ECHO PEDALS

OUR SHOPPING GUIDES:
• The Ultimate Guide to Echo Pedals (3 Best Delays by Type)
• Best Analog Delay Pedals
• Best Tape-Style Echo Pedals
• Best Delay + Reverb Combo Pedals
• Best Creative Delay Pedals
• Best Mini Delay Pedals
• Best Binson Echorech-Inspired Pedals

Below, the latest news about delay pedals

Ibanez ES3 Echo Shifter

At NAMM 2020 Ibanez presented an upgrade to their classic Echo Shifter pedal, the ES3, which adds a digital mode for crisper repeats and as Oscillation mode if the tap tempo footswitch is held. The effect's modulation can now be controlled more in-depth thanks to the new Speed knob.…Click on the title for more

Ibanez ES3 Echo Shifter

JAM Delay Llama Xtreme

Presented at NAMM 2020, Delay Llama Xtreme is the latest addition to JAM's popular series. It emulates tape machine wildness but also paves new ground. Three 3205 BBD chips deliver up to 800ms of classic delay tone, adjustable through an intuitive layout of three knobs (Time, Release and Level), three…Click on the title for more

JAM Delay Llama Xtreme

2021 UPDATE: The Best Analog Delay Pedals

This article is exclusively focused on the best analog delay pedals. For coverage about all kinds of delays see our Best Delay Pedals article. Updated on 10.13.2021 Delay has become one of the most common effects on guitarists' pedalboards, even if it is available in an uncommonly diverse number of…Click on the title for more

2021 UPDATE: The Best Analog Delay Pedals

New Pedals: Geckoplex EP5 Delay/Reverb

The Echoplex tape delay machine has inspired a lot of echo pedals - as a matter of fact, most of the ones included in our guide to the best tape-style delays on the market. The Geckoplex EP5 by Eugene, OR's Gecko Pedals, is a high-end reinterpretation of that circuit, with…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Geckoplex EP5 Delay/Reverb

New Pedal: Donner White Tape Stereo Dual Echo

Chinese builder Donner has made a name for itself for its super affordable, no-frills guitar pedals, but a few recent releases seem to show a little more ambition - including art on the case! Their new White Tape stereo echo belongs to this new series and, in case you are…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Donner White Tape Stereo Dual Echo

SolidGoldFX EM-III Multi-Head Octave Echo

Montreal's SolidGoldFX has been on a tear recently, and if there was an award for the "most prolific pedal builder of the '20s" they would be up there with Walrus Audio and a few other ones. Their latest release is the EM-III, a compact Multi-Head Octave Echo. Building on SGFX’s…Click on the title for more

SolidGoldFX EM-III Multi-Head Octave Echo

TEFI Vintage Lab Ms. Delayette Echo

The Ms. Delayette by Italian builder TEFI Vintage Lab is a quirky looking but great sounding analog echo inspired to the vintage magnetic units of the '60s like Binson Echorec, Echolette NG51S and Maestro Echoplex EP-1. It features two modulation modes, one standard and one using a more random wave,…Click on the title for more

TEFI Vintage Lab Ms. Delayette Echo

Retroactive Pedals Dot Chaser Cassette-Style Echo with Modulation

The PT2399 chip is found in a lot of modulated delay pedals inspired by old tape machines - you can find a list of the most popular in this section about the Best Creative PT2399-Based Echo Pedals. Nashville's Retroactive Pedals has an intriguing stompbox that fits this profile called Dot…Click on the title for more

Retroactive Pedals Dot Chaser Cassette-Style Echo with Modulation

Catalinbread Belle Epoch Deluxe

The Catalinbread Belle Epoch Deluxe Echo is "an exact reproduction of the iconic 1970’s Maestro Echoplex EP-3 – the only difference is that there is no tape!" - check it out! From the 22 volt power rail, to the JFET preamp, to the mixer stage, to the high gain silicon…Click on the title for more

Catalinbread Belle Epoch Deluxe

2021 UPDATE: The 3 Best Delay Pedals, by Type

If you like delay, you were born in the right century. Humans have been making music for a very long time — some say as many as 35,000 years. But none of the gazillions musical compositions written between the dawn of humanity and the 1960s had a “delay effect” on…Click on the title for more

2021 UPDATE: The 3 Best Delay Pedals, by Type

Old Blood Noise Flat Light Flanger

With its latest feature-packed pedal, the Flat Light textural flange shifter, Old Blood Noise Endeavors built an effect on the foundation of flanging. Unlike traditional flangers, the Flat Light has three modes that enhance the effect with delay, modulation and pitch shifting, each of which can be selected from the pedal’s three-position…Click on the title for more

Old Blood Noise Flat Light Flanger

Eventide UltraTap Delay

After the BlackHole and the MicroPitch, the Eventide | UltraTap delay is the third pedal in a new series of Stereo effects based on improved algorithms that made the fortune of the NYC company, being feautred in all their most successful products from pro audio (rack effects, plugins) to guitar pedals…Click on the title for more

Eventide UltraTap Delay