Memphis
I wanted to keep my first plugin simple since I didn't know what the hell I was doing. Yet I still wanted to them to be practical and usefull though simple. I the idea of share something I made seemed appealing but I made something I knew I would use and be quick and easy and at least a little bit different(how many early rock n roll inspired plugins are there.)
Memphis is simple a fixed delay locked in at 115 milliseconds. Why fixed and why 115 miliseconds? Well Memphis is designed to be a quick way to get a rockabilly sound. Ya, know the slap back of earlly Elvis. Back then Ampex tape machines were really all there was to record. The echo was created by the use of the record and playback head which just happen to be 1.5" apart. The tape moved at 15 inches per second so it took the tape about, you guessed it, 115 millisecond to travel between the heads. Many of the of the those songs sync up nice to the 115 milliseconds and the did not even have a sync to host button or even a host for that matter. It sounds pretty good on vocals of any type. The color scheme was a adopted form the Sun record label in Memphis. Sam Phillips may have not been the best business man but had a ear for talent. Well, uh huh.
I know about 10,000 other delays could do this but the idea was to be simple fast and have virtually no cpu hit. Just pop it in and you have "that" sound.
***Updated March 30th, 2008****
Position of knobs now save with the song.
I would greatly appericate any comments on this thing. Like even if it did or did not work for you.