It's funny that people say there is too much talking because I actually prefer the talking and explaining of how things work. But I guess you can't please everyone. Hope you're staying safe. Cheers.
Thanks Chris. I think that along with a decent proportion of the TPS audience, you’re here to help your own journey. I think the people who moan about the talking are those who just want us to tell them the destination. As we know, that is not how this works! We’re very, very proud to have you as our fam!
Agreed. Where would we be without Dan's brill explanations, exclamations & diagrams and Mick's moans & tangents? Nowhere, that's where. This show goes to 12.
I especially love the tangents. Everybody does pedal demos but you guys stand above the rest by being two well informed friends shooting the shit about the the things you love. Stop watching the clock and follow whatever thoughts and tangents the show takes you.
Now I know why tape echo is so captivating: it's a microcosm of all the effects you could have on a board. Aside from the obvious timely replication of delay, it also has gain staging, compression, tone shaping, modulation. (Pitch or octave is maybe the only effect not present.) Thanks for spelling that circuit out on its own board!
well, a clever EE can put most any modular synth circuit into a pedal (or vice-versa into the synth) with the right impedance and signal level, so there's still lots more: Sequencing (some Zvex, Moog MuRF do a little), more-extensive-than-fuzz Waveshaping , Envelope followers controlling more than just auto-wah, frequency shifting (NOT pitch-shifting, check out the "Bode Shifter" it's incredible), multimode filters/ fixed filter-bank/vocoder, ringmodulator and balanced (thru-zero + linear) FM, additive synthesis, Karpluss-Strong ("pitched" delay), bit-reduction, granular "glitch" sampling, more sophisticated PLL apps than Miku stomp, etc. Some play well with a guitar better than others, and some are better suited to mix processing rather than printing the effect while the part is recorded. I've yet to try half of it so far, myself. ^^ An Empress Zoia is probably the cheapest path to getting your brain wet with a fair number of these functions/effects,^^ to some degree or another :) btw, "modulation" is an automated sweep of a pot by means of a control oscillator or envelope;, not an effect per se
Please stop apologising for making long videos. You guys can keep going for as long as you need to. It never gets boring. Thanks for another amazing episode and for making furloughed fridays great.
If you want to try this on your own, I highly recommend the source audio nemesis delay. Plug in the USB cable and use their computer software. It's got 100 presets you can save into and adjustments for days. I much prefer their interface to the one tc electronic has. Own both and use both.
@@powdermnky007 absolutely the best delay pedal i've ever seen. The guitarist in the band i play in has one and even though it took a while to get the mojo fully flowing, he's a wizard with it now. I play bass and in my sansamp fx loop i have the devin townsend Ocean Machine which is also amazing but a totally different kind of trippy!
From someone that has watched every video (more than once), The ‘making of’ the delay in the middle is my favourite part of any TPS video ever. Amazing to see it broke down and explained in such detail!
OMG - the deconstruction of a pedal into its component elements is an inspired format. Can you PLEASE have this a regular feature, in its own right. Make a chorus out of delay pedals. Make a Klone from voltage doublers and gain stages. Make a univibe by standing in a dark room with 4 torches. Much respect.
The tape delay episode you did in 2016 still is a staple for me. Hearing those repeats, even recorded and over UA-cam, made me want to go down this rabbit hole.
the thing with TPS is that you talk about details and I learned a lot from you two. From gain stacking, compression, EQ, dynamics, boosts, amps, etc.. I knew what I felt when I was hating or enjoying my tone but watching you every week made me understand why I enjoy or hate and how to make it sound better. Thanks!
Consider this idea for a moment: Once a month or so, put together a crazy signal chain. Pull some stuff off the wall and see what happens. What do 5 choruses sound like together? I'm sure you can both dream up amazing pedal interactions and feedback loops with use of Wetter boxes. New sounds await you! MBV and Cocteau Twins gave us sonic palettes that didn't exist before, just by exploring new combinations. Who knows what could happen! It could be a once a month disaster, or it could be awe inspiring. Either way, I'm certain it would be good fun.
