TAPE ECHO

What it does

Repeats, in time or free: a stereo delay with TIME in milliseconds, feedback and mix. The DELAY bus on the desk carries one of these synced to the song's tempo (a dotted eighth by default), so every channel's send has an echo in time.

TIME = 60000 / BPM is a quarter note; three quarters of that is the dotted eighth
FB 0.4 is three or four repeats; 0.8 is a wash

ON THE TOUCH PAD

As DELAY: X is TIME, Y is FB. Touch to engage, lift to let go, HOLD to keep it.

Where it goes

PADSINSTRUMENTSCHANNELSBUSESMASTER

Four to a socket, in order: sound runs through the slots top to bottom. Open the box and every knob is in real units; BYPASS takes it out of the path without losing its settings; the presets are along the top; any knob learns a controller and gets an automation lane.

The knobs

3 KNOBS · REAL UNITS

Knob	Range	Starts at	Scale
TIME	1 ms to 2000 ms	375 ms	log
FB	0 to 0.95	0.4	linear
MIX	0 to 1	0.35	linear

The presets

9 IN THE BANK

Every box ships with a bank. AS SET is the knobs as you left them; the rest are starting points, each a sound someone wanted often enough to name. Star one and it sits at the front of the bank.

Preset	TIME	FB	MIX
TIGHT	60 ms	0.3	0.3
SLAP	110 ms	0.15	0.3
8TH	250 ms	0.4	0.35
DOTTED	375 ms	0.45	0.35
QUARTER	500 ms	0.4	0.35
LONG	750 ms	0.55	0.4
HALF	1000 ms	0.5	0.35
DUB	500 ms	0.8	0.5
ECHO WASH	375 ms	0.9	0.45

The console line

Every box is also a line of the console's language, so a pad or a patch can carry its effects in text. The words are the knobs:

fx delay time=375 fb=0.4 mix=0.35

The rest of SPACE

ROOM AROUND IT

WIDE

stereo width

Wider than the speakers, or dead centre

PLATE

reverb

The room it was played in