I’ve been agonizing over delay pedals for a while, posted about it in first few days of the [email protected] community. To recap, I wanted a delay pedal with tap tempo and quick access to self-oscillation. I have a “stereo” chorus and tremolo, so once I had decided to find a new delay pedal I also decided it should support stereo.
With the Boss DM-101 and RE-202 as very strong contenders, with a few too many nitpicky limitations at their high price points, I picked up a Strymon El Capistan. It’s my first Strymon pedal. It’s replacing a Danelectro Dan-echo. The Dan-echo is good for the features it has, but it’s a very basic feature set. The Capistan adds stereo, tap tempo, multi-head tape (with controls to adjust distance between tape heads, tape age, and wow/flutter), self-oscillation, sound-on-sound mode, reverb, and support for external control via foot switch, expression pedal, or MIDI.
Not the cheapest option I considered but cheaper enough than the DM-101 and RE-202 with enough of the features I wanted.
Glad you were able to figure it out, sometimes you just gotta pull the trigger lol. It’s tough because there’s SO many good options and you get choice paralysis. Strymon is easily top 3 for delay and reverb IMO. I hear nothing but good things about El Cap.
Yeah once I accepted there wasn’t going to be a perfect choice it wasn’t tough to balance price and features. And indeed the Cap is sounding great.