BossDD500 Digital Delay
The DD-500 is the strongest and most adaptable stompbox delay ever made. This amazing sound-creation toolbox contains 12 unique delay modes with outstanding audio quality, in addition to extensive editing options, a graphic display, patch memory, MIDI, and many other features. The DD-500 will take your music to places you never imagined it could go, from straightforward echo to flawless imitations of vintage delays to breathtakingly lush spatial soundscapes.
Features
- - Studio-level sound with class-leading 32-bit AD/DA, 32-bit floating-point processing, and 96 kHz sampling rate
- - 12 versatile delay modes from vintage to modern deliver unlimited creative possibilities
- - Unrivaled real-time expression with customizable control settings for onboard and external switches
- - Graphic LCD for easy, intuitive operation while performing and editing
- - Onboard patch memories and hands-on controls
- - Equipped with a built-in Phrase Looper, MIDI, USB, and more
- - Selectable buffered-bypass or true-bypass operation
- - Runs on four AA-size batteries or a PSA-series AC adapter
- - Dedicated editor software is available
DD-500 Version 2 Software Newly Added Features - - Improved A/B Simul mode with more flexible control and input/output options
- - Five newly added effects, including vintage Binson Echorec 2, touch-responsive filter delay, and more
- - Additional detailed tone-editing parameters such as feedback damp and modulation mode
- - More flexible routing options with the new Insert Loop function, selectable EQ insertion position, expanded independent delay connection modes, and more
- - Enhanced effects with extended parameters and sound quality refinements, including stereo pitch shifters and overtone effects for Shimmer mode, effect targets for Slow Attack mode, and more
SPECIFICATIONS
Sampling Frequency
- - 96 kHz
AD/DA Conversion
- - 32 bits
Processing
- - 32-bit floating-point
Delay Modes
- - 12 Modes
- - Standard
- - Analog
- - Tape
- - Vintage Digital
- - Dual
- - Pattern
- - Reverse
- - Tera Echo
- - Slow Attack
- - Filter
- - Shimmer
- - SFX
Maximum Delay Time
- - 10 sec. (Depends on delay mode)
Phase Loop
- - 60 sec. (96 kHz/MONO, 48 kHz/STEREO)
- - 120 sec. (48 kHz/MONO)
- - Delay can be applied
Patches
- - 198 (99 banks x 2 [A] [B]), 297 (99 banks x 3 [A] [B] [C])
Pedal
- - Footswitch x 3 [A][B][TAP/CTL]
Knobs
- - MODE
- - TIME/VALUE
- - FEEDBACK
- - E.LEVEL
- - TONE
- - MOD DEPTH
Display
- - Graphic LCD (128 x 64 dots, backlit LCD) x 1
Nominal Input Level
- - INPUT A/MONO, B: -10 dBu
Maximum Input Level
- - INPUT A/MONO, B: +8 dBu
Input Impedance
- - INPUT A/MONO, B: 1 M ohm
Nominal Output Level
- - OUTPUT A/MONO, B: -10 dBu
Maximum Output Level
- - OUTPUT A/MONO, B: +8 dBu
Output Impedance
- - OUTPUT A/MONO, B: 2 k ohms
Recommended load Impedance
- - OUTPUT A/MONO, B: 20 k ohms or greater
Bypass
- - Buffered bypass or True bypass (with relays)
Connectors
- - INPUT A/MONO, B jacks: 1/4-inch phone type
- - OUTPUT A/MONO, B jacks: 1/4-inch phone type
- - CTL 1,2/EXP jack: 1/4-inch TRS phone type
- - USB COMPUTER port: USB type B USB-MIDI
- - MIDI (IN, OUT) connectors
- - DC IN jack
Power Supply
- - Alkaline battery (AA, LR6) x 4
- - AC adaptor
Current Draw
- - 200 mA
Expected battery life under continuous use (These figures will vary depending on the actual conditions of use.)
- - Alkaline: Approx. 7 hour
Accessories
- - Owner's manual
- - Leaflet "USING THE UNIT SAFELY"
- - Alkaline battery (AA, LR6) x 4
Options (sold separately)
- - AC adaptor: PSA series
- - Footswitch: BOSS FS-5U, FS-5L
- - Dual Footswitch: BOSS FS-6, FS-7
- - Expression Pedal: BOSS FV-500H, FV-500L, Roland EV-5
SIZE AND WEIGHT
- - Width: 170 mm l 6-3/4 inches
- - Depth: 1387 mm l 5-7/16 inches
- - Height: 62 mm l 2-1/2 inches
- - Weight (Including battery): 1.0 kg l 2 lbz 4oz