With lockdown Ive been listening to a lot more music in the living room and have been trying to recreate a West Indian Centre style vibe musically because I miss it.
Id like to add an echo box box to my set up so I can mess around with what’s playing and not loose sound when I flip the records over and play the version. (currently I’m recreating an echo manually with my mouth when while I’m putting the next record on - but its just not the same)
From what i can tell it just needs to be connected after the pre amp so
Turntable → preamp → benidub → amp → speakers.
What I’m worried about though is losing the stereo sound. The instructions say I need a mono 1/4" adapter but on the item specs it says it is TRS compatible and its got me confused.
Can anyone help?
kind of interested in getting some hardware fx like verb or delay to run into my mixer. probably some pedals, ive heard good things about the strymon stuff. if anyone has suggestions of cool ones to check out I’m all ears
The Zen Delay is so sick, I def recommend one of those. A powerful unit, sounds amazing and being able to use the Delay, Drive, or Filter separately (or combined together) is really nice.
For cheap n cheerful reverb units too a Lexicon rack as mentioned, or Zoom Studio 1201 or something. Or more pricey then the Strymon Big Sky is really nice.
Another unit worth looking into is the Vermona Retroverb Lancet, has a spring reverb in it and analogue filters, distortion, LFO etc. I’m close to copping one of them, looks wicked to use on the mixer send for dubbing/performance, and for general music production. I think Vivek and Egoless both have one in their studio’s too which is a good sign!
I had the TC electronics one a couple of years ago, it was good but from what I’ve read it’s probably worth paying the extra for the Roland echo pedals.
I always found it a bit fiddly and could never quite get the sound I wanted out of it
FX when mixing. Want some looping and delay FX as the mixer I ended up getting (first choice was discontinued) doesn’t have them but has send and return.
I’ve spunked so much money on this new set up it’s obscene.
Right. Thinking of taking the plunge considering I’m not going to be travelling anywhere for the next few years. May as well be extra happy at home.
Only thing that’s putting me off is wiring things up. Can anyone help to point me in the right direction for what cable I need for these?
It looks like you’d use one of these L + R connected to the Aux out on the mixer, going to the input on the benidub, then another one from the output of the benidub to the L + R Aux return on the mixer