Catalinbread Belle Epoch Deluxe Review

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Review

Catalinbread's Belle Epoch Deluxe is their reimagining of the legendary Echoplex Ep-3 tape delay unit, heard on classic recordings from the '70s onwards from artists like Led Zeppelin, Brian May, Andy Summers, Eddie Van Halen and George Lynch to name but a few.

A Bit of History

The original Echoplex were first available from the early '60s. These delay units used vacuum tubes which provided the famous warmth of the preamp, but were also designed with the important innovation of moving tape heads as well as cartridges. The former allowed for different delay times and the latter protected the tape, arguably providing better sound quality due to less tape degradation. These were clear improvements over the existing tape delays like the EchoSonic, which was actually built into an amp and had been around since the '50s.

The EP-3 was the first unit in the line to use transistors rather than tubes and was in production from the beginning of the '70s till '91.

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