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Appendix C: Table of Effects Presets
No. Title
Description
Example of its use
01
Bright Room
This room has a bright tone with lots of scattered reflections
to simulate harder, more reflective surfaces.
Useful on vocals that require a brighter reverb to cut
through the mix, or for giving acoustic instruments
a livelier vibe.
02 Warm Lounge
This preset features a medium sized room sound, with just
enough enhancement of the lower mids to produce a warm tone.
Useful for vocals on songs that require a larger,
more “wet” sound, or for giving dimension to bright
horns without adding harshness.
03 Small Stage
This preset simulates the sound of a small concert stage,
with a medium reverb time and reverberant space.
Useful for vocals or guitars in fast paced,
high-energy songs that call for a “live” sounding
reverberation.
04 Warm Theater
This reverb has a warm bodied tone and medium long reverb
time to simulate the live acoustics of a theater space.
Perfect for vocals, drums, acoustic and electric
guitars, keyboards and more.
05 Warm Hall
This reverb simulates the sound of a spacious, yet cozy, heavily
draped and carpeted concert hall with an especially warm tone.
Perfect for adding natural concert hall ambience
to close-mic’ed orchestral instruments.
06 Concert Hall
This hall reverb is characterized by its large, spacious sound,
long pre-delay, and vibrant tone.
Adds life to acoustic instruments and vocals
from solos to full-on symphonies and choirs.
07 Cathedral
This reverb emulates the extremely long tails, dense diffusion
and long pre-delays and reflections that would be found
in a very large, stone walled house of worship.
Gives amazing depth to choirs, wind instruments,
organs and soft acoustic guitars.
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09
Small Plate
Large Plate
These presets emulate vintage mechanical reverberation that
was generated with a metal plate. Its sound is characterized
by lots of early reflections and no pre-delay.
Perfect for thickening percussive instruments,
such as a snare drum, or tight vocal arrangements.
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11
Chorus 1
Chorus 2
These presets provide a soft, ethereal sweeping effect that
is useful for thickening and for making a particular sound
pop out of the mix.
Perfect for enhancement of electric and acoustic
guitar and bass, or to add a dramatic effect to vocals,
particularly group harmonies and choirs.
12
Delay + Reverb
Don’t choose delay, don’t choose reverb! Get the best of both
worlds with effects preset #12!
Useful for bands that employ the alternative rock,
shoegaze and/or experimental rock sound.
13
Doubler
This effect simulates the sound of a vocal or instrument being
recorded twice (double-tracked) on a multi-track recorder.
Provides a vibe that is similar to chorus without
the subtle swirl.
14
Echo
A single-repeat echo, not as fast as the Doubler. This effect
provides a single, relatively rapid delay of the original signal,
with the added warmth that vintage tape-based echo units
provided.
Also known as Slap Back Echo, use it to make a vocal
or guitar stand out in the mix without extra volume.
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16
17
DLY 1 (Fast)
DLY 2 (Med)
DLY 3 (Slow)
These three presets provide delay with delay times of fast,
medium and slow.
These work best with full, up-beat music like rock
where the delay needs to cut through the mix.
18
Ping-Pong Delay
The ping-pong delay works by producing a bouncing sound as
the delayed signal bounces from left to right, with the feedback
routed to the opposite channels.
A guitarist may choose the ping-pong delay to create
an interesting – and steady – delay.
19
Overdrive / Distortion This effect increases the gain, resulting in a “fuzzy” – overdriven
/ distorted – tone.
Useful in many situations, but typically used
with guitar, bass, piano / keyboard.
20 Spring Reverb
A spring reverb uses a transducer at one end of a spring
and a pickup at the other end to create and capture vibrations
in a metal spring. The longer the spring, the longer the decay
time of the reverberation.
Spring reverbs are typically used on guitar amplifiers
or organs in a rock band format.
21
Early Reflections
Early reflection is the sound that appears after one or two
reflections from the venue's walls, ceilings and floor.
Because of its "quickness", the early reflections
FX is a great way to create a stereo sound from
a mono source.
22 Auto-Wah
This effect adjusts a peaking filter that amplifies a specific
frequency, thereby cutting off all other frequencies.
Like a guitar player's wah pedal... but automatic!
Mostly used on guitars, bass and piano... but feel free
to experiment!
23 Flange
The flange effect is a modulated delay with feedback
(and shorter delay times than a chorus), which creates
the characteristic “whooshing” sound often used to describe
the flange sound.
Check out Heart’s “Barracuda”!
24 Slapback Reverb
This effect provides a single, relatively rapid delay of the original
signal with no feedback.
Slapback reverb is generally used to mimic vocals –
and sometimes drums – on ’50s-era rock ’n roll.
