Delay and Reverb Pedals: Why I Have 4 of Them on my Pedalboard
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Some people see my pedalboard and ask me why half of it is only delay and reverb pedals.
They see the Strymon Timeline and Strymon Big Sky and wonder why I would ever need extra delay and reverb pedals on my board.
In this video, I explain the 3 main reasons why I have multiple delay and reverb pedals on my board.
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Thanks Antoine ! Learning so much from your videos & will check out the course. Your playing is fantastic. The passion you have for your music is obvious in your voice & presentation. Well done !
bro, you had me at because
Geez, what beautiful sounds.
I've got you beat with 3 delays and 3 reverbs... Lol... Stacking really opens up the creative possibilies...
Very nice examples and justification of GAS! Sounds way better with stacking.
I have got so much out of your videos! thank you! very hands on and easy to understand!
I love the sound of stacking these. Thanks for your demonstration!
Good points, and I agree with you! Much richer and deeper sound!
Very true! I stack drives and they do create fuller tones! I'm also stacking delays. Very wonderful tutorial for ambient tone!❤
the Immerse Is my always on pedal for everything.
mine is in the mail, I'm super excited....I've only ever had a Mercury 7 and the controls were just too much for me. I'm somewhat new to ambient reverb.
Chris Hash man i would keep the mercury 7. The cathedral is epic
A simple answer to why he has 4 delays and reverbs: It's because he's ambient guitarist. It's that simple.
😂
I've gone through many reverbs and delays and agree that these four are the ultimate. I'll never get rid of them. I like to come back to your videos whenever I'm tempted to try the latest and greatest thing rather than the things I have 😉
Surely there's no such thing as too many pedals? I love your videos mate.
Not until you have to take them places....or are dwelling in a tiny apt/dorm-room that limits where you can put them without a high risk of theft lol.
Beautiful, the stacking of the same type of pedals always works !
4:06 eeeee vruni vruni vruni
I was looking for this comment! xDD
😂😂😂😂
Wow...that is a beautiful cloud of sound...lovely Antoine!
Amazing video: helped a lot! Just started stacking reverbs! Best regards!
Antoine I am a worship guitarist and I use the ambient style that you teach. Thank you for your wonderful teaching videos! I have learned so much!
Ps I use 3 delay pedals and reverb pedal, the TC Electronics mini hall of fame which can be changed into over 100 different sounds from an app download.
Immerse mk 2!!! I love it.
My CloudBurst stacked with my Ibanez Chorus sounds great....didn't know I was actually doing something logical. thanks!
Unbelievable tone!
Very nice!! Thanks!! 🙂
This is awesome! Thanks a lot, this is especially interesting for ambient guitarists!
Awesone and very inspirational video! Thank you!
Yeah your right on my board i have
3 boost 2 overdrive 1 compressor 1tuner and 1 distortion 2 reverb 1 delay last cabinet simulator.
My #1 boost+buffer is for headroom of the amp
2nd for boosting the bass knob because im using a singlecoil tele and also need for leadlines to cut through the mix
3rd boost is always on, A Klon clone but 0=gain for boosting nice and clear signal
This is Extreme value videos 🥰 thank you
You're welcome!
very nice
Maybe a lot of people don't know (or forget) but Neunaber pedals are programmable pedals (in fact one pedal is four or five i don't remeber exactly), "Immerse" can turn into a "WET" Reverb pedal for example: simply connect the pedal with usb cable on your PC and with a very simple operation you can change the settings and tranform into another amazing Neunaber pedal
Not really anymore, unless you have older pedals. A few years ago, all their pedals were programmable by USB, it's true. But now most of them are not, because they want their ''Expanse'' pedal to do that only (which is their programmable pedal) to download any effect you want in the pedal. All their new pedals like the Immerse, Neuron, Inspire don't have this function anymore. It wouldn't make sense because they are multi-effects pedal. For example, the Immerse MkII already has the Wet preset, Echo from the Echelon, the Shimmer from the Seraphim, the Detune from the Inspire, etc... so it wouldn't make sense to download a new pedal and lose functionnalities! But if you have an old WET Reverb, yes, totally!
My favorite of all your videos. Would you say that one might want to increase the palette to a third or fourth of delay and reverb?
love your videos!
I'm so glad! :-)
My board has 2 reverb, 2 delay as well. Your reasons are very similar to mine for choosing multiple effects. Some pedals are just too hard to want to remove... :p
Jeffrey Grant Sr which two reverbs and delays do you have on your board?
Great video!!
You will get an even bigger sound if you putt the immerse after the big sky.
