Ibanez AD-80 Analog Delay

It has 3 knobs - blend, repeat, delaytime. That's very easy. You can't raise repeat knob to max. If you can that, your amp is broken^^

It's very noiseless. Warm and brilliant, clear analog Sound!!
I have maxon AD-80, boss DM-3 (these are very good analog delay, too).
Ibanez AD-80 is more smooth than maxon/boss.

I can depend on it. And I use Ibanez AD-80 with maxon AD-80, boss DM-3 on stage. That's not problem.

I don't deal with Ibanez. But that's Ibanez! AD-80 is TS-808's brother~

I play folk, modern rock, blues. AD-80 is my best effect! (with Diaz texas Ranger, tremodillo, maxon AD-80..)
If it were stolen or lost, broken, I want to buy it again. But that's difficult to buy it cause that's very rare.
Anyway, that's best analog delay. If you want warm and smooth, clear delay, you must buy it!!

very easy to use

the greatest instrument delay ever made! infinate variability due to smooth analouge mixability,....no hard set, switch type delay settings which limit creativity (like on ALL digital delays)!!!

like a rock!

one of the most user friendly,....wacky, mutatable pedals for bass and guitar ever created,.....................buy it at any price!!!

For subtle sounds you have to barely crack on the echo volume ... great for wacky run away stuff.

Nice clear aggressive repeats The Boss DM-2 seems sweeter
Great for Rockabilly slap stuff

so far so good dropped it once works fine

it can be tricky to get accurate delay volume settings on the go. they all seem to have sensitive pots for the delay volume and it can be a case of off or on. repeats go on endlessly with a percussive pulse.bit noisy on loud long delays. with tweaking it can sound fantastic.

Overall extremely good delay unit in such a compact size. this is the best sounding analog delay in a pedal there is. the delay is not as compressed as other analogue delays like the boss and AD-9.you do get a bit of noise as a result but well within tolerance.I like strats and jazzmasters through an ac-30 and this justs adds to the sound. You can get great slapback, echoes that are like reverb and endless repeats which latter analog delays dont seem to do as well.warm as....

the pot on the delay volume is to easy to tweak and i'm always suss on those foot-switches(although i have never had one fail). At home it is really reliable but I gig with my deluxe memory man.

never tried them

This is my favorite analog delay next to my deluxe memory man.the man has chorus and vibrato so is in a different class. this delay is so warm and musical.its uncompressed qualities are what sets it apart from the others.it still is an analog delay with that loveable disintegrating signal into percussiveness. great on all settings except off. you have the ability to have all delay signal or mixed to your taste - the ad-9 just subtracted from a loud delay signal. i could not live without mine....

This is as easy to use as any of the run-of-the-mill analog delays, such as the Boss DM-3 (I also have one of these). Three controls: delay time (how long between echoes), blend (between dry and effect signals), and repeat (number of echoes). It is mono, unlike some of the other available pedals (again, the DM-3). The one page, fold-over "manual" gives about this much info.

Amazing! This is quiet, which is unusual for an analog. The real value is the absolute depth of the echo. The echoes have some real body and tone. It does not overpower the dry signal and does not discolor the original sound. It tends to sound a bit like a tube Echoplex (used to have one, but no more), without the tape noise. There is a reason that these have been going for up towards $200. I've used it with a Strat, Les Paul w/'57 pick-ups, PRS Custom 22, ES-330, and a Rickenbacker 365, through this and a Fender Deluxe Reverb and all sounded fantastic. It has a real vibe with the spring reverb on about "4".
Vocals also sound great through this, and I've used it for some demos. Sound much better than a rack-mount digital delay.

This has lasted me since the early 80s and has worked without fail. The only drawback is that it requires two 9-volt batteries, and it sucks them dry (or drier, since they already are dry cells) in a few hours or less, depending on how much the effect is used. Like most of the small stomp boxes, power is used as long as you're plugged in. Bring extra batteries, and this hot pink box will let you sound like you're in the Alps all night.

That's a laugh. I call Ibanez once a year to see whether they intend to make another 18-volt wall wart available. They never know what pedal I'm talking about. They usually ask whether I'm sure that it's an Ibanez. I think that AnalogMike has a source for repair. Note that the A/C input is a mini-phone jack, unlike the barrel-type jacks on newer pedals. Ergo, the Danelectro 18-volt adapter for the Cool Cat might work, but you'll have to perform surgery on the plug.

I love this pedal so much that I bought the Boss DM-3, so that I didn't have to risk losing the AD-80 at a gig. DM-3s are more plentiful and cheaper. If I lost this, I would hunt down another, or I'd jump at one for around $100 as a back-up. The DM-3 is very close, but the AD-80 is warmer-sounding. The lack of a stereo dual-output on the AD-80 is only important if you want to record it in stereo, but a Y-cable could solve the problem. It's nice.

Basic Ibanez 3-knobber from the series that included the TS-808. Knobs are Delay, Mix, and Regeneration.

(Used with Fender guitars, and Fender Tweed amps.) I expected a bit more noise, but this pedal is pretty clean. Some of the flangers and phasers from this series can carry a bit of noise even when disengaged, but this one is just fine. The effect does a great warm delay, slapback, and echo. Definitely not digital. Coming out of my amps it sounded like it belonged in there. From my '54 Champ-amp (with no reverb), this pedal it really put out a neat rockabilly sound with my old Gretsch. Nice depth. A sound like a few tunes on D. Gatton's 88 El Mira CD.
One drawback, which may just be my pedal and not the case with all AD-80's, is a odd thing with the regeneration. If it is dialed in any degree past 10 o'clock, you get a wild 50's sci-fi sound effect. When a phasor, laser beam or what not is fired on one of those movies, the ocillating noise? That's the one. Anyhow, it takes over the note or chord and builds up to a ringing crescendo until you kick it off with the footswitch. I'm sure the neighbors love it. Not that you need it past 10, but something I have to keep in mind. Unless you're into ray gun blasts!

I'm a big fan of this series of pedals. This is a 1980, almost old enough to drink, and chugging along famously.

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First off, I am not a real delay fan. My last delay was a Digitech, the big blue 2 button, 2-second delay ten years ago. That was a cool pedal, and I haven't used one since. I picked this up, as it was the last pedal (with the exception of the OD-855) that I needed of the TS-808 series. Now I'm kind of digging it. Not as an Edge-esque delay (to which it can perform famously), but more of a warm, enhanced reverb echo deal (if that makes any sense).
Anyhow, I wouldn't know how this compares to the AD-9, EH Memory Man's, or the like, but I do like this pedal quite a bit. They are getting up there in price, and are hard to find in good condition. Those that have 808's know how the paint likes to chip on this series, making most of those you find, look pretty rough. Don't let the exterior fool you, it's a solid, warm, great sounding pedal inside.