The music industry leader, BOSS, has announced the launch of the DM-101 Delay Machine, a groundbreaking analog delay pedal designed for the needs of contemporary musicians. With a focus on authenticity, versatility, and power, the DM-101 is an extraordinary leap forward in audio technology that continues BOSS’s legacy of innovation. It leverages eight Bucket Brigade Devices (BBDs), controlled by an intelligent CPU. It boasts a dozen unique modes, stereo operation, and a broad spectrum of tonal colors while ensuring 100 percent analog signal processing at all times. What sets the DM-101 apart is its capacity to offer advanced digital pedal features like 127 user memories, tap tempo, carryover, MIDI, and more while producing the full, rich sound quality that can only be achieved through genuine analog BBD circuitry.
The BBD technology, a compact and economical replacement for the standard tape delays prevalent in the 1970s, is renowned for producing warm, saturated, and highly musical sound. This distinct delay style has enjoyed immense popularity among musicians and audio engineers. BOSS’s DM-101 pedal takes this vintage technology a step further by blending it with modern CPU control to create an enhanced, up-to-date musical effect for the current generation of music makers.
This exciting hybrid pedal transitions between grainy, old-school echoes and contemporary analog delay tones that deliver extended high-frequency clarity. The DM-101 uses multiple internal circuit elements to establish each of the 12 modes, which are determined by several variables such as the number of active BBDs, connection order, low-pass filter settings, and clock rates. Using the Variation knob, musicians can navigate through parameters specific to the various modes. Like its analog delay counterparts, the DM-101 enables musicians to achieve saturated self-oscillation by dialing up the Intensity knob.
A significant advantage of the DM-101’s CPU control is the opportunity to create complex stereo sounds unattainable with other BBD analog delays. For instance, in the Pan mode, each BBD and its feedback loop are routed to alternating points in the stereo field. Meanwhile, the Dual Mod alters the modulation phase for each output to generate a broad, spacious delay effect. Six of the 12 modes support stereo operation, allowing users to explore everything from brief, reverb-like sounds and broad, modulated delays to pattern delays for powerful rhythmic effects.
In addition to its remarkable sound manipulation capabilities, the DM-101 provides all the creative advantages of an advanced modern delay pedal. Most modes offer tap tempo, note subdivisions, and carryover for maintaining repeats when the effect is bypassed. Users can also store and retrieve favorite setups with four onboard memories and attach up to two footswitches or an expression pedal for advanced real-time control. The inclusion of MIDI I/O extends these capabilities even further, offering remote access to 127 user memories, MIDI sync, and more. By default, the stereo audio outputs are designed for blended operation but can be easily adjusted for wet/dry rigs and similar wet-only setups. With the DM-101, BOSS reinforces its commitment to providing musicians with the best tools for unlimited artistic expression.
Availability & Pricing
The BOSS DM-101 will be available in the US in July for $499.99. To learn more about the DM-101 Delay Machine, visit www.boss.info.
Will Vance is a professional music producer who has been involved in the industry for the better part of a decade and has been the managing editor at Magnetic Magazine since mid-2022. In that time period, he has published thousands of articles on music production, industry think pieces and educational articles about the music industry. Over the last decade as a professional music producer, Will Vance has also ran multiple successful and highly respected record labels in the industry, including Where The Heart Is Records as well as having launched a new label with a focus on community through Magnetic Magazine. When not running these labels or producing his own music, Vance is likely writing for other top industry sites like Waves or the Hyperbits Masterclass or working on his upcoming book on mindfulness in music production. On the rare chance he's not thinking about music production, he's probably running a game of Dungeons and Dragons with his friends which he has been the dungeon master for for many years.
