leddo wrote:I might be stating the bleeding obvious here, but my impression of this pedal is that it is basically 3 delay pedals together under the one lid. You can set them all as separate pedals and use the serial or parallel switch to get the sounds you need.
Looks a good pedal but is it any better than the Catalinbread Echorec or the Strymon Volante?
Be interesting to hear your thoughts.
In a nutshell , it is 3 separate delays as you say, but with many eq and modulation options to shape the sounds of the repeats. Using the division knob , you can get 2 delays from one delay time on the last 4 settings of that feature. These are called dual delays in the manual. Hence it is possible to produce upto 6 delays using these dual delays. The quarter + eight note dual setting thus would from a 200ms delay , generate a further 100ms delay from one delay section. There are other options for different timings, such as quarter + dotted eight. I have recently found this out
The modulation section is capable of doing chorus and flanging, vibrato etc. The EQ section can shape the repeats to match other echo unit characters and the modulation section can mimic wow and flutter.
Once you design a toneprint , you can save it and use it as the basis of your echo which you save into one of the 3 echo memories. You can adjust feedback and mix to get the right levels .
The way I see it, is another unit capable of doing the Shadows echos, but I will need a few days tinkering to get a good result.
I did a basic setting early today and played a few tunes based on echonatic 2 and Atlantis and Footapper sounded quite good, before I had used any EQ or modulation, so I think it will be another echo option for the music.
I have the Volante and it does a brilliant job, but the control of heads volume is limited without MIDI and timings are close but not perfect. It still sounds good though and several have got these units. The catlin echorec again is a great pedal, but based on a Binson echorec which has equidistant head spacings that are not matching the Meazzi and no control over head levels. It does a decent job overall, but not accurate.
I feel the Triple, can offer echos that can be timed and levelled correctly to match a Meazzi , whereas the Volante and Catlin are less accurate.
On top of that, it is capable of doing Brian May style, The Edge U2 styles and David Gilmore echos, etc, so very good all around echo unit. See this video for examples of those sort of sounds
https://youtu.be/jcBvnZg_a2M?si=5f-bE9G9tsNmlk34HTH