Just so everyone is aware, Matt (Mathieu Jouen) had passed away on August 20, 2018. Matt, Thank you for your contribution to journalism (and in my case), your contribution to music. While I didn't know you, you are missed. All the best to your family and loved ones!
You're nuts if you don't sell this. I research new pedals nearly constantly. This is one of the most profound builds I've seen in a tape echo unit. Total awesome! People really wanting unique, boutique quality tape echo would snag these in record time. I own a T rex replicator. And even as nice and well designed as it is, this blows that away by a wide margin. Next to the Gamechanger stuff, this may be the most innovative thing I've seen in a long time.
it would never be practical to sell something like this, even if this guy was still alive. (RIP) this is made using a Marantz field recorder, a tape recorder that is old, rare, temperamental and getting expensive to find. also this is a beautiful build but this isn't a new idea. lots of people make analog cassette tape echoes like this
The fact that you built this without any prior electronics knowledge just goes to show what the human will can achieve when desire is strong enough. Great job, man! ;)
Holland Cookson Do it! There’s online DIY electronics communities that have all info required for beginners. You need not understand electronics to build a perfectly functional device. generalguitargadgets.com DIYstompboxes.com Freestompboxes.org Are a good start.
@@Wolf_K I've tried finding this one in particular, most of them are the echomatic delay pedal from that stompbox book, but this guy and that one other guy figured out how to put them actually INSIDE the marrantz or whatever this one is in particular. I guess the hunt continues for that!
Holland Cookson Yes, it is the echo matic. This project is actually fairly easy for the average DIY stomp box builder. Finding a three head tape deck is the hardest part.
You should put this into production. This thing does things my echo plex roland 201 and morley drum echo couldnt, if you added A couple of analog circuits to to to do multi head echos , I think this could be the best echo unit on the market, trust me I did my first gig for money in 1967 . Ive heard and owned most every echo unit out there. This is special!
The fact that you ALSO took the time to share with us how you made it, and thoroughly I might add, you deserve an award! GREAT JOB, SOUNDS EXCELLENT, VERY DIY INSPIRING. DIY'ers might use his tips as inspiration in building a delay using reel to reel. I had great success using two identical higher consumer quality DIRECT DRIVE AKAI REEL-to-REEL TAPE DECKS [DECK A&B positioned standing up, and beside one another...run all INPUTS/OUTPUTS TO AT LEAST A 4 CHANNEL STEREO MIXER] AND FEEDING THE LEFT REEL OF DECK-A ACROSS IT'S HEADS AND PINCH ROLLER, BUT INSTEAD OF GOING TO TAKE-UP REEL, I SENT TAPE TO DECK-B ACROSS IT'S HEADS AND PINCH ROLLER, AND THEN FINALLY TO DECK-B's TAKE-UP REEL. AMAZING MULTIPLE SECOND ON-THE-FLY UNLIMITED OVERDUBS. OLDER DUBS FADE OUT OVER TIME. PLAYING HARDER MAKES THE DUB LAST LONGER. You can actually move decks farther apart initially, to make the 'open loop dub' longer in time. or switch from 7ips to 3/12ips (tape speed in inches per second). THIS IS A ROBERT FRIPP '2 TAPE DECK SET-UP' if you want to research it.
Thanks everyone for your comments ;) For those who ask the question : Am I planning to build and sell new machines ? The answer is no, sorry guys. Several reasons : 1) Lack of time. I have a lot of work coming with my job and I’m also working on other projects now. Like enjoying summertime outside with a beer in one hand ! 2) Finding cheap Marantz recorders is quite difficult, especially stereo ones. Add the cost of electronic parts and the hours of work spent for the building. At this price you could almost buy an Echoplex. For people asking for step by step tutorial or documentation : I just can’t, my building process was a big mess and all I have is a note book with unreadable stuff. BUT I give links and information in the comments and description, and I think there is everything to put you on the right track. Anyway I will be happy to help or answer questions if I can.
