player opinions
Arion SAD-3 Stereo Delay
Name: Dave Ruxton
Band: Demon Llama
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Model Year: 2003
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Price Paid: $85
Performance
All right, I got absolutely hosed on the price of this thing. I was pretty mad to buy it and find out six months later Musician’s Friend stocks these things for about $35. This is a cheap delay pedal. For the price, it’s not too bad. The control setup is pretty funky and I always have to fiddle quite a bit to get the sound that I want. Tell you what. Spend $120 and get a nice Boss digital delay. That’s the next thing on my list.
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Performance Rating: 6
Sound Quality
Gives a good echo if you feel like messing around with the controls. Overall, I think it’s more akin to a reverb sound then delay. You can’t get a good clean echo that you can with the more expensive pedals, but I’ll admit, for the price it does add quite a bit of depth to your sound. One thing I plan on trying once I get something better is to hook it up to a mic and seeing how it handles vocals.
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Sound Quality Rating: 6
Construction
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Feels kinda like a cheap plastic thing, but of everything I’ve ever hooked up to my guitar, including the guitar, this is the one thing that’s never let me down. I like the traditional stomp pedal on this thing as opposed to Danelectro’s tiny little buttons that work very well but are hard to find on the fly. Hats off to Arion for a reliable piece of electronics.
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Construction Rating: 9
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Average Ratings
- Performance: 6
- Sound Quality: 6
- Construction: 9
Ratings Key
- 10: Excellent
- 0: Useless
Company
- Arion