Tape Does Something Pedals Can't

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Benn Jordan

Benn Jordan

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@robertsyrett1992
@robertsyrett1992 Жыл бұрын
The most important thing about tape echos is that you get to watch the tape move on the top. edit: 16:30 is my favorite musical interlude.
@snoopywalker1881
@snoopywalker1881 Жыл бұрын
Sounds like a 1980s video game
@Scoots1994
@Scoots1994 Жыл бұрын
I saw Fripp and Eno running tape in open air from one side of a stage to the other with record and play heads on stands they would move around the stage on the tape to play with looping and echo and, of course, chaos. It's really fun watching people get giddy while literally dragging stuff around a stage.
@robertsyrett1992
@robertsyrett1992 Жыл бұрын
oh the irony of using a 20k modular to sound like a console sound chip. still i liked the modulated melody quite a bit!@@snoopywalker1881
@robertsyrett1992
@robertsyrett1992 Жыл бұрын
sounds like the dance of the tapeloopmancers @@Scoots1994
@chickenduckhappy
@chickenduckhappy Жыл бұрын
Don't say this out loud or some boring Japanese middle management dude is going to replace it with a spinning magnetic disk that is hidden inside.
@michaelspencer-arscott
@michaelspencer-arscott Жыл бұрын
Where else can you find ear- and eye-candy of this quality? Thank you for transcending all genres through hard and joyous work!
@nordishkiel5985
@nordishkiel5985 Жыл бұрын
the tape coiling in the echofix is mesmerizing.
@AJPape
@AJPape Жыл бұрын
Like an audio taffy pulling machine
@SousaphoneMusic
@SousaphoneMusic Жыл бұрын
it kind of makes me anxious too that it will go wrong at any time with the loose tape
@poofygoof
@poofygoof Жыл бұрын
@@SousaphoneMusic the loop stacking itself is a form of entropy...
@unduloid
@unduloid 11 ай бұрын
@@poofygoof It literally is the total opposite.
@macsarcule
@macsarcule Жыл бұрын
I’m a delay hound (7 delays in my stereo signal chain most of the time), and after lurking on them for what seemed like years on Reverb, in June i nabbed an EchoFix refurbished EF-X2 at a great price for a factory refurb with full warranty (none of the cool stereo outputs which would be SOOO fun to have), and I’m so excited to use it late this year! Only so excited to use later? Well, I plugged it in and played some to be sure it worked and immediately reboxed it to give myself for Xmas, cuz that’s the kind of thing you do when you’re widowed with no kids and pretend someone got you things for Xmas, so this video has me even more excited and I can’t wait for Christmas when I’ll also rewatch this video and then get even more excited to make music with it! Great video, Benn! ✌️🙂🎸
@michaeldubery3593
@michaeldubery3593 Жыл бұрын
RE: Entropy, there is a really interesting interview with Steven Wolfram which was uploaded a couple months ago where he talks in more detail about what entropy really is and means. The handwavy 'everything decays' description isn't really complete, because the would-be 'decay' is largely only identifiable as such from our (arbitrary) specific anthropocentric point of view.
@msld_sound
@msld_sound Жыл бұрын
unhinged behavior to get pedantic in the comments section of notorious anti-pedantry music technologist Benn Jordan
@michaeldubery3593
@michaeldubery3593 Жыл бұрын
​@@msld_sound ? The interview is really interesting, if you're intrested in entropy, tho...
@Robbyrool
@Robbyrool 7 ай бұрын
This is my favorite effect. I am a sucker for reverb and echo, that spacey sound. Seem to like any song that uses it.
@benjyp
@benjyp Жыл бұрын
Benn just noodles on a guitar for a few seconds and casually produces the most beautiful sounds I'm going to hear all week
@OpalRiderLR
@OpalRiderLR Жыл бұрын
"I've created a swamp" just resonated with a childlike innosence that I can only hope to capture on my music journey.
@hakonsoreide
@hakonsoreide 8 ай бұрын
If you mess around with modular, particularly, you will find synergies of modules and parameters that sound nothing like what you might have been planning to create, which is one of the things I love about it, and, yes, suddenly it might be a swamp, or a bird, a cricket, or what sounds like a talking voice, or something else entirely. That is also why I usually don't try to make a particular sound when I use my modular gear. I just see where it takes me, and it is a bit like being a child at play.
