Catalinbread Belle Epoch Preamp

Inspired by the maestro echoplex ep 3 model perhaps the most famous tape delay ever the belle epoch features everything we love about the ep 3 in a small maintenance free pedal format.

Catalinbread belle epoch preamp.

Catalinbread have managed to create a pedal that is exactly like running through an ep 3 echoplex the belle epoch has the same tone shaping effect and slight signal boost as the original ep 3. Catalinbread has released some of the most beloved pedals in the guitar world in recent years and the belle epoch may be chief among them. You can still find one at a retailer. For namm 2017 th.

Epoch boost poster pre order 10 00. Pocket sized reproduction of the early ep 3 preamp. Catalinbread designed it to create the same degradation of repeats as the ep 3 and even the sound of the tape head traveling across the tape can be heard. Belle epoch deluxe 359 99 exact ep 3 circuitry from the 22 volt power rail to the jfet preamp later spec to the mixer stage to the high gain silicon transistor based record and playback amplifiers to the feedback loop.

The catalinbread belle epoch tape echo has tape echo sounds so authentic you d swear there was tape inside the pedal. Our first batch is sold out. Following up the belle epoch a faithful recreation of the maestro echoplex ep 3 catalinbread has announced the epoch boost a preamp buffer pedal modeled on the classic tape delay unit s highly regarded preamp. Catalinbread designs and hand builds high quality industry defining guitar effects pedals in the u s a.