Boss DD-500 Digital Delay

About the Boss DD-500 Digital Delay

The Boss DD-500 is Boss's flagship digital delay: a high-fidelity, deeply programmable box with a broad set of delay modes, stereo in and out, tap tempo and full MIDI control, built for creating and recalling custom patches. It sits at the top of the Boss 500 series alongside the RV-500 reverb and MD-500 modulation, isolates its two channels for running a pair of amps, and has a smaller, cheaper sibling in the DD-200.

In one paragraph

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Listings of the Boss DD-500 Digital Delay we watched from listing to sale typically went in 27 days (28 watched), a steady; it sells for a median of €170 over the last 90 days across 51 recorded sales, with most examples landing between €160 and €190. New, it costs €395 at Thomann (read 16 October 2026), so a used one at the median saves about 57%. There are 173 listings live right now across Reverb, eBay Germany, eBay United States, from €173 asking, a median ask 113% over the sale median. Figures computed 18 October 2026 by Doirado from cross-platform listing data.

What owners have said elsewhere

Paraphrased from 106 discussion threads among 9 owners, 2024-2025. No names, nothing quoted.

When the talk turns to serious delays, the DD-500 is a name owners keep putting forward, they call it a great pedal and a genuine standout, high fidelity and powerful for building your own custom patches, and it is used as the benchmark others get measured against. Its strengths in a rig are stereo and control: owners run its stereo outputs into two amps (it isolates the two channels for exactly that) and fold it into a MIDI setup so one footswitch recalls presets across the whole 500-series board. The honest counterpoint is value. More than one owner points out that the compact DD-200 gets most of the way there for a lot less money, so the DD-500 may not be worth the extra unless you need the stereo, the MIDI or the deeper patch-making, and a few would look at a Source Audio Nemesis or a Strymon for the money instead. If you want a do-everything delay brain, though, it delivers.