10 Ways To Make Reverb Pedals Work For You - That Pedal Show
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
- We demonstrate 10 ways to use reverb effects pedals for electric guitar to inspire new sounds and creativity in your playing.
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Reverb: pretty much the oldest effect in the book. It’s the sound of space, packed into a handy-sized box that can take your guitar from flat and direct, to colossal and cavernous!
There was a time, not so long ago, that reverb for guitarists was that mysterious knob on your amp that you simply set to ‘not too much’. The last decade however has seen a veritable tidal wave of reverb pedals, offering us ever new ways to wash our tones clean… or dirty.
Most of us are still confused.
So join us as we run through 10 ideas designed to get you vibing on verb.
Enjoy the episode!
Pedals & stuff in this episode…
TheGigRig Three2One
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Peterson StroboStomp HD
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Empress Reverb
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TC Electronic Hall of Fame 2
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Catalinbread Topanga
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Crazy Tube Circuits White Whale
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Boss RV-6
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Keeley D&M Drive
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The GigRig Wetter Box
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TheGigRig G2
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Interesting bits and go-to sections…
Intro playing: 0:00
So what is reverb?: 1:43
1. The Always On Reverb: 3:23 (5:06)
…blues a la Albert King: 7:29
2. Understanding The Tone Of The Repeats: 9:00 (9:24)
… tone up and tone down: 10:14
…clean chords: 11:30
…more gain:12:59
3. Try Reverb Before Overdrive: 14:21
4. Use Long Regeneration For Swells & Pads: 17:20 (18:20)
Reverb types? 20:20
More springs with the Crazy Tube Circuits White Whale: 20:40
Digital reverbs and the TC Electronic Hall Of Fame 2: 22:50
5. Use More Than One Reverb Pedal: 22:45
Halls and plates? 25:15
What are digital reverbs good at?: 27:02
6. Dan’s Stereo Pedal Hack: 28:20
7. Try Two Reverbs In Parallel: 31:10 (32:00)
8. Try Kill Dry With A Harmonised Or Reflected Reverb: 36:25 (37:05)
9. Turn It Off!: 39:45 (41:02)
10. Go Stereo!: 42:55
Guitars in this episode:
• 1965 Fender Telecaster - no video yet
• Fender Custom Shop 1963 Telecaster - Dan’s video at bit.ly/2dlZJ6K
• Fender Classic Series Jazzmaster Lacquer - no video yet
• Gibson Memphis 1958 ES-335 - Mick’s video at bit.ly/2mpJA8X
• 1961 Fender Stratocaster - no video yet
• Fender American Vintage ’62 Stratocaster - Mick’s video at bit.ly/2cQv3yT
Amps in this episode
• Matchless HC-30 with Hughes & Kettner Vintage 212 / Celestion G12M Greenback speakers
• Mesa Boogie LoneStar Classic / Mesa Celestion C-90 speakers
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The Boss '63 Fender Reverb pedal has a real spring inside of it, next to the battery compartment.
Hahahaha!
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you my friend are the winner of the funniest comment i have ever read .I made a yt account so i could tell you I didnt lol I laughed out my drink .Truly hilarious
@@STRATMAN1969 hahahahha
Hahahaha Good!!
2019 - The year of gain stacking
2020 - The year of reverb stacking
2021 - The year of ring mod stacking
You know it’s coming.
I've been doing flanger into phase shifter lately.
I have 2 Dunlop wahs and an auto wah 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Yep, use my HOF with the reverb on in my Milkman all the time. The blend of the two is glorious.
I was honestly thinking about ring mods the other day. They are gnarly when used right!
currently running a chorus into a phaser into another chorus. Which goes into reverb, then the delay in the effects change. with a UniVibe at the start, too. Bring a towel, my tone is WET!
The "shimmer" is the same reverb sound but up an octave (and hopefully with the harshness taken off with EQ). Like all good things, invented by Brian Eno. He's also responsible for penicillin, long shelf life milk and those wire thingies that help old people thread needles.
I am currently fooling around with separate tones for the repeats of my reverberating echo, and I had not yet considered serious octave play. 🤔 thanks.
If Megatron made love to Ladytron in deep space, how would Brian Eno?
@@GiantPinhead he's a gentleman and he would certainly not be peeking.
And square-bottomed taco shells and curved shower curtain rods.
I never knew this!
Thanks
I think the best example of “turn the reverb off” is the middle of the solo in Pink Floyd’s Money. The massive reverby jam completely dries up into a small, intimate section, then comes back bigger than ever. It’s insanely effective.
Or Huey Lewis Heart of Rock and Roll
Yesterday: I need a simple one channel amp with no reverb.
