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Although my interest waned when finding various threads on users' problems and how they were treated by Fulltone customer service....
My RE-201 is out of action at the moment - it needs new tape, a head clean and demag. That's just how it goes with tape echo.
woukd love to hear from anyone who has one, as the preamp alone sounds fantastic.
Assuming that you're not going to be reliant on Fulltone given either the geography or their Jeckyll and Hyde customer service, is it even possible to find people capable of servicing this kind of gear these days?
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
But the size and weight of the sste is a no brainer, and no tubes to maintain.
Would love an SSTE but really cannot justify...
I do tend to flip stuff I suppose !!
Well, I played a Fulltone TTE today at Hotrox (excellent service and lovely chaps, by the way).
Hmmm, ok it wasnt through the greatest amp (a Fender Concert) but I was a little underwhelmed. The unit itself is gorgeous and you just WANT to own it, but at £1500, it has got to blow your balls off.
It didn't.
Very nice, lovely tape and tube sounds. The 'sound on sound' was lovely.
It was all a bit too 'subtle'; maybe the vivd modern digital delays have spoilt my pallet... I dunno...
I did play the T Rex Replicator and that was VERY nice. A bit more plastic, and a lot noisy (the actual mechanism) but an almost endless array of sounds and options.
Food for thought...
Perhaps you have been spoiled. You're paying for the technology and the complex build - not the sound. So if you don't dig it, stick to the digital emulations that sound different but maybe better.
I don't think I've ever played through a tape delay. I'd like to, but for that money I'd get a vintage one overhauled. And a dd-2.
@thorpyfx that's interesting but @gassage has suggested this already and we can't justify his HiWatt obsession any further!
maybe be time to start looking out for one...