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#256693 - 02/14/09 04:55 PM
Re: Reverb, delay, or a bit of both?
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Registered: 04/25/05
Posts: 14194
Loc: NW Florida
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Both, on mine... But the important thing is that the delay be a tap delay, or hooked into your arranger so it has a relationship to the tempo. Yes, a short slap-back works great for Elvis up tempo tunes. But it can ruin a ballad. I use a Yamaha powered mixer, with both reverb (I set a medium plate setting, just a bit of splash, but not so much that spoken stuff in between songs sounds drenched, just enough to make in not completely bone dry) and delay on separate sends. The meat of the vocal effect I prefer to have come from tap delay. It doesn't 'mush' the sound up as much as slathering reverb all over it, IMO. Just experiment with the delay time... For simple stuff, a duple of the tempo (whole note, half note) works well, but for stuff with a lot of words, a triplet value (triplet whole note, or 12/8 rhythm) gets the echo out of the way of the start of each word you are just singing... You would be amazed at how much more echo you can put on your voice, if timed right, than reverb before it dissolves into mush. Just be SURE to use a footswitch and switch it off at the end of the song
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