Noel Gallagher’s Roland RE-201 Space Echo

Roland RE-201 Space Echo is the only effect that Noel used on Oasis’ debut album, Definetely Maybe. Accoding to Noel, it played a huge role in shaping his sound, next to his Marshall Model 8080, and a WEM Dominator.

We never messed with [effects] really. It would be way down the line that I got a pedalboard. The only pedal I used was the Space Echo, and I had this on/off switch to kick the delay in. And that was it.

Space Echo was a big part of the sound. We would go into the front of the Space Echo, and just turned the the preamp up full.

The Noel Gallagher Guitars & Gear Interview
Noel’s Space Echo, Marshall Model 8080, and WEM Dominator, as pictured in the sleeve of the 30th-anniversary release of Definitely Maybe.

The Roland RE-201 Space Echo is a legendary tape-based delay and reverb unit, originally introduced in 1974, and it uses a magnetic tape loop to create echo and reverb effects.

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