Definitions
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- noun A kind of
doubling echo with relatively longdelay between repetitions of the sound, so that the individual echoes can be perceived.
Etymologies
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Examples
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His cheap equipment and minimalist esthetic yielded the stark, powerful Sun sound, with its crude tape-delay "slapback" echo.
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In the 1950s, Sam Phillips first captured Elvis Presley's raw energy and refined the trademark "slapback" echo of rockabilly at his Sun Studio in Memphis, Tenn.
Life of Danja 2007
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Mostly played through moogerfooger ring mod, Z-Vex Ooh Wah (on high speed setting), and moogerfooger delay (short slapback for thickening).
noise in the afternoon: flanged foghorns badger 2002
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They embraced atmosphere over aesthetic and that choice allowed their song structures to shine through rather than get drowned in slapback echoes.
Boise Weekly Josh Gross 2010
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They embraced atmosphere over aesthetic and that choice allowed their song structures to shine through rather than get drowned in slapback echoes.
Boise Weekly Josh Gross 2010
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Do what you will with the new multi-effect, which offers seven individual effect blocks: a beat looper; two filters, both switchable between lowpass, bandpass, and highpass modes; an oversampled distortion unit; a gate with variable depth and slew; a panner; and a delay unit ideal for creating everything from dub, slapback, and bouncing ball style echoes to metallic comb filters or flanger effects.
Gearwire - tkatz 2010
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Duplicate a track, and then move one of them slightly forward in time for an instant slapback echo (see the two tracks on the top).
Macworld 2010
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A Delay unit capable of sub millisecond delay times, great for creating everything for from dub, slapback, and bouncing ball style echoes, to metallic comb filters or flanger effects.
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Duplicate a track, and then move one of them slightly forward in time for an instant slapback echo (see the two tracks on the top).
Macworld David Weiss 2010
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They embraced atmosphere over aesthetic and that choice allowed their song structures to shine through rather than get drowned in slapback echoes.
Boise Weekly Josh Gross 2010
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