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The only actual genuine analogue delays I'm aware of that you can buy new are the blacet time machine which isn't too expensive (I mean I have one, so it can't be) and the modcan super delay which is a bit dearer, but has a higher bandwidth apparently. I have some modcan modules, but not this one. The Blacet unit does an awesome dub delay, among other things. There was a Moogerfooger unit, but it was a limited edition, and I believe it's sold out now. These are all genuine analogue, but solid state (IE they use a BBD chip) units. I have no idea if anyone's making a tape delay these days, but the old eighties roland units are well thought of, and sometimes are available at a reasonable price - "Space Echo" and "Chorus Echo" are the model names. Personally I wouldn't buy a tape delay, b/c I am a lazy fux0r who can't be assed w/changing the tape loop, demagging the heads etc. I did all that shit w/reel-to-reel m/cs in the past, and I don't ant to go back there coz it's a drag.

The line 6 modelled delay units, available in pedal or rack format are supposed to be good and reasonably cheap, and are reported to do quite a convincing sim of the old analogue delay sound. Probably worth demoing a unit if you can.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 9 January 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago) link

thanks nf, that sounds a lot more complicated than i could ever believe. i'll go check out those solid state machines then.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 9 January 2004 21:59 (twenty years ago) link

yes, they're still making tape delays! I did a search for them about a year ago and found, I think, two companis that still make them. I's sorry to say I don't have the websites so you're on your own.

I used to use the Multi-vox tape echo. It eventually broke down/became unreliable but it was a lot of fun. It had a built in spring reverb. These things, a couple years back, were going for about 250 on ebay.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 9 January 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago) link

If you're any good at soldering, cozen, the entire blacet range is awesome creative fun & amazingly good vfm as well. You're in Glasgow iirc? Next time I'm up visiting my sister, I can bung them in the back of the car if you want to try them out.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 9 January 2004 22:06 (twenty years ago) link

a-ha!

http://www.hiwatt.com/data/HiwattFX.html

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 9 January 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago) link

also, this dub discussion board has some info

http://www.interruptor.ch/cgi-bin/discus/messages/1/1.html?1073681442

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 9 January 2004 22:17 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, glasgow, but it'd probably not be worth yr bother letting me fiddle with it (though much thanks fr the offer!) i'm just an interested amateur. until i learn to play a bit more pedals that price are outwith worth.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 9 January 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago) link

destroy: gated reverb

― kevin erickson, Saturday, 10 January 2004 01:08 (twenty years ago) link

search: the jessica baliiff and that other guy CD--'clear channel'

the revreb is reverberated and delayed so much you never know what you're hearing if it isn't her voice

it's -this- close to invisible music

― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Sunday, 11 January 2004 02:27 (twenty years ago) link

search: acoustic plate reverb
destroy: nothing--everything has its moment/place

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 11 January 2004 03:45 (twenty years ago) link

I recently got a Roland Space Echo tape delay/reverb unit and had to clean it up a little bit and hunt down tape reels for it. The sound is fantastic though, its incredibly fun to play with, it's a strange, almost organic, experience to manipulate it. I would like to figure out how to slow the tape speed motor down so that some of the settings would allow longer delay times, but the schematic I have is a little too labyrynthine for me to figure out how to do it. I will say that this unit is infinitely different from dealing with standard digital delay pedals, the sound, the feedback, the level of flexibility is all different. I highly recommend it!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Sunday, 11 January 2004 04:48 (twenty years ago) link

three months pass...

http://www.rolandus.com/images/products/pedals_tuners/DD6_md.gif

― |OBEY|EYE|BO| (deangulberry), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link

search: using your computer through guitar pedals
destroy: pro-tools

― don (don), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

plate echo, from Franlab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6eZ_JbmBDw&feature=youtu.be

― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 May 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link

the next person to use that damned vocoder effect again should be publicly flogged
― JasonD (JasonD), Wednesday, March 26, 2003 7:09 AM(sixteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you mean autotune? yeah, that should pretty much be banned.
― your null fame (yournullfame), Wednesday, March 26, 2003 7:11 AM (sixteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh, if fucking only.

― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 11 May 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link

real space echoes go for a pretty penny these days, jealous of those who got to snatch one up before they became pretty unaffordable

― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 11 May 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link

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