RotM #4 - and the winner is ...

Antique_Guitars

Steamabacus!

Well done that man! great riff.

Awesome job by everyone that entered keep up the good work.

steamabacus

Blimey! I wasn't keeping count and wasn't expecting that.

Thanks everyone.

daveww

Well done Mr steamabacus!

PolarityMan

congrats @steamabacus

TTony

Nice one @steamabacus

Next ......

LastMantra

Well done Sir.

samzadgan

Well done Steamabacus

ThePrettyDamned

How do you even get a guitar to sound like that?! Frickin' cool man, well in

steamabacus

Cheers again , chaps.

ThePrettyDamned said:

How do you even get a guitar to sound like that?! Frickin' cool man, well in

 @ThePrettyDamned   Years and years of dru ..... erm ... drudgery! Drudgery of endless, practice. Yeah, that's it. 

In short, delays and looping.

My 'delay board' has 4 delays on it including a DL4 for looping and I've recently upgraded to a JamMan SoloXT as well, which frees up the DL4 to be used as a delay more often. The main riff/phrase will have at least 3 delays on it - one will be a subtle single-repeat analogue delay (my Arion SAD-1 which I leave on 99% of the time) and one will usually be my Flashback on a 'ducking' tape-delay (the Steffen Schackinger basic toneprint - who? No, me neither) which doesn't 'clog up' the soundscape too much. I will use my old DD-3 (which isn't tap tempo) or the DL4 on a MemoryMan setting for more ambient lushness.

On the loop above, I have some backwards looping going on - one of the strengths of the DL4 over even more recent/powerful loopers is the ease with which you can flip the loop into reverse/half-speed, layer up more parts, flip back again, etc.

I also use a volume pedal a lot to control the attack of the notes to record 'pad' parts behind a riff and this track also bears the tell-tale 'psychedelicised' ( © The Chambers Brothers 1966 ) sound of my much-loved old Boss PH-1r phaser. Much lushness.

Fretwired

@steamabacus .. really cool riff .. now develop it into a full song/track ... :-)

AndyJP

Good work. Cracking riff mate.

ThePrettyDamned

steamabacus;433877" said:

Cheers again , chaps.






ThePrettyDamned said:

How do you even get a guitar to sound like that?! Frickin' cool man, well in

 @ThePrettyDamned  



Years and years of dru ..... erm ... drudgery! Drudgery of endless, practice. Yeah, that's it. 



In short, delays and looping.



My 'delay board' has 4 delays on it including a DL4 for looping and I've recently upgraded to a JamMan SoloXT as well, which frees up the DL4 to be used as a delay more often. The main riff/phrase will have at least 3 delays on it - one will be a subtle single-repeat analogue delay (my Arion SAD-1 which I leave on 99% of the time) and one will usually be my Flashback on a 'ducking' tape-delay (the Steffen Schackinger basic toneprint - who? No, me neither) which doesn't 'clog up' the soundscape too much. I will use my old DD-3 (which isn't tap tempo) or the DL4 on a MemoryMan setting for more ambient lushness.



On the loop above, I have some backwards looping going on - one of the strengths of the DL4 over even more recent/powerful loopers is the ease with which you can flip the loop into reverse/half-speed, layer up more parts, flip back again, etc.



I also use a volume pedal a lot to control the attack of the notes to record 'pad' parts behind a riff and this track also bears the tell-tale 'psychedelicised' ( © The Chambers Brothers 1966 ) sound of my much-loved old Boss PH-1r phaser. Much lushness.

The ph1! That's what I could hear.

I thought it was an auto wah of some kind.

Now, I need more delays... And a ph1r. Thanks for the explanation - I listened again and I can't quite pinpoint it all, it meshes together so well!