Friday, August 13, 2010

Steve Lukather Getting It On With Multi-Tap Delay



Tired of conventional reverb washing out your tone, making you sound like you're playing from a bathroom in the building next door?  Let Mr Steve Lukather lay down the rules of using a multi-tap delay.

The concept is pretty simple.  Stack three (or more) delays of different delay time lengths together -- let's say 200, 600 and 800 milliseconds -- and have at it.  For added juiciness, pan the different delays in a stereo field to taste.

Of course you'll need a pretty slamming delay unit if you're going live -- in this vid, Luke demonstrates the vintage Lexicon PCM70.  Allan Holdsworth, another die-hard multi-tap delay loyalist helped design the now sadly discontinued Yamaha UD Stomp which featured no less than eight individual delays in a stompbox floor unit!

Or as Lukather puts it, "The most fun that you can have with your clothes on.."

6 comments:

  1. Hyvä Tahvo, kyll se siitä...

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  2. Kyll toi heebo skulaa skebaa paremmin ku moni muu, vaik onki tollanen leuhka paska.

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  3. Joo.. En paljoo äijästä perusta, mut hyvän delayn Tahvo Luukkonen on saanut aikaan.

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  4. Taitaa Tahvo käyttää Lexicon PCM70 tuon delyn tekemiseen. Osaako kukaan kertoa viiveen pituuksista ja muista asetuksista?

    terveisin,
    Erkki

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  5. Meitsi hyppää paremmin mäkeä, mitä Matti Nykänen laulaa, vaik sil olis PCM91 laulukaikuna.

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  6. Very well mr. Luke!

    Soundi on paska ja tilutuskin täyttä skeidaa. Kaikella sitä pääseekin pinnalle! Keep on rocking, Luke!

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