Ibanez DE-7

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.

Easiest thing to use than the other digital pedals - Danelectro/Boss

As soon as I played it, I could sense the Brighton Rock solos oozing out. I want a second one though, so I can rig up 3 amps - a central amp for the clean sound, and 2 either side of the stage with their own delayed sound.

Ok, here's my rig...

Jim Reed Red Special/Fender Stratocaster -> Home made Treble Booster ->Ibanez DL7 ->Peavey Rage 158 (its basic, don't laugh. I'm wanting to get hold of a nice Big Marshall - not an AC30!!! AC30 is going too far into the Brian May tone, I jsut happen to like the guitar, and agree with him that a treble booster does stop the sound from going wooly)

I found a little humm, but that's probably just my guitar since it needs cleaning, or my cables - I trust this pedal.

Built like a brick, almost to the extent someone could build a house out of them... If they want to spend #89 per brick!

Something about a bad switch? I find no bad switch. Perhaps if people didn't stamp on the thing from an angle. A little stage courtesy towards your pedals goes a long way.

never dealt with them

Perfect, just a lil fiddly to set the delay time perfectly (would be better to have a tap button option as well as the dial)... But I still want 2 for my 3-part guitar cannon

Easy to use and a lot of fun!
But take some time to get to know this pedal's nuances...

This pedal actually gives my tone MORE definition and clarity.
Better than the Digitech 1002 digital delay, although I still like that pedal as well...Gotta give it thumbs up for that!

Taking care as to not destroying the footswitch...playing at bedroom levels....So I am not doing the Angus thing on it....
No room!
LOL

Pfffffffffttttttttttt....

I re-ea-ea-eally have to recommend this one as an alternative to high end delays...I am happy with it, and you will too, until you start to do the clean thing with analog delays....This handles the dirt just fine! Thumbs up for this one!
Strats into Delta Blues amp with lotsa pedals looped out!
I'd say get this one first, for your venture into delays.....

The spaceship thing happens with this one, and the perpetual feedback thing would make a small stage effect seem novel.....Just once though!
LOL

It is clear to me what each of the knobs on the pedal do. I wasn't at all confused about the switches or knobs.

It's kind of interesting how this pedal sounds. I was hoping that the delay setting would produce repeats without a fadeout, but that is not the case. There is a bit of a fade out in the delay mode. The echo mode is pretty interesting. When all knobs are turned up all the way, it's just a matter of time till you're making alot of noisy noise.
Something interesting, though: The delays/echos stop dead in their tracks when the effect is disengaged. Not like boss or danelectro, where you disengage the pedal and then the delays fade out. This makes what I think of "sound on sound" delay work pretty much impossible. There are certainly advantages to this aspect of the peday, but make sure that you understand this about it.
Also, you can make cool stuttering effects by engaging and disengaging the pedal while you play. This will put little voids into the delay stream. Wierd.
I use it to feed sticcato notes from my Schecter TSH1 into another delay pedal, which runs into a slicer for a kind of rythmic tapping effect. Also, this produces a great slapback in echo mode. I had been using a Dano "shower room" pedal, but this is a bit more to my liking.

There is a pretty bad design flaw in that the actual switch is really close to the hinge of the footswitch. This places a bit more of a diagonal push on the button, rather than a direct down push. This is why alot of people are complaining about the switch. If you push the pedal switch down by stepping on the upper portion of the pad, you will achieve more consistant results. I did, anyway.
Still, the best soultion would be to redesign the pedal. Otherwise, perhaps not the best gigging effect pedal.

I'm not sure...

As mentioned above, this is a pretty singular pedal, which has some features that others deemed wierd or wrong. This means it is its own animal, and is capable of being successfully implemented into someones sound, if you are aware of its nature.

Pretty easy to make some cool sounds, especially on the "echo" mode.

I almost always keep it in echo mode, and I use all three of the time intervals, from slapback to slow repeats. Plus, you can mess with the time knob to make some crazy tape-echo sounds. I've had plenty of people be impressed with the "vintage" Space Echo sounds that can come out of this box. I've had this for over two years, and I'm still having fun with it. The "delay" setting is not real useful, just a mediocre delay setting. Not very noisy, but not the most transparent pedal, either.

I use this pedal at the end of my chain, which includes an MXR DynaComp>Russian Big Muff>Danelectro Daddy-O>TS-7 Tubescreamer>Dunlop Univibe>Deluxe Electric Mistress>DE-7>'59 Fender Bassman RI. I play a MIJ Fender Strat. I have no reverb from my amp, and I prefer using the DE-7 to the $130 Boss RV-5 I bought and rarely used.

The battery button busted somehow, so I have to use an adapter, which sucks. It is probably possible to fix it, but it isn't a big enough deal to me. However, I would gig, and have gigged, without a backup.

Never dealt with Ibanez.

I bought this originally because I thought it would be a creative tool, something to help me make music. I was correct, and this is still one of my favorite pedals, even though I don't always have it on. I have even used this thing to put slapback echo on vocals, and it still sounds cool. For the money, and you can get these cheap on ebay now, I would highly recommend this for vintage tape echo noises. It is sort of like just buying the echo part of a Deluxe Memory Man. I play classic rock and blues/folk rock kind of stuff, and I don't know if the DE-7 fits with those styles, but its a lot of fun to mess with. I would definitely recommend it over the Dan-Echo. It's not perfect, but for the money you can't deny the bang for the buck. A very musical effects pedal.

