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Originally Posted by percy main
I not sure if this impossible to get right in Reaper
(I might be pissing into the wind but it's worth a try)
I'm attempting to replicate the echoFXs which emulates what King Tubby or the Scientist have achieved in their mixes.
I know this is not possible to do on the fly, which is creatively how they did it in the day.
What I have done, using sends is to extract say a single beat of a snare drum or other instument then using a trim volume envelope apply rea-echo via another send whilst modulating the feed back echo audio using a volume trim envelope, simultaneously re-introducing back into the mix.
It sort of works but its a clumsy and unpredictable method.
Could somebody suggest a more elegant, intuitive solution?
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I was working with a Reggae band for a spell. (I'm more into psychedelia myself but there's an obvious crossover with the dub style delay stuff.)
I was using the Waves H-delay. Working the speed knob responds just like a tape delay with ramping up/down. It also has a tap tempo. You can turn on a dime between them too. Ramp around with the speed knob one moment and quickly tap a tempo in the next to hit a timed echo just right on the fly. The feedback control let you go into saturation without feedback routing. Has high and lo pass eq filters and modulation too. I had 3 of the H-delay plugins up and the controls mapped to my MIDI controller on my wireless control surface.
"Not possible to do on the fly"?! Sure is!
I recorded the output of those delay fx tracks as part of the multitrack recording for every live show too. So I could fix any of my mistakes when I came home and remixed it.