From the course: Audio Foundations: Delay and Modulation
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Get in the Mix: Flanger and phaser effects
From the course: Audio Foundations: Delay and Modulation
Get in the Mix: Flanger and phaser effects
Dialing in a very short delay time and modulating it via the three delay modulation controls leads to an effect know as flanging. The only rule is that the delay time needs to be in that range short enough to lead to audible comb filtering. That suggests a starting delay setting of less than about ten milliseconds, though the effect may be more obvious at delay times closer to five milliseconds. This ensures audible comb filtering will occur. Set the delay modulation controls to taste. That ringing, hollow, ear tingling sound that is created by a flanger, comes from the simple comb filter effect enhanced by these modulations controls. While a fixed, short delay creates a comb filter, a changing short delay creates a sweeping comb filter. As the delay time sweeps, the tone is radically reshaped and that's flanging. The bridge of this tune offers opportunities for some aggressive shifts in the mix. A change of scene of arrangement or of texture. I want to sonically separate this part of…
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