YES! I love delays, too. One thing I’ve learned by watching master guitarists like Tim is using delay to sort of thicken the tone; it’s the secret sauce. Thank you for the video, Mr.Pierce!
Your Masterclass is simply the BEST around. Learning things like solos, chords, music theory, sounds, pedals, recording and much much more from one of the 10 top studio guitarists in the world, who explains step-by-step how and what to do is simply awesome. Highly recommended for beginners, advanced and professional players. We can ALL learn something from your lessons. Thanks for sharing your immense knowledge and expertise with us mortals...
I've been a fan of delay since the 80s, funny that a memorable guitar solo for me with delay is Runaway - which happens to be your work lol. Great video! 😎
He's an incredible player , he's basically the unsung guitar hero that not many people have heard of , and better than 99% of all the household guitar heroes we know.
Ciao Tim! It is always a great pleasure to watch your videos! As soon as I receive the notification, I detach myself from everything! :) Always a lot of professionalism and sympathy! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. Many greetings from Sardinia!
Thanks Tim. I play in a rock duo with guitar and bass w/beat buddy drum machine...I use two Friedmen small amps stereo for that full sound. We can play small micro stages or a large concert stages. A small town classic rock, blues and country band that gets the gigs. The H-9 in both effects loops is my Swiss Army knife. You are a killer guitarist and teacher. I'm one of those slow learners but once I get it, I get it.
This is a producer's approach to the effects use for sure. I can't help but think about the players most known for their use delay use going the OPPOSITE direction though. Most people can't tell exactly what The Edge is playing because he uses the effect as a part of his composition. The "Bad" riff is a great example. He is playing far less than it sounds like he is because the repeats are at an equal volume.
Im just amazed of the wealth of information we have now. Back in the day I had no clue about any of this stuff and often ppl kept it to themselves but now everything is available........free! 🤘
Just what I needed on delay’s . I have all of the line 6 pedals with the four memory’s each. Makes a heavy pedal board.I like my Fernandez Pro Revolver. It’s a lot of fun with a slide. I put a F spaced Scream’n Demon in it a few years ago. Love it. But now a hum has shown up with the sustainer pickup with the switch in the middle & neck position. Would like to put in a sustainiac system because the bridge pickup is not dependent on the battery. Just in case it dies. Chow.
I love how you are such an intelligent musician yet you play popular guitar. It's like I can understand you yet you do not make sense all at the same time.
I began to play wet/dry/wet with digital delays in the 80's. In the 90's I was so pissed of by theses cold FX that I stopped to use them. But when I re-discovered the good old tube, tape or bucket brigade delays, I realized how much they sound better. The key is to find the delay witch react as you want with your amp. The hunt is long. Since a decade, I play the JHS PantherCub, the Electro Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man 1100TT, the Boss Dm2 Waza Craft, the Way Huge Echo Puss and the Seymour Duncan Vapor Trail. I've tested something like 100 analog delays. These ones are the top 5. In the studio, the Gurus delays (tube echo) are great too. For live application : one amp dry, the other one with a delay (mixed) : parallel setting with a mono delay is easy. In the studio, I use reampers to plug the pedals in the ProTools. To my humble opinion, the only good digital delays are made by Eventide. I like the way they sound.
"Negotiate with the knobs", I've done that my entire career as an engineer but I've never heard it put that way. I've also referred to it as "cultivating the knob farm."
Over many years of recording, I bought a bunch of delay and echo plug-ins. I really only use Soundtoy's Echoboy. It has a huge array of sounds and is very intuitive and easy to use.
Tim, I haven't had time to catch all your videos when they show up and are absolute "Gold" for more of us players that have a couple decades under our belt that have started by ear pre cell,pre PC, pre TH-cam even ! Just got in from 89 degree sticky sweaty outdoors and this is the BEST VIDEO I've seen in a week ! You'll have to tell us how TH-cam selects and pulls down its algorithms so dudes like us can watch this kinda stuff instead of nonsense? A studio musician's best viewed video award needs to go to you my friend ! A true guitar pad ! Thanks Tim for the knowledge! It was a break from this Corona insanity 100 % Narcotic indeed !
