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Party like it's 999 AD with the Maxon AD999 Pro. Though they didn't have analog delay at the first turn of the millennium, it's here now, and the use of the word "like" indicates the use of a simile, meaning you don't actually have to go back in time to do this.  

Five years ago today, Maxon announced the release of three new analog time delay effects in their 9-series of stompboxes. We check back in on Maxon to see how half a decade has treated them.  

One of Maxon's four new 9-Series pedals, the OSD-9 Overdrive/Soft Distortion, draws heavily on the spirits of its ancestral predecessors. The history behind their soft distortion dates back 30 years to the introduction...  

Maxon's new 9-series pedals include the AD-9 Pro Analog Delay, a new stompbox dedicated to bringing real analog delay in a world where everything's gone digital, but ironically tries to sound like it's not. Counterintuitive?...