The Echo is one of my favourite effect devices in Reason. Both the OVDR (overdrive) and TUBE settings are super useful for adding some analog grit to your sound. The TUBE setting creates a nice and strong EVEN 1st harmonic even when the Drive is at 0.
Check out my video below. You can see how I am not using any Drive on The Echo. I am feeding it a very hot input signal, using two Selig Gain devices. Notice how the peak level stays the same at -9 dB but the overall loudness perception increases when using The Echo. The OVDR setting is more transparent sounding than the TUBE setting which sounds a little more compressed.
UPDATE: You can now download the Combinator patch I have created for this example:
Input Drive (v1) (127.2 KiB, 2,190 hits)
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thank you. it’s one of my most overlooked devices – I’m a creature of habit with the 7k – so this was really helpful.
glad to hear! btw 7k, what is that?
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oh, sorry. I was too lazy to write RV7000. 🙂
aha, yup cool device too 🙂
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Errm tube demo on drums = meh . Can i bravely suggest if you want to show how great a tube effect is try guitar. I’ve yet to hear anything that gets close to a real fed back sustained and distorted via tube sound but id pay well for it.
I have many examples available on my blog which focus on guitar. For example: http://melodiefabriek.com/blog/oh-my-tubeness-amp-in-reason-8-sounds-amazing/ And I have even made my own tube amp simulator: http://melodiefabriek.com/shop/rockmen/
What sounds better is very subjective.
I love using saturation on everything really. Not only on drums, guitars or bass. A trick I’ve learned from Tchad Blake.
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