It doesn't just work, it works beautifully and has a lot of cool features, sure can compete with some coveted tape delays IMO (e.g. Roland RE-201). Nice of you to share the process of building it.
That is just the end of all delay FX. The modulations are so vivid and musical...perfect playing to go with the echo. The Mellotron like section is absolutely incredible... and now I wanna throw 5 delay boxes into the Pacific Ocean 🤣
Merci à tous pour vos commentaires et vos encouragements. Malheureusement, Mathieu ne pourra plus les apprécier ni vous répondre. Mathieu est décédé accidentellement le 20 aout 2018, il avait 32ans. Journalise Reporter d'Image de profession, avec l'image, la photo, sa passion c'était la musique, la guitare, la création. Merci encore à tous. Son Papa
Yes, something like that did Blackmore (Ritchie) in the 70's. Old but great technology. The second step after the spring reverb. Thanks for the reminder !
Wow, a masterpiece. The best sounding delay I have ever heard. If you want something done right, do it yourself I guess. Thank you for your inspiration.
Dude, it sounds magical! On my own I would only add a pedal to control mid/bass amounts (maybe I'm wrong) to be able to create that floating space effect while soloing.
This is my favorite echo machine. You really did a bang up job on this and I'm gonna give one a go. I may be posting some questions as I'm sure I'll run into some. Thanks for posting and being willing to help!
I just got into effects building. It will be a long way I think, but my dream ist to build a cassette Tape Delay myself. I think it is far beyond cool. I don't know what it is. But when I finished my first delay (from a kit, so no genius right there) and it worked, it was just MAGIC! I hope your machine brings you a very big lot of fun. I think you earned it! Greetings from germany! :)
Been slowly doing the research into making one of these while I've been 'staying home'. This is the ultimate. Very inspirational- it's got everything that I've been finding I want in one. Got the PD221 a month ago now bidding on a stereo unit- I'm hoping to achieve something very similar to what you have here.
wonderful. Reminds me of my old Melos tape echo. I put a switch on to give half speed. I would argue with anyone that tape delay sounds far better than digital.
This is the coolest freakin' tape delay I've ever seen. If you built a second one, I would absolutely buy it regardless of price. EDIT: Read the video description, thanks for the recommendation.
shouldnt be to complicated, like most of the tape echoes. i think the more heads it has, the better the fidelity of the echo. but in this case, i think 3 heads means that it can record and playback the same time directly from the recorded cassette (on other casette recorders, your headphone out usually puts the direct signal, not what is being recorded on your casette). the echomatic thing from what i suspect, is nothing more than a simple mixer with one AUX send. you could use any cassette recorder, but if you want to have Delay Time, you must have controllable speed on your recorder (slower speed means bigger delay times). if your recorder doesnt use the 2 heads (record and play) at same time, you could mod it with the play head aligned with the record one and take a cable from play head to one mixer channel. AUX send from mixer goes to casette recorder input. now on the mixer channel that takes the PLAY head output, if you use AUX send knob, thats what gives you more feedback. this is to be used without ECHOMATIC, which i assume is to spare you one mixer channel. i dont have any, must try this, but if speaking from a logical POV.
Professional portable cassette recorders are so expensive now, where did you find one for cheap? Especially a Marantz! And I have so many more questions. How did you wire the VU meters to the system? How did you get stereo and all of that? You made a few modifications to it but where do they come in and how did you do it? I am a complete beginner to electronics bur would be able to follow the basic echo-matic circuit diagram to make that part, but as for how you connected it to the system externally and added the modifications to make it stereo, change the speed manually with the knob and whatever else you did I have no clue!!
