The combination of the tube summing process, saturation, intensity and filters really help shape your sound and produce great results. It has a great tone and can produce a range of echo and dub type effects. As with a lot of delays the best option is to adjust settings to your requirements, it’s easy to learn the basics and then you can fine tune the sound. There are only a handful of presets but to be honest you don’t really need them. This is where the sync option can be found with a range of values – 1/1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/4T, 1/8, 1/8T, 1/16, 1/16T along with load / save presets and settings. The strip at the bottom of the delay shows the value for each of the controls that you can also click on and enter a manual setting. Saturation drives the tube circuit into saturation. The five different STA modes with a tube display that fades out when you bypass the effect and fades back in when enabled. HPF and LPF are the high pass and low pass filter controls for the delayed signal When the ping pong mode is off the stereo parameter controls the panorama (left, centre or right). When enabled, the stereo parameter expands or contracts the stereo image from 0 – 100%. The ping pong mode button alternates the delayed sound between the channels. Intensity adjusts the phaser effect and wet to dry signal ratio Tempo – you can use the dial to set it manually, use the tap to tempo button or sync to your host DAW tempo ĭecay setting controls the decay time of the delayed signal repetitions, or the amount of time it takes the delayed signal repetitions to fade from full to inaudible volume (0 – 20 seconds) It’s a single delay effect with a handful of controls: On the left hand side is the level in control and the corresponding level out control is located on the right hand side of the display that also features VU meters, in/out meter display option and effect bypass. The GUI has the look of a classic hardware unit and has clearly laid out controls that are easy to use. L (LoFi) – contains less low and high frequencies. W (White) – has higher amount of higher frequencies and the ratio between the even and odd harmonics is balanced V (Vintage) – has smoother highs and more even harmonics ī (Brown) – has an almost flat response with only light high frequencies roll off and nice higher harmonics punch P (Presence) – the higher amount of mid-high frequencies allows better cutting through the mix There are 5 modes that change the tube circuit and hence the tonal qualities: The tube summing process takes a processed signal and an unprocessed signal and mixes them on a vacuum tube. There are a number of other STA effects – phaser, flanger, chorus, enhancer and preamp. That said they can be used as parallel send effects as long as you enable the wet only mode. STA Delay by Audified is one of a number of STA effects designed to be used as insert effects because they use a tube summing process. But when I saw PluginBoutique have an exclusive sale on this one until July 29th for only £1 (Normal price £35.95) I couldn’t resist… Is it possible to have too many delay effects? It has to be said I have a number of them already and I have reviewed several favourites on my blog already.
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