From the course: Audio Foundations: Delay and Modulation

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From the course: Audio Foundations: Delay and Modulation

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Course summary and goodbye

A single delay processor, tape, outboard, or plug-in offers a broad range of audio opportunities representing a nearly infinite number of sound qualities to be explored. Short delays create that family of effects called comb filtering and flanging. Medium delays lead to doubling, chorusing, spreading, and thickening. And long delays lead to echoes; echoes for emphasis, support, groove, and slap back. Making sound recordings is a wonderfully open-ended creative process, but there is the risk especially if you're new to this craft, that at any given moment, you may not be sure what your next step should be. Maybe like me, you've been in this situation. You push up the faders and you wonder what to do. There are too many possibilities and you have so many ideas. You wonder, where do I start? So let's rule something out. You should never add delay to a track simply because you think it needs delay. That's too vague. Delay can do so many different things to a track. Instead, you should try…

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