Starting an AD3208 project

[Branimir]

Hi everyone.

I've built the rebote 2.5 and while it works okay and sounds nice, it's just too sterile for my taste and hasn't got much echo on repeats, so I decided to build some other delay pedal.

A friend of my has a Deluxe Memory Man that I really like, it's nice and spacey, and really sounds excellent for my type of playing.

Anyways I found AD3208 project interesting since people mention it sounds alot like Boss DM-3 (or 2?) delay. I never played those pedals but if my memory serves me correctly, they are know to be great sounding delay pedals that are similiar in character to the DMM.

I don't really care for that vibrato/chorus things going on with DMM, but it's the lush echo of the delays that sounds nice.

The questions are:

Is AD3208 that spacey/echo on repeats?
Can it self oscillate?
Is the dry/wet mod useful?
And the BL3208 chip, I found BL3208A and BL3208B on banzai shop site, I suppose it's the B version that I'm after, right? DIP16 case with only 8 pins as it seems to me from the layout on GGG. The A version is a regular DIP8.

I'm not into long delay times, and I will be ordering sockets so I can try 3205 IC's later.

Thanks!

[Branimir]

No one? 

Anyone, anything? 

[Jaicen_solo]

I assume you've not seen the Echo Base thread....?

[MetalGuy]

Actually both 3208 and 3205 are DIP14.
I recently built mine with Cool Audio's V3205D and V3102D respectively. Yes it can self oscillate.
I've built Rebote 2 and PT80 before that and they're all useful for my needs.

[SonicVI]

I think Boss analog delays sound more like Ibanez's delays which to me sound very different to Electro-Harmonix's delays.  The AD3208 I believe is more similar in design to the Ibanez/Boss delays than the Memory Man.

[george]

I built one from a GGG RTS board and BBDs from smallbear

GGG lists mods to increase the number of repeats and delay level - do those and it will self oscillate no problem.

I had a DM-2 and the AD-3208 sounded the same (esp after the mods), so I sold the DM-2.