The Echosex 2° T7E is not only a simple “Reissue” of the glorious “Old Italian Echo”.. but an improvement of it. Our thinking was about what the well known issues of the old units were, and the different needs of the musicians of today.
Three main principles guided us in designing this unit, keeping always in mind that we wanted to reach two important goals:
- Create a real alternative to buying an old, expensive, unreliable and very rare unit.
- Create a device that really keeps the musicality and creativity of the “Old Italian Echo”.
1) No mechanical parts in movement: absolute reliability in any condition, with no maintenance needed.
2) Improved Audio Quality: The insane frequency response of the Echosex 2° T7E, from 7Hz to 161KHz, and the DI Wet Out, make it a modern piece of gear, able to be connected to today highest professional studio grade devices.
3) With the “Motor Adj.” you have the possibility to increase the overall delay time, reaching around 740ms keeping the Heads in Sync, so to make it suitable for a larger number of musical applications than it’s predecessor.
– The First point is already very clear.. no mechanical parts means no maintenance needed, and this was the main issue for that kind of unit, and it was simply the best engineering way in the 50’s, but today, we have better ways to be used to reproduce the magic without keep the pain of maintenance.
– Improving the Audio Quality was another important goal for us, as the quality of studio gear in the digital era needs very high quality standard for any device, so, we chose to design a Pure Class A preamp section made by Cascode J-FET to obtain the insane 7Hz to 161000 Hz @1db. frequency response range. So an outstanding linearity.
This LET came out the Magic of the “old italian Echo” in any condition.
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