Yes Echomatic is nothing but a mixer and you can totally use a regular one with any 3 head tape deck to produce this echo effect. The idea here was to make it portable, straight forward while taking advantage of the nice wobbly and hissy sound cassette has. Also it's fun to build :)
I just bought a Sony TC-570 Reel to Reel, in decent condition ...for a total of $61.34 US, shipping included. Not only does it have a built in "Echo" ( BBD ), but also features "Sound on Sound". I'm now waiting on a small Behringer Mixer... so I can basically create a ( much less elegant & limited ) version of this. Don't feel like this sound is unattainable without Electronic Engineering skills or shelling out for a Roland Re 201. You can even get a Marantz & use cassettes the same way I describe above :] This is *OBVIOUSLY* so much nicer... but there is a poor man's alternative.
Just so everyone is aware, Matt (Mathieu Jouen) had passed away on August 20, 2018. Matt, Thank you for your contribution to journalism (and in my case), your contribution to music. While I didn't know you, you are missed. All the best to your family and loved ones!
Rest in Power Matt... You Were Obviously a Very Amazing Person Bruh 💖💖
😭😭😭
Rip brother... this machine is hear to tell the story of you.. super rad ✌️
Rest in peace, Matt. May you got guided by Allah the Lord of the worlds.
Rest In Power.
wow that portamento with CV controlling tape speed was awesome, beautiful build!
Such a great build! Good to see you floating around in the comment section dude - big fan
Genius
I couldn’t agree more
I'm waiting for the tutorial man, this delay sounds pretty nice
Very impressive. I think you're sitting on a goldmine here if you can sell these on the boutique market.
YES.
Onde Magnetique do runs of something similar using a Marantz tape deck and there's the Space Case TE-1 out there as well for a bit more.
The tones and control are unbelievably good. I’ve seen other peoples tape delays, but this one outdoes them all. Brilliant work
You should reconsider building these. This is incredible.
You're nuts if you don't sell this. I research new pedals nearly constantly. This is one of the most profound builds I've seen in a tape echo unit. Total awesome! People really wanting unique, boutique quality tape echo would snag these in record time. I own a T rex replicator. And even as nice and well designed as it is, this blows that away by a wide margin. Next to the Gamechanger stuff, this may be the most innovative thing I've seen in a long time.
it would never be practical to sell something like this, even if this guy was still alive. (RIP) this is made using a Marantz field recorder, a tape recorder that is old, rare, temperamental and getting expensive to find. also this is a beautiful build but this isn't a new idea. lots of people make analog cassette tape echoes like this
The fact that you built this without any prior electronics knowledge just goes to show what the human will can achieve when desire is strong enough.
Great job, man!
;)
this is literally inspiring me to try it myself having no prior knowledge
Holland Cookson
Do it!
There’s online DIY electronics communities that have all info required for beginners. You need not understand electronics to build a perfectly functional device.
generalguitargadgets.com
DIYstompboxes.com
Freestompboxes.org
Are a good start.
@@Wolf_K I've tried finding this one in particular, most of them are the echomatic delay pedal from that stompbox book, but this guy and that one other guy figured out how to put them actually INSIDE the marrantz or whatever this one is in particular. I guess the hunt continues for that!
Holland Cookson
Yes, it is the echo matic. This project is actually fairly easy for the average DIY stomp box builder. Finding a three head tape deck is the hardest part.
@@Wolf_K I'll have to start looking! some marrantz pmd 221 and 222 are on ebay for a decent deal
You should put this into production. This thing does things my echo plex roland 201 and morley drum echo couldnt, if you added
A couple of analog circuits to to to do multi head echos , I think this could be the best echo unit on the market, trust me
I did my first gig for money in 1967 . Ive heard and owned most every echo unit out there. This is special!
Word.
That's probably the most impressive and best sounding DIY gear I've seen and heard. Kudos to you my friend.
