Ibanez DE-7

Very easy. You'll be space'n in no time.

I use Gibson & Fender guitars with Fender Princeton Reverb (Blackface)
and a first year 1990 59" Bassman R.I. with 3-knob tube Reverb R.I.
The DE7 sounds pretty good through this rig. Nice clear echos-much
clearer than my original Memory Man (which was noisy) even with true
by-pass mod. The FET switching on this pedal is very quite-And almost
no signal loss. Not worth worring about unless you run a ton of
pedals (I only run 3) There is a slight digitaly vibe to this pedal
I can't really discribe. About 2 years before I own an Ibanez
Echomachine (Patato Bug Pedal) and it was alittle more analog and
slightly better tone than the new DE7. It's the reson I bought the new one! The DE7 is not a disapointment by any means,but you trade
longer echo's and the abiblty to have digital delay (+ a better housing) for a little tone. There both great sounding delays.
The tonelock knobs are the best thing I've seen on a pedal in along
time. Once you use them-you'll see what I mean.

I've had a good luck with Ibanez Pedals,but the switch did
go a little shitty on my Echomachine, didn't stop working
but wouldn't always go on and off when I wan't it to (sucks live)
but that was after ALOT, and I mean alot of live & rehersal use.

Never delt with them.

Good delay and echo effects-for the money its a real good value.
Better than almost all the 300ms crap AD9'S,Boss,and DOD analog
delays. Some of the coolest echo effects don't happen till about
400-420ms-A delay length none of the above analog units can do.
This unit is not nearly as good as tape delay, but better than 9-10
analog units. My last echo was an original Memory Man 550ms with a True by-pass mod. It sounded good but less professional due to hiss
and cruddy repeats-even real tape echo is more HI-Fi! The DE7 is
even more Hi-Fi than real Tape-but I would rather have a clearer
warm sound-than cruddy Lo-Fi. It's really a matter of choice and taste, also combos-just getting things that work good together.

It's easy to use. It didn't come with a manual (used), but the knobs are named after what they do so....
Delays are often hard to get the right sound out of, because you have to time it correctly with the tempo in which you're playing, but with this pedal you can choose from three time ranges (30-160, 120-650. 480-2600 ms)
Ps. it is true bypass, "tone-lok" which means you can push the knobs down and lock them, so they aren't in the way for your leadsinger or your own foot, when you push the pedal + have 2 out channels one dry and one wet.

I play in two bands, a ska/reggae band and a instrumental surf band, so I've got two different setups:
Ska/reggae:
epiphone les paul --> qwiktune tuner --> Danelectro BLT --> Ibanez DE-/ --> Proel wah --> Danelectro fabtone --> Fender princeton '65 amp.
Surf:
Galueston strat copy --> qwiktune tuner --> Danelectro BLT --> Ibanez de-7 --> Danelectro tuna melt tremolo --> Fender princeton '65 amp.
It's not noisy at all! It has a great smooth, natural sound to it.
The delays are great and the echo is great too. I bought the Danelectro BLT, because I wanted a pedal which could make echos, but it couldn't do what I wanted it to do. This can. It's a great pedal, both delay and echo wise. One couldthink that since it's a combo, one of the effects would stink, but they are both good and usefull.
It ranges from smooth subtle delays to weird techno noises! Try putting range on 120 repeat on 10 and delay on 10. Strike a tone and move the delay time knob back and forth - really weird.
This pedal is great as a tool for dub artists. I'm gonna use it for my own dub project.
I give it a nine 'cause nothing is perfect.

the knobs seems pretty weak, but the rest is metal cassing. I would depend on it without a backup, but if I had the money I would buy another, just in case you need two different delay settings in one song.

Never dealt with them.

I've been looking for a pedal like this for a long time. Tried the boss but couldn't get what I wanted from them.
This is higly recommendable. I was going to buy the danelectro echo, but found this cheap and used so I thought I would give it a try... It is everything I wanted from my delay pedal...
Lost?????? Buy it as soon as possible... What I hate??????? Maybe the fact that it looks like a tank... Danelectro pedals are much cooler looking then these tank models.
I've only had it for a short while, but it helps me to write music, in ways I could not do before.
I would love to hear from other surf/ska/reggae/dub players using this. Just rmember to remove the nospam from the email adress.

Sounds great. Nice, warm, lo-fi echo. Ok delay, nothing special.

Morley wah, de-7, trademark60. Sounds good.