As a long time viewer one of the biggest reasons I have stuck around is the way ya’ll go into depth. I took the knowledge I have learned and made a Helix work at church for about a year until I got my GB hotrod deluxe. Thanks for your show about being disconnected. One is defiantly great for recording at home. The other I can’t turn on at home HA . Thank you for everything.
i highly reccomend getting a poweramp and cab for use with your helix, it'll make the world of difference to the "amp in room" sound, i can't even begin to describe. or, if you're somewhere you can be loud, plug straight into the effects return of your fender from your helix. just some things to think about, also using pedals as well as the helix is another world of fun
Bloody hell Dan.. just got to the section where you made the tape circuit in pedals... all I’ve got in my head is that scene from The Martian where he says “ I’m going to science the shit out of this” 😀
First off, this is a “Show” and I love the fact that you guys talk and don’t just play constantly. This is the best show on UA-cam. Thanks for what you guys do! Love it!
The recreation of what a tape delay does using individual single function pedals is the best thing I’ve ever seen on a gear video. Absolutely loved seeing that and it now makes so much sense.
Thanks for the content TPS. So far during this lockdown my baby daughter has been born and I've lost my grandad to this virus. It's been a total rollercoaster of emotions. Thank you for keeping me company during late night feeds and giving me something to distract me from moping about. You've really done me a solid. Cheers dudes.
You fellas are making this quarantine thing so much more bearable. Your joy over gear is more infectious than Covid. Never thought I cared how a tape delay works but that was immeasurably fascinating. Thanks for keeping the work flowing.
I LOVED part 2 of this. Reminds me of a lot of the effect stacking I do in DAWs to get different sounds without needing to keep getting new plugins. More effect breakdowns like this in the future would be a real treat.
I'm watching this vid and I just want to shout "Turn the tape age knob on the El Cap'". You said a new tape in a real tape machine sounds really clean, that's how you have the El Cap' set! Knob bottom left 'tape age'. Great show by the way 😉
Dan's pedalboard of a delay pedal is maybe the best and informative illustrations of pedal i've ever seen. so easy to understand and fantastic. thank you!!
Fantastic run through. The talk, the playing the opinions and analysis are all top-notch and do a great service to guitar-nerds and tone-seekers everywhere. 40 years of playing and I still always enjoy listening to any sort of tone talk. Thanks guys this was a great episode.
Dan, you mad beautiful bugger! You stole the show with your deconstructed delay board - one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Thank you for the efforts you guys go to - so far above and beyond. Bravo!
That was an epic show, and the tape delay récréation with the wetter box is a really clever way to explain what we like in those delays, thanks for that Moment!
Magnificent episode. Really a revelation about reconstructing the sound. Fabulous demonstration of how subtle alterations impact your playing. This will really help me squirmel through the learning process with the BED. Thx!
Cheers from Buffalo, NY, USA! Great show guys! Maybe your best show yet on delay effects! Watching your show [and JHS and Wampler channels] for years now, hearing Dan talk about circuits and wax philosophic about delay, I feel like I knew a lot of what you covered today. But it was SO clarifying to see it all laid out on the board that Dan built and hearing everything back-to-back-to-back! I feel like I have a much better grasp now on EXACTLY what I am looking for in my next delay pedal. Thanks for keeping us thinking about Tone instead of the News!
Dan's "home made" delay board was awesome! Loved learning how a tape/analog delay works, and getting to hear each piece added in one at a time was super cool! Thanks guys!
I used to just plug my guitar into my amp and just live with whatever sound comes out. Now I've got some pedals in between and the tone I'm getting is righteous to my ears. And that's because of you guys. Cheers from the Big Apple.
Dans lego board layout helped me understand how delay works SO much! It even helped me understand why the APE only wants a single delay fed into it. Awesome stuff as usual.
When the delay you built with other pedals came together it bought such a smile to my face! What a crazy way of doing it...outrageously impractical but awesome!
I am definitely making my weekend project designing a faux tape delay on my Zoia. One of the best things about that pedal is that it teaches you what components do what, and it really helps me when hearing the real thing. Great episode, thanks! FOLLOW UP: So I did this, and what is fascinating, but I guess unsurprising, is that it’s the interplay between the preamp, the compression, and the filter that makes the magic. I think naively I’d probably have imagined it was more the warble, however minimal, from the vibrato that makes it sound tape-like but that’s not true at all. You can tweak the compression and filter one way and it sounds like a bucket brigade delay, with minimal tweaks it sounds more like tape. It’s incredible to me that the tiniest adjustments have such profound effects, and it deepens my respect for pedal designers who control this weird multi variable alchemy in their work every day. Zoias, combined with TPS, are such great learning tools. I now understand so much more about how and why certain echos and delays sound as they do, but their effect upon me when I play them is still magical.
