The RE-20 is a very inspiring pedal. Most days I have the reverb set to minimum, the bass turned up to 3 and the treble turned down to 9 with the intensity just up to where it almost wants to self-oscillate and then play. I can turn the mode and play a chord and listen and then just go off on a new idea. Turn the mode again and it's another idea. It is the darkness you can get out of the repeats and the momentary switch gives the all the UFO effects you may want. Go the other way with it and turn the intensity down and the repeat rate up a bit and it gives a great retro slapback sound.

Apologies for the terrible playing, but nothing says what it sounds like better than just listening to it.

With an Orange Kongpressor into the dirt channel on an Orange CR35RT. Gretsch G5230T guitar.

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Just excellent, no complaints. Mine has had a rough life but keeps on keeping on like a champ. When it dies (will it die?) I will replace it with the re-202.

This Boss pedal is better than any boutique tape echo emulator. It is based on the specific model Roland RE-201. The ramp up feature is unique. Guess what this pedal is even great for vocals. Creepy dark trails it has which I love. Sci-fi soundtrack tool. Try it with a Fender Rhodes, a match made in Heaven.

I love the delay effect here and also the reverb is good although it might sound a bit artificial with certain settings. It was a bit confusing to learn how to use this pedal at first, but after looking up the manual (stupid me not doing it in the first place) I got it figured out.

To be honest, I'm not sure why I got rid of this. I have an El Capistan now and I love it, but I think I got rid of this in the middle of a pedal existential crisis and I regret it now. Has that tasty tape sound.

I've seen a lot of my favorite artists use this as a portable substitute for their RE-201s on the road and it gets the job done. You can create the spaciest most atmospheric tone with the Roland Space Echo. It's such an amazing pedal even by itself and I highly recommend buying one for yourself if you're a fan of lush, dreamy warbley tape delay than this. Especially a tape delay with tap tempo and tape that never breaks!

Bought this pedal over a year ago, still using it for recording, doing gigs or just jamming around, from reverb, slapback to oscillation this pedal can do it, although the only drawback is, it doesn't feature the ability to save preset, however the tap tempo feature in this pedal able to compensate that drawback.

There are some settings that this can do that the real thing doesn't, and, of course, the Intensity on this is nowhere near it's analog predecessor. Obviously easier to travel with. Love them both. I also have the UAD plug-in version of the RE-201.

Love this? Try a real 201, then move on to the far more impressive Multivox & Korg options. Not even a comparison.

I love this pedal, it has all the features the old RE-20 had in a digital compact stompbox. Bad feature: No presets or memory. Good stuff: great, great sound, tap tempo, built as any boss: like a tank.