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The Best Echorec-Style Delay Pedal? [Both Boonars, T-Rex, Catalinbread & Strymon]
Published 5 September 2025
Duration:
00:43:20
Dawner Prince's valve beauty vs the best of the rest
Welcome to the show! The sublime and wonderful Binson Echorec devices have underpinned some of the greatest sounds ever in rock guitar (looking at you for starters, David Gilmour). Over the last decade or so, more and more Echorec-style delay pedals have been released, the latest of which is the Dawner Prince Electronics Boonar Tube Deluxe. It’s high time them, we put it next to our other faves and hear what’s what. No real Echorec today - ours is a bit sick!
Please enjoy the show, and let us know which one you’d choose!
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Interesting bits and go to sections…
0:00 Intro playing & hello
2:02 What is an Echorec?
3:35 Today’s pedals
4:20 Big Boonar & Little Boonar
4:55 Explanation of the Echorec heads
6:10 Repeats and swell mode
9:10 Small & Big Boonar comparison
12:07 Big Boonar definitely boosts
12:39 Big Boonar input control
13:20 Big Boonar max delay time
15:30 T-Rex Binson Echorec
16:35 Binson is noisy… sounds magic
20:00 Preamps, bypass, on and off
22:50 T-Rex or Big Boonar?
24:22 Catalinbread Echorec & Little Boonar
26:05 Catalinbread & T-Rex comparison
29:20 Strymon Volante
32:57 Randomly comparing all pedals
36:30 All on!
37:45 No reverb!
38:00 Closing thoughts
Pedals & stuff in today’s show
• TheGigRig Three2One
• Sonic Research ST-200 Turbo Tuner
• Origin Effects Halcyon Gold Overdrive
• T-Rex Benson Echorec
• Dawner Prince Electronics Boonar
• Dawner Prince Electronics Boonar Tube Deluxe
• Catalinbread Echorec
• Strymon Volante
• TheGigRig G3
Amps & cabs
• Laney LA30BL & Laney LA212 cabinet with Celestion G12 Greenback speakers
• Marshall 1987x and Brown 2x12 with 1 x Celestion G12-65 and 1 x WGS ET65 speakers
Guitars in today’s video
• Fender Custom Shop ’62 Stratocaster - video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOMHUQeHGRQ
• Fender Custom Shop ’63 Telecaster - Dan’s video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnQ4OIJFTgY
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