trails

Trails are the fading repeats or decay of a delay or reverb effect that continue after a note ends. Sources use the term to describe the character of these decays, such as warm echoes and warbly trails from a delay pedal¹, or delay trails with grit and grime that add to a vintage sound². Trails can be modulated, as in long ethereal lo-fi modulated trails³ or super-modulated repeat trails⁴, or reversed as a delay algorithm option⁵. In reverb, trails may be highly animated⁶, shimmering high octave decays⁷, or long and modulated with ambient character⁸.