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What's the deal with Maxon effect pedals?

Dirty_FrankDirty_Frank Posts: 957
edited October 2005 in Musicians and Gearheads
They're a knock off of most of the Ibanez pedals, but are the any good? Some of them run in the price range of 150-250, which seems pretty high for an imitation pedal. Has anyone ever played with these?

The one I was looking at in particular is the Sonic Distortion. I saw in a gear diagram that Stone used/was using a Ibanez Sonic Distortion, and I came across the Maxon version.
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  • exhaustedexhausted Posts: 6,638
    maxon made the original ibanez pedals. when the contract ran out or whatever, they started making them under their own name. the maxons are more expensive because they're superior in quality of construction and components used.

    i've compared the ibanez and maxons for both the TS9 and SD9. the maxons are better to my ears.

    worth comparing head to head.
  • Dirty_FrankDirty_Frank Posts: 957
    Ah, I see.

    I thought they were just cheap Chinese knockoffs taking advantage of discontinued Ibanex pedals by making their price just slightly lower than the price of a Ibanez one on Ebay or whatnot.

    :)
  • MissYouAllDayMissYouAllDay Posts: 939
    Yah,

    I just got me a maxon AD-9 delay. The comparison there is the ibanez goes for 140US amd the Maxon for 300US new.

    The other pedals all don't have this huge different in price
    the Maxon delays have a very good reputation in general. They have a 600 and 900 second analog delay, which are both also apparently road worthy. All 3 true bypass. They also have the Maxon Ad-80 (similar the the old ibanez ad80) but it is not true bypass and goes for 275US new.
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  • DriftingByTheStormDriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    MissYouAllDay wrote:
    Yah,

    I just got me a maxon AD-9 delay.


    lucky bastard.

    how drippy yummy is that ? ? ?
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  • Pacomc79Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    http://www.buildyourownclone.com/delay.html

    you can also build your own clone.
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  • exhaustedexhausted Posts: 6,638
    the big cost difference in the modulations and delays with maxon is due to the fact that they've used the good IC chips in their circuits. the ibanez pedals use less expensive chinese made chips. the maxon chips, in some cases, aren't even made any more.

    with the AD999, they went as far as getting new chips made after their supply of old stock ran out.

    and they charge a premium for it.

    the 9 series maxon pedals have this one quirk that really bugs me. when disengaging the effect, it only turns off after releasing the footswitch, unlike pretty much every other pedal out there. really annoying but a quirk in the switch design they use to achieve true bypass.
  • HailHailVitalogyHailHailVitalogy Posts: 5,134
    the maxon SD-9 is amazing
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