4:48 hardbass kicks in
The fact that you ALSO took the time to share with us how you made it, and thoroughly I might add, you deserve an award! GREAT JOB, SOUNDS EXCELLENT, VERY DIY INSPIRING. DIY'ers might use his tips as inspiration in building a delay using reel to reel. I had great success using two identical higher consumer quality DIRECT DRIVE AKAI REEL-to-REEL TAPE DECKS [DECK A&B positioned standing up, and beside one another...run all INPUTS/OUTPUTS TO AT LEAST A 4 CHANNEL STEREO MIXER] AND FEEDING THE LEFT REEL OF DECK-A ACROSS IT'S HEADS AND PINCH ROLLER, BUT INSTEAD OF GOING TO TAKE-UP REEL, I SENT TAPE TO DECK-B ACROSS IT'S HEADS AND PINCH ROLLER, AND THEN FINALLY TO DECK-B's TAKE-UP REEL. AMAZING MULTIPLE SECOND ON-THE-FLY UNLIMITED OVERDUBS. OLDER DUBS FADE OUT OVER TIME. PLAYING HARDER MAKES THE DUB LAST LONGER. You can actually move decks farther apart initially, to make the 'open loop dub' longer in time. or switch from 7ips to 3/12ips (tape speed in inches per second).
THIS IS A ROBERT FRIPP '2 TAPE DECK SET-UP' if you want to research it.
What a beautiful device. This is what UA-cam is for; this device is too good not to be shared with the world.
Thanks everyone for your comments ;)
For those who ask the question : Am I planning to build and sell new machines ? The answer is no, sorry guys.
Several reasons : 1) Lack of time. I have a lot of work coming with my job and I’m also working on other projects now. Like enjoying summertime outside with a beer in one hand !
2) Finding cheap Marantz recorders is quite difficult, especially stereo ones. Add the cost of electronic parts and the hours of work spent for the building. At this price you could almost buy an Echoplex.
For people asking for step by step tutorial or documentation : I just can’t, my building process was a big mess and all I have is a note book with unreadable stuff. BUT I give links and information in the comments and description, and I think there is everything to put you on the right track.
Anyway I will be happy to help or answer questions if I can.
what's the point of posting this if you can't share the project. You should title the video Do it myself tape delay..
You could sell the hell out of those, that’s an impressive piece of work.👏🏼
That's a beautiful thing and sounds amazing. It needs to be marketed, it's so sad that Matt, the guy who built it, passed.
It doesn't just work, it works beautifully and has a lot of cool features, sure can compete with some coveted tape delays IMO (e.g. Roland RE-201). Nice of you to share the process of building it.
This is the first time I've seen dealy with bass, mid and treble settings, so cool
Man the clean tone you directly get without using a valve amp from this... just amazing.
This tone is called Fender Jazzmaster ! Best sounding guitar ever, in my opinion :)
You need an angel investor to get a run of these in production and market it. This is serious, dude! Saludos!
This is by far the coolest tape echo I've seen.
This makes me not want any other delay than this one. Absolute perfection.
That is just the end of all delay FX. The modulations are so vivid and musical...perfect playing to go with the echo. The Mellotron like section is absolutely incredible... and now I wanna throw 5 delay boxes into the Pacific Ocean 🤣
It's amazing how good this sounds. Don't ever sell it. Keep it forever.
As an electronic engineer and a lover of DIY projects, I respect you mate! Very good project. One of the best quality projects I've seen here.
This is fucking amazing man. Not only does the effect rival top shelf pedals, but the aesthetic and versatility is beautiful.
please please please please please make this an open source thing
This is the best echo effects pedal I've heard. Nice work!
Amazing!
Would loooove a tutorial on how to make this!!!
a tutorial or even schematics on how to build one of these would be the best thing right now..... 💗💗💗
I would PAY for a step by step tutorial on how the fuck you put this together.
Sounds phenomenal man! When there is a will, there is a way. You proved it!
All I can say is, RIGHT ON MAN! That thing sounds really good.
Best thing I’ve seen on UA-cam in a very long time!
That sound.... oh god I could listen all day. Well done.
Excellent echo unit. Puts me in mind of the "copycat" unit used during 70s and 80s. Good guitar playing too!
