#fx unit

If you’ve ever played around with an FX unit like the Korg Kaoss Pad 3 or the Pioneer EFX-1000 – you’ll find that some effects are more useful than others.  As a piece of technology, it’s actually pretty amazing that this one little box is capable of doing so much to a single piece of audio.  If you actually study how an effects unit is capable of affecting a signal, you’ll find that it’s actually a simpler process than you had originally imagined. Echo and Delay are very common and useful effects when transitioning through tracks; they can confuse the sense of rhythm and even make up for technical errors within a mix.  They are actually one in the same, with only a small amount of delay from the original signal creating the effect.  The same goes for a flange, in which the two signals are extremely closer to each other.  Reverb is quite another story, and takes a few more calculations to get correctly.  When specs like delay are altered in a reverb setting, you end up creating three dimensional sounds that can simulate a concert in a large dance hall or stadium.  While reverb has less of a practical use than echo or delay, it can create a sense of grandiosity that producers like. http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2012/12/19/valhallavintageverb-a-postmodern-reverb-plugin/