How do YOU like to use delay?

[Harry Klippton]

How do YOU like to use delay? Post a clip! Share your chain and your settings. Let's hear some cool shit and maybe get some inspiration

 

[djmiyta]

For and only as of now my signal chain is guitar > tuner > modded Wah >boss CS-3 > Boss NS-2 > disaster transporter > Sonic Stomp >Amp
Boss NS-2 Send > Sonic Titan > Valhalla> Boss NS-2 Return
I use delay mildly in conjunction with a splash of reverb.For me (and maybe it's my delay choice) but too much starts too muddy the water too much for me. I like notes to sing out it bugs me when it sounds like 20 moving blankets have been thrown over my amp and there's no articulation
but I'm constantly swapping pedals out. Some days for whatever reason with my setup untouched I'll go back the next day turn the amp on and it just won't sound as good as the day before other days it's just fine
My girl says it's all in my head. Hmmmm.....maybe

 

[HamishR]

I mainly use slapback these days. It's from playing in rockabilly bands and playing Gretsches I guess - Gretsches LOVE slapback delay.

I used to use delay a lot more. I was inspired by U2, Simple Minds, the Cure, etc. Then it was Jimmy Wilsey. Nowadays I seem to go for dryer sounds - no reverb, no delay. But the Source Audio Collider (reverb and delay in one pedal) is still one of the three pedals on my board. I guess the change is for a few reasons - tastes in what I play, plus feeling less need for effects because my base tone is so much better these days. But also because home-brew tweed amps in pine cabs and thin baffles don't seem to need much embellishment. They fill my room with sound with little help!

 

[blackhatboojum]

Oooooh, I like this thread . I’m gonna need to post some clips of my shit but, my setup is this. First, I set my delays to around 450ms, 5 to 6 repeats, and a low mix. Think Adam Jones and the intro to Lateralus. Second, I run my delay into a flanger to modulate the repeats. Again, very Adam Jones sounding but, I love that sound. My whole pedalboard is a tuner, phaser, delay, and then a flanger. All into the front of a Ceriatone 2202. My favorite delay thus far is the Madbean Man O War I just built.

 

[jimilee]

What I like to do is build one, and then throw it on the pile of others that I've built. Delays are like candy. The other thing I use it for is for a little bit of depth in place of reverb.

 

[blackhatboojum]

What I like to do is build one, and then throw it on the pile of others that I've built. Delays are like candy. The other thing I use it for is for a little bit of depth in place of reverb.

I’m slowly getting to that point. I have 5 delays that I’ve built that just sit on the shelf.

 

[blackhatboojum]

“El-Cap, El-Cap, El-Cap…”

For the amount of money I’ve wasted on delay builds, trying to find the right one… I should’ve just went with an El-Cap .

 

[Feral Feline]

Thread Deja vu

POLAR BEAR: Bartender, I'd like a ...

...beer.​

BARTENDER: What's with the big pause?

POLAR BEAR: I dunno, I was born with 'em.

 

[Harry Klippton]

Oooooh, I like this thread . I’m gonna need to post some clips of my shit but, my setup is this. First, I set my delays to around 450ms, 5 to 6 repeats, and a low mix. Think Adam Jones and the intro to Lateralus. Second, I run my delay into a flanger to modulate the repeats. Again, very Adam Jones sounding but, I love that sound. My whole pedalboard is a tuner, phaser, delay, and then a flanger. All into the front of a Ceriatone 2202. My favorite delay thus far is the Madbean Man O War I just built.

I don't have a clue what tool sounds like so you're definitely gonna have to post a clip

 

[Harry Klippton]

You’ve never listened to Tool before?

Certainly not on purpose but we're trying to keep this positive here

 

[ADAOCE]

I’ve used enough delays to know I don’t need another one.

I have fun trying to copy other delay pedals on my GFI Specular Tempus. I have an El Cap preset that is absolutely lovely. Still haven’t tried the real thing though I’m only going off sound clips.

 

[ADAOCE]

That’s next level meta-delaying. A digital delay modeler copying another digital delay modeler.

Brains really start to explode when you try and contemplate what El-Cap setting you copied:

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so true it’s like it was more just a convenient name for a tape delay preset after I watched a nice demo video from like chords of Orion or something.

On a related note I did find a good approximation of Andy Timmons Timeline settings that are supposed to mimic his stereo DMM setup. It’s a great sound. It’s a dual delay 1/4 note + dotted 1/8 at 500ms with some modulation dialed in to taste. To answer the original post, I use this delay quite a bit now.

 

[Harry Klippton]

so true it’s like it was more just a convenient name for a tape delay preset after I watched a nice demo video from like chords of Orion or something.

On a related note I did find a good approximation of Andy Timmons Timeline settings that are supposed to mimic his stereo DMM setup. It’s a great sound. It’s a dual delay 1/4 note + dotted 1/8 at 500ms with some modulation dialed in to taste. To answer the original post, I use this delay quite a bit now.

Need cliiiiiiiips

 

[ADAOCE]

Need cliiiiiiiips

Ok I’ll try and get a video tonight

 

[Harry Klippton]

Ok I’ll try and get a video tonight

That's the spirit! I believe in you @ADAOCE

 

[Paradox916]

Yet another Magnetron

I definitely see the appeal to this pedal and definitely the oscillation switch(that’s all kinds of fun!) other than that I took more of a subtle approach to the aesthetics... nothing that hasn’t been covered in other build reports. But a great pedal and the oscillation momentary is a must...

forum.pedalpcb.com

There is a riff in there that I recycled from an old project… I’ll try and dig it up

 

[Harry Klippton]

Yet another Magnetron

I definitely see the appeal to this pedal and definitely the oscillation switch(that’s all kinds of fun!) other than that I took more of a subtle approach to the aesthetics... nothing that hasn’t been covered in other build reports. But a great pedal and the oscillation momentary is a must...

forum.pedalpcb.com

There is a riff in there that I recycled from an old project… I’ll try and dig it up

That'll do

 

[Paradox916]

Just because

 

[swelchy]

I use delay like this this dis fis his gis is is is.................

 

[djmiyta]

I’m slowly getting to that point. I have 5 delays that I’ve built that just sit on the shelf.

That's me with O.D.'s only times 20.