HZ Delay
Key Features
- Combines multi-tap echo behavior with chorus, early-reflection reverb, saturation, and tonal shaping in one character effect.
- Uses three echo sections, including a hard-panned stereo pair at the first stage, for layered delays and width.
- Blends standard feedback with cross-feedback routing to create more complex repeat patterns.
- Applies drive to the incoming signal and preserves that coloration in the dry path for saturation-style use.
- Offers high-pass and low-pass filtering before the feedback paths, so repeated echoes can accumulate tonal change.
- Provides modulation, wet-signal width, dry/wet balance, and output controls for moving from subtle thickening to more animated textures.
Description
HZ Delay is a character-focused multi-stage delay effect from Higher Hz that combines echo, chorus, early-reflection reverb, filtering, and drive in one plug-in. Its deliberately unconventional routing is built for adding movement, coloration, and width rather than providing a pristine, clinical delay.
The driven input feeds a stereo pair of initial delay lines, then later echo sections that can blend the original driven signal with earlier repeats. Independent timing ranges, modulation, filtering, feedback, cross-feedback, and wet-width control make it possible to move from short chorus-like thickening to longer echoes and diffuse ambience.
The input drive also colors the dry path, so HZ Delay can work as a subtle saturator even before the delay network becomes prominent. Its feedback architecture rewards hands-on sound design, especially when building evolving synth pads, treating guitar or vocal parts, or creating spacious effects returns.
Use it as an insert when you want to balance its driven dry and wet signals together; for a send-style reverb treatment, the developer recommends turning Dry fully down. Keep an eye on input, output, and feedback levels, since the effect can build level quickly when several echo paths are active.
Frequently Asked Questions
What kind of delay is HZ Delay?
HZ Delay is a character-oriented delay with several linked echo sections rather than a straightforward single-repeat design. It can also create chorus, early-reflection reverb, filtering, and saturation-style treatments.
Can HZ Delay be used as a saturator?
Yes. Its Drive control colors the incoming signal, including the dry path, so the effect can add presence or rougher texture even with the delay contribution kept low.
Should HZ Delay be used as an insert or a send effect?
The developer describes insert use as the usual approach because you can balance the driven dry and wet signals inside the plug-in. For a send-style reverb treatment, set the Dry control fully down so the unaffected signal is not returned to the mix.
Why can HZ Delay become very loud?
Its feedback and cross-feedback paths can build level quickly, and the developer notes that the output includes a clipper. Monitor levels carefully and use protection on the master bus when exploring high-feedback settings.
