The Fulltone TubeTapeEcho is quite literally what would happen if you took a vintage EP-2 Echoplex:.ran the preamp at over 200 volts. put better heads on it.improved the tape transport.gave it 2 tape speeds.put better quality tape on it. installed an intelligent torque (and speed) adjusting DC powered transport motor. The serial number is 146XX and the pot codes are 1377306. So, that would put my EP-3 at early to mid 1973, I think. 'If you make a mistake, do it.

There's no doubt that original Echoplexes are cool, but unless you know how to keep them maintained, they can be dicey to keep running, or so I've heard. Also, buying decent tape cartridges becomes harder, as Fulltone has bought up a lot of the existing mastering tape and he won't sell it to you unless you own a TTE, so Anje, I hope you've memorized your old TTE Serial Number.

Now, I've also heard that Mike Battle (the inventor of the Echoplex) is selling cartridges and that the tape is very good quality, too, so Fulltone isn't necessarily the end-all be-all for this. I would also imagine their might be other sources for the raw tape, leaving it to the end-user to make his own loops and refilling the cartridges. For me, while the TTE may not be the SAME as an original, it is the best echo I've ever owned and much less of a headache than an original would no doubt be for me. Lemme guess, you feel that you may be missing out on hiss, flutter, and background noise?I've had many different tape-type echos tube and solid state Echoeplexes, Akai units, a Pilco unit.

I did make a tidy bit on each of them as it seems there are a lot of folks hunting for fools gold.I sacked them all in favor of the Chandler Digital Echo.I had one of those back when they came out. I spoke with Chandler about it and he bragged that all that tone came from only a one-bit chip. I was surprised. I told him it sounded more like two-bits;-). Lemme guess, you feel that you may be missing out on hiss, flutter, and background noise?I've had many different tape-type echos tube and solid state Echoeplexes, Akai units, a Pilco unit.

I did make a tidy bit on each of them as it seems there are a lot of folks hunting for fools gold.I sacked them all in favor of the Chandler Digital Echo.Lemme guess also. He feels he'll get a warmer sound. This must be a personal thing.I haven't tried the TTE, but I'm yet to hear a pedal that sounds as warm as a tape.I don't know the models of Echoplex, but what you want is a tube Echoplex rather than a solid state.I'll be surprised if the old unit sounds better than the TTE.

Jean, I have the Fulltone TTE but it does not get the dreamy warble that my old Echoplexes have. Card collector game maker mac os for mac. The positive side of the Fulltone is reliabilty and less noise. Still, I rarely use it. I wrote them to see if I could get the TTE to sound like an Echoplex and he told me to put masking tape on the rollers to make them uneven. Still didn't capture the same Echoplex vibe. If you are going for the vibe of an Echoplex, some may laugh but I get closest to my old EP's with a plain old Deluxe Memory Man.

I'd be willing to bet more pro records are still being made using the EH Memory Man than any other analog delay out there. If you happen to consider one, DO NOT get the stereo version. Deluxe only and the reissues are excellent. Hi Jean, I love the DMM's so much I keep two on my board for the great Zeppeilin/rockabilly like slap back they do then the surreal, dreamy echoplex warble. When I was young, I thought any echoplex was just an echoplex. Back then I had no idea one was tube and another solid state.

As I look at old pics on stage almost all mine were solid state. I had a tube EP a few years ago and it didn't sound too much different than what I remember my old SS's as sounding. It's funny how our ears change when we learn one is supposed to be better than the other. I would be sure a good tube version would be better but the SS's do the EP thing better than anything new I've tried. A bit cheaper for sure. I have a close friend that was Daniel Lanois' head of house engineer at Kingsway.

They would use the Deluxe Memory Man by the dozens. A lot of huge producers, bands, etc. Still use the Memory Man as the delay of choice, even over the EP on tons of recordings. You'd be surprised how much of the new 'vibey' stuff is done on the DMM even in world class studios.

Good luck with whatever you decide on and let me know what you think about the DMM if you get one. The reissues are awesome and resale on DMM's is also very good if you ever need to part with one. EP's are extremely cool to have for the whole vintage/collectable thing but the DMM will pretty much get you there on a budget and without the 'issues'. There are cleaner sounding boutique analog Memory Man clones but the DMM just has the right amount of noise, signal loss, and other imperfections that make it so very close to the overall 'lo-fi' vibe of the EP.

I have not tried the DMM because you hear such conflicting reviews on them. Some think they rate right there with a vintage Echoplex and others don't like them at all.I really should have tried one long before now.If you like crystal clear, hi-fi, and precise digital delay, you will not like the DMM. Much like the Echoplex, it is lo-fi thus the negative reviews from those who would rather have a sparkling clear digital delay. Some people just don't get it. But if the surreal, dreamy, lo-fi sound of an echoplex is what you are after you can't go wrong with the Memory Man. The artifacts, which happen to be musical sounding to some, are part of the magic.

There are tons of much cleaner, noiseless, boutique analog delays out there but sound nothing like an echoplex. Once again, DO NOT consider the stereo version memory man if the echoplex vibe is what you are after.