The McDSP EC300 is more than just a delay plugin it's full of character and you'll see what i mean
in just a bit right now you can grab it for free just by signing up to their email list
i've included a link down in the description and apparently this is a limited time offer but
there's no end date mentioned for when that ends so be sure to grab it right away it is excellent
it's actually like three delays in one and let's check it out right now
so we'll just do some initial tests with this little guitar part that i have up here and
then i'll show you what i've done with even more things using the EC300 so here's the dry guitar
and now here it is with the EC300
now i didn't change any of the settings i just kind of went through the three different delays
that are in there i just kind of wanted to give you an idea of what this thing is all about now
the McDSP EC300 normally goes for $79 and is available on both mac or windows in vst3, AU,
and AAX formats and you will need an iLock account to use it but it works with the iLock cloud so you
don't have to have the actual dongle and signing up for iLock is free now one thing that might
confuse you is when you're downloading it there's HD or Native formats and all you need to know here
is if you don't have an Avid HDX system then you download the native plugin alright so we have our
three different delays and we'll start with the magnetic one this is based on classic tape echo
units then we have our digital delay which is a more modern delay it can be very clean or it can
dirty up as well and i'll we'll look at that in just a little bit and we can go over to our analog
which is based on 80s guitar pedals so with all three of these delays you probably won't need
another delay plug-in these things can do a lot all right let's switch over to the digital one now
and you'll notice at the bottom here we have the delay character if we click on
this you can choose clean digi which is the default setting or we can click on
sim enabled and you'll notice up here we have this sim character if we click here you can see
here there's a lot of different presets that you can switch between to give it that sort of sound
you have cell phones containers earbuds headphones radios telephones televisions toys vehicles and
you can see there's a lot more so we can make the delay sound like it's coming through some sort
of cheap telephone or something like that let's go to house phone just hear that
not only can the EC300 provide delay sounds it can also make your tracks sound wider
so let's check that out now i have a bunch of different instances
on this track so now i'm going to play the mix and i'll turn the effect
on and off on all of these instruments so you can hear the difference on and off
it really just thickens up that mix and kind of blends
everything together nice adds a lot more interest and character to everything
and now there's one more thing i want to show you with this i just wanted to show you some of
the fun that you could have while automating it maybe on a drum track so here's my drums
you know a little boring but let's add the EC300
already it's widened it a little bit makes it sound a little more
interesting i don't know if i'd want that through the whole track
but when we start doing a little bit of automating every now and then let's see what we can do
you can add a ton of character a ton of interest and just
make your tracks stand out a little more with the McDSP EC300 now check out 20 more free
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