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Description
Discover the Valhalla Delay, a versatile and powerful delay plugin that brings a new level of depth to your musical creations. Perfectly suited for producers and sound designers, this plugin offers a range of delay styles that can transform any sound into something truly unique. Whether you're looking to add a subtle echo or create a complex, evolving soundscape, Valhalla Delay has you covered.
Featuring seven distinct delay modes, including Tape, Hi-Fi, BBD, and Ghost, this plugin allows you to explore everything from classic vintage tones to futuristic, ambient effects. Each mode is crafted to deliver authentic and lush sounds, ensuring that your tracks stand out with precise sonic detail. The intuitive interface makes it easy to dial in the perfect settings, while advanced modulation options provide endless possibilities for creative experimentation.
With Valhalla Delay, you can harness the power of both digital and analog delay styles in a single, easy-to-use package. Dive into the world of sound design and discover new dimensions for your music with this essential plugin.
Key Features:
- Seven distinct delay modes: Tape, Hi-Fi, BBD, Ping Pong, Ghost, Pitch, and Reverse
- Intuitive user interface for easy navigation and control
- Advanced modulation options for creative sound shaping
- Compatible with most DAWs on both Mac and Windows platforms
- High-quality sound processing with low CPU usage
- Customizable feedback and diffusion settings for tailored delay effects
Videos
White Sea Studio
REAL TAPE DELAY SOUND??? - ValhallaDelay
Reviews
Critic Reviews
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Based on 2 Reviews and 19 Ratings
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Valhalla have done it again.
Valhalla dsp (Sean Costello) have built a steady following over the last ten years; people seem to like the company ethos: keep prices affordable and standardised, and deliver intuitive and user-friendly, non-skeuomorphic interfaces on which every knob and slider does exactly what it says it's going to do.
As a result, just about every tech-minded band interviewed these days seems to have one or more of the Valhalla reverbs installed on their hard drive. Although Valhalla has flirted with delay before, this is their first dedicated professional-level multifunction delay plug in. And it's a winner. It covers just about every 'normal' thing you're ever likely to want to do with a delay plug in, and then offers a few more esoteric treatments too. The sound quality is fantastic throughout, and what the interface lacks in glamour, it makes up for in terms of ease-of use and clarity.
It has seven different delay modes. The first four cover all 'normal' delay duties: Tape (Echoplex), BBD (Boss DM-2), Hi-Fi (1/4 inch tape delay, like they used in the 70s) and 'Digital'. Three more modes - Ghost, Pitch and Reverse Pitch - handle the weirder stuff. Parameters available within each of these modes are carefully selected to be suitable for each; so, for example in tape mode, wow and flutter are available, and in digital mode, modulation rate and depth are offered. Ghost mode offers frequency shifting, and the pitch modes give you pitch in semitones. The delay time can be adjusted between 0 ms and 20 seconds, and all modes have a lovely 'Diffusion' effect, which smooths the attack of the delays to give smearing and reverb-like tones. Three 'Eras' are available for all delays - past, present and future, with brightness increasing, and an 'Age' control adjusts the amount of artifacts in the delays. The syncing options are comprehensive - straight, dotted and triplets, and 'Styles' controls the number of delay lines - Single, Dual, Ratio, Ping-Pong and Quad. Most modes have a stereo spread control that adds real depth.
Just about the only thing missing, really, is some sort of resonant filter in the delay signal path. But apart from that, this plug-in should take care of 90% of your everyday delay needs. It's only $50, too.
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In his YouTube video "Charlie Puth's 30-Day Songwriting & Production Class," Charlie Puth demonstrates using the Valhalla Delay plugin at the 0:50 mark.
In a livestream on April 24, 2020, titled "My take on 90s Trip Hop today," Mike Shinoda uses the Valhalla Delay plugin.
Used for effects send F in "Autoharp", as shown in this March 25, 2020 video at 9:40.
During a Twitch stream titled "63/365: in the studio with Fred again.." hosted by plaqueboymax, Fred is seen using the plugin and/or has it in his library.
Producer pdogg showcases his use of the Valhalla Delay plugin in an Instagram post, expressing it might become his favorite delay effect.
