TC Nova delay...

This got lost in the shuffle of all the Messe announcements, at least as far as I was concerned. This is the Nova delay pedal from TC. According to the available liturature, it has features cribbed from what is, in my oh-so-humble opinion, the best digital delay unit of all time, the 2290. (I would still like to have one of these, and as soon as I see one that isn’t prohibitively expensive, it’s coming home with me.)

This, like at least one of the other new TC pedals, is obviously direct competition for the Eventide Timeworks pedal. I have to admit that it gave me some food for thought, even though I’ve already decided to purchase a Timeworks as soon as they are available. No MIDI, unlike the Timeworks, and that’s a bit of a drag, but it has a crafty method for beat-syncing delays which some people (people who, unlike me, haven’t memorized bpm to ms charts; in other words, people with a life) may find quite useful.

Don’t know what it costs yet, but judging from the feature set, and the price of its companions, I believe it will come in under the Timeworks by a significant margin. I have to say that my heart still belongs to Eventide, who can do no wrong in my book. It’s a good time to be a fan of delays, though, I’ll say that much.