Merci à tous pour vos commentaires et vos encouragements.
Malheureusement, Mathieu ne pourra plus les apprécier ni vous répondre.
Mathieu est décédé accidentellement le 20 aout 2018, il avait 32ans.
Journalise Reporter d'Image de profession, avec l'image, la photo, sa passion c'était la musique, la guitare, la création.
Merci encore à tous.
Son Papa
Paix à son âme
I Am So Sorry for Your Immense Loss Mr Jouen 💖💖 Your Son was Obviously a Truly Awesome Soul.. Rest in Power Matt My Most Awesome Brotha 💖💖
This is one of the best videos on youtube.
Real Tape Delay? Wow. This is awesome, man!
This sounds SO FRIGGING GOOD! Excellent work !
You should produce these in mass..
WOW! BLOW ME AWAY! Great Work on this! You got a big seller here!
Super job mec c est extraordinaire d'avoir fait ca en 5 mois en partant de zero . BRAVO
Yes, something like that did Blackmore (Ritchie) in the 70's. Old but great technology. The second step after the spring reverb. Thanks for the reminder !
Wow, a masterpiece. The best sounding delay I have ever heard. If you want something done right, do it yourself I guess.
Thank you for your inspiration.
Wow!!!! The delay was awesome, but then you topped it of with something hybrid of a sampler/synth/ portamento cool!!
i could listen to this all day.
One of the best DIY cassette Delay machine ever ! Great Job !
The CV stuff was incredible! That's some brilliant stuff!!
One of the best delay's I've ever heard. Congratulations \m/
I have been doing electronics for years and this is a real nice job..cheers
Dude, it sounds magical! On my own I would only add a pedal to control mid/bass amounts (maybe I'm wrong) to be able to create that floating space effect while soloing.
That oscillation sounds right out of Stranger Things. Also this is one of the most gorgeous delays I've ever found. I'll buy one.
This is my favorite echo machine. You really did a bang up job on this and I'm gonna give one a go. I may be posting some questions as I'm sure I'll run into some. Thanks for posting and being willing to help!
I just got into effects building. It will be a long way I think, but my dream ist to build a cassette Tape Delay myself. I think it is far beyond cool.
I don't know what it is. But when I finished my first delay (from a kit, so no genius right there) and it worked, it was just MAGIC!
I hope your machine brings you a very big lot of fun. I think you earned it!
Greetings from germany! :)
Can you do a tutorial on how to make this?
A... -...wait for it... - ...mazing! Dude, stereo blows me away!
Shut up and take my money! This is just awesome. Can you make a tutorial on how to build this thing?
YES PLEAAAASE DO!!
Best ever DIY beating many pro units.
I'm out of words, and the varispeed mellotron thing in the end blew my mind
I didn't realize he passed away, you rest in peace this is an awesome piece of gear
This is incredibly good
Been slowly doing the research into making one of these while I've been 'staying home'. This is the ultimate. Very inspirational- it's got everything that I've been finding I want in one. Got the PD221 a month ago now bidding on a stereo unit- I'm hoping to achieve something very similar to what you have here.
Please keep it up and give us hints every now and then, even if things don’t turn out so well
-__^
This is awesome. You should kickstarter it.
That is the best thing I've seen this week. Awesome
Still the nicestest delay ever Heard ❤️❤️❤️
wonderful. Reminds me of my old Melos tape echo. I put a switch on to give half speed.
I would argue with anyone that tape delay sounds far better than digital.
This is awesome! Nice work. I'm extremely jealous. Stereo sounds especially amazing
This is the coolest freakin' tape delay I've ever seen. If you built a second one, I would absolutely buy it regardless of price. EDIT: Read the video description, thanks for the recommendation.
Organic and alluring! Awesome!
I love it! Sounds natural and the way we want it to sound
A Piece Of Art
I love your echo machine, well done indeed. I won’t go to all that trouble myself but I love the DIY approach
Actually a really nice sounding unit! 😉
Wow, the stereo examples are wonderful!
