1979 Ross Stereo Delay R80

Everyone has heard of the old pedal company Ross, who are most famous for what may be the finest compressor pedal ever made, the ever-cloned Ross Compressor. In the '70s, Ross produced a full line of pedals—including the sought-after Compressor—and the Stereo Delay R80 covered the delay end of the spectrum.  Many Ross designs very closely resemble MXR schematics, and the Stereo Delay is very similar to the green box MXR Analog Delay. The Ross produces warm analog delay, and it features two output channels so you can run it in stereo (Local and Remote, each with its own Mix control knob). The Delay knob controls the overall time of the delay, and it maxes out at 500 ms. The Recycle knob sets the number of repeats. True analog delay sound is achieved using the highly-influential "bucket bridge" design, and the Ross circuit features three Reticon SAD1024 chips. These are rare, and if you can even find them for sale, these chips are expensive nowadays. But the Reticon chips are what makes