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Historical Tape Echo Products
「Tape Echo」
Basic structure of the Tape Echo or Tape Delay box is quite similar to the ordinal cassette tape recorder. It simply recorded the imput at recording head, and playback when the tepe go through the playback head. The Echo machines have several playback head, and play back the recorded material with two or more playback head with slightly different timing, by doing this, it generate the delay or echo effect. Also, with endless tape which looks like one circle of the long tape, those machine could generate endless delay, also if the box equiped with several playback head, it generate more complicated delay pattern.

Roland had launched the tape echo machine called "RE-series", which is most well known with the best echo machine the world ever had "RE-201", and it has never been an old fashioned or gear only freaky neat people. You might have been encounterd to see this at the local second hand shop or at eBay, the buyers are forced (or maybe willing!!) to pay more than a $200-$500 dollar, this will prove RE-201 is the one of the best echo machine we have ever had.

Again this machine is worth buying for such a price, and you know, for the dub player or engineer, it is the MUST gear!

It could be overhauled easily, though required some daily maintenance. Open reel tape could alternatively used for those machines, and off course there is some shop which supplys the endless tape for the machines.

With this, you can easily be inspired like Lee Perry ????!!!!



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Roland Space Echo RE-201
Apperance of RE201, also back side, and inside (tape is shown if you open the top panel.)

Re201 is equiped by the mixer at Legendary Black ark studio by Lee Perry, Pedal board of Radiohead, Adrian Sherwood studio, Medeski Martin and Wood, Dry and Heavy, Twilight Circus, Mad proffesor, ,,, I mean everybody must have this for DUB!!
Roland Space Echo RE-501
RE501 is the upper class gear, launched at the same time with RE201. 501 is much more RPM stable. A little more expensive than RE201.

Full tone Tube tape echo
Relatively newly developed NEW full speck tape echo, which also has tube drive system.
Developer, Fulltone, sais that it gives you more decent echo than Echoples which is historically great echo box as you might already know.
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Teisco SR-74 Sound Repeater
Tape echo from Teisco
Korg Stage Echo SE-500
Tape Echo SE-500/SE-300
Back in the earlier inovative days, delay measns to record on the magnetic tape, and to play back the same sound repeatedly by playbacking the recorded tape. This tape echo is widely used in the proffessional studio and home studio or PA. Same as Roland, Korg also had launched its unique sound scape. They are also very popular among the very kind of players from instrument to studio, and off course dub players.
SE-500 (Original Price: JPY 103,000)
Launched Sep.1978
With its originally designed big DC direct round control motor, Korg allows their echo machine to have the very stable tape round mechanizm, together with very low noise. The inovative noise reduction system aquire the suprisingly good S/N ratio at the time it is launched. SE-500 has 5 playback head, which gives players a sound scape of Reverve, and long delay maximum 1.5 sec, also it introduces the "sound on sound" effect, which record and playback the new echo sound onto the already playbacking wet sound.
Korg Stage Echo SE-300
SE-300 is the most conpetitive gear against the Roland RE201 series.
SE-300 (Original price : JPY88,000)
SE-300 is the higher model of the SE-500, it also has the reverve effect. With only 1 simplest nob controls input level from microphone to line input. Also, Echo/Reverve level, or Dry/Wet mix level are controled by balance control, it sounds with extremely low noise. This Echo/Reverve control can also change the balance of the wet level not only direct sound but also on the wet sound, so this reverve could be effected on echo wet sound it generate. This is particulary designed for this echo machine and no other box can follow its originality.