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THE ECHOBOY CONTROL PANEL - THE STYLE EDITOR
Echoboy — Version 5
The Gain and Decay controls make the EQ section truly dynamic. The
Gain control is fairly self explanatory and serves as a boost or cut for
the initial delay relating to the corresponding part of the frequency
spectrum (Low, Mid, or High).
The Decay knob controls how the tone of the echo changes with succes-
sive echo repeats.
It is important to note that to hear the affect of the Decay parameter
you need to have Feedback turned up. By setting the High Decay to a
negative value (cut), successive echo repeats will get darker and darker.
If High Decay is set to a positive value (boost), successive repeats will
get brighter. The same applies to the Low and Mid bands.
This allows you to create subtle or radical dynamic tonal changes. For
instance, you can have the high frequency dull progressively with each
repeat, the mid section getting quickly more pronounced and the low
end trailing off rapidly. Or, any one of a million different variations either
positive or negative for each EQ band. A couple of things to keep in
mind:
• You can set the direction and degree of change for each of the
three bands independently and each will respond independently
of the other bands.
GAIN / DECAY
• Decay can either increase or decrease the EQ depending on
the direction of the control. Turning the Decay to the left will
“EQ Out” where as turning the knob to the right will boost the
frequencies with each successive repeat.
• The Gain knob defines how the initial delay repeat will sound
and the Decay knob defines what will happen with each sub-
sequent repeat. So for instance, it is possible to set the High EQ
Gain negative so the first repeat will sound dull and at the same
time set the Decay control positive. This will cause each
successive repeat to get brighter - or you could do the opposite.
The same holds true for each of the other bands and the total
effect is a combination of the Frequency, Gain, and Decay for all
three EQ bands.
• The higher you set the Decay, the greater the increase/de-
crease in the EQ with each successive delay repeat. You can
set it low with a lot of feedback so each repeat will just get a
little brighter, or you could have medium Feedback and set the
decay value higher (either direction) which will cause more
significant and pronounced jumps in the EQ with each repeat.
These controls are invaluable when trying to mimic the frequency re-
sponse change that occurs in various types of delay devices (tape,
analog, digital etc). The changes can be very subtle or highly radical
depending on how the various controls are set.
