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Has anyone purchased one of these ?? if so , what is your opinions, or have you heard someone play live using one, they seem to have some useful
delays/echoes in there adverts, my apologise if this has been asked before.
Cheers
Colin

Tried it out and although the sounds are in there somewhere I rejected it as too fiddly.

Can recommend the Catalinbread Echorec as a better buy, even more so the eTap2 HW.

I kind of guessed that it may be a bit on the fiddly side, and it can be very frustrating when you seem to try and get a sound that's familiar in your head with other echo boxes..too many buttons = too much messing. I am after a peddle that will do more of hanks modern tones, than vintage ones, it would be nice to achieve both, I have checked out the catlin website, but its hard to make comparisons, as they demo more of the adverse delays -- than us shads fans associate with, but it does help, not checked the e2tap yet, but thank you Dave for your valid opinion...I think sometimes its jump in and try .

I couldn't possibly do a gig with the Vox Delay Lab because it takes too long to find the correct echo patterns - a nightmare situation on stage.

By comparison, the Catalinbread and eTap2HW take seconds to set up.

I have one ,the sounds are great but you really have to work on them to tweak them to your preferred sound. The user manual is not very good ,you really have to study it to find out how to use the unit. The other downside is the inability to quickly review your patches. If you intend using it on stage the only indication of what your setting is by the saved patch position 1a, 1b, 1c and so on up to 10c. So you are going to need to memorise up to 30 setting locations. It is a steep learning curve. It is a good unit for the price I paid $AU266 for mine.

Martin

So Dave, may I ask if the catlin is noisey, what I mean by that , is when used at home, in close contact, would it be noticeable when recording.. obviously used in live situations it is irrelevant, and also it has 12 programmes can these be used as preset settings ? or are they part of the selectable types, I really fancy one of these and its good to get some first hand opinions first...many thanks