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Dunlop Echoplex Delay
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 7:00 pm
by sostark
Hi--sorry if this pedal already has a thread and I don't know how to sift through search results///
Does anyone here have this? If you do, can you use an expression pedal, or does it only accept the tap tempo controller? Last question--if it does accept expression, what value do you use?
Last last question---what pedal do you use (or recommend) for self oscillating delay madness ala
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeivARsmLoI that is controllable via expression. I'm hoping this (the Dunlop Echoplex) will be the answer, but I'm all ears if not. Thanks for your help <3
Re: Dunlop Echoplex Delay
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 10:09 pm
by echorec
Looking at the product page, it doesn't seem the MXR unit works with an expression pedal, only a TT switch. The Catalinbread Belle Epoch Deluxe has an expression pedal, but unfortunately it doesn't control the Echo Sustain pot (feedback). If you really want to mimic that kind of primitive glitch from Sharrock, you need control over the repeats/feedback.
The discontinued Alter Ego X4 has a darkly-voiced Echoplex emulator. It's fairly gritty with a vintage character. You could control the Feedback pot with an expression pedal. It requires a 25K Ohm linear pot expression pedal.
https://kb.musictribe.com/musickb/view/ ... -228330268
https://www.tcelectronic.com/Categories ... ans(en|en)
Re: Dunlop Echoplex Delay
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 10:36 pm
by Blackened Soul
I've owned a real echoplex and while I see the awesome advantages of tap and exp control have in a lot of cases... to me that [as wall as a small standard "stompbox" format] takes away from what made them fun and musical

Dunlop should have made it bigger with a big slider on top for speed, that would have made for a much more fun device.
Re: Dunlop Echoplex Delay
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 3:48 am
by rfurtkamp
If you want the combined repeat/slider movement of an actual, the only thing I've found you can do it with reasonably well is a TimeBender.
Set one preset with your normal setting, toe down on the expression as max feedback/whatever minimum time you want Rock and forth to crazytown.
Re: Dunlop Echoplex Delay
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 8:53 am
by qersty
rfurtkamp wrote:If you want the combined repeat/slider movement of an actual, the only thing I've found you can do it with reasonably well is a TimeBender.
Set one preset with your normal setting, toe down on the expression as max feedback/whatever minimum time you want Rock and forth to crazytown.
I can attest to this. The first tape mode really sounds like tape moving when you change speeds.
Re: Dunlop Echoplex Delay
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 9:19 am
by rfurtkamp
Yea, that tape mode is the fakeplex, the other is Space Echo fakery (which is close but missing preamp)
Re: Dunlop Echoplex Delay
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 9:37 am
by qersty
The plex has the preamp? I found both to be pretty colourless aside from the very "new" tape degredation
Re: Dunlop Echoplex Delay
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 9:57 am
by rfurtkamp
The plex is missing it as well (but I'm not a purist there like I am with the Space Echo) - when I want the plax thing out of it, I I want the particulars of the moving head. I can EQ the rest and add grit!
Re: Dunlop Echoplex Delay
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 2:55 pm
by Jero
Re: Dunlop Echoplex Delay
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 4:01 pm
by Blackened Soul
qersty wrote:The plex has the preamp? I found both to be pretty colourless aside from the very "new" tape degredation
