Marshall EH-1 Echohead

Easy to use. The knobs are clearly labled and easy to turn, and stiff enoguh so as not to move on their own accord. The manual was basic, and there are no stupid annoying patches to edit etc...

This replaces my Korg AX10G onstage. I don't think the Korg is a stage pedal... It is flimsy, and microphonic! Jeeez.

The only thing about this pedal that is confusing is thus. Other people here claim it doesn't work when turned on, etc... now here is something interesting. Mine does the same thing. True bypass whether it is turned on or not. This has something to do with which pedals in my chain (well I only have 2 pedals) comes on first etc... and which receives the electricity first off.

All settings are good imho except reverse. Reverse is useless as it doesn't work rhythmically, but works in time with any input signal it receives, then churns it out randomly. I have no use for reverse. If you turn the time on reverse right down, ditto feedback, you get one repeat, which is like a bounce back of the original signal only reversed (more like reversed dynamics) which is semi useful. Even if it sounds a bit like a step filter.

The only fault on my pedal is that the Tape delay simulator adds clicks, which disrupts the timings of the repeats on only the longest delay time setting.

Not screwed me over yet. I can use it onstage without backup, and delay is an important factor in my sound.

Never dealt with about pedals. I use one of their amps though, and it kept giving me grief at one point.

Its good. You can over-use delay so this is a good place to start.

If you have messed with echo units, it's fairly easy, twist knobs and start experimenting. The only thing about these Marshall pedals are the chrome knobs and a little black slash that is impossible to see from a distance or in dark lighting, I need a floresent markings on them to see the settings. (must run to hobby store)
There is a feature that if you plug the output to amp in output 2, the echo fades after disingageing, of course the output 1 will cut off as soon as you step off the effect. I am enjoying the fade as I use this for mood solos and the fade works real well for the songs I use this effect on.

Clear in a good way, I have used Boss DD-3,DD-5,DD-6, and a Guyatone TX Tube Echo and run through a Soldano HR50, into Marshall 2x12, and 4x10 cabs. I experiment with dirt pedals so that may change on a weekly or ? basis. Right now it's a Digitech BadMonkey, Barber DirectDrive, Boss SD-1 Keeley mod, Marshall Chorus, Marshall EchoHead, 55/77 LP, 81 LP Studio, Fender Tele Deluxe RI, Fender Stratocaster. So far the sounds are cutting thru to my ears expectations without the digital sound I hear in Boss echos.

So far, many rehersals and 1 gig, and performing with no problems. I use a VooDoo Lab Power supply, and if it dies at a gig I can get by without, just no echo in the solos!

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Playing ROCK music, originals and some juicy covers, with 25+ years pickin' n grinnin'. Like I've stated, the pedal so far is what I was looking for and has made me smile instead of wanting to kick the pedal into scrap heaven. A big plus, I usually don't like to mess with my pedalboard too much when I play with the band, so everything is dialed in before hand and I should be able to kick the effect on/off with no concern, the music and vibe of the moment is important during a performance and getting ticked at the non performance of a piece of equipment really sucks.

With that said, I am diggin' my EchoHead to the point of getting one for my home jammin', I use a Yamaha DG Stomp, Digitech Screamin' Blues, Marshall BBII, into a Fender Pro Jr...time to make some noise!

Pretty easy to use. You'll need to spend sometime figuring out what settings work right for you, but I think this is the way with all delays.

The sound of this pedal is terrific. I just loved the Tape Echo setting, I could get everything from Piper At The Gates Of Dawn to a great Slap Back. I even loved the Reverse setting, and was starting to workout a good intro to What Condition My Condition Was In (my band does a monthly Lebowski Night).

Unfortunately, despite the great sound this thing is not trustworthy at all. I got the same noises and lack of any effect at all, that others have described on here. I have a Marshall ED1 that I bought used, and it is reliable as the day is long. So it looks like Marshall just dropped the ball on this one, it is a shame if they get it to work right it would be a great pedal.

Haven't dealt with them. I just sent it back to the store.

I just sent this back to the store yesterday. I've got my eye on a digitech digi-delay to replace it. If Marshall fixes the noise problems I'd get a new one, but at present it is not worth the $4.00 shipping.

Very easy to get a GREAT sound out of this thing. 4 knobs and a button. Lots of sockets for various things. I recommend using a momentary switch to set the tempo with your foot. It's probably dead easy to make your own even.

