From the course: Audio Foundations: Delay and Modulation

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Medium delays

Medium delays

From the course: Audio Foundations: Delay and Modulation

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Medium delays

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Medium delays represent their own family of effects. This time window, greater than about 15 to 20 milliseconds, but less than about 50-60 milliseconds creates effects known as doubling, chorus, spreading, thickening, and more. As we've seen and heard earlier in this course, echoes live at delay times greater than this. Medium delay effects exploit the fact that the delay can be too short to be heard as a separate echo. Simply lowering the delay time into this medium-range gives you access to new sounds. It converts your delay processor into a new effect. Of course, it's the same effects device, but when it is set to a medium delay time, completely different effects are created. And in this middle zone of delay times we're going to take strong advantage of the modulation section of the delay processor to make these effects more powerful still. Shifting delay times are an essential part of the doubling, chorus, spreading, and thickening effects. With echoes mastered, let's get to know…

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