Reel in the vintage echoes with Danelectro Reel Echo

This is Danelectro's take on a tape reel delay echo. Very rugged, all-metal plus the lime green color adds a little bit of a vintage look. A real tape echo delay will cost heavily plus the expense of tape and maintenance. FULLTONE makes a great tube echoplex for $1,000 and the Blue Coconut for $3,000. A vintage Roland Space Echo is like finding a treasure and if you do find it affording one is another task. I'll suggest getting a BOSS RE-20 Space Echo for its better sound features but it'll cost around $249. I replaced this pedal with a LINE6 DL4 Delay Modeler that I got from Craigslist for $100. The Line6 DL4 model retails for $249 and it's much warmer and organic sounding plus it has a good tube echo, tape echo and a space echo modeling. If i can afford another delay pedal Ill get a TC Nova Delay ND-1 for $249 which is now the newest and most "state-of-the-art" delay pedal today. I sold this Danelectro Reel Echo for around $100+ on EBAY.

Pretty much used for mellow to bluesy but it takes its place when you use it for leads. Has an extremely nice slap-back echo sound. It gives out a nice big wall of sound to every picked note. Digital so it sounds a little bit cold and processed but it gets the job done nicely in a lot of ways! The sound on sound feature is alright for practices and jams. Here's how you do self oscillation...turn the repeats/feedback knob to the max and turn the lo-fi/hi-cut knob to its lowest setting in order to activate it and when you do this and engage the SOS footswitch, you get treated to runaway feedback/self-oscillation.

The layout was too big for my pedalboard so I ended up going to back to my BOSS DM-2 Delay then later on with a LINE6 DL4 Delay Modeler.

Danelectro Reel Echo retails for $149 but you can pretty much find it on sale for around $120.

FROM MUSICIANSFRIEND.COM:

The Danelectro Reel Echo Tape Simulator Pedal reproduces the sound of those '50s tape echo units perfectly and it will hold up a lot longer than they will. The Reel Echo from Dano simulates the sound perfectly and adds a Warble switch to replicate tape pitch deviations. A lo-fi control rolls off high frequencies of successive repeats just like tape while a Tube/Solid State toggle lets you pick your vintage. The Sound on Sound button works just like the original so you can play over the lick you just recorded. The Danelectro Reel Echo gives you up to 1-1/2 seconds of delay.

Danelectro Reel Echo Tape Simulator Pedal Features:

• Simulates the sound of tape-based echo delay perfectly
• Warble switch simulates tape pitch deviations
• Lo-fi control rolls off high frequencies of successive repeats just like tape
• Tube/Solid State toggle lets you pick your vintage
• Sound on Sound button lets you play over the lick you just recorded
• Up to 1-1/2 seconds of delay