Tweak Of The Week!
Tweak Of The Week!
March 26th '97

This top audio tip provided by Bob Ketchum from Cedar Crest Studio, one of a series, more to follow! USA.

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Delay Times

2) Have you ever tried to manually set the echo so the repeats would seem to go with the beat of the music?
Sometimes it takes a while to "tweak" that delay just right. The slower the song tempo, the longer and harder to set the delay repeats to stay in sync.
Well, worry no more because here is the formula or adjusting synchronous delays.
First, derive a quarter-note delay, which is:

60,000 divided by the Beats Per Minute (BPM) = 1/4 note delay
eg:
1/4th note @120bpm = 500 milliseconds
1/8th note @120bpm = 250 milliseconds
1/4th note @100bpm = 600 ms
1/5th note @100bpm = 300 ms - and so on

For a straight rhythm use the above setting or multiply or divide by 2.

For a shuffle, add 50% to the quarter-note figure. Multiply or divide as before.
For triplets, divide by 3 then proceed as above.
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