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# How to pronounce "echoplex" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/ɛtʃɒplɛks/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **e·cho·plex**
- **Parts of Speech**: verb, noun
- **VERB**: To echo received text characters back to the computer that sent them.
  - *Example*: "The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing. As indicated, echoplexing is often confused with the duplexes. If a character is typed, such as A, and on the terminal appears AA, the far end is echoplexing while the terminal is optioned for local displaying of the characters while they are typed."
- **VERB**: To apply a tape delay effect on (an instrument).
  - *Example*: "[…](making much use of Macero's splicing, tape loops and echoplexing of Miles' trumpet)."
- **NOUN**: A tape delay effect first used in the 1960s.
  - *Example*: "On Electric Bath Ellis provided an exquisite example of how to use the loop delay echo chamber on his trumpet, as he played “Open Beauty”. By using an echoplex Ellis was able to play highly effective solos, duets, and trios in a surrealistic manner by himself."

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (5 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "echoplex" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "While there were dozens of different types of units that could create echo - two that found their way into many dub tracks of the 1970s were the Roland Space Echo and Maestro Echoplex. If you open the tops of both - you’ll see that there’s not much to it: A single magnetic tape spinning in an infinite loop. But when the knobs of these machines were turned to extreme combinations - the results were trippy."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 7:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ci5XTpPq94&t=469s)

### Example 2
> "for adding a wah-wah pedal and echoplex."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 23:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUUVaOkUcS0&t=1390s)

### Example 3
> "asy character across the United States and back to Echoplex on the ASR 33 in"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 26:48](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPfNOX_nPHY&t=1608s)

### Example 4
> "One of the instruments I used in that scene was the Rhodes, Fender Rhodes going through an echoplex, and you heard it near the end, which is a reverberation device."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 22:47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUUVaOkUcS0&t=1367s)

### Example 5
> "some wires, and then repatch the wah-wah pedal, and then repatch the echoplex, and then send it back"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 23:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUUVaOkUcS0&t=1434s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [echoplexed](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/echoplexed), [echoplexes](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/echoplexes), [ech](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/ech), [echage](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/echage), [echalion](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/echalion), [echard](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/echard), [echelle](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/echelle), [echellette](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/echellette)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "echoplex" correctly?
"echoplex" is pronounced `/ɛtʃɒplɛks/`. Syllable breakdown: **e·cho·plex**.

### What does "echoplex" mean in context?
To echo received text characters back to the computer that sent them.

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