Came across shimmer playing my acoustic guitar and fell in love with it. Then later found out how popular it is in worship music, I understand why, it sounds Heavenly ❤🙌🏽
One of my first intros to it was playing with a worship leader for acoustic sets, he was running his acoustic guitar through a Blue Sky for shimmer and it sounded so cool! -David
Nobody uses shimmer in my worship teams, I am the only one that uses it when I play synth, I always put a shimmer on my drones (usually a layered brass sound) and when I start playing melody I turn it down. And sometimes I turn it in when I stop, than the simmer kicks in and fades away. When I play e-guitar I hardly use any effect, just distortion or reverb, I play mostly in a very small team with my guitar.
It’s funny you ask if shimmer is dead and will it live on. Also interesting when it started with Brian Eno. I started leading worship in my youth group, age 15, 1988 back in South Africa. Yamaha DX7 made famous by Smitty was the beginning. But before that I had a Casio that could almost reproduce AHA’s ‘Stay on these roads’ with big pad. I started using it in worship. For 35 years I’ve continued to use that sound as a key turner, including touring with Noel Richards and supporting Matt Redman on Korg’s and Roland’s, now I use Sunday Keys (iPad and MainStage) almost exclusively and while shimmer has morphed into something much more spectacular, it’s still the basis for something that unlocks not only a worship audience but a worship band. It has stood the test of time for me for 35 years, I think it’ll continue to do the job… 😊
The shimmer dial for patches in Sunday Sounds' MainStage template (based on the NK2 knob control) ranges roughly from 7 o'clock to 5 o'clock. I feel that more often than not, once you've hit 9 o'clock you're really pushing the limit for what most patches should have.
I’m a big fan of ‘misusing’ shimmer. On plug-ins or pedals that allow for the octaves to be tuned (like the bigsky) I’ll often tune them to a few cents sharp and/or a few cents flat. It makes for a much more subtle effect, more similar to a modulated reverb that slowly widens the sound as it develops.
Using shimmer a bit to embellish keys, by using Live Professor and a plugin called Solaris. A free shimmer plugin with a lot of options. If you have a way to run any plugin, such as Live Professor or Waves Superrack Performer, could be a nice add.
Loved and used the sound for about 1 year until it started to get really boring. Thus I looked at cinematic composers such as Hans Zimmer/Brian Tyler for other forms of inspiration. Thus I have learned recreating the sounds for a song that church sings is great BUT at a point you change that sound and it give the music a fresher look. Point here that I learned is that don't stay with a particular sound simply because it was recorded like that, explore the various possibilities. I still use the shimmer but not as often. Yall stay safe outhere.
Thanks for the infos! Would love to hear some of the sounds you mentioned from your nice studiologic keyboard (controller?). I do love the pedal hologram microcosm, could it be an upgrade of the shimmer effect?
I am more of a tasteful shimmer person as I put one normal reverb on my keys and then i stack a shimmer with it but dial the decay a little back so that I get a sound that has both the normal reverb with the shimmer at a little end and so I think shimmer is great and should be used to its potential and that plugings and pedals do give more control compared to sampling an instrument with a shimmer or a shimmery sound but ofcourse that differs for people still I love my shimmer and will use it till i play probably as I do stuff what I like and not the trends so shimmer will be there for me 😅😊
Can we get more info and features for the SundayKeys on computer.. don’t have anything against the app but I prefer using my laptop. Can we have more music or maybe Nord plugins for MainStage?
Then Periphery came in 2010-12ish with the first 2 albums having clean instrumental transitions with ambient delays. Worship guitarists really tried to copy. Shimmer was dialed down with extended delays.
Came across shimmer playing my acoustic guitar and fell in love with it. Then later found out how popular it is in worship music, I understand why, it sounds Heavenly ❤🙌🏽
One of my first intros to it was playing with a worship leader for acoustic sets, he was running his acoustic guitar through a Blue Sky for shimmer and it sounded so cool!
-David
“Love Song” by Third Day (1995) is the first worship song that comes to mind for using some shimmer in the big choruses.
Nobody uses shimmer in my worship teams, I am the only one that uses it when I play synth, I always put a shimmer on my drones (usually a layered brass sound) and when I start playing melody I turn it down.
And sometimes I turn it in when I stop, than the simmer kicks in and fades away.
