I love how it’s almost like an instrument in itself. Sounds so sweet. Great show as usual.

That SH-101 sounds so amazing. There is a reason it is so loved by many.

Best explanation I have ever heard for the heads on a tape echo.

Man, you get it. Too many people get caught up in the “authenticity” and “original sound” when the reality is that vintage gear requires a lot of work/$ to keep running. It’s great for musicians who appreciate history and the magic of old tech, but it’s DEFINITELY not always going to be superior in terms of sound and practicality. Great demo.

Yeah fair enough send it my way

One thing they absolutely nailed is how it looks, with the shape of a CE-1 and the colours and styling of an RE-201. Then they packed it to the brim with features giving pedals like the Volante a run for their money, including stereo operation. Nice to hear a demo with analog synths. Thanks.

The feedback peaks and distortion sounds so nice on the 201. Never heard one with an SH 101 before. So many lovely sounds.

I skipped to the 20min mark but the vintage has a dead giveaway, the pitch wobble. That and the EQing/high roll off being accented as the repeats continues. Otherwise they sounded close. Those difference is neither good nor bad by the way

The last Roland space echo pedal was also amazing. Nice to see people coming around on these. They’re amazing sounding pedals.

Your RE-201 sounds better to my ears. It has an analogue "fragility" characteristic that the digital version does not. This makes it more "human", IMO. I hope you can hang on to it. Cheers. 🙂

The Roland RE-201 is the sole Roland instrument I sold. I had the late 1984 model and it was build like a tank. I used it before the Ebay times where you can buy tape loops online but, back in the day, you had to make them yourself by using a magnifying glass. The RE-201 needs a bit of maintenance, also. A bit of oil here and there and don't use cheap oil for that. In addition, it needs a reel to reel tape which is not available anymore, unless you take your time to find it. Mind you, it's always NOS. I used a Maxell tape back then. It's too much of a hassle to own, but then you have... the Boss RE-202. No more maintenance or tape looping anymore. Add to that, when the tape on a RE-201 got worn down, it sounded great. Until it broke. If you'd replace the tape, the RE-201 sounded differently. But, it's taken into account in the RE-202. You can switch between the old and new tape. How cool is that?

Wow, Boss knows your a “ influencer” now , 😊 well done....This sounds great!! & an excellent move by Roland. I really love its look as as well ( shame they didn’t squeeze a little VU meter on it☺️). Never could afford an original so this is close to an Insta-buy for me.

@36:45 aww man wish you did the whole thing with the Juno-106 🙈🙏🏻

i grabbed this because i love my original ce-1’s enclosure and i love the re-201 (but probably could never afford one now). glad to see someone who totally gets it. there really isn’t enough difference to me to make the vintage unit’s differences a dealbreaker

The old Roland have this magic with the tape heads , it’s something magic and its age also…then for those who can’t afford , the Boss does quite good job in this range of product…

Thanks for the fixed heads crash course ! Sure it helped. 😊First time for me I understand the principle of how it works : a great day for me.

Thanks for this demo! You do really great work my brother. Love the long form demos. Keep rockin’

I love how the new version looks somehow vintage

Thanks. You've sold me. Back in the eighties I ran a stereo sound system for my duo ( Keys / Drums / Vocals ). I had two Roland RE 301 Chorus echos that i used for stereo delay. Excellent sound. I've tried a host of different delays and reverb units, but haven't been really satisfied. But this RE202 might do.

Your videos are always a highlight of a day. Thank you!

Yeah, your 201 has a LOT of wow, so it was easy to hear the difference. But the 202 does sound good and authentic.

As usual, excellent video, Jorb! I very much appreciate both the comparison to the 201 and also the reasoned perspective on their similarities, differences, and applications

I liked my 202 until I heard your 201. There’s an eq thing with the repeats that is just magical

I’m activated. I was already eyeing up either this or the Strymon Volante. The space echo sound is so recognizable.

Great comparison! I love my El Cap pedal for live shows and the UAD plugin in the studio. To me, the sound of the boss pedal doesn't "inspire" me as much as your vintage unit (which I wish I owned) or the UAD plugin, but I think it's fine for live shows if you like the configuration of the RE-202.

I’ve had a few “real tape units” (RE-201, RE-501, Fulltone, a mess of reel tape machines) and a few digital emulations in hardware. My personal all-time favorite is actually the one in the vintage 90’s Roland SP-808! The box is worth it for that preset alone IMO.

In the past I have extensively used an RE-201, and to me it's clearly a more interesting and organic sound. Mind you, the one that I used was nearly new and with a new tape loop. Once a real tape machine becomes worn though, you are pretty limited in what you can use it on and how much you can mix in - unless you are doing scary sci - fi.