Best thing to happen this week. What a sound and really fun to learn about all the parts of the delay. Genuinely brought a smile when it all came together! Thanks for all the great content during these crazy times. It’s much needed and helps a lot to get the mind in a better place! Stay safe and with good tones my friends!
I knew, when you guys made a whole entire pedalboard delay pedal, that you are my people. You guys are great, absolutely fantastic! Stay healthy and keep jamming!
I can't speak on behalf of everybody, but I'm sure that we would all like to say thank you guys so much for giving us your time and dedication to make these shows for us every week, especially now. I've been following you guys for years now and have always enjoyed your content. I have never met Mick before but I got to meet Dan back in summer at a Phil X Clinic at Guitarguitar in Camden And it was really nice to see his Enthusiasm for Tele's in the Store!. I moved to Bulgaria about a month after and always look forward the the shows you all put on for us. Right, back to practicing..... :)
If someone doesn't like the talking, watch something else!!! You guys are great, and the talking is a huge reason why so many of us love the show... Keep up the great work!...This is an informative and entertainment combo!!!
this was just OUTSTANDING ..! great sounds, and phrasing..great tones. .great contraptions.. great fun. i actually prefer these long episodes. thanks so much, kudos, from Portugal
If Dan had been my Physics teacher at Skool I’m sure I could have been a genius. As it was, I mixed with kids like Mick and my physics teacher was insane. I’ve been shovelling s**t ever since. Thanks guys; this was proper brilliant, entertaining and educational. Please don’t stop doing what you do together....
This was effing fantastic. Dan's "makeshift recreation" sounded incredible. I mean, they're all incredible, but I was truly blown away by the process and sounds that were achieved using the diamond as the modulation in part two. Bravo gents 👏👏👏. Love youuuuuuuuuuuu!!! -Aaron
My favourite tape delay is my TC alter ego v2; on the space echo mode with long feedback, low mix, and mid length triplet repeats in stereo it's pure magic and adds so much
This is the coolest video and I’m not even done watching. One take away: get a digital delay with an effect loop for the repeats and stick a compressor/chorus/eq in the loop!
Massive props to Dan on this one. The Rube-goldberg digital analog tape delay machine was truly fascinating and was probably as close to a scientific lecture and demonstration on tape delay design as anyone is ever going to get or give. Very very impressed with this episode gents. Even just seeing the eq curve on the ge7 goes a long way to helping me dial in my timeline to better emulate a tape delay. Cheers from Brisbane.
Epic episode!!! Love it!!! Illustrates why so many of us have MANY different analog delays, TTE's, echorecs, digital delays, ... how many different permutations are available! Very cool!!!!
MORE LEGO BOARDS! Obviously every effect type isn't replicable, but I love love LOVE this concept and would love to see it in some more shows. So cool to see all the elements laid out in an easy to see format, and infinitely tweakable as well. Great show lads! Looking forward to next week, stay well. Cheers!
Thank you team (not forgetting Catherine, Simon & Fraiser of course) for the great content especially in these odd times. This was the one which finally got me to dust off the gear and play again. Little love, a tube-style delay and some reverb - blinked and nearly three hours had passed; just like the old days. Legends.
If you are a delay nutcase, the concept of the lego delay is really attractive. Imagine the joy of swapping out the compressors, the pitch modulators ... glorious, absolutely glorious!
I bought my Empress Tape Delay from Matt Schofield just because I wanted to own something of his, turned out to be one of my favorite delay pedals ever. So glad you featured it!
That delay circuit of pedals Dan put together is the craziest and the most special thing I've ever seen on this show. Thank you so much for making this and sharing it with us.
Hello from Alaska!- just hats of for this EPisode. Second time through watching and still learning. I take away that the wetter box is a genius of a box. I can wait to get mine and see what it can do with delays, rotary, pitch shifting delay. Just a big thank you to you both. Cheers!
Dans build-a-delay was amazing!! Really opened the doors in my brain to the possibilities with what I already have lying around. Explains why I like the modulated carbon copy with a digital delay but not the digital delay by itself... I can’t wait until part 3!
People will always find something to complain about, if they want to complain. Make the show that you want to make, fellas. You can't please everyone. Keep up the great work!
