Ibanez DE-7 Delay/Echo

3 simple knobs do the trick for you, 3 delay modes, pretty easy to use, no need for a manual. What I got with the DE-7 was a cd with some "standard settings", great to experiment with.

Setup: Epiphone Les Paul (Gibson hardware) + Ibanez RT250 (cool tiger stripes), DE-7 + PROCO RAT Distortion, through a Marshall 8040 Valvestate and/or Ibanez 25R amp.
All effects with the DE-7 are great sounding, from simple (...) vintage echo to metal double play.
I could get Funkadelic's Maggot Brain sound with some minor experimenting, and found some heavenly echoes that scream to be used.
I think this is the best delay one could buy (sure, we all want a Roland Space Echo...but for that price you can buy like 5 DE-7 pedals !!!), all with their own set-up, sounds like echo heaven, with some delay...

the DE-7 looks very sturdy, I haven't played with it in a live set environment, but I don't forsee any problems with it.

never dealt with customer support

I use the DE-7 for a whole range of styles, from laid-back ambient stuff to double played metal riffs.
If it were stolen or lost, I'd have a cry first, and propably buy a new one, The Ibanez DE-7 delay/echo is not a toy, it is an addition to your abilities as a guitar player. I choose the DE-7 for it's price and sounds (check it out on Ibanez's website), I has some trouble deciding between the DE-7 and a Delayla...but really, what you can do eith a Delayla, you could also achive with the DE-7.
Ibanez rules (for now at least...)

You have to deal with it to get your own sound....a lot of sounds can be obtained...with a lot of stesp. No need to read the manual :)

My setup is epiphone studio/ibanez talman --> americanbigmuff --> boss ds-2 -> EH smallclone -> boss BF-2 -> ibanez de-7 -> fender roc pro 1000/eko herald.
mmmm.....no noise. I like the echo a lot...some kind of radiohead stuff. The delay is great too....loooooooong delay time.

i use it turned on for at least 70% of my performances :)

never have had to deal with

im used to play a sort of postrock and i find it soo cool.
i have tried a dd-2, dd-3, multivox delay machine, line6, danelectro pb&j and dan-echo but the de-7 is still the best all over.
a bad thing: no tap pedal.

pretty easy just take your time and listen for how long and how much repeats, pretty easy to get used to, delay time, repeat, delay level knobs and a range switch (30-160 ms, 120-650 ms, 480-2600 ms) and mode switch (delay or echo)

very good quality, i like the fact that as soon as you hit the switch off it stops, not like boss pedals. i don't really like the echo effect but that just my opinion, and you can get some fucked up sounds by messin around with the knobs. i wouldn't give it a 10 though because its not completly perfect

very reliable

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Very good delay, i wish it had reverse effects, and some kind loop option but i can't complain

Simple. Effective.

Ass-cheap pedal, great sounds.

IT WON'T WORK WITH AN ADAPTER! AND I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE! IBANEZ- MAKE SURE THESE WORK BEFORE YOU SELL THEM TO ME!

you get a 4, cuz with batteries, you rule.

I'm gonna find out soon.

SERIOUSLY, I'M POSTING THIS AS AN ADVISORY- MANY OF THESE MODELS ARE DEFECTIVE! DON'T GET SCREWED! I love this pedal, but I NEED to use an adapter, not waste thousands of dollars on 9 volts.

C'mon, it's a pedal. The only way it could get easier is if somebody else turned the knobs for you!

This is the best sounding delay in a pedal format that I've yet tried (haven't played through the L6 Delay modeler, but I refuse to pay that kind of money for a delay anyway). For a long, long, time I've been looking for a non-rack delay that sounds good and does old style echo too. I've really missed my old analog echo sounds, and this pedal has brought them back for a really good price. It really emulates analog echo quite well!
To those who haven't heard analog echo, well, digital delay units are fine, but are also really all the same after a point in fidelity, and when this pedal is in that mode, it does that typical "carbon copy" thing pretty good too - but turn it to Echo mode, and prepare to hear something special...analog style echo produces a decaying fidelity echo that can eventually blend together into an ambient background, thus producing a beautiful & spacey sounding effect in the process. Turn the repeat knob far up, and it feeds back - which I think sounds great. You can hear echo like this in Radiohead's material. Every analog echo brand sounds a little different than its competition, due to greater sonic variables than a digital delay, and this one happens to have a very musical & usable sound to it. Overall, it's just so much cooler sounding than a typical digital delay in my opinion.

