Ibanez AD9 Analog Delay Pedal

[johnstangg]

I'll keep my Nova Delay...

[nateonearth]

You folks always do perfect demos.

[Broommaster2000]

I'm looking for a Delay that goes up to something like 4 seconds, yeah really long, but I want to practice a lot with it and be able to hear the individual chords clearly at least 3 times. Anyone know what I'd need?

[lloplop]

whats up with the censorship of comments?  who fucking cares like really? pending approval? come on

[ProGuitarShopDemos]

@lloplop If you friend us, youl no longer need comment approval. It just keeps the spam away. Thanks,

PGS

[superreverbfreak]

@ProGuitarShopDemos hey do you guys remember ibanez making an analog pedal that was a lil bigger than this and black? if so what kind exactly was it...i loved it....or does this have the same ciruitry....it was extrememly warm delay

[4rescue]

Killer playing on this demo... thank you for a most informative review and some great chops to boot. Simply loverly mate : )

[unhafrotcguy]

Great demo as always! I think I like the MXR Carbon Copy better.

[tungursadus]

I wish you guys would play more lead stuff.Atleast with these delay pedals. 

[Cualestutallachica]

Does this not oscillate?

[TheInnerG]

Would a vox Wah pedal and this make a jimi hendrix sound from All along the watchtower?

[SirPage90]

Your demos are great!!!

According to you which is better? AD9 or Carbon copy??? thanks!

[youenjoy00myself]

@SirPage90 Hey there, if you're looking for an analog delay I highly recommend the Malekko Ekko 616 pedal...it's the same price as the carbon copy ($150), but it has even more controls (variable modulation speed & depth). Plus it has a high-end buffer (for counteracting tone suck) and it just sounds great overall. Progutiarshop has a great review of it (of course). Also, if you're into experimental guitar tones, there is a "lofi" version of the Malekko delay. Good luck with your delay search!

[shadycharacter220]

woo police truck!

[paulgaudinjrBCN]

Dead Kennedys! Awesome!

[yobhsiFehT]

There's gotta be a mod out there to give this thing a longer delay time, right.?. 300 ms is pretty nice, but... 600ms is even better:S lol

[dewycatt2112]

I like the color!!

[diecieuro]

DK on PGS? never thought it could happen. thanks!

[Jst0911]

theres no reason the delay should add overdrive as the sequences get longer. gay

[definealways]

The beginning reminds me of the Dead Kennedys?

[kepone405]

@definealways it IS Dead Kennedys

[Floconbob]

@definealways its police truck by the the dead kennedys

[amigonick121]

the beggining sounds a bit like intersteller overdrive

[Iamboott]

tonights the we got the truck, goin down town gonna beat up drunks! your turn to drive, ill bring the BEER, its a late night shift. NO ONE TO FEAR!.... good one man. police truck isone of the best use's for delay 

[shreddydude]

Hey I just got one of these pedals and they sound awesome. I just need some input where you would put the settings for van halen kind of solos. I'm guessing closer to the reverbish function? Thanks

Pete

[EDOM666DEVORE]

i miss this pedal someone stole mine

[jacksonthrasher]

It's not METAL ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

[TheAnti1337]

I have this pedal, and I like it a lot. It works really good for longer delay time. The feedback sort of covers the tone up a little bit, but in certain conditions that's really cool.

[givemeyourkj]

毛がヤバイw

[joelbyrne]

Did I hear a snippet of "Your Direction" by Chief @ 1:59 ??

[greasertom]

ha ha police truck

[THECLAYSTER]

Hey,

I am in the market for an Analogue delay pedal, and is this the best on the market for a reasonable price? I was originally thinking of the Carbon Copy, but something about this gives me a good vibe. Please reply.

[jesusofsuburbia57]

@THECLAYSTER i personally LOVE the malekko 616. same price as the carbon copy, but much better! PGS has a demo up!

[JRNicholson27794]

@THECLAYSTER If you haven't already bought one i would recommend the Biyang AD-10, it has a much longer delay time than this, up to 1100ms and if you like the pink then you're also in luck! they're really cheap about £40 on ebay 

[coffeeblackneggwhite]

where's my surfboard?

[Notjustforfreaks]

Sinister Golden Gate surf...this pedal does it really good, too. Are the mods people do on them cork sniffing, pretty much Andy?

[ottozing]

woooh police truck. ANDY FOR PRESIDENT

[zim10205]

im always worried about my tempo...u cant run a tap out can you?

[arlolockheart]

classical sound

[epitaph664]

whats the song at 5:07

[peacey127]

I just ordered one of these from you guys to replace my MXR Carbon Copy, It should be here tomorrow can't wait! :-)

[theShowStopper321]

@peacey127 Why did u want this replacing the MXR CC? I just ordered the MXR CC but it was down to this AD9 and the CC but I chose the CC.

