Synthesizer Test Drive: Roland RE-201 Space Echo
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2021
- Syntaur tech Nick Zehr Moon demos a vintage Roland RE-201 Space Echo, feeding it sounds from a Juno-106, then drum loops from Ableton live.
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Awesome, I literally have that exact model in my house 100 miles from you! :)
Nice demo, Nick!
I’ve got the pedal version hehe (: it’s my favorite effect device I own!!
We used one of these in about 1984 onwards on vocals. :) Still a great piece of kit.
Dreamy. Great video!
So echo ✨🤤
Cool 💯💯💯😎✌️
(Nigel Tufnell voice) It goes to eleven!
Can't you just make 10 louder?
Nice stand / rack for the effect. Do you have a link?
I knew I was making a mistake when I put that sucker by the curb for the garbage collectors like 25 years ago. Can you still get the tape for it?
I used to like using setting number seven which gave you the slowest echo choice. I would play a chord on my Lowrey organ and speed up and slow down the rate knob and it would bend the pitch of the chord up and down in a really cosmic way, as illustrated here.
Although you said it was the first, it at least shared that title with the Binson Echorec, which my guitarist had. That one had a coiled wire inside, and I never really understood how it worked.
YOU THREW ONE OUT????
@ yup, and probably a number of other things that I shouldn't have. Sold a number of analog synthesizers so I could fund the buying of an acoustic grand piano. Market was pretty high then, but much higher now. White-faced ARP Odyssey and
Quadra, Oberheim Two-Voice with a mini sequencer, and an Oberheim obxa, cat and kitten synths, moog satellite synth, Korg ms20 Wurlitzer model 200a electric piano, etc. I even have a picture of me playing them all.
Time marches on.
Don't feel too bad. I friend gave me an echoplex which I later loaned to another friend and never saw again.....
I would be curious, how durable/ reliable this was. Didn't tape wear off after some intensive use of it?
We just put a new tape in it, and it made a HUGE difference. We don't know how old the previous tape was, but it cost about $25 for a new one and it literally brought it back to life.
@@Syntaur Which model of tape do you use? Kind regards
@@analoGz46 i fix them with Maxell 35-180b coated tape. Its the best out there since the seventies. And its Japanese.
I'm a gear head with the best of them but these days I only keep hardware that has unique capabilities that cannot be duplicated in software. The Space Echo is not in that category. Not only will it require maintenance over time but it uses an unconscionable about of electricity for the function it provides. There are numerous tape delay and spring reverb plugins that absolutely can be set up to provide the same FX as the Space Echo. I did enjoy the history lesson though, thanks.
This can change things so that everything you do doesn't sound mixed in the box with plug-ins.
Using it with plate reverb plug-ins, using the tape wow and flutter.
Lots more effort but rewarding results. The plug-ins do concentrate on the aspects that make a space echo, copicat or echoplex etc, brilliant. If everything is a job and time means money, fair enough.
this also goes to eleven .... ;)
yes, but, can you scare your cat with it? : )
It works fantastically for feedback
very orby.