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Delay After Reverb – The Effect in Your Mix

Music Guy Mixing — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:19:40 +0000

In the world of audio mixing, sequence matters. This extends in routing, and this extends to your processing chain. As I covered in my overview on EQ or compression first, whether you compress an already equalized track or EQ an already compressed track, the results will be different. Likewise, and as I covered in my […]

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Sending Reverb Into Delay – How to and Why Do It

Music Guy Mixing — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:16:48 +0000

I recently talked about sending delay into reverb, but it’s well worth acknowledging that you can do the reverse, as well. Sending reverb into delay gives the tail of a reflection its own reflection and can be used in a number of ways. Let’s talk using reverb into delay, how to do it, and why […]

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How to Use a Delay Throw In Your Mix

Music Guy Mixing — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:31:06 +0000

I’ve been talking about ear candy elements to add to your mix as of late – elements which aren’t part of the bedrock of the mix but little surprises and touches to enhance things and keep your listener engaged. A delay throw is a common form of ear candy in that it’s something that’s best […]

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Sending Delay Into Reverb – How to and Why Do It

Music Guy Mixing — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:31:32 +0000

I’ve long talked about using two space-based effects in delay and reverb as Aux/Return sends in your mix. This allows you to save processing power in your mix and more importantly create a sense of cohesion by having a number of tracks sharing the same delay or reverb, giving them the sense they were recorded/are […]

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Reverb After Delay vs Delay After Reverb – Which Works Best?

Music Guy Mixing — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:11:50 +0000

Reverb and delay are both spacial based effects to give your audio a sense of width and depth which isn’t inherent to the audio itself. This is useful when recording DI or an otherwise underwhelming acoustic space to give your audio more size. Applying these effects across your entire or the majority of your mix […]

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