Top 5 Effects for Ambient Guitar
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- There are 5 effects that I think are critical for playing ambient guitar. Join me as I walk through the list. Comment below with your top 5!
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I'm a very humble guitar player, originally a bass player, who has some grand sound dreams. I've just discovered your channel and am so thankful for your videos and your style of presentation. Just the approach of discussing discussing types of pedals, not hyping specific units, is so 1) trustworthy and 2) able to inform without intimidating one if they can't get the same unit. Thanks so much. I'm going to be watching and learning and killing off the 'players' block.'
I don't own a reverb pedal so I play inside a cave and get a similar effect... thanks for the video!
That was the inspiration for the EQD Afterneath. They found Bill in a dank cave crafting Sonic magic while on an expedition investigating the source of some low level, but troublesome, earthquakes radiating out from that very cave.
Ah .. the Flintstone reverb type. Fred would approve .. ;-)
I don't even own a delay pedal, I play in a canyon to get both reverb and delay
So YOU are the bastard thats been hanging out in my cave while i am not around ! Laughed way too hard at this ...
@@jerrygallant2890 man I'm sorry, u know it's been raining a lot lately but I try to keep it tidy
I don’t even like ambient guitar but I like hanging out with this guy on TH-cam sometimes
Thanks very Dylan! Do you have any suggestions for topics?
this guy is like the bob ross of guitar playing..
nailed it!
I feel like the backdrop has something to do with that haha
I’m gonna slap the devil out of my guitar 😂🤣😅
I agree, perfect channel to chill to while sick. Dude's music could put anyone to sleep. 👍
Haha!!! Yes! 😅
There are no "wrong notes" only a failure to resolve - Leonard Bernstein
So true, just a glissando away, or a half-tone and a horizon. I love to try and create that Freddie Hubbard like tension when I play live.
Or as the UK comedian Eric Morecome said, I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the correct order .
What I learned was if you hit a wrong note whilest soloing... go back and *intentionally* play it again and try to melodically... harmonically?...weave it back in to the melody. Basic rule of jazz soloing (not that I play jazz): you can take the train anywhere you want, as long as you bring the train back to the station!
Absolutely.
Awesome quote, for music and life!
the perfect radio voice
I don't play ambient guitar. I'm just here because your videos are so good and fun to watch.
Yup, and even if you don't play the style it's a great place to get ideas!
You are such a good presenter, easy to understand, clear, and great info. But you also put a lot of your unique flavor in there. It's magical. thanks.
“You can hear how the compressor brings out the bottom end..” (demonstrates by playing guitar.. *stares uncomfortably into your soul*) 😂😂😂
After mindlessly looking at a bunch of pedal informative videos this is my favorite one 💗
The pedals you stated are bang on! And you are right about the modulated effects in how that extra pedal can be overkill for an effects board, especially when reverb and delay really combine nicely to create essentially the same effect. One pedal that I would think that many players may need to have (depending on the quality of amp and where a person plays) is a noise-gate. Thanks for the great video.
Thank you brother, you are most helpful. I am a composing bass player with limited guitar skills and 25+ playing time. This helps me a lot for the demoing and writing. Cheers.
I was bored playing the guitar. But now I found some new inspiration. Thanks! Keep up the good work!
Great,Very well explained. Hoping for more such demo
Again, so incredibly helpful! Thank you!
The first time for me on this channel. I love the way you give advices. And i love your sound too. Thank you
Another great video, Bill. Thank you.
This is wonderful, thank you. Ambient guitar has rekindled my love of the instrument.
Nice walk-through... answered many questions for me
Such a nice video with (as usual) lots of clear informations. Thank You!!
I've watched enough of your videos to know the 5 staple ambient guitar effects. Next you should do "5 optional ambient guitar effects"
i think that is the stable 5 guitar effects anyway, the key difference being the big boy delay and big boy verb which when used with the volume pedal make the swells.
