T-Rex Replicator Tape Echo Demo

[@gmlasam]

Incredible how tape echo units are so sought after now and how the price had gone up so much. Back in the late 70s and early 80s the Maestro Echoplex would sell $60 in the used market and $200 new. Back then, everyone was getting rid of the tape echoes in favor for the digital rack mount delays. Good thing I kept three of them in my collection, but regret selling one in the 90s for $90.

[@weschilton]

Smart move... I really wish I had kept my RE-201. But it was big, heavy and a pain to use on gigs. But oh man, that sound.

[@0megalul309]

and now digital rack delays are going up in price again.

[@AndrewStottisTheIndiWerWlf]

I know you posted this 5 years ago... But $200 in 1980 is over $700 today. Which is cool because now I can get this pedal for $600.

[@MrBungle222]

1:19 very reminiscent to the intro of Mazzy star's - Into you. This pedal sounds amazing.

[@Marc-uw4mt]

Stunning pedal! I need that in front of my 5e3 Tweed Deluxe. Thanks for the great review!

[@BV_Beve]

+Marc Sweeren Original 56?

[@Marc-uw4mt]

Would be nice... but unfortunatly not. It´s a clone by Tube Amp Doctor from Worms in Germany.

[@BV_Beve]

ah, but no doubt it still sounds good :)

[@Marc-uw4mt]

It does, indeed. :-)

[@williewilson9836]

+Marc Sweeren i got a 63' tweed champ. i love that old tweed sound

[@MikeGervasi]

Just got one today. Glad to see the massive flutter on slower delay isn't just my unit.

[@Disc147]

This is a thing of beauty

[@shawn6462]

I realize this is an old thread but I have to say this when people compare then and now prices. $200 in 1972 is equivalent to $1350 today. $60 in 1972 is equivalent to about $400 today. Add to the fact that the originals are not as plentiful &”$800-1000 is about right for vintage equipment.

[@renzo260]

The warblesss!! Love it!

[@r.llynch4124]

little high on price but it sounds awesome. T-Rex builds some very nice units, octavius is another great box.

[@Maddoggtannanify]

What a beautiful sound 😊 I would love to have this. But it's worth as much as my guitar.

[@AftershockPS3]

2016 we use blue ray disc

[@SSVplus]

+AftershockPS3 In 2016, dumbasses like you are the majority. Try writing and overwriting BD-R in real time you dickwad.

[@trevorcarl9515]

+SSVplus It sounds like someone is a salty old dude that didn't get the joke.

[@SSVplus]

+Trevor Carl It sounds like some dimwit thinks there was a joke in the first place.

[@DelScully]

mate we were using ble ray discs in like 2011. Everything is digital now

[@rafgaming709]

@@DelScully lol wtf noob you don't even know that blue ray disks are digital hahaha

[@theothersideisjustashard3237]

i want one....but for the cost i could get another strat! so i will stick with my flashdelay x4!!

[@aronhallam6449]

this demo is okay to know how it sounds on ballads , but I expected him to play scotty moore and brian setzer so im none the wiser what its like for rock n roll

[@Meddled]

At 1:43 the tape visibly snags, and the pitch changes. Is that part of the design?!?!?!

[@tribbybueno]

damn this sounds so nice. ive known about tape delay for years and always associated them with a specific flavor like a 'spring' or 'hall' and never realized it actually used tape and had such a delicious warm sound. this pedal may cost a third of my guitar but damnit i want

[@muse-mech-moda]

If you just want a delay pedal, you can easily and should look elsewhere. If you want something more; something to cherish, nurture and tinker with; something that will become as important to you as your favourite guitar; something that is quite beautiful in every way, then should cast an eye over the Replicator.

[@jonathanstewart1519]

How much did they pay you for that one? Douche.

[@reneotten7376]

Only 440 euro at Thomann now.

[@jimmyhoffa2530]

It would have been nice to hear what the chorus sounded like turned up.

