[Ben Jenssen]

I’ really getting into experimenting with delays these days. I’m trying to get really wide stereo image on my mixes.

Have you any experience with tap delays, ping pong and so on? They quickly become too obvious and mess up things (phasing, cluttering).

I stumbled on a way of making vocals sound pretty wide and impressing, but it sounds really dumb: quick autopanning! With Waves mondomod. Like 1/4 or 1/8 of the beat.
Not mixed 100%, of course, but mixed in carefully. The vox was three trax, one lead and two dubs panned a little to the sides. I used it on the vox submix. You should really try it. Doesnt sound obvious at all, like you might think.

Then you have the slap delay on the opposite side technique. I haven’t had much success with it. Kinda messy. I usually think a room reverb does the job better.

I never made any sense of the ping pong either.

And what about drastic EQ on delays...

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