MOTU Precision delay used as a comb filter

[crduval]

This is probably not news to most of you, but this little trick worked well for me so I thought I'd share just in case.

I was tracking guitar and had mic'ed two separate cabinets with different mics with the intention of mixing them together to create a composite sound. The result was not quite what I was hoping for. Mixing the two sounds did not sound better than one of the two tracks by itself.

So, I applied the MOTU precision delay to one of the mic'ed tracks and used it to gradually change the phase relationship between the two tracks - not to try to perfectly align their phase, but instead as a way of EQ'ing the composite sound. As you change the phase you get this kind of complex comb filter which can give you some interesting results. In my case I was able to get a pretty aggressive guitar sound that was better than either individual track and sat in the rough mix nicely without needing much additional EQ.

This was the first time I used this plug and it was really simple and effective. It's analogous to changing relative mic positions.

This technique could also work well when trying to combine a mic'ed track with a direct track run through an amp sim.

Happy tracking!




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