And an adjustable frequency of tape splices going by the heads.Spitfire31 wrote:And a random, occasional tape break to make life more exciting?plexuss wrote:Holy crap, teh Fulltone Tube Tape Echo is $1600US? I paid $600 for mine. It's the white vinyl version with the stainless top. Back in the day I used real Echoplexes and the RE201. Outer Space really does sound like an RE-201 but I used to have crappy tapes so I am used to more mangled sound. I couldn't afford tape cartridges so I'd roll-my-own using old 1/4" tape. Later I got into winding Ampex 456 onto them and that made a huge difference. and keeping the heads clean and demaged.deastman wrote:Are there any demos of the tape echo yet? I'm a sucker for these things, but since I already own Sound Toys bundle and a Strymon El Capistan, I need to have some sense of how this compares before I buy. I've also toyed with the idea of getting a T-Rex Replicator or a Fulltone, but obviously they're in a *slightly* different price range.
Speaking of which - that would be a great feature: adjustable amount of head dirt and magnetization! Those were real-world aspects of tape echos. Also, the mechanical sound of it. I don't know of a tape echo plugin that lets you dial in the mechanical noise of the machines. You couldn't hear it in the output but you could hear all the time when working with the machine. oh and like the softtube, a "shake" for the spring reverb. if a tape echo/reverb had these features it would be a complete emulation.
And a variable amount of print-through, where audio on the layers adjacent to the playing layer imprint their magnetic signal at a low level such that you can hear different parts of what is on the tape at different places. annoying, but realistic.
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), so i'm sure v1 (and demo) is just around the corner.
funny how this can be exciting!