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Delay is among the most creative realms in stompbox design. Enabled by ever-increasing digital horsepower, adventurous makers have adopted an “if you can dream it, do it” approach, building mega-featured pedals that exponentially increase musical possibilities.

Cusack Music, of Holland, Michigan, already has a reputation for tap-enabled effects, but they’ve upped the interactivity ante with the new Tap-A-Delay Deluxe. It’s loaded with eleven knobs, buttons and switches in total—many of them multi-function—and squeezed into an impressively compact 4.7" x 3.69" x 1.37" die-cast metal stomp that requires just 30 mA of external 9V DC power via a standard center-negative input.

The foundation of the Tap-A-Delay Deluxe is a 750 ms digital delay. But rather than the crisp, clinical echoes of the traditional studio digital delay, the Deluxe is voiced for slightly dirty and gritty repeats that sound studiously analog. And that’s before you start morphing things with the multi-mode mod (modulation) switch. Add to this the ability to create loop-like background repeats, tempo acceleration or deceleration, oscillating feedback, and much more—all on the fly—and you start to grasp this pedal’s full potential.

The functions at the heart of the Tap-A-Delay Deluxe—level, mix, feedback, and delay time—are controlled via translucent mini-chicken-head knobs. An 8-position mod switch adds progressively more intense tape-like modulation to the repeats, and is pretty wild at its two most extreme settings. The bypass footswitch turns it all on or off (but also does more, as we’ll see). If you stray no further than these functions, you’ll get a lot out of this versatile delay. But stray you almost certainly will.

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