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Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Quick Start
- 3 The Binson Echorec
- 4 Catalinbread Echorec - Design Perspectives
- 5 Features
- 6 Controls
- 7 Program Select
- 8 Internal Controls
- 9 Buffer / True Bypass Switch
- 10 Adjusting the Internal Trimpots
- 11 Internal Controls - Modulation Amount
- 12 Internal Controls - Gain Trimpot
- 13 Playing Techniques
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- Page 2 The Catalinbread Echorec has been a labor of love for all of us here. It was years in the making and we're so thrilled it has finally come to fruition. As if it needs saying, we're really excited with the way this pedal turned out, exceeding our expectations.
- Page 3 QUICK START Here’s a quick rundown so you can get some playing time in before coming back and reading the full story. And please do come back and read the rest of the guide! It will help you more fully appreciate what the Echorec can do for you and give you a bit of history! Plug in your guitar, Echorec, and amp.
- Page 4 THE BINSON ECHOREC The Echorec was a tube (later on solid-state) magnetic recording drum echo unit manufactured by the long since defunct Binson. Binson began making these echo units in the 1950s and stopped production in the 1970s. Over the decades, players as diverse as David Gilmour to Steven Drozd have been known to use the Echorec thus creating a cult following for the devices.
- Page 5 Echorec from a friend of ours. Armed with two functional examples, we were confident enough to then set out to develop the Catalinbread Echorec! The end result of years of hard work was a circuit that was so Echorec-like that we went out and officially trademarked the name Echorec! Echorec™!
- Page 6 Our circuit actually ENHANCES the touch sensitivity of your amp. You’ll find that you’ll be able to go from whisper soft to full-on hard and loud attack just from varying your picking strength with the Catalinbread Echorec between your guitar and amp.
- Page 7 The combination of the four-tap delay with our exclusive audio path gives you an immersive playing experience that will have you playing inside the sound rather than on top of it. Our vision for our Echorec was to make it a musical instrument, not just an “effects processor”.
- Page 8 FEATURES • Replicates the four “playback head” functionality of the Binson with the added ability to change the delay time so you can go from classic Binson short multi-head echoes to longer delays that maintain the syncopated multi-head rhythms, extending the range of possibilities way beyond what even the real Binson could do.
- Page 9 ECHOREC CONTROLS 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...
- Page 10 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.
- Page 11 The original Echorec had a 12 position switch which controlled the various playback head configurations. Since the original was mechanical with the disc only able to go one speed, not all combinations were available for use. The Catalinbread Echorec changes all that. With the ability to vary the delay time on the single playback head, we were able to include all combinations, which include rhythmic patterns not available before.
- Page 12 INTERNAL CONTROLS 1. True-Bypass/Bu er 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 Adjusting the Internal Trimpots The Echorec has two internal trimpots that are set for optimal performance from the Catalinbread factory. Being set and forget type controls, we put them inside. When adjusting trimpots, it is important to recognize that you must use the correct tool for the job and do very careful work.
- Page 14 • Internal Controls - Gain trimpot This trimpot sets the Echorec’s preamp gain. It is factory set at unity gain. But you can dial it up for quite a substantial boost if you want. The Echorec’s preamp is designed to have a lot of clean headroom at unity to moderate boost levels. BUT!, there is a secret mode available! This is the easter egg we hinted at earlier in this guide! If you turn the Gain trimmer all the way up (full CCW), you’ll get an explosively loud and glorious fuzz boost sound! No, your pedal is not broken! But if you stumbled upon this accidentally we’ll bet you probably wet your pants! In this Super Secret Fuzz Boost Mode (SSFBM), your Echorec will overdrive your amp or another overdrive pedal with an amazing, huge sound-...
- Page 15 OK, now that we’ve told you about the easter egg Super Secret Fuzz Boost Mode, for normal playing circumstances you’ll want to carefully adjust the Gain trimmer 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 think you’ll be setting it the most.
- Page 16 - it will have an amorphous, soupy quality. Other delay pedals can do this to a certain degree but the Catalinbread Echorec really excels at it due to our carefully voiced multi-head repeats and touch- sensitive preamp.
- Page 17 PLAYING TECHNIQUES 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.
- Page 18 If you want things to get louder but not necessarily dirtier when you step on the Echorec, then place it after your dirt pedals and turn up the Gain trimmer to the desired amount of clean boost. As long as your amp still has clean headroom available, you’ll get a volume boost. Fuzzes and treble boosters? Most likely you’ll like them best placed before the Echorec.
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