@pauldavisthefirst
@pauldavisthefirst Жыл бұрын
"basically what is happening is the tape echo is sending a signal to the cosmos and the cosmos is sending some of that ..." peak benn, even if by accident.
@glueball9511
@glueball9511 Жыл бұрын
how can we bring up history of echo and its continued importance without speaking on DUB ? these innovators explored playing the units as instruments from the get-go, and i think its difficult to overestimate the origin of influence through to very modern music
@jesse.bradleyy2002
@jesse.bradleyy2002 Жыл бұрын
THIS!
@danielreed5199
@danielreed5199 Жыл бұрын
An era of music where Musicians became Engineers and Professors :)
@audible67
@audible67 Жыл бұрын
It's really not a problem because no matter what you say there's always some douche out there on the internet that thinks he knows better and will bring it up for you.
@audible67
@audible67 10 ай бұрын
​@@glueball9511I think you've got a bit of a glorified opinion of your own ability to elevate this conversation. What kind of people do that? Oh yeah...
@glueball9511
@glueball9511 10 ай бұрын
@@audible67 its history not politics old buddy! i am not the only person who knows, nor am i trying to give myself points for knowing basic shit about my interests lol! i care because i love what people have done with these units (topic of the video). i love the history and i love ESPECIALLY what was done with these units in the 70's and 80s- highly constructive! as opposed to whatever you are doing here old bud. how is your inflammation doing? also : you are almost 60 years old and your sorry ass is on KZbin getting mad that people care about their interests lol, bro OCCUPY YOURSELF MEANINGFULLY. it cant be fun to hear yourself talk and think in this manner. think about the people around you (are there people around you who care?) maybe you are missing that brother, i hope you figure it out i WILL PRAY FOR YOU BROTHER
@MiltonGrimshaw
@MiltonGrimshaw Жыл бұрын
Having listened to Drapes Before Storm on Bandcamp I now understand how tape echo fits into mixes even using modern kit such as modular, thanks Benn you do the community proud with all this quality content. OnlyBenns should help a lot, there are a lot of shills on here and you are one of only 3 channels I trust to be independent,
@jamesstonehouse3448
@jamesstonehouse3448 Жыл бұрын
Wata from Boris performs live sometimes with a space echo unit. They're just such an amazing sound, unlike anything digital
@Alkatross
@Alkatross Жыл бұрын
Haven't heard about Boris in a while.
@pivA00
@pivA00 Жыл бұрын
Nils Frahm performs quite often with 1-2 tape echos from Echo Fix, at least the few times I've been to his concerts they were present on the stage :)
@brandobin
@brandobin Жыл бұрын
Similar but a little more obscure- Comets on Fire make heavy use of tape-as-instrument as well (though they use an echoplex)
@jasonvytlacil1256
@jasonvytlacil1256 Жыл бұрын
love tape echo, love this episode, and you're looking great for 87. keep up the great work!
@bentrolley4316
@bentrolley4316 Жыл бұрын
Even as someone who's not especially into the reverb rabbit-hole, I still loved watching you just absolutely having a blast and enjoying something you're super nerdy about. It's a wonderful thing to see, and you also made some lush sounds that were lovely to hear
@el-bov8034
@el-bov8034 Жыл бұрын
'Shadows And Light' is a fantastic album. Not ony Joni, but Jaco, Pat and Lyle. A veritable supergroup!
@M.W.777
@M.W.777 Жыл бұрын
Benn...you're a beautiful soul!! Peace be with you!
@stefangieck2914
@stefangieck2914 Жыл бұрын
Really enjoy seeing you in full flight ambient mode. Give us the 7h version.
@michaeldubery3593
@michaeldubery3593 Жыл бұрын
seconded
@Jin-Hu
@Jin-Hu Жыл бұрын
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@rainbowkrampus
@rainbowkrampus Жыл бұрын
Stoooop. I already know how good Space Echo is. You don't need to torment me like this.
@BounceChord
@BounceChord Жыл бұрын
I just had a Space Echo in my studio for about a month. I’ve owned a handful of fancy digital tape delays but the real deal is a whole new thing. It blew my mind.
