What's your fav always on delay setting...

Gassage · October 2016

Re setting a delay pedal up without tap.

1. Get backing track or drummer/band
2. Locate the beat.
3. Decide where you want the delay to meet the beat.
4. Put repeats about 95% of max
5. Pluck string and adjust time until it matches
6. Adjust repeats and mix to the real ones.

The repeats will still be going for a long time after the plucked string nd you can keep fine tuning the time with ease until it's spot on- you'll be amazed how easy this is.

ICBM · October 2016

Sassafras said:

Does everyone who's replied to this thread seriously use delay as an always on effect?
On all the time they play guitar?

I can only imagine how annoying that would sound.

No, not all the time. I do use it quite a lot as an always-on sound for a whole song though - and never with tap tempo.

When I played in a 50s rock'n'roll band I did use a slapback *all* the time - instead of reverb. 135mS, one repeat.

Jonathanthomas83 · October 2016

Good tip @Gassage!

@sassafras, I agree, don't think it should always be on...but whatever floats your boat!

Re: tap tempo...I'd much prefer a preset switch on something like the Nova than a tap tempo, same for the Flight Time. Annoys me senseless when builders think that Tap Tempo is the number one requirement. Give me preset switching any day!

professorben · October 2016

Jonathanthomas83 said:

Note to builders...tap tempo is always necessary, yours sincerely, TFB.

FTFY.

bingefeller · October 2016

Sassafras said:

Does everyone who's replied to this thread seriously use delay as an always on effect?
On all the time they play guitar?

I can only imagine how annoying that would sound.

yes bro. In my experience, if you have a digital delay on all the time it gets overpowering because the repeats are too clean and clear, unless you can roll the tone back on the repeats so they are gentler sounding and sit behind the guitar signal better. Analog or tape style delay works better as an always on effect because of the way the repeats sound. They have a reverberance like sound to them.

Sassafras · October 2016

bingefeller said:

Sassafras said:

Does everyone who's replied to this thread seriously use delay as an always on effect?
On all the time they play guitar?

I can only imagine how annoying that would sound.

yes bro. In my experience, if you have a digital delay on all the time it gets overpowering because the repeats are too clean and clear, unless you can roll the tone back on the repeats so they are gentler sounding and sit behind the guitar signal better. Analog or tape style delay works better as an always on effect because of the way the repeats sound. They have a reverberance like sound to them.

Yeah, I guess it's like any time based or modulation effect. If it's used all the time and at high ratio, it soon gets very grating.
What particularly annoys me is guys doing demos of drive pedals and they've got huge gobs of delay/chorus/phasing and God knows what else obscuring the sound of the very thing they're demoing.
Agreed on tape delay, that can sound wonderful when used tastefully.

stratman3142 · October 2016

Sassafras said:

Does everyone who's replied to this thread seriously use delay as an always on effect?
On all the time they play guitar?

I can only imagine how annoying that would sound.

No, which is why I started my post with "None of my delays are always on". If fact I use delay quite rarely for gigs.

I thought the thread was just about slapback. Anyway, as it seems to have strayed,

As an alternative to 86ms with a single repeat for slapback, I also use ~306ms with about 3 to 4 audible repeats for a more spacy sound on occasions.

For recording I'm more fussy about timing the delays to (in some way) relate to the tempo of the track, depending on the effect I want to create.

EricTheWeary · October 2016

I had a ( nearly) always on delay for ages then went to reverb but it just disappears in most venues. Gone back to analog slapback ( with a couple of repeats low in the mix so it's not quite a rockabilly slap) to perform a similar role but you can actually hear it, although in a band mix it's fairly lost anyway, just adds some nice blur on solos.
I turn it off for a couple of songs for a really dry sound. Fairly sure the rest of the band have no idea when it's on or off.

Timmy · October 2016

Having a tap tempo with sub divison of a 8th note /quaver Triplet is extremely usefull. You can easily tap in slapback and short delays that don't have to sync with the track tempo and if you need dotted 8th you just tap the half time pulse. I used to only tap delays that needed to match up with the songs tempo and did the shorter delays by hand but now can do them all by tap on the same setting. I wish someone had showed me this ealier

Moss · October 2016

I always have one that's about 75ms, analog and about 20% mix - not very noticeable but thickens the sound up nicely

JMP220478 · October 2016

Andy Timmons seems to cope quite well with always on delay - dials mix lvl on the fly

dogload · October 2016

Since getting the El Capistan with it's tap button I use that to sync to the beat.

in the distant past though when I only had a WEM Copicat for delay, I had it set to maximum delay and after retiring it in favour of a digital delay used a similar delay (what would that be then? 300ms approx?) giving an appropriately spacey depth to my sound and smoothing out all the duff bits.

bigjon · October 2016

I use a soft delay of about 330ms with two repeats at about 2/3 then 1/3 volume maybe 80% of the time.

BintyTwanger77 · October 2016

Not always on, but my favourite settings I use most on the Timeline are a dark analogue with modulation at around 400ms or the Echoplex emulation. Beautiful with some amp reverb.

Sporky · October 2016

I liked the RE-20 with taps 2 & 4 active (or was it 1 & 3...), about 350ms, medium feedback, low level and just a touch of the reverb. Spacey without being too "full".

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