Ibanez AD-80 Resurrection

[ex-250]

Found this in my drummer's garage, he said I can use/fix it. Dirty as hell, no battery compartment cover, one battery clip broken. He didn't say where it came from, my guess is a guitarist in some past band broke it and just left it there in frustration. Fortunately for me, now I get to toy around with it.

I'll probably be snowed in this weekend, plenty of time to bring it back to life.

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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A new batteri hatch can still be bought for this one!
18v of old analouge echo.

[Rand-O-Monium]

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"Hopefully" it's just the clip-thingy!

[ex-250]

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Indeed. We'll soon find out.

[Rand-O-Monium]

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"If" it's that simple,time to find a wall-wart!

[Kamanda~SD]

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Wow, nice grab. It's more than likely just the clips as they were usually first to go and then were usually thrown into a crate as no one wanted to deal with it haha.

I have an FL-301 from around the same era (I think around '79?) and I'm missing the battery cover too...since I use a power supply some tape took care of that pretty quick.

[Boppy]

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That's my all-time favourite delay.
Just be careful when using an adapter--it's 18V with a positive tip.

[ex-250]

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Yep, just needed a new clip. Sounds pretty great. Richer/warmer than my Vapor Trail, though not as much useable range (Ibby doesn't have a lot of variance on delay time, Blend isn't terribly effective, and Repeat goes from quite strong at the lowest point to unusably over-the-top at the highest…or anywhere past noon, really). Tis a lovely delay sound though.

[Demanic]

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Very warm delay. You could easily roll the bass down on the first section, though the lead lines sounded nice and rich. I take it you like Pink Floyd

[ex-250]

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Just a quick dick-around, didn't worry much about tweaking the tone. Thats actually a Whole Lotta Humbucker neck model split in my LTD Viper.

And yes, as a matter of fact Echoes is my favorite Pink Floyd song. And thats pretty much my go-to riff when toying with delays.

Out of curiosity I tried putting the battery door from my Maxon OD-9 on it- perfect fit. Found one on ebay/reverb for $15 so I may just do that.

[Demanic]

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Like I said, I can hear the influence.

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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There are trimmers inside
Mark the spot where they are now....one is for trimming time, it will give you more artifacts if you push the BBD for longer delay...but then again...it is lo-fi to start with.
The other...well I forgot...haha

[ex-250]

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Ah nice, I'll have to crack it open and fiddle with it, a bit more time and it'd be perfect. Was planning on opening it up anyhow, bought some contact cleaner for the pots (although I was expecting some scratchiness given the mountain of dust on top of the pedal but they're actually not at all).

[J E C]

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Nice score!

[Aceman]

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oh hell yes….

Dig up a cover on the bay.

Much Win, win, win..… The force is strong in this one, one, one, one…..