Stanley-FX BabyBlue Echotapper User Manual
BabyBlue Echotapper Guitar
Effect Pedal
Vintage Tape Echo Guitar Effects Pedal
The BabyBlue (Echotapper) is a guitar effects pedal design with a strong emphasis on accurately emulating the sounds
of vintage tape-based echo units as used by Hank Marvin of The Shadows as well as others.
Main Features
Accurately emulates many classic tape echo machines including Meazzi Echomatic I and II, Vox Long Tom and
Roland RE301.
Advanced low-noise 4-FET preamplifier designed to emulate the valve preamplifiers used in some of the classic
tape echo machines
A ‘Drive’ Mini control and an internal Level control alters the generation of ‘valve-like’ harmonics, and allows
for the matching of a wide range of guitar pickups from vintage single coils to ‘hot’ humbuckers.
Advanced Preamp and Controls
Featuring an advanced low-noise 4-FET preamplifier designed to emulate the valve preamplifiers used in some of the
classic tape echo machines; it has Drive and Level knobs to control the generation of ‘valve-like’ harmonics. In addition
it has three further controls which can be used to adjust the parameters of individual effects such as the mix of Dry and
Wet signals, the number and configuration of emulated tape heads and the feedback
Emulation Control
The emulation knob selects accurate settings of seven much sought after vintage tape echo machines along with an
eighth selection which is a reverb and tremolo setting:
1. Meazzi Echomatic-1 Model ‘J’ Classic with controls for Dry/Wet mix, echo Program and Feedback
2. Meazzi Echomatic-1 Model ‘F’ Classic with controls for Dry/Wet mix, echo Program and Feedback
3. Meazzi Echomatic-1 Model ‘F’ Special with controls for Dry/Wet mix, echo Program and Feedback
4. Meazzi Echomatic-II Model ‘B’ with controls for Dry/Wet mix, echo Program and Feedback
5. Vox Long Tom Classic with controls for Dry/Wet mix, echo Program and Feedback
6. Meazzi Echomatic-II Classic with controls for Heads 123 level, Head 4 level and Feedback
7. Roland RE301 Mode 5 with controls for Dry/Wet mix, vari-speed (Delay) and Feedback
8. Reverb and Tremolo with controls for Reverb level, tremolo speed and depth.
Important Power supply Requirements
For quiet operation of the pedal a high quality power supply designed for use in guitar and musical instruments is highly
recommended, it must be of the 9 volt DC variety with a Centre negative plug connection. Recommended power
supply units available include the Boss PSA230-240, and Visual sound 1-spot.
Controls
The Baby Blue Echotapper Tape Echo Emulator pedal has four external adjustable potentiometers, and one eight
position switch for controlling the settings of the effect unit along with an internal level trim control.
Emulation: This eight position switch selects which effect model the pedal will use.
Program
Emulation
Dry/Wet
Patch
Feedback
1
Meazzi Echomatic I (E1J)
Mix
5 pos Switch
Feedback
2
Meazzi Echomatic I (E1F)
Mix
5 pos Switch
Feedback
3
Meazzi Echomatic I (E1S)
Mix
5 pos Switch
Feedback
4
Meazzi Echomatic II Bank
Mix
5 pos Switch
Feedback
5
Vox LongTom Classic
Mix
5 pos Switch
Feedback
6
Meazzi Echomatic II Classic
Dry/Wet Heads 1,2,3
Dry/Wet head 4
Feedback
7
Roland Model 301 Mode 5
Mix
Varispeed
Feedback
8
Reverb / Tremolo
Reverb
Tremolo Freq
Tremolo Depth
Heads
Delay (ms)
dB A B C E
F
1
121 0 y y y y
2
239 0 y
fbk
y
3
330
-2 y y
y
4
425
-2 y y y
y 5 510
-4 y
y +fbk
y +fbk
6
595
-4
y +fbk
y y y +fbk
y
Heads
Delay (ms)
dB A B C E
F
1
121 0 y y
2
280 0 y y y
3
360
-2
fb y fbk 4 420
-2 y y+fbk
y y 5 603
-2 y
y +fbk
y+fbk
y
Patch: A dual purpose control in conjunction with the Emulation switch. The first five emulations use this control as a five
position selector using the A-B-C-E-F scale. The remaining three emulations use this control as a standard variable using
the 0-10 scale.
Feedback: This controls the amount echo repeats of the echo emulations and controls the tremolo depth on the
Reverb/Tremolo emulation.
Dry/Wet: Used to control the balance of the dry and effect signals of the echo emulations or the reverb level on the
Reverb/Tremolo emulation.
Drive: The drive mini control can be used to adjust the amount of harmonic content in the signal and in conjunction
with the internal drive trim can be used to balance the signal levels for different guitars and harmonic levels in the signal.
NOTE – This is not an ‘overdrive’ control.
The Table below outlines the emulations and controls.
So what exactly do the Emulation and Patch switch combinations do?
There are 8 Emulations to select from as outlined in the table above numbered from 1-8. Emulations 1-5 use the patch
selections A-F from the patch knob which selects different combinations of playback heads. Using Program 1 which is the
Meazzi Echomatic 1 Model J (E1J) the following table shows the delay time of each head, the output level of the heads
and when selecting A-F which heads are being used.
Program 1 – Meazzi Echomatic 1 Model J (E1J)
Program 2 – Meazzi Echomatic 1 Model F (E1F)
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