Xotic EP Booster...MXR Echoplex preamp......
- Thread starter JeffB
- Start date
TwilightOdyssey
Darkness on the edge of Tone
Re: Xotic EP Booster...MXR Echoplex preamp......
Alternative would be the soon to be released JHS Colour Box.
Echoplex clones that have the preamp saturation include the Catalinbread Belle Epoch and 1776 Multiplex.
Are you just looking for saturation without echo?
Then I would wait for the Colour Box...
As a straight preamp? No.
Alternative would be the soon to be released JHS Colour Box.
Echoplex clones that have the preamp saturation include the Catalinbread Belle Epoch and 1776 Multiplex.
Are you just looking for saturation without echo?
Then I would wait for the Colour Box...
Lewguitar
New member
Re: Xotic EP Booster...MXR Echoplex preamp......
I like the EP1 Booster a lot! For a clean boost, it's pretty much my favorite. I saw Robben Ford last summer and that's all he used with his Tele and his Super Reverb and seemed to leave the EP1 on all of the time. Sounds so good - he played a lot of rhythm and chords on his lead pickup with the EP1 beefing everything up.
Never tried the MXR Echolex preamp.
It's a very simple circuit though. My brother Bruce has been making a Mission Amps clean boost that's part of the amplifier and not a separate pedal for years that's pretty much the same circuit. Even before Xotic was doing it.
Anyways, the EP1 and the PCE AF1 Klon Klone are my two favorite boost/overdrives. They're all I ever use.
I like the EP1 Booster a lot! For a clean boost, it's pretty much my favorite. I saw Robben Ford last summer and that's all he used with his Tele and his Super Reverb and seemed to leave the EP1 on all of the time. Sounds so good - he played a lot of rhythm and chords on his lead pickup with the EP1 beefing everything up.
Never tried the MXR Echolex preamp.
It's a very simple circuit though. My brother Bruce has been making a Mission Amps clean boost that's part of the amplifier and not a separate pedal for years that's pretty much the same circuit. Even before Xotic was doing it.
Anyways, the EP1 and the PCE AF1 Klon Klone are my two favorite boost/overdrives. They're all I ever use.
Lewguitar
New member
Re: Xotic EP Booster...MXR Echoplex preamp......
One more thing - the Edge uses the EH Memory Man as both a boost and an echo and it works well.
Pretty much the only effects I ever use are my Klon Klones or EP1 and my Memory Man.
Just turning up the gain a bit on the MM works really well as a clean boost.
Same idea as the preamp on a Echoplex I would guess.
One more thing - the Edge uses the EH Memory Man as both a boost and an echo and it works well.
Pretty much the only effects I ever use are my Klon Klones or EP1 and my Memory Man.
Just turning up the gain a bit on the MM works really well as a clean boost.
Same idea as the preamp on a Echoplex I would guess.
TwilightOdyssey
Darkness on the edge of Tone
Re: Xotic EP Booster...MXR Echoplex preamp......
^ lot of great info there. Thx!
^ lot of great info there. Thx!
JeffB
Let it B
Re: Xotic EP Booster...MXR Echoplex preamp......
Yup..thanks for the info and linkage everyone... for now just looking at the boosts...though eventually want an ep simulator too...the mooer is meh-er.
The orbit one has got my attention for sure...
LFT, my son borrowed my good headphones without mentioning it to me..will hafta check out the clips ina day or two...after I kick his butt into next week!
Yup..thanks for the info and linkage everyone... for now just looking at the boosts...though eventually want an ep simulator too...the mooer is meh-er.
The orbit one has got my attention for sure...
LFT, my son borrowed my good headphones without mentioning it to me..will hafta check out the clips ina day or two...after I kick his butt into next week!
TwilightOdyssey
Darkness on the edge of Tone
Re: Xotic EP Booster...MXR Echoplex preamp......
Funny 'cause it's true.
Lol ... That made me chuckle.
Funny 'cause it's true.
JeffB
Let it B
Re: Xotic EP Booster...MXR Echoplex preamp......
Yup. Its a usable affordable pedal, but does not sound half as good as pedals twice its price. Actually the Memory Toy,similar priced , sounds significantly better than the mooers analog mode. The Mooer still sounds obviously digital..in all 3 modes.
Yup. Its a usable affordable pedal, but does not sound half as good as pedals twice its price. Actually the Memory Toy,similar priced , sounds significantly better than the mooers analog mode. The Mooer still sounds obviously digital..in all 3 modes.
TwilightOdyssey
Darkness on the edge of Tone
Re: Xotic EP Booster...MXR Echoplex preamp......
I seem to recall having this conversation before
I seem to recall having this conversation before
JeffB
Let it B
Re: Xotic EP Booster...MXR Echoplex preamp......
Heh. Yeah. But I bought my Mooer before I knew you were using one for rehearsals! Otherwise I woule have gone some other way.
Now that I have amp/speaker and my new Les Paul dialed in, I will be revamping my pedals/making substitutions.
Heh. Yeah. But I bought my Mooer before I knew you were using one for rehearsals! Otherwise I woule have gone some other way.
Now that I have amp/speaker and my new Les Paul dialed in, I will be revamping my pedals/making substitutions.
JeffB
Let it B
Re: Xotic EP Booster...MXR Echoplex preamp......
Is it based on the Echoplex preamps Hoss? . Looked on their website- no mention of what the circuit is based on. Is it just their take on a clean boost?
Is it based on the Echoplex preamps Hoss? . Looked on their website- no mention of what the circuit is based on. Is it just their take on a clean boost?
Hoss
Joyfulnoiseologist
Re: Xotic EP Booster...MXR Echoplex preamp......
It's an original circuit, but it acts very much like one. It's definitely not a drive, like the name suggests. It's an always on pedal that just gives you more feel and a kind of "enhancement" to your overall tone. All the notes suddenly seem to bloom in a very, very cool way.
ratherdashing
Kablamminator
Re: Xotic EP Booster...MXR Echoplex preamp......
I assumed the ReEcho was a DD-3 clone, and the Ana Echo was a DM-2. The "analog" and "tape" settings on the ReEcho are probably just a treble roll-off.
I assumed the ReEcho was a DD-3 clone, and the Ana Echo was a DM-2. The "analog" and "tape" settings on the ReEcho are probably just a treble roll-off.
