AlanMcKillop wrote:All the demos sound good, seems very versatile, how easy to operate quickly, say in a live situation?
Hi Alan, I wondered that too and when it arrived I was delighted that the Apache / MOM / FBI / Mustang setting (heads 1,3 &4) was directly next to the Wonderful Land / Atlantis etc etc setting (heads 1,2,3,4,) on the dial i.e. out of twelve settings on the dial, Apache is number 11 and Wonderful Land number 12. This makes it easy for me, as most of the stuff we play uses these settings but with varying amounts of echo level and feedback, so just a tweak can sort out the next track.
All the other settings are very usable to me and this is simply because of the varispeed control. I have recorded a few well known Shadows tunes to compare with the other machines and I'm delighted that this pedal competes admirably. The sound of the echoes is 'right' if you understand what I mean, it's a perect Binson sound. For the price of £186 I couldn't and didn't ignore it. You may have read that the makers added head configurations that were never available on the actual Binson Echorec, but now all options are available on this pedal which makes it worthwhile for me.
For anyone interested I'm prepared to post some demos, if there are perhaps any tunes that someone might like to hear with this pedal, name them and I will do my best to oblige.