That being said, I read in an article that the Univox is the echo that Eddie Van Halen used on "Eruption." In it, he complained about the thing constantly breaking.

If I was going to spend that much money on tape echo action, I'd just get the Hiwatt one. You can plug a foot pedal into it to control the tape speed.

givemenoughrope wrote:
For coming out of an interface, should I use a reamp box? I want to put some piano through it.

Most of these things (like the RE-201) are instrument level devices. Big, glorified stomp boxes to go between your guitar and your amp. They don't like line level signals at all. They don't even much like hot instrument levels like some keyboards put out. I always run a console out through a reamp, then into the echo, then out to a nice line amp that has a Hi Z input, then back to the console for the mix. Yeah, it's some fuckin' around. Helps to get the gain staging right and cuts down on some of the noise...

I've had the space echo, solid state echoplex, various analog and digital delays and they all have their own unique qualities.
The boss pedal simulator is ok for what it is. The tubeplex might be something to consider: http://www.tubeplex.com/

llllllllllllllllllllllll wrote:That being said, I read in an article that the Univox is the echo that Eddie Van Halen used on "Eruption." In it, he complained about the thing constantly breaking.

Huh? I never really heard anything but gobs and gobs of plate reverb on that track. I always thought a Phase 90 was the only thing in his signal chain.

As for the "Space Echo" pedal, it doesn't sound as cool as the DL4, which is unfortunately about as reliable as... well, as an actual Space Echo.

Marsupialized wrote:

The main ingredient in the $2 spring reverb.

Marsupialized wrote:

that thing is priceless!

I have volumes of technical manuals for operating the most high tech steel rolling mill you could imagine all written in that sort of broken Janglish. I love opening up million dollar gearboxes with directions that read like that...

For those of you with problems with the Univox echo. A lot of time the problem is not the tape but the little piece of metal with felt on it that holds the tape securely on the head. This tends to go into the fatigue over time (with the tape plugged in when not in use).

You can sometimes get the old tape to work by sticking a piece of felt (you get them on the hardware store felt on one side and adheasive on the other it is used to put under glass tabletops). I have also used the felty side of a piece of velcro (using the sticky side to stick on the felt that is there).

You pull the tape out a little bit between a quater to half a inch small loop in the middle area not too far. You cut piece of felt or velcro small to fit on the piece of felt that is there. Stick it on using tweesers. Shove it in the back of the unit and jiggle mine works when I do this.

This additional height pushes the tape back on the head. When it is not in use pull the tape partialy out.

most assuredly not crap.