Dude you need more reverb and delay pedals for sure
I wanted to see what's the hype with the Immerse MKII that has ppl talking about it...I got mine and yep is a great reverb, and a good always on option.
Can't have enough :)
Great info
Paint me inspired and I know this inspiration will hurt my wallet. I also know I am less than half as talented as you but I am going to stack delay and reverb pedals "because ... ."
Antoine, love it! What is your recommendation for patch cables? My board is beginning to look like a nest!
George L’s, evidence audio, lava cables
Make your own. Check out vertex on RUclips. His channel is about pedals and pedal boards and such. Has a few that teach you how to make cables. It's way cheaper and fits better.
excellent explanations and sounds. more is more 😃❤️🧘🏼♀️🌈
I can now make good use of my delay and reverb thank you for this .
I find that really good reverb pedals are too expensive, I use the Valhalla Shimmer & Space Modulator plugins instead.
That's the great thing about software plugins! You can stack as many of them as you want.
Un vrai scientifique, j'adore
thank you
That works for guitar really well, but I'm not sure I'd want that on my keyboards.
what about the delay on the bigsky? Magneto. its a delay that feeds into a reverb. What do you think of it?
Do You alternate delay--- reverb--- delay--- reverb?
You have it figured well but I wonder what amp setup you have Antoine..Great job and beautiful sound.
Suhr Badger 30 and Vox AC15 played together at the same time. Thanks Wade!
@@AntoineMichaudGuitar I'm trying to understand hooking up pedals in stereo, which is how I found your site. Mainly trying to figure which cables (stereo & mono) and how to configure. Any thoughts?
Have you seen this video? ruclips.net/video/dCDC5OLPKY4/видео.html
Ahh yes :) you're at the stage where the pursuit can get rather silly, because imho
either....
a) you're using a lot of space on the pedalboard to squeeze "hi fi" reverb through guitar speakers - speakers that severely attenuate or ignore altogether all of those fancy expensive high freqs beyond 7-8 kHz. A pursuit of that "final x%" that bears rapidly diminishing returns here.
....or it may be that often
b) you're going into a DAW for reverb(s). A single modern multi-core DAW can deliver oodles more than 10 of the best reverb pedals put together can. (and I'm a vintage synth/gear head with $100+K invested in hardware already; I stay away from DAWs until I must!). Some of the _free stock reverbs in some DAWs_ can beat the snot out of _any_ of the pedals(!). ReaVerb can, and is stock in Reaper AND a free VST to use with other DAWs.
c) one of each type of pedal (carefully selected to be complementary) can cover 90-95% of whatever anyone but the freakiest of freaks could want. Or better still imho, for more routing flexibility and a sound better suited specifically for _playing through guitar amp speakers,
_TWO delay pedals - one analog, one digital - can do even better. Delays impact how you play dynamically much more than reverb, so often you can hold off on any reverb for post/FoH. Add in a genuine tape echo machine, and you'll rarely be wanting for much more of anything in-studio. Portability is another matter, and few but the most high-roller acts do very well at translating their entire studio sound to every venue.
...in the end, it's a _guitar_ so why load up your rig when numerous polyphonic hardware synths can do those sounds and much more for $100+, or for free itb?
I just have a reverb problem and can’t stop myself buying reverb 🤷♂️
What pedals would give the wettest sound ever? So wet it sounds like dripping water, I heard this one guitarist one time, a song on the radio somewhere and it sounded like water dripping, but not like a fake computer tone it was guitar, just a perfect wet sound, better than any I ever heard. How to get that tone?
I have a very old video where I do that with the Strymon Timeline. The settings are in the description box of that video. Take a look:
ruclips.net/video/yF8Io1Y7czc/видео.html
@@AntoineMichaudGuitar OK I will check it out. Thanks.
Spring Reverb
Dumb question my friend but how are you able to use an expression pedal on both delays? Or at least it sounds like it. Gracias 🙏
Because I don't use an expression pedal, just a volume pedal. As long as it's placed before the delays, it's going to work as expected!
Antoine Michaud oh wow I thought that was an expression pedal creating swells. So by placing the volume pedal before all the pedals it will control them all? Sorry I’m learning. Thanks!!
Yes exactly! You can view all placements of the pedal in my video: ruclips.net/video/hFC2IFeVHDo/видео.html
Antuaan..whay not TC Hall of Fame ?
Very interesting ;)
Can you achieve the same quality of stacking effect using a dual DSP reverb pedal such as the Source Audio Ventris? This is the first video I have seen which gives a good potential reason to buy that pedal.
Yes, stacking would work with the Ventris
I’m looking for a reverb pedal and leaning towards the walrus fathom I already have the arp 87. Any opinions or suggestions?
