Let start with gear setups and maybe we can swap opinions on stuff we have or stuff we're looking into. Please don't take this as me calling you out or anything remotely that immature. This is meant to be 100% civil.

Mine's relatively incomplete right now. I'll put what I had and then what's evolving into.

Previous:
Guitar>>Budda Wah>>Banzai New Rising Sun (Clean Boost)>>PE Vibe Unit>>Voodoo Lab Proctavia>>Diaz Fuzz>>P.E. Yardbox>>Maxon Delay>>amp

New:
Guitar>>Budda Wah>>Banzai New Rising Sun >>Capt Coconut 2>>ZVex Fuzz Factory>>Fulltone 70>>P.E. Yardbox>>Banzai Cold Fusion Overdrive>>Maxon Delay>>amp

I'm also looking at picking up some "noise" effects i.e. Ring Modulator, Robotalk, etc...

I like to noodle around with various styles so I like to have different effects, some for traditional type stuff and others for experimental. I'm not a full-time musician and occassionally get together for jams with friends.

Got any recommendations for some gear? Just because I have a few fuzzes doesn't mean I'm not game for a few more. Same goes for the other stuff.

Dave:

I couldn't help but notice that you use a Maxon delay. I have the AD80 and I love it. It sounds better than most other analog delays within that price range. I haven't heard of many people that use one, so I was surprised to find a comment about one.

could you please post your opinion of the nrs. i have had my eye on it for quite some time now but have not broke down and bought one yet. thanks.

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Originally posted by Jason Vaughn:
Dave:

I couldn't help but notice that you use a Maxon delay. I have the AD80 and I love it. It sounds better than most other analog delays within that price range. I haven't heard of many people that use one, so I was surprised to find a comment about one.

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The AD-80 is great. There are some users in this forum and Harmony Central who use it, but I know of no one else personally who uses it. Prices have soared on these things. My store now carries them for $400. They're still on Ebay cheaper though.

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Originally posted by eric:
could you please post your opinion of the nrs. i have had my eye on it for quite some time now but have not broke down and bought one yet. thanks.

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Absolutely.

A very basic pedal that does one thing and does it extremely well. There are two knobs. One is the boost, which provides, I believe about 30 db of clean boost. The drive knob (active only when the boost is set at or past 3:00) increases the impedance. This hits the circuit harder and will force a very subtle amount of additional distortion and sustain.

Using it clean, I've fattened up my sound and increased my sustain. Chords ring nicely and single note melodies just jump off the strings.

I use it to hit my small Class A amp (amp maxed out on volume). I get additional saturation and sustain and it sounds wonderfully. It's the kind of pedal you can keep on all the time. It's not a two-stage boost like the Germ or an additional tone knob and input gain knob like the Fat Boost, but that doesn't matter at all. It boosts your signal and allows you to drive the signal harder at certain settings, producing a small amount of distortion. It's not the kind of pedal to provide the "cranked amp" sound at a low level (I'm under the impression the Fat Boost can if you crank the input gain - I could be wrong here), but at live levels, this'll be a great in front of any amp because it is totally transparent.

As we speak, Olaf is building my Cold Fusion. I'm putting this one past my fuzzes. I'll be getting it in a few weeks. I'm looking forward to it.

I'm going to go place my Capt. Coconut order. Eric, I hope that was some help. Take care.

I got an AD-80 yesterday and was playing with it in my setup until around 2:00am last night [Haven't spoken to my neighbors yet]. The tone is perfect, very warm. Exactly the tone I wanted. I sure wish it had more delay time, however. It's more of a sonic thickener/reverbish than something where you can play against yourself. Now I feel stupid for not getting the AD-900 when they were still around here, but it seemed so expensive, and pretty big too.

I get some noise (a little background hiss) after about 2:00 or 3:00 on the "blend" control - do you guys get that too, or is mine not a great unit?

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Originally posted by Anonymoose:
I got an AD-80 yesterday and was playing with it in my setup until around 2:00am last night [Haven't spoken to my neighbors yet]. The tone is perfect, very warm. Exactly the tone I wanted. I sure wish it had more delay time, however. It's more of a sonic thickener/reverbish than something where you can play against yourself. Now I feel stupid for not getting the AD-900 when they were still around here, but it seemed so expensive, and pretty big too.

I get some noise (a little background hiss) after about 2:00 or 3:00 on the "blend" control - do you guys get that too, or is mine not a great unit?

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Turn the blend up and the repeats up and you'll get feedback. There's nothing wrong with your unit. Your situation seems normal. I'll check tomorrow on mine.

Also, how long do your batteries last? Afew hours, a few days of multi-hour jams, a few weeks of that kind of playing? The battery that came with my AD-80 is already wearing down, so I was wondering if it was just an old battery or if this pedal eats them (this is my first analog delay).

Dave, sorry for stealing your thread(!) and thanks for the reply. Actually, for better or for worse, only the US market AD-80s feedback! I live in Asia, and the units sold here don't feedback at all even on the most extreme settings. I'm planning on opening mine up to see if there is some internal trimmer I could mess with to get mine to feedback too! The lack of feedback in the units over here is why I held off so long on buying one, but then with them getting rarer and the AD-900s already long out of stock, I decided I better just get one anyway. The hiss I was talking about is definitely not overpowering, but noticeable.

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Originally posted by Anonymoose:
Dave, sorry for stealing your thread(!) and thanks for the reply. Actually, for better or for worse, only the US market AD-80s feedback! I live in Asia, and the units sold here don't feedback at all even on the most extreme settings. I'm planning on opening mine up to see if there is some internal trimmer I could mess with to get mine to feedback too! The lack of feedback in the units over here is why I held off so long on buying one, but then with them getting rarer and the AD-900s already long out of stock, I decided I better just get one anyway. The hiss I was talking about is definitely not overpowering, but noticeable.

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I think at Musictoyz, the AD-900's are still under $350 (if they have any in stock).

I never used batteries with my delay. I plugged into my pedalboard. I can see them eating batteries though. It's not a clean boost pedals that barely draws any power.