What Are Haas Delays, And How Do I Best Use Them? - Mike Senior

Recording & Mixing

Mike Senior's Expert Tracking & Mixing Tips

Mike Senior explores the subject of Haas delays at mixdown, explaining how they work, how to get the best out of them, and how to avoid the most common traps associated with them.

Chapters
00:00 - Introduction

00:41 - Perception of short delays

02:46 - From fused delay to Haas delay

04:19 - Haas delays for stereo width

05:25 - Haas delays for blend and distance

09:26 - Haas delays for connecting panned doubletracks

10:56 - Pitfalls with Haas delays

14:50 - Summary

Credits
This month's episode features recordings from Johnny Lokke's 'Promises & Lies', Tom McKenzie's 'Directions', and Trafficker's 'My Father Never Loved Me'. If you'd like to try mixing these projects for yourself, you can download the full raw multitracks for them here:

https://cambridge-mt.com/ms/mtk/#JohnnyLokke

https://cambridge-mt.com/ms/mtk/#TomMcKenzie

https://cambridge-mt.com/ms/mtk/#Trafficker

These projects were also featured in Sound On Sound's 'Mix Rescue' column, in the January 2011, April 2013, and July 2018 issues respectively, which can be found in the magazine's article archives here:

https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/mix-rescue-mixing-metal

https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/mix-rescue-tom-mckenzie

https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/mix-rescue-trafficker

Mike Senior Biog

Mike Senior is a professional audio engineer, regular SOS contributor, and author of the best-selling books Mixing Secrets For The Small Studio & Recording Secrets For The Small Studio. He runs the Cambridge-MT educational resources site (including the web's largest free multitrack download library) and hosts two monthly independent podcasts, Project Studio Tea Break and the Cambridge-MT Patrons Podcast.

Catch more shows on our other podcast channels: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts