TE-2 Tera Echo Pedal Review

Tera Echo

One of the coolest pedals I own, such a beautiful sound

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Jim Henson Sounds

It's like putting your bass through the Dark Crystal, full of little, shattered highs and deep, welling lows.

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Creative, ambient effect pedal with BOSS-patented execution

I ignored the BOSS Tera Echo for years upon its release (and so did much of the buying public, based on the lukewarm hype), but that was a mistake. I'm not sure what BOSS could have done to better explain what this pedal is and what it does, but it really isn't an "echo" or "delay" pedal in the traditional sense of the word at all. Rather, it combines elements of "reverb", "delay",… read more and "modulation" for a unique, ambient effect that can be both traditional or wildly exotic, depending on settings. There really is no control for "time" of repeats, as these behave more like reverberations bouncing off of walls in some logarithmic fashion. With the effect level and "S-Time" controls set modestly, you can an almost vintage slapback effect. With higher settings, there is almost a sci-fi like modulated echo effect, which sounds like it has elements of flanger in there. This is particularly noticeable if you dig in on a rake or palm muted note. In fact, pretty much everything the Tera Echo does responds dynamically to pick attack. As if that wasn't interesting enough, BOSS threw in the "easter egg" of a sample and hold mode. Strum a chord while pressing and holding the pedal - the Tera Echo will grab the notes and continue playing back the reverberated portion of that note in a sort of loop or pad. You can then continue to play over that (as the LED alternates red and green), and the new notes will also have the Tera Echo effect applied. It's an amazing cool and inspiring feature that was sparsely even mentioned in the pedal's manual, if at all. There's a lot of avant garde delay options on the market, especially if you want to spend some money. I like the Tera Echo because it offers tried-and-trusted BOSS durability, and covers a wide sampling of reverberated sounds - ranging from the traditional to interstellar.

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LET'S GO SURFIN' NOW!

Oh man, I hear the great Dick Dale sounds all over this baby, (& he's still playin' em' today at age 79)! This pedal produces such a wide variety of echo, reverb, & delay combo sounds, that you're just not gonna believe it! And, talkin' about disbelief, just wait until you hear what you can do with the chord freeze feature! Rather than ME describing this to you, you'd be best… read more served by watching the Sweetwater demo video on this. As I've written so many times over the past few years, MIKE SOPER is a FANTASTIC sales engineer, as well as a super-friendly & most-caring customer advocate! He will always treat you right in assisting you with the gear you want (i.e., you NEED, you MUST HAVE; Come on guys, let's admit it), & he'll spend all the time needed to answer your questions, to explain technical info., etc.! For example, in this case, I am new to the pedal world, and I bought several other effects pedals along with this one. I also bought a pedal board. Mike gave me step-by-step directions on how to connect the different cables to where, & he even advised me as to the best order of which pedal should go 1st, 2nd,3rd, and so on! As a result of Mike's great knowledge & advice, I am having a freakin' ball playin' my electrics with my effects pedals! When you buy from Sweetwater (the ONLY place from where to buy), do yourself a big favor, and ask for MIKE SOPER at Extension 1342. You will be extemely happy with the results!

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