Time Based

Delay and echo pedals create a copy of your guitar sound and repeat it with a time delay. The delay created is either a slap, which is a single repetition, or an echo, which has muliple repetition. Delay and echo pedals are available in both digital and analogue. Digital delays produce perfect sounding copies of the sound and analogue produces a warmer, but less flexible sound. Looping pedals have extremely long delay times. This Allows the guitarist to build up phrases to play along. Often used to build up parts in a solo performance or for playback later. Reverb pedals create recreate the sound of spring or plate reverb. The most common reverb effects pedals are digital. Reverb is created using a large number of delays decaying over time into the air and and walls.