Noel Gallagher’s Boss DD-3 Digital Delay

Noel started using a Boss DD-3 Digital Delay pedal sometime after Definitely Maybe was released. It directly replaced the Roland Space Echo, which he had been using up until that point.

In the 2023 interview with That Pedal Show, Noel noted that at the Knebworth gig in 1996, this was the only pedal he used, aside from a tuner. However if we look at the actual footage we’ll see that he also had a wah pedal, and a Boss CS-3 compressor sustainer (image below).

This is the greatest delay pedal of all time – the DD-3. That pedal I had for 20 years. It was at Knebworth – a photographer friend of mine has hat a picture of the empty stage from Knebworth before we walked on, and I’ve got a piece of plywood, and it’s got a Boss chromatic tuner on it, and that [the DD-3]. That’s it.

Noel Gallagher – That Pedal Show