[@theonemodifier]

can you move the head like on a real Echoplex? The most important feature to me.

[@MrIkesimba]

$900?!?!? LOL. Yeah, sounds good, hope you sell one.

[@diegoambrosio9121]

Absolutely fantastic! Good video.

[@Grant_Ferstat]

I reckon the chorus is pretty much redundant with this you get a beautiful slight modulation anyway.

[@alexcaminiti]

Looks really sick, but I could get a completely rebuilt echoplex for almost the same amount and this thing couldn't hold a flame to it.

[@javiceres]

Alex Caminiti I didn't know Echoplex had tap tempo, two play heads and fit a pedalboard.

[@John6-40]

Sounds great, looks great, but $900 for a delay pedal?? Only rich folks and rock stars will be able to afford it. Not to mention, that tape will eventually wear out and/or break. That'll be even more $$$. At least you'll have that sweet natural delay sound while you're living in a cardboard box by the river.

[@Fraser_954]

its £25 for a new tape cartridge.

[@weschilton]

Good look at prices for a Roland RE-201 or an EP3... then tell me how this is expensive. Or do you just go around KZbin being a whiny B$%#^*?

[@hypnodelica]

I picked up a 2nd hand Korg Stage Echo with both a tape delay and a spring reverb in it for only £300 in excellent condition - this sounds ok but for the money you can get something better...

[@6StringEraser]

I don't understand how this works... Is the tape a consumable? Or can you keep writing over and over it? What happens when the tape reaches the end? Or is this a loop that keeps going around?

[@dave90mckeague]

Luke Cloutier it keeps rewriting itself. Although it will eventually wear.

[@WhippJunior]

Hmmm, Let's see. For $900.00...A T-Rex Replicator? An American Special Strat? or an excellent used (insert brand here) tube amp? I'm sorry, the price is ridiculous for what it does! I'll hope & wait for the Donner / Joyo copy!

[@funkyfurballs1078]

I would rather spend that money on a two Strymon pedals... Big Sky, for sure.

[@BV_Beve]

Great vid and super cool pedal, wow.

[@Matthias_Jabs]

А лента там какая ? Обычная как была в магнитофонных кассетах ?

[@shckltnebay]

no tone knobs?

[@lance134679]

Overall, I don't like chorus, but the chorus effect of the Replicator is great.

[@Tree_Strings]

ive seen refurbished re201s and echoplexes for same price ! why so expensive ? doesnt make sense. if the price was 3-4 hundred quid they would sell much more ! but at 650 in the uk why bother when for the same money can pick up a cool vintage space echo that will have tons more character.....

[@emilmarkotic4115]

That thing is so beautiful that I wouldn't want to step on it... But 900$ you can buy a space echo and probably save some money!

[@snotmale]

I liked the Fulltone TTE but WAY too expensive...

[@brian-pu3yy]

What if the tape breaks? Us old timers are used to spicingold broken tapes together. 😂

[@SCOREWIZARDSMUSIC]

Does anyone else think this doesn't sound as good as the echoplex? Its like its missing low end or something, maybe I'm wrong.

[@arensel84]

I agree. it's because echoplexs use 1/4 inch tape compared to this one's 1/8 inch cassette tape. keep an eye on ebay or Reverb.com for an echoplex around $500 bucks. orbit electronics does a full overall for $200 something. then you have 'thee tape sound' and hundreds of dollars left in your pocket!

[@SCOREWIZARDSMUSIC]

+arensel8 That makes sense, great advice!

[@LukeJackandWill]

I'm not sure if Trex know what they're thinking if they're throwing this out at £600. That'll be a very limited market as I'd certainly pass on that. Great delay however. Just not worth £600.

[@martinlahaie6012]

The cassette looks fragile .....for the asking price?

[@paulb1953]

Yeah they could have at least painted it chrome. looks cheap and nasty

[@giulioluzzardi7632]

Sounds suoer, does'nt need chorus/modulation, we just want it to rrrrrrepeat like a stuck record.

