Stardust 201 Tape Echo meticulously models the gritty character of Roland’s RE-201 and RE-301 hardware, adding modern enhancements like DAW tempo sync and 4x-extended delay times (up to 2 seconds). The plugin includes 7 tape head modes for multi-tap, ping-pong, and stereo widening, plus a LFO modulation section for pitch wobbles and rhythmic textures. With modeled input overdrive, dual tape loops, and spring reverb, it delivers everything from subtle slapback to psychedelic chaos. Perfect for dub, lo-fi, and shoegaze, it’s a maintenance-free upgrade from vintage hardware.

Stardust 201 Tape Echo is a hot-rodded interpretation of the classic tape echo effects of the 70s and 80s. Compared to earlier tape echoes, they represented a giant leap in reliability and sound quality. With solidly built tape-transport mechanisms and the inclusion of a spring reverb and chorus effects in some models, the classic tape echo boxes were truly groundbreaking with its fantastic variety of sound colors.

Stardust precisely recreates the limited fidelity and stability of audio tape, providing a natural rolloff of bass and treble frequencies for super-warm tonality and minor speed variances, lending an organic chorusing quality to repeats. Cranking the intensity knob overloads the circuit, generating the signature other-worldly runaway echoes and feedback that only a tape echo can produce.

Cherry Audio's Stardust 201 Tape Echo includes features from the original RE-201 and RE-301 units, and we've added some of our own to create a great-sounding, super-flexible, ideal tape echo effect that never breaks down and never needs demagnetizing, all for less than the price of a replacement audio tape loop!