@thehowlingterror
@thehowlingterror Жыл бұрын
The 1981 re-201 is still going strong and I put it down to regular use. As for maintenance I clean the heads and give it a new tape when the repeats get too mushy. Replaced a worn out head and a couple of caps. Guess I'm saying is don't be thinking these simple mechanical devices easily fail. They thrive on regular use with minimal maintenance. Have to add I do like what Echo Fix are doing with their take on the Space Echo and having individual outputs would prove useful from time to time. Nice relaxing music there Benn.👍
@QuarkDose
@QuarkDose 7 ай бұрын
I LOVE the sound from around 15:00 to 15:14.. this low.. something. Sounds so nice.
@poofygoof
@poofygoof Жыл бұрын
The only thing comparable to tape echo for me is bucket-brigade delays. Both can saturate and self-oscillate, and sometimes I need the timing reliability of the BBD, and other times the random speed variation of tape works better. I can't believe how expensive both have gotten, [edit: either one is worth more than Benn's track on bandcamp,] but I guess that means I'm getting old.
@TikiLoungeZombie
@TikiLoungeZombie Жыл бұрын
I used to run a Multivox BBD into a Roland SRE555 for wonderful echo madness.
@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES
@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES Жыл бұрын
Marvelous tones. Takes me back to our loop jams the other week. Thanks for the shout out :) brought to you my entropy of Nashville
@BennJordan
@BennJordan Жыл бұрын
They definitely inspired me! I'd like to do a tape feature and will probably just come to you for it. 😂
@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES
@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES Жыл бұрын
@@BennJordan let’s do that
@Ed-davies
@Ed-davies Жыл бұрын
Jeez! The sense of calm epic reverb and delay brings always knocks me over, this was just off the charts in this video
@mdreid
@mdreid Жыл бұрын
Love this! I’ve been fascinated by delays ever since I borrowed a friend’s Boss delay for my guitar 30 years ago and tried doing my best impression of the Cure. I became fascinated with the sound of tape delays and tape in general after listening to lots of dub in the 90s and, importantly, William Basinski’s “Disintegration Loops” in the early 2000s. If you ever need a jumping off point to further discuss tape entropy in music you’d be hard pressed to find a better one IMO - it’s absolutely beautiful. I was lucky enough to score a fully functional Space Echo really cheap about 6 years ago and it is easily my favourite piece of studio gear. I love its character and unpredictability and pretty much use it on everything. I’ve tried dozens of Space Echo emulations (the Strymon El Capistan rates highly for me) but keep coming back to the real thing despite all of its inconveniences. You’ve got me inspired now. Time to switch on the tape delay and bask in some echoes!
@culturite
@culturite Жыл бұрын
I think this might be my favourite video you’ve ever done. So good Benn. Thanks for this inspiring sonic journey into Entropic Echolandia
@msld_sound
@msld_sound Жыл бұрын
This was informative AND musically inspiring, a great addition to my existing knowledge of tape delay. Thank you for another gem!
@MIssSarahKB
@MIssSarahKB Жыл бұрын
Thanks, I found this very useful for understanding the whole general concept of delay. 😊 It reminds me of playing through a pedal delay that then goes to a Soma Cosmos with feedback, blur, and drift all set to create an ongoing slowly changing and deteriorating entropy-like sound whilst new recording is still happening. I appreciate, though, that doing that is not quite like the tape-ness of the tape delay showcased here. Cool. 😊 EDIT: I wrote this before I saw your section that included a Cosmos. 😅
@lefunghi6151
@lefunghi6151 Жыл бұрын
So many sounds on records I really loved but never quite understood how they were made were eerily similar to what came out of this Unit. Wow.
@silentshadowdnb
@silentshadowdnb Жыл бұрын
Doing this with tape machines and cavernous granular reverbs is therapy for me hey. It helps me slow down and just relaaaax. Beautiful sounds at the end man! Also, I think the tape echo in Guitar Rig is underrated AF. It's evolving atmos in a box ❤
@shawnlilly5934
@shawnlilly5934 Жыл бұрын
I looked up the ventures when you mentioned them and they are still going with the later members of the band. They made an album this year with tons of tape delay since it’s a Space Surf Rock album! Cool stuff. Thanks for introducing the band to those of us that haven’t heard of them
@nickwallette6201
@nickwallette6201 Жыл бұрын
Those guys just take the crown for most timeless band ever.
