Digitech's latest delay pedal, the Time Bender, gets its first UK review in Guitarist Magazine this month and picks up the magazine's 'Guitarist Choice' award.

The Time Bender goes beyond normal delays to create custom repeat rhythms or patterns on the fly by simply strumming the guitar. Up to 6 taps can be set to quickly create delays that would normally take a rack of effects and hours of programming Topping off the Time Bender is the ability to add intelligent harmonies to the delays. Choose from over 100 different voicing's including octaves, 5ths, 3rds, etc. When the repeats are turned up layers of singing angelic tones are created to form never heard effects.

“The Time Bender is a complex piece of machinery, but that doesn't mean it has to be difficult to operate.  In fact, everything's very intuitive - getting the sounds you want being a simple matter of turning a few knobs rather than delving into menus”.

“The facility to input data by strumming the guitar is very practical and could be a life-saver onstage for syncing to a drummer.  Setting the tempo and the base key on the fly is easily done.  The facility to actually strum in a rhythm pattern to give you your own customized multi-tap delay offers you extreme flexibility in creating something unusual, something tailored to fit a particular song or an emulation of a particular head pattern of a vintage tape echo”.

“The Time Bender has a dual personality - on the one hand it can do all of the conventional delay tasks with aplomb, while on the other it offers access to a whole world of sounds.  Digitech calls it a 'musical delay' and that title fits”.

To read the full review, pick up the July 2009 Issue (Issue 317) of Guitarist Magazine.  The Digitech Timebender is available now at £316 RRP.