The Experts team wondered what we thought people would want to find behind the windows of a dream studio advent calendar. Some of the things we own, some we wish we did. Owned or not, we think any of the things we name in the next 3 days would be a gift to a professional studio owner. Russ Hughes chooses his favourite delay, Waves H-Delay.
Day 22 - Waves H-Delay
With the almost limitless release of new plugins, including delay plugins, it can be easy to be seduced to try other delay plugins. However, when it comes to delay, then from my cold dead hand you’ll take Waves H-Delay.
I love it for a number of reasons, the sound of course, is usually in the ballpark of analogue devices without too much tweaking, but it doesn’t take long to get it sounding just right, Waves H-Delay is just so simple to use.
Great on guitars, synths, vocals, and more, Waves H-Delay has been my goto for as long as I can remember. When all is said and done, in other delay plug-ins, which seem to have a millions controls and layers, H-Delay stands strong as a delay that can be easily wrangled to get impressive results quickly and easily. It’s the essence of an analog delay, nothing more, nothing less. Waves could had easily made this into a monster delay but they didn’t.
Special mention to the filters with linking, this makes filtering a doddle, from a simple hi-pass to making a super thin sound for effects. There’s modulation that can give simple wavers on repeats to cool chorusing effects, and ping pong just works for quick stereo delay tricks.
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