TC Electronic Flashback Delay TonePrint Series Guitar Effects Pedal

The pedal does not alter the tone at all. Looper feature is an added bonus. Multiple delay modes was why I purchased it. The reverse feature is also cool. Using with a Custom Shop Relic Tele through a Fender Princeton Reverb II (Paul Rivera era design) and the tone is absolutely superb.

So I've used this pedal for around a year and it's a cool pedal. Has a lot of options which is why I don't replace it for another one but I find myself just leaving it on the analog delay setting. The tone print for the flashback isn't as amazing to me as the hall of fame reverb pedal tone print is. Because delay is kind of just delay. But if you're looking for tons of different types of delays and delays with modulation and all that good stuff this is your pedal. But if you just want delay for the basics this isn't your pedal. The mxr carbon copy is probably where you wanna be.

The Flashback has a wide selection of delay effects and includes quarter, eighth, and dotted eighth notes, allowing for tons of different combinations to make some really interesting tones. I love the design of the stombox (as I do all of TC Electronics boxes). My one negative is that there's no tap-tempo. If it had tap-tempo, I think it could be a near-perfect delay pedal. Still, it's a great delay if you don't want to spend the money on something like the MemoryMan.

Bought this as a replacement for one that was stolen (along with a couple others that were on my dearly missed Pedaltrain Nano) ... loved it then, love it now ... just try one, and you may end up thinking the same.

After using a Boss ME-70 for ~8 years as my only source of delay, I finally got a real delay pedal with the TC Electronic Flashback. After much research and testing, I narrowed my selection down to this and the Digitech Obscura. The Obscura was nice, but this sucker offered a wider selection of effects with the same quality of sound. I have only had it for ~4 days but I...I think I'm in love. I don't have much use for a reverse delay, so I know this thing is great because I spent like 45 minutes playing with the reverse delay today because of how great it sounded. All of the settings are great-sounding delays, but my favorite is definitely the tape. The only detractor for this pedal compared to other single-pedal size delays (like the Obscura) is that there aren't any tone-shaping options. Of course you have delay time, feedback, and effect level parameters, but other than changing the delay selection you have no control over tone. For example: the Modulated delay. Basically a flanged/heavy chorus mixed with a delay, but I don't really care for that much warble to the echos. Haven't gotten a chance to plug it up to the computer and mess with TonePrint (which is an incredibly cool idea) so I'm not sure if I can change other parameters in the software, but on the pedal there is nothing. That said, it's a non-issue on everything but the modulated delay for me b/c of how fantastic the preset sounds are. 4.75/5 stars, definitely worth the money. Wish I had the Triple Delay now...3 of these suckers would be sooooo nice.

I use tis in studio and love the tone.