Reverb and delay...are they the same thing?

[zenstinkfist]

What is the differance between reverb and delay, to me they seem the same. If you have say a Toneczar Echoczar delay pedal do you need reverb or would this satisfy both reverb and delay?

[sub rosa]

No, reverb and delay are different, although you can get a reverb effect using a delay. Reverb is is the decay of sound within a chamber where as delay is the repitition of sound. They share common ground in many respects but from a guitarists point of view they are competely different.

[fishfartz]

they both create atmosphere so in a way some people see them as similar, but reverb is different in that you can not hear specific patterns in the effect. reverb just creates the natural occurance of what happens when you play in diferent sized areas. it creates that huge/wide relfection of sound but you do not hear any repeats specifically

[Vince]

Are we talking spring reverb, or room reverb, because room reverb is the sound of the source noise bouncing off all the surfaces in a short space of time and coming back to you very close together. Therefore, Room reverb is lots of very short delays.

[GuineaMcPig]

Reverb = very, very short delay time with fast decay

They are pretty much the same thing, only you can hear the individual repetitions with a delay, whereas with reverb there's such a short amount of time between them that they tend to just blend together.

[fishfartz]

Originally posted by GuineaMcPig Reverb = very, very short delay time with fast decay They are pretty much the same thing, only you can hear the individual repetitions with a delay, whereas with reverb there's such a short amount of time between them that they tend to just blend together.

 

 

 

 

with reverb though, if its very wet you can still hear the effect after the note has stopped, for a long time with very wet verb and a long decay - so its more than just a short repeat, the very short repeat is sometimes called doubling which gets used alot in studios, with a little more time it turns into slapback echoes. the reverb simulates sounds bouncing off walls in a given environment and the way certain reflections hit your ears before others, but without adding distinct patterns in what you are hearing. in fact, reverb was such a hard effect for manufacturers to turn into a pedal/fx unit, it was complicated enough that when they figured it out they also learned alot about other types of effects and could pretty much start making those as well

[Nico de Roode]

Both delay and revrb are reflections. Delay is two dimentional and reverb is 3d.
Try to see it as looking into one mirror.(delay) and being surounded by mirrors(reverb)

[troubbble]

If you want the scientific definition, then reverb is when the repeats are less than 10 milliseconds apart. Echo is when the repeats are more than 10 milliseconds apart. Delay is a lot like echo.