Roland/Boss RE-20 Space Echo

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Re: Roland/Boss RE-20 Space Echo

Post by mynameisjonas » Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:56 am

this is brilliant! i predict one of these will replace my DMM when the time comes... if they do sound even remotely like the original space echo, that is.

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Re: Roland/Boss RE-20 Space Echo

Post by nealescott » Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:43 am

nice idea, but still, has anybody actually managed to make a digital unit sound and behave anything like a real tape echo??? well, kinda but not exactly.
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Re: Roland/Boss RE-20 Space Echo

Post by tremolite » Sun Jun 03, 2007 1:17 pm

Anyone heard anything new about this?
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Re: Roland/Boss RE-20 Space Echo

Post by hound of winter » Sun Jun 03, 2007 1:35 pm

I've been wanting one since they first got announced at Musikmesse back in March or whenever! They're supposed to come out this month, I can't wait. I know it won't sound exactly like a Space Echo, but the original is so expensive to own/maintain.
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Re: Roland/Boss RE-20 Space Echo

Post by hound of winter » Sun Jun 03, 2007 1:38 pm

tremolite wrote: Anyone heard anything new about this?
More info should come out in the next few weeks. You could give roland a call if you need to know more than that. Be sure to share what you find out with us if you do  8)
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Re: Roland/Boss RE-20 Space Echo

Post by dain » Sun Jun 03, 2007 3:20 pm

i was sent to roland hq for sales training when i used to work for a music store.  i got drunk at a fancy dinner and started yelling
at the suits in charge of marketing.

quite embarrassing but i still stand by my drunken rant. (for the most part):

i'm SOO tired of the same old effects.  flange chorus distortion echo blah blah blah...we're still cloning the effects jimi used in 1969!
THIS IS THE YEAR 2007! get those inventor guys working on something new!  i'm talking psychoacoustic resonators, granilar
synthesis that's actually useable!, synth pedals that can track flawlessly, a box that translates guitar notes into drum sounds... hell
hire me i'll give you something to work on! i'm full of stupid ideas... or at least the drunken version of me is!?

although the other side of the drunken rant was an extended mantra on the coolness of custom colored synths... all i remember
clearly about that night was me slurring into some japanese guys ear "you gotta mmmake a pink keyboard mannnn...ccoomee on
man... be cool...i'm SOO tired of black keyboards..."

i'm just saying you can't expect to keep changing the music world by playing it safe...be brave and stupid!  and make a goddamn
pink keyboard man!

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Re: Roland/Boss RE-20 Space Echo

Post by JazzBlaster » Sun Jun 03, 2007 3:42 pm

The thing is Boss is about familiar sounds and reliablity. There is a reason a Boss pedal costs $100 and a Zvex cost 3x that. Colored synths would be cool tho, I mean the're plastic! How hard could it be?

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Re: Roland/Boss RE-20 Space Echo

Post by hound of winter » Sun Jun 03, 2007 5:40 pm

JazzBlaster wrote: The thing is Boss is about familiar sounds and reliablity. There is a reason a Boss pedal costs $100 and a Zvex cost 3x that. Colored synths would be cool tho, I mean the're plastic! How hard could it be?

David
That's exactly why I only have 2 Boss pedals, and they're for super generic things. One's the SD-1 for overdrive stuff (which I actually like quite a bit), the other is there Line Selector pedal. If I want to get out there, effects-wise, I always go for EHX or some of the smaller pedal makers.
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Re: Roland/Boss RE-20 Space Echo

Post by JazzBlaster » Sun Jun 03, 2007 5:42 pm

hound of winter wrote: That's exactly why I only have 2 Boss pedals, and they're for super generic things. One's the SD-1 for overdrive stuff (which I actually like quite a bit), the other is there Line Selector pedal. If I want to get out there, effects-wise, I always go for EHX or some of the smaller pedal makers.
+1 I don't own any Boss pedals, I am not looking for the tried and true sounds, I want sonic adventures when I pick up my guitar!  8)

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Re: Roland/Boss RE-20 Space Echo

Post by echobaseone » Sun Jun 03, 2007 6:40 pm

I'm quite interested in this pedal too. :?
While I realize that Boss are the Budweiser of pedals, I've got a sh*tload of them and I think the trick is in making them NOT sound like the pedal that everyone owns. It is possible, you know...
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Re: Roland/Boss RE-20 Space Echo

Post by tremolite » Sun Jun 03, 2007 7:57 pm

echobaseone wrote: I'm quite interested in this pedal too. :?
While I realize that Boss are the Budweiser of pedals, I've got a sh*tload of them and I think the trick is in making them NOT sound like the pedal that everyone owns. It is possible, you know...
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Re: Roland/Boss RE-20 Space Echo

Post by Gw10101 » Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:47 am

echobaseone wrote: I'm quite interested in this pedal too. :?
While I realize that Boss are the Budweiser of pedals, I've got a sh*tload of them and I think the trick is in making them NOT sound like the pedal that everyone owns. It is possible, you know...
hahaha! living in St. Louis you have no idea how "true" (pun intended) that statement rings. My LISO's father is an exec @ AB in marketing so i hear about Bud a lot. but yeah, boss as the Anheiser Busch of pedals is an awesome analogy!

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Re: Roland/Boss RE-20 Space Echo

Post by Who Ran The Iron Horse? » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:54 am

I don't think it's happening. No new info has come around for months, and it's supposedly coming out by the end of this month?
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Re: Roland/Boss RE-20 Space Echo

Post by spiffy chap » Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:07 am

Yeah, they have actually been rumored to release this for a while now. It's constantly pushed back.

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Re: Roland/Boss RE-20 Space Echo

Post by brianjdc » Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:59 pm

go sabres!!!!!!!!!!!

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