AUDIO
USING DELAY IN YOUR WORSHIP MIX:
ECHO, ECHO, ECHO … | Jeff Hawley
Continuing our series of articles about using I find delay to be a unique tool in the worship to an audio storage medium, and then plays it
reverb and compression in your worship mix, engineer’s toolkit in that it is clearly generating back after a period of time.” I like this definition
we come around this time to delay. A popular additional sonic material into the mix vs. simply as it allows us to review the history of delay
effect in contemporary worship guitar playing, massaging and sculpting what is already there. quite easily by simply looking at various audio
the electric guitarist in your worship band will Let’s take a brief look at the history of delay and storage media which have been used to create
likely have a delay pedal (or two) in their rig. dig into the ways it can enhance your worship delay over the years.
A few decades ago, analog mixing consoles mix — and get you into big audio trouble if you would frequently utilize an outboard rack- aren’t careful.
The first delay units captured snippets of audio
mounted delay unit (like the TC Electronic 2290)
to thicken up vocals and replicate studio effects
to tape. Early applications included creating
DELAY BASICS
a very short delay (often called ‘slapback’)
in a live scenario. Today most digital mixing
which occurred just after a vocal or guitar
consoles have an onboard delay unit of some Borrowing from the fine folks at Wikipedia for performance, a sound most associated now
sort, and many include a plethora of fine-tuning a short definition of delay, we see that “Delay with 1950’s rock hits from Jerry Lee Lewis and
options based around mix/level, feedback, and is an audio signal processing technique and Elvis, etc. While these first examples used a pair
delay time. an effects unit which records an input signal of large Ampex 350 tape machines to achieve
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