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Simple delay pedal settings4/19/2023 ![]() ![]() The most obvious application here is to set the delay level, feedback and modulation to max out when you go toe down, which results in precisely the kind of overloading but entirely controllable chaos you’d hope for. We’ll go into more detail on the boot-up options in our upcoming review of the similarly tweakable RE-202 but the highlight here is the ability to assign knob value changes to an expression pedal. But it has its own, slightly more polite thing going on – and just like an original Space Echo, it will spill into self-oscillation with a little encouragement. As long as you keep this dial set lower than the echo level, you might find it a handy effect.ĭoes this pedal sound as rich and fruity as an Electro-Harmonix Nano Deluxe Memory Man or Catalinbread Echorec? No. But it does have a use, adding a touch more depth to the texture of the delay. The reverb on its own is, as in the old Roland units, minging – cold and clangy with no sense of space. All we’re missing here is some stereo ping-pong magic: while the RE-2 does have stereo outputs, the repeats from a mono source run straight down the middle. ![]() The real advantage of a multi-head delay is being able to create dancing rhythms of repeats, and the RE-2 excels at bringing that extra complexity without sounding chaotic – especially if you turn the tone control shy of halfway and soften things with a dash of ultra-realistic wow and flutter. This is true in the three single-head modes and even more so with the combination settings further round the dial, where two heads playing back at the same time produce a uniquely smeary phasing effect. Rather, it offers a pleasing blend of clarity and fragility with or without modulation. Against a background of virtually no added hiss – impressive in itself – the repeats bounce back at us in a way that is totally tape. We’re told Boss’s new sound engine offers its “most meticulous recreation yet” of the classic RE-201 sound. There’s also the Carryover switch by the power socket, with which you can set the repeats to either trail away or cut off immediately when you switch to bypass. ![]() There is, however, an option to select a digital replication of the RE-201’s preamp instead of the standard analogue dry-through, one of several extra features accessed via twiddling various knobs while the pedal boots up. Now we’re promised improved tones and all the same features – plus an important new one – in a device that takes up about a third as much floor space as the RE-20. ![]() If you’ve ever played through one of those massive tape-based machines, you’ll know why that matters.Īlong with the bigger RE-202 (which we’ll be reviewing soon), the Boss RE-2 was made to replace the RE-20, a 15-year-old unit that already made a decent stab at reducing the Space Echo to a manageable size by fitting it in a dual stompbox. What’s so special about a simple digital delay box? This is the first-ever compact version of the hallowed RE-201 Space Echo, launched by Boss’s parent company Roland in 1974.
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