The resurrection of the legendary Binson ECHOREC multi-head drum echo
Driving force behind Pink Floyd's Pompeii performance.
The Binson Echorec was so cool we had no choice but to bring it back. And we wanted to bring it back right. We wanted to take all the goodness of that huge Binson Echorec and squeeze it down into a standard sized stompbox without losing anything. In fact, in addition to not losing any of the qualities that made it such a compelling musical device, we wanted to EXTEND its capabilities because the original Binson hinted at possibilities that it couldn’t realize. We’re talking about variable delay time! We thought, “What if we had the same four playback head concept but could stretch the delay time out beyond the 300mS of the original Binson?” Then the rhythmic patterns suggested by the various combinations of those four playback heads could really come to life!
Replicates the four “playback head” functionality of the Binson with the added ability to change the delay time so you can go from classic Binson short multi-head echoes to longer delays that maintain the syncopated multi-head rhythms, extending the range of possibilities way beyond what even the real Binson could do. Plus, you can manipulate the delay time control in real-time to get Echoplex-like spaceship landing sounds - something that was impossible to do on the Binson.
User-tunable modulation on the repeats that simulates the warble of the rotating platter. Or set more extreme to achieve new dimensions in chorus textures.
True-bypass or “trails mode” operation. Trails mode allows the repeats to continue even after you hit the bypass switch and also leaves the Echorec’s beautiful pre-amp in your signal chain at all times.
Mix knob goes from full dry to full wet giving a lot of flexibility to use the Echorec in a variety of situations, even wet/dry rigs by setting the Mix full wet.
Exclusive Tone control tilts the EQ of the repeats from dark and fat to bright and thin. Dark settings makes the repeats sit in the background.
Bright settings emphasizes the attack, great for playing off the syncopated rhythms of the multi-head arrangement.
The Swell knob controls the number of repeats regenerated - from a single repeat of each playback head to infinite repeats.
We love the all-tube audio path of the original Binson. It just makes your guitar sound betterer. We came up with a discrete two-transistor preamp driver circuit that also makes you guitar sound biggerer and betterer. What you’ll experience is a dynamic responsiveness to your playing that may exceed even the tube circuit in the actual Binson! There are no buffers in the audio path. Buffers limit dynamic response, we don’t like that. And it will sound awesome when stacked with your favorite dirt and fuzz pedals, retaining their dynamics and touch sensitivity. An internal trimmer sets the gain - from unity to a pretty substantial boost. And we mean substantial! Plus, well, read on and we’ll tell you about the easter egg later!
9 to 18 volt operation. 9 volts is great for all uses and is especially good for creating “ambient soup” textures - the notes swirl together really nicely. 18 volts is potentially louder and gives more headroom and more separation - particularly good for playing off the rhythms created by the multi-tap heads.
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