Echofix - The welcome Return of the Tape Delay
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- 0:00 - RE201 meets its new Successor
1:39 - CV TO SPEED flange
2:06 - CV TO SPEED vibrato (not tremelo!)
2:53 - 4 OUTS into Binaural head QUAD delay !
5:22 - Drums in Quad
7:05 - Quad to mono and back
7:20 - Slow down and Goodbye
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All the sounds from this video (in long, unedited form) are available there with a whole host of additional juicy sample packs, a custom iPad controller for the microcosm pedal (with complete documentation), the Chamberlin M1 Kontakt library and way more :) Thanks !
***This video NITTY accompanies EP109 of the Hanging out with Audiophiles podcast with @Hainbach
If you've not heard the show, do go and have a listen here !
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I never thought I'd hear a NEW tape delay unit and yet that day has come!
I was thrilled to try out this masterfully made Echofix EF-X3 and put it through some odd challenges.
This unit was inspired by the Roland Echos of old like the RE201 and 301 and shares a lovely BBD Chorus (like the 301) and REAL Spring reverb.
Tasty.
I love that Echofix did not stop here however but added powerful new features such as CV control of speed and feedback which I demonstrate can take fast incoming LFOs to add vibrato and slow and subtle signals for the joy of tape flanging if doubletracked in a DAW. That's already huge news to me but the EFX3 also has 4 outputs, 1 for each playback head and this hugely opens the possibilities for stereo (and indeed QUAD) effects madness. I try plugging each output into its own speaker to create surround sound which is then captured by a 5th head.. the Neumann KU100 binaural microphone aka Fritz.
There's a tape stop on this machine which is really ace, the unit has an auto shut off for the motor to preserve the tape when not in use.
It sounds Stella. It looks great.
Hats off to Echofix !
They sent me this unit but did not have a say in my "review"
Trust me. It's well worth it if you want a reliable tape echo in 2023 :)
Thanks so much to Johnny Hanson for his ace guitar playing!
johnnyhansonmusic.com/bio
Here's an affiliate links to the unit used
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bit.ly/3ZyCMmu
The mixing of this video is utterly phenominal
This is the video that sold me on the EF-X3 immediately! Mine just got here yesterday and I don't think I've ever been this transfixed with a piece of gear. I'm absolutely mind-blown that I own one.
I vote for more HOWA video content this year
I have a RE-301 at the center point of my setup. Everyone should own a real analog tape delay.
Fantastic video! I love the previous echo fix, this one seems like a nice update.
Isn’t it a wild thing to have a new tape delay? I was inspired to see you with yours. I knew I could trust it was solid after you endorsed it !!
What a fine fun trip this video was!
Thanks! High praise from you sir. Definitely not a definitive look but hopefully gets across the joy of this thing
Those sounds you extracted from the machine are MADNESS!
Just, magnificent madness...
Absolutely loved this.
Echofix was one of the forgotten gauls. Lived next to Unhygienix the fishmonger, didn’t he?
Amazing video guys, keep up the good work!
Love the video nitty format
Love the sounds and thoroughly enjoyed the production 👍
Thanks !
Awesome fun, wonderful sounds 😊
Lovely video :) love that crunchy sound of the RD-8 with the Echofix :)
Thanks for sharing. Loving the sounds at 04:35
Great sounds! I love the mixing of the individual delay taps in the physical world with that Neumann head.
Holy crap, that was excellent!!
The demo we needed, but didn't deserve. 🙌
TIL Nitty gritty segment is even cooler with visual reference.
Ah good!
I fully agree with funknode!
@@MikeMuncher hmm. Well I’ll certainly try ! These videos take me so long! lol.
sick channel dude!
Nittyyyyyyyyyyyy. Great video!
woah a video nitty, alright lfg!!!
My gas just went up. Great video
ochd and flange duties! Nice.
Love the video
Cheers! Yes. Ochd to tape speed. Gotta love it :) one ochd is never enough!!
Dude! What a brilliant video.
Too kind sir! Don’t know how you guys all make so many wonderful videos all the time. This stuff is exhausting ! lol
What a video!
Quad tape delay is insane. Rn I'm running the individual outs into a land mixer and getting a stereo pingpong out! its amazing!
Jam at 06:00 is too good to live forever as a gear demo haha when's the next album droppinggg ?!?
Thanks. Well this is available to the patreons as huge 30 minute unedited recordings. There’s a lot I couldn’t get to production. A whole section with an oberheim SEM for example that never made the cut
In the podcast I somehow missed that this was a real tape machine. Not a digital module.
Awesome!
It sounds so good - I'm a bit jealous!
I’d love to hear what you’d do with one!
NITTYYYYYYY!
A loveley delay unit; beautiful guitar playing and a reaaly cool idea to use Fritz. I imagine that in a good sounding space with decent surround sound systen (like a theatre).....
