I think I need a new delay

[Bon Hoga]

I've been using an Ibanez DE7 for years now, it's got everything I need from a delay pedal except it cuts off the trails when you switch it off. Please recommend me a delay that's as similar to the DE7 as possible, but preserves the trails. I'd prefer a mass produced pedal, and if I have to go boutique I'd rather not spend a tonne of money.

[jrfox92]

Sounds like you should just mod the bypass with a tails bypass circuit.

[Bon Hoga]

Sounds like you should just mod the bypass with a tails bypass circuit.

Oh, I can do that??? Tell me more.

[jrfox92]

I'm not sure how much room there is inside, but, theoretically, if you wire the normal bypass on it so that it's always on (plus isolate the in/out jacks), you can rewire the switch it uses normally for bypass and then stick something like this into the battery space and wire it to the jacks.

It's a little involved, but it's probably cheaper than getting a new pedal, plus you don't have to search for something else that sounds like the DE7.

[Bon Hoga]

Oh, man

[frigid midget]

Really??

The DE7 is awesome and all, I know. But modding a $30 pedal, while there's a ton of sick affordable delay pedlols on today's saturated market?

I wish I had the same kind of abilities to control my GAS, I've flipped perfectly good pedals for the most silly reasons

[Bon Hoga]

I don't care what it costs, it's my favourite delay pedal.

[3205]

If you happen to have a stereo pedal that sums to mono after the DE7, then you could use a Line Selector as a tails bypass. e.g.:

LS-2 output 1 > DE7 > Stereo Left In
LS-2 output 2 >>>>> Stereo Right In

[iamthearm]

I don't care what it costs, it's my favourite delay pedal.

I have others but it's absolutely one of the best delays ever. I have searched for something similar and I've gotten close but nothing else nails that soupy edge-of-oscillation-but-sits-under-your-playing thing it does in echo mode.