Hi Tim, could you show your FX routing in ProTools? What do you provide to your customers: dry guitar audio plus 100% fx signal audio? Or a ProTools file? I apreciate yor answer. Keep up your great work!!!
Tim Pierce you are the man! Love your phrasing and note choices. Always sounds so incredible. I’m a delay junkie to by the way. Always have delay on. Makes everything sound so much sweeter! Memory man is also 1 of my all time favorites. I use the tone print for it on my flashback for about 70% of everything I play. Also like the echoplex and a delay called echolette don’t know if you’ve ever heard of it I believe it’s a old German tube tape delay machine. I use that toneprint a lot for cleans. But yeah delays I could spend days playing with they’re absolutely the best thing for your guitar sound in my opinion. Just humongous epic sounds.
Great channel you’ve got! Finally someone who’s giving interesting reviews, demoes - and demonstions by playing guitar in a cool way! I’m really sick of alle the shredders out there(!)
YES! This is what I was asking Bryan Ewald to get you to talk about in the PRS Experience vid from last week! Thank you for taking the time to illuminate this, Tim- I think the finer points of using delay are something that many guitarists struggle with. Love your channel, and have been a fan of your music ever since my head spun around at the guitar solo to a Rick Springfield tune way back in the mid 80s. Thanks for all the information and inspiration!
Super intelligent and interesting dude. Your licks are original and your gear is superior. Please tell me how to get speaker feedback emulating without blasting loud. Example would be intro to welcome to the jungle when 2 feedbacks were harmonious....the most glorious sound. I now only have IOS Amp Sim and 1 electric and one acoustic guitar. Wish for bass. I used to have the gear so I’m kinda jonesin for that loud guitar thing that makes you say screw my job I’m quitting to play Led Zeppelin for life.
That dry PRS sounds like a Rickenbacker 330 to me - cool split on? And I can hear the ‘splice’ running past the tape heads on that first infinite delay!
Hi Tim - love your videos...; I managed to get hold of a boxed Echo Park in mint condition...; They tend to be a bit cheaper in the UK than in the US. As you observe..very musical pedal..; My eldest son is in a Beatles tribute and he was very taken with the reverse effect #revolver. Great pedal - many thanks!
Thanks so much for this, one of my all time favourite guitarists Michael Schenker uses delay like this, it's almost like a reverb that blooms for want of a better description, the main thing being you don't hear the repeats.
Yeah he uses two dd3’s these days. I’ve followed Schenker for a long time and saw Msg in the 80’s. I prefer his tone back then and with UFO though, there was echo on his guitar but it definitely wasn’t coming from a pedal, that’s the sound I’ve always tried to recreate when I played live with delays but in the end gave up. The delays seem to spoil the tone. I play solos dry now, just sounds better to me.
Tim, do you send back your tracks with just the insert or one also rendered as a “final”. There’s an assumption made that the mixer has the same plugin. Do you find out ahead of time if you have the same plugins or do you have several ones to cover your bases?
automatics1im He talks about this a lot in his masterclasses. He will send a clean and dirty track for solos so the producer can adjust the delay, but he send the rendered tracks for everything else - but includes a couple versions with a variety of business so they can mix and match.
Very interesting and informative video. Here’s a question for you. How do you get that classic 70’s live delay sound like Schenker in UFO and other classic live recordings of that era? It just doesn’t sound like the modern delay sound, which makes me think it was put on at the desk or maybe post production? I’ve tried all kinds of delays in the loop, up front and none sound right for live performance. Maybe Joe Bonamassa ditched his delays for the same reason, chasing the unattainable tone.
IIRC Behringer bought the rights to the chip in the Echo Park for use in their EM600 Echo Machine, which is now a 'legacy product' on Behringer's website.
