> know to avoid delay > timings between 50-120 mS on vocals, for example, as this is > approximately the length of a short syllable or at least roughly > the length of time it takes to recognise a segment of vocal sound > as linguistically meaningful Although this can be an effect in its own right - last week we were trying out LADSPA Tape Delay, trying to get the sound of a Watkins Copicat (explanatory picture follows for the post-analogue generation): http://www.chrisguitars.com/wem-copy.jpg Using a short delay and about 2 taps, we managed to get the sound we were after. Maybe we need a user-contributed bank of presets for all the LADSPA plugins - it's much easier to get started from a good basic effect. Cheers Daniel
