Tape Echo Maintenance
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:32 am
Hello,
I own an Evans EE-3. It's pretty sure not as good as the Space Echo (the tape loop is only about 50 cm long, and the motor doesn't change speed, you have to move the recording head like on the echoplex), but it's got its own flavour, and who said you need the Space Echo to make dub?
However I think it could sound better with a bit of maintenance.
The sound is a bit chorusy, and the decay is huge, in fact so huge, that its not possible to set it to more than 4-5 delays without them melting together and becoming one big noise.
Do you think changing the tape and cleaning the heads would deal with that, or is the reason for the big decay the short loop?
regards,
Franz
I own an Evans EE-3. It's pretty sure not as good as the Space Echo (the tape loop is only about 50 cm long, and the motor doesn't change speed, you have to move the recording head like on the echoplex), but it's got its own flavour, and who said you need the Space Echo to make dub?
However I think it could sound better with a bit of maintenance.
The sound is a bit chorusy, and the decay is huge, in fact so huge, that its not possible to set it to more than 4-5 delays without them melting together and becoming one big noise.
Do you think changing the tape and cleaning the heads would deal with that, or is the reason for the big decay the short loop?
regards,
Franz