What was the most popular delay of the 90s?

[keyman_sam]

Does anyone know if Valhalla delay emulates the DD3?

[jamcat]

Use this plugin chain on a send:

kHs Nonlinear Filter
kHs Bitcrusher
kHs Delay

It's all free from Kilohearts.

[CrystalWizard]

Any clean digital delay with between 16 bits or more should do the trick...

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[jamcat]

Use this plugin chain on a send:

kHs Nonlinear Filter
kHs Bitcrusher
kHs Delay

It's all free from Kilohearts.

Some settings suggestions to get started...

Nonlinear Filter:
Mode: CLIPPED; HPF @ 80Hz; Q: All the way down

Bitcrusher:
Samplerate: 44.1kHz; Bits: 12.00; Quantize: 100%

Also, try the bitcrusher after the delay, to make sure nothing coming out of it is >12-bit.
(Note: BOSS DD-3 is 12-bit.)

[zerocrossing]

My 90s delay was a Digitech PDS8000 delay pedal. I loved that thing.

[noiseboyuk]

Don't think anyone's mentioned the Korg SSD-3000, which became The Edge's delay of choice after he got fed up with the Memory Man pedal. The Boss pedal was ubiquitous for mortal guitarists.

But the most common unit for studio use was any of the Yamaha SPX multi fx series. Those original SPX90s were everywhere, and then they kept making more and more refined follow ups.

As a couple of posters said, anything 16 bit will do for that sound, really.

[Tj Shredder]

I had a Yamaha SPX 90, DigiTech Time Machine 7.6, Lexicon PCM-70 and a Boss SE-70.
For the SE-70 I made a Max patch that turned into my Ondes Memorielles which now does much more completely in the box… I could do magical things with this set…
Features had been more important to me than some seemingly shitty sound…
I am happy that technology advanced a lot…

[Barbed Wire Kiss]

Boss DD-3 pedal

https://www.hornetplugins.com/plugins/hornet-hdd1/

[thecontrolcentre]

Almost forgot ... I had a Digitech Studio Quad in the late 90's (updated it to v2 recently).

[kritikon]

Alexis Quadraverb. Digitech 128. I got a pimped-up Digitech TSR24 (competitor to Ensoniq DP4) but was likely later on in the 90s, same with Lexicon Alex/Reflex, can't remember the exact dates. Other delays were from within various S&S synths.
If I'd had the money, then it would have been a PCM80. An Eventide if I'd robbed a bank.

I quite liked the sound of the Quadraverb at the time, but if you want to emulate it, just throw on the cheapest phaser sound you can find to a basic delay, then add in several dB of white noise. If you want to get real picky then put the white noise in the right place so that the phaser effects it as well. Lots of delayed whooshing that drowns out everything, job done!

Software - no. There was none for mere mortals. Cubase VST didn't come out until the end of the 90s.

[foosnark]

In the 90s the only delay I had was the one built into my Korg DS-8, which was a nice selling point for at the time. I also had an Alesis Microverb, and that was really it for effects. It was a dark time

[osiris]

Alesis was the go to reverb of the day. I've read Korg came out with all these delays in the 90's.

[xalama qo]

It might be worth trying the Kuassa Efektor delay "pedal". There's a digital mode, "clean an clear", and a lo-fi mode, "dark and grainy", which might be an emulation of low bit rate early digital delays like the Korg and DD-3 ballpark. Not saying those units sound the same, they're just not hi-fi.
It's possible, depending on what type of 90s music you're aiming to emulate that the Kuassa could get you close enough to satisfy. Otherwise something like the D16 Repeater has a lot more emulations to choose from, but costs a lot more too.

[Shabdahbriah]

Alesis was the go to reverb of the day. I've read Korg came out with all these delays in the 90's.

Yep. Quadraverb, all the way.

[HiEnergy]

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