Rockman Stereo Echo

Extremely easy to use it has preamp gain (so do almost all rockmodules), delay time (from 75ms to 500ms), feedback/repeats (from 1 to 16~), panning selection (<main>/<echo>, <main/echo>, >main</<echo>), and echo volume (L/R from -10 to 0).

The Sound quality is incredible. What I love to do is put it on 16 repeats, play a bunch of stuff, then play with the delay time while it is still repeating. It sounds like star wars sweeeeeeeet. Very warm sound and works great with or without all of the rockmodules.

I have said this in all of my other reviews of Rockman Gear. It is a Rockman you can't get more reliable.

Rockman is owned by Dunlop not SR&D which means they don't make the rockmodules anymore. You can get photocopy versions of the manuals and will refurbish your rockmodule for $50 and it will be worked on by people that worked with the original engineers at SR&D. It will also have Factory A provisions to it.

All of the rockmodules are reliable, great sounding, and easy to use. They are only expensive and hard to find. If you see this for under $100 on a website or at a local music store for godsakes please pick one up for me.

This is easy to understand. I didn't get a manual with this, but it is so easy to use that you don't need one. It has an input jack for mono or stereo (L & R) and it has the same setup for output, so you can run it in STEREO IN/OUT MONO IN/STEREO OUT MOMO IN/OUT. It will drive a line input or an amp. It's very versatile and it is dead quiet on all settings. Even running a noisy signal nto it, it seems to quiet it down some. The input has a preamp and you can adjust the amount of gain. There are sliders for delay time, repeats and effect level for L&R channels. Connections are easy, setting it up for a great sound is easy. It's very easy to figure it out.

I bought this for a recording studio setup. It is great for that. It has three settings for panning the sound in stereo and it is great for running a rhythm track down the edges of a stereo image. It works great with my other gear, which is an ART SGX 2000 and a Carvin Quad X. I don't use the ART for the preamp, just for the effects. The Carvin is awesome. Using the ROCKMAN in the stereo loop of the SGX gives me the ability to delay the time based effects in a way that is hard to describe. It's like I can get the chorus, flange, phasor and even delay to swirl in a 360 degree arc, within the soundfield. I've heard lots of stories about ROCKMAN echo units being in the mixdown paths of a lot of famous guitar players and I can see why. This is an amazing unit. I am using a 70's Les Paul and a Mexican Strat , mostly. I've played a ES 335 through it too. It doesn't change the sound of the instrument at all. For slapback in stereo, this is the bomb!
As far as live performance is concerned, you can hook anything to it in front of an amp or in a loop. Either way it sounds great. I've played it in front of a Hot Rod Deville and a Pro Jr. Performed flawlessly, very quiet. It's been in the loop of the Carvin and the ART units. No problems at all.

I've only had it for two months. I've used it a lot and have had it "on" for hours and hours at a time. It doesn't get hot or anything. There is an LED that blinks to the tempo of one channel's delay, which is a cool feature and it has a "clipping" LED. There doesn't seem to be a lot of complicated stuff to go wron, really. Everything seems to be built right. I think I would gig w/o a backup. Mostly, it's going to stay home, though.

I called DUNLOP to see about a manual. Forget it. ROCKMAN isn't around anymore.

I play 70's rock, Deep Purple, Ted Nugent, the Cars, Zep, EVH stuff, some glam rock and rockabilly. This unit goes well with all styles. I've been playing electric guitars since the late 60s. I've owned echoplex machines and digital delays but nothing does what this thing does. If you read the other reviews, you'll see that there really is something about these things that can't be quantified, but you know it when you hear it. Like a lot of players, I keep my eyes open for certain pieces of gear and I felt lucky when I came across this for $200. I got it for $170.00, plus a Metal Zone pedal, which I won in a BOSS guitar player contest at a music store clinic, and never really used. I will keep looking for these and I'd buy another one for $200 if I find one. The guy who sold it to me said he paid $70 for it in the mid-80s, so the stock is on the rise. I love how it sounds and I love the "easy to use" factor. These are great units. I highly recommend it.

Very easy to use. It's NOT a programable unit. It has sliders for effect level, delay time and repeat. The front end has a gain circuit to ensure the integrity of the input signal's level and there is a circuit that switches between three types of ech effects, a w-i-d-e soundfield split, with signal and delay running hard left/right, and an effect that runs the original down the center with the delayed signals panned hard left/right, and finally...a choice to have the dry on the left and the delay on the right. It's really easy to get K K K KILLER sounds from this thing. Satch uses one and he's played a couple of nice riffs in his day, y'know? He's probably not as good of a player as you are, but hey...keep practicing, Joe. By the way, it plugs into the wall with its own A/C cord. No cheap transformer/wall warts for the finest delay ever made on planet earth. Problems? Yeah, I have to work for a living and I can't play through it 24/7/365, y'know?

There are all the other delay units ever made and then there is the Rocman Stereo Echo. What else can I say? It is simply the BEST delay unit-tape or otherwise-ever made for guitar. Once you hear one you'll NEVER be satisfied with Echoplex, Chandler, Lexicon....whatever. ROCKMAN STEREO ECHO...There is no substitute. ALL others pale in significance. To top it off, you will get the BEST sounding delay you ever heard in just seconds, without having to program anything. It is the holy grail of delay units. It rolls off the top end of the delayed note as it diffuses away; it bounces in stereo but NEVER bounces into the notes being played. It fades out and sounds like an Echoplex wishes it sounded like. I rate it a 10000000000. Nothing else comes remotely close. If I were to draw an analogy between the Rockman and the next best delay unit in the world, costing thousands more, the Rockman would be a Ferarri; the next best thing is one rusted roller skate, without wheels. It is perfect. If God played guitar, He would play through one of these. Did I mention that this thing sounds GOOD?

Built to last 10000000000000 centuries. Go ahead, toss it off a cliff into the Pacific Ocean while it is plugged in. Go get it. Now...Run it over with a bulldozer. It's still working, right? RIGHT! Tom Scholtz never fails. Reliability is total. I own a lot of Rockman stuff...it all works great, all the time, for 20 years+++++.

What are you, stoooopid? They're long gone. Not to worry, it will NEVER break. Dunlop (Dumb lop) bought out Rockman. They're so lame they can't even tell you what a Rockman is! But they still make good wah-wahs.

Don't waste your time or money on any other delay. If you do, don't ever listen to one because then you'll realize what an idiot you were to spend $1000,00 on a Lex that sounds like junk compared to the perfect delay...the MIGHTY ROCKMAN ECHO! Find one and buy it. It's just that doggone simple, folks! I would not trade it for ANY piece of "comparable" gear. I bought it twenty years ago and I use it every day, or nearly. For delay, it totally blows away everything else. There is nothing else like it-at any price, anywhere. It will turn your pristine, 100% original Echoplex into a boat anchor. (I sold mine within days of buying this unit. It sounds a million times better than ANY Echoplex ever did.) If it were stolen, the thief would be looking at flowers...from the wrong side...capice? Lost? NEVER!
I've been playing for 34 years. I cover everything. Take it from a gigging/studio guy...this is it. Whether in an amp's loop or straight into the mixing console, there is no better delay on planet earth; there never will be. Here's another interesting fact that's unbelievable, but true: You can buy 'em off e-bay for under $200!!!!!!!!!!! GET ONE OF THESE!!!!!!!!! (I do have one problem with them...they are getting harder to find!)

Can't get a bad sound out of this thing EVER!
Sweet warm echo's and three modes that toss em' around every which way. The feedback slider is something you can actually push beyond 50%
and still be creative with. Very trippy and retains it's musicality when pushed to it's outer limits.Someone,anyone needs to duplicate this circuitry and get these back on the market!!

