CATALINBREAD / BELLE EPOCH black and silver

Catalinbread Belle Epoch allows you to create high-quality tape echo sounds as if there is tape inside the pedal. We have recreated the tape echo sound of the Maestro Echoplex EP-3, perhaps the most famous in the world.

The EP-3 is an echo that represents the rock guitar sound of the 1970s, and is known to have been used by many guitarists such as Jimmy Page, Brian May, Tommy Bolin, K. K. Downing, and Van Halen.
Belle Epoch has packed everything the lovely EP-3 has into this small, maintenance-free box.
A tape echo pedal can't be made by just adding a few filters to a standard digital delay. To create a sound similar to a real Echoplex, there are many small characteristics that must be understood and reproduced.
The preamp, the oscillation, the character, the playability that allows it to be used like an instrument in itself, the hits when the sound is recorded on tape, the wow and flutter, the attenuation of repeats, the compatibility with amplifiers and other pedals...all elements are important for authentic reproduction.

■SPEC
Powered by a 9-18V center negative DC adapter. Batteries cannot be used.
Current consumption: 60mA
Controls: ECHO SUSTAIN, MOD, REC LEV, MIX, ECHO DELAY