The Denmark-based pedal builder sets heads spinning with its reproduction of the analog delay unit beloved by Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. Danish effects firm T-Rex has been catching everyone’s eye at this year’s show with the long-awaited release of its Binson Echorec Magnetic Disk Delay – a reproduction of the original Echorec circuit, complete with spinning drum.The original Echorec worked on a magnetic disk, which uses a thin wire, rather than a tape to imprint the delay signal. It is responsible for some of rock music’s most iconic delay sounds and was used heavily in Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin recordings. Listen to David Gilmour’s guitar on Time or John Bonham’s ricocheting drum sound on ’Zeppelin’s When The Levee Breaks to hear it in action. T-Rex says it’s spent about seven years trying to get it right and the new delay pedal slavishly recreates the original circuit, meaning you can use that unobscured, or you can switch in a few new options along the way.
As such, you now have a choice between two recording heads at the input stage: a long head and short head – the short head is spec’d to directly reproduce the original EchoRec’s timing, while the long head is a new option allowing you to capture a longer initial sample. Another modern addition is a speed dial that allows you to vary the pace by +/- 20%, then there are four playback heads, which can be switched in and out using light-up push buttons. The unit is all built into a (massive) stompbox, with what looks like a pretty bomb-proof enclosure for the rotating drum and it has a footswitchable bypass, so does not require connecting to an external footswitch. Holding down the bypass for three seconds stops the drum rotating – though, let’s be honest, that is the fun part. Elsewhere, there’s a tone dial, which alters the EQ balance of the echo signal and a toggle switch to select between the echoing ‘repeat’ effect, or the reverb-like ‘swell’ setting.
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