DLS Effects
About DLS Effects
DLS Effects is owned by president David Sestito who has designed and manufactured Pro Guitar Effects in the USA since 1999. DLS has a relentless determination and satisfaction seeing and hearing our products as part of an artist’s sound and personality. The company mission is simple; Go the extra mile to design exciting guitar effects, superior quality in sound and construction, inspire creativity, and wow the player and audience!
DLS Effects products are designed by engineers that are also musicians. No matter how long it takes, no effect is released until it achieves unanimous thumbs up by our professional beta testers. DLS is grateful to serve musicians of every level from novice to pro. It has been a true honor collaborating artists and bands over the years such as Rush, Heart, Rascal Flatts, Tesla, Styx, Guthrie Govan, Darius Rucker, Daughtry, Theory of a Deadman, Green Day, Lifehouse, Cassadee Pope, Rolling Stones, Johnny Hiland, Aerosmith, Smashing Pumpkins, Greg How, Three Doors Down and many others. Our highest reward is seeing the inspired creativity and enjoyment of musicians around the world using our products!
History from Dave at DLS: It all started in 1998 when my daughter was starting to play guitar and listening to some heavy bands. She came to me and said, “Hey dad, hear that Korn guitar sound? Can you make me something that does that kind of distortion?” Hum, I figured why not. I used to use effects when I played in our band Darkstarr, and now that I had electrical engineering expertise. I thought I could pull it off. I proceeded to make a distortion unit, which she used and liked very much. That enticed me to dust off my gear and play a bit more with my old effects. I tried my using my EH Memory Man delay, but it was not working well. I thought a while and said, “Heck, I should be able to design something at least as good, and with some extra features”. So I did some research and proceeded to design my first Delay effect. It was oh so close, but after spending many months tweaking, I scrapped it in frustration because it did not meet my expectations. I literally through it in the garbage! I started over again with a whole new hybrid electronic design approach.
Five months later, success was at hand with the Echomaster Delay. A friend was producing Greg Howe & Victor Wooten and I was fortunate enough to meet Greg at the studio. As a result, Greg ended up using the Echomaster on the Extraction CD. From there I used a similar design philosophy and designed the stereo Ultra Chorus which also exhibited some beautiful chorus tones.
