Delay/Echo gear .. Any advice ??

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Hi,

Would anyone here have any recommendations on good but budget delay/echo processors for vocals ?

Thanks,

Daniel
 
What's your Budget?

T.C. Electronic M-One is an obvious choice $399

or

Lexicon MPX500 is at about the same price point w/about the same quality $399

Lexicon MPX1 is another choice... with really great reverb as a bonus! see this for about $699 new!

Shred
 
shredfit said:
What's your Budget?

T.C. Electronic M-One is an obvious choice $399

or

Lexicon MPX500 is at about the same price point w/about the same quality $399

Lexicon MPX1 is another choice... with really great reverb as a bonus! see this for about $699 new!

Shred

Thanks for the reply Shred but this is waaaaaay over my budget. I guess I have to look for a used Lexicon mpx100. If anyone has any other suggestions please help.

Daniel
 
Alesis Nanoverb or Alesis Wedge would do the trick nicely on a budget. The Nanoverb has your basic echo type delays, and the Wedge has that plus I believe ping pong and a couple other algorithms.
 
what is your budget and what is your style?

for straight up delay that is great on vocals i would say on the bottom you could get a deltalab delay for $50 that would do you nicely. also useful for crazy modulations. bigger numbers on the model mean bigger delay times. try the 1024 or so...

personally for vocals i like using tape delay sounding boxes. ibanez delays are great for this. the ad202 or the yamaha e1010. these are a bit more pricy at $125 or so.

for straight up no color no fun delays go with the above choices.


you might want to take a look at guitar pedals too, although some of these are pretty over priced. i have been using an "ibanez soundtank digital delay" for live stuff, and i got to tell you, it sounds pretty decent. i got it for free. see what is lying around your friends house. the nice thing about guitar pedal delays is that they tend to be designed to soften things up... which is nice. hard to knock out the original signal though, so you are stuck with your track getting lo-fied.

if you are really game, take a look out for tape delays. they run a bit more for one in good shape, starting at $100 for lo fi univox units all the way up to the grand daddy the space echo. working unit for about $399. but that space echo will never let you down, except for when it breaks, which should be fairly often.
 
The Lexicon MPX-100 is a VERY usable unit if only used for delay. For the same money, it is mostly impossible to beat, if all that you need is a delay line.

Dont' get me started on it's reverb patches though!!! grrrrrrrrrrrr

Ed
 
SonicAlbert said:
Alesis Nanoverb or Alesis Wedge would do the trick nicely on a budget. The Nanoverb has your basic echo type delays, and the Wedge has that plus I believe ping pong and a couple other algorithms.


ugh, the nanoverb sucks! ( I own one and hate it.) You can barely modify any parameters and the stock sounds aren't the greatest. Get something by Lexicon or TC Electronic and you will be much happier.
 
Hey doesn't TC have a Delay unit.. brother to the M-One?

any users?
 
How about the old Alesis Quadraverbs? Thery're pretty versatile. How much do they go for these days?
Wayne
 
The D-Two would also be above cjacek's budget, but it is a nice delay box. The Quadraverb would work well, but the Wedge is newer and has better specs. Practically any budget multi-fx box would have delays in it. So on a budget that's the way I would go, rather than looking for a dedicated delay box.

However, other dedicated delays that are inexpensive would include the Digitech RDS series, like the RDS 1900. Or perhaps the Yamaha D1500.
 
Check out the Microverb 4.

Works OK, descent effects to tweak, not expensive.
 
hate to sound like a broken record, but dont forget my post! everyone here is recomending a pcm digital multi-unit of some sort. it is the easy way to go... but it isnt always the best. and certainly not always the most fun.

did i mention that the deltalabs distort in a pleasing way? you wont find that in a wedge or a quadraverb.

oh and another option is to buy a 3 head reel to reel (you can look at thrift stores, sometimes they pop up for 20bucks or so) one of those combined with a mixer will give you a nice real tape delay (just ask around). it can also be used as a tape compressor for drum mixes and bass tracks (easier if you have a computer) and you can make tape loops!

how cool will you be? very cool. your delay will be using the same basic technology that sun records used for their delay! fuck yea!
 
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