Guitar Delay Effects – How To Make Them Work For You
Delay is another word for echo. It happens when a sound bounces off a wall or a mountain, you hear a reflection of the sound a fraction of a second after the original sound was made. Many vocals and guitar solos of the nineteen fifties were characterised by the “echo chamber” effect.
Here is a video guitar lesson on delay . . .
There are two ways of producing the delay effect by electronics: digital or analog. A digital unit will encode the signal and keep it until it is needed and analog unit will keep the signal until it is needed by sending it along a “chain”. Delay effect devices can produce much more exciting kinds of effects than a simple echo. This video gives a demo of what is possible . . .
One well-known exponent of the delay guitar effect is U2′s The Edge. Here is an article giving some insights into the guitar effects used by The Edge.
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