Effects Flashcards
How and when was delay created?
Created in the 1950s by tape systems to utilise difference in placement between record and playback head.
How did the output of the sound of tape delay varied?
Speed of the tape or the adjustment of playback head.
Give an example of a model of tape delay.
WEM Copycat - 1959
What kind of delay became available in the 1970s?
Bucket brigade capacitors.
What kind of delay did bucket brigade capacitors create? Where were they commonly found?
Warm series of reducing echoes but couldn’t produce long delay times.
Found in guitar pedals.
What kind of delay was available in the 1980s? Give two advantages.
Digital delay.
Cheaper memory chips that could hold sound for longer.
What is Stereo Delay? What kind of sound can it produce?
Two mono delays with separate controls.
Slightly different times produce a richer sound.
What is Multitap delay?
Number of delay times.
Single tap = one delay time.
What is Doubling Echo / ADT?
Very short delay time (20-40ms) producing effect of ADT.
+slight pitch shift and pan gives impression of two performers.
What is slapback delay?
Delay time between 100-200ms with little or no feedback (emulating hard-walled rooms)
What is Ping Pong delay?
Echo alternating between left and right channels.
What is tempo delay?
Delay time matches tempo of music.
What is straight delay?
Makes up for distance of sound to travel from sound source to back of venue on large venues.
Speakers are installed at the front and back.
What is reverb?
Reverb mimics natural reflections of sound produced in an enclosed space with multiple delays.
How is natural reverb captured?
With omnidirectional or boundary microphones.
What is an echo chamber?
Special hard-walled room.
How was reverb captured in an echo chamber?
Sound was sent from control room and played over a speaker.
Microphone at far end of room captured reverberated sound of room that was sent back to control room.
How could reverb be edited in echo chambers?
Changing mic position, adding absorbent material.
