MXR Echoplex Delay Pedal

We received an exclusive look at this beautiful vintage tape echo delay pedal from Dunlop. A very compact pedal (about the size of a Phase 90) with a lot to offer any player.

The Echoplex Delay delivers the legendary Echoplex EP-3’s warm, organic 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.

Features:

• Vintage Echoplex EP-3 tape echo warmth and modulation
• Hi-fi analog and digital audio paths
• Dry path is 100% analog
• Age control varies delay tone from pristine to dark and dirty
• Delay control provides 65–750ms of delay time
• Tap tempo jack provides up to 4 seconds of delay time with external Tap Tempo Switch
• Studio-grade low noise floor
• Relay true bypass and delay trails modes
• Stereo In/Out capability when using TRS cables

[AmundBlixAaeng]

Oh come on, the world is screaming for a demo of this, give us more than 2 minutes man! :)

[WyattScott]

Some good advice for anyone thinking of getting this or that has this pedal. Know that it has some special power requirements. You cannot use a 9 volt battery to operate this pedal. You open up the back and there is no battery hookup. It's chalk full of components taking up the space that the battery normally resides in this sized pedal, you know the regular boss, MXR's of the World. The Echoplex was designed for high headroom. While it does operate at 9 volts DC power, not 18 mind you, it runs at 250mA, not 100mA, I repeat not 100maA! This means you must use the cheap adapter that comes with the pedal, or another power supply that has this power rating.

I have the Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2 plus and I spent an hour today figuring out why it wasn't working when I was plugging it in. First it got no power from the Voodoo, but weird it did from the supplied power adapter. I was getting pissed. I was thinking something was wrong with my Voodoo or the pedal. Then I recalled reading the Echoplex manual and there was some weirdness regarding the power requirements. I got the Voodoo manual out and re-read the Echoplex user manual and also did an online search as well, on the Voodoo chatboards. What I discovered today is that you have to use either output 5 or 6 on the Voodoo as these outputs run at 9 volts 250mA, while outputs 1-4 run at 9 volts 100mA. This with the dipswitches in the normal positions.

100mA is normal and sufficient to power most pedals, all of my other pedals as matter of fact, but not the bitchin Echoplex. It runs at 250mA and has higher headroom. I read somewhere that internal components in it actually bump up the 9 volts you supply to 20 volts for high headroom to preserve and keep artifacts from clipping. Nice!. Once I plugged it into output 5 it worked like a charm! Stoked. Pedal sounds so fucking good and I'm ripping up Bytor and the Snowdog and other Rush songs with it.

So just to recap, remember if you can't get the fucker to work it's because you most likely have a power supply running at 100mA and you need 250mA. If you are trying the pedal out at GC or another store, make sure you are using the correct power or it won't get any lights going and or it'll have blinking lights and make a weird pulsating noise basically telling you something is wrong.