[Brentypooz]

HOLY SHIT! whats that at 1:48 its amazing!!!

[WantToBeHoly777]

You will make a lot of great things if you know how to use delay

[shinjimeza]

dead kenedy jajajja police truck nice song

[emeraldandsapphire]

I already own a Boss DD-20 which does this and so much more ... but a smaller pedal for a more singular purpose might seem nice (one day, many dollars later :)

[Speedoman1978]

So i have the original of this pedal. and i just cant get it to go slow enough. is this a common issue for some players?

[pauljames00]

fuck dead kennedy's

[JimBillBumblefuck]

It sounds like someone squashed East Bay Ray into a tiny box. Awesome.

[fruitbatrepublic]

@JimBillBumblefuck +1

[Ryallinternational]

POLICE TRUCK!

[szs88]

These are my favorite looking and sound pedals. They're just straight up classy!

[PyneappleExpress]

police truck!

[ryanjames2007]

I love this pedal if you don't have one get one!

[spratty59]

This pedal would be perfect for playing F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X. by Fall of troy.

[utube9000]

Is he playing "Police Truck" by the Dead Kennedys???

[MrDshayne]

yes i believe he is

[sanquilo]

@utube9000 fuck yes!

[scottjolley]

@utube9000 Ride......ooo how we ride

[stankler]

love that revrb effect..ad 9 best delay ..shame so pricey

[FatGuyWithAKatana]

tonight's the night that we got the truck we're going downtown gonna beat up drunks?

[TheScrilla11]

Police Truck!

Hell Yeah!

[AphoticAgony]

bright pedals are awesome. I was gonna buy this since it was pink and analog. I got the CC instead though haha

[mick2011]

please, demo the maxon ad9 pro!

[MetalMexa666]

polcie truck ;)

[torrada00000000000]

What is the name of the first music?

[AirHendrix91]

Andy's the man!

[PopExpo]

Damn Andy has rad tone..... hell of a sales man 

[Playerc0]

Does it come in non-pink? or am I gona have to re-paint this when I buy it?

[ProGuitarShopDemos]

@Playerc0 - You should focus on the sound and learn to accept the color. Painting it would make you seem insecure. It's really more of a purple anyway : )

-PGS Crew

[trevinor3]

@ProGuitarShopDemos ha ha ha funny!

[theShowStopper321]

@ProGuitarShopDemos Why don't they make analog reverb stomp boxes like they make analog echo? Reverb is basically echo/ambience without repeats.

[pitufomamon100]

@ProGuitarShopDemos  name of the song please?

[theShowStopper321]

@ProGuitarShopDemos Was this discontinued?

[insightdelight]

@ProGuitarShopDemos I <3 you guys. Good response to a silly statement. Worry about learning to play, finding your sound and discovering who you are as a musician. If you're concerned about the colour of the pedal, you should get into modelling, not rock and roll.

[PaScal95xD]

@Playerc0

i usually also dont like pink!

but on this pedal it looks f***ing great!

[utube9000]

Don't worry about it, people already think you're gay!

[mindflashbr]

@Playerc0 Oh look, little Sammy got a PINK pedal! Don't worry about it, you will grow out of pre-school some day :)

[PHAEDRIDER]

@Playerc0 the berringer delay pedals are available in a neato , tough, manly looking, greyish color for about 35 bucks.. that might suit you better..

[MrJakeb4]

@Playerc0 lol y do u care about the colour its pink wots the big deal ?

[Stupidmut123]

@Playerc0 wow

[skurtix]

@Playerc0 They had pink everything in Miami Vice!

[liamzuid]

@Playerc0 Ok this is what's wrong with your comment.

1)what guitar player is going to look at your pedals to judge your playing.

2)people look at your guitar and they do not say he sounds bad because you have an Epiphone or something like that.

3)pink is cool anyway.

[insightdelight]

@Playerc0 Seriously. If you're worried about the colour of the pedal, you probably shouldn't be playing music, you should be a fashion designer. haha

Give me all the pink pedals in the world, as long as they sound this beautiful.

[tvforchildren]

@Playerc0 the pink rules

[desr2395]

@Playerc0 dude the pink looks boss

[PopExpo]

i don't know why so many people shit on the reissue AD9 i think this sounds great!!

[Budvaarek]

5:06 - LOL, The Ocean from Led Zeppelin :) nice :D

[UltimateGuitarist17]

I cant live with under 300ms max. I need digital

[TehAl3X]

@UltimateGuitarist17 you can get like 650ms on analog.. even seen an 800ms one but i can't remember the model

[expectador]

It's the dead kennedys fella's. arctic monkeys... jeez.

