Waves H-Delay Hybrid Delay

In deadmau5's livestream from December 22 2013 at 1:06:11, Deadmau5 adjusts the Waves-H delay inside of Ableton Live 9. At 1:08:46 in particular, we see the Feedback knob and other parts of the interface in detail.

“Waves plugins are a constant on our tracks: L3 is the final limiter on many Tritonal singles; H-Delay is our go-to tape delay plugin; SSL G-Master is the first on our master chain on most records.“

“For me this is the best delay around, period.”

Used on "Hymn for the Weekend", as mentioned by *A Head Full of Dreams* co-producer Rik Simpson in this *Sound on Sound* article. > It was very important to get the development and arrangement of the vocals right. Many of the 45 tracks are effect tracks. There’s only one lead vocal track each for the verses [LV Verse], for the bridge [LV Bridge], and the choruses [LV Chorus], and then Chris sang a number of bridge and chorus vocal overdubs. The main verse vocal has the Avid Channel Strip, which is taking out some low end, an SPL TwinTube, which adds some saturation, the UBK1 compressor adding more crunch, and the UAD Fairchild 670 and SSL E Channel. I don’t use a great deal of compression from each unit. I will just tickle it a little bit with each one, and each one adds a different characteristic. I could just add a whole load of compression from one plug–in, but like this it doesn’t sound over–compressed. The Pro–Q 2 is, again, a high–pass filter. In the sends there’s a Waves H–Delay that I recorded elsewhere, and sends to a main D–Verb and two QL Spaces aux tracks. I have different reverbs and delays for each part of the song so that the vocal sound evolves during the song. > > “The main chorus lead vocal has the FabFilter Pro–Q 2 EQ, the Waves Rennaissance Vox, again the UBK1, two instances of the FabFilter Pro–DS de–esser, two instances of the UAD Pultec EQP–1A, and the FabFilter Pro–MB multi–band compressor. I like the FabFilter de–esser. I am still trying to find the ultimate de–esser, because it’s quite a hard thing to do right. I have two because one is doing high top sibilance, and the other lower stuff around 2kHz. The sends on chorus lead vocal go to aux tracks with the Waves H–Delay, the FXpansion Bloom with a lush, wide stereo delay, a small chamber from the QL Spaces plug–in, a mono delay from the UAD Echoplex, and several other delays. The sends to the delays are all automated independently, with different words getting different delays. > > “One thing of note is that there also is a ‘Hope House M80’ vocal track, recorded when Chris was still using the Telefunken M80, and it’s mixed in very low. There’s also a lead-vocal double that has ‘251’ marked, indicating that Chris was also using that mic. But the main vocals were recorded using the Soyuz. There are two tracks marked ‘251 Melo Lead’ and ‘251 Melo Double’, again mixed in low. ‘Melo’ stands for Melodyne, and these tracks are raised two semitones. They were recorded in a different key for a different version of the song, and detuning them added a certain alien quality to these vocals which we really liked. At the bottom of the session are the Beyoncé vocal tracks, on which I mainly used the SSL E Channel strip, UBK1, L2, SoundToys Echo Boy, Avid ModDelay and the QL Space.”

Plugin can be seen 12:05 into this video

This plugin was used on 10 Death Breast on Bon Iver's album 22, A Million as stated in this article

“I have a few vintage digital delay units. The H-Delay faithfully reproduces the character of the originals and can go far beyond if needed.”

In this video at 21:53 they are using H-Delay

Can be seen at 8:32

Analog delay plugin used by the Weeknd on 'The Hills'

In this video at 41.24 he is using H-Delay.

At 4:34, this plugin is pulled up very briefly.

Virtual Riot opens up H-Delay at 4:14:49 of this video.

FB Post displays a screenshot of Waves H-Delay.

It can be seen at 16:05

In this article by Waves, Mark Ronson states : "Obviously the L2 Ultramaximizer is something I use all the time. And then there’s hardware that I actually have in my studio, like the dbx 160 compressors, but I only have two of those, so once I run out of analog channels I use the Waves dbx 160 in the box. I also use H-Delay a lot, especially for vocals."

> The sends on chorus lead vocal go to aux tracks with the Waves H–Delay, the FXpansion Bloom with a lush, wide stereo delay, a small chamber from the QL Spaces plug–in, a mono delay from the UAD Echoplex, and several other delays

“H-Delay is a constant go-to. I can get simple, useful delays out of it immediately; it never slows my work flow. The analog modes give the delays great character. It's all over Run the Jewels 3.”

At 4:34 in this video jean using h-delay.

"...The item is mentioned 35:25 into this video..."

At the [5:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DEGJMQxPR4) mark of this video Waves H-Delay is shown on DJ Dahi's screen

"I uploaded a short tutorial on how I made my Surge Remix! " He explains shortly about an effect that he is doing and the zooming shows the plugin from Waves being open in the screen.

In this article Illangelo says he used Waves H Delay on The Weeknd's vocal for his song "The Hills"

At Waves H-Delay Hybrid Delay Can Be Seen 1:21 Into This Video

Gear list: Access Virus TI, Moog Sub 37, Yamaha DX7, Waldorf Microwave I rev a, Yamaha TG77, Roland JV2080, Kawai K5000R, Oberheim Matrix 1000, UAD Apollo, Eurorack with Mutable Instruments & Intellijel, Valhalla Vintage Verb, Waves H-Delay, Ableton Live 10.x

H-Delay is listed in the making of Here Comes The Sun.

He says on tumblr that he uses this plugin.

This Plugin can be seen at 20:01

This plugin is being used by Deepend, as it can be seen in this Instagram video

At 41:21 we get a brief glimpse of Waves H-Delay when discussing delay effects used on vocals.

At one part of the video, he used this VST.

"My favorite delay ever." - Sublab, when opening Waves H-Delay at 14:39 in this video