Delays / Echo

If you wanted to make an authentic hardware tape delay today, you could do a lot worse than commission a designer who used to work for Watkins, makers of the seminal Copicat. So that's what Blue Coconut did...

This classy stomp box is much more than a guitar effect, and it is equally impressive on stage and in the studio.

PSP's latest plug-in covers the spectrum from vintage tape-echo emulation to serious weirdness.

Line 6 have released two DSP-based effects pedals that use physical modelling to recreate the echo, delay and modulation treatments of a bygone age. Paul White — who was there first time around — finds out how they measure up to the real thing.

Though marketed as a guitar effects unit, the G Force might be more accurately described as a full-function studio effects processor with some neat guitar-related functions added.

We try out what must be the most cost-effective programmable 24-bit effects unit on the market. But can quality really come at such a low price?

The world of multi-effects might be generally interdisciplinary, but Derek Johnson finds that there'll always be room for a specialist.