Today: I need a pedal board with 9 reverb units.
Seriously, the funniest comment I've read on any video ever!!!
How can you not need at least a tiny bit of verb? Unless you're playing great sounding rooms at high enough volume to get it naturally*
@@Astral_Wave well .....reverb is a HORRIBLE effect ...clutters up a mix...sounds so DATED and 80s ....thats why
@@TheMichaelseymour not a good plate reverb like the talisman
Theres a nostalgic feel to these "10 ways" videos, brings me back to the early TPS episodes
Loving this "10 ways to wreck your bank balance" series. But a shout out to your previous shows on " wet dry wet" set ups where you can dial that stereo verb to 11 and stack the other 'verbs 8 miles high
Bloody hell. That spoken intro was practically professional.
It took almost 20 years before I realized that the “reverb” sound I loved, was actually multiple delays. Now layering delay and reverb is one of the best ways for me to create the ambient textures I wanted
Explain it for us please!
@@juanrubiogarciandia6597 I like running delays into reverb so the delay triggers the reverb each repeat, and with a tape delay or modulate setting on a boss dd20, the different sound of the delay repeat gives you some beautiful textures, hope that helps!
@@tomc9302 this is very common in reggae
My “swell” sound is usually a warmer quarter delay, into a relatively bright dotted eighth delay, into a spring reverb, into a an octave or shimmer verb.
Juan Rubio Garciandía also my solo sound usually has an immediate slap back with a single repeat, into a warmer 16th not with long trails, into a hall reverb
Ya babe, I’ll take the car for an oil change Friday morning! ***knowing TPS will be dropping an episode right on time! ;) thanks for making my waiting room wait less of a pain!
One of the highest compliments I can give: You make learning fun!
Thank you RJ!
Uggh!
That '61 sounded heavenly doing its "clean chords."
It's amazing how popular reverb pedals are now, as when I was younger and doing gymnasiums and and community halls a lot more, the last thing I'd want on my pedal board would be reverb. Nowadays, it's more bars and acoustically treated rooms, so it's okay to have a bit of space around the guitar :-)
Love the volume swells! Sounds fantastic! Thanks guys.
I was happily settled in to watch this, but ended up spending 30 mins on a detour about anechoic chambers. I’m back now, proceed...
Love the swell button on the Mercury 7 reverb to kill the dry guitar signal without needing to adjust settings. Perfect for what Mick was saying in thing 8 - playing some nice chords/arpeggios under a vocal melody and filling out a lot of space with only a few notes.
Another great episode guys! Have really gotten a lot of helpful knowledge out of this little series of videos. Keep it up!
An episode touching on reverse and gated reverbs would be killer
I’ve been obsessed with reverb for as long as I can remember. Now I get to learn more about it from my two favorite gents.
Also, I love running my Boss RV-6 into my Earthquaker Devices Afterneath. It’s so amazing!
You guys provide so much awesome information, I love it. Some things I learned through the years by experience (like rolling down the tone, stacking and adding delay instead of more reverb), but I'm still learning. I think you're saving a lot people quite some time with your show:)
Cheers!
I love this show more than anything on the internet, and I consume a lot of audio podcast (20hrs a week I would imagine). Keep it up, love from Australia
So glad that reverb pedals have really hit the big time. I couldn’t live without the added dimension they provide.
I love every episode, and I especially love these 10 ways episodes. Thanks fellas!
9:30 - Oi...that Topanga on the higher tone...brought a smile to MY face! Thanks boys!
Mick's Andy Timmons impression on the Stereo bit near the end. Fabulous.
Epic Episode Mates!! Worth a second watch. Keep on Rockin'!!! Viva La VerB!!!!!
Inspiring episode! Long episodes for the win! This 10 ways format is great.
So nice to see you guys using the Mesa Lone Star. That was always my favorite amp to see on the show.
35:44 He is one of my comedy heroes.
"In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet." - Les Dawson
fishy paw hahaha where is the quote from? A larger work or a novella? Need me some more of that
I will have what he’s smoking.
@@tommystratpaul It's a joke from one of Les Dawson's TV shows. I can't remember which one but there are lots of clips on UA-cam from his TV shows. Les was a comedian from the north of England. He had a very working class style of homour but was also a great wordsmith and clever bloke. He was famous for "mother-in-law jokes" and playing the piano "badly", but he was so much more too.
I was walking down the street and my friend said "that looks like your mother-in-law getting beat up by four thugs, aren't you going to help?" I said "Nah, four should be enough".
I can't get enough of that Topanga into the D&M Drive! To this noise kid's ears it sounds like heaven!