I have read the reviews below so lets get a few things sorted:
1). NEVER run this pedal on batteries. Battery life is short and it will sound bad in 15-30 mins. This in probably not a matter of dud batches, but design issue perhaps. ALWAYS run it with a regulated DC adapter such as the Boss one, and you'll be sweet. The store I bought this from said the only returns were due to use of a battery in this pedal. Never use a battery! If you can live without a battery, then this pedal is for you!
2). One person below commented that they wished true bypass had spill over. Well if that were the case, then it wouldn't be true bypass would it, because that's impossible. With true bypass you bypass the entire effect when pedal is disengaged - hence any spill is cut off immediately.

Easy-as pedal to use, however 9/10 here. I deduct 1 point because the knobs are hard to read in dim lighting. Marshall need to paint the line real thick and with a bold colour, instead of a thin black line on a silver knob.

Sounds GREAT. Not muddy at all. Not clinical or cold either. All the delay modes are distinctive. It covers all bases. Analog mode sounds analog. Digital mode is crystal clear. You may need to set the pedal to longer delay times with lots of feedback (aka regeneration) to appreciate some of the other effects such as Mod Filter (phaser type effect on the repeats) and Tape Echo modes (slight warble on repeats). With the generous 2 second delay time, numerous delay modes, tap tempo, stereo ping pong, mono spill, mono-nonspill, etc, this pedal would suit most peoples delay needs.

I have tried the expensive Digitech X-Series DigiDelay and that was alot more difficult to get a good sound out of. It sounded muddy to me also. The Rocktron Short-Timer a beautiful sounding delay, but only 400ms delay. This Marshall Echohead was about the same price as the Rocktron, but had so many more features. Never tried the Boss delays, so cannot compare.

Seems solid enough, but only time will tell. The older Marshall pedals (e.g. Shredmaster) seem bullet-proof and there are many still around. So that must say something. However, these are not as solid as the Boss pedals, so only an 8/10 here.

If you take into account that many of the reliablity issues people have complained about are due to the pedal not running on batteries, then this is not really a matter of reliability, but (poor) design in this respect.

Never owned a Marshall product before, so it's too soon to tell.

Freakin' awesome pedal - if you can live without using batteries. If not, then perhaps try a different pedal. The price of this pedal is so cheap, yet this pedal competes well against the more expensive (twice the price!) DigiTech X-Series Digi-Delay pedal. I reckon it smokes the DigiTech, but that's just my opinion.

Very simple; knobs for type of delay (Tape delay, reverse etc), delay time (time between delays), feedback (number if repeats) and level (volume of delays). I like the way the I/O is set out so that the signal goes in and can come out from two outputs, which is cool if you want to run two amps at the same time. Then when you kick delay in, it delays through one amp, then the other. Used this in recording, but not live - not rich enough for stereo rig...yet.
Tap tempo input is a simple 1/4" jack. Any non-latching footswitch will work, so long as the polarity correct, just try both, one works. You can use keyboard sutain pedals which is handy if you have one lying around.

I play a PRS soapbar through various pedals (permanent members are Lovepedal Eternity and Cry-baby - and now this) into a Rivera 45. No noise coming from the echo-head, quiet in and out of operation.
I tried the echohead and loved it right away. Id used a boss before this and it was just like ambience to me, and I was looking for a more involved delay that can be part of your compositions, you know? For example, the Echo-head has nice ambient echos but it also has crisp tape delay sounds, which i use in songs as a harmonizer. Im the only guitar in the band and with level on full and feedback on one repeat; I can have my melody as a round- a sort of off-set harmony. Tap in the tempo, and its like I'm playing at, and its like having a second guitar copying you, just a beat, (or two or three or four or five etc beats) later.

I can then dial in low feedback, low level echos thats like playing in a concert hall or a cave.

Reverse delay is beatiful. Slow tempo solos shine with reverse delay. Basically it repeats what you play in the last beat but backwards. For example if the tempo was tapped in minims and i play a crochet C followed by a crochet D it would imediatly, after the second crochet, spit out D and then a C, in time, but with spacey reverse attack. Its wild.

My absolute favourite setting doesnt really sound like delay at-all. With delay time on the smallest possible and level and feedback cranked, you get a crazy metalic, bouncy sort of tracking. Its equally wild.

On some settings you can get delay times that are quite long. I can essenstially sample a bar with tempo tapped. After about 10 repeats, it sort of looses energy, and you can't overdub. But if you want a sampler, dont look at reviews for a delay pedal.

