Digital Delay for electric guitar is the sound of what you've just
played repeated a certain amount of time later and for a certain number of repetitions. Depending on the settings of this popular effect, it can give an impression of two guitars playing at once, or the type of echo produced by mountains that are miles apart. Listen carefully to The Edge of U2 for examples of excellent application of the delay effect.
The original guitar delays where analog, magnetic recording tape machines that played a loop of tape over and over to produce a delay effect. Analog delay is still popular today(along with its newer digital counterpart), though it's produced with electronic circuits instead of tape.
Settings For Digital Delay On Guitar Effects
Here's what you see with the settings on the guitar delay effects:
Delay Time - the amount of time of the delay effect. Usually from 1 millisecond to several seconds. Look for both a knob and a tap button for best results setting the delay time.
Feedback - set the amount of feedback mixed in the signal
Level - set the level of the delay effect
Tone - some units have additional tone control
The specs on delay effects pedals and units can vary greatly from model to model. So it's important to know what you'll need before you buy. The max delay time on some units can be as little as 1000ms and the max can go up to minutes. Most offer several seconds of delay time which turns out to be perfect for most songs.
Look for tap tempo and eq as nice extra features of the delay.
The original guitar delays where analog, magnetic recording tape machines that played a loop of tape over and over to produce a delay effect. Analog delay is still popular today(along with its newer digital counterpart), though it's produced with electronic circuits instead of tape.
