Boss SDE-3000EVH - Is it Worth The Price Tag?

Our in depth review of the Boss SDE-3000EVH, an Eddie Van Halen fan's dream delay pedal.

Welcome to this week's episode of What's This Button Do hosted by Dustin Babitzke! This week Aria wants to learn about Eddie Van Halen so Dustin does a deep dive on Boss's new SDE-3000EVH Pedal.

Do you love a wet/dry/wet rig or stereo effects. Do you play Eruption every night before bed just to feel better about yourself. Then this episdoe is for you. Enjoy the experimentation with this new crazy pedal and share your findings with us on social medial by tagging @palenmusic. We can't wait to see what fun sounds this inspires.

[kewlbreeze]

Thank you for doing this. I have one on back order and you just showed me its a really deep option that I can use.

[johnkruton]

This video with the opening statement has me as a new sub and bell ringer. Now I know amongst the all time greats it’s a subjective and objective classification. I mean we could go back and start with Paganini (hope I”m spelling it right) for me EVH was classical music inspired rocker with being the true American Dream Immigrant success story. Worked his ass off both off the guitar and on it. Truly shows in all the live videos he’s always having a blast playing for us. I’ll be lucky to be able to play Eruption well enough that you’d know what it is but I’ll probably not make it perfect. I truly love his composition sensibility and his composition skills. Being able to make whole songs with catchy hooks, and his mastery of using “noise” to make music is unmatched. EVH you’re the only musician that when I heard you past my immediate words were “well shit”. I knew at that point whatever had been recorded was all he would ever produce, . I’ll be adding this unit to my gear collection and will use it with my home setup of 2 guitar amps and a PA system.

[kevincross]

Had mine a month and finally got to try the thing. I got it to help preserve the tone thrue my board. Sounds like the rack gear, maybe a little more present. Still using a se70 for micro pitch and delay. Will be running this parrerell through the beebo as that 4 in and 4 out of so much needed. I will agree that the price for the quality leval is ideal. First thing I noticed was that it sounds like the records of the stars who used it! Not the only delay I'll be using but for straight up sterio rig or sterio top pair it's the bomb! Thanx for the help on the manual settings into it was just the thing I needed! Rock on bro!

[bardicdad]

If you’re setting up w/d/w, you’re also getting the routing setup, which would require cables, DI boxes, patch bays, etc. there’s a whole platform that is being offered in the whole package. So two delay pedals, the NS-1 pedal, DI, routing and reamping for about $500 is a deal. Btw the numbers for Ed’s Roland SDE 3000 setup are on Guitar World’s article. I would try to punch them in. Left 398, 30, 31, 0, 0, Right 798, 20, 31, 0, 0. Input -3dB(ish). Bank 2 on both, but not sure if it matters.

[mangotango]

This for sure is worth the money with all things taken into account. This is a pro studio level delay with high quality components and converters. The routing options for wet dry wet are unparalleled. The R&D put into this unit, built upon the BOSS legacy of high quality digital delays is incomparable.

[kingfisher]

The Boss GT1000, Katana, and Nextone all have the SDE3000 in them with dual modes.

[whooterf]

I love this pedal but it is a little overwhelming. This answered a lot of questions that I had. Thanks for the video!

[mjsthx]

I wish they would release this as a Rack unit as well as a pedal unit. In a home studio, the rack format makes sense. They probably could have made it a half rack size.

[IronSwan-llju]

The standard models were $250 on sale on Sweetwater from November to January 1st. I wouldn’t have gotten one myself if not being half off this past holiday season.

[brivington]

Great video, thanks. Question tho: How many presets of your own creation can you store to recall, and how would you assign them to the DD1 and DD2 footswitches?

[erniebender]

Hey brotha you answered all my questions. I’d really like to know how many local club guitarist out there are using a WDW rig, probably none and since I use 2 delay pedals on my board the boss dd5, and an Echoplex, I don’t run the WDW would this benefit me .... thanks so much 🙏🏼, I’m subscribing

[kevincross]

Kinda late question to apply to this video but I'm hopeful that you may have notification set up. I'm thinking I might have a issue with my peddle as I do not have a working stereo thrue. I do have left and right with the mono in but lose my left channel out when I'm going in stereo. I am fimillior with the in our menu and have the manual switched on for independent operation. Just not able to find a combination that allows for a stereo pass with delay. Just wondering if you have a similar situation or if I am missing something simple here? Thanx for your input on the rest as this is a fairly deep peddle. Will be good for the pod userers to see what they have been missing for sure! No hate intended Ofcorse!

[kangaroo]

Hi - I was hoping you might be able to help? I'm currently running the new boss evh delay through my send and return on the back of my evh amp and it sounds all distorted and unpleasant. The cables I'm running are amp return to the evh delay unit (direct mono) and the amp send to the evh delay (return/input R). I don't want run 3 amps just 1 amp with the delay in the send/return amp port. Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers, Dennis

[Clutch]

I have a question for you. Can this pedal use both delays together in mono mode. I have this pedal and haven’t figured it out yet.

[xsm]

I know it's for guitar but would it also work on keyboards/synth?

[ASQUITHZ]

I used to have an old Binson Echorec 40+ years ago( £6000.00 now) that sounded same / better than this and much easier to adjust with knobs! and I just used to point the speakers in different directions to use the natural acoustics of the room for affect! is wasn't in stereo of coarse

[scottpeters]

I just got one of these, but I am having some issues….I run a line out of my load box into the left mono input, then sending FXL and FXR to a stereo power amp…I am losing significant volume when going through the SDE….I have gone thru the in and out settings, but I can’t figure out what the problem is….

[King_CrimsonX]

Question? I have this opportunity, is $289 a good price for a "cosmetically good condition" Boss SDE-3000 without the EVH vectors?

[Allann]

all the common and mortal guitarists are not going to use 3 channels

[MrJackrockerman]

Ok..now you need a guitar practice routine ..