MXR Delay System II

The MXR Delay System II is a rackmount delay unit from the company's rack era, built to sit in a 2-space rack slot rather than on a pedalboard. MXR's own history of that period describes it as "the more full-featured Delay System II", a unit that followed an earlier rack delay and added more to it¹. For a player, that places it among the rack delays that MXR made alongside its pedals, in the same family as units like the MXR M-113 Digital Delay and the MXR Model 113 Digital Delay.

What it does

As a delay, the Delay System II produces repeats of the incoming guitar signal, the effect type covered on the site's Delay Pedals page. MXR describes it as the more full-featured of its rackmount delays, meaning it carried more of what a player needed from a studio-and-stage delay than the unit that preceded it¹.

Where it came from

The Delay System II belongs to MXR's rackmount era, when the company, then under the Dunlop umbrella, was building rack effects alongside its better-known pedals. In that history, MXR notes that the Delay System II "were joined shortly by" wording aside, it arrived soon after an earlier rack delay in the line¹. Players who know MXR mainly through pedals such as the MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay will find the Delay System II on the rack side of that history, a forerunner of the delay pedals the company makes today.

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