depth

Depth is a control on many modulation pedals, such as phasers, chorus, vibrato, tremolo, and delay effects, that sets the intensity of the effect¹²³. At lower depth settings, effects tend to be subtler, such as smooth amp-like tremolo, subtle chorus sweetening, or 12-string approximations, while higher settings produce harder-hitting or more pronounced sounds like low end throb, queasy wobble, or lo-fi rotary speaker feels⁴⁵⁶. On phasers, rate and depth controls together let a player switch between sluggish phasing and distorted modulation³. Depth can also appear as a descriptive term for tonal richness, such as warmth and depth added by a transformer in a compressor or by organic repeats from BBD chips in a delay⁷⁸.