# Delay Blend behaviour

**URL:** <https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/delay-blend-behaviour/10674>\
**Category:** Quad Cortex\
**Created:** [April 9, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/delay-blend-behaviour/10674 "2023-04-09T00:39:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![PydnA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a587f6/32.png) [@PydnA](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/PydnA)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/delay-blend-behaviour/10674/1 "2023-04-09T00:39:20Z")

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In making a dotted 8th delay i noticed something odd with all the delays;  
an even mix of dry and wet is 82.5% and the dry and wet are slightly lower in volume than dry alone when mixed evenly.  
this is bizzare - normally 50% would be both at unity gain.  
instead, the dry stays at unity until ~80% and the delay stays below unity. then as you approach 82.5% the dry drops to the same level as delay and then at higher settings the wet becomes unity and dry goes down. this seems crazy to me coming from scenarios on other modellers where effect and wet both at 100% would both be at unity, or if its a blend knob then 50% should be unity for both. and the spanner in the works is the QC cant even do both at unity…

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**Author:** ![DiffractionCircuit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/unity.neuraldsp.com/diffractioncircuit/32/3793_2.png) [@DiffractionCircuit](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/DiffractionCircuit)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 2:21am UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/delay-blend-behaviour/10674/2 "2023-04-09T02:21:34Z")

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Other people have discussed delay mix in this thread:

> [@Why is Delay mix not equal at 50%?](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/why-is-delay-mix-not-equal-at-50/8897):
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> I’ve been trying to use a delay with the mix set so the original note and delayed note (feedback very low so only 1 repeat) are the same volume. It makes sense to me that this would happen at either 60% mix (ie the original note, and the repeated note are balanced at 50/50 ) or 100% (ie the volume of the repeated note is 100% of the volume of the original note, or in other words, the same volume) In concept - and based on my experience with other multi fx units - both of these have the same re…