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Description
BBD based analog chorus/echo effect unit from the 80's. Makes typical tape-style delays used in reggae music, got huge self-oscillating feedback and quick delay time adjustment for creating special effects.
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The original Spacey sound
This just sublime. In it new state (i got mine in 1982) It had lots of headroom (gain) and low noise. Analog is noisy. Aged it still sounds super. Run in stereo it will make your head spin.. EVH Used this unit in Cathedral (Diver down 1983) and ON VH-2 songs such as "Women in Love" and many others. I saw Yngwie use one in 1984 onstage during the solo, he used the Echo, which can repeat to infinity.
Footswitchable and can run in mono or stereo, with Direct+effect outs.
MXR made a pedal VH reissue chorus and it sounds nearly identical, and it quieter.
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Rare and amaizing unit
I was lucky and got it for a very little money. It is actually a very decent unit but it gets less attention because of the hype of tape-delays. It is or was called the poor man's space echo, but it is much more than that.
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In a feature on Tame Impala by Soundonsound, Kevin Parker is seen with a Roland DC-30 Analog Chorus-Echo positioned next to his right shoulder in the studio.
A Roland DC 30 can be seen in Eddie Van Halen's effects rack.
This analog effects processor was sold on Billy Corgan’s official Reverb.com shop.
According to this description from the back of the 1982 promotional LP "Indisciple", Belew's rig at the time included a DC-30 unit.
Seen and heared tweaking in the music video La Femme D'Argent beginning at 2:39.
Another section of Nigel’s rack setup in the “morning room” at Halswell Morning in Oct/Nov 2006, during the recording of Radiohead’s In Rainbows. The top rack includes his Roland RE201 Space Echo, Roland DC30 Analogue Chorus-Echo, and AMS RMX 16 reverb (note the distincitve AMS keypad). The bottom rack inlcude an MXR M-126 Flanger / Doubler Model and an MXR M-129 Pitch Transposer.
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