London Grammar – Hey Now (2014)          

This song uses a variety of different delay and reverb effects to create ambience.

Evaluate:

• the use of delay and reverb within London Grammar’s Hey Now
• the wider impact that delay and reverb and their production methods have had on recorded music

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Talking points:

The interesting uses of delay on the guitars and drums in the introduction – can you give some parameter settings e.g. delay time / feedback / panning / filtering? Be specific here but work chronologically, giving some time references and referring to specific instrument names.

The vocal is rather ambient – how does this contrast to other music around the same time? What is the impact of this? Can you suggest some parameters e.g. reverb time, pre-delay?

How might the reverb and delay effects be applied?