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shoji miura
Jul 05, 10:20 in SoundGym Cafe

Hello everyone, I'd like to ask for your advice.
I'm having trouble improving my performance when playing Delay Control.
I have absolutely no idea how to distinguish between delays of 5ms and 90ms.
I can't grasp the timing or the characteristics of the differences in sound spread.

I can understand the difference in attack time when using compressor control, but I can't distinguish it at all with Delay Control. How do you all distinguish between them? Also, are there any training methods to help me perceive those differences?
I want to develop a precise sense of timing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Billy Mohney
Jul 05, 14:11

The only advice I can give you (this worked best for me) is to set up a session in your DAW. Put a Delay effect on whatever track you like (voice, instrument, Loop), and experiment with the different settings.

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Mike Booth
Jul 05, 14:39

Distinguishing between 5ms and 90ms is basically distinguishing between whether there is delay or not. So this is important for your ears and brain to learn. Everyone hears it and describes it differently, but I would say the 90ms delay creates a thicker wider sound, one that seems to stay a bit longer than 5ms, which is no significant delay at all. Hone your ears into that and when you can clearly tell the difference, you'll be on your way to a great journey. Then they'll ask you to tell the difference between 2ms and 7ms and, well, that's a useless skill anyway.

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Linda Wagner
Jul 05, 16:48

Have you tried using the training mode on the game? You can literally set the delay you want to hear and move the slider that changes delay in order to hear the differences. I still find it hard to distinguish between 1 msec and 10 msec delays, but anything over 40 msec can actually be heard as a separate tone. Even below 40 msec, the amount of smearing of the sound is distinguishable and with enough comparison using the training mode, you will begin to become somewhat accurate.

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Jul 04 in SoundGym Official

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Jul 04, 23:54

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Jul 05, 07:36

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papa rojas
Jul 04 in SoundGym Cafe

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Colin Aiken
Jul 04, 23:52

select the playlist on your youtube channel. You'll see a share option. Click and it will give an option to copy. Open SoundGym, paste in the What's on you mind window.

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bahram dashti
Jul 02 in SoundGym Cafe

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Beto Ojeda
Jul 03

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Jul 04

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Jul 04

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Jul 04 in SoundGym Cafe

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Jul 03

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Jul 04

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Jul 04

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Jul 04

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Jul 02 in SoundGym Official

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Jul 02

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