RIP MIKE BATTLE! Inventor of the Echoplex

84K · 15th April 2008, 01:51 PM

Mike Battle, inventor of the Echoplex, has dies at the age of 90.

Rest In Peace!

dbbubba · 15th April 2008, 02:32 PM

Wow.... I was just thinking about him this morning.

I have an early, early, early, early, solid state, prototype that he built.
He did some work on it about eight years ago.
We talked about it as recently as two years ago.
He gave me a bit of info on building it.

Oh, well...

sad

vernier · 15th April 2008, 03:32 PM

RIP Mike Battle.

Love the Echoplex.

'

BudgetMC · 15th April 2008, 03:49 PM

RIP good Sir... Sir.. Sir... Sir

Sigma · 15th May 2008, 11:34 PM

you never know there might be a "repeat " performance

Myth #1
I've seen comments from people desperately trying to sell their decrepit old Echoplexes on Ebay "this has huge warm sounding repeats fade beautifully, not digital sounding ike the new reissues."
(laughter) Yah, the repeats are warm sounding because Echoplexes hissed and hummed so badly that Maestro/Gibson had to slap a .1uf capacitor straight to ground off the playback head to cut all the highs (and the hiss;) So if you want that muffled sound...turn the TTE's tone "echo tone" knob all the way OFF and guess what, you get a .1 cap straight to ground and that lovely muffled old echoplex tone.

Myth#2
"Old echoplexes had this amazing out of tune warble to the repeats...you can't get that with the new tape echos!"
Bzzzzzzzzzzzt. Wrong, the lovely warble was caused from the rubber roller being old, hardening, and developing a flat spot.
if you want your TTE to be "out of tune", just take a file and sand a slight flat spot on the rubber roller....viola'. TTE owners contact me and I'll send you an extra roller, keep one round and keep one "warbly!"

pic from hanging backstage at the stones show in AC

vernier · 16th May 2008, 12:07 AM

Tube Echoplex is my main studio delay ...it is awesome.
'

NathanEldred · 16th May 2008, 02:14 AM

RIP. That's a nice long life he had. I heard they were coming out with a studio version with +4 in/out, that will be killer.

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Sigma Lives for gear Join Date: May 2006 Location: phallicdelphia Posts: 2,455	you never know there might be a "repeat " performance Myth #1 I've seen comments from people desperately trying to sell their decrepit old Echoplexes on Ebay "this has huge warm sounding repeats fade beautifully, not digital sounding ike the new reissues." (laughter) Yah, the repeats are warm sounding because Echoplexes hissed and hummed so badly that Maestro/Gibson had to slap a .1uf capacitor straight to ground off the playback head to cut all the highs (and the hiss;) So if you want that muffled sound...turn the TTE's tone "echo tone" knob all the way OFF and guess what, you get a .1 cap straight to ground and that lovely muffled old echoplex tone. Myth#2 "Old echoplexes had this amazing out of tune warble to the repeats...you can't get that with the new tape echos!" Bzzzzzzzzzzzt. Wrong, the lovely warble was caused from the rubber roller being old, hardening, and developing a flat spot. if you want your TTE to be "out of tune", just take a file and sand a slight flat spot on the rubber roller....viola'. TTE owners contact me and I'll send you an extra roller, keep one round and keep one "warbly!" pic from hanging backstage at the stones show in AC __________________ I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem - the most important of all human problems"....alberta weintsein " Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats." http://www.myspace.com/miketarsia http://miketarsia.com

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84K Lives for gear Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: right coast Posts: 3,727	RIP MIKE BATTLE! Inventor of the Echoplex Mike Battle, inventor of the Echoplex, has dies at the age of 90. Rest In Peace!

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dbbubba Lives for gear Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 3,337	Wow.... I was just thinking about him this morning. I have an early, early, early, early, solid state, prototype that he built. He did some work on it about eight years ago. We talked about it as recently as two years ago. He gave me a bit of info on building it. Oh, well... sad __________________ Danny Brown

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NathanEldred Lives for gear Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: West Coast Central Florida Posts: 5,166	RIP. That's a nice long life he had. I heard they were coming out with a studio version with +4 in/out, that will be killer. __________________ Nathan Eldred Atlas Pro Audio- Boutique Gear, Consultation, Sales, & Distibution Home of the Atlas Juggernaut Preamp & 500 Series Revolver Rack USA Distributor for Buzz Audio, Exclusive Distributor for Atlas Pro Audio Gear and OSA Atlas Recording Studios, Inc. Recording/Mixing/Mastering Services

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