Matt300ZXT
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This good for 80s hair style delay and easy to set up/intuitive or is it too much for me with little patience to deal with? Lol
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EyesOfTheSouth!
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I have used both the DD-20 and the DD-200. But for straight up 80’a delay, I prefer the newish DD-3T. It’s simple and has the most natural decay of all three. It’s warm like analog but has all the benefits of digital……especially when used in the loop of a high gain amp. It has replaced many delays for me including the DIG, El Capistan, and Nemesis.
TheGreatGreen
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It's easy to use and sounds great. Pick out what kind of delay you want by spinning the Mode knob, then twist the knobs and you're ready to go.
Left pedal to bypass the pedal, right pedal can be set either for tap tempo or cycling through the 4 savable presets.
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Matt300ZXT
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Well there's a local guy selling one for $100. It looks to be in good shape. Once I saw Leon Todd doing a couple videos on it, I figured it was good enough for me. I'll just have to pirate someone else's settings for a good 80s hair lead tone 
TheGreatGreen
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Well there's a local guy selling one for $100. It looks to be in good shape. Once I saw Leon Todd doing a couple videos on it, I figured it was good enough for me. I'll just have to pirate someone else's settings for a good 80s hair lead tone
There's really no single "80's hair metal" sound when it comes to delay. I guess if you had to come up with something for that, you could say it's either a standard digital delay somewhere between 300-500ms with one or two extra repeats, low in the mix. If not that, then it's a digital ping pongy stereo delay, roughly the same delay time.
Personally speaking, I can't get along with a delay unless there's a tone control to cut the highs, or else all the trebly stuff fights for attention and mushes up everything by distracting from the playing.
I know the DD20 does that first thing. Not sure if it does stereo ping pong. But even if it doesn't, only like 1% of players actually play in stereo so who really cares. Most of the big ambient stereo stuff is done in the studio only anyway.