Fulltone Tape Delay SS ETC-1

The Fulltone Tape Delay SS ETC-1 is an analog delay pedal in the delay family from Fulltone, and its effect type is tape echo delay. Rather than modeling a tape machine in circuitry, it uses a real tape transport path and tape cartridge, and RockBoard's PedalPedia describes it as delivering "authentic tape echo"¹.

Circuit and lineage

The SS ETC-1 is an analog circuit¹. Fulltone places it in the tape echo lineage, and the maker also builds a tube-based sibling, the Fulltone Tube Tape Echo, along with the Fulltone Solid State Tape Echo.

How it sounds, by the maker's account

Fulltone's own description centers on noise and rebuild quality: "It's dead-quiet, and they've completely re-vamped the electronics, the tape transport path, and even the tape cartridge"¹. For a player, that matters because vintage tape echoes are often noisy and maintenance-heavy; the maker's claim here is that the ETC-1 keeps the tape echo character while addressing the electronics, the tape path and the cartridge itself.

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