Question about delay

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When you have a part (lead guitar in my case) with a bit of delay on it, and the part ends right where there is a break in the music, how would you go about "shutting off" the delay so that it doesn't decay into that little break?
In my case, the break in the song should be silent and i love what the delay has done for the lead guitar, I just want it to stop delaying for that one second or two...

The delay i'm using is pretty short already, but just enough to be audible and annoying in that little section. Any thoughts?
 
Cut/mute it during the mix down stage of the song.
 
Yeah, editing like that works, or automation works (envelopes). I have problems with "SLAP BACK delay?" When I'm out on the town with a paid "friend?" and she slaps me (hey that's what she's paid for?) I can never determine the correct amount of time before I should slap her back?
 
RockinRobby said:
Yeah, editing like that works, or automation works (envelopes). I have problems with "SLAP BACK delay?" When I'm out on the town with a paid "friend?" and she slaps me (hey that's what she's paid for?) I can never determine the correct amount of time before I should slap her back?
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:cursing: You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to RockinRobby again. ;)
 
RockinRobby said:
Yeah, editing like that works, or automation works (envelopes). I have problems with "SLAP BACK delay?" When I'm out on the town with a paid "friend?" and she slaps me (hey that's what she's paid for?) I can never determine the correct amount of time before I should slap her back?
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HAHAHA! Love it.

moresound said:
Cut/mute it during the mix down stage of the song.
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That's what I thought I should do.. Thanks for your answers
 
How would you cut/mute? Actually, WHAT would you cut/mute?

The way I do something like that is to take the last note of the solo and put it into it's own channel/track. You could have a channel that's identical to the channel that the solo is on, without the delay, and just move the part that you don't want any delay on to that channel.
 
You would visually cut/mute and or more appropriately perhaps? "taper off" the bounced effected guitar track. However, I personally like doing it with an envelop on the plug? i.e., automation write enable, grab the delay and when it comes to the part you don't want it? mute it, or drag it to zero. Then re-enable afterward. That way you get the effect you want, and it's done basically while you are tracking. I hope this makes sense.

But yeah RAMI, your way works too? There are many ways to skin the cat, what we're all interested in the end is a hairles... (wait for it...) "cat."
 
RockinRobby said:
There are many ways to skin the cat, what we're all interested in the end is a hairles... (wait for it...) "cat."
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HEE! :D

OK, so I guess you guys are talking about a delay that's already printed on the track, no? Other wise, I'm not understand how one goes about muting/fading/cutting a delay that's being sent to a recorded track. I'm probably not getting it. I get the automation method of doing it, obviously. I'm not clear on the other part, though.
 
You can automate the FX (at least with Reaper you can) to basically turn off (or fade out) where you don't want it.
 
RAMI said:
HEE! :D

OK, so I guess you guys are talking about a delay that's already printed on the track, no? Other wise, I'm not understand how one goes about muting/fading/cutting a delay that's being sent to a recorded track. I'm probably not getting it. I get the automation method of doing it, obviously. I'm not clear on the other part, though.
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I was wondering the exact same thing.

@OP - At the final mixdown I'd print the delay to it's own track and slice off the parts I don't want in the editor. Should be the same as automation in theory, but I find I don't get precise results with automation sometimes (be it the fault of the plugins being used, the way the DAW handles automation... I don't know or care - printing the effect to a track and editing it *always* works). That might be what they were already talking about... I kinda got lost in some of the posts around the same time RAMI did, apparently.
 
TyphoidHippo said:
I was wondering the exact same thing.

@OP - At the final mixdown I'd print the delay to it's own track and slice off the parts I don't want in the editor. Should be the same as automation in theory, but I find I don't get precise results with automation sometimes (be it the fault of the plugins being used, the way the DAW handles automation... I don't know or care - printing the effect to a track and editing it *always* works). That might be what they were already talking about... I kinda got lost in some of the posts around the same time RAMI did, apparently.
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But then you can't change anything on the track or you have to go back and re-print and re-edit the delay.
 
Yea, that's why I said I'd do it at the final stage.
 
TyphoidHippo said:
Yea, that's why I said I'd do it at the final stage.
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I think this will work quite well. The mix is pretty much finished now besides a few more experiments i'd like to try out, so i'll give this a shot. Thanks guys!
 
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