Howard Davis

1 What was the first effects unit that you built and how did the design come about?

“I was experimenting with echo effects before there was such a thing as an analogue delay chip and came up with a slap[back] echo device that was like a hose with a speaker at one end and a microphone at the other. It grew from there. I graduated from Cooper Union Engineering School [in New York] in 1976 and later