Well, I'm not sure as mine is in great condition, but the plastic pedal switch looks pretty weak to me - I'd personally much rather have the typical old style EH-like DPDT metal footswitch on the top of the casing. As for the rest of the pedal, it looks pretty sturdy.

Typical big company - they certainly don't appear to have anywhere near good customer support - just look at their website, and you'll see what I mean.

This is a great pedal, no doubt about it. I'd buy it again in a second. It's more versatile for less money than the competition, and sounds great to top it off. I give it a 9, because I'm really picky, and I don't think that any pedal really deserves a 10.

Just great.

Ah, it's nice.
The echo puzzles me... that whole infinite loop thing (in echo mode with repeat of full) got me excited, until I realized that it also makes the sound GET INFINITELY LOUDER!! Ahh, my nerve. Did anybody else have this problem or do I just have a weird pedal? Either way, I blasted my entire house. Surprised the walls are still standing....

I don't get the Echo mode.. delay is cool, but the echo just sounds like my Amp's underwater. Maybe just my style of playing.

Actually, I needed to take it back because it wouldn't work with adapters. Hmmm.

They're pretty good.

Good pedals in general, I imagine, but I think I have a bad one. It BLASTED me.

extremely easy to get a good sound...grrreeeeeeaaaaat echo for the money...love the delay times...some people say the the delay sounds sterile.Ill address that later. Didnt even look at the manual, thank you. With a delay unit you have to screw with it yourself to get the sound you want..The controls are self explanatory if you have used any delay unit before

I use this for my main setup of either a PRS Santana or an Ernie Ball silhouette through an ADA MP-1 preamp(love it!!!) Into , yes you heard me right, an Alesis RA-100 reference power amp.This is fed in stereo to an ancient Peavey 4x12 cabinet(built like a rock!!!! With the scorpion speakers in them) and a 2 X 12 Carvin Cab. FOr those that Are curious, I use the Carvins loaded with celestions for the high end and the warm Scorpions for the low bottom. I then alter the signal level from each to "EQ" my tone for the right balance of highs and lows.I have noise reduction due to the fact that all my pedals hiss from the ac powering(sorry< i just cant keep up with batteries on 6-8 pedals especially this power soaker!!!). OK enough about my set up...The echo is awesome sounding, but one major stickler is this....in a band context, if you kick this thing in for a lead, you will drop out into a wash of mush(it will sound fine if the band isnt playing though!)....i suppose using a volume pedal to boost the signal when you kick this on might alleviate the problem, but i do not need another pedal!!!! I have the soundman boost me a little in case you were wondering...and now about sterile sound: remember one mans junk is another mans weapon!!! When using this to recreate triplet repeats(Think Van Halens "Cathedral" without the volume swells), this "sterility" causes the triplet notes to stab out of the amp like ice picks! Its funny because a lot of people use this effect to sound like theyre playing more notes than they are, but with this effect its driving the point home. Its like, "Look at me go!" right in the audiences face!

looks sturdy. I would use it on a gig without a backup because if it did fry, I could use it to whack someone on the head and take theirs!!! It has been dependable so far ( 6 months)

Never dealt with Ibanez.

I have been playing for 18 years I play jazz, metal, alt,you name it...i dont think ive even scratched the surface of what this baby can do. I definitely would get another if lost or stolen (dont you dare!)Just too much of a bargain to pass up. I just cant stress enough...try to make new sounds folks...If something doesnt sound like you thought it would, that could be a good thing, give it a chance and im sure you can find gold in just about any pedal..

Pretty easy to dial in a really great echo, ferget the manual, u don't need it (unless you have serious I.Q. issues).

Poor mans dd-3. GREAT ECHO sound! Bought it for the echo, the delay sound is just ok, kinda cheap sounding.
My set-up: MIM modified Tele thru a Fender Deluxe 90 (no tubes ma!) with an older Crybaby, old Ibanez Tube Screamer (god I love that box!)and an MXR noisegate.
The tone I get with this set-up is somewhere between Dire Straits and SRV.

