Klemt Echolette
From detritu–(at)–x.netcom.com Fri Oct 23 09:24:35 CDT 1998
From: detritu–(at)–x.netcom.com(Lord Valve)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.amps
Subject: Re: ID This “Ediolette” (?!?) 1×12 Cab?
Date: 23 Oct 1998 07:23:39 GMT
X-NETCOM-Date: Fri Oct 23 2:23:39 AM CDT 1998
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In <70p77m$40m$--(at)--x2.accesscom.net> “Ted A. Breaux”
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>Scott McKnight wrote in message <70o17f$8n--(at)--jx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com>…
>>I just got back from visiting a friend who had a 1×12 closed-back cab
>>by a manufacturer I’d never heard of before. There was a script
label
>>on it with a name that looked something like Ediolette, though it’s
>>hard to tell for sure
>
>I am not familiar with this particular cab, but the manufacturer,
>”Echolette”, was a German company which was owned by Sennheiser. Most
of
>the Echolette stuff I’ve seen comes fro the 60s.
>
>Ted B.
Lord Valve Speaketh:
A Klemt Echolette model “S” tape-echo unit was used to
juice up the ondioline solo on Del Shannon’s “Runaway.”
The drummer and the bassist in one of my early bands
were Air Force brats, and they brought one back from
Germany; it was housed in a wooden frame along with
a 4-channel 80 watt tube PA head. The two were linked
together with a DIN jumper of some kind. The Echolette
“S” unit was tube, also. The M80 had two rather large
baseless power tubes…I don’t remember exactly, but
they had maybe 12 pins on the bottom. Hard to get,
too, even back in 1970. We hadda order tapes all the
way from Germany, which is how I learned that an echo
tape is called a “Spielzientonebander.” That echo
unit was the best I ever heard, period. Made a Roland
Spacecho sound like a tin can. Wish I still had it.
We used two Altec A7-500 Voice of the Theater cabinets
for mains, and they were so efficient that 80 watts
was more than we ever needed. Tubes for PA, them
wuz da daze…come to think of it, there wasn’t a
transistor in our whole damn band back then. I had
two Leslies and a B-3, the geetah-pickuh had a Twin
Reverb, the bassist had an SVT with BOTH 8-10 cabs
(I was such a bass-freak, I bought the second one
myself and put it on my side of the stage so I could
hear MONDO low end) and I had a Traynor YBA-1A head
driving a Dual Showman box loaded with two 15″ JBL
D-130s to play my electric piano through. Things
stayed that way for quite awhile, until one day I
ordered a solid-state graphic EQ kit from SWTPC
(Southwest Technical Products Corp…remember
them?) and put it inline between the monitor
output on the Echolette and the Dynaco MK III
we were using for a monitor amp. Killed the crap
outta our headroom, but the freedom from feedback
was *almost* worth it.
Lord Valve
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