When you play the Fulltone at the intro I melt. Then you go through all the other pedals and they sound great. Then again you play the Fulltone and I melt. There’s something magic in there that even mega obsessive genius modern pedal makers can’t achieve.
Been watching since the GigRig days of the channel and just wanted to say this might have been my favorite episode ever! VERY COOL rig that Dan put together. Great playing and great conversation as always. Good vibes all around, especially given everything going on at the moment. Be well, guys. Cheers!
Great idea Dan! I rearranged one pedal (compressor) on my current board to achieve something similar. For this effect I go Broadcast(Low Gain mode)>Cali76 Stacked>Jam Pedals Retrovibe (Vibrato Mode)>Jam Pedals Delay Llama. Hudson and Cali on dry loop (both amps) the rest on wet amp...the kicker is using the dry signal on the Cali76 and the relative volume between wet/dry amps to do something similar to the Wetter Box. First time I've ever put my comp after gain stages. Great fun.
Wow! When you ran through all of them in series and then switched back to the fulltone it became instantly clear that none of the pedals sounded anywhere close to the actual tape. It reminded me of the difference between the 2 dimensional sound of a cab ir and the more three dimensional sound of an actual mic'd cab. They all sounded great but nothing like the actual tape. Oooohhh this is going to get expensive haha. I did want to say that I bought an APE after watching your demo and it is glorious with all my delays but in particular I really like it with my DD-3. You have to plug a dummy jack into the direct out to get it 100% wet. Worth a listen when Dan is allowed back to the studio. Great show guys thanks!
Yeah, Dan's "tape delay" board is my favorite sound in this episode. Especially that dirty slap Outlaw Blues kinda thing Mick was doing with it.....killer killer killer. Thanks for your endless curiosity, gents. You do the hard (and quite expensive) work for the rest of us. Been watching for a year and a half and it just never gets old. Thanks for everything, dudes.
Love when you look at delays, always learn a lot. Would love to see a whole show on putting modulation effects like flanger or phaser into a delay pedal’s effects loop like an EHX Memory Boy Deluxe or Solid Gold FX Electroman 2. Keep up the good work!
thank you for the distraction chaps. I have become a Grandad in all the madness (yesterday the 9th April) while my housemate and dear friend lost his father to cancer. I have coped outside of the limited permitted contact with my family by chaining a load of delay and reverb pedals together and doing a daily Hans Zimmer / Brian Eno 3 minute meditation to positively express my frustration. Thank you so much for all you do. Sometimes it's nothing short of a lifeline. Yours sincerely Kelvin
Congratulations Kelvin, and our condolences to your friend. Covid is having such a radically different effect on different people. We wish you all the best, safe in the knowledge that it will end sometime relatively soon! Stay well sir. :0)
That was killer. Part 2 was spectacular. That was the best explanation of a tape echo I have ever heard. I thought the "LEGO" tape echo you assembled was actually my favorite. All units sounded fantastic as well as both of your playing (as always.) Thank you!
Such a fun episode, great work with the Lego board Dan, that was so informative and sounded incredible! I got the sense that the feel was there as well from Mick’s reaction. Just a great episode!
You know you have been watching too much TPS when you start having dreams that Dan and Mick come over to your house and talk amps, and pedals! Love the show guys! Been watching since the beginning. Thanks for all the great content!
I love the idea that Dan recreates a delay effect with ... pedals. Only at That Pedal Show! Brilliant, genius, and it clarifies so we’ll how a delay effect works. Well done lads and take care of yourselves.
Absolutely fascinating episode, what Dan did creating his Frankenstein tape delay thing was incredible, kudos to him, playing by both of you was tremendous as well, the Fulltone TTE is an amazing machine but the others tape delay pedals were great as well, what isolation fun !!
Delay Dan is awesome !!! as he repeats, the signal just keeps getting better. more detail & nuance with each repeat. still love my El Capistan, but still hear things for my windfall wish list. Wetterbox...
Normal person: "I just want one pedal that can do a variety of sounds well."
Dan: "I built an entire pedalboard to replicate one pedal."
...Legendary.
🤓👍
Don't forget Joey Landreth having one seperate board for a section in one song! Legend.
The thing that sucks about having one pedal that does many things is having to constantly reset it in a live setting.
And this is why we love them! yes legendary!!
