Fender Competition Delay Pedal - It'll trigger your combo 'ooo'

Fender Competition Delay Pedal

'Ooo. Ooo. Ooo. Ooo. Ooo.'

That's a combo 'ooo'

The first 'ooo'? The cost. 79 dollars. The second 'ooo'? It's also a reverb pedal. Third 'ooo'? It has mono and stereo output. Fourth 'ooo'? When you change the delay timer knob, it'll have a really cool effect on what it's delaying. Fifth 'ooo'? big foot pedal, so it's easy to engage and disengage. I'm going to break these down, in reverse order.

1.Pedal Design

What I'm very fond of with this particular delay pedal, is the ease of use while you're actually standing and playing. The Repeat, Delay, and Mix knobs have a grippy material covering them. This pedal is very adaptive between acting like a delay pedal, and acting like a reverb pedal. The main distinction is going to be how you have your Mix knob set. That's why the grippy material is very useful; you could even turn the knob with your socked toe. 

Another big plus, is how wide the stomper is. It's annoying with a smaller button for a delay pedal if you're going between a delay heavy rhythm and into an overdrive lead IF YOU MISS. It's so frustrating if you're trying to be the cool rockstar, and you miss that step. Practicing remedies these kinds of mistakes, but when the pedal's designed with ease of use in mind, the guitarist ends up winning.

2.The diverse effects you can get

You have to play around with your pedals. There's no getting around it. The money you're going to spend on even one pedal - that'll be a 100% force multiplier on your overall guitar tone. I'm in a healthy habit of getting a sense for what every minor change in every knob will get out of a pedal. Out of this Fender Competition? You get a lot. You can get up to a three second delay with one repeat, if the Repeat is all the way on the left, and the Delay is all the way to the right. If you have this pedal, use this configuration first. Hit that low e string. Notice how it's playing that same note, only once three seconds later? Ooo. Now, this'll be difficult because you'll need to do two different things with both of your hands; one hand turns the delay knob, the other hand is plucking that low e. Beeeoooooooooo. Did ya hear that? Isn't that a cool sound? When you change the delay, it actually tunes the pitch of what it's delaying down, to let you know that the delay's being shortened. 

3.Mono and Stereo output

So let's say for some reason you've found this post, and because of that you just had to buy this pedal. When you get this pedal to your doorstep, you'll notice that there's the word 'out' with an 'm' and an 's' along the left side. These are your outputs, and the chord coming out from your amp will plug into the mono channel. What's really fun about this pedal, is you can run one pedal through two amps. This means your fun big amp can be combined with your beginner tiny amp through one delay pedal. Two amps working in sequence means a more definitive tone. The fact that this particular delay pedal will enable you to take your approach to tone to the next level in this manner for its price, is 'ooo'. 

4.Delay/Reverb

To loop this around to the beginning, that Mix knob changes this pedal from a delay pedal to a reverb pedal. There are other delay pedals out there that can do this as well, but this is a Fender. It sounds cool. So, to put the pedal ahead of the overall volume of the Amp, you want the Mix knob towards the right. If you want the pedal to act as a reverb pedal, you want the Mix knob towards the left. When the pedal's not fully mixed into the sound signal, that delay effect is muted, which gives a lot of warmth to the projection of what you're picking. As you 'ooo' when you turn the Mix knob from the reverb left position, to the prominent right delay position, you'll get a feel for how much control you get out of three small knobs. This leads me to that first sound of joyful curiosity;

5.79 dollars

It's worth it. Since it's a Fender, there's a high possibility that there's one in a music store around where you live. This also means that it didn't get bought, and you might be able to get it for a little less than 79 dollars. If you've made a commitment to this baby online, then keep these bullet points in mind.

• It doesn't come with a battery. You can put in a battery, but you'll need a philips head screwdriver to take off the bottom plate to put in a 9 volt battery
• you'll need an additional cable for every pedal you get
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