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Nearly a decade on from its original release, Soundtoys’ EchoBoy plugin remains one of the most popular delay effects on the market. It’s a plugin that manages to combine flexibility and depth with a user-friendly interface. The main plugin window keeps things simple, with just the most important controls visible, ensuring that you can get good, quick results without being overwhelmed by options. It’s only when you hit the Tweak or Style Edit buttons that the more advanced parameters pop up.
The latter is where the real genius of EchoBoy lies. Under the Style menu you’ll find presets based on dozens of classic echo units, from tape-based Roland Space Echos to bucket brigade stompboxes. Each one loads up a combination of EQ, dynamic filters, saturation, diffusion and wobble settings, which can be customised further from within the Style Edit view. The result is a plugin that can cover a huge range of sounds, from clean and bright to dark and veiled. It’s not a stretch to say that EchoBoy is the kind of plugin that you can use on absolutely any type of sound. If you can’t find a setting that works, you’re not trying hard enough.
If we had to pick just one plugin on this list, EchoBoy would be a strong contender. A true all-rounder that always comes up with great results.
09.00 AM
I always loved Nomad Factory’s “Echoes”. Just a beautiful sounding bit of kit. Fxpansion’s “Bloom” is equally lovely, just ridiculously complex with it.
Love it that there’s a shout out for “Ratshack Reverb” too. I put that on so many of my tracks, I think I need an intervention….
09.48 AM
I was just about to question the lack of UAD Space Echo, then I noticed they’ve discontinued it. Anyone know what’s happened there? Looks like Roland have withdrawn the licences for Roland emulations or something? I’m guessing they’re going to release plugins of their own…
06.07 PM
Also missing Valhalla Ubermod, more than just delay. I didn’t know about the UVI one, seems great.
02.14 AM
Echoboy is incredible, definitely one of my desert island plugins. I lot of the time I don’t even use it as a delay, turning the echo time to 0ms and tweaking the saturation settings to get awesome lo-fi tape warmth and wobble. Echoboy is more than a plugin, its an instrument.
11.52 PM
Wow you’re right Spicer, good thing I finally just purchased it a couple weeks ago when it was on sale.
11.59 PM
Hey Spicer there is an emulation of the space echo in NI Guitar Rig that has a great vibe.
Gotta say the Waves J37 is my all time fave tape delay in the box.
02.07 PM
The PSP 42 isn’t actually endorsed by Lexicon. There is a post on a well known forum where one of their engineers said he relayed that he didn’t think it sounded that close. But the next thing he knew PSP was marketing it as such.
12.44 PM
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04.35 AM
This seems ridiculous to split up an article into 11 pages. Does anyone actually like clicking through to the next page 10 times?
10.54 AM
more page vieuw but less readers