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DUB DELAY
Let me start with a Dub trick. In fact Dub is more a mix
engineering art than a musicians art: the whole mix is
used to be created in real time by the sound engineer adding
and muting channels. Another essence of a dub song are the FX and their real
time use, the weirder the better. This makes it a good
starting point for musicians that want to learn more about
what stuff can be done in reason if you have no fear to
experiment.
For a short history of Dub techniques have a look at this
nice site :
The
Dub Scrolls.
Reason has no complex multiFX processors so you need to
build them your own. Lets start with the most recognisable
dub fx: The Dub delay.
A Dub delay is most often a chain of FX added to the back of
a stereo delay. Also the delay signal is often rerouted
again to the delay input to create feedback/distortion
"explosions". The creativity has free room, add filters,
LFO modulations, stereo panning, distortion, phasers. The Dub FX are usually used as send FX, the send amount
on the mixer is then varied in real time over the one or
more instruments.
The following extract is by Tage and posted here with
his kind permission :
My favourite dub delay set-up in Reason goes like this:
Aux out - Compressor - Delay - 2 band EQ - return channel
(not aux return)
I have the following settings:
Compressor: Use it as a limiter to take away unwanted spikes
Delay: Whatever timing you want. As a side note, Mad
Professor didn't like tempo synced delays suchs as 3/16s,
but I usually use just that.
EQ: The EQ is used to add character to the delay sound. I
usually set a narrow filter with quite heavy gain, and
here's the trick - route a slow LFO CV from any synth in the
rack to the EQs frequency input. When the delay feedback
goes into the eq, different frequencies will be boosted
since it will be sweeping up and down. It creates a rich
sound and helps against runaway feedback.
Return channel: Cut both a little treble and most of the
bass. Use the aux send on the channel to control the amount
of feedback. Be careful.
Tage's demo rns (click to download) : a demo illustrating
above instructions
Ollies demo rns (click to download) : a short demo based
on below template song
Ollies dubdelay template (click to download)
: a template
with two dub echoes on fx send 1 and 2 of the main mixer
Joachims tape echo template (click to download)
: a nice and authentic template by joachim |
