Here’s a quick rundown so you can get some playing time in before coming back and reading the full story. And please do come
back and read the rest of the guide! It will help you more fully appreciate what the Echorec can do for you and give you a bit of
history!
Plug in your guitar, Echorec, and amp. Set your amp clean for now. Don’t put it on your pedalboard just yet, just play it by itself
to get familiar with it!
Set Swell to minimum, Tone to noon, Delay Time to noon, Mix between 9:00 and noon, and set Program Select anywhere you
fancy.
Now play your guitar and flip through the Program Select. This control allows you to select the playback head combinations.
Program 1 is a single tap and Program 12 is all four heads. And in-between are all the cool combinations that give you some
famous and soon-to-be-famous rhythmic pulses (you will write a song before the night’s out - guaranteed! ;-) ) A good way to
check out the head combinations is to flip to a Program and mute your strings and rake them once so you can hear the distinct
rhythmic pulses each Program creates.
Now start turning the Swell control up and be greeted with a beautiful wash of swirling repeats. We know you’re having fun now.
You’re welcome!
Don’t forget to try playing soft passages followed by loud ones so you can get a feel for the touch sensitive dynamics of the
Echorec’s preamp. It breathes with your playing!
OK, now that you’ve undoubtedly already got a riff for that new song you’ve been meaning to write for the past six months, take
a break and sit down to read the rest of the user guide!
The combination of the four-tap delay with our exclusive audio path gives you an immersive playing experience that will have you
playing inside the sound rather than on top of it. Our vision for our Echorec was to make it a musical instrument, not just an
“effects processor”. To us, what makes a pedal become a musical instrument is when it responds to your playing nuances rather
than just adding a coating to your sound that ends up reducing your potential for expressiveness; light and shade as Mr. Page
would say. Specifically, the Echorec gives you a huge dynamic range to work within - play softly and delicately and it breathes and
shimmers gently. Hit it hard and your volume jumps up and hits your amp hard. Most common delay pedals end up functioning
somewhat like limiters, evening out your playing dynamics regardless of how hard or soft you’re playing. So while the delay lines
in our Echorec are digital, your direct guitar signal never gets digitized. Our preamp driver circuit drives both your direct signal
and the digital delay line system and is mixed passively without buffering to preserve and enhance the integrity of your guitar’s
signal.
Another thing we focused on was how the dry signal and the echo signal blended. We wanted the dry and echo sounds to be well
integrated together and not separate and disconnected like you’ll find on some delay pedals. What we achieved was a blend that
allows you to go from soupy and ambient to distinct and separate just by how you play it - let the notes hold out and overlap and
the Echorec responds by creating a wide spacious swirl; play muted staccato passages and you’ll hear the distinctive Echorec
syncopation repeats.
Just like a musical instrument, the more you play your Echorec the more expressive depth you’ll find in it.
Yeah, we’re pretty stoked on this thing. We know you will be too!
