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WeHuntKings wrote:Guitarist in my band Weary Heads uses one through a twin. Sounds like an ocean of glass in deep space.

that description is hot. gonna listen to your band now. good job.

i hooked it up after my pedalboard and dl4 to manipulate loops. oh so good. i might not even mount it to my board, might just have it on stage next to it. and the dl4 in front of it. damn that was fun.

ramonovski wrote:Got one a few weeks ago and it sounded pretty good, one of the best Boss delays I have tried. Reverb is junk indeed.
Sold it a few days ago to buy gf's present... I know.

BTW, I remember seeing this tumblr with indie band's gear and the pedal that was like in 8 out of 10 boards is a RE20.

http://otherbandsstuff.com/

dude youre not kidding haha. i totally forgot about that

Never tried it myself but have seen quite a few of my fave swedish bands make good use of it (going into different amps) on stage through the years. Cult Of Luna (through a traynor), Khoma (fender blues jr, I think), Tiger Lou (fender twin), Sonjagon (vox ac30). If I wasn't so much into the more expensive stuff, I probably would've got one ages ago.

echodeluxe wrote:

WeHuntKings wrote:Guitarist in my band Weary Heads uses one through a twin. Sounds like an ocean of glass in deep space.

that description is hot. gonna listen to your band now. good job.

i hooked it up after my pedalboard and dl4 to manipulate loops. oh so good. i might not even mount it to my board, might just have it on stage next to it. and the dl4 in front of it. damn that was fun.

Well, only a few of our old recordings really showcase it, but the new stuff is gonna be a better indication of how we actually sound. The other song we are working on for the b side of our new single is gonna be re-201 city.

But yeah, turn the reverb up on your amp and slap the space echo on and it sounds like the first Verve album. Gooey, spacey deliciousness.

I just didn't like that the Input gain is always in your signal, even when the pedal is bypassed. Reason I sold it.

I don't think that i'd get rid of mine.

Faldoe wrote:I just didn't like that the Input gain is always in your signal, even when the pedal is bypassed. Reason I sold it.

That's precisely one of the reasons it sounds correct.

The preamp on the SE is part of why it sounds as it does, and that includes when off.

Mine is "always" in the chain, even when the killswitch is engaged, and has been that way since my first one in 25-some years ago.

does the RE-20 have the same kind of preamp characteristics even while bypassed that you get on the RE-201 or is it more like a normal volume knob?
i've been interested in the pedal cos i can't take my 201 with me when i have to move eventually so if it's even 80% of the way there i'd be pretty happy.
i like the 201 preamp, definitely makes things ever so slightly warmer, especially when using simpler/vintage-y dirt pedals that sometimes get all tinny sounding with the solid state amps i use.

Played a friend's RE-20 when it came out. It's pretty close.

Doesn't have as much gain on tap, but well, let's be real, the Space Echos have ....an obscene amount in the big boxes (TWSS)

that's pretty cool, i wouldn't need much gain just that nice little bit of compression and filtering at the end of the chain.
one of the reasons a lot of 'tape echo' pedals nowadays are kinda weird i think is that the dry signal isn't changed, a lot of the 'sound' of a tape echo is what it does to whatever you put through it regardless of whether you mix the delay in. if it won't clip and fart out no matter how hard you dig in it isn't much of a tape echo simulator.

Yea, some of that also depends on the unit.

The 150/301 and 501 (both sets with pretty different preamps in terms of sound) are progressively cleaner than the 201 but until the 501 they're not approaching "clean" much.

There's just a presence in the 150/201/301 that makes me happy and always has when slamming a BF-type Fender tone stack or a Jazz Chorus.

I have wanted one of these for a long time and am probably gonna have to get one as soon as I'm done with amps and cabs and shit.

Faldoe wrote:I just didn't like that the Input gain is always in your signal, even when the pedal is bypassed. Reason I sold it.

that bugged me before too, but i found its pretty easy to match volumes, and i think it contributes positively if anything to the sound, even bypassed.

What many don't like about it--the reverb and the preamp--I consider indispensible features. Totally understand that it's not for everyone.

the reverb is actually super great as an effect. def using it a lot.