Useful to space your left and right signal out a few milliseconds to give it a doubled feel, but be wary of phase issues. This unit allows you to delay your initial playback by a specific number of samples or milliseconds. You can achieve hard and soft panning, swirling, and ping pong delay FX! The "global" section allows you to play around with the routing of the output. A similar high and low cut section to the tape delay plugin allows you to play with the thickness and presence of the repeats. You can adjust the subdivision of each separately which is useful for creating rhythmic delays for percussive sounds like plucks, pianos, and guitars. This unit offers two delays in one that are panned hard left and right by default. The "diffuse" tape head mode is non-traditional, but very cool! The "character" section of the plugin allows you to further tweak the character of the repeats. Use the modulation section to add an analog chorus type of feel or the flutter section to model those tape flutter sounds. Here's a few settings to try: play around with the high and low cut to adjust how the repeats blend into your mix.
It also does a decent job of emulating analog delay tones. Tape delay is a more character based delay designed to emulate the warm, modulated repeats of vintage tape units.
You might use echo for bright, clean repeats and also where CPU is a concern. They're all good at different things, so here's a little breakdown on how you can use each of them.Įcho operates as a basic digital delay with the option to darken the repeats by turning down the "color" parameter. MainStage features some great delay plugins.