I put my distortion and drives infront of it, becase if you put them after they get confused by the delays and start getting flabby. Drive on, with wah, with crazy full level echos sounds fabulous and full. Its a vital tool for me and my band.

This totally lets it down...

First one I got, brought it home and tried it. It ate a battery in two minutes. So i figured Id use my power supply which is fine. But after about two weeks of this it started to crakle over the delays so it was just crakling instead of delay. SO i took It back and they said "batch fault, have this one from a different batch." After two months it did exactly the same stuff so I took it back again, and got a third one. This third one has served me well for the last two months, but I fully expect it to break again.

Battery life is quite bad, half an hours worth in a 9 volt, then it starts going shady. Always DC it...

It broke on the morning of a recording by the way, but there was a rack delay which worked just as well. therefore I dont reccommend gigging without backup, but Im too damn poor to get backup.

Only people Ive dealt with are the guys in the music shop, they just took the old one and gave me a new one both times, straight away.

Would be 10 if they could sort out all the duds goin around.

Absolute bargain, shame about the reliability!

I play rock and blues and this matches for my psycadelic rock but not really for blues.

If it were lost or stolen Id buy another, but Ill be safe in the knowledge that whoever stole it would have to try and take it back,when it breaks down, without a receipt. Take that hypothetical theif!

I love how involved you can make it in your sound, its fab. It definatly helps the music rather than getting in the way.
I personally have no problem taking it back if it breaks again, becasue i get a new warranty each time. Maybe this one will be fine, like the other reveiws and I was just unlikey with two turkeys.
Great product! but be warned about the reliability.

its just got a couple knobs, so its really easy to use.

i've used it with a marshall 2150 head and a marshall 4x12 silver jubilee
cabinet with greenbacks in it.
the pedal sounds really nice and clean while its on a 9v powerplug,
all the effects are great and well engineered, they sound perfect.

however, as soon as i started using it on battery power, it started generating a static crackling noise, which was way too loud to be acceptable. i even brought it back to the shop to get another one, which had the exact same problem.

well, i dealt with the shop, so they instantly replaced, and took back the pedals.

overall: great delay, but not usable on battery power = crap

standard delay pedal knobs, effect level, repeats, delay time and one knob for voicing. If you've owned any delay pedal then you can use this one.

Slight problem with the delay time though, it seems that though the manual says 20ms fully anti-clockwise and 2000ms fully clockwise, i don't think those times are correct. I haven't used a stopwatch though, so what do i know?!

I play a std. strat through a custom built hiwatt-type combo. i have a variety of Boss/MXR and EHX pedals that i put in front of this one. I was surprised at how nice all the voicings sounded to me when i first tried it.

the digital was clean, analog was warm, tape was classic, reverse was as silly as any reverse delay i've heard... Now, as for the sounds you can get out of it, let me tell you i didn't really have time to tell, so read below....

CRAP! That's all I can say about this pedal. Total garbage. I bought this one, because as with everyone and their uncle, i was kind of getting tired of my Boss DD3. Sure it worked and the repeats was nice, but it's a digital delay, i wanted more voicings, more options, so i looked around and between this paperweight and the Ibanez DE7 and any other delay in my price range, this one had the nicest sound, it FELT like a tank and it seemed to cover all bases.

Brought the pedal home, used it for 1/2 an hour (I'm not exaggerating) and i started to hear static over the repeats. the static got so bad that i had to eventually unplug the pedal.

So i called the store, and they got me a replacement from the distributor within a day. brought the new pedal home, plugged it in, started to play and within maybe an hour this time the same thing started to happen.

This is a loud, fizzy type of static. i switched all the cables around and tried it again, same problem. The patch cables seem to gradually loosen in the jacks and i have to keep pushing them back in. This is probably the reason for the static, but really you shouldn't have to deal with this sort of garbage from a pedal. I've had the dd3, and other boss/mxr/EHX pedals for years without this, why twice with marshall?

I should have read some of the other posts on here because this is just one monumental pain in the a**. I am going back tonight to get back my original DD3 and i will never buy another Marshall product again. Honestly, don't be fooled by the name, this is one HORRIBLE product

I dealt directly with my store (small local shop) and they have been apologetic and have done everything to replace my product. As for dealing with Marshall themselves, no thanks... I can't trust a company that builds something like this pedal.