Have used this unit in the loop of many amps such as Marshall,Boogie Fender and others.
Tube or solid state it does em' all justice. Run many guitars through it also. Strat, PRS CE Bolt-on, Les Paul Deluxe with mini humbuckers,
Ibanez 540 "frankenstein", Gibson Flying V, and some acoustic electrics. The Stereo Echo would make a warp neck Kay rock.I swear this thing can produce more aural hallucinations than a sackfull of liberty caps.I can get huge emotive solos like David Gilmour or Neal Schon. Or chopped up arppegiated tones like U2's the Edge.And even shorter slapback for that "hey baby" Scotty Moore Elvis kinda stuff.From the squeakiest clean tones to the heaviest cookie monster metal grind this will swallow it whole and spit it out sounding like it went in and in the case of solid state amps it even adds a little warmth. A good thing.Whatever the amp or guitar it will blend right in very nicely. I also have all the Rockmodules racked up and of course it sounds right at home with its companion modules. Even running in tandem with the XPR and other brands of rack gear it has never let me down. Turning straight digital signals into something smoother and more digestable.

This particular echo was bought from Guitar Haven in Melbourne FLA(good guys to deal with) used and slightly abused. When I opened the box some sliders were kinda loose and a little noisy
and I thought "uh oh",but after playing it for about 30 minutes I realized it sounded incredible still. This is a testament to SR&D's overall durability in everything they made.And who knows how many people have done god knows what to this piece of gear.

The original SR&D is extinct so Jim Dunlop bought the name and rights
and people need to know that they will service and refurbish all Rockman gear. And they do it well. For not a whole lot of money.So if you spill beer into your rockmodule and it sizzles...get another beer.
Then send it to Dunlop and they will fix it.

I am a legend in my own living room. Playing many styles of rock, blues,southern rock,classic rock,hard rock,metal,pop metal,power pop,and of course AC/DC.This piece lends itself to almost everything I play.But Strangely enough you won't need it for AC/DC.I have been playing guitar since 1978 when I first heard Rush.I own many stompboxes and other rack gear and no other echo or delay unit approaches the all around sweetness of the Stereo Echo.Almost any sort of ambience can be achieved. Truly an instrument unto itself. Granted there are other units out there like the Chandler stereo echo and echoplex tape delays but for something that regularly appears on Ebay for an almost reasonable price you cannot go wrong here.One of Tom Scholz's finest creations. Anybody got a Scholz Programmable EQ they want to sell me. I can dream,Can't I? :-)

This product like most scholz products are very easy. Plug in the input and out the output. Changing feedback time and delay time is just adjusting your sliders. Changing your delay volume is really easy to, it is just done with the slider.

Now, I have used scholz rockman products in the past and have been very happy, but this unit takes the cake. I thought that most of the things said about this unit must have been hype, but they were very true when i actually sat and used the unit.
I am using this unit in conjection with a rockman stereo chorus, a korg a2/a3 multi-fx unit, a marshall blues breaker pedal and a Mesa Boogie Tremoverb amplifier. Everything goes in the effects loop except the marshall blues breaker which goes infront of the amp. All the dirty and clean stuff is the Mesa amp and the marshall blues breaker for inbetween clean and dirty sounds.
The unit is very quiet and has stereo inputs and ouputs. You can run the unit in mono though. It also has a bypass footswitch on the back. The delay can go up to 500ms and the volume for the delays are both adjustable. Feedback can go forever and the gain is variable to match your output of your guitar/amplifier.
The unit is surprisingly quiet (I don't think the scholz distoriton units are overly quiet). The sound is constant and is very close to an echoplex. All the delays are analog and sound very anolog.
You can get the bostonish tones, but the unit is very flexiable, i don't find that it pushes you into a boston direction like rockmans distortion units do at times.
The delays sound very compatible with both clean and dirty sounds.

Haven't had it long, but like most scholz units I expect it to last for a long time. The only thing that I do notice on almost all rockman units that i have had is that the jacks and some of the screws can get rusty. I usually unscrew mine and give it a blast of wd40 on some paper towel and rub off the oxidation. I find that units I have bought from California and the west coast show this quite often. Scholz Rockman units are fairly easily constructed, so pulling three screws out to fix something that is very well laid out shouldn't be a problem if it arises.

