“It doesn’t sound really wet… then suddenly you are in a huge chamber”: David Gilmour shares an essential tone tip for guitarists using a whammy bar with a delay pedal

David Gilmour plays a Black Stratocaster onstage in New York, on a moody stage lit in dark blue.

Few players have helped sell more stompboxes than David Gilmour. He was one of the original masters of fuzz. He would use tape echo and mechanical devices such as the Binson Echorec to suspend notes in the air, seemingly indefinitely.

And then there was his use of the the Uni-Vibe, the disorienting swirl of rotating speakers to cast a spell on his audience.