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I have had a lot of multi-effects boxes from the likes of Roland, Yamaha, Sony, Lexicon and Eventide. I have to say, this Sony DPS-V77 is for me, the most useful. If you put aside the incredible pitch effects that the Eventide can do and look at things like chorusing etc, I prefer this Sony to all others. Crystal Keys preset is what did it for me, it is something like micro-pitch and chorus in one effect and is incredibly useful on guitar for stereo spreads and to simply add movement to a track, nothing else beats this for me.

This is a ‘best of Sony’ box and it is a real shame that Sony pulled out of the market as the DPS-V77 shows just how good they were at taking on the likes of Lexicon and Eventide at their own game and coming out the other end standing tall. So, if you can not afford an Eventide, get this Sony as I believe you will find it more useful.

I have owned the DPS-R7, DPS-D7 and DPS-M7 previously but sold them all because of their nightmare interface that made tweaking the presets difficult. The DPS-V77 addresses that problem and combines all three of those effects and the DPS-F7 into one box, with greatly improved AD/DA conversion and with lower noise floor.

There are some excellent presets in the V77 from the simple to the bazaar. Often referred to as a poor mans Eventide, it certainly fills the void in my rack for lush choruses and stereo effects suitable for widening vocals, guitars and snare etc. and lets not forget the excellent reverbs which are smooth and lush also. The bonus is the digital in and out, provided via an 8 pin micro DIN connector unfortunately, but it can handle 24bit/44.1kHz and 24bit/48kHz signals only.

Had the Unit in our studio. Very wide reverb sounds and somewhere between the Sony R7 and V77! So, some sort of secret weapon in a half rack car radio size. Our unit needed some service on the display.

Got mine for dirt cheap, fitted a new Battery holder and did some general minor maintenance. It sounds great and weird if you make it, works great in Techno and Jungle/DnB settings. The presets are rubbish with the exeption of a few though.

Who haven’t seen the video with the Juno60 hooked up to one of these? Made me buy a mint condition Juno60, and a Sony HR-MP5. Actually: 2 of them. Battery holder soldered, LCD backlight replaced, DC-DC fixed, EEPROM flashed with latest firmware, this unit is for eternety. It’s one of those miracle machines that should not be outstanding based on the parameters, but it does something to your brain. Forget the DSP-V77 — this is the stuff dreams are made of.

Good but not great, if you are looking for a cheap DSP series unit, this is not it, save your money and buy a Sony DSP-V77, it is still the best of the bunch.

I have owned this Sony for about 6 years now after having many ‘big’ name reverbs from Lexicon and EMT etc. Of all my hardware reverbs this is the one I choose to keep because the reverbs are so smooth and realistic.

I have all four of the Sony “7” series effects boxes, and I love them all. Wonderful clean sound, incredibly deep parameter control (some would say TOO deep!) and very simple to set into a mix. I love each of them: the R7, D7, M7 and F7.

Like all units from the DPS 7 range, the M7 suffers quite a bit from the over-indulgence of Sony’s engineers — it’s nice to have the option to tweak 300 parameters of a preset but is it really useful (or helpful, for that matter)? For this very reason, I stick with the numerous well-programmed presets on board which are truly impressive (the “Black Coral” chorus is one of the most useful and impressive-sounding choruses on synthesisers) and tailor them to my needs.

There is plenty of other useful stuff to mine it for and I’d be surprised if even the most demanding user wouldn’t find something to suit his applications. The build quality is very decent although huge LCDs, encoders, switches, and some electronic components might not exactly be built to last. It produces a lot of heat when in use so make sure there is ample space between this and the other units in a 19″ rack. I had some component part die on a D7 which resulted in ugly noises, and it was quite costly to repair. Also, the 7 series seems to eat away on CR2032 cells so be prepared to have a battery holder clip installed rather than the type of 2032 that is soldered to the main PCB directly.

Like the Sony D7 I had this for a short time, the effects are good, chorus is nice etc but I did not find it a particularly inspiring box of tricks as I had hoped and again the user interface is awful to use.

Still works & sounds great after all these years. I really only use my own presets, but it offers some great starting points with all the stock presets. Very quiet & clean for a delay of this age. JUST had to replace the battery (it’s a bit of a pain because the battery is soldered in), still not bad for a 1991 delay! I’ll be using it till it dies.

A delay with good clean 20 bit audio, no digital nasties. It has little or no character. The menu system is ridiculous.