Multiplex Echo Machine
Here's something that's been sitting around for a while waiting to be finished. A few weeks ago I finally ordered a big ol' enclosure for it and the tracking came through for that yesterday, so it's time to finish this thing up. It's an extremely complicated little beastie and I don't actually even know if it will work when I fire it up.
It's a 1776 Effects Multiplex Echo Machine delay. Those two 16-pin ICs are a pair of independent delay lines. This thing has a mode where it functions like the old Binson Echorec. Those things recorded audio onto a disc that looked a little like a CD (but was nothing at all like a CD) and then had multiple playback heads so you could "listen" to the signal play back from different places on the timeline simultaneously to set up syncopated delays. It was the, "Secret Weapon" of a few big names.
This box also has a Roland RE-201 Space Echo mode and an Echoplex mode.
Anyway, hopefully this little monster will work. The tiny PCB in the foreground is an optical modulation daughterboard.
Multiplex Echo Machine
Here's something that's been sitting around for a while waiting to be finished. A few weeks ago I finally ordered a big ol' enclosure for it and the tracking came through for that yesterday, so it's time to finish this thing up. It's an extremely complicated little beastie and I don't actually even know if it will work when I fire it up.
It's a 1776 Effects Multiplex Echo Machine delay. Those two 16-pin ICs are a pair of independent delay lines. This thing has a mode where it functions like the old Binson Echorec. Those things recorded audio onto a disc that looked a little like a CD (but was nothing at all like a CD) and then had multiple playback heads so you could "listen" to the signal play back from different places on the timeline simultaneously to set up syncopated delays. It was the, "Secret Weapon" of a few big names.
This box also has a Roland RE-201 Space Echo mode and an Echoplex mode.
Anyway, hopefully this little monster will work. The tiny PCB in the foreground is an optical modulation daughterboard.