So what's the difference between

Travisthedog

Delay and echo ?

daveyh

Delay is what happens to guitars, echo is what happens in the Alps.

Or, delay is artificial, echo is natural (at least that's how I think of it)

viz

Delay is what happens to trains, echo is what happens to guitars.

Bidley

Delay = crisp, bright.

Echo = warm, dark.

That's how I see the difference anyway.

[Deleted User]

Echo is a newspaper in Liverpool, delay is frustrating.

mike257

If I see "echo" on a pedal, I assume "tape echo" which conjures up images of old machinery, wobbly repeats and diminishing clarity with each repeat. Awesome old school sounds.

I've always seen delay (in the context of pedals/effects) as an umbrella term encompassing this, shiny clear digital delays and all the other bits in between.

Manufacturers play fast and loose with the terminology to slot a pedal into whichever marketing niche they're aiming for, but the above is loosely how it tends to work.

randomhandclaps

 Echo is the word that digital delay makers use when they want to make you think of it as not digital.

ICBM

About twenty years.

randomhandclaps

ICBM said:

About twenty years.

That's one long delay.

daveyh

randomhandclaps said:

ICBM said:

About twenty years.

That's one long delay.

Tap tempo is a bitch on that one.

Dave_Mc

^ Just get Bruce Forsyth as your guitar tech... he can do the switching for you.

ecc83

Delay is simply a note that sounds a period of time after the first one and just once.

Echo has a feedback loop so that the delayed sound is repeated as an attenuated version which dies away eventually. 

Reverb is just a modern, fancy name for echo. Abbey Road had an "echo" chamber!

Mind you, different words are used depending on the times of the various delays and repeats.

Dave.

ThePrettyDamned

I always think echo as short, delay as long (say 400ms or more).

Oh gawd, I can't think of a delay or echo pun for this post.

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ThePrettyDamned;37240" said:

I always think echo as short, delay as long (say 400ms or more).

Oh gawd, I can't think of a delay or echo pun for this post.

But the Boss DM2 had a maximum, er, repeat time of 300ms. And 'DM' stood for 'Delay Machine'.

At the risk of being a Copicat, I can't think of anymore puns either....

ThePrettyDamned

richardhomer;37247" said:

[quote="ThePrettyDamned;37240"]I always think echo as short, delay as long (say 400ms or more).

Oh gawd, I can't think of a delay or echo pun for this post.

But the Boss DM2 had a maximum, er, repeat time of 300ms. And 'DM' stood for 'Delay Machine'.

At the risk of being a Copicat, I can't think of anymore puns either....
[/quote]

Oh Ho... Oh... He did it.

He nailed it.

dogload

randomhandclaps said:

ICBM said:

About twenty years.

That's one long delay.

That's the same one that My Bloody Valentine use, I think. 

Haha.