Great breakdown of delay ‘art’ and good vid title too. Love the concept of how an effect can be ‘hidden’ via phrasing and ensemble context. Would perhaps mention equivalent plugins for DAWs other than ProTools though even though pedal equivalents like Echo Park were shown. I’ll experiment with TC Elec. toneprints...
omg, always so damn cool, so deeply instructive and again, cool. Tim, why do you hv so many preamps? I ve seen a previous video where you show your iso booth wit (if I'm not mistakedn) 2 mics. So why so many Neve style pres? Besides, how do you interchange your power amp line signal to your iso? Thx much! :) s2
There must have been some changes to his channel count. He often recommends Shure+Royer, and with the Skibbe preamps, I see 12 channel, which would be at least 6 speakers downstairs. Excellent question, I am also curious. -Jim
Please let me know if those PRS humbuckers are dimarzio EJ customs ....I’ve settled on those After researching for quite a while to find a solution for a new guitar build. These are the only pick ups that I know that actually sounds like single coils. Please let me know if that is what you are using in your PRS. Thank you in advance :-)
...for sure it does have a magical quality to it - seems like pentatonics with chromatism then octave slides on the g and e strings. And the bass/chords under it really make it shine, as with most good solos.
Wow! Tim’s dexterity and fluidity is unmatched! Wonderful video! Thanks Tim.
My pleasure!
One takeaway from this video is the expression: ‘negotiate with the knobs’. That’s a very accurate description of that process.
You always look like you are having so much fun when you play, Rock On Tim!
Tim, your enthusiasm is so awesome to see! Its quite obvious that even after years of being a pro, u still love playing guitar! Thanks man! 🤙🏼
Thanks!
I hit the like button without delay!
I used dotted eighths
I hid my delay
Ha Ha.!!! ...perfect.
I hide my "likes". But not on Tim's channel.
YES! I love delays, too. One thing I’ve learned by watching master guitarists like Tim is using delay to sort of thicken the tone; it’s the secret sauce. Thank you for the video, Mr.Pierce!
Your Masterclass is simply the BEST around. Learning things like solos, chords, music theory, sounds, pedals, recording and much much more from one of the 10 top studio guitarists in the world, who explains step-by-step how and what to do is simply awesome. Highly recommended for beginners, advanced and professional players. We can ALL learn something from your lessons. Thanks for sharing your immense knowledge and expertise with us mortals...
Wow, thanks!
Dang you've been laying down some burning intros! Great video as always Tim.
Robert, Thanks!!
what do you mean robert. they sound just like yours. ;-)
I've been a fan of delay since the 80s, funny that a memorable guitar solo for me with delay is Runaway - which happens to be your work lol. Great video! 😎
Your enthusiasm is infectious Tim. Thanks for sharing it
Thank you Tim.
Always a pleasure and awesome delight to watch your videos. Take Care and keep playing!
He's an incredible player , he's basically the unsung guitar hero that not many people have heard of , and better than 99% of all the household guitar heroes we know.
What a Master of sounds!♥️
Wow what a lesson!!! Thank you very much!!!🙏🙏🙏
The top end bite on that PRS is just ridiculous...sounds so good.
Ciao Tim! It is always a great pleasure to watch your videos! As soon as I receive the notification, I detach myself from everything! :) Always a lot of professionalism and sympathy! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. Many greetings from Sardinia!
Great lesson Tim! Thanks for your decades of seasoned experience.
my heavens.. nice guitar playing thx... Dan
Your enjoyment while you play is so addicting!
That sort of muted, "chuggy" dotted 8th stuff (2:50) always gets my attention. 🤘
Thanks Tim. I play in a rock duo with guitar and bass w/beat buddy drum machine...I use two Friedmen small amps stereo for that full sound. We can play small micro stages or a large concert stages. A small town classic rock, blues and country band that gets the gigs. The H-9 in both effects loops is my Swiss Army knife. You are a killer guitarist and teacher. I'm one of those slow learners but once I get it, I get it.
I use the Line 6 Echo Park and use the "ducking" feature so the delay stays out of the way. Love these videos.
I’m a huge Echo Park fan too Tim, glad to see you using one still. I also have a Fernandes Native Pro with Sustainer that I love
Thanks Tim. ⚓️
You always sound GREAT!
Wow, thank you!
You inspire me to give up playing the guitar.
Hahahahah
Yeah, but we have to carry on...even playing badly just to spite everybody.
