Imagine having to find room on your pedal board for this!

[Andy N]

Saw this in a local museum near Nottingham UK today.
Heard about them but never seen one before! Would have loved to know what it sounded like. A bit of a beast to carry around though.

[sunjamr]

Wow, that’s really cool! Too bad they won’t let you check it out and take it home for a couple of weeks to play with it. I notice it has 2 inputs, as did some amps in those days. But what is the “motor” switch for?

Sunjamr Steve

[Andy N]

That’s an interesting question Steve, and I tried to find out but didn’t really get anywhere. I’d speculate that it turns on the motor to drive the tape and hence turn echoes on and off. Apparently it was common to use this and the echo plex as a pre-amp only, without any echoes. The pre amps were valve driven so gave an enriched tone like a boost. Maybe that’s how you did that?

[JoeD1]

I’ve never seen anything like it. Very cool.

Joe

The sight of a touch, or the scent of a sound,
Or the strength of an Oak with roots deep in the ground.
--Graeme Edge

[GnLguy]

The original Echoplex came out a couple of years before this Vox unit.

Check it out
https://reverb.com/news/reel-deal-the-echoplex-tape-delay-now-and-then

[Andy N]

That’s an interesting article Kieth, I guess both the echoplex and this vox were natural developments from the tape based machines used back in the 50s, mentioned in the related article. Hadn’t realised Les Paul was a big user delay/echo way back in the 50s either.

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