FoxGear EchoSex vs Keeley Magnetic Echo

The FoxGear EchoSex and the Keeley Magnetic Echo are both pedals sharing ambient, warm, low gain. The Keeley Magnetic Echo leans modulated and slapback.

Similarity
citedBlended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.

50% moderately similar

Shared genres
citedGenres both listings are associated with.
  • Ambient
Shared tone character
citedDerived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.
  • ambient
  • warm
  • low gain
Citation fame
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Price

$126.65via Reverb

Description

The Foxgear Echosex Baby Delay is a compact, Binson Echorec-inspired delay pedal, the smaller sibling of Guru's Echosex, delivering rich, warm echoes from subtle slap-back to expansive, ambient washes. Level, Tone, Repeat, and Time controls shape the delay, while the Age control reproduces the wear and mechanical warble of an aging Binson-style magnetic drum echo unit, adding a halo of textural warmth and instability to the repeats. True bypass keeps the dry tone unaffected when off. It suits players wanting warm, textured, vintage-voiced delay in a compact, pedalboard-friendly size.

The Keeley Magnetic Echo is a modulated tape-style delay that simulates warm tube tape echo using a lo-fi delay voice, gently filtered repeats, and subtle modulation. It produces a warm, smooth sound with no glassy digital edge, sitting less in-your-face than typical digital delays while staying guitar-friendly. Controls for Time, Regen, and Level set the delay, with delay times spanning roughly 40 to 600 milliseconds, while dedicated Wow and Flutter Depth and Rate controls add authentic tape pitch movement for vintage or unique textures. It suits players after classic tape echo warmth for slapback, rhythmic repeats, and ambient trails. In shoot-outs its repeats are praised as sounding closer to real tape, with more sophisticated modulation than rivals.

Genres
citedGenres this gear is documented as being used in.
  • Blues
  • Indie
Tonal lean
  • modulated
  • slapback
  • pristine
Good for
citedOccasions this gear suits — judged per model, or derived from its wattage, connectivity and category.
  • Live
  • Studio
  • Live
  • Studio

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