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This reverb is the best ever made. I use it for everything like vocals, drums, synths, guitars, effects, percs, etc!

A very good effects and reverb unit. Top of the range. Reverb are very clean. Up than older models of Lexicon.

I originally bought this for room correction in a home stereo system, it worked beautifully for that purpose, but I ended up selling it as I no longer needed it for that purpose, but I really regret letting it go. It was simple to use, had totally transparent sound quality even though incoming sounds were converted to digital, and the reverse on the way out etc. Build quality was really solid too. It was probably one of the last great Mackie products, I have to get me another!

Great unit. Durable (40 years old and still going unlike the imported stuff being offered today). I own several different delays (I.e. ADA, Lexicon, and multi effect units) and this thing matches up to the best of them. Recommended!

This is without a doubt, one of the very best effects boxes ever made. What it can do for a drum mix alone is worth the price of entry. Put the FATSO across your drum buss and they instantly become, fat! I like to drive the input hard (and lower the output) to ensure the tape saturation kicks in, and the compressor lights with two to four lights coming on. As well, I use a little bit of the warmth, and hey presto, big fat drums! It seems to work equally well on full mix as well, although I do not drive it so aggressively when I do.

I think many people misunderstand what this box is, which is fundamentally a TAPE simulator. It behaves the same way as when you drive levels onto tape very high, the top end rolls off, and the sound fattens up. So if you ever wanted to get that Studer 24″ tape sound, this is the ticket! I also have the UAD plugin which works pretty well, but I do prefer the hardware.

My unit required extensive work including new, encoder knob, screen, all new capacitors and jumping and work in the input and output circuits because of leaky caps and a power supply rebuild. However, 2 years of running alongside lexicon, eventide, Strymon, and GFI processors and pedals the dp2 definitely holds its own! The phasers, flangers and pitch shifting are superb. The reverbs are hit and miss and some are a bit grainy or metallic in a funky way and others are good and still useful today. The 2 line display is a bit tedious but terse enough to work well enough. If you find one, buy it!

Many FX algorithm in this unit, and all are premium quality. Interface is a bit boring for editing, especially in 2DSP mode, but presets are good. (boring editing = bad mojo note) This unit has some secrets weapons in my point of view: fat “Roland” ultra-chorus, complex reverbs, even compressor algorithm is really cool, it gives my samples an EMU fat vibe. I had also an Ensoniq DP/PRO, sound quality is nearly the same although DSP is newer on PRO model, but reliability was poor on my PRO unit. This dp2 is a killer ;) (I “work” with lexicon, eventide, publison, roland space echo)

This unit has some really quality FXs. I like it for coloured reverbs and especially for its doubler-widening programs (I have not found such nice widening-doubler algos in plugins and I own…many. Eventide H3000 native, Soundtoys, many reverbs etc… ). It has also very very good phaser-flangers.