Your 201 motor needs new bearings by the sounds of it but i love the modulation :D

i could be happy with either, and only comparing them would I feel the Boss pedal didn't match up. And I do always prefer and notice the old gear to be better. But when you have a lot of it ...one does notice that its a total pain in the ass to use in lots of cases. so its better to pick and choose when to take a modern repro and when to take an old gear. In the case of this echo I passed on the old Roland one and am excited to get the Boss one. But I prefer the Roland original for sound.

Have you heard/ checked out the Echo Fix EF-2? This dude in Australia who used to repair roland space echos and similar machines for years decided to improve upon the original design and correct some design issues that would usually lead to the units’ failure, and decided to sell them. It’s a bit out of my price range (I’ve been eyeing the t-Rex replicator jr) but I think you’d be very interested in checking it out, reading about the story behind it.

This channel is so rad, thanks for doing simple straight ahead dives into stuff, Jorb:)

for those of us lusting after the original, much appreciated, prob go grab one...

Thank you for the physical crash course on tape delay heads. Awesome simple explanation. Don’t quite understand feedback intensity when you said each head somehow picks up the others but maybe it’s multiple heads activated at once? Fantastic content man.

Sounds glorious on that juno!

I have the Arturia emulation and love to use it, even though I have no idea if it's a good emulation or not. Can only imagine how great a real one must sound up close.

If you are KZfaq demoing the RE-202 and have a SH101 lying around, it’s obligatory to use the the SH. (I did too-secretly 😉)

Everyone cries about the reverb on space echo...they're not understanding it's not meant to be a standalone...it's magic is how it interacts with the delay. It's speciyfy made for that and it's where the magic of space echo comes from. It's kinda obvious, no?

I have a volante and it's great but Honestly this is appealing for its simplicity

Excellent demo. It looks very fun to play.

My re301s motor died in 2009, I certainly miss it, but would rather deal with a contemporary pedal and not needing to hunt down parts. That said, I do like watching the tape move on the originals, lol

34:33 This is a great comparison. Awesome vid!

Still waiting for mine, was looking forward to your review :)

I likewise love this pedal, been using it quite a bit lately. Personally the *only* thing I wish could be changed (for my part, on the compact version) is a minor UI tweak: the 11 modes are kind of silly, I'd rather just have the reverb level reducible to zero and either 3 more on/offs for the heads, or a direct binary->head configuration switch (for 3 heads, you only need 7 options for that: 001, 010, 011, 100, 101, 110, 111. Label that in the documentation, but following binary makes it predictable.). That isn't the vintage gear, of course, but oh man it would make it so much easier for someone coming to this as a modern user.

Boss Re-20 and Strymon BlueSky are my fav pedals on Subsequent37.

I have an HH multi tap tape echo machine and a Roland mc202. I will try some of this stuff using them :)

So interesting…….🤩 Thanks for the video mate Big salut from France, ViNZ.

hey man you're doing a great jorb. i'm proud of you. Coach Z even moreso!

Nice video mr.Jorb I am considering getting a the RE-2 pedal :)

Don’t be ashamed to market your merch man? You deserve money and your merch is dope

Imagine if, with future firmware updates we'd get a chorus option as well, turning it into a RE-502 effectively 🤔

"This video will be very detailed and very long" oh god yes🤤🙌

Last week I could buy the only RE-202 available in Berlin but I decided to purchase the good old Eventide Space instead.

It's so obvious when you are listening to the pitch shift. I wish the 202 shifted pitch more

RE-201 has a ghost inside it

Much prefer the decay on the original. Great video!

Trying to decide whether to sell my Volante for this. I absolutely LOVE the Volante, just getting a little bored with looking at it. Haha

Talk about in depth! Thanks for sharing.

Okay now we need a echoplex vs space echo which is for you haha

Great review!

WOW! RE-201 is soooooooooo sweet!

I think the reverb would benefit from being before the EQ or having its own EQ. I also don't like that it is just high springy.

i want one:) thx for the review

Sounds great!

Love your demo. I want one! Subbed

pitch wobble on 201 is sweet

Do you, or anyone else here, find this to be a major improvement to something like the El Capistan? Because I’m not sure I hear it to be that superior. Especially in the context of a band. But don’t get me wrong, it does sound good.

I really want this channel to blow up

I'll take it

Hey jorb sweetwater leaked the Juno x, Jupiter x but in the body of a Juno! It's 800 bucks cheaper and comes with a Juno 60 model instead of 106. Thoughts? Also looks like it comes with the jd800 of expansion

Have you checked out the NuX Tape Core? Pretty solid clone in a smaller enclosure than the RE-201

Great video man!

I will be hoping someone gets me an RE-202 for a birthday gift, and if they do I will place a googley-eye on the head selector knob too. Perfect.

