Power Supply Requirements
To power the Echorec use a 9-18V DC Negative Ground power supply that can deliver a minimum of 70mA. No, you can’t run it on batteries! We
recommend that you try it on both 9 volts and 18 volts to see which voltage you prefer. As mentioned in the previous section, there are differences
in headroom, output level, and overall feel between the two voltages - both are compelling!
Swell
The SWELL knob is essentially the feedback control of the delay. When this control is fully counter-clockwise you will get one repeat (well, 1-4
repeats depending on which playback heads are active.) As you raise the control you’ll get more repeats, giving you that famous Echorec swirl.
The repeats float off over the horizon rather than falling off into distorted echoes. Towards the end of the sweep the Echorec will begin to
self-oscillate for spaceship sounds and runaway feedback. Somewhere between 1:00 and 3:00 and you can get a beautiful ambient pad that
doesn’t take off in oscillation and doesn’t completely fade out. The SWELL control regenerates the sum of all the heads being used (set by the
Program Select knob) to create its complex swirl of repeats. It’s intoxicating!
Tone
The TONE knob controls the timbre of the echo repeats. It is a tilt style tone control. Around 12 o’clock you’ll get a relatively flat, neutral EQ.
Turning the knob counter-clockwise will give you darker, thicker 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 rhythmic repeats or to just add a
shimmer without muddying up the fundamental note of your playing.
The TONE control can be a lot of fun when the Echorec is self-oscillating. Turning it counter-clockwise the repeats will slowly bubble to the
surface, like a behemoth rising from the deep, and turning it clockwise will bring out a siren-like effect when you adjust the delay time as well.
Delay Time
The original Echorec had a maximum delay time of 300ms. The delay time on the Catalinbread Echorec goes from about 40ms -1000ms. And
the cool thing is you can twist the Delay Time knob in real-time to get speeding-up / slowing-down, spaceship warp landing sounds! A lot of
modern delay pedals don’t do that. They just stop echoing while you’re turning the knob. What fun is that?
Mix
The MIX control allows you to run the Echorec completely dry (very useful as a bonus boost when run in TRUE BYPASS) or 100% wet (which
works great in stereo or multiple amp setups.) and anything in between. Please note that the Mix control is still active when the pedal is bypassed
if the internal switch is set to “buffer”, but there will be no new wet signal present if you turned the mix to full clockwise. But if you have a nice
long self-oscillation trail going it will keep going when you hit the bypass footswitch! If the internal switch is set to “true bypass” then the Mix
knob will have no effect when the pedal is bypassed.
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