Providence PFX-6 Delay 80s

John Mayer's favourite delay bar none.

Japan-only original issue of the Providence Delay 80, hand-assembled in the Providence Custom Shop before the line moved to the painted purple Delay 80's housing. Same primary DSP chip as the later DLY-83, with minor circuit and construction differences from the production-line successors. Warm, fat, characterful digital delay that does the 1980s rack-unit colour without any of the menus or compromise. Out of production. Quietly one of the great delay pedals nobody outside Japan really got hold of.

Specs

• Model: Providence PFX-6 Delay 80
• Origin: hand-assembled in Providence's Custom Shop, Japan, c. 2006
• Format: original brushed-metal enclosure (pre-dates the painted Delay 80's variant)
• Delay range: approximately 25ms to 2048ms
• Controls: Range, Time, Feedback, Mix (subject to confirmation against your specific unit)
• Outputs: mono and direct (dual output configuration as per Providence delay family)
• Bypass: buffered (Providence house standard)
• Power: 9V DC centre-negative, standard Boss-style PSU (not supplied)
• I/O: standard 1/4" input, mono and direct outputs

Condition: boxed, fully functional across the delay range, repeats clean, feedback control oscillates correctly past noon for self-oscillation.

First in, first won. Genuinely the rarest pedal in this sale and the one most likely to disappear inside an hour.

Vintage Martin reasons force sale. The Providence is the one I'll miss most.