Mellotronists

JMoore6397@... wrote:

>   I was at my Dad's today and found a rack mount Ibanez AD 202 analog
> Delay. Has any one heard of these or used them with a Mellotron. A lot
> of interesting voices and the Regen is
> wild
> Jimmy
>
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>
> Greetings Jimmy and Gang,
>
> I bought a new Ibanez Digital Delay DM1000 in 1983 for my M400/681.
> But soon after, I became dissatisfied with the "harshness"
> of the  effects rendered to the Tron.  Sounded great ONLY
> when applying massive amounts of delay to notes.
> Gave awesome decay times of 15-25 seconds.
>
> It also clipped/overloaded much too easy, as we know the
> M400's output is doggone "hot."
> The DM1000  gave a looped 1-sec sample/hold ,but  a
> pronounced "thunk" every second was huge detractor then/now.
>
> .....Solution ?  I stopped using it as soon as I got good ol'
> fashioned Accutronics spring-tanks for the M300/JKMK6/
> and "Julia" .
>
> With 20/20  hindsight, it was an early/inexpensive attempt
> at stand-alone digital FX over 20 years ago. Loads more
> great stuff today  available everywhere.
>
> Cheers,  Jerry Korb  (I still miss my old full-size Echoplex....)