A great SOUNDING pedal, when it works but two pedals that lasted a grand total of an hour and a half before breaking down is unacceptable. I don't know what else to write, apart from that.

If i am doing something wrong, email me. But I've been playing for over a decade now and i have never hade a problem with any piece of equipment like i had with this one. And I've owned some bad equipment. Crate amps, Univox guitars and Danelectro pedals look like gems compared to this nasty little reject.

Maybe Marshall should reconsider farming out their labour to countries with a history of human rights violations! Maybe the build quality will improve.

Very easy, No need for a manual. can get excellent sounds very quickly

Using an Ibanez RG and a marshall TSL100 with this pedal going through the loop and also tried in front of the amp. The sounds from this pedal are excellent, very warm sounding and very usuable. Could dial in just about every sound i needed and I was amazed considering the price.

Bit of a problem here. I experienced a pop every time i turned it on or off which was too loud to be ignored. Also had another marshall pedal at the time which did the same thing. Never had any problems with any other pedals. Tried it with different set ups to no avail. Also had the occasional oocurence of switching it on and hearing no effect. I then had to disconnect everything and reconnect before it would work again. In the end I couldn't trust it so it went back to the shop after 3 weeks of trying to sort it out. Pity I loved the way it sounded apart from the annoying problems

Never used them, The shop dealt with my problems

The sounds this pedal could produce were excellent for pop/rock applications. Especially good considering the price. I was just sorry that the popping could not be fixed which made it unusable for me. If anyone else has experience this and knows how to fix it then feel free to give me a shout as neither myself nor the dealer good make sense of it.

Very straightforward. 6 Preset 'types' on far left knob from DD3 to Memory Man, Tape, Reverse etc. Feedback (no of repeats), Time (space between delays) and Level (Depth of effect). Simple to operate. Nice touch is an input to tap out your delay time using an external momentary switch. Any keyboard pedal will do this.

Really nice sound. Very clear. Tape and analog types sound a bit too the same. Good qualtiy effect. Nice and quiet when it is supposed to be too!

I have a Marshall Compressor as well and an old Guvnor. Marshall gear has always been renowned for its roadworthy-ness. Ican't vouch for the cheap Chinese amps but the pedals do get a thumbs up. I always imagine they would hurt if thrown from the stage at a particular idiot in the front row!

Marshall - local good quality company. Always been helpful in the past. Sent me a spare knob free for my compressor.

Really good piece of gear can't believe I am only the fourth review. Great value for money in a well designed roadwothy chassis. Great! Believe me this is a great little pedal - pointless getting a DD3 or X Series instead.

This is my first delay-ay-ay pedal, and after experiencing many rack based units designed for studio, not guitar, i have to say it floors them on a few counts. This thing is easy - plug it in, and it sounds great straight away! There're few controls - it has a volume (for delayed sound only, dry goes through), a delay time and a feedback amount. No mod rate / cutoff level, but hey - I paid #65 for it not #165! What more do you really need from the price? It's a piece of cake. I'm not giving it a 10 because it's got no tempo light.

I'm using the 'head with a jazz deluxe bass. I normally like my bass dry as a bone but recently I've been swayed into reverb and delay for swells and harmonic work. I was afraid this pedal would suck tone - can't say I have noticed any tone loss at bedroom volume, I've yet to do an A-B when it's loud. The actual quality of the delays is lovely - they just sound, erm, really nice, even at incredibly short delay times it doesn't sound harsh, you just get a weird slapback effect that's still usable! I have to say I've found every setting on this thing entirley usable - I was expecting to find maybe one or two settings, but no, all 6 options from the dalay type are a joy! There's a bit of noise there on some settings, but I am using a quiet bass, annd it fades into oblivion when compared with other units. It can't have a ten though, because true bypass is only available with no spill - boo!

Seems built like a tank. Mind you, so what, my ampeg just got back off tour and promptly broke, and so's that. I'll be using it without a backup like, but who can afford backups? I've got no quandries with it.

N/A never tried. hope I never need to.

I'm playing a lot of very extended, atmospheric music with various different passages in, some calling for delay. This thing will do the jobs and more. It's already written a song for me, bless it! It'll go inbetween a barber tonepress and a boss RV-5 and a loopstation. That should do the trick, although I will be buying the footpedal for tap tempo. I chose this primarily because fo rpice, but now I have it, I would buy ut again for it's quality sounds. The reverse delay is gorgeous, so usable, even on a bass!