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This table provides an overview of your statutory consumer rights, compared with our standard returns policy and optional extended money back guarantee and warranty.
| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 30 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
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Key Features
The SSL Native X-Echo is an echo effects unit inspired by the early tape delay hardware of the 60s and 70s. X-Echo revitalises this classic effect with SSL's signature sound and is brought up-to-date with an intuitive workflow.
Bring the gloriously warm sound of vintage tape to your productions. X-Echo models soft compression, hiss, and tape degradation with meticulous attention to detail. Combined with SSl's renowned saturation and LF/HF EQ, as well as advanced waveform visualisation, built-in 'De-Esser' and delay 'Width' control, X-Echo features a brand-new SSL reverb design that is capable of achieving both subtle and massive spaces all via a single 'Diffusion' control.
Deliver classic tape delay effects like swirling echoes and classic slapback effortlessly. The X-Echo is also capable of contemporary delays, so you can get extremely creative with self-oscillation via 'Feedback' or creative swells via 'Freeze' and 'Kill'.
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At the heart of X-Echo's intuitive design is the visualiser. The visualiser captures up to four seconds of an input signal so that you can see how the waveforms overlap and interact. This is particularly useful when working with transient material like drums and seeing how the delayed signals interact with your original signal. To capture a signal in the visualiser, simply move your DAW playhead to any section of audio and press play.
Offering up to four tape heads that can be switched into the signal path, X-Echo offers plenty of versatility and a varied palette of delay tones. Just like the real thing, these tape heads are at intervals of the main tape head: 3/4, 1/2, and 1/4.
Take direct control over tone with a comprehensive range of parameters, such as 'Wow' and 'Flutter' pitch variation emulating the mechanical components of a tape machine. 'Freeze' the contents of the tape loop causing the signal to repeat and slowly degrade. 'Kill' the input to the tape machine and allow the tail to die off musically. Adjust the number of repeats emulated by the tape machine with 'Feedback'. Feedback greater than 100 causes self-oscillation for the creation of crazy sounds. 'Saturation' introduces analog saturation characteristics such as soft clipping. A single knob de-esser can soften the sibilant frequencies that tape machines commonly accentuate. Switch the tape delay into a true ping-pong mode for stereo space and width. As well as all this X-Echo offers a brand-new reverb design, that lets you blend through different room types and sizes with a 'Diffusion parameter.
There are plenty more tone development parameters to create unique and interesting delay sounds. For example, a simplified EQ and mid-side processor let you carve a space for the delay to sit precisely within your mix by boosting or cutting bass and treble frequencies in your signal. Furthermore, the mid-side processor goes from mono to stereo to super wide.
There are a few ways to control how your delay relates to the timing of your mix. The overall delay of the initial tape head can either be controlled within the visualiser or using the tape speed knob. Furthermore, 'Snap' mode allows you to quickly set the delay time to a time division such as crochet or dotted quaver. Finally, when sync is enabled the BPM of X-Echo follows your DAW.
