{"id":38,"date":"2018-08-04T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5722.temp.domains\/~audioor1\/creative-uses-of-common-effects-delay-echo\/"},"modified":"2018-08-04T11:13:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T11:13:00","slug":"creative-uses-of-common-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/audioordeal.co.uk\/creative-uses-of-common-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Uses of Common Effects: Delay\/Echo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Delay is a fantastic effect in music. It is used throughout many songs and is both naturally and unnaturally occurring. Consider the simplest delay, an echo, a drum plays in a large room and shortly after hitting it, the sound is heard again, after bouncing off the wall. For many applications, playing with simple reflections is all you need to turn a delay into a creative tool, but there are many more options out there.<\/div>\n

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Many people often ask what the difference between an echo and delay is. Simply put, they are the same. Echos are natural reflections, a delay is the studio mimicry of an echo, created by delaying a signal and then playing it back shortly after the dry signal is played.<\/div>\n

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So how can we use delay? Firstly, and most simply, we can use it to define the size of a room we want the listener to “be” in. I’ve lifted a video from Youtube which perfectly demonstrates this:<\/div>\n

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