“It's more than an effect. It's an instrument in itself”: Made famous by David Gilmour, and employed by Rory Gallagher and the Beatles, the Binson Echorec is a secret-recipe tool that helped define rock guitar tone

David Gilmour performs onstage with Pink Floyd at Ahoy in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in February 1977.

It really doesn’t matter what genre of music you prefer to play, if you’re reading this you probably own a delay pedal, if not several of them.

Of course, there are always exceptions – some players swear by only reverb and some might not even dial in any ambience whatsoever. But for the most part, delay pedals sit among the most valuable of tools out there for guitarists.