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Quick question, and this may be super easy, I'm just having a hard time figuring out how to do it.

I want to add delay to just the last word of each vocal phrase...

example:
"Close your eyes(eyes)(eyes)(eyes)(eyes)"
.<original vocal>.<delay..fading..fading..>.

...I have tons of VST effects, but not sure which one to use, and how exactly to automate this. Can anyone help?

Thanks,

~ ebon

Yeah that,s easy, stick something like Lives 'Simple delay' on a send track, rename that send track to 'long delay' for example.

play your vocal clip and turn up the send knob for the delay to where you want the volume of it, adjust the delay so it's like you want it, don't worry about it being on everything for now.

Now douple click your clip with the vocal, click the little round (e) so you get the envelopes box, in the first dropdown select 'Mixer' and in the next box select 'Long delay' or whatever you called the send track.

now grab the red line and drag it all the way down, this will turn down the send to the delay, now doubleclick where the word you want to echo is and draw an envelope, remember that 100% is relative to how high you have your send knob turned up on the vocal track.

the particular type of delay doesn't matter much. whatever one you prefer. just set the feedback appropriately to get the decay to last as long as you want it. a delay which is set in beats rather than ms sounds like it would work better for you.

you could try this: put the delay on a return track. for the track you want to delay, edit the send envelope and draw in the send over the end of each vocal phrase. you should be able to see it pretty clearly if you are zoomed in on the waveform. or you could do this with a midi controller, or even the mouse.

you could have the delay on the track itself instead of a return... lots of variations on exactly how to do it, but the idea itself is pretty simple

haha, jinx

wow...

LongJohns & ILTK...

Thanks so much for the quick responses... I'll try your suggestions and get back with you.

~ ebon

yeah and while your at it ..try and mess with the delay times, panning, feedback amount and the level of the buss..to get a more interesting and unstatic mix..try and use it in a break for instance..like this: pan the sub left-right rightleft etc bring up the feedback a little and the over all
level of the sub while everthing else on the track is completely or partially dropped out..
a liitle more clever use u could also take the output of the delay track and smash it in to some reverb just in that instance..it requires some tweakin to get the right feelin but its all worth it just mess around and youll see

and for the instant dub effect, stick a delay in a return and when something is being fed into the delay, autosend it (eg if delay is in return A turn the "send A" level in the return slot) and dub dub dub. Be careful and be ready to turn it down quickly, it makes a feedback which is really nasty at high volumes