Ukulele Using Effects Pedals - Basic Guide - Reverb, Overdrive, Delay, Phaser & Vibe Uke Demo
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- Ukulele Using Effects Pedals - Basic Guide - Reverb, Overdrive, Delay, Phaser & Vibe FX Pedals
A basic guide to using effects pedals with your electro acoustic or electric ukulele. I look at individual stompbox pedals on my pedalboard including Jam Pedals, Keeley Electronic, TC Electronic and Joyo pedals.
Basic Guide To Ukulele And Effects Pedals:
00:00 Intro to effects pedals on ukulele
00:55 Setup of equipment and equipment used
02:22 Look at pedal board
03:17 Ukulele tuning pedal
05:14 Compressor pedal with uke - Dyna-ssor Jam pedal
06:29 Nocturner Reverb pedal demo with electro acoustic ukulele
07:45 Delay pedal demo with ukulele - Delay Llama Jam Pedal
08:55 Retrovibe vive pedal demo with electric ukulele
11:36 Phaser pedal demo with ukulele - Ripple Jam Pedals
13:31 Overdrive pedal demo with ukulele - TubeDreamer Jam Pedals
17:08 Using effects pedals with a ukulele conclusions
Ukuleles and equipment featured in this video:
Flight Voyager All Solid Spruce And Acacia EA Tenor Ukulele
Warwick CCL Bass Amp
Dyna-ssor - Jam Pedals
TubeDreamer - Jam Pedals
Ripple - Jam Pedals
Retrovibe - Jam Pedals
Delay Llama Supreme - Jam Pedals
Nocturner Reverb - Keeley Electronics
Ditto Looper - TC Electronics
Tuning Pedal - Joyo
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I wish all school teachers spoke like you. Its a nice slow pace that i can follow and how you emphasize certain important words
Very glad to be helping :-)
I'm not sure how I ended up finding this video, but it was really great! I've never seen pedals used with a ukulele, but it sounder cooler than I thought it would!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed!
Oh man! That overdrive pedal! I now have a feeling of want that I need to get rid of!! Rach you are VERY wicked 😂
Incredible video with great in depth explanations. I appreciate this sooo much
You're very welcome! Glad to have helped :-)
Those sounds are AWESOME. Thank you so much for this!!
You are so welcome, just so glad it's helped. I do love electric uke and effects, more soon.
Yes! Been toying with the idea for ages Rach, just didn't know where to start but I do now! Ta very muchly x
You can do it!
I love you so much. I am making a pedal board for my ukulele and have been looking for some info about it. Today I found it thanks to you.
So glad you liked the video. Yes, I've struggled to find much about pedals and ukes and they are such fun to use. Will do some more info vids for sure.
Thank you for this video! Very educational!
Thank You
Thank you so much!! I'm starting the adventure of playing my uke with an amp and so I have been anxiously considering getting some effect pedals, but didn't know where to start. So informative and well presented. I'm supergrateful, all the best 🤍
So glad to be helping and good luck with your pedal journey. Give me a shout if you have any questions. 😎
6 years playing uke and I've kept away from effects as I don't understand them but you made it so much clearer thanks my friend x
Rock on, do it, it really is fun!
Adding effects to your uke makes it sound more like an instrument than a toy. Reverb is great, too.
Your vidéo are super nice for beginer 😊
Great work!
Thank you! 😃
Wow! Awesome!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed.
Yeah!!! I needed a video like this!!! Congrats and thank you!! You have a new subscriber 😉
Thanks for subbing Laura, so glad to have helped. I love messing about with effects so plenty more to come!
Thank you so much this was what I needed.
You're so welcome, I am enjoying discovering the different sounds.
Just got yourself a new subscriber. Awesome video - thanks for this really simply explained video...will be watching the rest of your videos. Great stuff 😊
"You can have some absolutely great fun with that, I promise you" - Yes.....yes you can! 😊👍
So glad you enjoyed and Thanks for subbing, much appreciated. Lots more electric stuff to come too!
Love plugging in my boss heavy metal vintage pedal to my ukulele
you are awesome!! this helpedme out so much, thank u!!!
You're welcome Carmina, glad it's helped. Lots more with effects coming soon.
Great video for when I get my electric ukulele. I am savIng up !!!
You can do it Bonnie, can't wait to hear when you've got one!
@@UkuleleWales I’m excited about it also !! Thanks for the encouragement 🙂🙂
I’m a bass player and I really love the sounds you can make with your ukulele and bass ukulele. I’m considering buying a bass ukulele to add to my acoustic bass. Looks like so much fun!
Great to meet another bass player Maria and Thanks for your lovely comment. Yes, really great fun!
