With analog delay a lot of times what will happen as the signal is fed back through the unit, a lot of times, you know, tape or other kinds of analog delay the high frequencies would kind of - you’d roll off over time. But I’m gonna, again, just turn it off for now. In other cases you might want to turn it on and boost it up a lot.
With this kind of effect on electric guitar, it might be something you want to mix ins subtly. Hopefully by overemphasizing it you get a better idea of how it sounds. This is kind of characteristic of what people think of the memory man delay sound, where you have modulation and you can control the rate as well and change this.
So with the lo-fi delay, it kind of reduces the sampling rate going on of the delays. I’ll start out over here on the left with the lo-fi button, and I’ll play it back and you can hear how it sounds.īasically what the lo-fi button does - on old analog delays when they were first being implemented on chip, because the capacity of the chip to store information over time was limited, one thing that the processing would do is decrease the sampling rate of the delays because it meant the information that was stored on chip was reduced. This is just the simple controls that you would find in a lot of delay units, but down here you’ll see some of the more unique ones to the H-Delay. Then you can do things like control left and the right samples independently. Up here you have ping pong, and what that does is switch between - if you have it in stereo delay - switch between whether you have the delays bouncing back and forth between the left and right channels or if you have the delays going into stereo. You can also do things - so far I’ve just had it synced to the host, where you use BPM, but you can also do things like tap the tempo if you wanna enter in your own tempo rather than having it synced to your DAW. But you know, in certain circumstances that’s a pretty cool feature to add in. And then play around with the delay time.Ĭertainly this has to be used as a very creative effect, and you know, you might not want to always be changing the pitch of the signal. So what I’m gonna do is play you back, I’m gonna turn up the feedback a little bit and stop it. Another cool thing that Waves has modeled is on old analog units when you would change the delay time while the audio was going through it, what would happen is the pitch of the signal would change. It’s probably best when you stop it you heard these delays can go on for a long time. I’ll play it back and show you the effect. This is how many delays are taking place. I’m gonna switch back to dotted eighth notes for now. So for instance, quarter notes, eight notes, dotted half notes - all those sorts of things are in there. You can control the time of the delay, so for instance, you can switch between different tempo divisions when you’re syncing it to the host. But these are the basic controls that you’ll find on most delay effects. And I don’t have a whole lot of feedback going on. For this electric guitar sound, you know, I’ve done things like set up the tempo to my host with a dotted eighth note.
Then I’ll go through some of the controls to give you a better idea of how it works.ĭepending on the purpose of your delay you might control the settings a little bit different. Let me play you back how I’ve got the plugin set up right now with my electric lead guitar sound.
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However, Waves has included a fair amount of presets to get you started if you’re not sure how to use the controls. When you first open the plugin, the controls seem a little bit overwhelming. That’s, you know, typical of digital delays. But then gives you a lot of the controls like syncing the tempo of your delays to the host. With the H-Delay plugin, Waves has modeled some of the classic delay sounds including Tape Delay and Lo-Fi Delay. The Waves Hybrid line of effects were designed to give you a classic analog sound but with a lot of the convenience, features, and controls that you normally only associate with digital effects. I’m gonna be showing you the features, controls and sound of this plugin on an electric lead guitar track. This is a demonstration of a Waves H-Delay plugin.