Re : tape echo design

[PERILLE <perille@club-internet.fr>]

> I've posted up on asking info about echo/delay
> pedals...but looking at
> the pieces for them all, i think it would be more
> worth my time to
> create something unique, and that in the end if it
> works (crossing
> fingas) will certainly will be worth the effort.  I
> mean there are
> plenty of cheap delays, but having a tape echo would
> be unique.
> 
> I was thinking that it would be possible to rig up an
> old reel to reel
> for this (RtoR, the proto 8track, heh).  I have an old
> one and I have
> access to another to pull apart.  So from here it
> would be looping
> tape, creating pots, and maybe a circuit.  Any tips or
> suggestions?  I plan to make it a three head, which
> means I need for four head recorders, right?
> 
> Someone said that it wouldn't sound of the best
> quality, but then
> again, didn't some old tape echo box use a phone tape?!
> 
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