OWEN O'MALLEY: Welcome back to Gearwire.Com. I'm Owen O'Malley. We're taking a look at the Fishman AFX Series of pedals. AFX stands for Acoustic FX. This is the delay pedal. Like all of the other AFX pedals, or [PRONOUNCED AS ONE WORD] AFX as I like to call them, they are true bypass, they are housed in a durable and handsome brushed steel casing, and they are all stereo effects. This one is input right and left and output right and left; that's stereo. This effect also has a tap switch input. It's the only one of the three AFX pedals that has a different input section, but you can tell this one' fifferent because it's green. Let's take a listen.

Here's the AFX Delay. We're playing through a Washburn acoustic-electric. It's got a piezo transducer pickup. We're hooked up stereo direct to our recording medium. Here's our dry signal.

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Now let's listen to the first side of these effects. Basically, they are split into two sides. There's a classic and modern. Let's take a look at what the difference is in a second. Our first three effect types, it's a short, medium, and long. Basically, those just offer you different maximum delay times. The short setting, the maximum delay time is 300 ms. Let's listen to what that sounds like.

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Almost exactly King Missile.

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Sing along at home. Now, when we switch over to medium, you'll see that our delay time goes up to about one-and-a-half seconds, 1,500 ms.

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Anyway, that's fun. Our next section here is the long delay section that provides up to 2,900 ms, almost three full seconds. Let's just check out the ping-pong effect first though. Ping-pong is just basically a stereo delay.

[OWEN O'MALLEY PLAYING ACOUSTIC-ELECTRIC GUITAR WITH THE FISHMAN AFX DELAY ENGAGED]

Let's lower the delay time. We changed the [LAUGHS]. All right.

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That's fun. Now the difference between classic and modern here, classic does like a lot of delay pedals is if we play at a certain speed and then we change the delay time we hear detuning. Let's actually go to medium here for a lower delay time.

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Which is a lot of fun. Let's set up our repeats and hope this would be just more echoes so we can really hear this.

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Kind of fun. Now, if we switch over to the modern side, however, we can just increase the speed a little with the delay time or decrease it without changing our pitch.

[OWEN O'MALLEY PLAYING ACOUSTIC-ELECTRIC GUITAR WITH THE FISHMAN AFX DELAY ENGAGED]

See. So that's the basic difference between classic and modern. The delay, like the other pedals in the AFX series has a little input gain switch. We're on normal because we're playing with a higher output piezo transducer. If you would play with a magnetic soundhole pickup, you would use the boost setting to compensate, and this one has a little input for a tap switch, so you can actually tap your delay time into this, which is pretty cool. There you go.

There's actually one more effect on here that you can access, which is sort of a -- they call it a delay hold. It's kind of like similar to the Boss pedal delay holds. If we select one of the effects or on. Let's just play.

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If we hold down the button, it'll start flashing red, and now it will just hold this little mini sample there...

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...and you can play over it...

[OWEN O'MALLEY PLAYING ACOUSTIC-ELECTRIC GUITAR WITH THE FISHMAN AFX DELAY ENGAGED]

...although you'll notice you're not playing with any kind of delay effects. And when you want to trigger off just hit that and adjust the delay.

[OWEN O'MALLEY PLAYING ACOUSTIC-ELECTRIC GUITAR WITH THE FISHMAN AFX DELAY ENGAGED]

Lot's of fun. That was the Fishman AFX Delay pedal. You've been watching Gearwire.Com and I'm Owen O'Malley.