[@Xomby]

I'm waiting for someone to open one of these up only to find a Belton inside...

[@jayall00]

it's $900 cause it uses real vintage wood and a tape cassette!!!! vintage never lies bro!!!

[@CrazyForCooCooPuffs]

Man cant he just play straight notes instead of boring chords.

[@ryuyamakawa4431]

sound great but way too expensive. Not practical

[@DMSProduktions]

Beautiful sounding pedal, but too exy and fiddly for live use. GREAT studio tool however.

[@misubi]

This is the epitome of pedal industry audacity. Paying almost $1000 for a cassette tape. Rewind 30 years ago when people were actually using cassette tapes and they would have paid you $1000 for your pristine digital delay.

[@Strabbs12345]

Well spotted! Imrember my mate spending a weeks wages on a boss delay! They got a reinvent the wheel some how I guess, in an age when music is free to most people to down load, the media "cool up" vinyl to make us buy crap that we got rid of years ago! I always hated vinyl ! But suddenly it's way cool! Marketing genius!

[@patrickhoelscher8435]

Vinyl is crap? It is better than anything. Of course it depends on all elements in the signal chain (recording, amp, speakers, room) to make a decent comparison.

[@DennisMHenderson]

Patrick Hoelscher no

[@arensel84]

the sound quality is not on par with the 1/4 inch tape echos. if you want this sound look up the 'space case tape echo' that uses cassette tapes. you would never have to worry about not being able to find replacement cartridges. I still can't get over how trex justifies a $900 price tag when the competition offers better sound quality for that price range.

[@arensel84]

+skchalivetlnd last I checked the space case starts at $500. the piece of mind in never having to worry about replacing the tape cartridge is indeed a great selling point for a true tape delay, albeit lo-fi tape sounding repeats.

[@harrymerchant8944]

Yes it is and clearly from what you are saying you haven't been near one. I have one, and have owned many older tape delays and sold them all due to the massive hassle with noise and breakages. This one is way way better. It works every time, the quality of the feedback and the diffusion of the delays is excellent as is the overall sound. I also use it on analog synths, damn damn brilliant!..

[@shadoogie61]

No good for Shads type echoes - Not enough heads... and bloody expensive...

[@lancethompson8516]

a space echo or echoplex blow this away

[@pickle965]

+LANCE THOMPSON Maybe but the tap tempo on this one is definitely unique.

[@UtwoBed]

At around $900 bucks, I'll pass thank you.

[@THINCOVER]

+UtwoBed A echo plex ep2 is cheaper haha

[@arensel84]

+THINCOVER the echoplex and all 1/4 inch tape echos have higher fidelity as well.

[@kbbluesgreens74]

+UtwoBed I agree. I mean it looks and sounds great, but thats a pretty hefty price. If the company goes out of business where will one be able to buy more tapes for the pedal? Overall too risky for my income lol

[@pickle965]

+arensel84 True, but tap tempo on a tape echo in stomp box format is pretty sweet.

[@arensel84]

+pickle965 I agree. however, they really should have gone with 1/4 inch tape like all the famous echo chambers. the 'space case tape echo' also uses 1/8 tape but let's you use real cassettes. this way you never have to worry about trex discontinuing their proprietary cartridges. space case also starts at $500.

[@thomopolusrex8436]

My 14" teac reel to reel does a better job. It was only $500.

[@leebrilleaux5985]

That awkward point in history when we slowly realise that stuff from the past that was clunky, mechanical, expensive and unreliable wasn't, in the grand scheme of things, all that great all the time. It's just that we like things from the past because that was when we were young and the world was supposedly, a better place, or we are young and oldies tell us things in the past were better, and we believe them. We pretend that listeners will be listening out for a delay that is slightly different than another delay and judging things on that basis. Or even hearing it in the first place. "If only I had different gear, people would like my music more and I'd have a lot more fans." And now companies like Strymon can make a really decent fist of replicating that nice, but old junk, at a relatively cheaper price, with lots of other fantastic fancy shit, what the hell is the point of producing one that doesn't have all the good bits about the old ones, like tape size, but has all the crap maintenance and cost insanity and doesn't do half the stuff that an El Capistan, Timeline or similar can do. If you can plug into the past, you can lead some people by the nose.

