i'll probably write some other time about using delays in more "normal" ways, but these days i've been messing around with audio damage's dubstation after not using it for a while and have rediscovered its awesomeness.
there are other plugins that model bucket-brigade or tape delays, some of which will kick your nuts just as hard, but the cool thing about dubstation is the loop function. at 2 seconds of full delay time, it's not really cut out for looping long, slow passages, but for shorter, glitchy sounds, it slams tits. you don't have to worry about finding the sweet spot on the regen knob that will sustain the sound infinitely without building too loud and blowing up your shitty-ass speakers. you just set the delay time short, turn on "loop," and flick the input level up and back down real quick to get instant nasty repeats. fiddling with the delay length knob and reverse and 1x/2x buttons will dirty things up even more, so do that too and make weird-ass noises.
dubstation is, as the name betrays, made to sound like a delay you'd find in dub music (although i thought king tubby and those guys used tape delays back in the day, not bucket-brigade; but what do i know). since i don't have a background in dub or pretend i do, i don't really make much dub music, but sometimes it's the little features (like the loop button on dubstation) that open up a whole new bunch of sounds to make music with even though they probably aren't the main draw of the plugin. if you're into finding new sounds, exploiting these little features is a great way to find them.
here are a couple clips of dubstation with me messing around on trombone. the trombone parts were recorded first and the dubstation parts manipulated in real-time after. play them both at the same time for double the slam!
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