Speaker array is so cool, sounds great
In the room is pretty wild. It’s like walking into a little installation. Glad it came across :)
@@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES Have wanted to try this sort of thing for SFX design for a while, love how the delays sound bouncing through the space of the room too. Inspiring video!
A filmographer and a sound auteur. Brilliant work Jamie!
Too kind :) glad you liked it !
@@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES the spinning bit towards the end reminded me a bit of Willy Wonka! How do you find the Echofix compares to your original RE-201?
@@fraymes it’s a great unit. Really fantastic. The 201 I have is quite thin and brutal. This is very much more full and feature full also. It’s a wild thing to have a new tape echo in 2023. Just love it!
@@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES he just wants to be a guest… duhh
@@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES try getting it serviced. My RE-101 was incredibly thin until I had a tech go through and re-align the machine, heads were all out of whack. I have some good reccomendations in LA!
Beautiful video bud! Wish I could be in the room for that quad speaker setup 💋🤌
Thanks so much! Putting ones real head in the eye of the storm is a real rush. I need to explore more with the arrays and the head. Tbh the localization you imagine will happen is quite crude. When a speaker is behind the head then the level it generates is not “equal” vs one pointing directly at an ear. I would like to see how to make the circular pans really feel legit
Holy Moly, Jamie is back back back back back bck bk b
Man this video biz aint easy ! This took so long ng ng ng ng .. lol
@@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES I know! I remember you making a comment of that sort many moons ago. And I‘m pretty sure it‘s not gotten easier. Did you find someone to do the editing for you or are you doing it yourself? Anyway, your explorations are some of the most creative I‘ve seen. I sometimes imagine some of your Nitty Gritties put to video - what a blast that would be! Whatever you end up doing, I appreciate it! Lots of love from Berlin ❤
Brb adding a few more delay taps to my puredata patch... for reasons...
Shane is amazing.
Absolutely! Hats off
Dads really like gear I guess
Headphones are essential for this!
Lordy it's trippy.
Yes! The head recordings only translate in the phones :)
Juicy.
Tape juice is a heady bev
This is excellent and deserves many more views - work those titles and thumbnails!!
6:03 chord is catnip
Thanks squire !
I just got one of these and don’t do modular but want to take advantage of CV remote speed like in this video. Any advice from the internet? Also in there a community of folks with these devices chatting and troubleshooting? I haven’t found anything
201 looks like is distorting much more in the meter department.
It breaks up way sooner and has WAY less bass. The distortion is cooler on the 201 imo. It is just so familiar I suppose. Old heads!
coooooool
That Gretsch sound. That damn Gretsch sound. 🥰
Nice Sequentix sticker.
I put that there for you !
What modifications have you made to your RD-8?
Very nice.
Hey Jamie, there is no affiliate link.
Cheers!
Ah! lol. Let me fix that
fixed. thanks for the heads up. HEADS
What are the mods on your 808?
This video is scary. in a good way
Yeah cirklon
Perhaps this is irrational, but modern tape delays always seem to have some weird proprietary tape cartridge thing, which is a bit worrying - I don't especially want to spent silly money on a delay unit only for the company to fold and then be unable to get another one of these silly cartridges when the tape inevitably wears out. I'm a lot more inclined to get this one purely on the basis that it just has a plain ol' tape loop.
Not an issue here. It’s just 1/4 inch tape. You can make your own. Unlike full tone
@@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES exactly. And yeah, the worst offender is Fulltone given how bloody expensive the unit is. Less concerned by something like the T-Rex Replicator given it’s a lot cheaper.
Top banana
Yeah, tape delay, real or digital, is what I use for pretty much all delay. It's the shizzle'z fosnizzle or something. Really cool that someone is finally making new tape delays.
There’s really is nothing like it. Plug-ins have a certain charm but I find that tape juiciness is hard to imitate and playing machines like this leads to so many happy accidents
I thought it would have been more affordable. I wonder why they're so expensive... What did they put in this thing?? I'm not saying it's not an awesome piece of gear, but that's a lot for a tape delay.
WANT
GEIL ! bitte Rabattcode
$3000 though
At £3,600, I'll give it a miss ! Good grief.
Wait.. Why do I feel the Space Echo sounds better?
It’s hard to beat for that gritty thing. Echofix has a lovely clear tone
Got any tips to grit up the Echofix? I think the space echo sounds like it has tons of vibe and soul where the Echofix has none atm
@@MV-es3sk the heads are definitely more full range on the new machine so I’d say if you boosted the mids an lot on the source before hitting the machine and cut the lows it might help to force a little grime ! Also a little distortion either before or after. The echofix is a more clean and Hifi echo for sure. Sometimes way more useful
Thanks the space echo
Brilliant, thanks man! And thank you for your awesome stuff!
Every comparison with the Roland I've heard, this new tape echo sounds worse. If I were spending $2-$3000 on a tape echo, I'd go for the restored Roland every time.
It’s cool but doesn’t look so vibey