Re: Ibanez AD9 re-issue is digital ????
"This Ibanez pedal is just called Analog. open it up, you will see the same transistory, rezistory and sh!t. The circuit in both pedal is analog, but recreation of the sound is digital."
Where'd you get THAT quote from? It has a whiff of Harmony Central about it.
Having a BBD means it's an analog delay. All integrated circuits just look the same to whoever wrote that.
It's the shortage of bucket brigades that has driven the market toward digital delays that are voiced to sound analog. With the whole world going digital, its simply easier to build a digital pedal, and program its guts to sound analog. Digital has the ability to sound better than analog, but that's not what many of us want. We want-old school funk, be it tape wow & flutter or analog loss of high end.
I have a pair of Rocktron Short Timers - I like them as well as my old Boss DM-3 analog that got stolen years ago. I like them
better than the Boss digitals that replaced the DM-3 - they were always too bright, and the echos got in the way of the dry signal.
IMO, digital is the way to go for delay, as long as it's voiced right. Save the BBD's for chorus and flanger pedals, where it makes a difference.
Interesting that the Chinese are producing new BBDs - the NOS supply was drying up. Pretty soon, China will be making tubes and analog chips, and the rest of teh world will be cranking out DSPs. Guess where my tone will come from?
