This Week’s Preset: TimeLine – “Lucid Dream”
One of my favorite effects to use is a delay with a lot of repeats and a slowly sweeping filter on those repeats. I think it creates a
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If you haven’t spent much time with the Duck delay machine within TimeLine, you should definitely devote some time to exploring the options! Ducking delays can give you a enhanced feel of touch sensitivity when playing. The way it reacts to your playing can inspire new riffs and song ideas.
In this example, I’ve set the Sensitivity to just over half, and the Release Time to 0.35 seconds. This gives a noticeable duck in the delayed signal, but doesn’t overwhelm your dry signal when it comes back in. To make it a bit more subtle, you can dial the Sensitivity down a bit. Take some time to play with the Release Time which can really change the whole feel of the ducked signal.
Listen here:
Preset details:
The image below shows the knob settings and parameters. Dial it up on your TimeLine and try it out.
Download the preset:
Using the Strymon Librarian? Download the preset and load it into your TimeLine.
What do you think?
Made your own tweaks to this preset? Post them below. Are there other preset types that you’d like to see in upcoming blog posts? Let us know what you think. Hope you enjoyed it! Stay tuned for more.
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Ethan Tufts
Ethan Tufts is Strymon’s marketing guy and noisemaker. He spends most of his time using loopers and drenching everything in delay. He has owned 29 cars and is actively looking for his 30th.
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Killer. One of my favorite sounds yet!
Up,or down,the feedback control option is huge….
Thats a great sound, but I find that end trail a bit distracting, any way to shorten it without compromising the core sound?
Absolutely! If you find the ducking effect a bit too extreme, simply dial back the Sensitivity which will make it more subtle. You can turn down the Repeats a bit too if you want to shorten the overall delay.
How do I send in a clip used with the timeline and my settings ?
Hi Joshua, Check out Nixie here > https://www.strymon.net/support/nixie/ Let me know if that helps out 🙂 Thanks, Angela