This Snapshot was taken from 13/02/2021 Twitch Stream (https://www.twitch.tv/helloimlenno), proving that Lenno is using this Plugin.
In this article, Joris mentions:
I also like Valhalla’s Reverbs and Delay because these are very creative effects which can reveal any sound or completely twist it to get something different.
Used for vocals on "Time Flies", as stated by mix engineer Jesse Ray Ernster in this June 2021 Sound on Sound interview.
“The song already felt great after a few minutes of mixing,” Ernster continues. “The reference mix felt good, the beat was solid too. As I mentioned earlier, after that it was a matter of getting the vocals to shine. Dialling in the vocals took quite a bit of time on this song, because there were so many of them. This song was all about the backing vocals, getting them to sit in a place where they can shine and sparkle and just sit perfectly.
“Pretty much every background vocal on the song has the CLA Mix Hub channel strip, doing some high‑pass filtering, some EQ, and compression. I approached this mix a bit like a console mix, and dialling in every background vocal with the Mix Hub got them where I wanted them to be. I did not need 10 plug‑ins to make the background vocals sound good. This plug‑in just lit them up.
“One interesting moment with the backing vocals is in the bridge of the song. Diddy had a vision that these ‘welelel’ vocals would not only be wide but would also be wrapping around, with the panning going from left to right. So I put on the Waves S1 Shuffler, turned up the width knob and then automated the panning. It was a bold Diddy move that really paid off. It became a special moment, and is one of my favourite spots in the song.
“Underneath the ‘welelel’ track are nine backing vocal aux effect tracks, which are a ModDelay 3; 16th‑note, eighth‑note, quarter‑note and half‑note delays (all the Valhalla Delay); a ping‑pong delay (Waves H‑Delay); and all those tracks have sends to a Valhalla Vintage Verb plate and the FabFilfter Pro‑R. And all those feed the BGV FX bus. I was just moving these effects all around until they felt right.
“Burna’s main lead vocal is in red. One technique I learned from my dad is to ride the fader on vocals, so you don’t get the anomalies that you can get when compression is applied to a recorded voice. As I don’t have a fader, I chopped up the vocal and then adjusted the Clip Gain for each phrase. As for processing, I added the Gullfoss EQ, that kind of rides the frequencies, and which I love. I used it on Burna’s voice on most of the album. There’s also a Pro‑Q 3 to notch out some frequencies, and the Acustica Amber 3 EQ, which adds the most gorgeous top end.
“There’s a send on the main lead vocal to an aux with the Soundtoys Devil‑Loc, adding parallel distortion. It’s a bus I try once in a while. If the vocal is sitting where I want it to sit in the mix volume‑wise, but it needs a little bit more glue, body and warmth, I’ll go for the Devil‑Loc. It brings the vocal straight up into your face. If you want a pop vocal that is right on top of everything, this is it.
“I also have other vocal aux effect tracks, ie. different delays, reverbs, pitch‑shifts. I generally do not use reverbs on the lead vocal, but only delays, because they take up less space. Then I’ll have a delay to feed a reverb that can sit in the background. The pre‑delay creates this ocean of ambience that does not take away from the intimacy and upfront nature of the lead vocal.
“There are a couple of tracks called ‘Throw’, and I create those by dragging duplicate audio to a separate track, and then putting an effect on with the mix at 100 percent, in this case Valhalla Delays. I don’t really like using automation on sends and muting and so on, as it’s a really slow workflow. It takes one second to drag down some audio, add a delay and done.
“Below the ‘Throw’ tracks are two Time Adjuster aux tracks and a Valhalla Space Modulator aux track. Together they recreate the Eventide H3000 wide vocal effect. The Time Adjuster plug‑in delays the left and right channels a bit, and one channel has the CLA MixHub to add some distortion and the other channel has the lo‑fi. The Valhalla Space Modulator is followed by a Cranesong Phoenix II, driving really hard in Dark Essence mode. These three go to an aux called ‘SHIFT M’, and it turns a mono vocal into a wide, enveloping, beautiful vocal. Also, there’s a ‘Lead Vocal All FX’ aux with the Pro‑Q 3 EQ that takes out all top and bottom, which you don’t need on vocal effects.”
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