Estuve leyendo. Vince Gordon dice:
When you play your Fender Amp, don't use the built in Reverb that some of them have. Sure, the reverbs sound great, but when you're playing live only use an echo (I use a digital one - the Boss DD-3. ) or else the sound will get too muddy for rockabilly when you use both an echo and the reverb. If you're into Surf music it's a whole different ballgame though.
Here's a picture of my "live" settings for the Boss DD-3. If the room is very dry I turn up the E.level to full.
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The typical settings for a rockabilly slapback echo (for guitar) on any unit are between 100 and 170 ms and very few repeats.
I only use the Boss DD-3 live, not in the studio. There I use the digital delay my mixer has, as I record without echo and add it in the mix.
There are many other suitable echo units/pedals out there and some of them are better than my DD-3. The Boss met my needs though and recreates the sound I have on our records so I looked no further. Anyway, I AM in good company with the DD-3 as Scotty Moore (Elvis Presley) also is using one nowadays alongside with a chorus (to emulate the frequency impurity of a tape echo).
However, I'd like to mention some alternatives:
The very pricey ($1,080 - 1,200 US retail!) Fulltone Tube Tape Echo. I heard really great things about it from people who should know. (I'm not sure that what Fulltone claim about Brian Setzer only using their unit now is true. I asked them but didn't get an answer.)
The pricey T-Rex Replica delay pedal (digital, but sounds analog)
The Echoplex (Used on Chet Atkins recordings for instance) and the "re-issue" of it, The Plex Tube Echo Chamber (aka. the "Plex"). Both units are tape and out-of-production. They also both have a reputation for superb sound and legendary unreliability!
The out-of-production Roland RE-301 Chorus Echo (tape echo) that, among others, Brian Setzer has been using (Not in the early days with Stray Cats).
The out-of-production Roland RE-201 Space Echo (mono version of the 301 and without chorus) isn't rare and turns up often on ebay where it sells for around $500. Here's a good link for the different Roland models.
The affordable Danelectro Reel Echo that sells for around $110-140. I heard from a reliable source that the green Danelectro Reel Echo is very close to the EchoSonic echo (think Scotty Moore) so this is quite a catch at that price.
The Danelectro Dan Echo which sells for only $80 does not sound like the EchoSonic but is also usable if you're on a tight budget.
The low budget Rocktron Short Timer. Hard to beat value at around only $50.