Piece of crap. Bought two, two broke. Actually the first didnt even work out of the box. The switching mechanism is a totally cheap piece of plastic that just absolutely sucks. This is why i am writing this review, the second one i got just conked out in the middle of playing. Thanks, ibanez. for nothing.

...yeah i think it worked once

Georges Music in berwyn, PA is the worst store ever. i guess ibanez just sucks at making pedals, because i have a qs470 that rocks.

I wish it had a switch that worked, because i like the way it sounded

The contacts on the ToneLok pedals are a little bothersome and a bitch to turn on, but aside from that, awesome! The new PushLok knobs are absolutely great. Easy access to the battery, also.

I have a Kramer Pacer Series with a Peavey Rage 158 currently, and this echo works great with it. I'll take this sound over any $400 rack-mount system anyday.

Sometimes it's easy to turn on, sometimes, not. Better go with a back up live, or somehow make it easier to turn on. Goes through batteries quickly, too.

Never had to deal with the company, hopefully never will.

I play rock/metal/punk guitar. A nice pedal for all styles, I'd guess. Can be also used as a reverb. With three overlapping ranges (30-160ms, 120-650ms, 480-2600ms), you'll never need a second delay pedal. Also, turn the mode to 'echo', crank up the repeat control, use the middle range of repeat time, hit a chord, and fool around with the 'delay time' knob; makes a cool sound

Pretty easy to use as far as delays go. Three knobs for delay time (controls the amount of time between delays), repeat (how many times the delays get repeated) and delay level (volume of delays). Plus there is a 3 position switch for delay time ranges, (form short to long), and a switch for echo/ delay, (between a warme analopg type sound, and digital delay). Altough it is sort of tricky to set your exact delay times, it still is relatively simple. Beginers might want to stay away though

This is simply the best sounding delay out there outside of expensive rack gear. Basically any type of delay you can think of is in this box. From rockabilly slapback, solo fattening, wide ambient soundscapes, and waves of feedback all lie inside the box. You can also get some coll sounds, by turning the delay time and repeat knobs while playing. No effect freak should be without one.

Yes it is dependable, made entirely of metal, (except for the knobs which are cheap plastic, i understand why because of the retracable knobs, but since i vary my settings alot this doesn't make too much sence for me. the knobs shoud be metal too, or at leat a heaver duty plastic.

This thing is a great little noise maker, that definely hepls me make music. I also use it frequently for recording since it is sooo cool. (i dont just use it for guitar, vocoals bass saxophone, almost anything.) It will fit in with a wide variety of musical styles, but is nessary if you are into ambient, or noisemaking. In its price range, I will say it is the best digital delay out there.

Pretty simple to use.Take your time and learn the settings.

Well,it is a little noisey,but not unbearable.However,I will say this...IT'S A BUG-OUT!!When you turn the intensity rate all the way up,it sounds like a martian space ship about to land!!But it gets better.The pedal has it's own volume control!Ergo,you can let it blow-up all it wants without damaging your speakers from the feedback.You have complete control over all of it's functions.Is that cool or what?? The delay itself isn't bad,but I use this thing as "TRIP-OUT" effect.Oh,by messing with the delay time,your space ship can either land or take off!

We'll see.

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It's a tad noisey,but I use it mainly as a special effect box.On it's own it can hang with most stomp box delays.But what drew me to the DE-7 was the amount of control you have over every aspect of it.Whether it's long,short or slap-back echos the DE-7 can cut the mustard!Did I mention that the echo is very warm sounding??(DM-2 Memory Man)Take some time to really listen to it...I like it.But don't forget to... FREAK-OUT,baby,FREAK-OUT!!THE MARTIANS ARE COMIN' TA GITCHA!!

Simple. Turn the knobs, flick the switch. You may have to adjust it for a bit until you find the sound you want, I did but then I never know what I want until I get there.

I use the DE-7 as the last effect in my line up of my Ibanez RG 270DX or Ibanez EX series bass into a Boss SYB-3 Synth, DOD Envelope Filter, DOD Metal distortion, Ibanez CF-7 Chorus/Flanger and then the DE-7. I love the second output, I plug the primary into my Genz Benz bass combo and the secondary into a Roland keyboard amp. The primary plays the initial tone and all of the repeated notes will play through the other. a lot of fun when you use tons of bizarre effects like I do. I do wish this had a hold feature, but the 2.6 max delay makes up for it. I originally wanted this because I can't afford the Boss DD-5, but now I realize that the DD-5 and the DE-7 would work together, at least for me, better than either one on its own. I use this pedal for mostly clean sounds or clean+chorus for Satriani style playing, but there is endless fun with many effects added in, especially the Synth.