It's a fairly new addition to my set-up so I don't know about reliabilty but it . I do know it thru batteries like shit thru a goose.
Guess I'd better get the wallwart for it (ugh!).

So far it hasn't been nessesary.

I play the blues and the echo is to die for. If it was lost I would buy another one. Just wish it wouldn't go thru the batteries the way it does, gotta change it every 6-7 hours of use.

Ive gone thru a DD3 before this and although i did not A/B these 2 but the DE-7 sounds very good. The best part is the echo definitely. Yes i can't say it sounds like those analog delays but u can use ur ears to hear it for urself. But the downside of echo is that i could not use very long delay times for it because it will sound 'dirty', but anyway I would switch to delay mode when using long delay times.

A definite no for this category. It's not because of the switch, it's just that after only two week of use, the pedal suddenly could not be turned on for no reason. It's not the switch, I dunno why then I put a battery in it, then it can be switched on again, but when i use back my adapter, it's not working again...terrible, i really can't give myself reasons to trust Ibanez 7-series pedals again after hearing so many realiability issues.

Seriously I would not buy Ibanez 7-series pedals every again and I really don't recommend anyone to buy, please rather buy Boss pedals at least they won't fail on u on stage.

Very easy to use. 3 knobs and 2 switches, no big deal. The hard thing is to get a nice delay sound out of it; sometimes is better to have it on the effects loop of the amp instead of in front of it. The effect-level makes dramatic changes in the sound, making it confuse sometimes.

The effect in general sounds great. It's very clean and when turned OFF it doesn't affect the sound noticeably, I don't know if it has true bypass or not, but it's really quiet anyway. The delay mode is very nice and is the one I use the most; the echo sounds good but I don't have a use for it right now, so I can't say much about it.

It is important to try it both ways, in front of the amp or through the effects loop; it sounds different.

The thing I personally dislike is that it seems to add A LOT of reverb when used with a high effect-level. I don't know if it's normal in these type of effects, but it's annoying, I can't use it past 8 o'clock, or it will sound like bullshit. I use it with distortion, so a high effect level with LOADS of annoying reverb = total shit, especially when soloing really fast. If I follow this rule of thumb, though, I have a very nice sound.

My current setup is: Yamaha RGX621D or Jackson King V or BC RICH Mockingbird -- BOSS TU2 -- BOSS MT2 -- IBANEZ DE-7 -- vintage MRX Phase 90 -- CRATE Blue VooDoo

Nice pedal, rugged and reliable it seems. But Hell, it doesn't feel as reliable as MXR or a BOSS at least. The plastic switches don't give me enough confidence, but I don't move'em anyway, I use delay mode and the middle position for time (I don't remember the range in milliseconds, though).

The thing I really hate about it is that, contrary to BOSS products, you must use only an IBANEZ adapter or it won't work. At least it happened to me and it wouldn't be a trouble if it wasn't because you can't find it easily here (luckily I had one!!). The secret is inside the adapter, it's different than the others (dirty trick, IBANEZ), no matter if they are 9V too, PANASONIC, BOSS or another brand. I know 'cause I opened mine :) he he he

BUYER BEWARE: Some idiot said in an early review that you must use a 9V adapter with 70mA or so, otherwise you will fry the circuit. WRONG, WHAT AN IMBECILE, JUST FUCKING DIE!!!! You can't fry a circuit by doing that, don't be an asshole. The way to fry any pedal, multieffects or electronic device of any kind, is to use an adapter with a higher output voltage than the input voltage that the device is intended for, for example a 12V adapter for a 9V pedal. The higher the mA output of the adapter, the stronger the output current, so it means less chance to have an unexpected drop-off, and that, to me, is an advantage. So when somebody tries to fool you with such bullshit, don't be an idiot and smash his/her face, stupidity must be punished!

I dunno, I don't care.

I find it to be a nice effect. Well built, but could be better. The sounds are clean and nice. Nice for Metal, Rock and any musical genre where delay is needed. 2 effects for the price of 1, at $59.99 is a good deal, anyway.

PLEASE PLEASE, adjust the effect-level reverb IBANEZ. It makes the effect almost unusable on high settings, at least for Death Metal fast soloing.

If stolen or damaged I'd search for anything else, maybe a Guyatone, just for trying out something different, or a rack-mountable unit. But, if you have a tight budget and want a nice-sounding delay it would do the trick OK.