Me too. Especially after the first 23 seconds of this vid
This is a producer's approach to the effects use for sure. I can't help but think about the players most known for their use delay use going the OPPOSITE direction though. Most people can't tell exactly what The Edge is playing because he uses the effect as a part of his composition. The "Bad" riff is a great example. He is playing far less than it sounds like he is because the repeats are at an equal volume.
Im just amazed of the wealth of information we have now. Back in the day I had no clue about any of this stuff and often ppl kept it to themselves but now everything is available........free! 🤘
Love this explanation about delay Tim! Thanks sharing your wisdom with us...very helpful :)
Subbed- the delay lesson here is dead on for me and made sense- Thanks for this!
Thanks Tim. Always learn something new from watching your interesting clips. Dotted 1/8ths Mmmm.
Great playing! Spot on with the Line 6 Echo Park. I got mine years ago and love it. It's always on.
Yeah it’s a great unit!
Just what I needed on delay’s . I have all of the line 6 pedals with the four memory’s each. Makes a heavy pedal board.I like my Fernandez Pro Revolver. It’s a lot of fun with a slide. I put a F spaced Scream’n Demon in it a few years ago. Love it. But now a hum has shown up with the sustainer pickup with the switch in the middle & neck position. Would like to put in a sustainiac system because the bridge pickup is not dependent on the battery. Just in case it dies. Chow.
I love how you are such an intelligent musician yet you play popular guitar.
It's like I can understand you yet you do not make sense all at the same time.
I began to play wet/dry/wet with digital delays in the 80's. In the 90's I was so pissed of by theses cold FX that I stopped to use them. But when I re-discovered the good old tube, tape or bucket brigade delays, I realized how much they sound better. The key is to find the delay witch react as you want with your amp. The hunt is long. Since a decade, I play the JHS PantherCub, the Electro Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man 1100TT, the Boss Dm2 Waza Craft, the Way Huge Echo Puss and the Seymour Duncan Vapor Trail. I've tested something like 100 analog delays. These ones are the top 5. In the studio, the Gurus delays (tube echo) are great too. For live application : one amp dry, the other one with a delay (mixed) : parallel setting with a mono delay is easy. In the studio, I use reampers to plug the pedals in the ProTools. To my humble opinion, the only good digital delays are made by Eventide. I like the way they sound.
that´s pure gold ... thanks !
The Strymon Timeline is such a beast.
Empress super delay vintage modified is the most natural sounding delay I've ever used. Timeline was a little too digital sounding for my tastes.
Don’t forget about the el cap
Awesome video as always and congratulations on getting through a video about Delay and not mentioning The Edge or U2.........
"Negotiate with the knobs", I've done that my entire career as an engineer but I've never heard it put that way. I've also referred to it as "cultivating the knob farm."
tomcoryell lol - truth.
Can I assume that "cultivating the knob farm" would also have a different meaning? :)
Many thanks for putting the time in as ever Mr Tim / You are great inspiration to us all! Cheers ✌️
So nice of you
Over many years of recording, I bought a bunch of delay and echo plug-ins. I really only use Soundtoy's Echoboy. It has a huge array of sounds and is very intuitive and easy to use.
Tim Pierce sei un gran chitarrista
Excellent episode! Love the production stuff. Please do more like this!
Hell yeah. Loved this, I've been some similar weird timing things with a cheap looper I got that has a smaller looped signal inside the main one.
Wow, i just realized i have a piece of gear exactly like Tim has....
the black desk lamp on the back!
well, that's something.... :-(
There’s that magical land between reverb and delay: I’m a sucker for Keeley’s “Memphis Sun” for this. My always on...
You have such a unique sound man!
Tim, I haven't had time to catch all your videos when they show up and are absolute "Gold" for more of us players that have a couple decades under our belt that have started by ear pre cell,pre PC, pre TH-cam even ! Just got in from 89 degree sticky sweaty outdoors and this is the BEST VIDEO I've seen in a week ! You'll have to tell us how TH-cam selects and pulls down its algorithms so dudes like us can watch this kinda stuff instead of nonsense?
