Guitar players like The Edge from U2 or Nuno Bettencourt from Extreme have used delays in a creative way.
They use this effect to radically change what they play: what you hear is like a completely different guitar part. The delay is not just an audio enhancement anymore.
With the built-in echo & multitap delay pedals included in Axiom that can sync to host tempo, it is possible to achieve this very easily.
Axiom Echo Demo
Here is a demo by Hans Van Even of the effect, in the style of Nuno Bettencourt’s “Flight of the Bumble Bee”. He uses the dotted 8th delay trick to add even more notes to what is being played. Check it out!
