Electronic Musician

CREATIVE DELAY

sk any mix engineer which effects he or she is most reliant upon and it won’t be long before delay appears on the list of must-have treatments. Alongside EQ, compression and reverb, delay is an effect most productions just can’t live without. This is partly because it can offer such a wide range of possible treatments. Add a ping-pong delay to a pad sound, strip out its bottom end and you’ll end up with something akin to stereo width enhancement; or introduce multiple delays and offset their pitches to create quasi-harmonies

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