Count Feedback Takes on the Digitech Echo Plus

Delay out of control! In this week's episode, Count Feedback fearlessly takes on the Digitech Echo Plus PDS 8000, the effects pedal that started the digital delay revolution. Count Feedback introduces the pedal, shows its functionality and features. This is the pilot episode for Count Feedback Takes on the World of Stomp Boxes.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• guitar
• effects
• fx
• pedal
• stomp
• box
• feedback
• count
• delay
• digital
• digitech
• echo

[sirstickykey]

i thought maybe you just didnt know :'(

[HanShootsFirstOrg]

It's coo. The Count likes to bring his down home south-western upbringing into all of his exploits.

[screamocorexx]

and yes you can get stuff that sounds like this its calle the line6 dl4

[HanShootsFirstOrg]

You can get sounds "like" that out of all delay pedals. But this Digitech Echo Plus pre-dates them by over 10 years. Because of the the technology at the time, it has a very unique sound due to the 8 bit sampling used in the delay and sampling.

Your statement is like saying a 1999 Honda Civic is like a 1964 Mustang. You're right, both will get you places, but only one is a classic.

Show some respect son.

[screamocorexx]

its eko

[HanShootsFirstOrg]

Not in Phoenix.

[chanwfat2]

@bayouhazard I'm looking for a substitution for this too because my old pedal fired. I'm disappointed after trying the new digitech jamman which lacks the pitch shifting loop function. Is it really no other pedals can do the same thing like this?

[bayouhazard]

This completely misses what's cool about this pedal. The coolest thing which Bill Frisell has made a whole sonic world from is the fact that the time knob tweaks the pitch. So, you can record a loop, switch the pitch/time, the overdub something that sounds "normal" over something whacky, ad infinitum. People still dig this pedal. What's crazy is that none of the other modern delays I know of do this. They all miss the boat by doing the now ubiquitous Acid style time stretching.

[benjaminshinobi]

This video is great but I just want to make sure people understand how the pedal works. The sample mode is used to capture the sample and the trigger mode is used to play it back. In the sample mode you will notice that if you play while you press the left button it will overdub and that each "layer" will start to attenuate. The trigger mode is used solely to play back the sample. The trigger input is supposed to come from a drum machine (a passive footswitch like you mention will not work)

[manus211]

uses the same power supply as the ProCo Rat II you can buy one from anywhere.

[manus211]

well you can save loops and than speed up the d. time which will have a pitch bend sound, that's probably what you're thinking. I use it for the more ambient stuff, it's cool to save a sample, slow it down until it's this droning mess and play over it. Cool stuff.

[sonicdeath2]

No the pedal does not have a pitch bending function at all.

[skyvorpal]

isn't there a pitch-shifting function on this thing that you can use to tweak the samples? if so it would seem you left out a primary strength of this pedal. there's a whole crew of ambient showgazers wanting to see and hear a demo of all this baby can really do.

[guitarledgend1990]

im so getting a delay pedal n im gonna mix it with my grunge imagine the awesomeness lol great vid.

[sonicdeath2]

I know lol.

[sonicdeath2]

I would try to fix it.