Waves H-Delay

Meet the industry standard in delay. I never really gave H-Delay a chance, even though I’ve owned it for over a decade. It’s super simple to control, and honestly very straightforward. The tonality is fairly transparent, so it fits in the mix really well if you send it your processed signal. Of course you can create depth with the feedback knob if you want, but usually I feed it into my verb bus if I need more depth.

I got into using H-delay when working with Far Ley’s while recording some of Will’s tracks at Jamtown. He used it as his Delay Bus in ableton and I was drawn to how it interacted with his tracks. Shortly after working with Will, I watched the In Flames episode of Nail The Mix where Joe Rickard runs through his mix of “Meet Your Maker.” Joe uses H-delay on a few separate tracks, and I specifically liked his use of it on the vocals. In fact, that’s what the image associated with this post is.

Since then I’ve mostly abandoned my longstanding delay, echoboy. I find that echoboy especially excels at colored delay sounds, and has many parameters for coloration. I’ll also use a tape delay emulator if the song calls for it, but in this era of my mixing you’ll be hearing lots of H-Delay.