Harley Benton D-SEED 5-stars Reviews

Cheap but very versatile and good quality delay pedal.

This delay pedal has quite a lot options for its money. The awesomeness of it is that for about 70 EUR you got two channel up to 6 seconds of delay pedal with tap tempo option and additional opportunity to add external switch.

It is surprisingly well built - shellcase is solid and smoothly printed. Switch knobs are tight and has tiny click when you press it. Probably same as for Darkglass Supersymmetry. Small thing but really pleasant.

It has four delay mods and all of them sounds great. Carbon Copy replicates played notes precisely even with high gain distortion pedal it does not become a huge sound mess.

Analog mode sounds really like analog delay pedal with a little cut of high frequencies. It really good for rhythm playing so repeats won?t jumps over your playing. Modulation adds modulation like effect to repeats and can make your solos or clean guitar a bit more thick and interesting and even sci-fi sounding. Fun to play some slides using this mode. Reversal mode is nice for non-standard effects. It might not be often usable, but sometimes it adds a little schizo to your tone.

Didn?t try external pedal, no need of that so can?t comment that option. Tap tempo feature adds more versatile to pedal, but anyways delay time has wide range and can cover all player?s needs. Pedal produce no additional noises that means it has good quality of built. It also can be used on bass if you want to and it will still sound great.

Great Pedal for the money

Needed a decent digi delay that had good sound and did not break the bank this is great:

Mode1) digi delay is great , very high sound quality, comparable to boss and other good quality delays, Mode

Mode 2) Analog EDIT: When i first bought this, i did not like this mode at first, after owning this pedal for a year now, and learning more about and owning more analog delays, i can say this is a good analog delay sound, not as good as some others i have but close, and is cheaper by a way than those pedals

Mode 3) Modulation, i love this mode, its like mode 1 but with a nice chorus on it, very usable sound,

Mode 4 ) reverse, this mode is fun but would require much practice to use effectivly, its an odd effect and i feel the effect Time parameter is the one to master on this mode, more experimental for sure than the other modes

great delay

not easy to find a delay with all these features, even more expensive units are not obvious, this has many functions, each type is well made, is built with care, it is not small as big, the buttons for activating and tap tempo are well made and do not give any problem. The dual-channel is really helpful and very powerful.

The analog type is incredible how beautiful despite being a fully digital unit, raccomanded.

Very nice product

This is a very nice product expecially for the money you give to buy it! The analog and reverse sound that i use are fantastic! Very nice simulations! The handling is great! It's tap is functionable although it seems strange to push both buttons, is very easy to do! The buutons are not the classic one pedal buttons. They are very soft and easy to push! The 2 memories are also very useful, and i believe that saving each change you make on the memory by just pushing the left button, is very easy and useful too. Overal this is the best digital simulation delay i have ever work with!

The only thing that i did not like is that when you are on the analogue mode and you turn the time button suddenly, it does not make the characteristic effect that usually the analogue delays do....something that i used to enjoy a lot on my boss me70 multieffect prossecor although it was a simulation, too!

Budget pedal without the budget sound.

From my limited experience with this pedal, I can already tell that it's a keeper.

It comes with all the features of some of the most expensive delay pedals out there.

Nothing wrong with the unit to date.

Low price, great sound, two storable channels

The main reason why i purchased this delay were the two storable channels.

The Harley Benton D-Seed has got four different modes:

Digital - This one sounds great. I couldn't hear any sound losses and it gets up to 6 seconds delay!

Analog - I don't use this one very much, because i already have a great sounding analog delay. But it also sounds great, compared to the (more expensive) one i've got.

Modulation - Hard to describe. Sounds very good and mixes in some kind of chrous to the delay. If you like more experimental sounds, this would be the one of your choice.

Reverse - The only channel i wouldn't recommend. Compared to other reverse delays it seems like the reversed delay-sound gets "cut off".

The controls are self-explaining:

Mix - Turn it to the left, to hear more clean-guitar-sound. Turn it right and you will hear more delay and less clean signal

Mode - With this one you switch between the four modes explained above.

Time - This knob controls the delay time. In digital mode it goes up to 6 seconds!

F.Back - It controls the feedback of the delayed signal.

All knobs are confortable to turn. Not to heavy and to too slight. The mode knob snaps in on the channel you choose.

You can even save two of your favourite sets. Great feature, which is hard to find in this price range. With the left footswitch you switch between channel A and B. With the right footswitch you turn the bypass on and off.

Finally it has got a tap tempo. This is why i only gave 4 stars to the handling. To tap, you have to press the two footswitches at the same time to tap in. I sometimes had some trouble with it, that i accidentally turned the pedal into bypass or changed the channel.

All in all i would strongly recommend it.