# Boss DD-3 Digital Delay

> This delay & echo entry consolidates documented Boss DD-3 Digital Delay variants, controls, settings and roles across dated guitarist pedalboards.

- Canonical page: https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/boss-dd-3-digital-delay/
- Machine-readable index of the archive: https://pedalboardarchive.com/llms.txt
- Evidence and reconstruction conventions: https://pedalboardarchive.com/methodology/

- **Category:** Delay & Echo
- **Types:** Compact delay, Delay, Digital delay, Echo, Hold
- **Also known as:** Boss DD-3, compact digital delay, DD-3, Digital Delay, long delay, slapback delay, White compact digital delay
- **Controls:** D.Time, Delay time, Delay Time, E.Level, Effect level, Effect Level, F.Back, Feedback, Mode
- **Identification:** The model is identified.
- **Documented appearances:** 13 boards, 2006–2025

The white-and-blue Boss compact delay with four controls and a large black foot pad.

## Documented boards

Each row is an observed appearance on a dated board. A position is only an observed one where that board's order evidence says so.

| Artist | Board | Date | Positions | Order evidence | Page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Jones | Tool touring effects board | 2010-09-13 | 7 | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/adam-jones/tool-dunlop-tech-board-2010/ |
| Bruce Springsteen | Magic tour remote and offstage rig | 2007-10-01 | 3 | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/bruce-springsteen/magic-tour-remote-and-offstage-rig-2007/ |
| Dave Navarro | Jane's Addiction split-path board | 2024-07-01 | 2, 5, 8 | Source-described | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/dave-navarro/janes-addiction-split-board-2024/ |
| Joe Bonamassa | Four-amplifier touring board | 2013-01-01 | 10 | Source-described | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/joe-bonamassa/touring-rig-2013/ |
| Joe Walsh | Eagles Staples Center touring board | 2006-01-01 | 8 | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/joe-walsh/eagles-staples-center-board-2006/ |
| Kirk Fletcher | Vertex stereo board | 2012-08-15 | 8 | Cable-traced | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/kirk-fletcher/vertex-board-2012/ |
| Lindsey Buckingham | Three-path solo touring rig | 2012-10-10 | 2, 3 | Source-described | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/lindsey-buckingham/three-path-solo-tour-rig-2012/ |
| Nels Cline | Pelican-case travel rig | 2018-10-01 | 11 | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/nels-cline/pelican-case-travel-rig-2018/ |
| Nels Cline | Wilco straight-line effects rig | 2011-11-01 | 14 | Source-described | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/nels-cline/wilco-straight-line-rig-2011/ |
| Noel Gallagher | Official board photograph | 2025-07-25 | 6 | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/noel-gallagher/official-board-photograph-2025/ |
| Robert Smith | Three-board Boss system | 2019-03-16 | 8, 9 | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/robert-smith/three-board-boss-system-2019/ |
| Slash | Blues Ball floorboard | 2024-07-10 | 7 | Source-described | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/slash/blues-ball-tour-2024/ |
| Tom Morello | Long-term effects-loop board | 2019-02-13 | 3, 4 | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/tom-morello/long-term-rig-2019/ |