NPD: Catalinbread Echorec

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Oh, man. This pedal does sooooooooo many classic echo textures. Barrett, Gilmour, Eno, Fripp, Belew, those floaty textures on David Sylvian solo albums. (I can never decide whether those are Sylvian, Fripp or Bill Nelson.) Not strictly vintage Andy Summers - he used the Echoplex.

Everything that is good about multi-tap analogue echo without the aggravation of tapes or, in this instance, drum and drive repairs. It can even do Dub Reggae without disintegrating into digital clipping. Riddled with imperfections. A complete joy.

I am off to record something to post on SoundCloud.
 
Re: NPD: Catalinbread Echorec

Glad you're digging it man - and don't forget to check out the super secret fuzz mode!
 
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I wasn't planning to exploit that feature very often. I made the mistake of thinking of the Echorec pedal as a means of adding echo repeats. The truth is, is becomes part of the overall sound. (I am using Trails mode rather than True Bypass.)

Part of my little demo recording had to be made by DI'ing via my MotU interface box rather than mic'ing up an amplifier. I have added no amplifier emulation plug-ins within the DAW software environment. Catalinbread's claims for the tonal influence of the Echorec circuitry appear to be true.

Dang! Now, I shall have to rethink my rig. Guitar > pedalboard > clean valve combo.

One other thing. The Catalinbread Echorec is strictly mono and yet the soundscape that it produces manages to sound very expansive.
 
Re: NPD: Catalinbread Echorec

Glad you're liking it...i was considering it when i bought the Wampler FTE? Looks like a killer pedal!
 
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The same signal path, built into a rack unit, with MIDI Tempo Synch capability would be EXTREMELY interesting. A tap tempo option would probably have sufficed for stage use. (The MkII, perhaps?)

It is possible to create similar multi-tap repeat textures in Apple Logic Pro using the Delay Designer plug-in but these do not have the randomness or the velocity sensitivity of the Catalinbread pedal. The Logic Pro plug-in will run in stereo or spread a mono signal. The pedal is strictly mono but somehow seems to fill the entire sound stage.

To anyone who grew up listening to Pink Floyd and a few other acts, the sound is immediately recognisable.
 
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