Wish Gated Delay For Delay Block

Tim Pierce on youtube posted a video recently where he was able to have the trailing reverb/delay trail off when he stopped playing. Like inverse ducking for lead tones.
 
Use Delay in parallel and set bypass to mute output?

This wouldn't be the same because you would have to manually bypass the effect when you stop playing which would be considerably hard. Using a gate as suggested above with the right threshold would automatically cut the effect out when in parallel.
 
You don't need a gate block. A Modifier (Envelope source) on MIX will do the same thing.
I'd also probably find it interesting to use the same source on Feedback or Master Feedback in two ways:

1) Reduce/Kill feedback when the input level drops (but with a little more release time). This creates more distinctly separate musical passages, so the feedback from one phrase doesn't overlap when you resume playing after the "gate" is closed.

2) Boost feedback when the input level drops. This has the opposite effect, and fills the spaces with lingering feedback as the level drops. When you begin playing again, the delay will immediately be heard as dense with echoes, and feedback will decrease.

Also, that pedal is not at all the "very first" gated delay -- just (maybe) the first version of such a thing in a pedal.
 
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