Name: Echo Thing
Brand: Desert Moon Audio
Price: 54.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Echo Thing ET-01 - Desert Moon Audio plug-in

Lo-Fi Analog Echo Processor

Echoes upon echoes

Echo Thing is a lo-fi delay plugin for Mac and PC: a vintage-chip echo whose repeats darken and fall apart as the time goes up.

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Works with all major DAWs

AU / VST3 / AAX for Mac · VST3 / AAX for PC

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Hear the difference

Press play to hear it through Echo Thing. Tap DRY for the original, at the same moment.

Keys

Drum Machine

Groove

Organ

Where it goes

Four of the places it lives, each with a demo above.

Keys
Tempo-synced repeats that darken as they fade, so a simple keys line gets a tail.
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Drum machine
Short times on BROKEN turn a drum machine into a lo-fi loop that falls apart on purpose.
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A full groove
Ping-pong on the whole groove: wide, dubby and dark.
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Organ
Long times, high feedback, and the repeats dissolve into noise behind an organ pad.
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About Echo Thing

Echo Thing is a delay built around the behaviour of a vintage echo chip — one whose clock rate falls as you ask for more time. Short settings are clean and tight. Push past roughly 250 milliseconds into the Red Zone marked on the Time knob and the repeats start to darken, grain up and eventually fall apart. That collapse is the instrument, not a defect.

In front of it sits a mic-preamp stage you can drive into saturation, so the echoes can be clean and glassy or pushed until they smear. It is built for vocals above all — the Mix control tops out at an even 50/50 blend rather than going fully wet, so the repeats sit behind the take instead of swallowing it.

Key features

Time — 30 to 620 ms
The Red Zone past ~250 ms is where the chip starts to struggle, and that is the sound most people come here for.
F-Back
A single slap all the way through to runaway self-oscillation.
Mix
Dry through to an even 50/50 blend — deliberately capped so vocals stay intelligible.
Tempo sync
1/32 to 1/2, including triplets and dotted values, locked to your host.
Character — Clean, Tape or Broken
Three states of repair for the echo path, from serviced yesterday to found in a barn.
Ping-Pong
Dual mono at zero; at full, the two delay lines feed each other and repeats alternate left and right.
Input and Output
Input drives the preamp into saturation (−12 to +24 dB); Output is clean make-up gain (−24 to +12 dB).
The panel section
Tap tempo, low and high cut on the repeats, and metered input and output — the studio conveniences, drawn smaller because they are additions.

Echo Thing panel, with its controls numbered

The panel at a glance

F-Back A single slap all the way through to runaway self-oscillation.
Time 30 to 620 ms. Past about 250 ms the chip starts to struggle, and that is the sound most people come for.
Mix Dry through to an even blend, capped so vocals stay intelligible.
Character Clean, Tape or Broken: from serviced yesterday to found in a barn.
Sync & Tap Lock the repeats to session tempo, 1/32 to 1/2 with triplets and dots, or tap a tempo in.
Ping-Pong Dual mono at zero; at full the two lines feed each other and repeats alternate left and right.
Low & High Cut Tone on the repeats. Pull High Cut to about 4 kHz and the echo sits behind the voice.
Input & Output Input drives the preamp into saturation; Output is clean make-up gain.

More details

Yes. It's a one-off purchase, not a subscription, and there's nothing to renew. Updates to a plugin you own are free — download the current installer and run it over the top.

Every plugin is sold on its own, so you can buy just the one you want. If you'd rather have all of them, the Everything Bundle collects the whole line for 30% less than buying them separately.

Each license covers up to 4 computers you personally own — a studio desktop, a laptop and a couple of spares. Moving to a new computer? Choose Deactivate This Machine in the plugin's preset menu on the old one and the seat frees up instantly; if that machine is gone for good, contact us and we'll release it.

A purchase covers you, not a studio full of people. If colleagues need it, they need their own copy — that's what keeps a small company like this able to keep building plugins.

Your download link is in the order confirmation email sent at purchase, and in your account under Order history.

Your license key is in the same email. Run the installer, open the plugin, enter the key once and you're done — one key activates up to 4 of your machines.

Can't find the email? Check spam, then search for "Desert Moon Audio". If it still isn't there, get in touch with the address you ordered with and we'll resend it.

Yes — after activation. Entering your license key needs an internet connection once; from then on it works offline — the only other time it goes online is a once-a-day check for a newer version.

If a studio machine never goes online, get in touch and we'll sort out an activation for it.