Gibson Oberheim Echoplex - Outboard Processor For Homemade Sounds

June 27, 2007
A lab demonstration of the Oberheim Echoplex
The Gibson Oberheim Echoplex was good enough for Jimi Hendrix on Are You Experienced?, so it's definitely good enough for Eric Leonardson and his Springboard. You make some sounds with friction mallets and a wonky music box, feed them through distortion and EQ pedals, make some loops and you're good to go.

Watch the exclusive Gearwire video for a demo of the Echoplex in action.

For a live demo, check out Eric with the theater group Plasticene sometime.
Presenter: Eric Leonardson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Gretchen Hasse is a writer/producer for Gearwire.


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True Facts!!!

By: True Facts???

The Gibson/Oberhiem Echoplex was first Introduced: October 1994 by Gibson's Oberheim division. "Are You Experienced" released in 1967...Jimi dies in sept. 1970.

Jimi Hendrix had sadly been deceased for 24 years before he figured out that:
"The Gibson Oberheim Echoplex was good enough for Jimi Hendrix on Are You Experienced?, so it's definitely good enough for Eric Leonardson and his Springboard."

Long Live Jimi still the great innovator... even from the grave!?

"Who knows... they may even wrap me in cellophane and sell me... brothers help me" ...Jimi Hendrix

Sat, 2008-07-26 17:14

echoplex 'review'

By: Anonymous Coward

Utter shit.

Now you've finished boring us with your post industrial dribble, can you give the musicians of the world an Echoplex demo.

gearwire sux!!!

Thu, 2008-09-25 02:15

obviously

By: bholland

it's not a review of the echoplex, it's how to use the echoplex with contact mics. This is a more experimental approach to using it. There's no reason for us to interview an experimental musician if all we are going to do is talk about how a pedal works. We would just stay in our studio if that's what we wanted to do.

Thu, 2008-09-25 11:02

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