I love this sound (Dan here) in fact I’m going to use it on my ep
@@ThatPedalShow Oh nice! Looking forward to hearing it man. Slap some analog delay on afterwards for some freaky psychedelic surf tones!
That stereo hack is absolutely awesome.
There are some videos which really have the power to change your (musical) life and I think that's definitely one of them. Demystifying the world of pedal effects and here I am building my own pedalboard and having fun !! Kudos to TPS 🎸🤘🏻🎶
Very informative episode, Dan & Mick! I was an amp reverb only player until I bought a modded AC30 with no built-in reverb and invested in a TC Hall of Fame for my board. Probably the most underrated part of my sound outside of EQ pedal, but so essential.
beautiful playing in the intro this week dear Daniel!
Love this episode, thanks guys. Very practical.
Hey Dan and Mick, just wanted to say that Dan's stereo pedal hack is incredible and has not only changes how I will use certain pedals from now on, but also the way I look at new pedals when buying. Very cool
What an episode. I keep learning so much from you guys. Now I need a reverb pedal!
Your delay/reverb show on "before or after overdrive" clued me in on how to get a sound that more resembles that of a classic external Fender reverb by moving my Hall of Fame before my overdrive pedals. Soon after, I switched to the Topanga as I had decided that a really good spring reverb sound was more important to me than the larger range of reverb types the HOF provides. Interestingly, the "dwell" control on the Topanga gives the feel of reverb before overdrive without the need to put it before the actual overdrive pedals. This allows me to keep it at the end of my effects chain and use the dwell knob to switch between a pre-overdrive and a post-overdrive sound. As regards this particular show, it may have been easier in retrospect to contrast the pre vs post overdrive tones using a cleaner type of reverb than the Topanga. I love the show, as well as the vlogs… especially Mick's strat journey, as I am a tinkerer who spends far too much time tweaking parts to get the last 1% sound improvement out of my gear. Thank you for being the internet's premier tone crafting resource!
OMG, the stereo loop hack thing!!! You've given all new life to my Neunaber Immerse!
Dan's Stereo hack is brilliant 😮😊✨️💫
One of the greatest guitar tutorials ever.
That Reverb Stereo Hack just blew my tiny mind.
It makes me want to try it in all sorts of pedals that are stereo. I'm eyeing my chorus in a new light.
Love this episode. I have been expanding my reverb palate most notably with the Eventide H9. I find that there is a really nice middle ground between overly ambient sounds and run of the mill plate, hall, spring. In a stereo set up you can really make your tone sound like an "album". For sure dial it back a bit when you are playing a gig with the band, but maybe not. The right sound man that knows your stuff can pan your amps hard left and right and then WOW!!! I really enjoy the gigs when I show up like I am Richie Sambora or the Edge. Thanks for all you guys do.
Saying I learn something from every show would be an understatement! I don't know how to play yet, but I have become obsessed with collecting and learning. So as much as 50% of the shows can be a learning experience for me. And over the years I have learned things that have piqued my curiosity, made me go "...huh...", made me exclaim "oh wow" and just downright flabbergasted me. But that stereo reverb/dual reverb trick was the first thing to legitimately blow my mind! 🤯
The playing and sounds from 44:00 are amazing Mick! So good man! You were inspired and inspiring.
I love these types of vids its a really nice way to really understand all the parts of an effect which is cool
I have always played through Fender amps that have reverb built in. And I've found that it works for me by always having it on 2. Not more than 4 ever unless I'm playing surf stuff from my SoCal teenage years, back in the 1960s. Good video you guys.
Great video lads! I haven’t watched a TPS video in a few weeks and this is the perfect one to get back into it!
Excellent show again. My fave: reverb into distortion, way cool.
WOW! You guys are psychics. I've been looking to buy a few new reverb pedals and have spent the last 2 months searching for some that I like. YESTERDAY I was talking about it with the other guitar player in our little jam group and I said "It would be great if TPS did a full episode on just reverb. The last one was a few years ago and so much has changed since then."
I got a lot of great ideas from this episode. THANKS!!
Ahhh the love of reverb! Looking forward to this one.
I'm much more connected to delay, as opposed to reverb. But when I turn off the delay, and just play through my Blue Sky reverb, I really love some of those sounds, and it makes me play slightly differently. I think that's why we're all (here) so nuts for new pedals. We're always looking for something new to connect with as a player, to keep things fresh and stimulate our playing. Very nice primer guys!
Holy Crap! SWEET chords!