A studio musician's best viewed video award needs to go to you my friend ! A true guitar pad ! Thanks Tim for the knowledge! It was a break from this Corona insanity 100 % Narcotic indeed !
Hi Tim, could you show your FX routing in ProTools? What do you provide to your customers: dry guitar audio plus 100% fx signal audio? Or a ProTools file? I apreciate yor answer. Keep up your great work!!!
Brilliant, such great playing & advice as always Tim
I've been using the EQD Dispatch Master for really subtle delay/reverb to widen single note stuff, I love it.
Amazing information! Love Tim's playing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
The echo park!! I once spent an hour lesson reviewing all those possibilities. I think that pedal is amazing!!
So glad you like the echo park! I’ve kept mine over many expensive delays that just couldn’t get that characteristic
That was a beautiful video. Thanks Tim! Peace!
Right on brother..my ideas of delay and how it should and shouldn't be used as well. Great playing by the way, let's do something someday. Peace bro!
Some very Dean DeLeo like playing and tunage there.. I dig it!
If you can't find a Sustainer guitar, I recommend the Digitech FreQout pedal. It does something similar to the Sustainer pickup.
Tim Pierce you are the man! Love your phrasing and note choices. Always sounds so incredible. I’m a delay junkie to by the way. Always have delay on. Makes everything sound so much sweeter!
Memory man is also 1 of my all time favorites. I use the tone print for it on my flashback for about 70% of everything I play. Also like the echoplex and a delay called echolette don’t know if you’ve ever heard of it I believe it’s a old German tube tape delay machine. I use that toneprint a lot for cleans. But yeah delays I could spend days playing with they’re absolutely the best thing for your guitar sound in my opinion. Just humongous epic sounds.
I spy an Ebo reverb from Nashville. Top shelf!
Great channel you’ve got! Finally someone who’s giving interesting reviews, demoes - and demonstions by playing guitar in a cool way! I’m really sick of alle the shredders out there(!)
YES! This is what I was asking Bryan Ewald to get you to talk about in the PRS Experience vid from last week! Thank you for taking the time to illuminate this, Tim- I think the finer points of using delay are something that many guitarists struggle with. Love your channel, and have been a fan of your music ever since my head spun around at the guitar solo to a Rick Springfield tune way back in the mid 80s. Thanks for all the information and inspiration!
Super intelligent and interesting dude. Your licks are original and your gear is superior. Please tell me how to get speaker feedback emulating without blasting loud. Example would be intro to welcome to the jungle when 2 feedbacks were harmonious....the most glorious sound. I now only have IOS Amp Sim and 1 electric and one acoustic guitar. Wish for bass. I used to have the gear so I’m kinda jonesin for that loud guitar thing that makes you say screw my job I’m quitting to play Led Zeppelin for life.
Killin' Tim. Love it.
Thanks for sharing! Never seen a sustainer before..wow! Cool, thx!
Check out Neal
Schon of Journey or Phil Collins from Def Leppard. Both big sustainer type users.
That dry PRS sounds like a Rickenbacker 330 to me - cool split on?
And I can hear the ‘splice’ running past the tape heads on that first infinite delay!
Only 12 minutes? This was one of your most enjoyable and that's saying a lot.
I like that sustainer.
Hi Tim - love your videos...; I managed to get hold of a boxed Echo Park in mint condition...; They tend to be a bit cheaper in the UK than in the US. As you observe..very musical pedal..; My eldest son is in a Beatles tribute and he was very taken with the reverse effect #revolver. Great pedal - many thanks!
Thanks so much for this, one of my all time favourite guitarists Michael Schenker uses delay like this, it's almost like a reverb that blooms for want of a better description, the main thing being you don't hear the repeats.
Yeah it’s definitely a unique sound and one I’ve never really thought to try getting from a delay
Yeah he uses two dd3’s these days. I’ve followed Schenker for a long time and saw Msg in the 80’s. I prefer his tone back then and with UFO though, there was echo on his guitar but it definitely wasn’t coming from a pedal, that’s the sound I’ve always tried to recreate when I played live with delays but in the end gave up. The delays seem to spoil the tone. I play solos dry now, just sounds better to me.
