Wet and Wild

BOSS SDE-3000EVH DUAL DIGITAL DELAY

- Chris Gill

EDDIE VAN HALEN never stopped using his pair of Roland SDE-3000 digital delays ever since he first installed them in his stage rack in 1985. His SDE-3000s played a crucial role in his mammoth sound, first in a stereo setup in the Eighties and from the early Nineties onward, as part of a wet/dry/wet rig he innovated, which employed a dry signal in the center and a mix of dry/delay processed signals on the left and right. This gave Van Halen's guitar a huge, reverb-like spread and depth without sacrificing an atom of punch, clarity or definition.

Anyone who has attempted to configure a wet/ dry/wet rig like Ed’s knows it can be an expensive proposition involving reactive load boxes and speaker-to-line level converters. Fortunately, about eight years ago Ed and his expert team at EVH joined forces with Boss to start development on the SDE-3000EVH Dual Digital Delay pedal, which combines a pair of SDE-3000 delays with an ingenious set of features that significantly simplify a wet/dry/wet rig for studio and stage applications.