Not, around anymore. They were bought by dunlop who completely dropped the ball on marketing and manufactoring their products.

I play mostly classic and modern rock. I am a very versitle player, this unit is very flexiable, but it does require playing around with. Don't be disappointed because it doesn't weigh or is as large as other high valued delay units. It is a killer unit. I have been playing for about 10 years and have seen many different pieces of my setup come and go, and this one will be staying for sometime.
Okay gripe time. The thing I hate, I HATE, about all Scholz Rockman rockmodules is that they do not have a true bypass. The switch just switches from the output of the device to the input causing a load to be placed, even when the unit is unswitched. Like I like the unit but sometimes I do play with it off ya know. I also wish it had another variable time that could be switched back and forth. But I can just A/B between the two stereo channels and use one for long and one for short to get two different sounds from it.
The unit does make you want to play boston riffs at times, but allows you to flow into anything where a delay sounds good. U2ish stuff sounds pretty neat with it too.
If it was stolen I would certainly search, like I did for 8 months before I bought this one.

THIS IS THE BEST ANALOG NON TAPE ECHO-DELAY UNIT EVER MADE.VERY DIFFICULT TO FIND ,THEY SIMPLY DO NOT MAKE THEM ANYMORE.AMAZING WARM SOUND BEST USED IN THE EEFECT LOOP OF AN AMP.I WOULDN/T EVEN DREAM PLAYING WITHOUT IT (I USE IT 90% OF THE TIME).NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WITH IT,(OK IT SOMOTIMES GETS A BIT CRAZY BUT I ONLY SHUT IT OFF AND TURN IT ON AGAIN AND IT WORKS JUST FINE!) IF YOU COME ACROSS ONE OF THESE BABIES GET IT,EVERY OTHER ECHO UNIT DIGITAL OR ANALOG (EXCEPT ORIGINAL TAPE ECHOS) SIMPLY SUCKS COMPARED TO THIS OLD ROCKMAN HALF RACK SPACE UNIT!!!

Simple; use defaults for great slapback, or tweak for more feedback and delay.

No noise at all; includes adjustable input gain to compensate for weak/strong input signal.

Steady for three years.

Dunlop bought Scholz R&D; I called them about getting a Rockman EQ and rack adapters, but they just tried to sell me optical pedals.

Yes, yes, and yes! Too bad they don't make these any more.

The Rockman Stereo Echo unit is a VERY underrated piece of equipment. It is very easy to use and capable of acheiveing many speeds of delayed sounds. This is a "RockModule" which is a 1/2 space rack-sized unit that is meant to be place in an amplifier's effects loop. Tom Scholz' Rockman line of effects are incredibly flexible in sound and practically indestructible in physical design. The manual is well-written, (As is ALL Rockman manuals I've seen) and it is incredibly simple to dial-up desired sounds.

The unit is not noisy at all and the sounds produced from it are clear and very warm. Very reminiscent of older-type delayed sounds. I believe this is an analog unit, and not digital. It sounds very "analog."

I've had the unit for a number of years and its never failed me. All Rockman products are INCREDIBLY durable and will probably never need fixing. I've never heard of any of my friends getting their Rockman equipment fixed.

I have never dealt with Rockman directly so I can't say.

Yes, I would definately buy it again. The unit is extremely reliable and it comes with a built-in power supply. (Very handy! No wall-wart plug or batteries needed.) You can use any on/off-type switch to turn the echo on and off. It's also a stereo design, so you can use it for that application as well.

Takes a little fiddling. But well worth it.

The best stereo echo I have ever heard. Very clean and lush, does not affect tone. Transparent. Best unit they ever made, buy it, if you can find one before evryone else finds out about it and the price goes up. Feedback control lets notes sustain forever. Also great for doubling effects.

Been working great for 8 years.

Never had to call.

If it ever broke, I would buy another one regardless of cost. An essential part of my sound, distoted or clean. Works especially well in a rack such as my Boogie 395 and Studio Preamp.