I have been very happy with the Boss DD500...would l like the Eventide Timefactor more?

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harddriver

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I have been using my DD500 for a W/D/W setup and it sounds good there with ease of use. While I find the DD500 an advancement over my old DD-3's would the Eventide Timefactor be another improvement in algorithm's and quality of delays over the Boss DD500?
 
I like the character of the eventide pedals more than the boss equivalents. Feature wise the DD-500 is second to none.

I’d suggest looking at a H9 max instead of the time factor. The H9s are dirt cheap for what they give you now with the H90 out. Only downside is you really need to use the app to dive into the details, and you need midi to switch patches quickly.
 
Jccobb2 said:
I like the character of the eventide pedals more than the boss equivalents. Feature wise the DD-500 is second to none.

I’d suggest looking at a H9 max instead of the time factor. The H9s are dirt cheap for what they give you now with the H90 out. Only downside is you really need to use the app to dive into the details, and you need midi to switch patches quickly.
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One downfall I could see is usually Boss pedals have analog dry through, and Eventide dont. That could be a big issue.
 
Fair enough. I have mine in a loop of a PBC switcher so I don’t worry about the bypass tone.
 
I find my Eventide Pitchfactor easy enough to use and I think I hear better sounding delays with the Eventide and better fidelity of the guitar tone versus the DD500, I dunno.....

I think I am just itching to try something different.
 
Shask said:
One downfall I could see is usually Boss pedals have analog dry through, and Eventide dont. That could be a big issue.
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I was about to post this too. TimeFactor AD/DA converts your core tone. Considering how many other "do everything" delay pedals out there have analog dry through, that would pretty much disqualify the TimeFactor from consideration for me immediately.
 
Jccobb2 said:
Another plug for the H9 and also H90. They’re both true bypass.
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True bypass and analog dry through are 2 totally different things. Analog dry through means your tone never gets 100% digitized. It keeps your tone analog, and just mixes a bit of the digital tone on top of it.
 
It’s “true analog bypass”. But in action to your point it does fully convert tue entire signal.
 
Jccobb2 said:
It’s “true analog bypass”. But in action to your point it does fully convert tue entire signal.
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Yeah it’s fully bypassed when it’s switched off, but for a delay pedal, that’s kind of a “so what” feature that misses that point when it doesn’t have analog dry through when it’s active.
 
i have the dd-500 and H9 and prefer the boss for delays that don’t alter your core tone.

what about the tc 2290p pedal? the clips i’ve heard from that sound awesome!
 
I doubt it; I had a Timefactor for a few years when they first released and tbh I didn't think there was anything special about it

Switched to the Pigtronix Echolution 2 and never looked back


A couple of my buds have the H90 and rave about that thing though - if I were to dip my toe back in Eventide land that's what I'd be buying
 
I'll probably stick with my DD500 for now....thanks for all the observations on the Timefactor!:2thumbsup:
 
I'm probably going to be in the minority here.... I don't like the Eventide delays. If you want wildly effected tones, then great. If you want something that blends into your tone, I don't think the Eventide stuff does that well. I own an H9 and H90. Neither one gets used for delays. I much prefer the TimeLine or SDE-3000 for that.
 
Skip the Eventide and pick up a Strymon DIG.
I'm a delay junkie and tried everything I could get my hands on.
The DIG kills everything out there IMHO
 
I owned the Timefactor awhile back, thought it sounded too digital, I ended up with the Free The Tone Future Factory, it has a nice 3d quality to it. I'm sure the TC2290p is great if it's anything close to the original rack version
 
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