All of the new Ibanez Ton-Loks are built tough, I trust them.

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Awesome delay pedal. The most pedal for the money. I hope no one steals my pedal, I don't have the cash to buy a new one and I can't go on without one. Again, I wish it had a hold feature, but it is still a great pedal at any price.

Well, it's really easy to get a sound out of it, just turn it on. Changing the settings is simple, because it has a switch that tells you the actual time of you delay. The repeat and level switches are self explanatory, and the difference between the delay and echo are pretty subtle unless you have the repeat all the way up, then the echo goes crazy, and you don't even need a guitar plugged in to get some cool radiohead like noises.

I'm using this pedal with my lace sensor equipped strat that goes through a fender super 60. I put my effects through the loop, and i run this with a boss tremolo, and sometimes a dod chorus, and various distortions like a big muff or ibanez ds-7, depends what the gig calls for. The pedal is not noisy at all, all the noise in my set up is from the distortion pedals. The effects always sound great, and it's a matter of finding what you like. I personally like my delay time to be between 380-450ms, between 12 and 2 o'clock on the dial with the switch in the middle position. I can get sounds that vary from pink floyd, rage, radiohead, u2, anything really, come on it's a delay, how hard is it replicate a delay?

Pretty dependable. I had to take my first one back, because there was a problem with the on/off switch. The new one i have works perfect with out any problems at all.

very cool talking to them, they just told me to take the broken one back for a new one.

I play all types of music, but the band i'm in is basically an emo band (bluerskies.net-shameless plug!!). Its a great match for my sound, it does exactly what i want. If it was stolem i wouldn't hesitate to replace it one second. I love the ease of use, and the sound quality for the price. I hate the fact that it eats batteries like Bill Clinton eats a big mac. I compared this pedal to both of boss' digital delays, and chose the ibanez because of the price, almost $40 less. The trade off is that there is no true stereo output for ping pong like effects that you can get with the boss, also, the one boss pedal has a reverse reverb that i loved, but not for the price. But no big deal, that's more a wierd thing that i probably wouldn't do live, and would rather use a more sophisticated device to that in the studio. This pedal has helped me make music, but any delay would have helped me so it's not like this pedal is a holy grail or anything.

Real easy only three knobs and the tone lok feature is nice.

Overall sound is great it fits in well with my array of pedals.

Great its taken a beating its pretty much a tank.

Didnt have to.

This fits in good with my Rage Against The Machine/ Metallica/ blues style.

I picked this pedal up in a store, along with some other brands, and this was the last one played through. It was the easiest of the four. I was able to find exactly what sound I wanted in less than five minutes. The knobs are real user friendly. The 3-way switch allows you to edit the rate of delay quickly. This is great for someone who is just starting out as well.

I play in an progressive celtic band. I use an ovation, custom legend Al DiMeola signature edition guitar along with the roland gr-30 guitar synthesizer. I run the dry guitar signal into a Boss tremelo, then into Yamaha Phaser, then into the DE-7. All of that is then sent into the Boss AD-5 Acoustic processor. I love the sounds that I can get of this pedal. It is only noisy when you want it to be. I haven't found a weakness in the sound yet. It has a somewhat Radiohead-esq sound. Very cool for that suedo tape loop sound form the past. The digital delay is really clean as well. The Echo switch lets you control the speed of the the repeating delay and it sorta sound like the slowing down or fast-forwarding of a tape deck...Extremely cool. I tried out the boss delays too. I thought they were too confusing, they had some nice features. But the DE-7 was very unique. I like the unique stuff.

I wouldn't even think about a backup. This thing is rugged. It looks nice, but is as strong as a gorilla.

Never even thought about support...don't have to.

I have been playing for 12 years and have owned many multiple effects boards. Nothing that I have used compares to this. I have complete control over the pedal. I have overlooked ibanez products for years. This has definetly made me change my mind. I am now looking into their other effect pedal from the Ton-Loc line. It truly does help me write my music. I just wish it had an easier way to switch from Echo to Delay, but I really don't care. Not everything's perfect...right? The sound that it produces takes the cake. If you can get it used...DO IT. It is a strong pedal and it will last a very long time.