S.I.B. Echodrive
Behold the glory that is the original Echodrive by SIB. This is the delay that all the other delay pedals want to be when they grow up. Blue, big and beautiful, and now no longer in production the Echodrive is probably the most vigorously sought after delay on the planet. But if delay's your thing, this one's the king. (ah yeh) |  |
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Forgive the (bad) rhyming, but it's hard not to gush when talking about the Echodrive. I'm a big fan of delay pedals and have at one time or another owned most of them including various tape delays, which were of course the original echo. After the tape delays came the analog solid-state versions and finally the digital delays, which have spawned into a thousand variations of the same theme. So what sets this puppy apart from all the rest? Imagine having a valve driven tape delay without the hassles of tape and without the noise. That's precisely what the Echodrive delivers and I'm not talking about some cheap top end filter put on a digital delay to simulate a tape machine. The Echodrive delivers 600 milliseconds of valve driven analog delay with all the character of tape. It really is amazing and will redefine what a delay should sound like to your ears.
A closer look
Anyone familiar with delay pedals will recognize all the standard controls such as volume, repeat, mix and delay (time). Now check out the 'record level' control. The Echodrive allows you to control the input drive to the valve so you can determine how much gain the actual delay has, not just the overall level. It sounds so good that even without the delay on, it will warm up your tone and provide a wonderful valve driven clean boost. The range of delay tones on tap is huge. From EchoPlex to Memory Man and everything in between and of course it has it's own unique sonic signature.
All that glitters
There is a price to pay for all this tone, and it's not just the amount of hard earned fun vouchers that one of these will set you back. Most of these are 110V mains powered so you will need a step down transformer to operate it. If you try plugging the effect in without one, BANG! There goes your Echodrive, and the parts you'll destroy are irreplaceable and as rare as the pedal itself.
How much should I pay?
If you can find one, and that's a big if, you'll need to have £500 ready. It's expensive but the laws of supply and demand dictate that this is as cheap as these are ever going to be. It's been a while since an effect pedal has turned me from a coherent professional into a babbling idiot, but I challenge even the sternest of you out there to play one of these for 5 minutes and not break out into a ridiculous grin.
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