When I play e-guitar I hardly use any effect, just distortion or reverb, I play mostly in a very small team with my guitar.
It’s funny you ask if shimmer is dead and will it live on. Also interesting when it started with Brian Eno. I started leading worship in my youth group, age 15, 1988 back in South Africa. Yamaha DX7 made famous by Smitty was the beginning. But before that I had a Casio that could almost reproduce AHA’s ‘Stay on these roads’ with big pad. I started using it in worship. For 35 years I’ve continued to use that sound as a key turner, including touring with Noel Richards and supporting Matt Redman on Korg’s and Roland’s, now I use Sunday Keys (iPad and MainStage) almost exclusively and while shimmer has morphed into something much more spectacular, it’s still the basis for something that unlocks not only a worship audience but a worship band. It has stood the test of time for me for 35 years, I think it’ll continue to do the job… 😊
first heard the shimmer in worship on "I Surrender - Hillsong"
That's a good one! Great example.
Delirious albums & live concerts are where I first heard the shimmer in Christian music. Mid 90s… or earlier?
The shimmer dial for patches in Sunday Sounds' MainStage template (based on the NK2 knob control) ranges roughly from 7 o'clock to 5 o'clock. I feel that more often than not, once you've hit 9 o'clock you're really pushing the limit for what most patches should have.
I’m a big fan of ‘misusing’ shimmer. On plug-ins or pedals that allow for the octaves to be tuned (like the bigsky) I’ll often tune them to a few cents sharp and/or a few cents flat. It makes for a much more subtle effect, more similar to a modulated reverb that slowly widens the sound as it develops.
The Oceans 11 reverb pedal by Electroharmonix was my first use-case of Shim. Sometimes I put it on bass, with a short tail.
Using shimmer a bit to embellish keys, by using Live Professor and a plugin called Solaris. A free shimmer plugin with a lot of options. If you have a way to run any plugin, such as Live Professor or Waves Superrack Performer, could be a nice add.
Loved and used the sound for about 1 year until it started to get really boring. Thus I looked at cinematic composers such as Hans Zimmer/Brian Tyler for other forms of inspiration. Thus I have learned recreating the sounds for a song that church sings is great BUT at a point you change that sound and it give the music a fresher look. Point here that I learned is that don't stay with a particular sound simply because it was recorded like that, explore the various possibilities. I still use the shimmer but not as often. Yall stay safe outhere.
Great video😃 The boomers in the room want you to know…Lanois is pronounced “Lan wah”. It’s French. Love you brother. 🙂
this boomer felt the same, but you beat me to the punch. BUT also let me add…it’s DANIEL (not David) Lanois (lan-WAH). cheers!
@@misterdrucker yeah, I laughed at that too. Good catch!😂
Thanks for the infos! Would love to hear some of the sounds you mentioned from your nice studiologic keyboard (controller?). I do love the pedal hologram microcosm, could it be an upgrade of the shimmer effect?
I am more of a tasteful shimmer person as I put one normal reverb on my keys and then i stack a shimmer with it but dial the decay a little back so that I get a sound that has both the normal reverb with the shimmer at a little end and so I think shimmer is great and should be used to its potential and that plugings and pedals do give more control compared to sampling an instrument with a shimmer or a shimmery sound but ofcourse that differs for people still I love my shimmer and will use it till i play probably as I do stuff what I like and not the trends so shimmer will be there for me 😅😊
Just got a Strymon BigSky for our band. I guess we are about to join the shimmer club. 😂
Can we get more info and features for the SundayKeys on computer.. don’t have anything against the app but I prefer using my laptop. Can we have more music or maybe Nord plugins for MainStage?
Then Periphery came in 2010-12ish with the first 2 albums having clean instrumental transitions with ambient delays. Worship guitarists really tried to copy. Shimmer was dialed down with extended delays.
This is my approach haha I'm not a big shimmer. I probably just suck with it, but love extended delays and another ghostly reverb
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Bendiciones...
Jesus Culture and Ian Macintosh we’re a big shimmer advocates in keysland when they blew up to big.
It’s a woosh / schwoosh sound ; a U-2 derivative .
Does it say that in the vible?
Hillsong made the shimmer big and mainstream...Bethel made it tasteful
Vibe is a new age term and Christians shouldn’t be saying it