Just thought the collective would like a peak at this beuty. A local fellow scored this for a song but it was not working correctly. Needless to say I was happy to have a look for him. Turns out it had a corroded slider (tone 1/2) and a faulty stomp switch was all. This one was modified at some point as the original Unifuzz's had a separate stomp switch that plugged into a center input jack. Anyway, fixed it right up and enjoyed some spectacular fuzz. This thing is crazy cool. I don't want to give it back ;D
He also brought me a torn-apart Danelectro Reel-tape Echo that I had to peice back together for him. I love the delay this thing has, a poor-mans Echoplex for sure.
(http://imageshack.us/a/img13/4175/img3327go.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/13/img3327go.jpg/)
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Have you got a sound demo of that Danelectro thing? It looks hella cool!
Can we see the guts of the Reel Echo?
Quote from: culturejam on March 24, 2013, 08:32:39 PM
Can we see the guts of the Reel Echo?
Sorry man he came and picked them up quick-like. Probably afraid I would get to attached :)
The reel echo had 2 pcbs, a main board and another for the 2 footswitches. The main board had about a trillion surface-mount components. I could not see what delay chips were used as some had no markings?
I can say that it has an absolutely wonderful delay and the lofi/hifi knob worked very nice indeed. I would probably pick one up if they were not so damn huge.
Awesome! That uni fuzz is super rad, is it the same as a shin-ei FY-2? I love the build construction on those, so heavy duty..and the way they populated those pcbs..haha
Also never seen a stompswitch like that!
Quote from: bigmufffuzzwizz on March 25, 2013, 06:13:02 PM
Awesome! That uni fuzz is super rad, is it the same as a shin-ei FY-2? I love the build construction on those, so heavy duty..and the way they populated those pcbs..haha
Also never seen a stompswitch like that!
Not sure about that. I do know it is the same circuit as the Univox Super-fuzz except this one ran on AC power. I believe all are in that super-brutal, raspy, gated fuzz catagory (this is good) ;D
Does a tape delay have a delay chip? I thought it basically recorded to the tape and played back from the tape... Speed of the tape adjusting the time for the echoes?
How do tape delays work?
well the danelectro is _simulated_ tape delay. I'm not sure what technology it's based around but I would say some DSP chip.
"true" tape delay is in fact a loop of tape that works basically as you describe it.
the weirdest delay impletmentation, i think, is the binson echorec, which uses a magnetic drum to read and record. here is it in all it's victorian glory.
(http://www.kitrae.net/music/binson_echorec_top%20off.jpg)
Josh's 1776 Multiplex has a cool binson mode, simulated with two pt2338.