What pickups do you have in the PRS ?? did you coil split the bridge pickup for this video ??
The secret to a lot of the more modern (last 20yrs anyway) Def Leppard sounds is Phil's sustainer pickup on his PC1
Tim, do you send back your tracks with just the insert or one also rendered as a “final”.
There’s an assumption made that the mixer has the same plugin. Do you find out ahead of time if you have the same plugins or do you have several ones to cover your bases?
automatics1im He talks about this a lot in his masterclasses. He will send a clean and dirty track for solos so the producer can adjust the delay, but he send the rendered tracks for everything else - but includes a couple versions with a variety of business so they can mix and match.
Great as always Tim! Check out the Valhalla Delay plugin. I think you'll really love it.
I'll check it out!
Very interesting and informative video. Here’s a question for you. How do you get that classic 70’s live delay sound like Schenker in UFO and other classic live recordings of that era? It just doesn’t sound like the modern delay sound, which makes me think it was put on at the desk or maybe post production?
I’ve tried all kinds of delays in the loop, up front and none sound right for live performance. Maybe Joe Bonamassa ditched his delays for the same reason, chasing the unattainable tone.
Great sounds and playing Tim 👏
6:02 "Space. The final frontier."
I swear you are still getting better :) Any effect that is intended to go after the amp I use a VST now
Your PRS Sounds Top Notch!
Hate the vague title, but love Tim so much I'll give him the view :)
IIRC Behringer bought the rights to the chip in the Echo Park for use in their EM600 Echo Machine, which is now a 'legacy product' on Behringer's website.
not to mention the original Boss DD-20, which has great modulation mode and tone control. :)
Great breakdown of delay ‘art’ and good vid title too. Love the concept of how an effect can be ‘hidden’ via phrasing and ensemble context. Would perhaps mention equivalent plugins for DAWs other than ProTools though even though pedal equivalents like Echo Park were shown. I’ll experiment with TC Elec. toneprints...
Nice Tim 👍
I’m gonna go get the papers, get the papers.
< cue Layla outro >
Tim do you have a video tour of your home studio? I mean wow how do you keep track of it all.
Do you do beginners classes? I used to do some but want to REALLY learn
youR a killer player Tim! you big fat Sound YOU :) Much Love man,,
omg, always so damn cool, so deeply instructive and again, cool. Tim, why do you hv so many preamps? I ve seen a previous video where you show your iso booth wit (if I'm not mistakedn) 2 mics. So why so many Neve style pres? Besides, how do you interchange your power amp line signal to your iso? Thx much! :) s2
There must have been some changes to his channel count. He often recommends Shure+Royer, and with the Skibbe preamps, I see 12 channel, which would be at least 6 speakers downstairs. Excellent question, I am also curious. -Jim
Okay the fact Tim just said 'the pedal closet', is one of the reason I love this guy.
Tim is a Jedi Master, sharing the ways of the force with us.
Its better than the Pedal graveyard
What’s a sweet tone. Is this a mccarty model?? Really sounds awesome👍🏻
Correct!
I saw in one of your videos that you were using a DOD Rubberneck delay. Do you use that often? Do you like it?
Gorgeous Guitar Play Bro, .... 🌠✓🎼🎸🎼🌠👍👍👍🌠🌟🌠.
Beautiful. Thankkkkkkkk you~~
Please let me know if those PRS humbuckers are dimarzio EJ customs ....I’ve settled on those After researching for quite a while to find a solution for a new guitar build. These are the only pick ups that I know that actually sounds like single coils. Please let me know if that is what you are using in your PRS. Thank you in advance :-)
The solo at the start is sooooo tasty!
Great, as usual!! Thanks.
You need to break down that intro.
From 0:04 to 0:10
It's brilliant.
...for sure it does have a magical quality to it - seems like pentatonics with chromatism then octave slides on the g and e strings. And the bass/chords under it really make it shine, as with most good solos.
YES You explain it so well .; my fav echo is the old Boss on the Me5B it is Dark imo ;. thanks for the content.