about me
My name is Aart and it all started with seeing a Roland space echo. Totally fascinated by the device and the name. What kind of device is this?
Then I bought one in a badly damaged state and slowly brought it back to life. The sound, the feedback and the self oscillation which they often use in Reggae/Dub is fantastic.
Now I have every kind of echo device in my studio. From digital to bucket-brigade and everything in between.
One day I came across a Dynacord echocord mini and saw the slider on the front and thought 'what can you do with that? Change the distance between the recording head and the playback head. So you're not stuck to fixed echo times anymore, how nice is that!
I bought an Echocord mini and was immediately hooked. The time swings you can make with the slider are phenomenal and very inspiring. The sound is floating and the self oscillation on the feedback has a bit of an aggressive edge which for example a Roland space echo doesn't have. A year later I bought a Super76 which has a spring reverb on board and 2 speeds so you have even more echo times. The echo times are also a bit longer and it sounds a bit smoother.
This is my tape echo and along the way I did a repair for a studio friend. This is how it all started.
I Also refurbish the rubber pinchrollers, use new plastic rollers, recap and upgrade with more modern transistors.
The organic and floating tape sound with a lot of character I have not yet been able to discover in other types of echoes. Precisely the 'shortcomings' and the not so 'tight' of digital make it lively and unpredictable....just like life!
Then I bought one in a badly damaged state and slowly brought it back to life. The sound, the feedback and the self oscillation which they often use in Reggae/Dub is fantastic.
Now I have every kind of echo device in my studio. From digital to bucket-brigade and everything in between.
One day I came across a Dynacord echocord mini and saw the slider on the front and thought 'what can you do with that? Change the distance between the recording head and the playback head. So you're not stuck to fixed echo times anymore, how nice is that!
I bought an Echocord mini and was immediately hooked. The time swings you can make with the slider are phenomenal and very inspiring. The sound is floating and the self oscillation on the feedback has a bit of an aggressive edge which for example a Roland space echo doesn't have. A year later I bought a Super76 which has a spring reverb on board and 2 speeds so you have even more echo times. The echo times are also a bit longer and it sounds a bit smoother.
This is my tape echo and along the way I did a repair for a studio friend. This is how it all started.
I Also refurbish the rubber pinchrollers, use new plastic rollers, recap and upgrade with more modern transistors.
The organic and floating tape sound with a lot of character I have not yet been able to discover in other types of echoes. Precisely the 'shortcomings' and the not so 'tight' of digital make it lively and unpredictable....just like life!