@bentollidaymusic
@bentollidaymusic Жыл бұрын
@BennJordan Thanks for the comprehensive video. So great to hear the EFX-2 in action! One minor historical point, though - according to Scotty Moore's autobiography, "Scotty & Elvis: Aboard The Mystery Train", the origin of tape echo came from Les Paul's reel-to-reel tape echo machine, followed by Ray Butts' EchoSonic amplifier - which housed a built-in tape echo (as used most famously by Chet Atkins & Scotty Moore in the mid-1950s). The WEM Copicat came a few years later, in 1958.
@matthewmcclure3181
@matthewmcclure3181 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for such an interesting take on mechanical tape echo and providing the first explanatory word resonating with my love for this type of delay - ENTROPY. Modern pedal emulations are getting close to capturing a majority of the decay elements that make these units special but I'm not sure they will ever 100% get there. I love my delay pedals but I view mechanical echo as a stand-alone effect category (i.e. Tape Echo pedals are also a stand-alone category). Earlier in the year, I rolled the dice and purchased a Multivox MX-201 sight unseen - fortunately it's proven reliable. There's a unique learning curve... very unique. My biggest discovery is a mind shift towards accepting what the machine gives me instead of fighting the unit for something more precise. As the tape degrades over time, there's also a sense of loss when the life-cycle of a unique quirk fades away, never to be replicated again. Beyond providing the "entropy" explanation, there are two other aspects of your video that got my creative juices flowing: (1) Motivation towards putting more effort into incorporating digital delays in the Tape Echo chain (my initial attempts were discouraging - too much entropy perhaps?). (2) Digging out my old Yamaha mixer that's currently hiding in the garage somewhere and experimenting with routing options. Really great video, thanks!
@RickGomez
@RickGomez Жыл бұрын
I know it's not the same, but this gives me some great inspiration for my new Meris LVX modular delay. Definitely some great routing and modulation options that I'd not thought about. Always stellar content Benn. Killer stuff.
@snoopywalker1881
@snoopywalker1881 Жыл бұрын
Great in depth demo as usual! Real tape delay seems to sound lovely to the youtuber, but to us the audience, the quality does not come thru my speakers . A Universla Audio delay pedal does a great job replicating maybe 80%. but who really knows? . only a pro touring musician can afford to gig w a real tape delay
@carbonvibes
@carbonvibes Жыл бұрын
This thing sounds addictingly amazing 🤩. Thanks for sharing @Benn Jordan 🙏🏻
@kevinm.n.5158
@kevinm.n.5158 Жыл бұрын
Stoked for this. There was a song my ex played by the neighborhood i think that I always called "The Tape Echo song"
@Andrew-h3q6b
@Andrew-h3q6b Жыл бұрын
Can we have a ten hour video of the tap loop going round and round... It is mesmerizing 😊 PS. When your tape echo gets too warn-out to fix...Just send it to Hainbach!
@christopherwilliams375
@christopherwilliams375 Жыл бұрын
I’ve had a pair of EF-X2 tape delays for a couple of years. Magical.
@Lantertronics
@Lantertronics Жыл бұрын
I'm quite intrigued by the visual patterns the tape itself makes.
@bodenschatz10
@bodenschatz10 Жыл бұрын
Very excited/curious about your Nightsky thoughts. After some initial frustration, I've come to love it. Hopefully, you can push it to an hour long!
@McCheesy22
@McCheesy22 Жыл бұрын
You playing with the delay feedback as an instrument of its own sort of dawned on me thats most likely how the ambient noise is made in Radiohead songs
@gauche9999
@gauche9999 Жыл бұрын
I've been using a moog bucket brigade pedal. it's not tape but it's analog and using it as a send on the board and feeding it back on itself and using cv to control it I can dial in the kind of nonlinear delays and saturation that I like from tape. and she's low maintenance. the entropy is still there.
@daved1025
@daved1025 Жыл бұрын
I was listening to pale blue dot pretty much on repeat while reading the men who stare at goats so when I heard the snippet of it in this video I immediately thought of Jim Channon's idea of using ambient music to subdue people in a combat scenario .....also Benn's homemade sonic weapon
@tiagobelo4965
@tiagobelo4965 6 ай бұрын
Defeat the enemy army by having them listen to some chill AF atmospheric music
@judecapone7651
@judecapone7651 Жыл бұрын
I enjoy your informative channel very much. I began soundscaping in the later 80s when I purchased a fostech four track cassette and a alesis quadraverb. My initial inspiration came from an acquisition of an echoplex ep3 circa 1969.. similar to Jimmy Page which I still own today all original. The quadraverb was mind-blowing and a lot of your tones later in this video were extremely similar to the ones I was creating. I always admired the Space echo. A singer of mine in the mid 80s used one and it really made his voice shine.. Cheers!