Pretty much anything not in this list is optional. There's no right or wrong in music. But if I had to pick 5 more for ambient my personal choice is Octave pedal, chorus (or any modulation type like phaser,flanger ect), Eq, wah pedal, looper pedal.
I can't imagine ambient guitar without my Strymon Big Sky. Great video. Always enjoy me some Chords of Orion.
Really enjoy your videos Bill... you do a great job and it''s an enjoyable service !
I really dig your videos! Thank you
Glad you like them!
Totally got the essentials covered!
I would recommend chorus before distortion if you want a more subtle effect. In my opinion the different layers of modulation overlapping each other works really well with delay and chorus. It adds a width which helps the one instrument sound like multiple instruments played over eachother.
Very nice and clear video Bill, everything well explained. I do tend to agree with you on this one, you've really put down the essentials. It is possible to strip from that and still play ambient, but with these 5 pedals you have everything available that you might need: Tone shaping and sustain before the volume pedal, delay and reverb adding the true ambience after.
Recently bought my first pedal (!!), a beautiful reverb and it adds so much ambience, environment and subtle phasing to the played music that it really complements the sound and is so inspiring to enhance what i'm feeling and doing new things.
Thanks!
I agree, you’ve absolutely nailed the necessary basics right there. My only addition would be (and it’s not necessary) ...a second delay pedal is great for ambience! More is more!! Stacking delays is so much fun 😎
Love the simple set up.
I should have found you and your music back when the pandemic started. Thanks for sharing your art.
Love your demos! You explain so well...aren't we lucky to live in this day and age of a gazillion pedals, guitars and amps 😊 Re. missing pedal: I think the "Dyno-My-Roto" by Keeley adds more than just a subtle chorusing effect, it's breathtaking when you kick in the Leslie-effect, especially in stereo!
Will you be my uncle? This is my favorite channel, Bill. Thanks for doing what you do.
everestdesign7 Uncle Bill, may I borrow your Strymon?
Only if you become my brothers child.
Love my Joemeek floorQ compressor pedal, such a magical pedal... makes my guitar breathe life into my tone. In effects chain order I use the Xotic Wah XW-1, Joemeek compressor, Rivera shaman distortion, MXR 10 band eq, Eventide modfactor, electro-harmonix cathedral stereo reverb, Pigtronix echolution2 stereo deluxe delay, electro-harmonix super pulsar stereo tremolo pedal, and a Boss RC-300 loop station for my ambient arsenal!😎
Excellent!
Thank you Ser Davos! 🙏🏼 🐺
Hi, i'm just a new watcher of your TH-cam channel and l love the way you give advices . Very good explain. Than'ks a lot
One suggestion--some kind of signal splitting capability, right after the compressor; one signal goes through our overdrive/volume pedal while the other goes through a good chorus pedal and a SECOND volume pedal. We merge the signals back together before going into the delay/reverb. This enables us to "stack" (if I may borrow keyboard terminology) two sounds and control their volume envelopes with our feet.
One would have to play sitting down, which many guitarists would prefer not to do, perhaps.
Oh well just a thought...
You are so amazing° Thank you for your great lessons!
Thank you so much!
Wow. This channel has got me so inspired. I just sanna grab my guitar and buy some pedals. Awesome stuff 🥰 subbed
Thank you. I got a lot out of this video. I do not have a compressor or volume pedal in my setup. At least not yet. Keep up your great work.
I think you picked 5 really great effects and it is kind of fun to think what I might have picked differently and what I might have picked differently for different types of music other than ambient. I think distortion, reverb, and delay are three effects that are really necessary in one form or another for a lot of different types of music. I have a bunch of different delay and reverb pedals, many of which I bought after seeing your reviews on them, it is just amazing how many different types there are and how the sound can very between analog and digital versions, and tape delay and spring reverb and pedals that emulate worn tape on a tape, etc. The only thing I might add is a second delay pedal, although some delay pedals do offer the ability to run two or three different delays at once.
Thank you sir for this video really appreciate✌️❤️👍
Bill thanks . Great video.