[TimmOfficial]

arctic monkeys :P

[marvelboy04]

how many ms is this pedal

[GhostOfAE]

Putting it down to 20ms gives you doubling, which is fantastic. I'd sooner build the BYOC analog delay though. Much better IMHO.

[RickFreeloader]

What is the song played at the beginning?

[rafaga3000]

@RickFreeloader police truck

[MrRedrays]

I think the song at 4:00 is the Theme From M.A.S.H.

[kabustard]

@MrRedrays Wrong!

[pacoeva]

excuse me, could you please tell me the name of the song in 4:00 ?

[branimirs]

Police truck

[radkins80]

why is this delay adding a sort of overdrive effect?

[spacemanvector32]

well, it is analog, but sound to me like he is also going through a slightly dirty sounding clean channel and pushing it, so the clean signal has a little drive, the delay is just doubling that into the amp.

[dkrumrie123]

it does sound a bit like that, i think it because his amp is a bit dirty and hes running it right into the amp which is distorting the delay. i run mine in the effects loop and the delays arent distorted like that. not sure why you would run a delay right into a dirty amp, but i think thats whats going on.

[ProGuitarShopDemos]

@radkins80 - Yep, the amp's a bit dirty and we're running it straight in, for two reasons: 1) We like it, and 2) A lot of people, especially people who dig analog delays, play vintage amps with no effects loop. Straight in to a kinda dirty tube amp is a classic tone found on more records than I can count.

[theShowStopper321]

@ProGuitarShopDemos Does this add any color or slight gain to the signal when u turn the mix up? I've heard it does, and I would actually like that cus there's nothing wrong with more grit.

[christianarestegui]

Ibanez AD-9 vs Boss DM-3

I found the old DM-3 on ebay, so wt you think?

[hate420breed]

this thing is cheap and ugly

[figar0x]

Dead Kennedys-police truck Great song!

[tornikjd]

great intro! thats what is

[rob5000x1]

this is a very cool ugly pedal lol

[44eelz]

@rob5000x1 ... ugly??? this looks like a cherry pink box of LOVE ;-)

[Butzopower]

Police Truck! Nice Dead Kennedys reference, Andy!

[NeverSerious132]

look guys... anything with a chip inside is not analog...100% at least.....

[copilottheband]

@NeverSerious132

you don't know much about electronics, do you?

[samguitarman]

The ideal thing is to have the both on your pedal set. money for only one and play rock? buy a digital. It depends on the predominant music style you play.

[BrixSnBs]

I don't get Ibanez... they make killer guitars and pedals. And then they ruin it with the ugliest designs.

[moggieman10]

this design was created by Maxon.

[jackofalltrades156]

@BrixSnBs I think Ibanez have the coolest looking pedals...

[sk8ordiet15]

i dont give a shit what they look like, if they sound great its all good lol knowon looks at your pedals on stage xD

[that76]

I've been saying that for years!

[PopExpo]

is delay sounds awesome!!!

[discardthis]

DK!!!!

[thatcoolG]

wats the dif between digital and analog?

[eezycheez47]

its pretty much a consensus that analog delay pedals sound a lot better than digital. digital pedals basically take the signal and break it down and run it through a computer as a digital signal (1s and 0s) and then process it into a sound signal again. analog pedals take the electrical signal from your guitar and run it through an analog circuit to change the sound. theyre more expensive but they tend to sound way better.

[pakismyname]

that isn't true. Some people prefer the sharper sound and much longer delay time of digital pedals. I personally like a good mix of the warmth of analog and the bite of digital. The DD-3 is good at that. AD-9 sounds pretty nice but the max delay is short.

[nicoptw]

Besides the audio quality (i think analog doesn't just sound 'better') digital delays offer longer delay times. Analog delays can never offer more than 300ms more or less, digital ones can offer 3 sec delay time

[BiscuitsJoe]

Actually Malekko has analog delay pedals that do 600 ms and even one that does 900ms. Wether or not analog or digital delays 'sound better' is really up to the player and the style of music. If you want a darker, vintage/indie vibe from your delays, go analog. If you want bright, clean, Edge style delays, go digital. But that's just speaking generally.

[SuperEwokDude]

Except you forgot that the Edge uses an analog delay, the Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man.

[PatrikForLife]

@SuperEwokDude

I thought that The Edge used TC 2290 Racks..

[tazzboy77]

Yeah I would like see the Demo the Maxon AD-9

[xmasonmars2]

Ya Dead Kennedys

[StefanPriceUK]

The MXR CC is rubbish, sounds digital with a muddy bassy sound.

[pakismyname]

The CC is better in certain applications. Like Digital delays are useful in certain situations too.

