From the course: Audio Mixing Master Class

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Simulating a tape delay

Simulating a tape delay - Pro Tools Tutorial

From the course: Audio Mixing Master Class

Start my 1-month free trial

Simulating a tape delay

“

- [Instructor] If you ever get to hear a real tape delay, you know how cool it can be. There are many plugins that emulate that sound but here's how you can build a tape delay and have more control over it, too. First of all, let's listen to the song, and there is a delay on the vocal, that's all. Now this is a eighth note delay. And we can see that it's at 197ms. And it sounds okay, it works in the song. But this is more of a '40s, '50s type of song and it needs a kind of feel, so what we'd rather have is a tape delay effect rather than the real, clean delay that we're using. So we can get this fairly easy. The first thing we're going to do is add an EQ. And the thing about tape delay, real tape, is that it has a very limited bandwidth. Mostly because, after the first couple plays, a lot of the oxide actually wears off. So what happens is there's less magnetism and there's less high end, and there's less low end. So what we're gonna do is simulate that is we're going to put a high…

Contents