Maxon AD9 Pro Pedal

General

When production of BBD-chips was sadly stopped, Maxon was forced to redevelop their legendary AD-9 Analog Delay stompbox with a different IC-chip at its core. The outcome is the AD9 Pro: upgraded potential and upgraded sound. While this is a kind of forced revamped-classic, it's an undeniable improvement and houses that same vintage-vibed warmth and up to 450 milliseconds of delay time. Since the echos have been filtered, none of that frustrating noise or distortion occurs when multi-layering, leaving an even warmer, rounder, and actually cleaner tone than the original. The inclusion of a +12dB input also offers a nice big dynamic range that won't drive too hard, even when the input signal is high. And, since this is the AD-9 Pro, it houses a true-bypass circuit, provides stereo outputs, and a new switch has been fitted for triggering an extra delay loop, whether it's an awesomely chaotic poly-rhythmic effect, a satisfying tape-echo simulation, or atmospheric reverb using a short delay-time.

Maxon

When it was first born in the '60s, Maxon was actually busy making pickups, but by the end of that defining decade, had already started dipping into the dynamic world of effects pedal development. Since they were mostly making pedals for other brands, by the '70s, they were making pedals almost exclusively for Ibanez and as such, many legendary Ibanez pedals are actually Maxon designed and made. The most renowned pedal from this period has to be the Ibanez Tube Screamer (also known as the Maxon 808 Overdrive). This partnership carried on well into 2002 when Ibanez and Maxon finally parted ways. Ever since, Maxon have been producing their own gear, under their own name and some of their fresh pedals include versions of older Ibanez stompboxes - reissued, and re-stamped with the now-independent Maxon name.