It is basically something designed to cause repeats. You can set it short for the 50s rockabilly "slap back" sound, or set in long delay to give an echo... echo... echo.....

It's not technically reverb, as it repeats notes, whereas reverb adds the "drip"

~B~

Yep. Although you probably are hearing about tape echoes which are different. But anything that doesn't work with tape is a both a delay/echo.

Hmmm... Sometimes I play my analog delay in place of reverb when my Super's Reverb is busted or when I play my Showman.

It won't take the place of reverb but it will color up your sound well enough.

I don't think vintage voiced echo is a good term for what you are thinking. Vintage echo is tape echo which you would be in better shape to buy 3 reverb tanks instead. Analog delay is probably what you are looking for. I really love analog delay pedals, well good ones anyways. Boss, Maxon, and DOD have good vintage or reissue ones. Digital delays are a different breed altogether. I don't like them as much.

Anyways, you can always buy a reverb pedal or tank. Sure, tanks aren't cheap, but neither are good pedals.

Barf
The only reason I ask is I was wondering if I could use a vintage voiced echo instead of a reverb pedal because the reverb on my amp is digital and is quite poopy sounding, in that I got better reverb on my 15 watt frontman.

Barf:
I would think that echo/delay would be used with reverberation in order to enhance spatial depth perception, rather than instead of reverberation. Echo (or delay) and reverberation aren't exactly the same sound...echo (or delay) is a repeat of the original sound source in a very controlled and restricted sense, reverberation on the other hand has a large amount of randomness or chaos built into its design. Although there are many fancy parameters that can be controlled on a reverberation unit, the ultimate output of the effect is much more complex than the output of a simple repeat, echo or delay.

Analog reverberation units utilize dwell and mix circuits as well as a mechanical spring transducer in order to produce a randomized reverberation sound effect. Digital reverberation units have a variety of variable parameters as well as a set of fancy algorithm equations which attempt to digitally mimic natural reverberation sound effects.

Back to your question: can one use a delay/echo effect instead of reverberation? Sure! You can do whatever you want...and it probably will sound pretty cool...but, and echo or delay does not produce the same sound effect as a decent reverberation unit.

I say give it a try and see what happens...I mean...as long as you don't have to spend a ton of money getting a bunch of gear you're not sure of...experimentation and exploration are the best ways to answer this type of question for yourself.

good luck and happy New Year,
-dp

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Here is my favorite song that features delay. It is Blue Star performed by Takeshi Terauchi. I love this song.

http://jukebox.peterlink.ru/cgi-bin/play.m3u?instrumental/ventures/nokie/1998_1:7

Right on thanks for your help guys.

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As I said Fender or Gomez spring reverb tanks are the ONLY way to go.

as much as I hate to go against Eddie, there are plenty of more options, I have a weber tank (homebuilt) and a Cosmoverb - both exact 6G15 circuits - the original Fender circuit - although some if not most parts are of course from different suppliers. then there are other companies that offer kits like weber, and other companies that offer tube reverb unit (most are exact 6G15 copies) a bit of googling will dig them up. Id like to stress though that Im not saying that to take business away from Dario, Ive not dealt with him or his stuff personally, but veryone who did here on sg101 raves about both (Eddie Bertrand e.g.!), which is an endorsement of trustworthy people afaic. If I could afford a boutique or vintage reverb, Id go fo the Gomez over other boutique builders or vintage, alas, I cant afford it. just thought I should mention the other options.

as far as delay, you could check out youtube clips to get the idea, shadows have been mentioned, also look up some vintage atlantics, and euro instrumentals, most notably the spotniks and the tielman brothers. for the combination of delay with reverb, check out the Madiera, and some of PDM's stuff.

I seem to remember that Eddie used delay on the new composition and lengthy jam track of which Tim posted a video a while back, not entirly sure, Ill have to dig that one up again. great stuff!

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WR, I for some reason was under the impression the Cosmoverb was not a 6G15 recreation. I seem to remember it having fuzz or something similar. I am probably totally wrong or am thinking it is a different unit. It looked kind of like a Orange head right? There is also a chance I never heard this unit.