Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man

ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS

Big five-knob control interface

BBD analog delay sound

Bonus Chorus-Vibrato effect

Hard-wired AC power cord

Wet and dry outputs

- Dave Hunter

IF ONE OF THE GREATEST boons of the solid-state revolution of the mid to late ’60s was the way it compacted down cumbersome guitar effects into neat portable boxes, you could argue that the greatest benefit to guitarists didn’t come until a full decade later when the luscious but unwieldy tape echo was replaced by the analog delay pedal. And for many players, the greatest rendition of that was the Electro-Harmonix Memory Man. Released around 1976, the Memory Man was one of the first solid-state pedal-based echo devices, if not verifiably the first, as EHX’s Mike Matthews claims accurate dates for this era are extremely difficult to come by. It was certainly the most successful. It also remains the most beloved of the early analog delays still in use today.