I really like stacking delay pedals. I often have three on at the same time.
Europa. Good one!
Yes Yes Yes, me me me too too too!
Sir Davos?!!!
Brilliant tips, i'm into ambient guitar great video
Just your like your music, your videos are very relaxing to watch. Thank you!
Glad you like them!
All good picks. and yes you can never overlook the power of a volume pedal.
Hello, I love your way of speaking. So classy !
Thank you for great videos! You are a Bob Ross of Ambient Guitars! =)
I just said that to my wife today. Lol
Lol lol lol YES!!!
thought this after the first video i saw reviewing the EH Grand Canyon pedal
Great channel!
Great class!
1: analog delay
2: digital delay
3: dual delay
4: modulated delay
5: pitch shifting delay
KneedleKnees you’re gonna be late
And tape delay
Tube delay, multi tap delay, 405 to the 5 delay, and that damn Orange crush where the 22 the 5, and 57 meet by Angel stadium!
1, octave pedal
2, analog delay
3, digital delay
4, modulated reverb
5, spring reverb
Sh*t, the echo has 'delayed'
Great video, thank you.
Best sounding PRS I've heard. Actually the only PRS out of hundreds I have liked one bit.
Great video! Thank you a lot!
Excellent, thanks
I like the Walrus Slö reverb a lot, of you haven’t checked it out! It has a detune effect, an octave down adjustment, a “freeze” feature, and a reverb tone filter. It’s righteous!
You're my hero, dude.
These are really good to have no matter the genre of music
As for the mod pedals, most of good modern delay or reverb pedals have some modulation settings.
I think that having modulation on the wet signal and keeping the dry signal clean is even better, it preserves the clarity of notes.
Sir , You have a new subscriber.
Interesting all your videos, greatings from Perú
over time I would like to build a board like this. Subscribing YES!! Love the guitar as well.
All of these pedals are interesting, in my case I use a high-quality warm valve amp combined with ambient chord selection and in particular hand dampening which can transform the overall sound to create depth. Sometimes I use a boost but find that increasing the volume on the guitar changes the sound sufficiently. Thanks for the thought-provoking video and validating ambient guitar as a genre, I didn't realize that is what I've been into for many years.
My ambient setup now is a Boss CS-3 compressor, an Ernie Ball volume pedal (modified by JHS), a Marshall Reflector reverb pedal, and an Electro Harmonix Canyon. Much fun with these. Especially the Canyon.
The “TC Electronic T2 Trinity Reverb” pedal has been a HUGE BLESSING! You can even connect to your PC and add custom sounds. If I had to choose one pedal and one amp to play a quick gig, I’d choose that and my VOX Mini 5 that has HUGE sound and TONS of effects/tones. I’d be able to play ambient and fade into heavy. I love that combo so much.
i just. love. the knowledge you're helping to disseminate. i began visiting your channel for (you guessed it) pedal reviews- but I'm still here long after my tech purchases to gain insight on theory, execution, and signal sequence. Your content helps bedroom composers/producers like myself- and for that, i thank you, Good Sir.
P/S: many years ago, i experienced full immersion during 15+ minutes of Robert Fripp's instrumental improv in the middle of a King Crimson theater concert- it cemented the concept of "this is what i want to do with my life". It's 25 years later now, and i can still picture the moment with clarity (and i can imagine that you can picture it as well). The music you're making continues that legacy.
Excellent useful video Bill - thanks for the info and the inspiration - cool stuff! I'd just add the creative imagination pedal...:-)
Knowledge and skills aside, I just want to say you are fun to watch!
