Ibanez DE-7

This is a simple delay/echo nothing special about. it has three knobs, delay time, to control the speed of the delay, repeat which controls the ammount of times the delay is played and the volume of the delay. You can get a good echo/delay out of this very easy.

First of all the static people are getting is from not using the effects loop, with the effects loop it gets rid of 95% of the static and theres only a little teeny bit left, i think it gives the pedal abit of a personality through a nice amp. the sound for this pedal clean is very good, nothing really special because there are not alot of features to change tone and such but thats expected from the price.

Haven't had it long enough, people have complained that it gets staticy and fuzzy over time. I'm guessing theyre probably doing something wrong but its quite possible the pedal is baddly made.the switch that turns the pedal on and off is tiny and looks fragile, i'm going to have to be careful with this.

have never dealt with ibanez ever.

This pedal seems nice for the price and a good starter echo/delay, it has one really nice feature and thats the crazy spaced out *feedback*, im sure depending on how you fooled around with the guitar you could get amazingly different tones. if this pedal were just abit cheaper and made just abit better and had the ability to have a direct guitar to amp connection without the effects loop this would be a great pedal, but without it, it satisfies .

Easy to use of course, it's a delay pedal. The only thing that I don't like is that it's hard to know exactly how many ms you have it set to since you can set the delaytime to three positions. Frist position is 30-160. Second position is 120-650 and third position is 480-2600 ms. Then you adjust the actual delay time from "0" to "10" with the knob. So if I have it in the second position (120-650ms) and want 350 ms of delay I would set the knob somewhere around 12 O'Clock. But it's hard to know exactly where 350 ms is if you suck at math like me. So thats the only bad thing about it. Not a big thing though, it's easy to get it to sound good.

Sound quality is very good but what can you expect from a cheap pedal like this. It doesn't sound amazing but it sounds really good!

I don't know about reliability. I never stomp it, I always keep it on. I only switch my FX-loop on and off since delay is the only thing I have there. It works great so far, no problem at all.

Never dealt with them.

I think this pedal sounds better than the BOSS DD-6. I had it and it sounded like crap IMO. Cold and harsh delay. This delay sounds much warmer and better and it's half the price of the BOSS DD-6. It's probably not as reliable as the DD-6 though but who cares you can still get two of these to the price of one DD-6...

I use mine in the loop for solos and sometimes I do some crazy things with it, experiments and it's a really great pedal if you can't afford the expensive ones out there :D

But as I stated earlier, buy this pedal instead of the DD-6. It's better IMHO.

I'll give it a 10 here but only because it says "10 fantastic value". Because Fantastic value is exactly what it is. Worth every Euro.

Real easy to use

very good sound quality

I love the pedal but the stomp switch acts up and stops working altogether,found myself right in the middle of a gig taking it out of the effects chain,bummer.

Very simple to use when working properly. Difficult to use when acting up.

One of my favorite non-modulation delays... I especialy like the echo feature for darker analog delays.

OK... this is definitely one of the most unreliable & fickle pedals I have ever owned. 1) Switch sucks & will often let you down. 2) There is a connector that connects PCBs together... it will let you down. Not a matter of if, it's when. Pedal will start making static & noise when this gets loose. Pedal will crash, signal cut out, & delay times will suddenly be wrong. Fun, fun, fun. Slamming it on the floor usually brings mine back for a gig or two. Might be possible to hardwire the connectors, haven't tried yet. 3) standard issues with jacks, battery door... everything said is true.

I've owned 4 of these... all four have acted up. I now put them in a true bypass loop. That way the flakey switch is not an issue, & if pedal acts up, I just bypass it to avoid crashing my rig.

Never had one in warranty period. All were 2nd hand. Probably why they all have had issues.

Why put up with it?? It sounds great, it's simple, & priced cheaper than any delay in it's class. Also smaller than most of my favorites like Memory Man or Echoplex. Line 6 stuff sounds toneless in comparison to the DE-7. For now, will try to hardwire it & will confine it to the LOOOPER!!

Not ot hard to figure out if your have any experience with a delay pedal. The manual is pretty good at explaining. UIts even in like 7 languages for all those people from holland that play guitar

Sound quality is great. The echo effect is good for vlean, while delay and a tiny bit a reverb is good for a Steve Vai sound.

The knobs look a little flimsy, but you can push them down so it doesn;t matter.

No dice

This pedal is sweet. O bought it vause i didn;t have a lot of money for boss, and I still like it.

Dead easy. Also pretty flexible, with range selector, mode (delay/echo) selector, and the normal other controls.