Actually sounds amazing!! Better than a Strymon Volante?! Quite possibly!
This is the coolest thing I have ever seen. I am not even kidding. I knew from the thumbnail this was going to be a special video. Amazing work.
I think you've won youtube with this. Incredible. Absolutely amazing.
This is a fantastic sounding delay, especially when it gets to the stereo with mod added.
We all want at least one! haha! Find an investor! There's a line! :)
Absolutely stunning. Please make more of these and sell them!
That is an Amazing Unit... Truly Inspiring... I Hope You Can See This From The Great Beyond Bruh.. Rest in Power Matt 💖💖
This is the coolest delay I have ever seen !
This sounds really amazing... manufacture it for selling... I would buy it
Amazing, better than any other echo device..congrats
Superb bit of kit and sounds fantastic you should sell these on eBay.
I love this more than I can put into words.
So this is what heaven sounds like?
Sounds unbelievably good! WOW!
thats the nicest delay/modulation i have heard so lush :)
wow.....who woul;d have thunk it? that thing sounds AWESOME!!!!
I must build one for myself....this is very inspiring...thanks for sharing it-
Please post the build! This is so sick
Too bad we will never see this incredible machine in the market...this thing sounds awesome! Great work!
This is a beautiful piece.
This is brilliant, you should build these to sell, awesome sounds
this is insanly good!
i envy the ability to build stuff so neatly! amazing work.
I think we need a complete tutorial of how to build this machine
That was a very sick tape delay man! Hands down.
Who the fuck would ever downvote this???
This is honestly the best diy tape delay I have ever seen and I want to make my own so bad but I am a bit clueless
shouldnt be to complicated, like most of the tape echoes. i think the more heads it has, the better the fidelity of the echo. but in this case, i think 3 heads means that it can record and playback the same time directly from the recorded cassette (on other casette recorders, your headphone out usually puts the direct signal, not what is being recorded on your casette). the echomatic thing from what i suspect, is nothing more than a simple mixer with one AUX send. you could use any cassette recorder, but if you want to have Delay Time, you must have controllable speed on your recorder (slower speed means bigger delay times). if your recorder doesnt use the 2 heads (record and play) at same time, you could mod it with the play head aligned with the record one and take a cable from play head to one mixer channel. AUX send from mixer goes to casette recorder input. now on the mixer channel that takes the PLAY head output, if you use AUX send knob, thats what gives you more feedback. this is to be used without ECHOMATIC, which i assume is to spare you one mixer channel. i dont have any, must try this, but if speaking from a logical POV.
Professional portable cassette recorders are so expensive now, where did you find one for cheap? Especially a Marantz!
And I have so many more questions. How did you wire the VU meters to the system? How did you get stereo and all of that?
You made a few modifications to it but where do they come in and how did you do it?
I am a complete beginner to electronics bur would be able to follow the basic echo-matic circuit diagram to make that part, but as for how you connected it to the system externally and added the modifications to make it stereo, change the speed manually with the knob and whatever else you did I have no clue!!
Chmara Alex *^
Yes Echomatic is nothing but a mixer and you can totally use a regular one with any 3 head tape deck to produce this echo effect. The idea here was to make it portable, straight forward while taking advantage of the nice wobbly and hissy sound cassette has. Also it's fun to build :)
I just bought a Sony TC-570 Reel to Reel, in decent condition ...for a total of $61.34 US, shipping included. Not only does it have a built in "Echo" ( BBD ), but also features "Sound on Sound".
I'm now waiting on a small Behringer Mixer... so I can basically create a ( much less elegant & limited ) version of this.
Don't feel like this sound is unattainable without Electronic Engineering skills or shelling out for a Roland Re 201.
You can even get a Marantz & use cassettes the same way I describe above :]
This is *OBVIOUSLY* so much nicer... but there is a poor man's alternative.
From 2:00 onward, this sounds beautiful!!