It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
Thanks everyone.
@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.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
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!