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Page 2: ...enhancing your guitar s touch sensitivity giving you a completely immersive playing experience It breathes allowing you to go from soft delicate shimmers to loud raging cacophony all just by varying...
Page 3: ...nd Program 12 is all four heads And in between are all the cool combinations that give you some famous and soon to be famous rhythmic pulses you will write a song before the night s out guaranteed A g...
Page 4: ...eeding constant TLC The Binson was designed back in the glory days of musical electronics back when things had to be done electro mechanically to achieve delay effects Inventors tried different ways t...
Page 5: ...und The maximum delay time would always be found on head 4 300ms no matter what If you select say head 2 and 4 then you get an effective delay time of about 150ms since head 2 splits that 300ms in hal...
Page 6: ...1 3 4 then the rhythm becomes P 1 x 3 4 where P is your initial picking and x is head 2 turned off The x becomes the rest note in the rhythm This is hard to explain in writing but you hear it right aw...
Page 7: ...reducing your potential for expressiveness light and shade as Mr Page would say Specifically the Echorec gives you a huge dynamic range to work within play softly and delicately and it breathes and sh...
Page 8: ...e repeats sit in the background Bright settings emphasizes the attack great for playing off the syncopated rhythms of the multi head arrangement The Swell knob controls the number of repeats regenerat...
Page 9: ...4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 DC power input 2 Swell 3 Tone 4 Delay Time 5 Mix 6 Program Select 7 Input Jack 8 Output Jack 9 Bypass Footswitch 10 Silkscreen Faceplate 11 Catalinbread Logo 12 Chin ECHOREC CON...
Page 10: ...er repeats from a mild burnishing or all the way to deep murky repeats Turning the control clockwise will result in brighter thinner repeats making it especially good to bring out the attack on rhythm...
Page 11: ...method is to always have full dry and then blend in the amount of wet signal that keeps the dry signal constant but at the expense of having wet only and more importantly at the expense of the playin...
Page 12: ...2 3 4 5 6 INTERNAL CONTROLS 1 True Bypass Buffer Switch 2 Gain Trimmer Control 3 Modulation Trimmer Control 4 Quality Assurance Engineer Initials 5 Catalinbread Logo 6 Lead Free Solder RoHS Compliant...
Page 13: ...choier and have more impact Great for emphasizing certain passages or for epic leads Adjusting the Internal Trimpots The Echorec has two internal trimpots that are set for optimal performance from the...
Page 14: ...ink it sounds splatty and ugly and LOUD which is cool too but if you hit something already a bit overdriven be prepared for the rock gods to descend upon you and shower you with glory So if you set th...
Page 15: ...immer to match your guitar s pickups and the rest of your rig Mininum gain is full CW on the trimpot You should set the trimpot while your guitar is plugged in and the Mix control roughly where you th...
Page 16: ...it as you play By this we mean when you play at a medium level of picking attack not so hard that you are squashing down upon the sound you ll find that it feels like the pedal breathes there s room t...
Page 17: ...Echorec are fine just make sure they re not buffered so that when you bypass them your guitar s pickups will feed straight into the Echorec If you have a buffered non true bypass pedal that you reall...
Page 18: ...not polite But it will rock with authority and attitude If you want the best response with your guitar s volume knob and still get maximum boost set the gain trimpot just shy of full on meltdown mode...
