After months of faffing about with Flashbacks, M5s, Echo Parks, HD300s, looking for a great tape delay I finally did what I should have done in the first place and stumped up for an El Cap.
It really came down to this or a Wampler Faux Tape Echo. The Wampler was great, but the Strymon is awesomely good and highly tweakable.
No idea if it's anything like a real tape delay but it sounds mighty fine to me. Fantastic slapback, lovely analogue-type 300ms range delays and magical Gilmouresque sounds from Run Like Hell to multi-head psychedelic washes.
The variations are fantastic - tape age to give darker repeats, wow/flutter for modulated delays, self-oscillation, secondary functions for spring reverb, crinkled tape etc and tap tempo too.
It's great, as it should be at the price. I've spent less on guitars!
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