Hello everyone, I'd like to ask for your advice. I'm having trouble improving my performance when playing Delay Control. I have absolutely no idea how to distinguish between delays of 5ms and 90ms. I can't grasp the timing or the characteristics of the differences in sound spread.
I can understand the difference in attack time when using compressor control, but I can't distinguish it at all with Delay Control. How do you all distinguish between them? Also, are there any training methods to help me perceive those differences? I want to develop a precise sense of timing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Distinguishing between 5ms and 90ms is basically distinguishing between whether there is delay or not. So this is important for your ears and brain to learn. Everyone hears it and describes it differently, but I would say the 90ms delay creates a thicker wider sound, one that seems to stay a bit longer than 5ms, which is no significant delay at all. Hone your ears into that and when you can clearly tell the difference, you'll be on your way to a great journey. Then they'll ask you to tell the difference between 2ms and 7ms and, well, that's a useless skill anyway.
Have you tried using the training mode on the game? You can literally set the delay you want to hear and move the slider that changes delay in order to hear the differences. I still find it hard to distinguish between 1 msec and 10 msec delays, but anything over 40 msec can actually be heard as a separate tone. Even below 40 msec, the amount of smearing of the sound is distinguishable and with enough comparison using the training mode, you will begin to become somewhat accurate.
An additional thing to note is that at short delays (say 15 msec), you'll be hearing a lot of comb filtering with associated frequency shifts. I did an interesting experiment with these short delays a couple of years ago to verify that yes, I really was hearing frequency shifts for short delays in this game. Put a pink noise generator on a track in your DAW, followed by a delay plugin, followed by a spectrum analyzer. You'll visually see the comb filtering and how it shifts as you vary the delay time. And you really can hear the frequency shifts as well - this is how I approach delays of 20 msec or so. I've attached a screen shot of the comb filtering for a 3 msec delay as an example. Good luck!
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