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Echorec Black Friday deals start with this Pulsar Audio delay plugin at $29, which is 70% off until Dec 7, 2026. It is a software emulation of the Binson Echorec, the Italian magnetic disk echo unit from the 1960s.
The maker says the disk-based sound is different from the tape delays of its day. It helped shape the signature of many 70s bands, and Pulsar names Pink Floyd, The Shadows and Jimmy Page.
The Pulsar Echorec is a delay plugin built on the Binson Echorec 2. Vintage units are known for saturation, self-oscillation and over-sound, and they are also fragile and hard to keep running.
The maker positions the plugin as a faithful version of that unit, without the maintenance. If you want analogue movement on an in-the-box delay send, that is the pitch.
Pulsar added workflow changes the hardware never had.
The maker says three real units in different conditions were modelled, covering everything from the cleanest magnetic delay to the grungiest.
Pulsar says the all-tube input section of the Binson was replicated exactly, with special attention to the pre-emphasis filters.
The magnetic side is modelled too. The maker says the complex processes in the Echorec disk, including magnetic saturation and hysteresis, were captured precisely.
The three states of wear come from Pulsar's measurements. A Binson that survives to this day has spent about 50 years in circulation, and the condition of units ranges from mint to heavily worn. Each unit had its own colour, and Pulsar picked the three it liked most, whatever their condition.
On the hardware, you can slow the disk with a finger for creative pitch modulation or wow and flutter on the delayed signal. The plugin lets you get those moves on the echoes.
The Echorec VST and its Pulsar Audio sibling plugins are in the deals list, so if you are building a vintage-leaning signal chain, the delay is one slot of it.
Yes. The Pulsar Audio Echorec Black Friday deal takes 70% off, so the delay plugin costs $29 until Dec 7, 2026.
It emulates the Binson Echorec 2, the magnetic disk echo unit made in Italy in the 1960s. The maker says it models three real units in different conditions of wear, from clean magnetic delay to grungy.
Yes. Pulsar says you can sync the delay to any tempo, including a tapped tempo. Echorec lets you alter the spinning rate of its virtual drum while playing, which shifts the echo spacing on the fly, something the vintage unit never offered.
With Off mode selected, Echorec keeps the tonal character and saturation of the echo path but plays back no repeats at all. Pulsar designed it because the Binson Echorec sounds good even when it is not supposed to affect the signal.
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