Plug-in EP-34 Tape Echo
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EP-34 Tape Echo
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M. Jud
Exceptional Tape Echo Plugin
The EP-34 Tape Echo is an exceptional plugin and I use it a lot in my productions. Of course I would like to see it native. And above all, the plugin should be unison. The only delay plugin that is unison is the Korg SDD-3000 Digital Delay and I wonder why that is. It can hardly be due to the DSP resources, which are lower with the EP-34 Tape Echo. In terms of sound, the Tape Echo clearly deserves 5 stars. I give it 4 because of the lack of unison and native support.
U. Audio Account
Nice delay
Not my fisrt option for delay, but when it works it’s perfect
M. Galavan
EP-34 Take Echo
I found this plugin easy to use. I think it is useful on guitars and vocals. It even has EQ controls like the original hardware did. Good for basic, warm, analog delay sound, subtle or crazy amounts.
L. Nguyen
Excellent plugins
J’utilise Capitol Chambers pour la voix et depuis que j’ai acheté ce plugin je le mélange avec Capitole et la voix est encore meilleure.
장. 은혁
great!
I like this sound I use every day
S. Lewis
Great sound, looking forward to exploring further
Out the gate it sounds nice, have not pushed it too hard yet, but I imagine when I eventually do I will review it more favorably. Basically been using presets, which sound nice but not as deep as I had expected compared to other UAD plugins.
r. sveinungsen
Nice
I like this smooth sounding Tape delay. I use it on slap back and it do the magic finishing touch...
D. Arentz
Twist those knobs
A great sounding effect that just begs to be automated.
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Tidy
Inpressive warm sound that feels very matiral in the mix.
M. Cole
Almost Perfect. Almost.
I don't need to say much about what it does right. If you've owned an Echoplex, then you will appreciate how accurate the model is. I have only two critiques to offer:
The only area in which the model deviates from the real thing is in the behavior that occurs when you slide the record head toward the play head (decreasing delay time) faster than the speed of the virtual tape. With a real Echoplex, if you quickly slide the record head faster than the tape speed, until its movement is stopped immediately by the play head, then you will not hear the pitch of the recorded material rise, either during or after the slide. You will only hear the delay time instantly change. On the model, you always get a rise in pitch at the end of the slide, regardless of tension setting and slide speed.
Example: If, on a real Echoplex, you have the delay set at 480ms and input a constant-pitch tone, then crank the regeneration and kill the input, you will have a 450ms regeneration loop of a stable pitch. If you then slide the record head as fast as you can until it hits the play head (which instantly decelerates the record head speed to zero), you will hear no significant pitch change. What you will hear is the same stable tone, but with a shorter loop of around 50ms. The last 400ms of the loop are discarded, as the record head overwrites the data, but there is no significant upward pitch change glitch. There will always be a minor glitch, but nothing as drastic as the model presents.
My other comment would be the lack of delay times shorter than a real Echoplex can offer. UA has offered delay times longer than that of a real Echoplex, but what I need more are delay times shorter than the real thing.
My main use of this plugin was the recreation of a "Hyperspace Pedal"; an Echoplex-based invention of Tom Scholz of the band Boston made famous on his recordings. This requires placing a switchable bandpass filter in the feedback loop of the Echoplex. The only way to access the feedback loop of the model is to regenerate externally to it, sending the signal from the UAD card back to the host, then back to the UAD card, and back to the host, for every regeneration cycle. The added latency (even with a 32 sample buffer) noticeably increases the period of the feedback loops at minimum delay times. Having delay times shorter than the real thing would eliminate this problem. An accurate Hyperspace Pedal model also requires the pitch to remain unchanged when the delay time is very quickly changed to minimum. The EP-34 is still the only digital emulation that can come close enough to the Echoplex's true behavior to make a digital Hyperspace Pedal possible. But the real Echoplex does behave a bit differently under this specific manipulation.
D. Pierce
Awesome plugin!
I used this on a lot of my ambience background busses. Now I use it on single instruments and that's where it shines. Very versatile the EP=34 Tape Echo is, and it can self oscillate
S. Tanner
Good Tape Echo
It is a good Tape Echo like the original Echoplex. But at the end I like the Galaxy a bit more with the features. But very nice on Electric Pianos and so.
J. W
Good analog feel!
Beautiful sound beautiful feedback but heavy DSP.
S. Rehbein
Warm and smooth
Works great on vocals, guitars and synths, highly recommendable.
D. Minns
Simply outstanding!
The presets are so good, that I have only used these so far as they meet everything I am looking for.
A. Belt
Good Plugin
I like.
Use for vocals.
Little bit for guitar, snare
Mix with another reverb
T. Hinterholzinger
so happy!
I love it! Owning a perfect condition Roland RE501 Space Echo as well as a fully-working vintage 50ies oildrum echo - the EP-34 was god sent. Having the ability to easily build tempo synced stereo delays with two instances of this, fed back across each other, is simply wonderful. Many mix cilents ask me if I played an additional synth pad on their songs. I did not. It is just two instances of EP-34 on the guitars! No other tape delay plug in comes even close, imho.
B. Mclendon
You Like It I Love It
Subtle but effective. It works great when i want to add a little movement, space, and harmonics to things. I find myself throwing it on a stereo aux track and feeding my lead vocals into it to get some extra "Sauce" on my vocals!
R. G
Nice Tape Delay
This plugin sounds great on guitars
T. Hansen
Great Sound and great fun
Fantastic piece of software. First of I love the way it sounds and works. Easy to use and great sound. Also great fun for making strange and spacey sounds.