[@janeway1111]

Reggae is so easy to play.Why not play some ?

[@mx4154]

way too handsome

[@Strabbs12345]

£500 for a delay? I wouldn't spend that on a car

[@alexisrosalesruiz7334]

Interesting, but no one who isn't a gear snob in your audience would give a fuck, just go with analog delays for gigs and DAWS of today have incredible sounds if you want to record this sort of delay.

[@proprintct7183]

Real tape has what all other emulators lack, and I may be snobish, I go with my ears 😻

[@markmarkus808]

I do not hate you. But anybody in the universe in my situation would

[@mortusic8730]

All u need is zoom g3n

[@bengalvin9932]

sounds great but are very $$$$$$$ and you know at sum point the tape will break so if you buy one buy a whole box of extra tapes and at 30 pound each..................mmmmm think i'll buy i house.

[@lancethompson8516]

tap tempo is fine...but who cares if it sounds blah

[@rareform6747]

Way Too Expensive , will price it's self out before post production !

[@wrekkingcru]

Strymon El Capistan still sounds far better for far less money and you don't have to monkey around with actual tape and tape heads. To each his own, but this thing looks a bit gimmicky to me. They could have just done a 2016 version of the original Echoplex and maybe a handful go people would want to buy that. Just like some will shell out serious coin to get a Fender Reverb unit (or Dr Z Z-verb)

[@markmarkus808]

900 bucks down the drain. False advertising. Not analog. Any real musician would be furious. I am no real musician. I will not yell. I refuse to cuss. I am not angry at you. I am patient. I’ve been patiently waiting for 22 1/2 years. To make some decent music and get some decent equipment. So far I have $100,000 worth of bricks due to False advertising. This equipment is not analog. You guys don’t even know the meaning of the word.

[@SamVieiraGuitar]

Very poor quality sounding delay!!

[@HipsterEatinShark]

Sounds underwhelming for the price. Bonkers.

[@markmarkus808]

If you think the tea Rex replicator does analog?? It has a digital potentiometer chip inside of it. Fast clock I haven’t found it yet but I’m pretty sure that digital digital chip means a fast clock. Tea Rex will not write me back about it. I called Larry he didn’t know anything he told me to call tea Rex in Holland. These type of brushless Dc motors. It’s recommended that they have at least a 15 kHz pulse width modulation wave to control the motor speed. I am really not into all these high frequencies. Digital need some serious help using analog filters that are at least 16 Pole. The digital LSB must be chorused with 30 analog vibrato machines from 1 to 20 Hz. This will make the digital LSP into well I won’t be telling you because none of your people exist and I’ve never met any intelligent people in my life that even know how to do any math or anything and all you guys are a bunch of robots that are not susceptible to electromagnetic frequencies that make me puke and cannot hear infinitely high frequencies but I can and I can easily explain to you why and I have never met anybody that’s intelligent in the entire world and I figured out digital and analog and you people are false advertising you told me you promised me that the high frequencies were filtered out from the digital signal. This is a complete lie and people have no idea what you’re talking about and what’s happening in the higher parts of the spectrum. If you have an oversampling Digital filter then all of those 6 MHz sample rate harmonics are going to continue up to the slew rate of the opera probably in the gigahertz range. I really need to talk to somebody who actually knows something about the frequency spectrum and I have never seen anybody on the planet that knows anything compared to this guy name Markus. Everybody hates Markus. They also turn the other way. The high frequencies are gone. What are you people dreaming. If you think there’s a tea Rex replicator sounds analog, sweet dreams baby