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The Roland Space Echo is one of the coolest delays ever. It ran on an interior tape loop that looked like a hedgerow maze from above, and the hippest version-the RE-301-had two playback heads for sound-on-sound recording, so it could function as a looper, too.
One of the latest Space Echo homages, the Nu-X Tape Core Deluxe, is digital, but it convincingly performs some of the Space Echo’s best analog tricks. It’s easy it is to drive a signal into analog-style delay-feedback or use the repeat control transform the universe into a series of slapping oscillations plucked from This Island Earth. And by using an expression pedal with the Tape Core (not included), the magnitude of those oscillations becomes deliciously controllable and combustible.
I love exploring a pedal’s capacity for weirdness, and the Nu-X offers a lot via its basic voices and a software editor that enables delay combinations. But there’s a lot to like about the Tape Core that’s less far out.
Let’s start here: It’s $99 versus the RE-301 I saw on eBay for $1,499. There’s also simplicity. The solidly built pedal comes in a cast-aluminum with one in and two output jacks for playing in sweet, dimensional stereo. There are four dials on top. Three are marked time, mix, and repeat-familiar to anybody who’s used a delay. The fourth has a graduated dial, marked for positions 1 through 7, and “SOS”. The SOS stands for sound-on-sound and provides 40 seconds of sonically accurate looping. But much of the Tape Core’s secret sauce is within those numeric settings.
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4 авг 2024
