This was a great tip! This is combination with a Reverb, EQ, and an IR from your free preset you made available made for such a killer sound. I also use the HX Effects unit and just got it set up as my pedalboard into the Stomp. I am using a Deluxe and AC30 sound with snapshots to switch between amps.
I found a similar dual-delay trick to use for amp sims on my UA Apollo. The Cooper Time Cube plugin, which models a garden hose delay, has a great default setting: 16ms on the left and 14ms on the right. Blended in subtly it gives amp sim tones a nice dimension. Since the highs on the delay are attenuated you can go anywhere up to 100ms without it sounding like a slapback.
Hi michael and thank you for this very interesting video. Maybe it's already in your schedule but i just want to suggest you to do a quick video about your creative amp preset pack, a quick overview of each preset, 10 seconds of music on each is enough to help people and get a "tone crush".
I'm using the "Double Take" effect for this same purpose, I like it because is a little bit random and not just always 9ms behind, but still I'm definitely going to try this.
Thanks for Sharing ...... I saw pretty much the same thing in a UK 🇬🇧 Computer Music Magazine. They recorded a mono track, duplicated it , took off quantization for tracks then slid it forward 5-10 milliseconds, hard panned them left & right ..... You could also make a perfect ping pong delay that way too, but instead have quantize on and gradually cut volume on each repeat as it occurs after intitial track.
This is called the HAAS effect. It's used in mixing to give the perception that a sound is coming more from one side without panning the signal. It's good if you want to give the impression that an element is more on one side but still in the front of the mix.
I find this technique works well with headphones, but can introduce a little phase cancellation when used with a stereo cabinet like Powercab 212. Thanks for a very informative and interesting video.
Hey Jim. I was wondering if you could make a video showing this, or link to someone else’s video….In my head, the theory of it makes sense….at a particular frequency, the full wavelength would be 18ms, at 9ms, the second speaker would produce the positive frequency wave as the sound wave from the first speaker began its negative wave, with both wavelengths cancelling each other. Im interested to hear at what frequency that would be. Thank you for any feedback you might have, and for bringing up a good point about phase cancellation.
@@jakehall9300 The difference is how separated the sound sources are. You can get away with a lot of phase cancellation with headphones, that’s why you should always check your mix/patch in mono to be sure its ok. Powercab 212 speakers are pretty close to gather and small phase issues might stand out. But that’s kind of how stereo wideners work, so the phase cancellations might be just what you’re looking for.
Hey Michael! Great tip! That was what I was looking for! Only one question! This should be at the end of the chain? What happens if I have a “normal” delay?
Great tip. I've been doing very much the same thing in my Helix Floor by splitting from mono to stereo after the amp and putting a simple delay at 10ms on one side. It is very much like the "Wide Stereo Mode" in the Strymon Deco. Any chance you'd share what tremolo effect you are using at the beginning of this video and how you have it set up? One of the things I have struggled with in Helix is getting a good organic tremolo sound, yours sounds fantastic there.
The trem is from the HX Stomp. I honestly don’t remember which one it was. I tend to like the basic tremolo better than some of the vintage styles ones (which was surprising for me).
Did this the other day and it sounded great. Tonight it sounds like there's a little bit of flanger or chorus on there, and there's a 3 or 4 db volume drop. Weird. It's been on forever so maybe I just need to turn it off and back on again.
Sounds like it might have been summed to mono! If your signal is being summed or might be summed to mono this trick doesn’t really work and can introduce phase canceling.
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True, not always great summed to Mono. That also depends on what specific delay length you use. Live it was just added to our monitor mixes but as long as the channels are kept stereo or only one is used you are good to go!
Sometimes but not often. It may have something to do with the impedance of your headphones as well! I’ve not had a problem getting enough volume for practicing
Im a newbie, so every amp drive delay reverb that i will put in a preset in hx stomp 6 blocks will be from stereo?? And im using a reaper DAW for recording.
And yep, that's exactly what happens. Be very careful with this technique and only use it if you're sure that your mix won't be summed down to mono at any point. I know the feeds from our live stream are stereo...sometimes. Sometimes they get summed to mono. Or maybe the listener's system is mono. Guitar will sound thin when that happens.
Yes, absolutely! Especially in streaming scenarios because you never know where down the line it will get summed. Typically I have a monitor engineer do this at the monitor board so I hear it but it doesn’t go to FOH.
