Description
The EP-PRO takes the FET-driven boost that made the original EP Booster a staple on pedalboards – the same circuit that helped shape tones from Jimmy Page to Eddie Van Halen – and pairs it with a volume pedal built for real-time tone control, not just level cuts.
Xotic frames this pedal around what they call FTR: Feel, Touch, and Response. The idea is simple – your tone isn’t just frequency response and gain character, it’s how your guitar reacts to your hands. The EP-PRO’s boost circuit is voiced to amplify dynamics and touch nuance rather than mask them, so notes bloom the way you dig in, and your amp tracks your phrasing more naturally.
Where you place it changes what it does for you:
- Guitar straight into a tube amp’s input – feeds the front end a slightly hotter, more nuanced signal so the amp breathes and responds more freely.
- In the amp’s effects loop – works as a boost at the power stage, adding sparkle and lift to the amp’s output character.
- End of the effects chain, before delay – the classic EP Booster placement, tightening up how drive and modulation effects sit together and giving you a final volume/tone trim.
- Ahead of digital platforms like Neural, Line 6, or Fractal – restores some of the organic input sensitivity that amp sims can lose, letting you shape gain and tone before the signal goes digital.
Whichever spot you choose, the EP-PRO is built to be the always-on utility that quietly makes everything downstream feel better – an always-on tone enhancer with the flexibility of a volume pedal built in.
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