Premier Guitar | 1 decade ago
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Captain Ahab had his whale. Stompbox developers, it seems, obsessively pursue the sounds and colors of vintage delays. It’s easy to fathom the obsession. Tape delays, oil can echoes, and bucket brigade devices embody everything that is wonderful about analog—deep, multi-hued tones and inexplicable wobbles and irregularities. Even though good digital modelers can nail a lot of these analog idiosyncrasies, duplicating analog intricacies at the affordable end of the spectrum is tough.
Thankfully, that hasn’t kept engineers from trying. And the TC Electronic gang has developed a new version of their Flashback X4 digital delay inspired by tough-to-model echoes from the Binson Echorec to the Watkins Copicat and Tel-Ray Deluxe Organ Tone.
Though the Alter Ego is relatively large, you can’t argue with the elegant simplicity of the design. TC probably could have stuffed the same functionality into a pedal a third the size, but it would have been a lot less fun to use and less practical in real-world gigging situations. The many voices of the Alter Ego are derived from hip inspirations: two different Echorecs, two Echoplex models, a Ibanez DM-2, the TC Electronic 2290 (with a touch of modulation), a Watkins Copicat, Roland Space Echo, Electro-Harmonix Echoflanger, and more.
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