ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS
Big five-knob control interface
BBD analog delay sound
Bonus Chorus-Vibrato effect
Hard-wired AC power cord
Wet and dry outputs
IF ONE OF THE GREATEST boons of the solid-state revolution of the mid to late ’60s was the way it compacted down cumbersome guitar effects into neat portable boxes, you could argue that the greatest benefit to guitarists didn’t come until a full decade later when the luscious but unwieldy tape echo was replaced by the analog delay pedal. And for many players, the greatest rendition of that was the Electro-Harmonix Memory Man. Released around 1976, the Memory Man was one of the first solid-state pedal-based echo devices, if not verifiably the first, as EHX’s Mike Matthews claims accurate dates for this era are extremely difficult to come by. It was certainly the most successful. It also remains the most beloved of the early analog delays still in use today.
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