Wow Rachel, you now have my bucket list full of acoustic pedals and bass amplifiers
I wish I could be one of your school students, but being on the wrong side of 88 there is no chance. I bought a low cost bass ukulele 2 years ago and so far have got away with playing root notes at my local group in Stratford upon Avon. Now I am keen to move on and anticipating your next bass ukulele lessons.
Pamela, I LOVED your comment Thank You. Put a real smile on my face. I actually taught in the music centre in Stratford upon Avon many, many years ago. Lovely town, I even had a buskers license!
this was great, thank you! it really helped me decide which pedals i want to go with for the sound i’m looking for
super helpful!
Glad I could help! Hope you have fun with your pedals, I know I am!
I've just bought a Flight ukulele which I intend to use for busking rather than my guitar. And I'm looking to make a comfortably small pedalboard. My current gear would require a small van.
Thanks for the video.
That's a great idea! Hope it goes well. 👍
My ukulele has a tuner built into it with us great
I love your videos. Thank you so much. Is it possible for you to recommend a pedal board setup for ubass?
Thanks for the lovely comment Jim. I do intend to look more at a pedalboard especially for bass. In the meantime, I'm looking at using a compressor, eq / preamp, possibly some kind of synth pedal and maybe delay. I would also recommend a tuner and looper. Stay tuned though, I will get onto it soon.
I bought a DigiTech RP55 multi-effects pedal. It's like a whole board of pedals all in one compact box: pickup simulator (makes single-coils sound like humbuckers, etc.), Wah, compressor, amplifier & speaker cabinet modeling, equalizer (bass/mid/treble), noise gate (cuts off noise), chorus, flanger, phaser, tremolo, panner (stereo L/R movement), vibrato, rotary speaker (Leslie), AutoYa, envelope filter, detune, pitch shift (up/down), whammy (optional control by external volume/expression pedal), delay, reverb, drum machine, tuner, and of course a clean bypass to pass the unaltered signal from instrument through to amplifier. It has 40 factory present effects profiles and 40 slots for user-defined presets which can be selected with a tap of the toe on an Up or Down pedal. It runs on AA batteries or optional 9v power adapter. I added a cheap basic looper pedal (Donner Beltway) and an expression/volume pedal. Do you have an opinion on these multi-effects pedals versus a board full of individual pedals that supply one effect each? It seems that the RP55 is wayyyyy less expensive, less messy, and more capable. The RP55 is no longer being manufactured, but here's something similar that still is: Vox StompLab IIG Modeling Guitar Effect Processor www.guitarcenter.com/Vox/StompLab-IIG-Modeling-Guitar-Effect-Processor.gc
Hi, yes I've got a couple of Digitech pedals and agree they are a great, inexpensive way of using effects. I will be doing a vid using them soon. I've just found I can get more control using individual pedals and personally tend to have more fun messing about. Multi FX pedals have definitely got a great place for use though.
That was super interesting.
I look forward to your video on the looper. I like the idea of a looper so I can accompany myself on ukulele with my UBass. But it could turn out I just like the *idea* of a looper and not actually working with a looper. So I'd love to learn more about that. Can I just use a looper and an amp, or do I need an elaborate set up of things in a chain? That kind of thing.
Hi Cate, no you can use a looper just by itself with an amp. They are great fun too.
@@UkuleleWales Thanks!
Thanks for this video - really informative. One question - why are you going to wait for a steel string uke to use the overdrive pedal?
Hi, I did try out the overdrive pedal and love it with the elctro acoustics. I think I mentioned I also wanted to try it with the steel strings and try that with these pedals. With my newest uke, I will be doing that very soon.
I just bought my first pedal board (small) and a looper. Other than that what would be the pedal you would recommend if I could only have 1 more? Thanks for the great vid.
Great question, it really does depend on what type of music you are playing. Personally I'd go reverb (sometimes built into amp) and then probably overdrive. Looper is a great starter.
Question - Does type of string have an impact on how well the effect pedals work with an acoustic-electric ukulele? For example, flourocarbon vs Aquila?
Great question Diane. Not that I’m aware of. There is a large difference between steel strings on the solid body electric ukuleles using magnetic pickups compared to the electro acoustics with nylon strings but between strings themselves I haven’t noticed any real differences. Still great fun to play with. 😎
Hi therefrom
Munich - great video
One question: I’m considering to buy an electric Uke - what would make the difference to an acoustic Uke using all these pedals - is there so much difference in sound really?
The pedals definitely make a bigger difference in sound using the steel string ukuleles but the pedals do work with the nylon string electro acoustic ukuleles just not as much difference.
Nice pedal board. I see you are influenced by jakes pedals. Me to . I’m wanting to get the tube dreamer and keeley reverb.
