The 1U package is mains powered, with the rear‑panel stereo ins and outs on both balanced jacks and XLRs, though you can use the unit in mono if you prefer. Actually, you have to play a bar ahead of the sound, but the effect is fantastic! The only downside of the rack format is that you can't control the looping from footswitches unless you have a suitable MIDI controller or a set of MIDI bass pedals. On top of all that, the Reverse program lets you play genuine reversed guitar parts in (almost) real time. The loop can be started and stopped at any time and a separate echo/delay function can add delays of up to 800mS to the material being looped, with or without adjustable pitch modulation. Using the front‑panel buttons or external MIDI controllers, a loop can be recorded, replayed, overdubbed, doubled or halved in speed, or even played in reverse. In addition to the delay programs, there's a loop sampler capable of up to 60 seconds of loop time. To create the Echo Pro, the designers analysed original hardware echo boxes, then attempted to recreate such factors as wow and flutter, distortion and high‑end loss to get their models to sound like the real thing, but without the hiss. Tempo sync is achieved by setting a note value, after which the delay can be locked to MIDI Clock.
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Echo Pro programs can be mapped to specific MIDI Program Change messages and virtually any Echo Pro parameter can be mapped to any available MIDI Continuous Controller. MIDI may also be used to change programs and parameters, as well as for controlling tempo.
The new Echo Pro rackmount model offers virtually all the features of the pedal version, but with a better user interface, 99 programs, stereo balanced ins and outs and MIDI, including MIDI control over the unit's loop record/playback functions.
In SOS March 2000, I reviewed the Line 6 Delay Modeler stomp box which uses physical modelling to very effectively recreate the sound of vintage tape, magnetic disk, analogue delay and digital delay boxes. Line 6's acclaimed Delay Modeler pedal gets a rackmount makeover.
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