Handbook for Sound Engineers, 4th Edition

Chapter 24

 

Delay

 

by Steven McManus

24.1 Delay

24.1.1 Comb Filter

24.1.2 Directional Perception

24.2 Uses of Delay

24.2.1 Delay in Loudspeaker Systems

24.2.2 Setting Delay Times

24.2.3 Reverberation Synthesis

24.2.4 Delay-Based Effects

24.3 Implementations

24.3.1 Small Delays

24.3.2 Acoustic Delay Methods

24.3.3 Tape Delay

24.3.4 Analog Shift Register Delays

24.3.5 Digital Delays

24.4 Sampling in time

24.4.1 Aliasing

24.4.2 Capturing a Sample

24.4.3 Errors in Sampling Magnitude

24.5 Analog-to-Digital Conversion

24.5.1 Pulsed Code Modulation

24.5.2 Delta Modulation

24.5.3 Sigma-Delta Modulation

24.5.4 Decimation

References

24.1 Delay

Delay is relative. For a delay to have an effect on a sound it must be heard in conjunction with the original, ...