Interview with Mike Battle - Inventor of the legendary Echoplex tape delay". Looper's Delight. LD> When did the first Echoplex units reach the market? How many were made in the early years? / MB> We sold the first 500 units to C.M.I. in Chicago in 1959. The Echoplex was sold through Chicago Musical Instruments, CMI. The Echoplex Preamp runs on standard 9-volt power and contains power management circuitry to guarantee constant headroom performance throughout the normal life of a 9-volt battery. With a heavy-duty Phase 90-sized housing, a replica EP-3 knob, true bypass switching and a status LED, the Echoplex Preamp is built to take a beating on the roadso you can leave your fragile vintage piece at home. The Echoplex EP-3 tape echo unit is famous for its deliciously warm, organic modulation and sweet musical voice—a key component to some of the most iconic guitar tones from the '70s onward. The original EP-3 units, however, are expensive, temperamental, and larger than a VCR.

Just using the built in time control you can already get a pretty impressive 750ms delay time but when you use an optional tap tempo controller you can get a massive 4 seconds of delay time which even some of the most popular of digital delays can't achieve let along one with this epic classic modulated tone. Here's what Dumlop say about the EP103 Echoplex Delay Looping: A talk with Matthias Grob". Gibson News. Gibson Labs, Gibson Guitar Corporation. December 13, 2004. Archived from the original on June 22, 2011 . Retrieved January 7, 2011.Proceed With Caution-Built to Spill Frontman Doug Martsch Lets a Little Digital Into His Life". keyboardmag.com. Keyboard Magazine . Retrieved 20 April 2020. Gress, Jesse (April 2007). "10 Things You Gotta Do to Play Like Duane Allman". Guitar Player. pp.110–17. Friedland, Ed (2005). The R&B Bass Masters: The Way They Play. Hal Leonard. pp.17, 19. ISBN 978-0-87930-869-8. modulation with 750ms of delay time and an Age control to shape the sound of your repeats, from clear and shimmering to saturated and distressed. Features stereo and tap tempo capability, with up to 4 seconds of delay time, and a hi-fi all-analog dry path. Specifications Gress, Jesse (February 2011). "10 Things You Gotta Do To Play Like Steve Miller". Guitar Player. pp.75–88.

Despite the Echoplex name, this is NOT a one knobdelay pedal! Whilst based on the original Echoplex,this pedal isactually a preamp pedal with 11dB of boost thatwarms up and rounds out your tone. It's the kind of pedal thatthat you'll soon want to leave on as part of your essential tone. Timm, Larry M. (2003). The soul of cinema: an appreciation of film music. Prentice Hall. p.228. ISBN 978-0-13-030465-0.The EP103's delay signal gets the same tonal conditioning that the EP101 Echoplex Preamp provides, while the dry path is left untouched. For the full EP-3 experience, put that secret sauce on your dry signal by running the EP101 in front of the EP103.