> From: kenmerb@...
> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:16:39 EDT
>
> BTW, does anyone know where I could pick up an Echoplex these
> days? ;-)
Okay...
Markus/Dave, StreetlyBros,
Here's some free design consulting: Build your next Mellotron model
with a built in tape echo feature. Here's why it's a good thing:
By itself, adding effects to an instrument is not interesting; any
idiot can slap a box in there, it's not a biggie. But if the effect
is otherwise difficult to implement, and can share some of the
technology of the instrument, and can join into the instrument nicely,
then you've got something.
Tape echo fits the bill; it shares the same tape technology, you've
got the capstan already, you've got the physical space, you've got
tape heads up the wazoo, you're already building tape head preamps,
all that good stuff. All the mechanical issues that freak out most
effects builders, you've already got it covered.
You could even have two tape loops going simulataneously, with
different user settable head positions for a stereo echoplex effect.
There, now go with it. Or ignore it. Or do something better.
-- Don
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Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California
don@...http://www.till.com