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Delay (audio effect)

Delay is an audio signal processing technique that records an input signal to a storage medium and then plays it back after a period of time. When the delayed playback is mixed with the live audio, it creates an echo-like effect, whereby the original audio is heard followed by the delayed audio. The delayed signal may be played back multiple times, or…

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Analog delay

Digital delay

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Delay (audio effect)

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Avg. degree1.98
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delay echo tape audio effects used effect signal delayed digital time sound according playback back feedback software delays uses systems

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Pierre Schaefferinstance ofThis technique was most common among early composers of musique concrète0.80text
and composers such as Karlheinz Stockhauseninstance ofThis technique was most common among early composers of musique concrète0.80text
who had sometimes devised elaborate systems involving long tapesinstance ofThis technique was most common among early composers of musique concrète0.80text
multiple recordersinstance ofThis technique was most common among early composers of musique concrète0.80text
playback systemsinstance ofThis technique was most common among early composers of musique concrète0.80text
collectively processing the input of a live performer or ensemble.American producer Sam Phillips created a slapback echo effect with two Ampex 350 tape recorders in 1954instance ofThis technique was most common among early composers of musique concrète0.80text
Basic Channel introduced delay to electronic musicinstance ofeffects by using delay and reverb on a mixing console test tone and dub techno producers0.80text
send tape echo echo delayinstance ofTape delayEarly experiments0.80text
reggaeinstance ofIt has been used by musicians in genres0.80text
dubinstance ofIt has been used by musicians in genres0.80text
trip hopinstance ofIt has been used by musicians in genres0.80text
post-punkinstance ofIt has been used by musicians in genres0.80text

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