Please Note: This item is sold As-Described and cannot be returned unless it arrives in a condition different from how it was described or photographed.
Condition: Item has been serviced and in perfect working condition. Replaced pinch roller & tape cart, cleaned tape path, adjusted tension, & general maintenance.
From Fulltone:
Fulltone Tape echoes are the best sounding and feeling echo devices you will ever play through, and if you buy one I bet that you will own it for the rest of your life. It’s not easy or cheap hand-building Tape Echoes in the USA, in California, none the less. It is an intense labor of love and a source of pride because honestly no one else can do it but me…or they would.
- The Fulltone TubeTapeEcho is quite literally what would happen if you took a vintage EP-2 Echoplex and:
- ran the preamp at over 200 volts
- put better heads on it
- improved the tape transport
- gave it 2 tape speeds
- put better quality tape on it
- installed an intelligent torque (and speed) adjusting DC powered transport motor.
- got rid of the hum by running the filaments on 12VDC,
- made it stereo
- gave it true bypass
- got rid of the Ep-2’s sound-robbing Echo Cancel feature and replaced it with a relay-activated cancel function allowing for any cable length to the footswitch with no degradation to the sound of the repeats.
- gave it a separate Instrument and Echo volume control
- and put a tone control on it affecting only the repeats.