It's funny that people say there is too much talking because I actually prefer the talking and explaining of how things work. But I guess you can't please everyone. Hope you're staying safe. Cheers.
I'm generally in the same boat. The more educational episodes are my favourite.
Thanks Chris. I think that along with a decent proportion of the TPS audience, you’re here to help your own journey. I think the people who moan about the talking are those who just want us to tell them the destination. As we know, that is not how this works! We’re very, very proud to have you as our fam!
Agreed. Where would we be without Dan's brill explanations, exclamations & diagrams and Mick's moans & tangents? Nowhere, that's where. This show goes to 12.
I especially love the tangents. Everybody does pedal demos but you guys stand above the rest by being two well informed friends shooting the shit about the the things you love. Stop watching the clock and follow whatever thoughts and tangents the show takes you.
@@ThatPedalShow Exactly! The journey is what is exciting. I am proud TPS Fam member.
Never, ever apologise for a long show ever again. Please. There’s really no need. 😘
Today I learned that my favourite delay pedal is 7 different pedals totalling more than $2000.
😅😅 that's actually true!! I think a trick overlooked is to get the right reverb and delay to work together really well!
Today I learned 7 different pedals totaling £2000 sound almost as good as a £400 Volante.
You can get a real tape delay for less than that.
You can pick up an old copicat for much less
Hahahahaha!!!!!
Now I know why tape echo is so captivating: it's a microcosm of all the effects you could have on a board. Aside from the obvious timely replication of delay, it also has gain staging, compression, tone shaping, modulation. (Pitch or octave is maybe the only effect not present.) Thanks for spelling that circuit out on its own board!
well, a clever EE can put most any modular synth circuit into a pedal (or vice-versa into the synth) with the right impedance and signal level,
so there's still lots more:
Sequencing (some Zvex, Moog MuRF do a little), more-extensive-than-fuzz Waveshaping , Envelope followers controlling more than just auto-wah, frequency shifting (NOT pitch-shifting, check out the "Bode Shifter" it's incredible), multimode filters/ fixed filter-bank/vocoder, ringmodulator and balanced (thru-zero + linear) FM, additive synthesis, Karpluss-Strong ("pitched" delay), bit-reduction, granular "glitch" sampling, more sophisticated PLL apps than Miku stomp, etc. Some play well with a guitar better than others, and some are better suited to mix processing rather than printing the effect while the part is recorded. I've yet to try half of it so far, myself.
^^ An Empress Zoia is probably the cheapest path to getting your brain wet with a fair number of these functions/effects,^^ to some degree or another :)
btw, "modulation" is an automated sweep of a pot by means of a control oscillator or envelope;, not an effect per se
Please stop apologising for making long videos. You guys can keep going for as long as you need to. It never gets boring. Thanks for another amazing episode and for making furloughed fridays great.
Dan is an absolute genius. The tape delay recreated using pedals sounded incredible!
He was right, it did blow my mind!
If you want to try this on your own, I highly recommend the source audio nemesis delay. Plug in the USB cable and use their computer software. It's got 100 presets you can save into and adjustments for days. I much prefer their interface to the one tc electronic has. Own both and use both.
@@powdermnky007
absolutely the best delay pedal i've ever seen. The guitarist in the band i play in has one and even though it took a while to get the mojo fully flowing, he's a wizard with it now.
I play bass and in my sansamp fx loop i have the devin townsend Ocean Machine which is also amazing but a totally different kind of trippy!
@@powdermnky007 I managed to do it with a Korg dl8000 multitap delay. Put 8 times on that thing
From someone that has watched every video (more than once), The ‘making of’ the delay in the middle is my favourite part of any TPS video ever. Amazing to see it broke down and explained in such detail!
OMG - the deconstruction of a pedal into its component elements is an inspired format. Can you PLEASE have this a regular feature, in its own right. Make a chorus out of delay pedals. Make a Klone from voltage doublers and gain stages. Make a univibe by standing in a dark room with 4 torches. Much respect.
The tape delay episode you did in 2016 still is a staple for me. Hearing those repeats, even recorded and over UA-cam, made me want to go down this rabbit hole.
the thing with TPS is that you talk about details and I learned a lot from you two.
From gain stacking, compression, EQ, dynamics, boosts, amps, etc.. I knew what I felt when I was hating or enjoying my tone but watching you every week made me understand why I enjoy or hate and how to make it sound better. Thanks!
