Binson was an early manufacturer of echo machines. An echo machine is the early name for a sound processing device used with electronic instruments to repeat the sound and produce a simulated echo Unlike most other analog echo machines, they used an analog magnetic drum recorder instead of a tape loop. Tape loops are loops of prerecorded Magnetic tape used to create repetitive rhythmic musical patterns or dense layers of sound Their most famous product was the Binson Echorec.

Two of the most famous users of Binson units were Pink Floyd's original frontman Syd Barrett and guitarist David Gilmour. Pink Floyd are Syd Barrett (born Roger Keith Barrett; 6 January 1946 - 7 July 2006 was an English singer songwriter guitarist and artist David Jon Gilmour CBE (born 6 March 1946 is an English Musician, best known as the Lead guitarist one of the lead Singers The classic Binson delay effect can be heard on songs such as "Interstellar Overdrive" and "Astronomy Domine". " Interstellar Overdrive " is a psychedelic composition by Pink Floyd, which appears on their 1967 debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn " Astronomy Domine " is a song by British Psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd. Binson echo units were also used by Hawkwind, and more recently by Tarantula Hawk. Hawkwind are a British rock band, one of the earliest Space rock groups Tarantula Hawk is a Rock band. Members Braden Diotte - bass/electronics Dylan Scharf - keyboard/guitar Dave Warshaw Jon Courtney of British Nu-Prog band Pure Reason Revolution is also a frequent user of the Binson units. Jon Courtney, who grew up in Reading Berkshire, is a singer and Guitarist in the British rock band Pure Reason Revolution Pure Reason Revolution is a British rock group formed at the University of Westminster in 2003

In Pink Floyd's 23-minute long song "Echoes", Roger Waters used a Binson Echorec to create the eerie underwater wind noise heard during the first interlude (10:40-15:02 on studio recordings, underneath the screaming whale song produced by Gilmour); he vibrated the strings of his bass guitar with a steel slide and fed the sound through the Echorec. " Echoes " is a song by Pink Floyd, including lengthy instrumental passages sound effects and Musical improvisation. George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943 in Great Bookham, Surrey) is an English rock musician Waters reproduced this sound during live performances.

See also

• Roland Space Echo
• Watkins Copicat
• Echoplex
• Meazzi Echomatic
• Klemt Echolette

External links

• http://www.binson.com
• http://www.echomatic.co.uk
• http://www.esemusic.com
• http://www.gilmourish.com/?page_id=74
• http://www.toneheaven.ndirect.co.uk/British%20Echos.htm
• http://www.penumbra.co.nz/allthegear.html (see half-way down this lengthy page for text about, and pictures of, Binson devices)
• http://www.hendrixguitars.com/Ef022.htm (picture gallery of Binson echo machines)

The Roland RE-201, commonly known as the Space Echo, is an audio analog delay Effects unit. Delay is an Audio effect which records an input signal to an audio storage medium, and then plays it back after a period of time

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