Vintage Echolette NG51 S Golden Box Tube Tape Delay Project
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- EBay project going up and starting at $1.00. I wanted to make a video to try and show all the good and bad for this cool delay. Looking forward to it going to a good home where it can rock and roll once more!
I've got one of these and it's beautiful. Don't think anything involved with this is a 'simple' fix unless you know what yer doing. It's got a whole lot going on, find a tech. But goddamn it is gorgeous - and an unknown gem compared to a bunch of the more well known and expensive units. Like mine, yours is in impeccable condition, which i find just marvelous for something pushin 60 years old. Anyone wants to see it used to full effect check out the band Dungen,. its the core of the guitarists sound.
About the thing with the top left knob. From what I heard in the demo this might be a misunderstanding. The top left knob („volume“ of recording head 1) is a stacked (double) potentiometer and it interacts with the bottom center knob. Basically the bottom center knob controls the amount of echo that is fed back to the recording amp. But the stacked pot top left acts in such a way that when turned clockwise it reduces the amount of echo fed back.
The reasoning for that is some not longer known Design decision. I guess they wanted to avoid too many repeats / self oscillation of the shorted echo…because that would sound awful to most ears 😄
I noticed when you turned it ccw the device ran into a kind of feedback loop / self oscillation (of the white noise that is present). Which would be as expected when the top left knob is pretty much all the way turned ccw and the bottom center knob is turned at least half way or so clockwise.
Thanks for the info!
Do both of those inputs on the left go through both tubes on the preamp?
Yup - only the third input hits after the fist preamp gain stage.
@@funkymusiccompany thank you