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Equalizing the delay

Equalizing the delay - Pro Tools Tutorial

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Equalizing the delay

One of the biggest secrets of making your delays fit into a mix is by using either the internal or an external equalizer to shape the sound. In this video I'll show you how to do just that. So the first thing we'll do, we will listen to the track and concentrate on the vocal. (Music playing) Okay, now let's add a little bit of delay. What we're going to do is solo it and I'll add the delay. This is going to be an eight note delay of 288 milliseconds. (Music playing) Now that might not be exactly right. Let's try a couple of other combinations and see if we can find something that works better. Let's try a dotted variation and let's actually go to a dotted 16th note. (Music playing) That sounds pretty good. Let's see what the triplet sounds like. (Music playing) Now let's go to an eighth note triplet. Let's hear what it sounds like. (Music playing) That's sounds pretty interesting. Let's leave it there. But what we're going to do is we're going to shape the sound of the delay a little…

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