BOSS SPACE ECHO RE-202

ManualsBrandsBoss ManualsDelay/Echo PedalsRE-202 Space Echo Delay/Reverb

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History Repeating

Words Trevor Curwen Photography Olly Curtis

Boss presents a pedal to truly recreate the

sound of Roland’s iconic tape echo unit

100

GUITARIST JULY 2022

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History Repeating Boss presents a pedal to truly recreate the sound of Roland’s iconic tape echo unit Words Trevor Curwen Photography Olly Curtis 100 GUITARIST JULY 2022 GIT486.rev_boss.
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BOSS SPACE ECHO RE-202 BOSS SPACE ECHO RE-202 £339 CONTACT Roland UK Ltd PHONE 01792 702701 WEB www.boss.info What You Need To Know 1 Space Echo? Now, that sounds familiar… Yes, Roland had a family of tape echo units, the most iconic of which was the RE-201 Space Echo. Boss revived the name with its RE-20 digital pedal and now that is superseded by two pedals that are said to be truer to the original, the RE-202 here and the RE-2 compact pedal.
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BOSS SPACE ECHO RE-202 1 1. The Tape button and the Saturation and Wow & Flutter controls let you dial in some distinct vintage tape echo characteristics, including the sound of less-thanpristine tape, pitch waver and saturation 2.
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VIDEO DEMO BOSS SPACE ECHO RE-202 http://bit.ly/guitaristextra 3 THE RIVALS Less expensive and smaller, the new Boss RE-2 (£199) has the same basic sound, although there are no presets, no Tape Age or Saturation controls and a single Tone knob. If it really has to be tape, besides buying a vintage unit, the Australian Echo Fix EF-X2 (£2,190) is a new-build threehead machine inspired by the Space Echo. It has the seven head combinations and reverb.
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BOSS SPACE ECHO RE-202 VIDEO DEMO http://bit.ly/guitaristextra BOSS SPACE ECHO RE-202 The Volume controls set the level of echo repeats and the amount of reverb. You can set one of them to zero for echo or reverb alone which presumably no-one would want, where the tape momentarily slowed down before catching up to speed (admittedly our RE-201 hasn’t been serviced in a while!).