Luckily, plug-ins can now mimic a wide range of typical recording spaces (like a church or hall), or create entirely new ones. Reverb plug-ins recreate this sonic activity to give listeners the impression that the sounds they are hearing were recorded in a naturally-reverberant space, and not in a dry studio or digitally-generated environment. Like delay, these reflections arrive at our ears later than the original source, but the difference in time is so small that both the reflections and source are heard as a single, continuous event.ĭepending on where a sound source is located in a given space, the surface materials, and the size of the space, the character of a reverberant signal can vary. When a sound is reflected many times off of many surfaces, we get reverberation, which is a regular occurrence in our daily life. Shouting down a well and hearing your own voice reflected back shortly thereafter is another example of an echo. If you ever go for a run at night, you might hear your footsteps reflect off a nearby building. In the natural world, you can hear a type of delay called an “echo” in open spaces where the reflective surface is far enough away that the reflection will sound separated from the original. The repeats are discrete, and depending on the plug-in, they typically get quieter over time. What does a delay plug-in do?ĭelay plug-ins are simple: they capture an audio source and repeat it back one or more times shortly after the original sound. In this article, we will answer a common question asked by music producers everywhere: “Should I use reverb or delay here?” This question comes up often-particularly with new producers-since both types of plug-ins serve to extend a sound after the original source has gone quiet.īefore giving you concrete examples of when to use each, I think it is important to know just a bit about how these effects work.
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