Share your delay techniques or secrets!

[samurai]

I program most of my drums in reason or renoise. the majority of the time when I'm using reason, I'm using the redrum to program my drums. I send some of the individual outs from the redrum into a ddl1 delay. I set the feedback to 0 and set the delay to ms. I always either play my drums (on pads) or program them in strictly on the grid. now I can program my drums using redrum but still add some "swing" (by making individual samples come in later).

[kikaruu]

I like medium (about 1 beat long) delays on choirs for a choral effect, as the input is always changing according to the output, so once it gets moving it's really something. I also like making 4 send tracks, and having a consecutive delay on each, with different effects so that each individual delay has a different effect applied. (E.g. deep metal pipe hit > chorus > bitcrush > phaser > hi-pass > chorus.) As mentioned, short delay for metallic character. Dotted eighth delays aren't just for U2, either; really neat sounds for hollow hits like Blue Man Group and stuff. And dotted halves -- I use them near everywhere. Really useful for percussion and lead synths.

[nowaysj]

Also, if you haven't heard of it - get the Timeless plugin from Fabfilter. Absolutely. The. Best. Delay. Plugin. Ever.

Just like to interject, I don't think I agree with this. When I tried Timeless out, I couldn't get any usable results, even on the simplest of things like unfiltered quarter note delay, just something was not right, could never get the feedback to decay in the appropriate way. Just always sounded not right.

That arc dev 301 is awesome, and free, holy cow. Audio Damage have a pretty good dub delay.

[jaydot]

Ping Pong delay on reverse crashes/atmospherics on intros make it more "stretched" good for soundscapes alongside reverb

[deadly_habit]

oh and loomer shift is a fave of mine
http://www.loomer.co.uk/shift.htm

[MikkiFunk]

Use a delay on a send with low amount of f/b (under 30 %) to give more space off of vocals or sounds (just like a reverb but it sounds much cooler!)

Use compression after delay on aux sends, set the compression key input/ sidechain to whatever is sending to the delay, this way you can control how much of the delay is audible while the sound is playing (works really well on vocals)

[Autism]

Use a delay on a send with low amount of f/b (under 30 %) to give more space off of vocals or sounds (just like a reverb but it sounds much cooler!)

Going to try this out tonight, mixing some vocals atm in a remix.

[MikkiFunk]

If you're mixing full vocals like a band or similar then it works nicely on harmonies.