


You'll overdrive the TTE input, while keeping levels fairly manageable to the tape echo section.Įmphasis on the "fairly manageable." You're actually SLAMMING the input to the tape delay. Want to have less distorted echoes? Back off of the TTE gain, but use a booster pedal (say, the Xotic EP Booster) in front of the TTE. Crank up the input gain of the TTE, and you can overdrive the Deluxe in a glorious way. I'm using this with my Deluxe Reverb RI, and the gain interactions are just amazing, regardless of any delay things going on. Honestly, it is a bit too much wow & flutter for most musical purposes.Īnyway, you wanna hear a PREAMP? I give you this:
EASY AUDIO MIXER 1.0.5 UPDATE
Well, perfect if you want a warbly tape echo to include as a future update to a plugin. Right now, it has the perfect amount of warble. The problem with using an EP-3 as a preamp: You've got a 45 year old tape echo attached to it. This causes the 1st stage to get some lovely clipping that wouldn't happen on its own. Plug an EP-3 into a good tube amp, and you can really boost the input to the 1st tube stage. The EP-3 is far from transparent - it shaves off some of the low and high frequencies. It has less harmonic generation, on its own, than something like the ZVex SHO, which generates more gain and more 2nd order harmonics. It is all about the interaction between your guitar, the EP-3, and the tube amp downstream from the EP-3. For me, the EP-3 preamp doesn't really have much of a sound, on its own. I guess that’s better for people who are already using some preamp drive pedal that they love. Yeah, I heard a demo of it and I thought it nailed the preamp drive better than the Volante, which seemed a lot more transparent.
