I’d like an updated Mother of All Effects thread. Boss CE-1, Echoplex, Binson Echorec, TC1210, etc.
Trick with things like a Echorec is that there are a lot of different sounds based on different settings.
All 4 heads active vs swell mode, the sound of just 1 Head vs head 1+2 vs head 2+3, and then how you have the tone knob set and it’s relation to the delay time, which head your using etc
I had a Dawner Prince Boonar and a CB Echorec, and I could dial in a very similar sound (swell mode on the Boonar is tricky though) for a given setting of the pedal, but if I changed the heads, changed the level of the repeats, changed the drum age setting, it would sound totally different, and there wasn’t just a one to one parameter tweak in the Axe to account for.
Essentially I could say I matched it based upon how I sent my hardware pedal, but if you used your hardware pedal differently, you’d say my settings don’t sound at all like your pedal.
If there was a way to make, say a tone knob, only affect from X freq to Y freq, it could closer match knob settings of a pedal, and have more of a 1:1 tweaking ability, but, in the Axe the knob might have twice the range, so setting it to 8 virtually doesn’t sound like setting the real deal to 8, you actually want to set the Axe between only 1-4 to match the range of 1-10, so on and so forth.
Net result is that it’s hard to match a given pedal and have it cover the same range of sounds as the hardware it’s based on. You can really only match the sound of a specific setting, and you have to hope that it’s the same settings most users would want.
Sometimes there are popular ones, like minimum gain, tone and volume at noon on a Klon, but other stuff is totally different with 10 different users liking 10 different variations of mix, depth and speed on a chorus.