That stereo hack is delightful. I had to try it. I discovered with my Immerse Mk II that if I had the input on one side and the output on the other side of the stereo (they're marked 1 and 2 on the pedal), that I still got a signal. It sounded like a dry kill, with just the tails, but fatter than with the dry signal mixed out. Another surprise. Thanks!
Great video guys. Thank you very much. I previously did not know about the HoF2 stereo hack.
It was bit like when your dogs does a trick you didn’t know it could do.... love it.
A lush lesson and now I've gotta try that stereo 'hack' into my 35 quid Biyang Stereo Reverb. Cheers guys thanks.
Thanks to you lot I’ve been “shoegazing” all weekend. I never thought that putting a reverb/delay before my fuzz and overdrives could be so much fun. I genuinely learnt something from this. Cheers!
Excellent,the hack is a cool idea,very informative,love reverb,and guitar TV
You guys are on a roll! I look forward to watching this whole video because I really don’t care for reverb... keep rocking guys!
Love love love my Keeley Caverns reverb. Even makes my terrible playing sound reasonably nice (so in the hands of someone half way competent would sound like heaven).
I've heard the reverb before drive in some live Peter Green Fleetwood Mac recordings. He would alternate between crashing devastating reverb, to bone dry, for extra textures and dynamics. I sold my Topanga after I bought a Deluxe Reverb, regretting that decision now! Love the show!
Nice to see the Lonestar back fellas! Great show for it👍 number 1 with. a touch of plate from a pedal is my go to
It's you two I have to thank for ever trying reverb. When I was younger and owned a 1980ish Fender75 I never used built in spring reverb because I didn't like it, nor was it needed for the type of music I had played. Now I own a 1963 Farfisa8 and had to go out and buy a reverb pedal (TC-HOF) which is almost always on and maxed out. Thank you 👊
YES!
can't live without a reverb..it's everything
I use a wet dry rig thanks to the gig rig humdinger and I did the stereo pedal loop trick and am loving every second of it!
I’ve never loved reverb pedals until I got my Walrus Fathom. It’s just great when used tastefully, just a taste of the plate setting. Fender Amp spring reverb of course sounds amazing.
Going to try that hack with my HOF2! Speaking of hacks, when reverbs were still rare on pedalboards, I plugged an Alesis Nanoverb into an Xotic X-Blender and used that as my "reverb pedal." The Alesis normally does not have the headroom to run it as a guitar pedal, but the X-blender took care of that, as well as giving me a second "wet signal only" switch. I used one ofthe plate settings, and even after getting the Strymon Blue Sky, and the HOF2, it's still my favorite reverb sound (though I need to explore the HOF2 a little bit more).
Love my Empress Reverb, that pedal deserves a show unto itself for versatility, blows away many other a 'verb indeed! Great to see some other options, very cool!
32:40 Mick stumbles on a just beautiful melody there. Another great video!!
Love the first blues lick!
I struggled to find a reverb that works for me. Then I got a Pedal Projects Marbleverb. Can't get enough of that little guy.
I love Reverb!! It could be because I'm not a great player
Helps me hide my flaws
This was a great episode
Thank you D&M
Just love your playing guys!
Loved this episode. I just swapped my Hall of Fame 2 for a GFI Specular Reverb v3. Some epic tones from that pedal !!
What a great Stereo Hack you shared, that may have helped make my decision to now try that pedal. cheers
Superb! Finally got round to 2-10 great show... cheers :)
I like reverb, but have considered it unusable in live situations. I don't know if it's just me, but that's one of the reasons why I love delay so much. If I step on the reverb, I disappear into the mix (a bit disconcerting the 1st time that happened!!), but delay is like the friend that doesn't let me down... and doesn't step all over my sound!!
If you guys could talk about use in a live pop-rock situation (say guitar, drums, bass, keys, and vocals) that would be really great.
Cheers.
Agreed. By time you can actually hear it, you’re using too much of it already. The amps reverb is more than sufficient to take the dryness off for most live situations.
It's cool for those of us who used a TON of chorus in the 80s, then lessened use chorus. Now we ca just have chorus on reverb trails and it sounds so beautiful and more moderated. Thanks gentlemen.
Another great show. I play modern church worship music and reverb is essential for the sound. At one point I had 4 reverb pedal on my board. HOF v2, Oceans 11, Ernie Ball Ambient Delay and a Caline Snakebite. I now have a RV-500. Videos like this make it easier for me to teach people how to play with reverb and to help tell them when they are doing to wrong.
Fantastic video. Always had a problem setting up reverb with my sound really going to play about with my reverb pedal after watching this
Mick: this video would be 8 hours long
All of us: YES!
Using a swell into a big reverb is an effect I use all the time - I love it - it’s so effective for creating pads and textures.
