SIB! Echodrive Receives Price Cut
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May 7, 2003
SIB! Electronics is dropping the price of its Echodrive multi-delay pedal to $399; with a significantly lower street price anticipated. The Echodrive, like the Varidrive and Fatdrive, is a genuine 12AX7 vacuum tube based pedal with a microcircuit that gives you the benefits of the most famous echo pedals (and more); without the hassles and down-time associated with analog tape. The circuit is Class A and the tube component is fully utilized to create the tubing and tonal control benefits; i.e. preamp and buffering is pure tube only.
The Echodrive is a robust tube delay pedal that offers various degrees of delay with the souns of analog tape echo pedals. Only the delay line is solid state and it is driven and mixed by the tube and the dry signal sees nothing but tube. The classic control set-up is MIX (wet vs. dry), VOLUME (tube output level), DELAY (length), Echodrive (record level), and REPEAT. The DELAY RANGE toggle allows you to select the 2 most usable ranges: 20ms to 400ms and, 200ms to 1.3 seconds. The realism is striking because a special filter in the repeat circuit progressively cuts the high frequencies of each repeat so that the repeat material becomes warmer as it fades away.
Comments Rick Hamel, chief designer, "As with all SIB! pedals, we continue to use a true bypass with LED indicator. The internal power supply uses a heavy-duty detachable power cord. The chassis is powder coated 14 gauge steel. Everything is industrial quality and hand assembled in the USA."
ECHODRIVE multi-delay tube effects pedal MSRP $399
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