Consider this idea for a moment:
Once a month or so, put together a crazy signal chain. Pull some stuff off the wall and see what happens. What do 5 choruses sound like together? I'm sure you can both dream up amazing pedal interactions and feedback loops with use of Wetter boxes. New sounds await you!
MBV and Cocteau Twins gave us sonic palettes that didn't exist before, just by exploring new combinations. Who knows what could happen!
It could be a once a month disaster, or it could be awe inspiring. Either way, I'm certain it would be good fun.
As a long time viewer one of the biggest reasons I have stuck around is the way ya’ll go into depth. I took the knowledge I have learned and made a Helix work at church for about a year until I got my GB hotrod deluxe. Thanks for your show about being disconnected. One is defiantly great for recording at home. The other I can’t turn on at home HA . Thank you for everything.
i highly reccomend getting a poweramp and cab for use with your helix, it'll make the world of difference to the "amp in room" sound, i can't even begin to describe. or, if you're somewhere you can be loud, plug straight into the effects return of your fender from your helix. just some things to think about, also using pedals as well as the helix is another world of fun
Bloody hell Dan.. just got to the section where you made the tape circuit in pedals... all I’ve got in my head is that scene from The Martian where he says “ I’m going to science the shit out of this” 😀
Hahahahahah
We don't deserve Dan.
First off, this is a “Show” and I love the fact that you guys talk and don’t just play constantly. This is the best show on UA-cam. Thanks for what you guys do! Love it!
Ah, cheers Nick 🤓👍
Fancy seeing you here Nick
Fascinating explanation of the signal path and how the blooms, swells, and decays within these units happen. Mind blowing. Thanks fellers.
The recreation of what a tape delay does using individual single function pedals is the best thing I’ve ever seen on a gear video. Absolutely loved seeing that and it now makes so much sense.
Thanks for the content TPS. So far during this lockdown my baby daughter has been born and I've lost my grandad to this virus. It's been a total rollercoaster of emotions. Thank you for keeping me company during late night feeds and giving me something to distract me from moping about. You've really done me a solid. Cheers dudes.
Wowsers. Congrats and condolences all at once Jacob. Thanks for being with us!
And this is the reason I have 16 pedals on my board! Everything you add makes a change to the character of the tone!
You fellas are making this quarantine thing so much more bearable. Your joy over gear is more infectious than Covid. Never thought I cared how a tape delay works but that was immeasurably fascinating. Thanks for keeping the work flowing.
What an epic illustration of what happens inside a delay pedal. Very clever!
I LOVED part 2 of this. Reminds me of a lot of the effect stacking I do in DAWs to get different sounds without needing to keep getting new plugins.
More effect breakdowns like this in the future would be a real treat.
this has to be the best explanation of a delaycircut ever. thank you for this epic show!
I'm watching this vid and I just want to shout "Turn the tape age knob on the El Cap'". You said a new tape in a real tape machine sounds really clean, that's how you have the El Cap' set! Knob bottom left 'tape age'. Great show by the way 😉
Dan's pedalboard of a delay pedal is maybe the best and informative illustrations of pedal i've ever seen. so easy to understand and fantastic. thank you!!
I love how Dan's brain works. That was the perfect way to breakdown what's happening in a delay circuit. Cheers guys
Fantastic run through. The talk, the playing the opinions and analysis are all top-notch and do a great service to guitar-nerds and tone-seekers everywhere. 40 years of playing and I still always enjoy listening to any sort of tone talk. Thanks guys this was a great episode.
Dan is brilliant with this stuff, and a great educator. Bravo. That was phenomenal. I'm gobsmacked.
EDIT: I will get a lottery ticket and if I win, I want to buy Dan's "Crazy Contraption Delay-Board". Seriously.
Never apologize for long videos. Love you guys.
Dan, you mad beautiful bugger! You stole the show with your deconstructed delay board - one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Thank you for the efforts you guys go to - so far above and beyond. Bravo!
That was an epic show, and the tape delay récréation with the wetter box is a really clever way to explain what we like in those delays, thanks for that Moment!
dan's lego delay replication segment was fantastic. I learnt so much from it about what actually happens in delay. Fascinating stuff!
Magnificent episode. Really a revelation about reconstructing the sound. Fabulous demonstration of how subtle alterations impact your playing. This will really help me squirmel through the learning process with the BED.
Thx!
