In this free video, Julian Rodgers explains why Valhalla Delay is every delay he’ll ever need. With ten different modes, this plug-in covers more ground than any delay he can think of and whether you need authentic Echoplex style tape delays, crunchy vintage digital echoes, dark bucket brigade grunge or swirling pitch effects like a classic Eventide this delay has it all.
Valhalla Delay
Valhalla Delay takes on classic and modern delay and echo units. Tape echo, BBD, old-school digital, pitch shifting.
ValhallaDelay offers the classics, and expands them into new dimensions, with the unique Ratio and Quad delay styles, the Ghost mode (which adds frequency shifting), and a powerful diffusion section that can create anything from smeared echoes to ethereal reverbs. The 10 delay modes give access to 10 different delay engines each with their own distinctive personality:
The Delay Modes
Tape - Tape delay based on the RE201/301
HiFi - Higher fidelity tape delay like rigging up reel to reel machines for delay in a studio
BBD - Dark, low fidelity bucket-brigade delay model
Digital - Cleaner, higher bandwidth-delay based on classic 80s units
Ghost - Valhalla DSP original combining Hifi mode with frequency shifting
Pitch - Digital delay with added pitch shifting
Reverse Pitch - Reverses and Pitch shifts the input signal
BBD Duck - Brighter BBD with ducking
Clarity - Clean digital delay with program-dependent limiter
DuckTape - Tape delay with ducking
Other features including 5 different delay styles, from single, through ping-pong to quad and a diffusion engine which opens up a fascinating middle ground of sounds between delay and reverb mean Valhalla Delay has all the delays you’ll ever need and some you probably don’t!
Audio Examples
If you want to hear longer, uninterrupted audio examples so you can hear the difference between the delay modes more clearly, here is the first guitar example, in context with the bass and drums, in the order they are shown in the video.
Of course the best way to really appreciate the sound of this delay is to try it yourself using the demo version. The demo isn’t time limited but instead interrupts the audio every 45 seconds.
Get A Free Valhalla Delay
Supermassive is a free plugin from Valhalla which shares much of the sound of Valhalla Delay but with rather less control. That said it is stunning and free so get it if you don’t already have it!