Kmise Digital Delay Electric Guitar Effects Pedal,True Bypass,Tip‑Negative

So when Kmise offered me the opportunity to review their line of products, I jumped at the opportunity to try their digital delay pedal. I wanted to hear what the current digital delay devices could do. As a participant in their Testing Club, I received the effect for free in exchange for an honest review of the product. Previously, I had purchased their US Dream distortion effect without reimbursement, and I absolutely loved it. When the Kmise Digital Delay pedal (KM-08) arrived and I unboxed it, my first impression was that the pedal itself looked quite boring. It has three typical, unassuming (delay) Time, (effect) Level, and Repeat control knobs. It's housed in a thick aluminum casing that has a sparkly brown coating on it. It has a solid feel to it, able to be used and abused over many years. But it still looks rather generic to me. I built a DIY delay project last month because I didn't have a usable delay yet and I wanted to emulate the sound Neil Finn got on the Crowded House hit song "Don't Dream It's Over." That pedal is able to emulate the effect very well. So my first test for the Kmise Digital Delay pedal was to get the slap back echo sound on that song. It was easy and intuitive to dial that effect in. The knob settings were quite different than the ones I used on my pedal project, so the circuit is not exactly the same. The Kmise delay pedal has a cleaner sound to it than my project delay. The repeats are clearer and slightly more mechanical sounding. But it's still musical. Like my other delay pedal it does an excellent job of reproducing the guitar sound on that song. I measured the Kmise Digital Delay pedal as having a maximum delay time of 583 milliseconds. The circuit is self oscillating, meaning that when the repeat knob is turned up to the maximum, the pedal will continue to produce delay endlessly. It's a strange effect, but for some people, it's important. Like my reference delay the Kmise pedal doesn't allow for "tails." Meaning, when you push the on/off switch while the delay effect is happening it immediately cuts the repeats rather than allowing them to continue. That "tails" feature is usually only found on much more expensive delay pedals. I really like this pedal, although I'm not sure if it will completely replace my current delay. I will stack them and use them together on my pedal board for a while. One advantage it has over my current delay is the maximum delay length. But, it's only a few milliseconds difference. My current delay outputs more white noise than the Kmise pedal, so subjectively the Kmise delay sound is slightly clearer. In a live environment that may be an advantage. It's also true bypass and requires a 9v center negative power supply as the case is too small to house a battery. The Kmise Digital Delay pedal can be purchased on Amazon for $18.59. To sum up, the Kmise Digital Delay pedal (KM-08) is an incredibly affordable digital delay effect. It doesn't sound harsh at extreme settings and is easy to use. It's very inexpensive for a device that sounds so good. If you want that clean, non-degraded delay effect and don't need more than a half second of delay time, it's a no brainer. Buy it. The more I use it, the more I think it'll replace my current delay pedal, mainly because it's so clean sounding.

This is the first pedal I have ever owened so I don’t have anything to compare it to but from what I see, it’s a great choice. This is one of the cheaper pedals out there but it still works fine. Because it’s a digital delay the repeats are very clear as opposed to a analog delay which has slightly softer repeats for more subtlety. The digital is an ideal option for dotted eighth delays popularized by bands such as Pink Floyd and U2. But back to the pedal. The dials are plastic and they don’t label the amounts of repeats or the milliseconds between repeats so it does take some experimentation. After I found the sound I was looking for a used a permanent marker to put a dot where the settings were. The picture above shows the settings for a dotted eighth delay at 130 BPM. Hope you have a great time on this pedal!

Sounds great with a decent parameter range. For the price it can't be beat. Great for breakdown contingency/redundancy. Also great if your Rhythm Guitarist is Vanilla.

Low cost, works great. Sounds great with harmonica.

I thought it would be fun to get the cheapest delay I could find, but it turned out to be bad in a bad way, instead of bad in the entertaining way. Whenever this pedal was in my signal chain, regardless of whether it was powered/unpowered or enabled/bypassed, the resulting signal would appear to be totally maxed, peaking/clipping, oscillating, according to the channel strip on our soundboard, with no audio coming through. Even just having this pedal plugged into a power supply caused problems with my other pedals. I expected oscillations with a digital delay, but they were happening all the time, changing the settings did very little

I got the Kmise digital delay pedal. I love how sturdy yet compact this is. I am not an expert but the price point to learn about this is perfect. You do need to provide a power supply as there is not room for a battery. It is great for a pedal board because it does not take up a lot of space. I can’t wait to learn more about how to use it but I had fun just messing around with it already.

This pedal is great for the money. My only complaint is that it just isn't what it says it is. Not at all. It's actually an analog delay with quite a bit of coloration in the decay. I didn't open it up to see what they're using for components. I guess it could be a chip making it technically digital but here's what the difference should be: A digital delay uses a chip to store and repeat the input signal. The repeat should be an exact copy of the original signal without degradation. A Boss DD3 for example is a digital delay. An analog delay uses cascading components to add time between the original signal and the repeat. Running through all those components loses top end clarity and adds a bit of lo-fi distortion. Each repeat is less clear and a little more grainy than the last. That's what this pedal does. So the pedal seems sturdy enough and certainly works, it just isn't what it claims to be at all. It's very obvious. As long as you know that, it'll be fine.

For a very low price it sounds this is good as it digitech delay

El pedal no cuenta con cable o eliminador de luz (es un costo adicional)

Great for it's price for people starting their journey with delay pedals. Simple to use, good sound

simple and works great, cheap, not much more to say

This is for the Kmise Digital Delay (brown pedal). I use this in my amp's effects loop. When I use somewhat 'normal' settings it does its job well. What I mean by that is if I turn the knobs (Time, Repeat, Level) nearly all the way full then it gets incredibly messy and noisy, however, many other pedals do that as well. Overall I like this pedal for the way I need to use it. The pedal feels somewhat solid; however, the footswitch is very noisy when you step on it (not through the amp though). Like many of these inexpensive mini pedals, not sure how long the footswitch will last. It's a great pedal if you don't have the cash to get something else or if you want to experiment with what a digital delay can do.

Pédale a bon marché elle fait le travail . je suis surpris je recommande