Name: The Secret Behind "Time" "Echoes" and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
Uploaded: 2026-03-01T21:38:07.000Z
Duration: 6 min 53 s
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Gerund

When they started coming out with these kind of digital effects, things like this.

Which is doing exactly the same as the Wang bar.

Now, when you started getting these kind of units, when they started coming out with those, was that something that you were like, oh, I can write stuff with this.

But I mean, it all started with the business.

Playing with these sort of rhythms and sounds on stage at sound checks probably in the late 60s and trying.

But I never quite found where to use it until.

We were talking earlier about the Benson before we even started.

You said that they were used on vocals at first.

They were Italian and I. I first saw them with, you know, Corona bands.

Then they would have the vocals going through just to give a little bit of life and echo.

Because there were no reverb machines, really.

The other ones, all the machines that did that thing, they all came out, you know, there were two or three different Italian ones that came out at more or less.

When did you actually start using it with guitar?

Well, I think Sid was using it with a guitar and I. I already had one.

With my band on vocals, just because we did.

Did big harmony vocals, you know, Beach Boys and Four Seasons and all that sort of stuff was what we were quite keen on.

And they always sounded better with a bit of that reverb on.

And then Sid was using on guitar and doing weird effects and I sort of picked it up from him.

To actually emulate that because of the spinning drum on it.

You told a story about coming to the United States and because of the way the power is.

Well, the British electricity system, you know, is 240v and is 50 cycles.

Now that drum is controlled by the cycles of the electricity so if you.

We went to America your the speed of your delay for things like for example one of these days.

So did it occur to you guys then what it was?

I mean we knew that what the reasoning for it was but like how do you fix it?

There was no other thing that we had that you could do it with.

So we got a drill out and drill through the metal plate on the top of it and took a head off and moved it along and screwed it back in.

Readjusted it very, very fine adjustments till it moved that certain amount of distance.

We had to do some mathematics to, to work out exactly how far we wanted to move it along because it's.

You probably were a little nervous when you're drilling through it.

Well I think Peter Watts did the drilling and so I could moan at him if he got it wrong.

If you were soloing using that, what would be the setting that you would use?

Oh, I would probably just go to the regular repeat, pull the level down, go from there.

So as you hear that's a bit faster now the Benson has a little bit of distortion in it.

And this is the input control and balancing the input.

And the output is a very delicate thing because.