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Dave said: >I went to a guitar show in eastern Iowa yesterday and horse-traded a >couple of *great* pieces. :} First, I traded my old Boss Pitch >Shifter/Delay (my first awful looping device), a fuzz box, and $15 for >an ADA expression pedal, an ADA quad footswitch, and... a DeltaLabs >Echotron. I've seen these in Black Market music in SF, but never tried it. Seems to me a friend of mine actually knew something about it. If I remember who it was, I'll ask him.... >The Echotron is just *gorgeous*. It's an early-80s long >(250ms-4096ms) delay line, with infinite repeat capability. >Monophonic (of course), LED tempo flashers on the front panel, sync >clock output, and a beautiful tone. No CPU or VLSI anywhere >inside... it looks like everything is in TTL logic. The sound >quality, while not as "pure" as the CD-quality boxes we see these >days, has a funky, analogish richness that doesn't mangle the guitar's >dynamics the way the new boxes do (funny how "dynamic range" is such a >complete crock when real music is involved). It even overdrives well, >lots better than my JamMan! And of course, the delay time knob >smoothly manipulates the pitch of echoes already in the machine, a >technique I've much missed with the Lexicon tap-delay stuff. Sounds like a score! Mind if I lift your text and use it for a little blurb on the web page? Some day we may manage to get a fairly complete history of all these funky toys.... If you find any more info on it, let me know and I'll put that up there too. kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html http://www.annihilist.com/ | Loopers-Delight-request@annihilist.com