No, you do have what you need, and it sounds bbbbeaitiful, lush, and ambient ✨😘
I love your use of the volume pedal. It really does give you envelope control......... I might have to get one....... I feel like an additional two gain stages would add to that setup...... There is nothing like the noise swell that you can get from a very overdriven tube amp...... It's very meditative in it's own way........ Multiple gain/fuzz pedals give a wide range of sounds to play in..... Thanks for the video
A nice tidy board with some great tones there Bill. I have the Ego and the Riverside on my board plus a Jim Dunlop volume pedal, Flashback Triple Delay and a Big Sky. If you want to try something left-field then check out the Strymon Deco - an amazing pedal. Gorgeous tape saturation and wobble plus double tracking all in stereo. You can create some very wide stereo chorus style effects. The El Capistan is another good pedal .. aged tape and wow and flutter. I have used the Deco and El Cap to good effect.
One of my favorite ambient albums is Rainbow Dome Musick by Steve Hillage from the 1970s . . . Lush analog synths with sweet guitar soloing for 1 hour of bliss
Climbing Up The Sounds Yes. That is why I posted the comment. It is an amazing ambient album that has mostly gotten lost now that several decades have passed since its release. You might also check out Manuel Gottsching and Ashra “New Age of Earth”
Bill, I know you're not trying to promote any of the gear you use, but since I started watching your channel, I have to say that you've have had a big (subconscious?) influence on some of my purchases. I didn't think of myself as an ambient player in the past and was mostly a singer-songwriter, but in the last few months I've bought a Morley wah/volume, a PRS Baritone 277, and an Ebow, and I've really enjoyed using all of them and learning how to create some more ambient tones. A baritone guitar was the only piece that I would have considered prior to watching your channel, and you really sold me on the PRS. Thanks for the very educational videos.
I picked up the same PRS, and an ebow, from watching his channel as well, lol. Though the baritone made sense for me since I normally detuned anyway (Drop B).
The Nux Mod Core is a great little pedal, it gives you lots of fantastic modulation effects to switch between
I’m honestly shocked that pedal #1 wasn’t a sweet, spacious reverb. I have much to learn, and I look forward to the journey.
Looper pedal is critical too, I guess. Can't refuse decent drone, when you jam)
Great channel btw, love it.
Those are some good choices.
Hello Bill
It's great for me to have found you through your videos. After many years of looking for a form of expression with the guitar, I begin to accept that the "meditative music" that I have always played alone in an intuitive way, is what really defines my musical sensibility
I've been enjoying the sounds of the Neunaber Immerse Reverberator for several months now and I'm exploring Empress's Echosystem Delay. I am slow with technology. Seeing you, I have realized that a volume pedal is a fundamental tool. Your beloved Morley Alligator is no longer in the European market. I guess the 20/20 Volume power Wah model is the current equivalent, which serves as volume and as wah. It is right ?
I have a lot of empathy with your sound, with what you do, and how you do it. Thank you for sharing your great experience and knowledge. And thanks for showing it with an open heart !!!
I follow you closely. A hug
Greetings from Cadaques - Spain
Great video thanks, for me I couldn't do without pitch shifter and a harmoniser - mainly because with my style of playing it's the only way to change pitch
Great video! I knew you were going to say those 5 pedals. I think they are the main pedals for ambient. Another pedal would be nice to add is a POG.
You are the Bob Ross of guitar love it.
Thanks for sharing your secrets and opinion. The most important ambient pedal for me is a shimmer.
Huh…that was really helpful. I’ve been kinda stuck on😮a mod pedal. I’m trying a new setup tomorrow!
Pink Floyd shirt a minute in - you have yourself a new subscriber!! Long live the Floyd!!
For me, I just add a bit of EQ, a noise gate (according to lack of good ground connection in Iranian power lines, I need that) and a compressor. EQ can easily fix dynamic mistakes and I have a lot of mistakes specially when I'm just improvising. But, for processing and sound design, I usually use a delay and a reverb, or just stack different delays and reverb fx to get my type of sound.
BTW, I love that Pink Floyd T-Shirt :P
Muhammadreza Haghiri if you can get a power supply filter between the incoming power and you amplifier and effects it really makes a difference with unwanted sounds and hiss noises. The filters are not hard to find as they are popular with video gamers.