@paul88khz
@paul88khz Жыл бұрын
I would like the full ambient album, please. The highlight of the video for me was 15:19 to 15:38. I love these textures so much
@paul88khz
@paul88khz Жыл бұрын
And then the sound around the 18 minute mark too omg
@thomaskinsey3424
@thomaskinsey3424 Жыл бұрын
‘Fractal of decay’ is my new favorite term, thank you Benn for the always amazing videos!
@RoryRonde
@RoryRonde Жыл бұрын
cool to see someone play right handed guitar upside down. My brother plays that way as well so it feels familiar to see someone else play that way.
@VirtualModular
@VirtualModular Жыл бұрын
Some great sounds on this, but tape delay can be digitally emulated very well and the bit about entropy is a load of mince.
@ohpotatoesandmolasses
@ohpotatoesandmolasses Жыл бұрын
Saw True Widow a few weeks ago and he had two Echoplexes, one running into a Super Reverb and the other going into a Blues Deville. Sounded so ungodly good.
@Scoots1994
@Scoots1994 Жыл бұрын
I've used the Fulltone Tape Echo and a Space Echo and they are spectacular. What I don't understand is why nobody has been able to come close without magnetic media. I've got a lot of delay pedals and I really do love some of them, but none sound "right" compared to tape. If you love delay and entropy you should try an oil can delay too.
@SantiagoGT15
@SantiagoGT15 Жыл бұрын
If you put a Space Echo (RE-202) into a Chase Bliss Generation Loss, you get really really really close
@Scoots1994
@Scoots1994 Жыл бұрын
@@SantiagoGT15 I'd like to put the Generation Loss in the Space Echo's feedback loop.
@compucorder64
@compucorder64 Жыл бұрын
That D'Angelico guitar sounds really nice through the Echo Fix, good combo. While watching the video, a couple of things were in the back of my mind. Was going to mention Strymon, because I loooooove Magneto. But yeah, I agree I don't think of it as a replacement for a tape echo (which I can't afford), but I love it for it's own sound. The other thing I don't think the emulations sound right for is real spring reverb. And they're not all that expensive, at about $200 second-hand for a lovely sounding Surfy Bear. To a lesser extent, I'm not convinced by emulations of grimey old BBD delays and BBD-based analog chorus FX. Especially when used together. And at least the real deal is cheap, unlike tape. Been getting into using the send-return of my DOD Rubberneck delay, out into a BBD chorus. Then there's the magic of the cumulative goodness of all these things used together, analog chorus, BBD or tape, real spring. Really want a Soma Labs Cosmos, it's on my list; saving up to buy one next year.
@TRUE-LION
@TRUE-LION Жыл бұрын
The reverb takes me places, awesome job Benn
@swabbi
@swabbi Жыл бұрын
I was given an Echoplex and moog as a ten year old in 80s. It was life changing. I had to return the moog but kept the echoplex. I sold it in2005. Used to play sax on it in my attic with 400 watt amp and windows open in. 90s.
@silverXnoise
@silverXnoise Жыл бұрын
I just came into ownership of a 4-head, 3-motor Akai 4-track reel to reel tape deck, manufactured between 1976-1980, brand new and untouched in its original sealed package. I have all sorts of magnetic entropy and abuse in mind for making some unique effects with it.
@DanteHaroun
@DanteHaroun Жыл бұрын
Funnily enough, my natphil prof defined entropy as "the tendency towards ORDER", the definition really depends on what you mean by "order" or "disorder": thermal equilibrium is in a certain sense order
@DanteHaroun
@DanteHaroun Жыл бұрын
that's not to say that calling it a tendency towards disorder is wrong at all
@browe
@browe Жыл бұрын
'Shadows and Light' is a brilliant LP, concert, and snapshot of music... Jaco's work with Joni Mitchell is easily his best (not being facetious.) As for Australian makers, I can do so much with my Echo Fix, so inspiring--and that's the X2 version... No regrets, and one gets to support a diehard craftsperson. When the Echo Fix showed up at my door, I was beyond delighted by how gorgeous its machining turned out to be. What a lovely bit of kit. At 18:00... woof. Juicy.
