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2. Next steps with Baby Audio’s Baby Comeback CM
1 Now let’s try some of the fantastic extras on Baby Comeback CM to hear just how varied this plugin can be. Set your Time to 1/16 (if you haven’t already), the Feedback to zero and now press the Wide button in the Flavor section. The delay is dry but spread in the stereo field.
4 Yes the last Flavor is called Cheap. Again, switch everything back so you can hear the input signal almost dry, and then switch it in. It imparts a kind of low bit-rate noise on the signal which gives it not so much a grainy effect as a layer of very usable distortion.
6 Ducker actually works best when you start exploring the mix of wet and dry levels. These can be adjusted using the Dry Out and Wet Out controls which take the place of a single wet/dry mix dial you might normally get, although offer a lot of tweaking flexibility over your sound.
2 Now we’ll try the next Flavor out, which is Analog. This features some of the Filters and Tape sound you get on Baby’s bigger brother, to give you a warm and punchy sound which is slightly overdriven. Proper analogue (with a ‘ue’ added for us Brits).
5 Over to the right, the Ducker dial is interesting. This is supposed to give you a modern ducking effect by lowering the delays when the dry signal is played. We found it best used with these kinds of settings for an extreme effect at the end of the delay!
7 Push the Dry Out dial down and the Wet Out dial up and now start experimenting with the Ducker dial. This is where the sound of Baby Comeback can start getting completely out there.
3 The third Flavor option is Saucey, which takes its cues from Kid’s Transient Shaper, Richer and Sauce algorithms. The resulting delay can sound lush but on our bass sound at the setting shown, was more like a great quality plate reverb. We’re already getting very varied sounds. How’s about going cheap?
8 And if you want to push it even further, try upping the Feedback dial for some really extreme effects. We think you can now see that Baby Comeback can deliver everything from normal delays to extreme sounds. Best of all you can save any great sound you come up with as shown.