Ibanez Echo Shifter?

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Ibanez Echo Shifter?

Post by ryan.e » Wed Feb 27, 2013 6:55 pm

Went into the shop today for strings and this thing jumped out at me; the Ibanez Echo Shifter. Anyone tried one of these? Don't need another delay but this thing looks really cool. It's kind of got a Moog/ something from the dashboard of a spacecraft styling. Hopefully it sounds as good as it looks.

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Re: Ibanez Echo Shifter?

Post by SkinDog » Wed Feb 27, 2013 11:31 pm

Yeah this looks interesting.
Claims to be 95% analog, has tap-tempo and modulation.
'Shifter' makes me think there will be a weird octave effect.

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Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Thu Feb 28, 2013 6:03 am

I heard about this a couple of weeks back. So that's what it looks like.

While I love the old-school design I can't see much about it that sets it apart from all the other delays out there.
The DMB Lunar Echo & Strymon El Capistan still hold the top 2 spots for me.
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Post by Johnnyseven » Thu Feb 28, 2013 8:07 am

PorkyPrimeCut wrote: While I love the old-school design I can't see much about it that sets it apart from all the other delays out there.
How about the price? At £109 it's more than half the cost of the Strymon El Capistan.

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Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Thu Feb 28, 2013 8:23 am

Johnnyseven wrote:
PorkyPrimeCut wrote: While I love the old-school design I can't see much about it that sets it apart from all the other delays out there.
How about the price? At £109 it's more than half the cost of the Strymon El Capistan.
That's the one thing I hadn't checked.

Greast price, for sure. I'm hoping for some YouTube clips to surface shortly....EDIT - I missed this one!! - pity it's a bit wanky.
Delay though. It's one of those things that I love to mess around with but can never quite see it fitting into a workable song, outside of some psychedelic noise/soundscape type thing. I've already got 2 delay pedals. Why do I keep wanting more??!!
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Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Thu Feb 28, 2013 8:46 am

Is £109 a conversion from US dollars or are they being sold at that price in the UK?

I can see these selling for closer to £150, once they decide who their European stockist are. Then tack postage on top of that.
I've not done much snooping around online for these so apologies if I'm a little out of the loop.
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Re: Ibanez Echo Shifter?

Post by SkinDog » Thu Feb 28, 2013 8:53 am

I think I saw one for 155 euros so you're probably right.
Still... pretty good price for an analog delay with tap-tempo

Edit I was wrong vvvvv
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Re: Ibanez Echo Shifter?

Post by Johnnyseven » Thu Feb 28, 2013 9:09 am

PorkyPrimeCut wrote:Is £109 a conversion from US dollars or are they being sold at that price in the UK?

I can see these selling for closer to £150, once they decide who their European stockist are. Then tack postage on top of that.
I've not done much snooping around online for these so apologies if I'm a little out of the loop.

http://www.guitarvillage.co.uk/product/ ... Delay.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Thu Feb 28, 2013 9:24 am

Johnnyseven wrote:
PorkyPrimeCut wrote:Is £109 a conversion from US dollars or are they being sold at that price in the UK?

I can see these selling for closer to £150, once they decide who their European stockist are. Then tack postage on top of that.
I've not done much snooping around online for these so apologies if I'm a little out of the loop.

http://www.guitarvillage.co.uk/product/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... Delay.aspx
Fantastic!

Now we just need to wait & see what it actually does.
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Re: Ibanez Echo Shifter?

Post by burntumber » Thu Feb 28, 2013 3:44 pm

http://www.zzounds.com/item--IBAES2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

looks cool, price is about right.

and it`s about time Ibanez put out some neat delay again.

which there was more delay time.

here`s a demos video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7uXGeDxlSw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The slider seems kind cool, I had a danelectro tape echo before and liked that it had a slider to control the time.

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Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Thu Feb 28, 2013 11:40 pm

burntumber wrote:http://www.zzounds.com/item--IBAES2
The slider seems kind cool, I had a danelectro tape echo before and liked that it had a slider to control the time.
That was my first thought.

Another guy on here just got hold of one of those Reel Echo pedals & is having a lot of fun with it.
I was close to getting one too but, since this has come out, I'll wait.
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Re: Ibanez Echo Shifter?

Post by burntumber » Fri Mar 01, 2013 7:31 am

PorkyPrimeCut wrote:
burntumber wrote:http://www.zzounds.com/item--IBAES2
The slider seems kind cool, I had a danelectro tape echo before and liked that it had a slider to control the time.
That was my first thought.

Another guy on here just got hold of one of those Reel Echo pedals & is having a lot of fun with it.
I was close to getting one too but, since this has come out, I'll wait.
I wasn`t so impressed with it to be honest.

The slider is fun, and you can do sound-on-sound, crazy oscilation that might blow up your speakers.

I liked the sound of the DD2o- and echopark a lot more. I ended up using the Dano just to make noise...which is fun too.

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