Just got a Binson Super Special made in 2015

[Ruiner]

aWhat we have here is a Binson Echorec 2 Super Special edition made in 2015 at the hands of Marcello Patruno. He was an original engineer/employee at Binson making the original models. He ended up buying all of Binsons remaining NOS parts and ended up with enough components to build some "new" Echorecs. The neat thing is that his Echorecs are a hybrid of 95% NOS Binson parts, so all the important parts are original. The other 5% are modern day upgrades to the power supply, etc.. These units have a much better noise floor and are overall much quieter than the originals.

When Binson stopped making these they were working on many upgrades that were never realized. Marcello was able to accomplish these features on his new units! From controlling bias, choosing sine waves, selecting heads in up to 80 possible combinations, a dry knob!, and so much more...

Only 21 units of the Super Special can be made and only 6 Studio version. Only so many can be made since 95% are made from NOS parts. Mine is the Studio version and is actually one of kind (his personal unit) out of all of those with greater frequency response so it is the most comprehensive and unique version out of the 27 of them.

It just arrived today. Here's some pics:



Here you can see just how small it is:



Did a quick recording on my lunch break. Keep in mind i had 15 minutes. I'm sure i haven't dialed in the best sounds yet but every dial is fantastic (there's 80 setting combinations!)

Just kept it to single notes so you can hear the Binson and not crappy playing:

[Sardocasm]

Dear gods, that is gorgeous sounding (and looking).

[coldbrightsunlight]

Sounds nice! Very interesting piece too, with being made so long after the originals by one of the same people.

[Ruiner]

Sounds nice! Very interesting piece too, with being made so long after the originals by one of the same people.

Yeah, i'm in love with the story of the machine as much as the machine itself. Such a cool, unique piece of art really, IMO. Can't wait to get home and spend more time with it.

[D.o.S.]

Yeah that dude's reverb page is seriously droolworthy.

Nice score.

[lordgalvar]

That is so crazy nice. Congrats man.

That is one hell of a stack.

I will have an echorec one day. I will.

[stripes]

holy crap i'm so jelly

[SquareWaveFuzz]

Don't know whether or not to point out the spelling mistake on it and ruin it for ruiner or not, pun 100% intended,

[Chankgeez]

Which spelling mistake?

I see more than one.

[Ruiner]

Don't know whether or not to point out the spelling mistake on it and ruin it for ruiner or not, pun 100% intended,

Oh i'm well aware of both of them and i think it's awesome. Marcello is such a character and his english on his YouTube videos is just great to listen to. It's just a reminder that he built these. All 32 of them have the same spelling errors.

[skullservant]

This is awesome.

[DADGBD]

Man, do those repeats ever sound good!!
GREAT score - congrats!

(wipes drool from chin)

[rfurtkamp]

That's a heck of a unit with some history.

As much as I love my Space Echo, I'd love to have an Echorec to sit with it and the emulations just ain't the same.

[UglyCasanova]

FAP FAP FAP

[Uncle Grandfather]

very tempting....