Product Feature
Roland Tape Echo
We love Roland Space Echoes and Chorus Echoes. We restore, service and sell a lot of Space Echoes every year and never tire of the joy of these incredible machines.
We are tape echo specialists with many decades’ collective experience working with and restoring these machines. We use them daily at work, in our studio, and at home. We have worked on many hundreds of machines encompassing not just Roland, but over 50 other makes and models of echo. These days we tend to focus mostly on Roland, Korg, Binson, Hawk and HH echoes. While our team has extensive knowledge, we are always learning and developing new techniques and modifications… Here’s a gallery of some of the many machines we’ve worked on in the past.
Our tech team is founded on the deep knowledge and experience of our BBC-trained senior engineer Dr. Huw. Huw has decades of experience coaxing the very best from these machines both onstage with the likes of Portishead, Massive Attack, and Robert Plant, and also in the studio. His constant drive to expand our knowledge and understanding has led to us developing our stereo Roland Space Echo RE-402.
Some years back we formed the Soundgas tech department and Dr Huw trained our first echo apprentice, Max Dawson, who is now the head workshop tech. He and Huw have subsequently trained Will Bateman and Ryan Hingley – who both started as apprentices and are now first class Soundgas technicians. Our ongoing research via our experience with hundreds of machines, has lead to many advances and improvements in our knowledge and processes. Soundgas engineers restore all our Roland echoes to as close to (or even beyond) factory spec as possible. Our machines are guaranteed to be the best you’ll hear and also to function reliably for many years: a Soundgas Space Echo is the gold standard in vintage tape echoes.
All Roland Echoes purchased from Soundgas carry our 12-month warranty and lifetime tech support thereafter for the buyer.
Looking for information about echo servicing? We offer limited slots to our mailing list subscribers first – be on the list to find out more.
A few Soundgas Space Echo highlights:
- We’ve supplied Roland and Boss with Space Echoes for exhibitions and shows.
- Dan and Mick of That Pedal Show chose one of our RE-201s for their own studio collection.
- The BBC hired six of our RE-201s for the Proms’ television performance of Daphne Oram’s ‘Still Point‘ featuring turntablist Shiva Feshareki at the Royal Albert Hall.
- We’ve serviced and supplied machines for many top artists and bands including Red Hot Chili Peppers, Arctic Monkeys and Sunn O))).
See our Instagram Live Q&A on Space Echoes.
Echoes Available Now
These are just what we have listed today. We have may have more machines being serviced (some sell on preorder). If you don’t see what you need here then get in touch now to discuss your requirements.