Winston Psmith Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 Right to the point: my nearest GC had a very clean used 1st generation Echolution with a power supply, and they'd dropped the price from $250 to $180?!?! I'd been saving some $$$ for some new gear, so I grabbed it, and even got a slight break for paying cash. Except for a small strip of Velcro on the back, it looked untouched, no marks, no dings, not even any dirt smudges. Somebody was good to their toys . . . It's the first model, the one that looks like someone's crazy project box, w/10 mini-toggle switches, 8 knobs, 5 Indicator Lights, 3 footswitches, and a bunch of jacks for I/O, Remote & Expression. There's no MIDI, and no memory, which is fine, as most of the real fun with this box is hands-on, turning knobs and flipping switches. There are two Delays in one box, a Tap Tempo Delay (right-hand side) and a Modulation Delay (left side). You can't combine them, but with 5 Delay Taps on hand, you don't really need to; you can get some very dense Multi-Tap textures going, capture them as a Loop, then abuse the Loop by tweaking the Delay Time, the LFO Rate, or the Depth on the Tremolo & Chorus, then flip the whole thing into Reverse. The Analog Drive on the Input serves up a decent OD tone, as well. This could almost be someone's all-in-one box. There are a bunch of videos online, showing what it does; it's pretty wild. The one odd thing - it came with an 18v Pigtronix PS, but it's supposed to be a 15v pedal? (There was a good bit of complaining about this on various gear forums, since it wasn't compatible with most after-market PS's or power bricks.) I found a post from at least one other user who bought theirs new, and said it also came with the 18v PS; they'd also been using it with the 18v Out jack on a VooDoo Labs ISO-5, with no issues. Maybe later ones came with an 18v, since the only 15v PS available from Pigtronix right now is on their power brick, which sells for $300. For now, the pedal is working great, no overheating, no noise issues, so IDK? Can't wait to chain it with a handful of other Delays . . . "Monsters are real, and Ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." Stephen King http://www.novparolo.com https://thewinstonpsmithproject.bandcamp.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannyalcatraz Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 Score! Sturgeon's 2nd Law, a.k.a. Sturgeon's Revelation: âNinety percent of everything is crapâ My FLMS- Murphy's Music in Irving, Tx http://murphysmusictx.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danzilla Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 Eh, the compressor can wait. Enjoy the new toy! "Am I enough of a freak to be worth paying to see?"- Separated Out (Marillion) NEW band Old band Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winston Psmith Posted March 22, 2019 Author Share Posted March 22, 2019 Forgive the perfectly awful pun, but the need for a Compressor wasn't exactly pressing, and I couldn't pass up the price on this thing! A tweaker's delight! "Monsters are real, and Ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." Stephen King http://www.novparolo.com https://thewinstonpsmithproject.bandcamp.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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