I used the Wampler for years, nice pedal but dare I say!! I fell in love with the Boss CP-1X and use that now! Always on
Hi Bill. Thank you for another wonderful video. If its okay with you I would love to see a small tutorial on techniques using the volume pedal. Your use is so smooth and while I have one on my board, there is always a big jump between "no signal" and "signal" which kinda ruins the swell effect.
Once again thank you. Always a joy to see a new video from you on my feed.
What brand are you using? There is some difference in capability between the brands and models. I currently use an older Ernie Ball that absolutely can't go as fast as Bill here does with his Morley, at least not without a lead foot (it's a very stiff pedal). But it does do a nice slow swell with good range.
ive seen some of your videos.... You are very good at what you are dooing....
Try adding the MXR M300,in the 'PAD" setting.
"Knowledge is precious, in any form".
Thanks for sharing yours.
Currently rebuilding a new pedalboard geared around ambient/post-rock/shoegaze style. I've currently got just three pedals, my trusty old Zoom G2, which is where my overdrive/distortion is coming from currently; and a couple of patches are used for effect layering. My next two, in order, are an Electro-Harmonix Memory Boy deluxe delay, and Electro-Harmonix Oceans 12 reverb. Just three double-pedals; epic tone.
Good stuff Bill! Compressor is very helpful to get sustain but I would replace it in your list with a filter pedal post volume. Volume swell into an auto wah filter for legit MOOG realm sounds. If filter is not your thing, swap the compressor for a polyphonic harmony pedal. Also a germanium fuzz pedals make excellent OD/trebleboost sounds when you roll back the guitar volume. So you could replace your OD pedal and get many more drive sounds with a germanium fuzz. Note germanium fuzz must come first in the chain and no active pick ups. Passive guitar> germanium fuzz> active volume pedal >auto filter>trem/verb>canyon echo...DI rig = Joyo American sound into moorer radar.
You are so great love you
Compressors are some of the most widely misunderstood, most vastly underutilized effects in the guitar world. My cali76 is ALMOST an “always on” pedal. It makes playing easier on the fingers, helps solidify my dotted sound when it’s routed after the delay, controls what my drive pedals “hear” when it’s in front, emulates a nice, even studio guitar sound when it’s behind the drive pedals...and by itself it adds all of the nice, easy going dynamic of an overdrive without actually adding any dirt. They aren’t sexy effects like a good delay or a high end modulation....but they’re game changing processors once you get a grasp on everything they can do for you.
Back in the day when I was a kid I had an original MXR Dynacomp and it took me awhile to realize that a compressor doesn't alter the tone, its not meant to. It alters the dynamics. Bill is right stating it adds sustain.
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Dynamic control is what I use it for more than anything. It’s a way for my hands to more easily execute the things my brain wants me to try and play hahah
Another aspect of the volume pedal to consider is if you want it before or after your OD. Before would act a lot like your guitar volume Pot where lowering it cleans up the sound, whereas after OD keeps all the tones fully overdriven, just quieter. I could totally see some people using 3 volume pedals.
Subscribed. Just found you. You have turned me on to something that I only have heard the name of. Well played. will be checking you out and I'm sure that I won't be disappointed!
so your question at the end, in my case I play a mix of ambient and heavy metal, I have a khdk ghoul screamer that has a toggle for how much compression there is. But I really only bring that in when I turn off the reverb and turn my digital delay on so I keep the same "area" of sound so to speak, but of a different quality. (Basics for my ambient sound are a diamond MLjr and the Matthews astronomer v2)
I would've had a looper in there, but I guess that comes down to whether or not you consider it an 'effect' per se.
i like the shimmer on my reverb pedal. very ambient. i would have also added a chorus pedal to that selection
Awesome instructional video! I agree with all of your effect picks (even the bit about modulation not being totally neccesary). My only addition is more of a personal preference thing, but a good alternative to a volume pedal would be something like a Boss Slow Gear. Less hands on manipulation, but still a good alternative especially if you arent much of a "live" player. Great video!
Makes sense to me!