Pedalboard / 098
Roy Buchanan
For his mid-eighties return, Buchanan departed from his traditionally bare guitar-and-amplifier approach by adding a compact DD-2 digital delay.
Signal path / A
Alligator comeback delay path
Associate-documented one-pedal core path
Documented equipment · Source-described order · Serial path
Vintage Guitar's oral history quotes Buchanan associate Dave Whitehill identifying the DD-2 and explaining that Buchanan used it to thicken the sound and recreate tape-echo effects during the period of When a Guitar Plays the Blues. BOSS's official history independently establishes the DD-2's 1983 introduction, four-control compact layout, clear-but-warm response and 800 ms range. No cable trace or control photograph fixes a fuller 1985 board, so this is limited to the documented one-pedal core path and does not project Buchanan's later or earlier equipment into it.