I love delay. I don’t think this is unusual for people who play rock instruments. For Christmas one year, I got a big multieffects pedal, and even with hundreds of effects patches, I pretty much left it set to delay. And last night, I discovered that record has hell-of delay. It’s kinda like my pedal, only instead of two delays, there are 12. Having so many options was nearly paralyzing… but only nearly; I decided I couldn’t just fool with them all night, found one that had a nice rhythm, and dug in with my bass. About 45 minutes later, this 45 seconds of music was ready. It’s really simply — two variations of a bassline, a steady helping of delay, a nice rock drum loop that I found in reason, and a synth-guitar part that’s actually just three notes run through reason’s arpeggiator. Certainly not my most ambitious, but fun to lay down all the same.
