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Great Delay Pedal at a Great Price.Here's the full review I wrote about it on a vendor site:"I can't believe this pedal isn't more popular, given its incredible versatility. It's a 'digital' pedal, and it's a delay pedal, but it's not a 'digital delay'. That is, Fender is emulating a tape echo, although it doesn't have knobs for wow & flutter like the Boss Space Echo for twice the price."The Fender pedal has the typical feedback (number of repeats), time (up to 950ms), and level (volume of the repeats) controls, but it has two other switches. One is a 3-way mode switch: up top is the straightforward quarter note delay; in the middle is a quarter + dotted eighth delay; at the bottom is a dotted eighth + quarter. Those patterns are clearest when you just do one repeat and turn it up loud. As you actually use the pedal, though, they can do really cool ambient stuff as the delays start to blend together the more repeats you use. The other switch is modulation for the delays, either off or on, and there are internal trim pots for the depth and rate of the modulation; I like the trim pot right in the middle."I've tried several delay pedals, and this one is by far my favorite. It doesn't have tap tempo, and I know that's a necessity for a lot of people, but I really don't want or need tap tempo. I've used a couple of decent analog delay pedals, and I don't mind the degradation of the delays, but I do like that there's a bit less degradation from the Fender pedal. In fact, the cleaner your tone, the cleaner the delays (even after several repeats), but the more gain you have the more it sounds like the delays are decaying ... again, though, that's actually coming from the amp's grit and not the pedal."My two go-to settings are simple SLAPBACK [quarter note mode, no modulation, feedback on 2, time on 3, level on 4] and a bit more ambient [switch down for dotted eighth + quarter, modulation on, feedback on 3, time around 8, and level on 5]. You'll start to run into self-oscillation once the feedback rolls past 5, and that can work as a pad if you keep the level down I guess, but I tend not to use it that way. My slapback setting is pretty much always on."I'm pretty cheap, and I use hardly any pedals (just a tremolo & tuner besides this one), but I can't say enough good things about this pedal. I love JHS, but their basic delay pedal is the same price and doesn't have anywhere near the versatility of the Fender with its 3 modes & modulation."That's all still true, but I'm just not using effects much these days, so I'm willing to let go of this at a steep discount--still an EXCELLENT pedal for just about anyone.