Effects Processing

Question 1

What are the uses of chorus?

Answer 1

• Chorus is best used to wash a sound out and make it more ambient.
• can be a great addition to supporting layers.
• Chorus is often used on acoustic guitar, or clean electric guitar, or to thicken pad’s and organs.
• It tends to take some detail away and push sounds further back in the soundstage, so it would generally be considered for background elements rather than foreground elements.

Question 2

What are the uses of Flangers?

Answer 2

• Hi Hats. * Pads
• Guitars.
• Like chorus, flange tends to take away definition.
• Can be used in sound design for cool effects.

Question 3

What are the 2 kinds of delay?

Answer 3

Timed delay and slap delay

Question 4

What is timed delay?

Answer 4

• Long delay, that stays in time with the
  music.
• BPM synced
• Mainly vocal and guitar use.
• Often employs many repeats (hi
  feedback)

Question 5

What is slap delay?

Answer 5

• Short
• Un-timed delay.
• Short single repeat delay 35 – 500ms.
• Can provide a huge range of effects
• Become popular in the 1950’s (Elvis slap
  echo)
• And is still used today extensively to
  provide depth and size.