Recreating the Chase Bliss Tonal Recall RKM with the Helix/HX Effects

[phil_m]

So even after having the Helix after 3.5 years, I'm still finding new tricks. I have a Chase Bliss Tonal Recall RKM, and one of the things I really like about that pedal is how thick, dark and chewy the repeats can get. I hadn't really spent a lot of time messing with trying to recreate it in the Helix. I could get somewhat close with the Adriatic Delay, but last night I decided to mess around with the Mod/Cho Echo model, which is kind of a boring name for a very interesting effect, as it turns out. It has high and low cut parameters, and turning the high cut down very low, like around 1.2kHz is getting me what I was missing - surprisingly so. I actually kind of prefer some of the attributes of this to the Tonal Recall, I think. The Tonal Recall does a lot of other weird stuff, but here I'm comparing kind of a basic dark analog echo sound.

I used a looper block as the first thing in my chain for this clip so the same dry track is being fed to both the Tonal Recall and to the Mod/Cho Echo.

Not too shabby when you consider the Tonal Recall RKM is a $500 pedal...

 

I won't say which is which for now, but I'll reveal it later. In any case, I personally think I'll be selling another pedal very soon.