Chase Tone Secret Preamp & Clinch FX EP-Pre COMPARED! скачать в хорошем качестве

Chase Tone Secret Preamp & Clinch FX EP-Pre COMPARED!

Over the years, many pedal manufacturers have tried to replicate the fabled Echoplex EP-3 Preamp - the circuit utilised by a certain Jimmy Page, amongst many others - in pedal format, and there's now a whole host of them on the market. But of those offerings, two names repeatedly seem to rise to the top as being THE most accurate. Enter Chase Tone of the USA, and Clinch FX of Australia. Both of these companies have replicated that legendary circuit down to the finest detail....the internal 23V operating voltage; the TIS58 JFET transistor (or a modern equivalent of, at least, in the case of Peter Clinch); the 'folding in' effect at the top of the volume pot's travel that flattens the EQ more than it does add any extra boost. These are the two that you want. But whilst there are a few differences between them on paper - from Through Hole vs. SMD construction to how they want to be powered - when all is said and done, how different do the SOUND? Much has been said on forums over the years (The Gear Page, I'm looking at you...!) but in the real world, why would you choose one over the other? Today, after years of speculation, we're finally going to find out. I'll be making this the fairest test I possibly can...giving them each the power they need to run at 'real' Echoplex voltage internally and keeping the entire rig exactly the same (down to the cable runs, amp settings, mic blend, etc) to finally answer the question: how do these two behemoths of the EP-3 Preamp concept compare? What do you think? Which did you prefer? Any major differences to you? Comment below! Guitars: Gronlund R16 Redeemer Jr w/ TV Jones Ful-Fidelity Ray Butts Filter'Tron Gibson ES-330 '61 VOS w/ OX4 P90s Ron Kirn Barnbuster w/ Don Mare Hot Bakelites Heritage H535 w/ ThroBak PG-102 LTDs Fender Partscaster Strat w/ Mark Foley 60's Pre CBSs Gibson Les Paul Standard w/ ThroBak SLE-101s Amp is a Vajra JTM45 clone running into a Zilla Studio Pro 2x12 cabinet loaded with Celestion AlNiCo Gold & G12M Heritage Greenback speakers. Recorded with Aston Spirit Condenser, '70s Sennheiser MD441 and sE RNR1 ribbon mics, with a Schoeps CMC6 room mic. Reverb is a Dr Z Z-Verb unit. 0:00 What Is The Echoplex Preamp? 2:21 Through Hole & Surface Mount Constructions 3:11 The TIS58 JFET 4:06 Voltage & Power Requirements 5:43 ClinchFX 9V vs 12V Comparison 7:03 The Eras of Echoplex 8:45 What Does The Volume Control Do? 9:35 PLAYING COMPARISON 16:44 Outro [email protected] Vector images by freepik.com