I use an auto swell pedal (currently got the Mooer Slow Engine but loads of others do it too). It means I can concentrate on the notes without worrying about fading in!
Take a look at the Old Blood Noise Endeavors Dark Star.
Mario Driessen thanks - will do. Local shop stocks OBNE.
Also just got a Walrus Slo which I hope is going to do something similar.
OOH! You've got the Mesa out! Number 2 in a way had me laughing a bit, because my first reverb pedal back in the early 1990s was a Boss RV-2 Digital Reverb, and as you might remember, the frequency response of the reverb on that pedal only went to 10 KHz. I've never really tried to make my reverb dark on purpose, but you can be sure that the next time I fire up my rig, I'm going to experiment with that sound on my tc electronic Arena (Guitar Center special version of the Hall of Fame). As for Number 5, I always ran my RV-2 (either in Hall or Plate modes) into the Accutronics long-tank spring reverb and detune stereo chorus of my Ampeg VH-140C combo. What a glorious sound that was!
Also, on Number 10, when Mick mentioned adding ping-pong delay to stereo reverb, the RV-2 had that built-in as one of its modes.
Loved the stereo reverb in series with itself trick! I often wondered what would happen but, worried it might hurt the pedal somehow. Thanks for lifting the veil on that one!
I once had a RV-5 and i never liked it until i sold it.
Now i finally bought a TC HOF2 now this episode is quite useful for me! Turning it darker is the best tip, stereo hack also blew my mind!
Love today's amp combo!
This video format reminds me of the eary days of TPS. Very nostalgic, hope to see more soon!
WOW!!! Can't wait to go home and try the stereo hack on my Trinity Reverb (TC Hall of Fame Special Edition). That was SO COOL!
Mick: "Your brain is extremely sophisticated in decoding it" ("It" being reverb) Yes! Actually we hear the space more than we hear the source. According to current research sound reaches our ears as a series of disjointed, stuttering flutter echos produced by the space in which a sound is made and is then reinterpreted and recompiled by our brains into the solid sounding waves we perceive as sound proving again that an individuals "reality" is entirely a product of how the mind compiles sensory input to present us with a picture of the world. (Interestingly infant brains cannot do this) In the context of reverb, what we need to know as musicians is that the perception of "source" is made up entirely of "room" making a reverb effect or lack there of an extremely important component of how our carefully crafted tones are received.
I love this. Mick here. We don’t all hear the same thing.
This is fascinating. It's a topic among those who study the neurophysiology of how we hear language.
"For example, how and when does the brain decide which word is being said? There is evidence that the brain actually sifts through possibilities, but it is currently unknown how the brain successfully narrows down the choices to a single word and connects it with the meaning of the ongoing discourse"
-Science Daily
@@mattgilbert7347 yes! My undergrad is in psychology with a focus in neuropsychology and I'm about to start working on a master's in communication disorders so you're right I'm my wheel house😎👍
I love the sound of Dan's old Carl Martin Reverb ( the size of a Pedaltrain nano ). I use my Fender Spring ( basic/always on ) and a Strymon Big Sky for Special Reverb Textures. Topanga sounds fantastic here.
Great video guys!
I couldn’t live without my Topanga .. it is always on .... great episode
Great episode guys.
The tip about darkening down the tone of the repeats when adding masses of 'verb is brilliant!
the Boss Rv-500 lets you do all of this, including the series-parallel routing, sending different delays to different outputs or running them mono, plus it has built-in delay (including an algorithm for the space echo delay and reverb unit) that can be added in and can be turned on and off with the tap/ctrl button. I know menus are scary but I think you guys would really enjoy some of the features available if you dug into a little deeper. If I can do it so you. The Rv-500 with a tube screamer and fuzz can do just about everything you need for a grab and go board.
Yep. I got myself around the 500 UI pretty quick. Mick here. Boss have really got it right with those, and the 200s. Great stuff!
Great show as always guys! Point 2 on tone was a 'light bulb moment' for me, I've always struggled with getting a good high mixed reverb live, and I think I've been running the tone to high for that live setting. Ive defaulted to always turning down the effect level instead.
Been really enjoying your rendition of Oklahoma Sky, Mick. One of the first gigs I ever did was performing that song at a wedding, but your version is far more interesting than the chords I strummed that day. Well done!!
Favorite episode ever. I think I'm going to buy a HOF. The volume swell pad sounds is a guitar sound I have always wanted to explore.
I just love that Jazzmaster fellas, needs to be in more videos!
I am so obsessed with Dan's tele... I watch the videos for it more than anything else.
Oh man, that stereo setup gave me instant goosebumps...massive difference! 42:55