Univibe Speed and Echorec Blend on 'Breathe' — How Gilmour Built That Swirling Swell

For the iconic guitar sound on Breathe, David Gilmour used a Univox Uni-Vibe — not a Shin-ei FY-2 (that’s a fuzz, not a chorus/vibrato). The Uni-Vibe was originally manufactured by Shin-ei for Univox, so you’ll sometimes hear it called a “Shin-ei Uni-Vibe,” but the FY-2 is a different animal. Gilmour’s setting was the slower speed, not the fast mode. The slow speed gives that lazy, rotating Leslie-like pulse that swells in and out without turning into a seasick wobble. Fast would have been too frantic for the drifting feel of