# Xotic EP Booster

> This gain entry consolidates documented Xotic EP Booster variants, controls, settings and roles across dated guitarist pedalboards. It is also used as an editorial substitute in a budget rebuild.

- Canonical page: https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/xotic-ep-booster/
- Machine-readable index of the archive: https://pedalboardarchive.com/llms.txt
- Evidence and reconstruction conventions: https://pedalboardarchive.com/methodology/

- **Category:** Gain
- **Types:** Boost, EP-3-style preamp, Preamp
- **Also known as:** Echoplex Preamp Booster, EP Booster
- **Controls:** Boost, Footswitch, Internal Bass switch, Internal Bright switch, Internal voicing switches
- **Identification:** The model is identified.
- **Documented appearances:** 3 boards, 2021–2024
- **Editorial appearances:** 1 budget rebuild

A compact Echoplex-inspired boost documented on Buck's 2022 touring board.

## Documented boards

Each row is an observed appearance on a dated board. A position is only an observed one where that board's order evidence says so.

| Artist | Board | Date | Positions | Order evidence | Page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Buck | Cardinal Black touring system | 2022-11-07 | 7 | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/chris-buck/cardinal-black-touring-board-2022/ |
| Michael Lemmo | Compact Allan Rayman touring board | 2024-08-07 | 2 | Source-described | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/michael-lemmo/allan-rayman-tour-board-2024/ |
| Thurston Moore | By the Fire interview pedalboard | 2021-01-25 | 8 | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/thurston-moore/by-the-fire-interview-board-2021/ |

## Budget rebuild appearances

Editorial substitutions chosen by the archive for a priced rebuild. They are not gear the artist owned or used.

| Rebuild | Replaces | Fidelity | Page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eric Johnson's 2018 four-amp system on a budget | Modified Maestro Echoplex EP-3 | Same topology | https://pedalboardarchive.com/budget/eric-johnson/ah-via-musicom-four-amp-rig-2018/ |