Ambient Guitar Tutorial: Two Stacking Delays dotted – Strymon Timeline, Roland VG 99
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In this tutorial I would like to show you some ideas how to settle two delay effects and what you can play using them.
This tutorial was planned to be an illustration of how I formed the rhythmic structure of the main part in my previous video: • Ambient Guitar: Stacking Delays (Strymon T...
Stacking delays is a wide-spread technique when playing ambient guitar. The main goal is to create a broad rhythmic pattern that will let you effectively fill the space. One of the most common and interesting approaches is a combination of two delays where the second delay correlates to the first one as dotted note. Let’s say quarter note and quarter dotted note.
Normally you don’t have to play much with stacking delays, because only one note will create a cascade of repetitions with a complicated rhythmical structure.
But it doesn’t mean you don’t have to!)…
Of cause you can use other effects before or after the stacking delays in your chain. Just be sure not to over-saturate the sound with effects if you need a clean one.
Different kinds of arpeggios in two octaves go well, but there will be hardly much space for anything else…
Remember that you don’t have to play exactly “in time” all the way… Sometimes if you want to fill more space you can vary your playing speed.
Don’t forget about dynamics! It’s a good idea to start from a quite sound and increase your dynamics to get some kind of a “sound wave”.
Any combination of delays will sound good with a pedal Swell) Dotted stacking delays included. The more sophisticated delays structure is, the more even and filled the Swell will sound, but be careful not to let the attack in)
All the examples were played with delays set around 480ms or 125 bpm. You can search internet for “bpm to ms” to get notes duration in ms. For example here: http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculat...
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The gear used:
Godin Solidac
Roland VG-99
Strymon TimeLine
Strymon BigSky
Thanks for watching!