UNIVERSAL AUDIO|UAFX GALAXY 74
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| $400.00 USD |
Is it better than the Roland/Boss pedals. Damn right!!! it is accurate as it gets. UA was founded to make the very best. It all but failed until Frank Sinatra tried out their first product a vocal Pre-Amp and loved it. He wanted his own so he had it for any studio he recorded in. He had to wait to get his made. So he bought the company, LOL.
Over the decades others came along with equal product but they carried on with the principle of making the best without compromise.
CONCLUSION
The best isn't cheap and can't be. It can in principle be the best value for
your dollar and without any lose in the high tech parts dept. The bottom
line it really is an ascetic decision.I have the smaller version of the Boss Space Echo. Nothing wrong with itbut I may yet replace it. I do not use the extras and with 7 knobs on it I find
it a hassle
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My favourite Tape Delay box is the Dunlop Echoplex. The real Tape version like this is a simple echo machine that never had any bells and whistles device like the Roland. EVH made it famous. In his later years he switched to the $200.00 Dunlop box and was quite happy with it.
The Keeley Mag Echo is not cloning an actual vintage tape machine from the past but WTF it sounds excellent. It's $150.00 USD. Still better yet how about a Mosky Magnetic Delay
clone for $30.00 USD with free shipping from AliExpress.
Is the Mosky Magnetic delay as good as the magnetic echo?
ReplyDeleteIt sounds the same on videos. The thing is almost no one makes a delay without using the reissued Panasonic 3102 and 3205 BBD chips they were in all the old classic pedals because they were cheap and sounded great. They were discontinued for new technically cleaner and cheaper chips. Most of these chips were used in toys and Karaoke where cheap and clean is good. For guitar pedals they sound thin,and trashy. The market is now big enough with thousands of pedal makers not dozens so Panasonic released them again. They are still cheap because Panasonic use high tech robots etc. to make them. My point is since the Mosky can be made cheap enough getting a very close clone should be easy. We all forget that the biggest market for Chinese pedals is Asia not the West.
ReplyDeleteSo to get to the point at the cost of the pedal and what I just mentioned it is a small risk. If I had to guess they could sound a little different like two shades of the same paint but not two different colors.
I just remembered that buying the Panasonic chipset is less than $4.00 USD retail. Wholesale in bulk can be as much as 50% cheaper. In other words $2 cost in a pedal.
DeleteThanks. I should try the Mosky!
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