Gecko Pedals: Geckoplex EP-5

Chapters 00:00 Intro Song 01:39 The Story 04:26 Core Delay Tones 06:04 Warp and Shift 07:37 Slapback Echo and Drive 08:44 Reverb and Tails 10:58 Presets and Tap Tempo 12:21 Expression Pedal 13:44 Sound on Sound Looper So how would those original tape echo designers have built a delay pedal if they’d access to today’s technology? With a background in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Riley at Gecko Pedals in Eugene, OR went on a years long quest to find the answer for himself. When it came time for beta testing, he asked me to give it a quick test drive! Fast forward a couple months and we’d gone over numerous revisions here in Portland and not only compared it to my newly overhauled Echoplex but talked over new features to make this tape echo experience completely original. The EP-5 starts with an analog FET preamp not based on previous models, providing extra boost and grit up to 11dB but mainly for matching the Geckoplex to an