Listening and playing with it, the difference between echo and delay seems to be:

Delay: cleaner repeats, stay about as clean til they peter out.
Big point here it took me a while to learn, no matter if you have the repeat and delay level set max, this thing will not self-oscillate...it won't run away from you and get louder and louder until you have to turn it off.

Echo: Sort of like an analog delay..this gives you a darker repeat, with successive ones sounding darker and darker to me. In this mode it IS almost too easy, you have to watch it, to get self-oscillation runaway. With the repeats anywher past 3 o'clock, and the level anywhere past it, this thing goes into oscillation...gets louder and louder with noise.

As mentioned...you would take this as a given maybe, but the controls are predictable. In that I mean, if you find just the right setting for "Red House", and remember where everything was, and put it back there it will sound just as it did. This is what one would expect, but I have experience with other delays (even though I like them a LOT) like the H2O that even if you LEAVE the settings in the same place when you turn it on the next day (after cool down?) it sounds different.

So, once again...the Ibanez is repeatable setting-wise. This is a good thing.

I never heard ANY static on mine, and I've had mine for a few years already. The guy below, Ben, obviously is having a problem with his. But if he "never wastes his time" on support...

I haven't owned all that many delay pedals, so I am no expert on what is possible. I think this is a solid pedal. Sound is from good to sometimes excellent. I have played this thing where I must have just set it just right, a few times where it was heavenly. Mostly though I go between this one and my Visual Sound H2O. I don't have a favorite yet.

The sound is good. It doesn't seem to be sucking tone when off, and it sounds a LOT better if you use the stereo out to two amps.

Have used mine a lot actually for a couple years now. Would play without a backup because delay is not integral to my sound. I can get by just fine without it, but it is fun to play with.

No issues for me. The switch is still going strong. ONLY point is...I use a power supply, and it seems that even then, if the battery inside dies completley, it won't turn on. At least I had it happen maybe twice, changed the battery and it worked fine.

Haven't needed them. Don't know.

This is a good delay. I played around for a few hours with a Digitech Digidelay and I think I am going to pick one up. It had more sounds, and sounded to me at least as good, maybe better.

That said, this is a SOLID sounding little delay/echo unit. I don't have a "sound in my head" predetermined idea of what I want in an echo...some days I like the delay side, some days (and setups) like the echo side. Has a good range of delay times. Sounds nice.

I doubt this is the cream of the crop, but some days I have this on my pedal board, some days I use my H2O.

I'm not blown away by this pedal, it is a solid pedal I depend on when I want delay.

never needed it..

Play classic and heavy rock and like to use this pedal in line with a CE-5 chorus. Been playing about 45 years and have all kinds of gears, too much to mention here. I like the echo feature and set it just for a very short echo to give a room filling sound. Like any digital delay, it eats batteries so get a power supply for it.
I like it, once its set I leave it there and the depressing knobs help keep it at the right setting in case some drunk comes to the front of the stage and wants to screw around with things. I would just add its a good delay for the money.

While it works, it doesn't get any simpler than this.

The pedal sounds great. The only minor flaw is the unbearable static that seems to develop after a few months which totally covers any sound your guitar makes.

I bought this before my gigging days, and I never got the chance to use it on stage. The static is unbearable and it's not worth the frustration. I never had a problem with the switch, although I did buy a DS7 Ibanez distortion pedal around the same time which does have a shitty switch.

Never wasted my time on it.

Shit shit shit shit shit. Cough up the extra $25 and get a Boss.

3 knobs, 2 switchs, no problem.

delay time, repeate rate, delay volume.

delay time switch
delay/echo switch

no noisel. clean sounds great. can adjust delay volume. Stereo output for ping pong effect. Delay and echo, echo has a decay value to it. If you put it on echo and jack up the repeate rate you get the infinite analog "feedback".

case made of a hard metal, solid construction.

dont care

The only problem i have with it is it eats alot of battery, even when delay not active. I'm planning on making a powersupply for it and all my pedals. Good Stuff.

Pretty easy to use. Lots of options for such a small delay pedal.

Sound quality is pretty good, also the vintage delay simulation. Also nice that it can handle up to 2.6 seconds of delay.

And this is were the big disadavantage of the pedal lies, in its reliability. The switch stopped working properly after a few days and I really handled the pedal carefully (besides that, all of my other pedals from boss and electro-harmonix never broke down). Sometimes it worked sometimes it didn't. When you look at the switch inside, it's not really surprising that it broke down. It looks really crappy and small (nothing compared to the switches used in boss pedals for instance).

Nice sounding pedal with lots of option, but what use is that when it doesn't work properly? I never use it at gigs or rehearsals anymore.