Sunday, April 15, 2018

DELAY- TC ELECTRONIC Gauss Tap Echo ...very cool and cheap too!!!

 T C ELECTRONIC GASS TAPE ECHO 

$70.00 USD
Virtually an analog delay with modulation to imitate the wow and flutter of real tape delays.
It does have a very long delay time. A great choice for a bit of analog delay, faux tape echo and a bit of craziness FX without much investment.



Behringers acquisition of TC in 2016 brought with it Behringers own pedals ...cheap crappy plastic boxes. A few had a reasonable sound some were just junk,
The staff tweaked the good ones and overhauled the junkers. They were all built into bullet proof metal boxes. A good idea as it gave some credibility that Behringer was not going to turn the company into a cash cow and kill TC's brilliant innovation. 
The 'Smorgasbord of Tone' pedals when released were all under $50.00 USD each. This certainly got everyone's attention.
They started with 13 pedals from the old Behringer line and are now adding new pedals


This is a 'new' unit . It is one of four introduced this year. The clever designers at TC were I am sure happy to start from scratch. I expect so are you.   :-)
The price is creeping up with the newest ones  but better that then an unusable pedal. The Gauss is $70.00 USD
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If you don't need the long delay or modulation then 
the little miracle delay ...the Mighty Sound mini
M5 analog delay at $23.00 USD is still your best bet. 
YES...you read that right.
When it came out it won a BEST FIVE DELAYS award.
Keep in mind no matter what analog delay you get
starts with a Panasonic delay chip. It gets down to a 
few filters & some EQ to voice it. 
It sounds excellent.

2 comments:

  1. Hey Paul. Do we have any confirmation that this is actually a new deaign and not just the repackage Tape section of Behringer Echo Machine?

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  2. TC claim these are new but I never heard more then a couple of the plastic Behringer.
    If you want a really nice tape type delay check out the NU-X Tape Core Deluxe at $100.00 USA it is a very pro unit uo there with the high end stuff. Or as mentioned I have a $600.00 digital delay but I use the $23.00 Mighty Sound just as often. It is an amazing little pedal. If you don't like it selling it for $23 to get your money back has got to be a given.

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