Gear · delay
Unidentified Digital delay (model not stated)
Records it appears on · 2
- That's the Way of the World
Earth, Wind & Fire · Album, 1975
- Mix and tracking equipment · Mix effectsVerifiedMassenburg says early digital delays were used in the mix and produced squeaks and squeals.
- In the Air Tonight
Phil Collins · Face Value, 1981
- Guitar · Input chainReportedPadgham thinks the echo on the guitar was probably a digital delay, and says the delay on "I remember" was set a little too fast for the track.
Sources for each use are on the record’s own page.
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Models an early studio digital delay, the Lexicon Prime Time, so it has the same grainy, band-limited repeats. It is not a model of the unit on the record, which the source does not name.
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