Binson

The Binson Echorec is a delay time -based effects unit delay category, which was preferably used in rock music of the 1960s and 1970s, but today found everywhere in the world in many recording studios.

Principle of operation

The Binson Echorec operates on the principle of the analog sound track. On a magnetizable metal disc with about 10 cm in diameter, the sound of the respective musical instrument connected with the recording head (voice head SK ) is recorded. By the rotation of the metal disk, the recorded signal is applied with delay to the reproducing head ( Hörkopf HK). The echo effect is caused by the mixture of delayed reproduced signal with the original signal.

Use

The guitarist Hank Marvin made ​​this effect is already popular in the early 1960s in the Shadows. Syd Barrett put this effects unit on the 1967 Pink Floyd LP The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, among other things the piece Astronomy Domine one. Similarly, the Binson Echorec found in the Pink Floyd Set The Controls For The pieces Heart Of The Sun and One of These Days and Echoes use. Here it is used in each case by bassist Roger Waters and keyboard player Richard Wright. Pink Floyd put the " Echorec " last on the 1977 " In The Flesh " tour a.

But even acoustic guitars were isolated coupled with the " Echorec ", such as the experimental folk guitarist John Martyn has this effect used in 1971 in the play Glistening Glyndebourne on the album Bless The Weather. In the 1980s, the analog echo digital delay and reverb devices was ousted. In the course of vintage wave at old rock music instruments, and the Binson Echorec pleased again growing in popularity. Collectors pay up to 1200 euros for very well -preserved specimens.

Development

Binson improved and developed his " Echorec " over the years more and more. The early production models " Echorec Baby" and " Echorec B2 " are almost identical and differ almost exclusively in the number of instrument inputs ( infant: a, B2: three). They were to have been in the early 1960s. A little later came the most well-known and popular member of the family, which was used for example by David Gilmour 1968-1977 with the " Echorec 2" ( as " T5E " and " T7E "). Its successor, "PE 603 TU " there was from 1972 in both tubes as well as in transistor design. Also stereo models with two slices were built. Last " Echorec " shoot was stocked only with transistors " EC 3 ", which was produced until 1982. Although more versatile than its predecessor, the " EC 3 " but was never able to properly enforce.

The company Binson

The Italian company Binson is known almost exclusively for the " Echorec " models but also produced microphones, preamps, power amps, mixers and guitar amps, the professional demands suffice.