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pekbro · Post by **pekbro** » Wed Nov 18, 2020 1:10 am

I love Sean's work and have all of them, but at the end of the day, this is not my favorite delay for some reason.

Funkybot's Evil Twin · Wed Nov 18, 2020 1:38 am

pekbro wrote: Wed Nov 18, 2020 1:10 am I love Sean's work and have all of them, but at the end of the day, this is not my favorite delay for some reason.

Vibe-wise a love it. Sometimes I find the control lacking compared to other delays (like I want to pan individual taps for example), or I find myself wanting ducking on a mode where it doesn't exist, or a little more control over rhythm, or detailed filtering options in the feedback....there's other delays for that stuff. ValhallaDelay is still my go-to for 80% of my delay needs, and the other 1 in 5 times, I reach for something else.

When I feel like I'm being too precious, I just remember at how much great music was made with way more limited tools and try to remind myself I'm not talented enough for any of those tiny details to matter and should focus on the composition and performance and not get bogged down by details.

JerGoertz · Post by **JerGoertz** » Wed Nov 18, 2020 4:01 am

foosnark wrote: Wed Nov 18, 2020 12:47 am Have you tried listening to it backwards?

Really looking forward to this mode!

I did, but I still can't make out what he's saying!

Vortifex · Post by **Vortifex** » Wed Nov 18, 2020 9:29 am

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s28 · Post by **s28** » Wed Nov 18, 2020 4:02 pm

Favourite plugin for a good while.

A cassette mode will be most welcomed.

Would love for ubermod to get either an overhaul, or for there to be another valhalla multi fx geared towards more vintage/old digital flavours and nice saturation on board!

miloszz · Post by **miloszz** » Wed Nov 18, 2020 11:14 pm

Sean posted somewhere recently about playing with a Univox tape echo he picked up. Instagram, maybe, or another forum.

The Univox units used an 8-track style tape cartridge - hard to find now but you can do a little surgery and reformat Playtape cartridges.

I don't find myself using this for straight delay duties much (I love Outer Space for that and Wavesfactory's new Copicat plugin - I'm familiar with tape units IRL so they're comfortable?) instead get wild with the BBD mode or ducking.

s28 · Post by **s28** » Wed Nov 18, 2020 11:59 pm

miloszz wrote: Wed Nov 18, 2020 11:14 pm Sean posted somewhere recently about playing with a Univox tape echo he picked up. Instagram, maybe, or another forum.

The Univox units used an 8-track style tape cartridge - hard to find now but you can do a little surgery and reformat Playtape cartridges.

I don't find myself using this for straight delay duties much (I love Outer Space for that and Wavesfactory's new Copicat plugin - I'm familiar with tape units IRL so they're comfortable?) instead get wild with the BBD mode or ducking.

Nice, look forward to that. I use this for everything really, regular delay fx and going wild with it on sound design. So much potential to it.

Biome_Digital · Post by **Biome_Digital** » Thu Nov 19, 2020 9:37 pm

It's a great delay! Love the different modes.

simmo75 · Post by **simmo75** » Thu Nov 19, 2020 10:10 pm

I think it's a good sounding delay but for me. it's boring to use and I never find myself using it.

sqigls · Post by **sqigls** » Thu Nov 19, 2020 11:15 pm

that's how i feel about all the Valhalla plugins.
Bought em all, never feel like using them.

scaremony · Post by **scaremony** » Fri Nov 20, 2020 2:43 am

Still love Delay. I use it all of the time. Coming from guitar pedals, it "clicks" with me the most and all of the options sound great. I've also really enjoyed Supermassive on vocals recently. BUT I have fallen out of love with their traditional reverbs. Not entirely sure why, but I suppose I've heard them and used them for so long now that anything else sounds more interesting

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Fri Nov 20, 2020 3:04 am

Funkybot's Evil Twin wrote: Wed Nov 18, 2020 1:38 am
pekbro wrote: Wed Nov 18, 2020 1:10 am I love Sean's work and have all of them, but at the end of the day, this is not my favorite delay for some reason.
Vibe-wise a love it. Sometimes I find the control lacking compared to other delays (like I want to pan individual taps for example), or I find myself wanting ducking on a mode where it doesn't exist, or a little more control over rhythm, or detailed filtering options in the feedback....there's other delays for that stuff. ValhallaDelay is still my go-to for 80% of my delay needs, and the other 1 in 5 times, I reach for something else.

When I feel like I'm being too precious, I just remember at how much great music was made with way more limited tools and try to remind myself I'm not talented enough for any of those tiny details to matter and should focus on the composition and performance and not get bogged down by details.

Yup... Valhalla Delay always sounds good to me and with little effort. I can use the Bitwig tools and modulation to tweak Delay as well. Maybe 3 of 4 times I use Delay... the other time I use the Bitwig Delay cause I can put any arbitrary chain of devices in the feedback path.

I agree with your point about getting bogged down... but especially if I was talented enough, it would be an even greater loss to spend so much time tweaking tiny stuff cause all that talent would be wasted in those moments

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Fri Nov 20, 2020 5:25 am

Funkybot's Evil Twin wrote: Wed Nov 18, 2020 1:38 am
pekbro wrote: Wed Nov 18, 2020 1:10 am I love Sean's work and have all of them, but at the end of the day, this is not my favorite delay for some reason.
Vibe-wise a love it. Sometimes I find the control lacking compared to other delays (like I want to pan individual taps for example), or I find myself wanting ducking on a mode where it doesn't exist, or a little more control over rhythm, or detailed filtering options in the feedback....there's other delays for that stuff. ValhallaDelay is still my go-to for 80% of my delay needs, and the other 1 in 5 times, I reach for something else.

When I feel like I'm being too precious, I just remember at how much great music was made with way more limited tools and try to remind myself I'm not talented enough for any of those tiny details to matter and should focus on the composition and performance and not get bogged down by details.

Think of it like Diva. Emulations of classics with some fun additions. Not meant to do surgically precise delay trickery. There are plenty of delays for that, but none of them have the vibe that Valhalla Delay has. I love it, but of course I’ve got another dozen or so delay plugins for different shenanigans.

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Fri Nov 20, 2020 5:35 am

simmo75 wrote: Thu Nov 19, 2020 10:10 pm I think it's a good sounding delay but for me. it's boring to use and I never find myself using it.

Find an interesting MIDI controller like a Touché and start assigning parameters. It gets very interesting very quickly.

simmo75 · Post by **simmo75** » Fri Nov 20, 2020 5:54 am

zerocrossing wrote: Fri Nov 20, 2020 5:35 am
simmo75 wrote: Thu Nov 19, 2020 10:10 pm I think it's a good sounding delay but for me. it's boring to use and I never find myself using it.
Find an interesting MIDI controller like a Touché and start assigning parameters. It gets very interesting very quickly.

Well shiiiit... I have Touché and never thought to assign delay parameters to it. Thanks!

I know what I’m doing this weekend

Valhalla Delay released