Klemt Echolette 5 Vintage Tape Echo - Used
$799.00
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This vintage Klemt Echolette will ship insured and inspected from our Rapid City, SD location. This echo machine is in good condition. Works well and comes with extra tapes, a 3-pin cable, and the original power cord! It is missing the factory cover for the top. There is a loose potentiometer on the inside of the casing. Adjusting this potentiometer does not seem to produce an effect. It doesn’t appear that anything else has been modded. The dry signal doesn’t come through when playing. Not able to get sound of out of input 1, but input 2 has some great fuzzy tone to it and input 3 has a really cool sound through it as well.
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This is German engineering at its finest. This piece of history comes from West Germany and are a pretty rare find on the market, a true collector's item.
The Echolette has its origins with Radio Klempt, a company founded in Olching, near Munich, by Arthur Klemt in the 1930s, to provide sales, repair, and maintenance of radios and, later, television sets. In the mid 1950s, an orchestra musician named Hans Bauer began producing vocal and instrument amplifiers for Klemt, and in 1959 he established Echolette as the products’ trademark. The Beatles, who launched their career on several residencies playing in Hamburg, Germany, were photographed using an Echolette S NG51 onstage and in the studio in the early years, and Jeff Beck likewise adopted this Teutonic delay.
This all tube tape echo is a highly prized echo/reverb and valve preamp/signal booster, known as the ‘Gold Box’ .The Echolette S NG51 works much like other popular tape echoes of the era, though it’s an original interpretation of the device, rather than a direct copy of any one rival. As on competing units, echo is enabled by a continuous loop of recording tape that cycles around a record head, erase head, and three playback heads to produce delays of varying lengths, which can be further adjusted for length, repeats, and intensity using the several front-panel controls.
The deep, hypnotic sound of the echoes this thing can generate makes this piece a must have!
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