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The Moogerfooger Analog Delay is a delay plug‑in that is available in AAX, TDM, RTAS, and AudioSuite formats. It provides a warm sounding delay in the digital domain.
A delay circuit produces a replica of an audio signal a short time after the original signal. Mixed together, the delayed signal sounds like an echo of the original. And if this mixture is fed back to the input of the delay circuit, the delayed output provides a string of echoes that repeat and die out gradually. It’s a classic musical effect.
The Moogerfooger Analog Delay uses Bucket Brigade Analog Delay Chips to achieve its delay. These analog integrated circuits function by passing the audio waveform down a chain of thousands of circuit cells, just like water being passed by a bucket brigade to put out a fire. Each cell in the chip introduces a tiny time delay. The total time delay depends on the number of cells and on how fast the waveform is “clocked,” or moved from one cell to the next.
With the advent of digital technology, these and similar analog delay chips have gradually been phased out of production. In fact, Bob Moog secured a supply of the last analog delay chips ever made, and used them to build a Limited Edition of 1,000 “real-world” Moogerfooger Analog Delay units.
Compared to digital delays, the frequency and overload contours of well-designed analog delay devices generally provide smoother, more natural series of echoes than digital delay units. Another difference is that the echoes of a digital delay are static because they are the same digital sound repeated over and over, whereas a bucket brigade device itself imparts a warm, organically evolving timbre to the echoes.
Avid’s digital replica re-creates all the warm, natural sounds of its analog counterpart.
The Moogerfooger Analog Delay plug-in was enhanced to be even more useful for digital recording. An integrated Highpass Filter allows you to remove unwanted bass buildup from the feedback loop, allowing you to have warmer, more-controllable echo swarms while minimizing the potential for digital clipping.