Understanding Delay Effects (Easy Mixing Guide)

The delay effect in music production is one of the main creative tools of the trade. In this introduction to delay video I explain the types and styles of the delay effect (analog vs digital etc) and explain the differences between slapback, short, medium and long and where you might use each one.
Taken from my Effects Essentials course produced exclusively for the ‪@promixacademy6904‬ where I explore the principles in this video much deeper with detailed and step by step examples across most popular instruments.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Start
00:38 - What is delay?
01:00 - Origins of the delay effect in music
01:48 - Amplitude and its relevance to delay
02:35 - Benefits of using delay in music production
03:32 - The main categories of delay
03:45 - What is tape delay?
04:35 - What is analog delay?
05:23 - What is digital delay?
05:51 - Types or common durations of delay
06:12 - Doubling echo effect
06:32 - What is slapback echo?
07:26 - What is modulated delay in music?
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What is delay? Well, in this video I answer that question by going back to basics and explaining the origins of delay along with the delay types and the characteristics of each.
The problem with reverb is it can make a mix sound muddy very quickly, especially when used widely throughout a mix.
Delay is the secret weapon of the pro’s to keeping mix clarity but which delay effect should you use?
In the video I explain what the differences are between tape delay, analog and digital delays, what is meant when a delay is described as short, medium or long and I explain modulated delays.
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[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

Echo, echo, echo…what’s your favourite way to use delay? It's fab on guitars, great on vocals but do you have any little tricks you'd like to share? Post them below and thanks for watching!

[@tomassandkvist722]

HAAS delay, to widen synths and keyboards, and sometimes to pan out guitars

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

Yes! I teach how to do just that in the course 😎

[@rickfowler3710]

I believe that "clever person in the 50's" would be Robert fripp. Legend!

[@raffaerste]

You're absolutely perfect! Payed 14k Bucks on the SAE Audio Engineering School in Germany and none of the teachers could explain clearly as you did in this video here! Such a good explaining, visually with a really nice voice. This here is my go-to Mixing channel now. Thank you very much for this!

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

Wow! Thank you so much for your amazing feedback, I'm glad to have helped

[@DelasVC]

Yeah, to me those so called "universities" are still pretty fishy. You actually don't know what you get and most likely it's not even close to what you would expect..

[@marc_leblanc]

Perfect timing. I was just searching today for getting better at delay & reverb without muddying anything up.

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

Awesome! Glad to help

[@MarcBecker_Music]

Great video, Sara. Thank you.

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

Thanks Marc 😁

[@ianwillett4009]

Cheers 😀

[@erictorres5935]

Great to see another video!!!

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

Thanks Eric, it's great that you watched 😀

[@vongluck3714]

Hello Sara, I'm very happy to see you again after many weeks without news ;-) I thank you for your abordable explications.

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

Vongluck Vongluck, thank you so much :)

[@NateNATE2015]

I love you the bloopers and all

[@garyshore489]

Another great one Sara,much thanks as always...took advantage of the blog post accompanying this as well as taking screenshots of the various explanatory screens for each section shown in the video to set up an email w/all these links etc as a kind of"complete database of info on delay" using this stuff....now I have a much better idea about this as I've just started studying it..

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

Gary Shore, thank you so much :)

[@rabihhammoud11]

Amazing content. Thank you for teaching us so much! Subscribed!

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

My pleasure!

[@JoeDinesSound]

Really interesting and useful Sara thanks

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

Joe Dines Sound, thanks for watching and for the feedback!

[@bradferguson9840]

Good to see you again 🙂

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

Hey, thanks Brad

[@BonzoNaphtol]

Thank you for all explantions. In the 1980's, i had a Roland RE 501 whith integrated chorus effect. Souvenirs, souvenirs...

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

Lovely!! Wish you still had it?

[@BonzoNaphtol]

@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing Saddly no ... I had to sell it and all my stuff to have a wife and a hard life of work. As i'm just retired now and have time for music, recording and mixing with Cakewalk. It is far better than the portastudio 4 tracks i own when i was young!😉

[@caseygreen]

I'd love to hear some audio examples

[@rogerm7922]

Hi, Thank you for the amazing explanation. I am a wiser today than i was yesterday.😀 Question: My guitar notes sound like discontinuous separate notes in my recordings instead of smooth flow into the next note without the sound dying out. Should I be paying closer attention to my DELAY pedal settings ? Is DELAY the right tool to alleviate the issue ? Thank you much.

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

It could well be. Delay will certainly lengthen the note, if that's the goal you are after.

[@majewskimusic]

Thanks, Sara, ;-)

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

Tomasz Majewski, thank you so much :)

[@patrickrowe6745]

thanks

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

You're welcome!