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Pre-Delay Is Your Friend!

11/27/2014

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 If you look closer at your reverb processor in your rack, you will notice that there is a control called "Pre-Delay." Pre-delay on a reverb is an extremely useful control for tweaking how fast or slow the onset of reverb happens. If you find that the reverb you are using smears too much of the image of your instrument, thus losing definition, you can tell your reverb to wait a few moments before actually kicking in and being heard. This will allow the initial transient of the sound source to come through, and then the reverb will start..thus preserving the clarity of your instrument, but having the sweetness of verb as well (kind of like having your cake and eating it too! Lol!). A good place to start is anywhere from the 30ms - 100ms.  Remember, that in a real world situation, sound travels at about 1 foot per millisecond.  So, if you want the reverb to behave as if there are walls 100 feet from the sound source, then you can set your pre-delay to 100 ms.  This in turn will make the reverb behave as what you might hear in a real situation...where the sound wave will travel 100 feet before it bounces back and the onset of reverb happens.
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    • Amplifier Arrangements
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    • Interstage Coupling
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    • Distortion Effects
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    • Frequency Response
    • Power Amplification
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    • Distortion
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    • Cabling
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  • Mic Placement
  • Gain Structure
  • Demystifying The Mixing Console
  • Equalization
  • Compression
  • The Ins & outs
  • The Sub Bus
  • The Voicing Concept
  • Reverb
  • Good Habits
  • Psychoacoustics
  • Stage Isolation & Drum Booths
  • System Feedback
  • System Noise & Hum
  • Electronic Repair
  • Speakers
  • Tips & Tricks
  • Noise Gates
  • Mixing 101 & Beyond
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