It is dry and to-the-point, without any modulations. ![]() We focused on making this feel like a Juno-60 thrown into a DD-3 pedal and fed back in for record. There’s nothing like a bit of digital delay on a blazing synth. ‘80s delays were meant to sound futuristic, creative, and sometimes a bit over the top.ĭrums provided by Black Octopus Sound and Production Master in their pack Miami 1982. Soon, they were used on pretty much anything, from synths to vocals to guitars and beyond.īoss were the heavy-hitters in this era, with their DD-2 stompbox and eventually the DD-3 in 1986. Single, smaller digital delay pedals gave more musicians access to delay effects than ever before. The digital age set in-and you can hear it on so many songs that came out during this time. The '80s were not only the era of big colors, big pants, and big hair, but even bigger delays. We purposely kept the modulation un-synced and set at a super slow rate to give it the vibe of natural tape movement. Mixed with slight wobbles to simulate the tape’s wow and flutter makes for a great Space Echo-type delay sound. This ‘70s sound was all about the tape-so we made sure to give our version enough grit by driving more input to retain the tape-like saturation. (And the Roland units have of course remained popular into the present day.) Artists like Pink Floyd and Lee "Scratch" Perry, as early adopters of Space Echo, used the units create trippy, reverb-infused delays and repetitions. These were huge turning points for single-unit delay effects in the ‘70s. In the early ‘70s, Ace Tone-Ikutaro Kakehashi’s company before he started Roland-began to release the EC-1 Echo Chamber, a design that eventually matured into Roland’s RE-101 Space Echo and RE-201 Space Echo. This means making a short feedback and short delay time, with no stereo width or modulations whatsoever-creating rustic, straight-to-the-point slapback delay. Using Live 10’s Echo plugin, we focused on making it sound as much like an Echoplex from the mid-’50s as possible. As the guitarist for Elvis Presley's band, Moore and his use of the EchoSonic were so popular that other manufacturers soon made their own echo units, like the classic Maestro Echoplex line. It’s what gave that slapback delay sound of the 1950s to rock ‘n’ roll guitars like Scotty Moore’s. Ray Butts' EchoSonic, built in the early ‘50s, was a portable guitar amplifier that had a built-in tape echo effect. While previously, audio engineers were using tape and reel-to-reel machines to create the first delay effects during the mixing process, the '50s saw the birth of innovative, standalone echo units. The 1950s and early 1960s was all about slaps and taps. The Slapback Echoes of the ‘50s and Early ‘60s You can download the presets we created for each era exclusively through Reverb here. To see how Live 10’s Echo plugin fares when taking on these classic sounds, we’re traveling through different eras of echo and delay, using Live 10 to match a rich history of iconic effects, from the "slapback" echoes of the ‘50s and ‘60s through the side-chain delays of the 2000s. "It was more about capturing the spirit of these things, covering similar sonic space." ![]() But Ableton didn’t seek to emulate those classic units exactly. "Precise effects have their own charm, but Live’s new ones mean you create more sounds that don’t just sound like computer music," Kleine said. Precise effects have their own charm, but Live’s new ones mean you create more sounds that don’t just sound like computer music." - Ableton's Christian Kleine In an article explaining the development team’s motivations behind Live 10’s new features, Kleine said they looked into the inner-workings of analog units like the Roland Space Echo, WEM Copicat, and Morley Oil Can to capture some of their character, quirks, and imperfections. ![]() Today, we’re diving deep into the DAW’s new Echo effect, a powerful stock plugin that opens up an entire history of echo and delay sounds.Ībleton’s Christian Kleine led the research at the heart of the new plugin. Following Ableton Live 10’s official release earlier this month, we’ve pointed out some of our favorite new features and looked at three powerful mixing tools Live 10 offers.
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