Overloud Gem Comp76 FET Compressor and Limiter Plug-In - Manual (Page 26)

OVERLOUD GEMS ECHOSON
ECHOSON
ECHOSON is the high fi delity reproduction of one of the most popular echo machines of the 1960s.
The original unit was manufactured by Binson, an Italian company based in Milan.
The unique signature sound of that echo machine was due to the usage of an analog magnetic
drum recorder instead of a tape loop, and to its particular electric circuitry.
The magnetic drum had four record/play heads mounted along an arc of its circumference, and
the echo machine allowed the user to select which ones of those heads were recording, and
which ones playing. At the output, the processed sound was a variable complex and dense tex-
ture of echo re
fl ections with a characteristic timbre for the fading sound decay.
These drum based echo machines have been used with great e ff ect for example by Syd Barrett
and David Gilmour from Pink Floyd, on songs like Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Astronomy
Domine. But also by Led Zeppelin and Hawkwind, to mention a few.
As done for other Gems, this model goes beyond the original modeled unit features. Some of the
di
ff erences can be found in the added parameters (see descriptions), but the main di ff erence is
the option to double the processor panel to have it working on a stereo pair of audio channels.
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