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A Watkins IC300 Copicat has just sold on E-bay for£133.00 with 24 bids.
To quote from description " this is a very cool piece of gear for those Pink Floyd/
Syd Barret/Psychedelic sounds that can only be achieved by tape loops I.E 4 inputs
to create some real walls of sound!!!
Hmm far out man!! but knowing the units limitations I can't see it producing "That
Sound" for Arnold, See Emily Play etc, but then again?

Mike

As far as I know, Pink Floyd mostly used Binson echo units...

Didier

Didier wrote:As far as I know, Pink Floyd mostly used Binson echo units...
Didier

My direct experience is that a WEM Copicat is at least as good as a Binson .

JN

David Gilmour's early gear did indeed include the Binson Echorec II
His early guitars were mainly Telecasters , and his amps were Selmer, he also used a Vox Wha and the Arbiter Fuzz Face pedals .

Hope this helps ,

Regards
Dave

JimN wrote:

Didier wrote:As far as I know, Pink Floyd mostly used Binson echo units...
Didier

My direct experience is that a WEM Copicat is at least as good as a Binson .

JN

Me too, I've had 3 Copicats and 2 Binsons in my time.
The echos on both Binsons was very distorted.

JimN wrote:

Didier wrote:As far as I know, Pink Floyd mostly used Binson echo units...
Didier

My direct experience is that a WEM Copicat is at least as good as a Binson .

JN

I don't know what gear Pink Floyd used in their early years, but on the film "Live at Pompeii" shot in 1971, you can see and hear the Binson they used.
In recent years David Gilmour used digital echo units, but on his "Remember that night" DVD filmed in 2006 at the Royal Albert Hall, you can see the late Rick Wright still having a Binson...

Didier

ecca wrote:The echos on both Binsons was very distorted.

So they were on Meazzi, that was fully part of their sound !

Didier

A Mark IV Copycat (varispeed i think?) sold last night on Ebay for£200.00 Quite a few
others listed at present at varying prices!!

Mike

For info...

http://www.gilmourish.com/?page_id=74

Best,

Tony

Didier wrote:

ecca wrote:The echos on both Binsons was very distorted.

So they were on Meazzi, that was fully part of their sound !

Didier

You're correct Didier , I try to introduce distortion when setting an echo up in machines like a Q20 but
the Binsons were way too distorted for me. Horrible.