[gongbass]

I used to have an RE-201. It was in pretty good shape and I of coursed loved it. However it was an enormous pain in the a$$ to service and I had it repaired twice in 6 months. When the Boss version came out I was highly skeptical, because although I have a few Boss pedals I like, I'm normally not impressed with them. I A/B'd the two and of course the real Space Echo was the easy winner. However I found that after stacking tracks I didn't really notice much of a difference. As a matter of fact just a few other tracks seemed to take most of the magic out of the Re-201. Both sat next to each other until I had a guitarist over to play on a soundtrack thing I was doing. He was drooling at the Space Echo.

I was paying him $250 for the session but at the end when I went to write him a check he said "willing to sell the space echo?" I said I wasn't really looking to sell it then he offered to pay me $500 and not charge me for the session. That was it, it went home with him and the Boss pedal has actually grown on me.