Description
The Binson Echorec earned its legendary status through the rhythmic complexity of its four playback heads, but the mechanical disc mechanism capped delay time at roughly 300ms and locked out several head combinations entirely. Catalinbread rebuilt the concept from the ground up in stompbox form, keeping the multi-tap character intact while removing the ceiling — delay time now spans roughly 40ms to 1000ms, unlocking every head-configuration pattern the original couldn’t reach.
Because delay time is fully variable rather than fixed to a single disc speed, the full 12-position switch worth of playback head arrangements is available here, including rhythmic combinations the Binson simply couldn’t produce. Twist the Delay Time knob live and you get pitch-warping speed-up/slow-down effects, like a tape machine losing its footing.
- Swell — sets repeat count from a single echo per head all the way to self-oscillating infinite repeats.
- Tone — tilts the repeats from dark and fat (sitting behind the dry signal) to bright and thin (pushing the syncopated attack forward).
- Mix — blends from fully dry to fully wet, flexible enough for subtle ambience or a dedicated wet path in a wet/dry rig.
On a pedalboard, this sits comfortably as your dedicated rhythmic delay — place it after drive and modulation to let the multi-head patterns breathe, or run it wet-only for parallel textures. Anyone chasing that grainy, hypnotic drum-echo pulse without hauling around vintage Binson hardware will find it here in a standard-sized enclosure.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.