Your Catalinbread Echorec can be placed in a variety of spots on your pedalboard to achieve different sounds and responses. Let’s spend some
time talking about some different scenarios and give you some things to keep in mind as you experiment with where to put it in your signal
chain.
Probably the most basic default position for the Echorec is at the end or towards the end of your pedalboard. When placed after dirt pedals,
you’ll get more separation of the repeats and a more open sound. When placed before dirt pedals, you’ll get a sound where the repeats and
dry signal are more wrapped into one since the dirt pedal is compressing things together. But if you place the Echorec before a touch sensitive
overdrive pedal (such as one of our Foundation pedals like the RAH or the DLS), it will preserve and even enhance the dynamic qualities of the
overdrive pedal. Same with placing it before an overdriven non-master volume amp - you can go from clean to crunch without touching a knob
or foot switch.
In order to take full advantage of the touch sensitive dynamic qualities of the Echorec’s preamp, don’t place any buffered pedals between your
guitar and the Echorec. You’ll want the capability to have the option to play straight into the Echorec. Other pedals placed before the 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 really think you want to be placed before the Echorec, then please try it both ways - guitar straight
into Echorec and then your guitar into your buffered pedal into Echorec, so you’ll at least know what the trade-offs are. Be careful with putting
buffered tuners like the TU-2 first in the chain!
If you want to use your Echorec as a lead boost for your epic solos (highly recommended, by the way), then set it up like this:
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Set the internal slider to true-bypass
Set the internal Gain trimmer to boost (or even cranked all the way up into SSFBM as described in the Gain trimpot section)
Place the Echorec BEFORE your main overdrive pedal or before your overdriven amp. If you want maximum epicness, then
plug the Echorec straight into a cranked up non-master volume tube amp. Oh yeah. People will wonder how a delay pedal
can boost an amp soooo good.
Set the Echorec’s controls to the echo sound you want for your leads.
Now when your lead comes up, hit the Echorec and you’ll get a boosted echo sound that will overdrive your amp or other
overdrive pedal with perfection. It will sound freakin’ huge. We’re not kidding!
When using this configuration, you can still achieve quieter Echorec’d passages by turning your guitar’s volume knob down!
The preamp will respond beautifully.
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