Applying delay to just one word of vocal

If you have an extra track, edit that word and place it on the extra track. That track is going to have the plug-in delay. That's the most "elegant" technique, but it requires that you use two tracks for your vocal. In PTLE, that can be a problem. Otherwise, I recomend printing the effect (bounce or bus it to a new track).

Got it. Thanks a lot man. You're up early (I guess. . . who knows, maybe you live in Bosnia -- I love the Internet!)

No, I'm in California, and I'm up....late! Very late! 6am eternal, that's my name...ok going to bed now

Joseph, You can also set up a "throw" in which you use an automated send to feed the delay i.e. you only use one track.

IF you don't have more dry vocals following the delay, and you don't have the extra track or CPU to spare, you could also do it with audiosuite. Select the words or phrase that you want to delay with the region select tool, and extend the highlighted portion of the track to where you want the delay to end. Then use the audiosuite delay of your choice, preview, when you like - process it. Voila, instant delay line. This only gets rough if you want the delays to overlap with the next vocal line on the track, but I can't imagine you would. The key thing is that you extent the region you are working on to where you want the delays to end, and not just include the dry audio. Once processed, you can then edit that new region to your liking.

Hi Folks! The easiest way to do this is the same as the easiest way in the real world. Set up an aux channel with a delay on it, make it "listen" to bus 1-2, put a bus 1-2 send on your vocal track. Now, put your vocal track into automation record (auto write/touch), and as the phrase passes by, quickly zip the aux send on your vox track up and down at the right place. This will send a quick snippet of vox to the delay track, making your vox go "these are my vox-ox-ox-ox-ox..." Put the automation back into auto read and play it back. Instant dub factory. Pete at Dub Train Records DubTrain@com

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by pete011: The easiest way to do this is the same as the easiest way in the real world. Pete at Dub Train Records DubTrain@com<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I would say that its 'easier' to highlight the region and apply an audiosuite delay if you ask me. It takes a total of 3 seconds. Plus you don't have an aux track and Real time plugin taking up CPU cycles for the whole track just for the one line. The beauty of PT is that you don't always have to stay with the real world mixer analogy.

Yes, but you must select enough extra time at the end for your delay tails, which could be a problem if there are more vocals coming right up, or if you don't know how long your delay tails are going to be. Using the aux send method, you can also "tweak" the delay parameters as necessary to get a good result at any time, even after setting up the initial instance. Plus, if you set a delay up on an aux channel, you can send any combination of stuff to it at any time for even more delay fun! Pete