Pigtronix Echolution and Echolution 2

chilipeppermaniac

chilipeppermaniac

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A buddy of mine has bought the Echo 2.
Has anyone used this pedal and have a good grasp on it's features?
He has asked me to help him download some things to make it do it's thing. I think he means to program it somehow to behave and make echoes in certain patterns it must be capable of doing. If anyone has experience, please hit me up here. Thanks
 
He tells me I need to check out the editor software so we can adjust the settings on the presets.
For a blind guy, he sure uses the hell outta his I phone to figure out way more than I even know is out there.
 
It is a sick delay. Pricey here in Oz, 500 bucks (plus depending on which store). Good thing its outta my price range, I'd never use it to its capabilities. Cheers
 
Tony M. said:
Too much "stuff" there for me.
My delays have 2 settings.
On and off.
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Tony, I cannot even imagine where my buddy comes up with all the gadgets he does other than gleaning the web via Iphone. He is now 62 and has been blind about 10-12 years and yet somehow he finds the most complex pedals such as this. Then somehow he can figure out all it does completely by ear and memory. He obviously can't see the words and settings and buttons and even the directions how to use things, but he is a whiz with his Iphone to listen to how things work and to talk to reps who explain things etc.

Now come the hard issues. HE is someone you would fully understand. Puerto Rican, born and raised in the Bronx NY, and as opinionated and strong willed a person as you'd ever want to meet. Then, he asks me to take him places, go to concerts, meals, grocery, pawn shops etc. Part of me takes my lumps and becomes the eyes and car for my now blind friend. The downside is he is also diagnosed mentally unhinged. As in paranoid, manic, and prone to hallucinating and violent destruction of his rented housing and even his expensive stereo/musical gear from not taking his meds etc then claims someone or someones were in his homes doing all the damage.

Anyway, he asked me to see about me using my computer to download the software to adjust and set pre sets for this pedal.
I will do it and definitely learn quite a bit while doing so. I often say, "seldom a day goes by that I am not totally surprised by the happenings I never see coming". As for my friend, whenever he asks me to fix a guitar, amp, exercise equipment, etc for him, I somehow also learn something new. DonP and Ivan even helped me in this respect to learn amp repair as they walked me through diagnosing a Marshall Vintage Modern combo amp he broke simply by leaving it on due to not being able to see it was running for days on end. Now, it looks like I will learn about delays from the most complex of ones it seems, and then working backwards to the simple On Off type like I would naturally gravitate to. The adventure has begun.
 
From my initial reading of the PDF instructions it does. But while viewing vids, it begins to make sense.
Imagine being a formerly sighted guy now blind and wanting to use such a "confusing" pedal.
I sure know I would not undertake it if I were.
 
Sounds futzstrating. I would probably flip out and trash the place and blame it on Ancient Aliens.
Sorry to kid about a sensitive subject Chili, I am such a DICK sometimes. (ohh, in caps too!)

Good luck helping your friend, hope he finds some zone of stability and stays in it.
Do you ever move the furniture around on him?
Doh! There I go again.

No really, hope you help get it and him sorted, he is lucky to have a friend like you.

The pedal:
Too many knobs and flashy things for me; I been digging my 1 knob SHO clone a lot lately.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Yup Ivan, pricey here too. I am sure my friend got his off Reverb or pawn shop cheaper.
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I saw a store demo unit yesterday offered for AU$206, which is a good price for, but I already have a carbon copy, carbon copy bright & a DD3 so am pretty well delayed up. Plus being programmable it'd probably drive me to doing jtcnj's trick & needing to blame the Ancient Alliens. Hope you get is all sorted for your friend, they really do seem to be an amazing delay. Would be a great compositional tool once you got a handle on it. Cheers
 
Ivan, this is my same friend who's Vintage Modern combo u and Don helped me with and the same fella I reattached his Epi Dot headstock to, rewired a Strat or 2 and even fixed bad solder on the pots of that Dot ( 1st attempt at fishing the guts in and out of a semi hollow via F holes ) Fixed a Wah and a few other things for him. AND the guy I remodeled his bathroom and acquired the '72 JMP head from.

No Aliens here........ not enough cash to buy ANYTHING else.
 
Hope he appreciates you. Not much spare cash here either. Still trying to put away for that vibroverb project. Low Aussie dollar isn't helping & I keep getting bills. Cheers
 
I like the red and black one in the first demo post. That sounded like my favorite out of all of them. I thought it was a lady doing the demo until I heard the guy talk. That is a pretty nice delay unit with lots of gizmos, bells and whistles.
 
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