Maestro Echoplex EP-3

The Maestro Echoplex EP-3 is a tape echo/delay effects device first introduced in the 1970s by Maestro. This is the solid-state version of the original Echoplex from the 1960s with some further amended features.

Steve Hackett had an Echoplex EP-3, which was an important part of his guitar sound from the mid-1970s to early 80s, during the tail end of his career with Genesis and the first few years of his solo career. Compared to a Roland Space Echo (which was less noisy), he found the Echoplex far more controllable when doing simple guitar phrasings like single-note lines. And he'd control it via his pedalboard.