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Hawk HE-2150A Open Reel Tape Echo
Exceptional condition. Incredible looks, wonderful sound. Excellent working order, serviced and fitted with a new custom tape loop.
If you’re looking for one these get in touch – we see a few a year. And if you’re looking at an unserviced example elsewhere, beware: these are far from easy to restore to perfection. It saddens us to think how many have been picked up by people thinking they were getting a bargain and are now lost somewhere, sounding average…).
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Exceptional condition. Incredible looks, wonderful sound. Excellent working order, serviced and fitted with a new custom tape loop.
Serviced and ready to ship pending final tests.
Description
This example is truly exceptional – we’ve only seen one or two others in comparable condition.
We’ve restored more of these Hawk tape delays (both the mono HE-2150 and the incredible HE-2250) than anyone else. There are no parts available so we have to sacrifice machines in order to fix others like this.
Our BBC-trained engineer Huw and his team (Max, Will and Ryan) are tape experts, and we guarantee that our machines are reliable and sound as good as they can sound, which is very good indeed. (We like them so much we even made a t-shirt featuring one…)
MORE INFO:
Mid-seventies Japanese manufacturer Hawk Technical Works Co Ltd put out a range of tape echoes and spring reverbs branded Hawk/Mirano aimed squarely at domestic home recordists. We were immediately intrigued on first sighting the Hawk HE-2150 open reel style tape echo: even if it sounded bad, it was one of the coolest tape echoes we’d seen. Classic clean seventies hifi styling and backlit vu meter below twin aluminium spools spinning behind the translucent smoked (aubergine!) plastic dust-cover; adds a dose of classic Bond villain lair to any studio…
It doesn’t just look cool: serviced and fitted with new custom tape loops, this five head echo sounds as good as it looks. With three switchable replay heads – Off, Super-Repeat (at 0db), Repeat & Swell (at -6db) – and controls for tape speed, input level (for echo and dry signal), echo level/repeat/tone and master output – this is a full-featured tape echo. The sound is somewhat classier than the contemporary Ace Tone EC-20 – with which it shares a similar feature set – especially when driven into self-oscillation; this is yet another distinct flavour of tape echo – flexible and with a very pleasing sound quality indeed.
We love Hawk machines – read about some of them in our Hawk/Mirano tape echo and spring reverb blog post.
Condition
Stunning. So near mint the “near” seems a bit redundant. See photos for more information on cosmetic condition. There’s a fitted cover that’s not shown in the photos.
Voltage Information
100v Japanese model - it will run on North American mains 115/120v without a transformer (we run all our tests using 120v power); however, a step-down transformer is recommended for extended use. A step-down transformer is required in the UK/EU. We do not recommend using cheap generic Chinese mains transformers and can supply a high quality UK-made unit if required.
Tax
For sales in UK the price will include 20% VAT. Buyers elsewhere may incur VAT or other local taxes on import.
Video Demo
Another of these we had through, with an Elka Drummer One (because why would you not?)
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