10
Using this pedal is blood simple. Of course it's not as nice as having a number of preset patches with custom delays, but it is a stompbox, after all.

9.5
Dean Avalanche--DE7--Fender Blues Deluxe. This pedal has excellent sound in delay and echo modes. It's noiseless and the delay is incredibly smooth and dreamy and long delays with infinite repeat can yield great sound-on-sound ambient collages, if you're into that. The analog echo can be dangerous with about 7+ repeats, as it feedsback louder and louder. Using this with the volume control and while twiddling the delay time knob can yield great sounds a la the end of Radiohead's 'Karma Police.'
I've used it with a Korg Pandora phaser and amp distortion on a Fender Champion 30 to get a nice glassy texture. Just great for ambient doodling.
I play post-punk (Joy Division/New Order, early U2) among other things. Since I don't have a Vox AC30, I can't really create the kind of sounds I want anyway, but this peddle would be sufficient to get some "Where The Streets Have No Name" kind of repeats.

3. It seems sturdy enough, and when it's on, it's very reliable. However, the switch broke very early on, making it very difficult to turn on while playing (although it switches off easily enough). I would like to try a Boss pedal for another delay, although my Digitech RP100 has a nice range of reverbs and delays, and reverb and delays can be used simultaneously. For about $100 it's worth checking out, if only for the reverbs and delays.

I've never tried to contanct Ibanez.

5. This is, again, a nice pedal for people who like ambience, be it Unforgettable Fire-era U2, the Church, Pink Floyd, or electronic stuff Underworld and Roni Size/Reprazent. Coupled with another delay pedal (delay on delay) and you can get some beautifully ethereal, glowing, keyboard-like swells. If only the switches weren't crap.

moderatly easy to use, you have to fiddle with it.

it sounds awesome

the switch is shit. if i could give it a zero, i would. the pedal is very solidly built (i had to take it apart), but that ABSOLUTE CRAP switch just pisses me off.

the sound is fantastic, but if it doesn't work, then what's the point. i give it a 10 for sound quality for this price and for being digital, but if you roll the switch in there, its crap.

Turn knobs till you like what you hear.

Of course, it's only $80 and doesn't have echoplex stamped all over it, but hey, it's not half bad. For being cheap, it doesn't sound cheap = good. I had the same problem as the guy a review or two below with the BBZZZZZZKKKKWWWKSDKFLDASJKL; stuff, and you know what I did? I changed the cable going to the pedal and guess what happened after that! NO MORE BDDSDFLDJ:SFJDKLS crap!

I'd depend on it. If it's making weird noise when you step on and off the pedal, check your cables first. If it's still doing it then check the battery (AC adaptor), and if it's still doing it, check your pickups on your guitar...and finally, if everything else is fine and you're still hearing the BKLDFKLEJICD:SAL then you've just bought yourself one expensive paper weight.
I've had mine for over a year with no real problems.

Damn decent for $80. I play Fender J's and P's through it into an Ibanez CF-7 into a Mesa Bass 400+ to a 4x10 and a 1x15 and they all sound great. Sure, buy yourself the most expensive delay/echo on the market and you'll sound better, but is it worth the extra $400? Probably not. I just didn't think the echoplex sounded $400 better to me.

It's easy. Play a little and you'll know the trick. Volume/repeat interact with each other nicely.

Fender strat / gibson LP Std -> May's treble booster -> Ibanez DE7 -> ibanez Sc-10 chorus -> Boss Ph-2 phaser -> JCm900
Well, i thought it was noisey, but it was the Ac adapter. When i used it with batteries it was a silent unit. I never tried it with a Good adapter, but dont worry about noise.
Now... serious talking, dudes:
-Delay mode: Well, i never tried a lot of delay pedals, but it's a delay with clear digital type of sound. Not sterile, but think of it as being Clear. Personal taste rating : 6

-Echo: I know this is not an analog unit, but... let me tell you : I LOVE THIS SOUND!!! the repeats become warmer and a lot more softer than the digital mode. I heard some demos of analog pedals, and if they sound better, i didn't notice it. Well, they probably do, but i think this unit ends the race very close. I think this change is only a cut in th top frequencies, but... that's a LOT of difference.
Personal taste rating : 8
Note: when i try more pedals, i'll give 9's and a 10 for my best sounding one. I dont throw away 10's like many in here.
Ps - dont let the "digital" name fool you. It sounds fantastic. (rare)

I depend on it. My heart and hear does. eheh... altough many in hre say it's not reliable, i believe in them, because the first units WERE NOT REALIABLE. Then... the switch cavity changed (i saw some), and no problem at all!!
1ST UNITS - not good.
NOWADAYS - no prob.

Never dealt with them. Hope i never will

i'm gonna be brief:
This is an awesome delay pedal in the ECHO MODE. If you dont have a lot of money or you need some extra DELAY TIME in your analog pedal, get one of this because it comes very close and has extra memory.
Because of it's price, sound, price ... i'll give it an 8.
Now they're cheaper.