As always, learned something and had a good time doing it. Thanks for all the work and good cheer you put into your shows.
I'm curious how many "Lego Delay Boards on a Budget" people are going to try create after this.
I love these shows! I'm currently designing an analog delay pedal in 2024 and this was great ;-)
What a fun experiment with the delay parts recreation! Couldn't believe how riveted I was seeing the process play out.
Cheers from Buffalo, NY, USA!
Great show guys! Maybe your best show yet on delay effects!
Watching your show [and JHS and Wampler channels] for years now, hearing Dan talk about circuits and wax philosophic about delay, I feel like I knew a lot of what you covered today. But it was SO clarifying to see it all laid out on the board that Dan built and hearing everything back-to-back-to-back! I feel like I have a much better grasp now on EXACTLY what I am looking for in my next delay pedal.
Thanks for keeping us thinking about Tone instead of the News!
Dan's "home made" delay board was awesome! Loved learning how a tape/analog delay works, and getting to hear each piece added in one at a time was super cool! Thanks guys!
I used to just plug my guitar into my amp and just live with whatever sound comes out. Now I've got some pedals in between and the tone I'm getting is righteous to my ears. And that's because of you guys. Cheers from the Big Apple.
Hooray! Cheers back to Le Pomme Grande!
Dans lego board layout helped me understand how delay works SO much! It even helped me understand why the APE only wants a single delay fed into it. Awesome stuff as usual.
Genius. Now I really understand the true function of all the knobs on my delay pedal!
This could be your best episode yet. Dan’s Dan-o-plex is an outstanding achievement,
When the delay you built with other pedals came together it bought such a smile to my face! What a crazy way of doing it...outrageously impractical but awesome!
I am definitely making my weekend project designing a faux tape delay on my Zoia. One of the best things about that pedal is that it teaches you what components do what, and it really helps me when hearing the real thing. Great episode, thanks!
FOLLOW UP: So I did this, and what is fascinating, but I guess unsurprising, is that it’s the interplay between the preamp, the compression, and the filter that makes the magic. I think naively I’d probably have imagined it was more the warble, however minimal, from the vibrato that makes it sound tape-like but that’s not true at all. You can tweak the compression and filter one way and it sounds like a bucket brigade delay, with minimal tweaks it sounds more like tape. It’s incredible to me that the tiniest adjustments have such profound effects, and it deepens my respect for pedal designers who control this weird multi variable alchemy in their work every day.
Zoias, combined with TPS, are such great learning tools. I now understand so much more about how and why certain echos and delays sound as they do, but their effect upon me when I play them is still magical.
Best thing to happen this week. What a sound and really fun to learn about all the parts of the delay. Genuinely brought a smile when it all came together!
Thanks for all the great content during these crazy times. It’s much needed and helps a lot to get the mind in a better place! Stay safe and with good tones my friends!
Fascinating!!! Kudos to Dan for his echo contraption!!! A really beautiful episode!!!
I knew, when you guys made a whole entire pedalboard delay pedal, that you are my people. You guys are great, absolutely fantastic! Stay healthy and keep jamming!
I can't speak on behalf of everybody, but I'm sure that we would all like to say thank you guys so much for giving us your time and dedication to make these shows for us every week, especially now. I've been following you guys for years now and have always enjoyed your content. I have never met Mick before but I got to meet Dan back in summer at a Phil X Clinic at Guitarguitar in Camden And it was really nice to see his Enthusiasm for Tele's in the Store!. I moved to Bulgaria about a month after and always look forward the the shows you all put on for us. Right, back to practicing..... :)
Dan's breakdown of all the parts and the delay pedal/board build was very interesting. Great video.
If someone doesn't like the talking, watch something else!!! You guys are great, and the talking is a huge reason why so many of us love the show... Keep up the great work!...This is an informative and entertainment combo!!!
this was just OUTSTANDING ..!
great sounds, and phrasing..great tones. .great contraptions.. great fun.
i actually prefer these long episodes.
thanks so much,
kudos, from Portugal
If Dan had been my Physics teacher at Skool I’m sure I could have been a genius. As it was, I mixed with kids like Mick and my physics teacher was insane. I’ve been shovelling s**t ever since. Thanks guys; this was proper brilliant, entertaining and educational. Please don’t stop doing what you do together....
