Delay - how do you make the echos get louder?

[shniggens]

I want to put a delay on a piano chord so that the echoes after it get gradually LOUDER, instead of fading out.

 

How the heck?

 

[John Sayers]

record it and them up the volume of each delay in the waveform maybe? or copy the first delay and paste it over the later ones then up the volume.

[rasputin1963]

Clone the piano track. Add your Delay only to the second (duped) track, minus the itial signal (ie., "Wet" only, with no Dry signal).

 

Use your DAW's volume envelopes to create a fade in over the range of delay hits. Normalize if necessary.

[linwood]

Slice the audio and paste it on a few tracks in whatever interval you want and put the faders soft to loud.

[Lee Flier]

If it's just for one chord, I'd do what linwood suggests. Otherwise... what type of delay are you using? If you have a feedback parameter on your delay, you can use that to get the effect you want... just be careful and increase the feedback very slowly, otherwise you can easily get into infinitely loud and distorted repeats!

[shniggens]

Slice the audio and paste it on a few tracks in whatever interval you want and put the faders soft to loud.

 

That will probably work since I'm only doing it on one piano chord on an intro.

[Lee Knight]

Create your own feedback loop. On the delay's return channel, assign a send back to the delay. Put an eq before the delay with a bit of low mid boost and every time the delay recycles it will degrade more and more into tape bump type lo fi glory. Try a little tape effect too, like Massey's Tape plug. Automate the feedback send to creep up to the feedback point then back off and bring it over the edge and back down, etc.

 

Of course you can keep it clean too...