Hey bro. Good work on the demo. You'd be stoked that Roland sent you that i bet! Awesome. The re202 is a step up from the re20 (which everyone seems to have forgotten). I LOVE tape echo (dubtechno fan). The question is; what do i do with my re20 when i get the re202? Echo through echo? Kudos.

Great video as always Jorb! If you had to choose one (tapeless) tape delay, would you go with this, the Strymon Volante or something else? What’s your current favorite?

Yo Jorb, if you're not using the old one, i'd be happy to like, you know, take it off your hands. Just to help you out of course

there's an iPhone app called: K7D that is the closest thing to a "space echo" sort of thing it's not quite an emulation of tape, but if you buy a TRRS 1/4" cable, you have an old iPhone with 1/4" jacks and it's better than a LOT of digital pedals....

wow I didn't even realize they were making that!

It appears, under firmware 1.10, that it is now possible to modify twist.

Volante v. RE202, any thoughts? I'm leaning Volante as I also play guitar for my music and I'm really more of a fan of the echorec/echoplex than the Space Echo. But curious if you have any thoughts Jorb. Used Volantes rune $330-350, RE-202's are $400 new (same price as a new Volante). Both have midi.

Would love online with the same old form factor 🎉

Great Video

Love the RE-20 but this has memory slots .. Over Priced with subtle differences .. Space echo keeps on slipping tripping into the future . .. .... ....... ............

Beside the headroom differences since this can take line level, is there a real sound difference between it and the RE-20?

Hey Jorb! Could you elaborate a little more on the preservation of the stereo image? I'm thinking about upgradin to the RE-202 from my Strymon El Capistan (v1). I use it a lot on my analog dj mixer with send/return system and although I've set it to stereo internally, it seems like in the actual echo signal, L & R are somewhat mixed together in a "stereo soup" so to speak. Sounds great on its own, but my old Boss RE-20 on the other hand was absolutely stereo: sounds playing through the left input would only echo through the left output and vice versa... is this the same on the new RE-202? Thanks a lot!

Strymon Volante fills this void really well too (I think the Strymon is better).

the funky T ripped from the 101 manual is a great idea. (I love repurposing images/text from old consumer and professional electronics manuals.) does the manual actually have "(funky)" written in romaji beneath the katakana? just my opinion, but I'd prefer if it was just the kana... first question I had when I saw the 202: the Treble and Bass EQ - are those Baxendall or Hi/Lo Shelf curves? RE:Reverb (Spring) the RE-201 never had a great tank in it to begin with, in my opinion. not useless, but fairly short springs (how many, in your original?) and monophonic, so limited to say the least. additionally, digital models of mechanical reverbs rarely do their respective inspirations justice. according to the good people at Rare Signals, maker of the Transatlantic Plate plugin, this is partially due to the digital signal processing used to manipulate the impulse responses (presumably referring to such emulation plugins which utilize convolution in their modeling) to truncate reverb tails for the benefit of sound design flexibility in deference to user preference. on top of all that, many of the seminal and "classic" sounds in our collective memory that associate the RE-201 and its siblings with spring reverb stem from records (Tubby, Scientist, Prince Jammy, Scratch, Mad Prof., Coxonne Dodd, etc.) that substituted a Grampion or similar unit with much larger tank/springs/stereo signal processing for the internal spring of the Space Echo. years ago I regrettably passed on the opportunity to purchase a clean 201 for about $400, and have never owned one, so take my point of view with a grain of salt and FYI, my points of reference for the Space Echo specifically are essentially Dub records and digital emulations such as Arturia's plugin. and when I use such a digital recreation, I only apply like 1-5% of the total range of the reverb setting. sometimes I'll put it on a bus at 20-100% wet reverb only, and then place another reverb type (or two - algorithmic, plate, etc.) in the effects bus chain before/after/around the 201 spring.

I have the RE-20. :)

Damn it... another item added to the GAS list.

Could dry ice cool down the moving parts of a space echo? and if so would it make the machine more versatile? (i could repeatedly twirl around the repeat rate knob). I had way too much fun doing that, because of the pitch shifting and delay at the same time. Nowadays it can’t really oscillate as well as it used to.

Ever use the tape delay emulation in Logic? I find it impressive, but then I've never used an actual tape delay machine.

Jorb, could you recommend a good electric keyboard that has a pretty close Rhode’s 71 sound-or just one that has a good low end? My local used scene is so dry and I am broke haha so like under $300 Oh and maybe like 66 keys?

202: really good 201: outstanding Starlight+GenerationLoss2 = epic

why is the keybed missing on your ESQ-1 in the background?

What after tapping, the repeats don't go through reverb?

Does this have a midi or temp synch?

Watching this at 22:22...cue theremin solo

Everything sounds better with googly eyes. It’s a fact.

Do you think it has the same algorithm that’s in Roland workstations and groove boxes ? It has all the same parameters.

You know what this is

Jorb, did you hear about the JunoX??