Jimmy Page

Jimmy has been using the echoplex from the 1972 US tour to present-day. He has used 2 echoplexes over the years, one for his guitar, and one for his theremin.

Two were used in series for "Black Dog", as stated by producer Andy Johns in this Universal Audio interview. The article is accompanied by a photograph of Johns with three 1176LNs.

Would you like the “Black Dog” guitar tone story?

Absolutely! Which Led Zeppelin album was that?

That is the fourth one, the really, really big one. “Stairway To Heaven,” “When The Levee Breaks,” and “Black Dog.” It sold about 18 million — something bloody ridiculous. Who would have known, you know? I had been trying to get this sound from Buffalo Springfield for a long time and I met Bill House. He said, “I just put two of them in series.” He didn’t really want to let me know what “they” were.

It was a direct sound and I thought that I knew what to do. There were three guitars on “Black Dog” so I triple tracked it. When I mixed it, these three guitars were down here and the rest of the tracks were up here. Since the sound was so loud, it gave me much more room for the other stuff. Anyways, he meant two 1176s in series, one of which has the compression buttons punched out, so it is like an amp. You hit the front of the next compressor really hard and make the mic amp distort a bit with the EQ —a bit of bottom to make it sing. So “Black Dog” has a direct Gibson Les Paul Sunburst 52 or something, going right into the mic amps on the mixer, which is going through two 1176s, and it sounds like some guy in the Albert Hall with a bunch of Marshalls. I couldn’t have done it without the 1176s. There is not another compressor that will do that, because you can take out the compression stuff.

According to Eventide's website, the H949 was "the only piece of digital gear to grace his rig".

According to Guitar Lobby, Jimmy used Echorec 2.

According to Guitar Lobby, Jimmy used Echoplex EP-2.

According to Guitar Lobby, Jimmy used H910.