CEP and delay/echo

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I'll start by saying that I'm an amateur at this stuff. I've messed around with recording on a computer for few years now and I get quite a kick out of it.

I really like CEP, especially their effects (since I have *minimal* equipment of my own). But lately I've been thinking of using delay or echo to get a sound to repeat off into silence. The most I can twist out of CEP is a couple echoes and that's it. Is there any way I can use CEP's effects to achieve this? It seems like such a basic thing that gets used quite a lot so I'd think there would be a way to do it with CEP. But as I said, I'm an amatuer at this so I just stare at a screen like the multitap delay and my noodle goes blank.

Any suggestions are appreciated
 
To get an echo to repeat, you should be using the echo effect. The two most important knobs for it echoing off are the feedback control (how many times it's echoed back into the path) and the equalisation (how is each successive echo going to be filtered). Eq out almost all the lows, as that just muds up the echos. Basically, a nice jumping-off point is the "Midtones Following" preset. Bring that up, and pay attention to how they set it up, and what you hear. Make sure the echo volume is high enough that you can hear it. Now, once you get the hang of that, if you REALLY want to piss people off, put in a feedback rate HIGHER than 100%...... just be sure your speakers aren't turned up very high. :eek:
 
Also, I just wanted to mention to make sure that your delay time is not set too low. If it's under 200 ms or so, it'll sound more like a slap-back delay.
 
I guess I got confused since I was playing around with the presets and couldn't find what I was looking for. Now that you point me in the right directions to actually push some slides up and down, I see how it all fits together.

Well, thank you very much.
 
SoupGuru said:
I guess I got confused since I was playing around with the presets and couldn't find what I was looking for. Now that you point me in the right directions to actually push some slides up and down, I see how it all fits together.

Well, thank you very much.
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no problem.
I guess I should tell you this right now, presets are all well and good for like broad ideas and starting points, but their usefullness ends right there: as starting points. You have to make them work for you. This applies to presets for anything: chorus, flanger, echo, phaser, compression, eq, whatever.
 
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