User Manual

DL4 Delay Modeler
DL4 Delay Modeler
Dynamic Delay.
This effect was made popular by the tc electronic
2290 Dynamic Digital Delay. This is a sort of “smart”
volume control for your delay effect’s echoes, and
sets the loudness of the delay echoes based on how
hard you play.
While you play, the Dynamic Delay keeps the
volume of the echoes turned down, so that the
echoes don’t overwhelm what you’re doing. Then,
when you stop playing for a moment, the volume
level of the repeats turns up to allow
the echoes to be heard. The TWEAK knob sets the
threshold – the breakpoint where this automatic
volume control stops working and lets the echoes
through at full volume. The TWEEZ knob adjusts
the level of the “ducked” repeats – higher settings
will duck the delay level down more.
Try setting TWEAK and TWEEZ to reasonably
high values, and hear how the delay effect gets
partially muted while you play, helping to avoid
that unwanted “muddy” sound.
Auto-Volume Echo.
This model gives you two effects in one. The Auto
Volume part of the equation is a volume fade-in
swell, like the attack time on a synthesizer’s envelope
generator. This can be used for a bowing effect, like
the one you get by turning the volume knob on
your guitar quickly up from zero just after you pick
a note. Higher settings for the TWEEZ knob will
give you a longer swell time, so that the sound
slowly fades in, like a wave.
The other effect is an echo, complete with tape-
style wow & flutter modulation, adjustable via the
TWEAK knob.
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TWEAK adjusts threshold.
TWEEZ adjusts ducking.
TWEAK sets modulation depth.
TWEEZ sets ramp time for the auto-volume swell.
LOOP SAMPLER
LOOP SAMPLER
DELAY TIME MIXREPEATS TWEAK TWEEZ
LO RES DELAY
ANALOG W/ MOD
ANALOG ECHO
SWEEP ECHO
MULTI-HEAD
TAPE ECHO
TUBE ECHO
DIGITAL W/ MOD
RHYTHMIC DELAY
STEREO DELAYS
PING PONG
REVERSE
DYNAMIC DELAY
AUTO-VOLUME ECHO
DIGITAL DELAY
DL4 Delay Modeler PROGRAMMABLE DELAY & 14 SECOND LOOP SAMPLER
DELAY TIME MIXREPEATS TWEAK TWEEZ
LO RES DELAY
ANALOG W/ MOD
ANALOG ECHO
SWEEP ECHO
MULTI-HEAD
TAPE ECHO
TUBE ECHO
DIGITAL W/ MOD
RHYTHMIC DELAY
STEREO DELAYS
PING PONG
REVERSE
DYNAMIC DELAY
AUTO-VOLUME ECHO
DIGITAL DELAY
DL4 Delay Modeler PROGRAMMABLE DELAY & 14 SECOND LOOP SAMPLER