[theShowStopper321]

@StefanPriceUK Have u used one? I chose the Malekko 616 over the CC and now Im wondering cus in demos the CC's repeats sound more faint and a tad chewier, but the 616 is more like a tape delay with respect to the sound of the repeats.

[ThamMalaysia]

This must be one of those BBD units.

How's this compared to the Boss DM-2 ?

[tite37]

What the song in the introduction?

[bassnsx]

police truck by dead kennedys

[Alexis2punk4u]

wooo dead kennedy's

[XJONGSANGX80]

I like MXR carbon copy better.

[partywithbonscott]

The Maxon AD999 kicks all their asses I think.

It's so expensive though.

I think if you can find a vintage Ibanez or Maxon AD-9, it beats a carbon copy.

Their reissue shit sucks though.

[Juanjolead]

which one its better this one, the dd20 or the dl4 line 6 Plz answer

thX!!!!

[JeanEstienne]

The Line6 Dl4 is better

[omegavalderrama]

The AD9 is analog and thats better than the DL-4 analog EMULATION, overall obvious the DL-4 is better for versatility and features.

[ardate]

artec*

[leftnutnamedchancey]

This is the best Delay out there in my opinion!

[adf413]

maxon ad9 or ibanez ad9?

[Ilovemyfender2]

Maxon.

[Blomm4n]

DEAD KENNEDYS! Andy got great tast of music i think:D In every one of your great rewievs I get surprised over which rate of songs you demo the pedals with.

[PopExpo]

Can't wait to check out electro harmonix's memory boy. about time they came out with a stream lined version of the memory man. hopefully they don't charge near the same price.

[ilovemyfender1]

yeah when is the memory boy supposed to be out anyway?

[StefanoAprile]

How much delay time in ms?

Thanks

[MAlshoaiby]

1:03 - 1:07

[indominesangel]

maximum 300ms but there are some inside pots you can mess with so it can reach 500ms(but the sound gets aufully distorted)

[ilovemyfender1]

imo the delay decays too fast...still sounds good but ibanez ain't one of the best brands out there.

[Xguitarist17]

nice classic 50's sounding pedal, i'm curious to see what it can do. but for sum reason i favor MXR's carbon copy analog delay pedal more and it's the same price, then again i'm not a blues/country/oldies player, i'm more of alternative modern rock and that's what carbon copy is for.

[mcr70313]

True bypass means that when the pedal is turned off, the circuit is completely bypassed, making it as if there was no pedal plugged in. In a non true bypass pedal the sound can be muddied or the tone deteriorated, so true bypass is good because it can maintain your guitar's tone. However, with a true bypass pedal the output can jump becasue there is a reduction in cable length when the pedal is on or off.

[44eelz]

what does true bypass mean?

[pooche]

Too bad you didn't demo the dual output (dry and delayed) feature. Sounds like you're playing in a HUGE room even though you could be in a small bedroom. Need two amps though set apart. Awesome effect. Great pedal.

[spuogis]

his clean chanel is kind of dirty

[bongolow07]

Damn that sounds old school, I need one of those haha.

[BearBudah]

Is there a name for the intro song? Or is it just somthing that was improvised?

[discojames]

It's called Police Truck, by the Dead Kennedys

[mikey2times108]

the other ibanez delay pedal is better than this and its only 60 bucks

[topicrass]

you are so stupid

[TomMunster]

Whats the first song played? It's awesome!

[bobcat19641964]

police truck is the name of the. sorry

[harrisonfordsahealer]

dead kennedys

[mrscojoe]

I like how "The Ocean" made a two second cameo.

[requintiador]

esto es mas crunch que delay

[lemmyispunk]

police truck...awesome song.

[dobby240]

aaah dead kennedys!!!!! i have this song XD  love it

[rockstaragb]

which is better? this one or the mxr carbon copy?

[gez2007]

what ever is best for money

[GibsonSGLeft]

They cost the same..

[moochmeamillers]

The MXR does not rate as well as the Ib in most reviews

[rexatar]

I personally the MXR is exactally my kind of delay.

[dkrumrie123]

They're about the same. I've played/owned both of them, then I got the Keeley modded AD9, and that one blows both of them out of the water.

[manesh717315]

the mxr is better plus the modulation gives an extra rich and warm tone to your playing

[GuitAri13]

OH FUCK YES POLICE TRUCK!

[electricpony]

The song is actually 'Police Truck' by the Dead Kennedys, not 'Holiday...'

[VeroForza]

i own 1 of these and ive owned LOTS of others, but this has by far the most personality. true that it doesnt range as far as a digital version, but tha character of each little twist of each knob sets a color of its own for multiple combo's! LOVE IT!

[ampeg76]

666jony, dead kennedys "holiday in cambodia", awesome song