Delay smooths attack a bit? (nitpick warning)

Elektron Gear Analog Rytm
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Hey guys, wondering if anyone has experimented with their delay. From my first day on the unit the delay on my ARmk2 has been kind of meh compared to my A4mk1.

Couldn’t figure out why until now. It seems like the delay is smoothing the attack transient and sort of blurring the sound.

I guess the makes sense for a drum box but I really like how sterile and exact my A4 repeats were. To the point where they became part of the beat instead of sitting behind it.

I’ve been experimenting with the pre-post delay setting, the levels of the track inputs going into the delay, the delay to overdrive send and even the legacy mode option to try to shape my delays to be more “present.”

Thoughts anyone? More of a nitpick than a full on complaint.

E: I notice this effect way more with samples than with the analog engines. I’m using a lot of single cycle waveforms and noticing I can’t get the kind of plucky/poppy delay sounds I’m looking for. Could be a result of the sample looping and the delay catching it at strange times through the cycle.

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Weirdly I’ve had trouble replicating this lately beyond the project I first noticed it in.

I think the track levels and gainstaging play a bigger roll on the character of the fx then I realized.

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Perhaps you had a lot of master distortion going on?

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No distortion or comp.

Noticed it when I was sampling a sound that had a natural pluck to it. The attack transient didn’t see to make it to the delay vs a machine sound that would.

Just an interesting quirk more than anything.