Tape Echo Fetish

[James Guitar]

howdy:
sorry i can't help you with a repair guy in ireland, but i'm just chiming in to say i too love the tape echos... i have a fulltone and a roland RE-501, but the 501 needs some work (i live in toronto if anybody knows anyone!). use them all the time.
-J

[plunderpot]

I used a Roland Space Echo RE-201 recently and it was nearly a religious experience. Such a beautiful, warm sound. And it looks cool as hell. I can't wait to encounter one again.

J

[rico52]

Check on the gear page The Gear Page
You may have to register but they have been mentioned over there before.

Originally Posted by Cherrybomb

HI all,
This is my first post on gearslut looking forward to annoying your heads over the coming decades.
So as my title suggests i've deleloped a bit of a thing for vintage tape echo machines and have just purchased me fifth machine an Echolette E- 51 Tube machine but it needs a bit of tlc.
Can anyone recommend a good place to get it seen too? I live in ireland so somewhere in Ireland or the United Kingdom would be great.

My other machines are Roland RE 201 (*2)
Roland RE 301
Evans Vocal Echo
and now Echolette E51
Rare Museum Synthesizers for Sale: Contact dave -at- davealex.com

Let me know what your favorite tapr echos are and any views on the echolette? And are there any other addicts out there?
Looking forward to your replys

Peter

[Cherrybomb]

Nice one dude,
I'm sending allot of Reason synths out and tyring them in series and parallel. Great fun with some great results could easilly wile away a day just feckin about to see what happens and has been the inspiration for many tunes. The spring reverb on Roland Space Echos are great ,have used it for allot on vocals and acoustic guitar , its a sound!

peter

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[Cherrybomb]

[quote=plunderpot;1910790]I used a Roland Space Echo RE-201 recently and it was nearly a religious experience. Such a beautiful, warm sound. And it looks cool as hell. I can't wait to encounter one again.

It sure is an experience, I heard one for the first time about two years ago and have been hooked ever sinced.
Lovin that photo too , a Twin and a 201 what a combo!!!

[Baron Lands]

Hey this is my first post too, this thread caught my eye because I am a bit of a tape echo nut, I recently had the enormous fortune to acquire a Watkins Copicat! Fully working, even with six spare magnetic tapes! Unbelievable. Its a solid state unit, with I believe four heads, a depth and swell control, and two gains. two ins and one out.

I got taught how to create an infinate echo with it. Great fun. I got it off an old dude who used it to create a shadows guitar style. Bless. He moved on to pedals. Its so bueatiful and its one of the main highlights of my home studio.

When I get more used to forums, I'll post a picture, but jus check them out on the web if ya not sure what they look like.

Good luck with the search fellow analogue addict.

[Mark Cattano]

I'm fortunate enough to be the owner of both of my friend Robert Quine's (R.I.P.) RE-501's. He purchased them some twenty-odd years ago after working with Brian Eno, who had a tremendous influence on Bob. I use one, and the other is sitting in the original box, unopened...

Mark Cattano
Magneto Studios
MySpace.com - Mark Cattano - Huntington, US - Rock / Alternative / Progressive - www.myspace.com/markcattano

P.S. I love my Roland Space Echos!

[James Guitar]

Originally Posted by Mark Cattano

I'm fortunate enough to be the owner of both of my friend Robert Quine's (R.I.P.) RE-501's.

indeed, robert quine R.I.P. - what a phenomenal guitar player. a big influence on my playing, and i don't even play guitar.
back to the thread. i already posted my love of tape echo units yesterday!
-J

[orgo]

Originally Posted by Cherrybomb

HI all,
This is my first post on gearslut looking forward to annoying your heads over the coming decades.
So as my title suggests i've deleloped a bit of a thing for vintage tape echo machines and have just purchased me fifth machine an Echolette E- 51 Tube machine but it needs a bit of tlc.
Can anyone recommend a good place to get it seen too? I live in ireland so somewhere in Ireland or the United Kingdom would be great.

My other machines are Roland RE 201 (*2)
Roland RE 301
Evans Vocal Echo
and now Echolette E51
Rare Museum Synthesizers for Sale: Contact dave -at- davealex.com

Let me know what your favorite tapr echos are and any views on the echolette? And are there any other addicts out there?
Looking forward to your replys

Peter

hey peter,

after hearing a roland tape echo live recently i gott hooked.
i saw the evans with spring verb and echo in a store the other day. Could you please comment on this machine? here in germany we gett alot of dynacord/echlette and klemt machines on ebay. the echolette you own is the same as the golden klemt tube model. could you also please comment on the sound and functionality of the machine?
My reference is the roland re 201 and I would love to get some info.

thx

[esaias]

I have:

RE-201
RE-150
Korg SE-500
and some Dynadorcd

Well, everybody knows the RE-201. Oh it is so beautiful.

But the SE-500 is very interesting indeed, It has this Sound on sound feature which switches off the erasehead so the tape becomes an endless loop. Just put some some nice/calm pattern, piano for example, on a loop and play it thru se SE-500, instant ambient machine!

-Tomi

[Ritchie]

Hi all and merry christmas time.

I am looking for the Internal wiring of the Echolette E 51 motor.

In fact I need to know how can do rewiring the internal's coils inside the motor because I need to make variable speed.

Here the ECHOLETTE E 51 MOTOR REFERENCE :

PAPST-MOTOREN KG:

KLZ 20.50-4/8-140D-B144 4922
42V - 4W - 48mF - 50Hz - 1.74

If anyone have idea how can do a variable speed of this Echolette E51 it should be welcome.

Reply at this mail please :

anodefr@free.fr

Anode

[chevega]

took a chance two years ago on an RE-201 from ebay @ $425 that "needed work". printed out some tips from the 'net, and with some q-tips, a new tape, and NO technical experience, i had it up and running as good as new in a quarter hour. it definitely requires regular, simple, minor maintenance, but it's kind of rewarding to open that baby up and get your hands all over that hot, slutty tape.

it goes on every single recording i do now, in some way or another, even if just for the spring 'verb.

even when i'm using a plugin delay, i'm trying to make it sound like the tape!

[biggator6]

I foolishly traded away a really nice RE-501 a while back to Dave Kerzner of Sonic Reality.. I didn't use it much, so I figured I wouldn't miss it (I really still probably wouldn't - but they're so COOL).

I do still have an Echoplex EP-2... not bad either.
"-)