Osric
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Posted : Aug 20, 2009 02:04
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if you're looking to add nice delay effects to an instrument part, you want to think about how that delay can compliment the sound and rythm of the part.
lets say you have a mad lead synth part, its very twisted, and you want to add some 'trippy' sounding delay, so those short times are good (1/4 repeats). having a different delay time on the left/channels adds stereo spread (eg 1/4 on left, 1/6 repeats on right)
same thing goes, if you have an atmospheric instrumental part, maybe go for longer delays, fade off the delay, get a nice 'echoey sound', maybe a bit like dub music.
with lead synths, the rythom of the part is important- do you have constant fast, loud notes on 16th patterns (filling up the note pattern of the part quite heavily)? if so, delay adds a cool effect, and can give a really inseresting sound on the stereo spread of the sound. If you have a more sparse instrument part (maybe still with fast flourishes of notes, but longer spacing in between sounds), you could go for slower feeling delay repeats, to get a more atmostpheric sound.
or for something really interesting on a fast attacking sound that just hits in flourishes at the beginning of segments (and theres a long space in between that instrument playing again, 2-4 bars) go for delays with 1/16 repeat times, long tail but fading out a lot, and mixed subtly in volume with the main sound. try it on a simple triangle wave sound playing an arpeggio of a scale up quickly (16th notes), to get something reminiscent of old gameboy sound..
so theres no hard rules on how you should set your delay, you should experiment with lots of variation, get to know the tools, to find what compliments the sound you're adding delay to, and how that compliments the mix of you track overall.
hope my inebriated ramble makes sense!
ableton png pong delay IS cool as something to play around with too...
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