem beaming in various TonePrints through my Sho~Bud's BL705s. Here's a list of all the TonePrints available for the Flashback: http://www.tcelectronic.com/flashback-delay/toneprints/

Johan Forsman · From: Sweden

I'm going to try that EP3 toneprint!

The beaming thing (from smartphone to pickup to pedal) works amazingly well. If you don't have a smartphone you can use a USB cable to get a toneprint from your computer to the pedal as well.

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