VST-delays. What is good?

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I like soundtoys echoboy junior a lot. Cheap and simple but with the great sound of its big brother

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valhalla supermassive is great for a free plugin. i also use surreal machinesā€™ modnetic and diffuse all the time. theyā€™re pretty awesome.

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Yeah Sandman Pro is pretty great for more sound-designy or glitchy tasks. my favourite bread and butter delay is definitely Valhalla Delay, like a lot of other elektronauts it seems :slightly_smiling_face: (simple, easy to use, nice selection of modes)

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Really cool to see what everyone is using for delays ITB, Iā€™m usually so focussed on reverbs that I rarely think about delays on here.

Seems thereā€™s a real preference for Valhallaā€™s and Soundtoysā€™ delays.

Someone also mentioned the Eventide H3000ā€¦just wanna give some props to that plugin also (and the hardware of course), itā€™s total madness :blush:

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ā€¦oh yeshā€¦ i forgotā€¦
valhalls super massive is in fact a reverb meets delay combo including shimmerstuff halls and endless tailsā€¦and itā€™s for freeā€¦
at least for valhalla costumersā€¦

so buy that cheap valhalla vintage delay and get that super massive as a goody on top and u wonā€™t miss a thingā€¦everā€¦

soundtoys and eventide stuff are pretty on eye level to each other in overall sonic grattitude and as timeless as expensive in total comparisonā€¦no to mention all that exclusive licensing hussels theyā€™re asking forā€¦

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That is actually exactly what I used to do. But then I sort of fell out of love with the those filters. I felt I had too hard of a time finding the sweet spot.

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ā€¦maybe try some additional eqing inbetween the chaining?..

alwas keep in mindā€¦they all cook with waterā€¦eventides fomous top end whispering crispyness for example, is nothing but pushing the right frequencies in the hi bandsā€¦
while all shimmer effects are nothing but internal chorus feedbacksā€¦and so on and so onā€¦

nothing u could not built on ur own in such daws like ableton and bitwigā€¦

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I think Super Massive is free without any need of purchaseā€¦

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If you have Live Suite, you should try the Echo stock effect before spending money on plugins

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Self appointed delay junkie hereā€¦ these are my favorites:

  • U-he Color Copy
  • SoundToys Echoboy
  • Valhalla Delay
  • NI Replika XT
  • UVI Relayer
  • Surreal Machines - Dub Machines

Thereā€™s plenty other good ones too, but those are my go to choices.

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Nothing to add here that hasnā€™t been said already. I use Valhalla Delay and U-he Colour Copy but I think Abletonā€™s Echo effect is extremely underrated and worth exploring.

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It is. As is FreqEcho. Both are worth a sniff.

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You can demo Valhalla, just download it and install. Audio will occasionally cut out (until you buy a licence)

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Audio Damage Dubstation, first bought 16 years ago, still gets it done for me.
Itā€™s been through some revisions, for sure, but the core vibe is still there. And itā€™s more usable than ever.

Always been real affordable, too. It was even free for a while, through Novationā€™s program.

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Valhalla all day.

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While i also use Valhalla Super Massive, Ableton 10ā€™s stock echo effect is VERY powerful and sounds great.

Iā€™ve been beta-ing Ableton 11, and the new Spectral Time granular based delay is also pretty freaking amazing.

Someone just playing with it in a pretty extreme way (although didnā€™t use the granular freeze!) (they named their saved preset ā€˜Delay Reso Glitchā€™, but this is the Spectral Time device):

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FabFilter Timeless is amazing. Reaaally deep, presets are very well made.
Already mentionned but I enjoy a lot Replika from NI.

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Iā€™ve been thinking about getting FabFilter Timeless for awhile, I keep forgetting I have Replika, I should use it more.

When it came out I picked up Audiothing Wires, a model of a Soviet Wire Recorder Echo that Hainbach resurrected. It sounds lovely and also has some great saturation abilities. Iā€™ve been using that on a few tracks recently and will continue to do so.

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Timeless 2 is really good for LFO modulated filters etc.

The delay feedback configuration takes a bit of getting used to though.

Iā€™m really liking the delays in Line6 Helix Native though. Probably not worth buying just for the delays, but for guitar effects - phwoar!

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The relatively new arturia ones are also good. But I have to say that you can get a lot of mileage out of the delay in abeton.

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