Line 6 Echo Park

[Boogie Bill]

I picked up one of these a few weeks ago.

I'm just wondering if anyone would care to share some favorite settings. I've been playing for a long time, but this is my first Delay pedal, and any help would be appreciated.

Bill

 

[Lu_B]

Re: Line 6 Echo Park

How does it sound? I was thinking of picking up one of these off Fleabay

 

[Boogie Bill]

Re: Line 6 Echo Park

I like it real well. Seems to have a lot of flexibility, but without the ability to pregram presets ala the Line 6 DM or the Boss DD-20.

Bill

 

[spuds]

Re: Line 6 Echo Park

Ooh, I like that pedal. I tried it a few times at the shop and really liked the tape and analogue modes. Not all the settings gave fantstic results but the basic stuff sounded pretty good. Nice and warm unlike my DD5. The reverse mode is also a lot more useful than the DD5.

However, I found the tapping method a little fiddley and 'loose'. Press too softly and it doesn't register. Press too hard and you turn the effect on/off.
I really prefer the boss type tapping, where you have a seperate pedal. Also with the Line 6, if you mess up the timing, you gotta wait a few seconds to re-enter the tempo.

I've got the tap tremelo... so I'm thinking of getting the echo park module.

 

[Lu_B]

Re: Line 6 Echo Park

Ooh, I like that pedal. I tried it a few times at the shop and really liked the tape and analogue modes.
.

Thats what I wanted to hear, I have a DD3 but find it a bit sterile but isn't that what digital delay is all about!

 

[spuds]

Re: Line 6 Echo Park

Yeah thats the thing. I've used my DD5 right from the start and never really thought twice about changing it. But when compared to the echopark, it sounds too sterile and 'clinical'. There's no life and warmth. I think its worth checking it out.

 

[RiffRaff]

Re: Line 6 Echo Park

I think it's okay, I bought one a couple of months back, noisy as hell, I use the slap back and ducking mode the most.

 

[psy]

Re: Line 6 Echo Park

However, I found the tapping method a little fiddley and 'loose'. Press too softly and it doesn't register. Press too hard and you turn the effect on/off.

Interesting. I never had an issue with the tapping. On my piece it's impossible to switch on/off by accident. In fact I had to put some weight on the leg to switch it. Maybe yours is loosen copared to mine (or I'm weaker than you)

 

[MrHat]

Re: Line 6 Echo Park

i got one of the first ones they made. i absolutely love the thing, though at least with the early ones, it needs its own power supply so as not to be noisy.

as far as settings go, i usually use the analog mode, with trails on, mix about 2 oclock, repeat about 11 oclock, time - tap out whatever i need for the song, mod about 2 oclock, and setting at Multi-2. i find this gives me a pretty warm sound.

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: Line 6 Echo Park

I picked up one of these a few weeks ago.

I'm just wondering if anyone would care to share some favorite settings. I've been playing for a long time, but this is my first Delay pedal, and any help would be appreciated.

Bill

These are the settings I end up using the most often with my delay pedals:
1. Try a short delay setting with an analog style delay and only 1-2 repeats for a nice rockabilly kind of a sound . . . works well for 50s style songs.
2. If you're playing a song that's about 100 bpm in 4/4 timing, try setting your delay to 300 bpm (this way it's triggering 3 times per bar and setting up a 3/4 feel over your playing) for a cool multirhythmic thing. This seems to work best with 2-3 repeats and being mixed in at about 25-50%
3. Try a delay with 1-3 repeats mixed in at about 75% and short delay length, then pick an arpeggio and lock in with the delay . . . add a little palm muting and the occasional chord stab and you've got a grooving spacey song.

If you ever get a second delay pedal, and use it inline with your first one, you open up this whole new world of crazy sounds . . . instead of DUN, Dun, dun, ... you can get DUNDEDunDedundedunde...... lots of fun!