MXR M169 Carbon Copy Analog Delay

I bought the Carbon Copy for the warm analogue sound and was using it in front of the amp. That worked and sounded fine. Recently I switched to Marshall for my amp and I now use the 410h for my distortion. Having the CC before the amps distortion does not work, the echoes get muffled and distorted. So the solution is to put the CC in the (parallel) FX loop, so the distortion comes before the delay.

That will create a lot of issues depending on the amp and other effects you are using. The CC does not have a Kill Dry switch what you would like to use in this situation. The Mix knob will help somewhat to make it work. Putting the CC between two buffered pedals helped as well in keeping the CC as my favourite analogue delay. Search for it online and you will find many many hits of people having this issue. It could work for you too, but all depends on your other pedals and amp.

A good tip, use 12V it will give you some more headroom and the repaeats are a bit clearer.

This is a really great delay pedal. The controls are mostly simple, the true bypass is a plus (in my opinion), and most importantly the sound is overall great. It also seems to be well made.

A few cons: The control for the "regen" feature is inside the pedal, meaning to turn the knob you have to unscrew the back. I'm sure there is some reason why MXR decided to do this, but I don't know what it could be. It also does not come with a power cable. These are the only reasons I do not rate it perfectly.

I would generally recommend this to anyone looking for a delay.