Shanto XD Manoukian ...if you want the long drawn out reverb wash sound , stay away from the walrus fanthom.....I was very unhappy with it. It didn't give me a very long reverb wash sound. And the changes in the dials didn't make much a difference. By far the best reverb out there for the money , is the nuenaber immerse....mrk2 or the older model.
If you want to play ambient, go for the Slö instead. It's also hard to go wrong with the Immerse. One thing I'd think about: do you ever want to play in stereo? If so, you should get a pedal with stereo outputs. Seriously, once you try it you won't go back.
jbulmer I agree 100%👍
Just curious, do you do (signal) > (reverb) > (Delay) > (Out) or (Signal) > (Delay) > (Reverb) > (Out)?
(Signal) > (Delay) > (Reverb) > (Out)
@@AntoineMichaudGuitar Ok thats what I had thought and I was curious if guitar rigs had it in a difference sequence compared to synths.
great video, what are those patch cables? would you recommend them?
George L's. Great sound quality! You can check my comparison here: ruclips.net/video/IwIcg6Qhr_Y/видео.html
@@AntoineMichaudGuitar I will!
Are these swells from the pedals or are you using a volume pedal? Thanks.
Volume pedal!
@@AntoineMichaudGuitar thank you for the reply. Do you happen to know of any settings or effects that have an auto swell that achieves a similar sound with out a volume pedal?
@@ericfooy1426 Pog2
Antoine, el capistan or grand canyon?
Hi where do I put the afterneath in my chain ? Beginning or end ?
I would place it to the end
How about the Source Audio Ventris and Nemesis? Have you tried them? They allow for stacking two of each effect on each pedal.
Yeah, those are definitely great pedals!
I have a Nemesis, it's one algo at a time
with dual OUTPUTS, but not engines
Does minimalism work on pedals 😉
Julius Ceasar Tropa yes it totally does.
Sometimes I feel that guitar players spend more time playing the effects than what they do playing the guitar - using the instrument as some sort of controller.
How to get rid of the slapback on the delay, and the repeats? I like the big dreamy echo sound. I want to make it sound super wet and dreamy, I just dont like the bouncebacks when I am playing. Can you post up an answer? I got the MXR Carbon Copy and the Boss DD-3.
Turn the mix down, increase the feedback, and use a longer delay time. Keep the mix lowest on the DD3 - since it's a digital delay the repeats will be very obvious if they're too high.
@@bryjam OK . that makes sense. Thanks. I mostly use the Carbon Copy, the analog tone. So how would you set up the Carbon Copy to get a huge dreamy sound without slapbacks?
I would say the same, high feedback and low level to start with.
Because there is no room for another one?
That might be another reason ;-)
There is no shame in admitting you are addicted to pedals. Some get G.A.S. with guitars and use excuses that they need a "tonal arsenal".
Back in the 70s I would hook up as many EXH pedals as I had, turn on the strobe light and just sit there turning knobs and playing random notes. People thought I was incredible. Your setup cost more than my touring guitar/amp and effects. Tweek away....
4:54
if having too many delay and reverb pedals is wrong I dont want to be right!!!!!
Haha :)
What do you think of having 3 Reverbs and 3 delays? hahaha is a serious question because i want that!
I found some use for 3 delays in the past (especially with a 3rd one in ping pong mode to spread everything wider in stereo), but 3 reverbs sounds overkill :-)
Antoine Michaud thank you!! You’re awesome my friend
My always on pedal is the Earthquaker "Afterneath " ....I couldn't imagine my pedal board without it! Then I use my nuenaber immerse . I have a question for anyone. If you own the old blood noise "Dark star" do you get a lot of hissing sound out of it? I was reading the Amazon reviews and it has some bad reviews. Is this just a bunch of idiots that don't understand the pedal, or is there a problem with the pedal?
Do you put the afterneath in the chain before the volume pedal ? Thanks
I own it, and there is noise. But there's also an internal trim pot inside that solved most of this problem for me. I don't remember exactly how, but if you search for more info on the internal trim pots, you can reduce it to a very reasonable level and get rid of most of the hiss.
Alan Tracy after the volume pedal👍
Geez thank antoine, now I gotta buy a big sky...
Sorry :-)
the Wet is gone :-(
Yeah, but I still use the Wet algorithm on the Immerse!
Eeeeee Froonie froonie froonie
What if he said "Because Im rich" and the video ended right there
No offense, my dear friend. Don´t get stuck on ambient swells...otherwise your listeners´ears will. Put it on a musical context and not show us how much ya´ got on you bank account. Peace.
If I had to guess why you have so many pedals? I’m gonna put it down to rich parents 🤷♂️