Product Description
Roland SDE-3000A Digital Delay for sale in excellent condition and perfect working order.
Supplied unserviced at the base price - tested and working but not had any further work - no warranty.
Can be supplied serviced/recapped at additional cost.
These are very underrated delays - reissued with the same spec as the earlier SDE-3000 in the 90s, this version is sonically identical (but with less ageing).
The SDE-3000 was a big success when it was introduced in 1983 and was quickly adopted as the delay of choice by many leading guitarists (Eddie Van Halen and Steve Vai to name but two) for its sound and flexibility.
Designer Yoshi Ikegami was a guitarist so he made sure that the SDE-3000 would sound especially good with guitar:
“Although we say ‘digital delay, the overall circuit design and approach was still very analog. All components, such as resistors and capacitors and so forth, had a different impact on the sound, so we chose each component carefully with a focus on ‘musicality,’ not just noise reduction, for example. We built a delay unit for processing all audio signals. But I love guitar, so it had some special tuning for guitar…of course!”
It wasn't just for guitarists: famed mix engineer Bob Clearmountain still uses his on vocal recordings.
It was so revered that Roland (not a company who usually look back) reissued it as the SDE-3000A in the 90s - the name may have changed but the design remained the same.
Supplied unserviced at the base price - tested and working but not had any further work - no warranty.
Can be supplied serviced/recapped at additional cost.
These are very underrated delays - reissued with the same spec as the earlier SDE-3000 in the 90s, this version is sonically identical (but with less ageing).
The SDE-3000 was a big success when it was introduced in 1983 and was quickly adopted as the delay of choice by many leading guitarists (Eddie Van Halen and Steve Vai to name but two) for its sound and flexibility.
Designer Yoshi Ikegami was a guitarist so he made sure that the SDE-3000 would sound especially good with guitar:
“Although we say ‘digital delay, the overall circuit design and approach was still very analog. All components, such as resistors and capacitors and so forth, had a different impact on the sound, so we chose each component carefully with a focus on ‘musicality,’ not just noise reduction, for example. We built a delay unit for processing all audio signals. But I love guitar, so it had some special tuning for guitar…of course!”
It wasn't just for guitarists: famed mix engineer Bob Clearmountain still uses his on vocal recordings.
It was so revered that Roland (not a company who usually look back) reissued it as the SDE-3000A in the 90s - the name may have changed but the design remained the same.