@edtalktech
@edtalktech Жыл бұрын
Absolutely love this. Before I was even double digits, late 80s I was playing with a Wem Watkins Copicat. It was amazing, despite me not even knowing what I was supposed to do with it. In some way its what got me into sound as I am now.
@shlubbert3355
@shlubbert3355 Жыл бұрын
My only complaint is that I had to wait 7 minutes before hearing those absolutely beautiful tape delay demos. I'd buy all of those as an album.
@imnotfishing
@imnotfishing Жыл бұрын
Great video Ben. I traveled with a 501 for many years. Tried the Fulltone and it wasn’t the same vibe.
@stevekirkby6570
@stevekirkby6570 Жыл бұрын
El Cap does a pretty good job of simulating entropy. I used to have a 201 (and can you believe Igave it away!) but now pretty happy with the El Cap... reliable degradation :)
@helious_music
@helious_music 2 ай бұрын
6:53 was so fun to listen to! sick video 10/10
@TayTayMakesBeats
@TayTayMakesBeats Жыл бұрын
I've wanted a tape delay for ages, thinking I'd only ever manage to get my hands on one way later in life because of how expensive they are. After years of heavy addiction eating all of my money I finally have disposable income and after getting myself a 4 track with an FX loop a couple of weeks ago I stumbled upon a great deal on a reel to reel with 3 heads in amazing condition. Sure it's not as versatile or anywhere near as convenient as basically any other delay but it's so satisfying to use and sounds amazing. It's corny but more than anything it holds a lot of personal value, reminding me that the dreams I'd largely given up on are not out of reach. It also just looks really nice.
@oxygen69able
@oxygen69able 8 ай бұрын
Or you could have 1000 fentanyl pills.
@rajivmodha3693
@rajivmodha3693 Жыл бұрын
The UK Instrumental Band The Shadows were perhaps the first to use the tape echo..Apache was released in July 1960
@Bthelick
@Bthelick Жыл бұрын
FYI if you want a free vst delay that does a great job of mimicking tape delay (including full self oscillation) I recommend Nasty DLA by Variety of Sound an extremely under appreciated dev.
@angela_christine74
@angela_christine74 Ай бұрын
7:23 more than an eargasm…. I could listen to a song of just that. For some reason it touches a deep reservoir of emotion in my solar plexus. Game over. ❤❤❤
@johncarter2741
@johncarter2741 Жыл бұрын
Does the tape ever get stuck or twist within its ‘holding’ chamber. I would end up mesmerised by it’s coils writhing within.
@JimAlfredson
@JimAlfredson Жыл бұрын
The Echo Fix is on my shortlist. It sounds so good.
@StrangerYann
@StrangerYann 8 ай бұрын
I really love what's happening from 16:29 onwards
@mvsr990
@mvsr990 Жыл бұрын
EchoFix will change the Sound on Sound switch to a true looping setup (instead of erasing after one pass) if you order from them, that's been mad tempting but I just can't justify the whole thing for myself.
@Bthelick
@Bthelick Жыл бұрын
Stryman doing some great stuff, I found out they are ex-line 6 which makes sense as I used to love their stuff too.
@kalmarnagyandras
@kalmarnagyandras Жыл бұрын
You should totally have a computer vision module watching the tape compartment, and emitting midi cc or velocity based on the amount of motion 😋
@SOVLTRON
@SOVLTRON Жыл бұрын
funny, i was just thinking of this today. I didn't have a word for it but its exactly why some things just sound better as hardware/ pedals.
@Fluxwithit
@Fluxwithit Жыл бұрын
oofff love the echoFix EF-X2 I have but man I wish I had those additional outputs. really opens it up into the dream world
@3str
@3str Жыл бұрын
Seriously, you've got it just right. So well done!
@biggrime
@biggrime Жыл бұрын
Wonder how hard would it to make tape heads you can slide wider apart at will
@Clarity-808
@Clarity-808 Жыл бұрын
This is a beautiful video in every way. Thanks for making it.
@andivax
@andivax Жыл бұрын
As delays fan I THANK YOU!
@bnz70
@bnz70 Жыл бұрын
Props for the Cosmos. I love that thing!
@jinXeD546933
@jinXeD546933 Жыл бұрын
I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any semblance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of rhythm, is destroyed. What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have.