Yes! I was suprised there was so little about effects and ukes when I first started looking and well you, know sometimes you model the best. Totally agree, I love the tube dreamer, also love the keeley reverb. It's fun though trying the cheaper pedals with the uke and I think in a way I'm trying to find some of "Jake's sounds" with cheaper pedals.
Hey i want to thank you for your fantastic videos! You really inspired me to buy myself an electro-acoustic ukulele and an amp. I just got one question: i got an acoustic amp which works really fine with my ukelele. For me the only thing thats missing is some overdrive to rock a bit. :D Is it possible to just buy an overdrive pedal and use it together with my amp? The amp already got some effects(Reverb, Delay..)
Keep up your good work! Greetings from Austria :)
Hi Theresa, Thanks for the lovely comment. Yes, you can use just a single overdrive pedal, you would just plug your uke into the "in" and the other cbale would go from "out" to your amp. Hope that helps.
@@UkuleleWales thanks a lot!
Great video (could well lead to PAS!) - but no Watkins Cry Baby Wah Wah pedal?
No Wah Wah...... yet! LOL. I've admitted GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndome) for years. ;-)
If you were going to start with 2 pedals what would your choice be. I have an acoustic and solid body electrics. Thanks!
Great question! It depends on your amp really, if you have built in reverb or gain that could change things but I think if it HAD to be 2 I'd go with reverb and overdrive but ideally would go with 3 and add delay.
Thanks a lot. You are the best!!
What happens when you put overdrive on the sound of a bass uke?
Great question. It does work but you get a different kind of sound. I have tried it in this video below.
ruclips.net/video/rKtDsOYVZdM/видео.html
Hello is their a all in one effects pedal just one pedal with all the effects.
Hi Michael, yes there are lots of multi FX pedals ranging from quite cheap to very expensive. Will hopefully be doing some vids soon but check out Digitech, Boss, Zoom etc.
www.gear4music.com/Guitar_Effects/Multi-Effects.html
@@UkuleleWales think you I really appreciate your help m. Scott
What Power board do I use please ??
Hi, if you mean the power block I've been using this one - www.amazon.co.uk/Premium-Nordell-Isolated-Output-Effects/dp/B00Q8V2IH8/ref=sr_1_6?crid=3THR2W431MO6&dchild=1&keywords=pedalboard+power+supply&qid=1609883033&sprefix=pedalboard+pow%2Caps%2C163&sr=8-6
I've just bought a second one to go on my new pedalboard.
Do nylon strings make a difference when buying a pedal?
Hi John, yes the nylon strings do sound very different, they work but are different. I’ve done quite a few vids using the electro acoustic instruments with nylon strings, check out my latest video with the Valeton pedal as I try different ukes with the same effects. 👍
Shw mae
I play Ukulele and now , thanks to your brilliant videos , Bass Ukulele.
Do you think it would be possible to set up a pedal board to use with either and if so which type of pedals would you suggest.
Many thanks
Thanks Mike, loving the lele addition! It is completely possible to use some pedals with both and TBH, most. I'll admit I have put a bass through my pedal board and didn't break it. I know certain pedals like EQ are definitely better specifically for bass, there are lots of "bass versions" of pedals too but many many pedals will work with both. I'll try and do a vid on it at some point but I've never used many effects with bass so really only have a few "bass specific" pedals.
@@UkuleleWales I am also enjoying your videos and have been focusing on my Kala U-Bass. I would love some information about effects for the U-Bass. I have a B1on zoom multi-effects processor for my electric P-Bass but haven’t used it with the Kala. I hope to hear from you and that you will do a video about effects, product recommendations, for us U-Bassists. Thanks again for your wonderful teaching.
-C.R. Hassell
@@c.r.hasselljr.2674 definitely effects coming on bass too. Check out my latest pedalboard video though as I do put 2 different basses through that just to try out.
Are you still making vids as this video is 2 years old
What advice would you give on what effect pedals to buy im in a group we are starting out on care home gigs and need to up our game on soloing on ukuleles my ukes are nylon so need more depth with riffs and solos any advice thanx
Maybe a multi FX pedal but if you want singles, I would say reverb (if your amp doesn’t have it) overdrive and delay are 3 good ones too start with. 👍
" smoking " your face says it all your love for music. you should have thousands more subscribers. If I don't get any sleep tonight I'll blame it on you " just kidding "
Laughing out loud! Greetings to Bristol David ;-)
To much reverb grandma and to much compression. Amazing you have all those pedals that Jake S. Uses
Agree on the reverb but the whole point of the video is a basic guide to using effects with uke. Yes, I did a lot of research on what Jake S uses as I love his sounds and less of the grandma, I maybe older but still a rock chick ;-)
Come on, these pedals should be demoed with a wire stringed uke not nylon string. Start again.
Hi Nikita, I didn't have a steel string uke when I made this video but I will definitely be doing demos of these pedals with steel soon.