Pre-echo Effect

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1

I’m currently mixing a new song where I want to use this pre-echo effect,
like in the beginning of Personal jesus - Depeche mode or like in firestarter - Prodigy.
And if I remember correctly it was also used in Tool - Die eier von Satan.

I experimented with reverb without source and do a volume rise.
but maybe there is another technique or maybe even a plugin to achieve this effect,
while it’s a wide-used one.

someone can clear things up for me?

2

I would use retrigger together with 9xx. It should be quite easy to achieve such an effect. A bit of reverb over the whole track would also help.

3

The effect is actually quite simple to achieve, but in my opinion it cannot be done in realtime well enough to get a really useful sound, so you must process your samples before you use them.

Take your vocal sample (or whatever it may be) and put a note into an empty track with the reverse command:

C-400 .. 0B00

Now add a reverb effect to the track, mpReverb will work just fine. Give it a fairly short duration, something like 500ms - 1000ms. Set the send level to something quite high, around 40-50%.

Now use Renoise’s render-to-sample function to capture the results of this sample playing in reverse + reverb. Then you simply reverse THAT sample again to get back your normal speech + a creepy reversed reverb sound.

Hope this helps :)

4

the retrigger technique that It-Alien proposed would be usefull but dblue,
that reversed reverb effect is really what I wanted!
thank you very much!

PS: I will share the track as soon as it’s ready.

5

I always do that sort of thing in ‘post production’ in a wave editor.

6

i should that effect also some time, it’s really great