@FredF78
@FredF78 Жыл бұрын
All the gear, cables and experiments! The essence of hardware.
@kylemartin8206
@kylemartin8206 7 ай бұрын
Great sounds on this video. Tape delays only recently got crazy prices... I just saw the Paypal email from the purchase of my RE201 from 2011, £375- Still use it, it's perfect condition. They sound amazing
@mplatitysn
@mplatitysn Жыл бұрын
lately i've been experimenting with cassette tape loops, paulstretch drones, and other decay-adjacent technologies. i also recently acquired a soma cosmos. things have been getting weird and this video has only inspired me to delve deeper into the creation of generative/degenerative compositional/decompositional strangeness.
@bitegoatie
@bitegoatie Жыл бұрын
I lived through the eighties. I was not bored even once. A lot of things stank in the eighties (not least the US government run by a gang of career criminals and would-later-be criminals and incompetent antigovernment cranks), but there was no reason to be bored. There is never a reason to be bored. But thanks for the tape-echo review session.
@nickwallette6201
@nickwallette6201 Жыл бұрын
Has any of that changed? :-D
@CarstenGoeke
@CarstenGoeke Жыл бұрын
Insane sounds here: 11:42 Thanks for sharing ✌🏼
@trespelos
@trespelos Жыл бұрын
I loved this one Benn. The sound of entropy!!!! thanks
@TheNimasan
@TheNimasan Жыл бұрын
i have the starlab since almost a year and i love it to death. cosmos was my fav gear of the superbooth 2022. i am a soma fanboy.... i literally love everything they do or vlad does. but to me cosmos is beyond a magic box. so much so that i will get a second one because of all the tremondous firmware you can swap under 5 seconds....damn i love this box!!!!
@halfpastsevenakaiosh
@halfpastsevenakaiosh Жыл бұрын
I love the way you explore Benn
@bla_blub
@bla_blub Жыл бұрын
The T-Rex Replicator is both a pedal and tape. Sure, it is no Echo Fix, but I love mine. It's not crazy expensive (just expensive) and I have no reliability issues with mine.
@thomassynths
@thomassynths Жыл бұрын
All tape echo demos start with guitars for some reason. Glad the synths were squeezed through it at the end at least.
@gacleite
@gacleite Жыл бұрын
What a great video! Beautiful sounds! Awesome content!! Very instructive and interesting 👌🏻
@kayurbach5182
@kayurbach5182 Жыл бұрын
These transitions are pure gold. ❤ love'em
@BigMTBrain
@BigMTBrain Жыл бұрын
Other than the noise, which can be filtered out, really so beautiful and flexible.
@MR2GR
@MR2GR Жыл бұрын
I picked up a t-rex eurorack tape delay a few months ago, and it's probably my favorite delay/reverb module, followed closely by the starlab. The starlab is beautiful sounding, but you just can't beat the warbles of an analog tape delay. I'd love to see you pick up the t-rex at some point to see how it compares to the echo fix. It's 1/7th the price, so I'm guessing there are plenty of drawbacks, but it has some cv, and who doesn't love cv? As always, great video.
@goodsirminnow
@goodsirminnow Жыл бұрын
I have that same mixer and I think I need you to do a video about how you use it please, thank you.
@brettmaddan3255
@brettmaddan3255 Жыл бұрын
I have a melos echo chamber that I found in a charity shop for £100, the tape in it needed refelting and the actual tape replacing, a nice man named Mo sorted that for me via ebay. I have it on a FX send from my digital workflo with the ability feedback into itself.
@thesimulations8900
@thesimulations8900 Жыл бұрын
Echo fix looks amazing. Vintage King by my house always has them in stock. Can't decide. Every comparison I've seen between it and the old Rolands it does not stack up. Not sure what the main difference is but there is a definite difference. The Rolands just sound better.
@dfreeman120
@dfreeman120 Жыл бұрын
Had 2 Univox tape echo units which took tape cartridges. They sounded good
@Black_Agent_Seattle
@Black_Agent_Seattle 6 ай бұрын
I use the Arturia Lexicon reverb the most probably. And really like Supermassive.
@wendelynmusic
@wendelynmusic Жыл бұрын
Tape Echo makes me think of the seminal Fripp and Eno record from the 70's, No Pussyfooting. What an amazing moment in my life when I heard that album for the first time.
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