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Maestro Echoplex

randed as the “Maestro” Echoplex after its distributor, this seminal tape-echo device was developed by Mike Battle and Don Dixon after a design created by Ray Butts, whose tape-based echo had featured in a guitar amp called the Echosonic, favored by Elvis Presley’s guitarist Scotty Moore (“Mystery Train”) and Sam Phillips. The Echosonic was never produced in any great numbers, but it did help to shape the burgeoning

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