This was effing fantastic. Dan's "makeshift recreation" sounded incredible. I mean, they're all incredible, but I was truly blown away by the process and sounds that were achieved using the diamond as the modulation in part two. Bravo gents 👏👏👏. Love youuuuuuuuuuuu!!!
-Aaron
My favourite tape delay is my TC alter ego v2; on the space echo mode with long feedback, low mix, and mid length triplet repeats in stereo it's pure magic and adds so much
Been looking forward to this episode so much! Thanks for making this weird time that little bit easier!
That was great! I love how you can surprise yourselves even after so many episodes - well well done, Dan!
I love this series! I'm learning so much. And now I finally understand (I think) what "analog dry through" is. Hurray!
This is the coolest video and I’m not even done watching. One take away: get a digital delay with an effect loop for the repeats and stick a compressor/chorus/eq in the loop!
This is the most informative thing I’ve seen you do. Creating that delay loop answers so many questions I had. Thanks for this!
Best TPS episode ever!!! Dan you could market that board and I would buy it! AMAZING!
Massive props to Dan on this one. The Rube-goldberg digital analog tape delay machine was truly fascinating and was probably as close to a scientific lecture and demonstration on tape delay design as anyone is ever going to get or give. Very very impressed with this episode gents. Even just seeing the eq curve on the ge7 goes a long way to helping me dial in my timeline to better emulate a tape delay. Cheers from Brisbane.
Fantastic EP isode Boys!.... et Chapeau l'artiste Dan !!! the deconstructed Delay Board is absolutely EP ic!!!
Fantastic episode!!! So nice to have walked us through that "homemade delay". Epic!
Epic episode!!! Love it!!! Illustrates why so many of us have MANY different analog delays, TTE's, echorecs, digital delays, ... how many different permutations are available! Very cool!!!!
Fav episode so far! Clearly much fun was had by Mick and Dan the mad scientist. That delay contraption sounded glorious!!!
Dan's exploded delay model may very well be the coolest thing I've ever seen on TPS.
MORE LEGO BOARDS! Obviously every effect type isn't replicable, but I love love LOVE this concept and would love to see it in some more shows. So cool to see all the elements laid out in an easy to see format, and infinitely tweakable as well. Great show lads! Looking forward to next week, stay well. Cheers!
The effectrode compressor has caught my ears and eyes. That is a special one.
Brilliant didacts. I learn something every time, but this was amazing
Thank you team (not forgetting Catherine, Simon & Fraiser of course) for the great content especially in these odd times.
This was the one which finally got me to dust off the gear and play again. Little love, a tube-style delay and some reverb - blinked and nearly three hours had passed; just like the old days.
Legends.
Best TPS ever. Exploration, education, and epic tones.
If you are a delay nutcase, the concept of the lego delay is really attractive. Imagine the joy of swapping out the compressors, the pitch modulators ... glorious, absolutely glorious!
I bought my Empress Tape Delay from Matt Schofield just because I wanted to own something of his, turned out to be one of my favorite delay pedals ever. So glad you featured it!
Loads of great questions after this one, jeez got to go away and digest it and come back ... Thanks!
That delay circuit of pedals Dan put together is the craziest and the most special thing I've ever seen on this show. Thank you so much for making this and sharing it with us.
MUST do these circuit setups for phaser, flanger, chorus/vibe! So good.
Hello from Alaska!- just hats of for this EPisode. Second time through watching and still learning. I take away that the wetter box is a genius of a box. I can wait to get mine and see what it can do with delays, rotary, pitch shifting delay. Just a big thank you to you both. Cheers!
Wow, really loved the sound of your independent component made up delay sound!🎸That’s amazing👏👏
Dans build-a-delay was amazing!! Really opened the doors in my brain to the possibilities with what I already have lying around. Explains why I like the modulated carbon copy with a digital delay but not the digital delay by itself... I can’t wait until part 3!
That is so xxx clever to rebuild a tape machine using pedals! A joy to watch.
Love Dan’s DIY Rube Goldberg esc tape delay, so clever!
People will always find something to complain about, if they want to complain. Make the show that you want to make, fellas. You can't please everyone. Keep up the great work!
I’m in NZ so I’m gonna delay watching till the morning.
fossilmatic Badum-tusch.
Kia Ora cuz
It took a moment before I got that one.
You could tape it to watch later
And watch it, I DID...DId...Did...did...
When you play the Fulltone at the intro I melt. Then you go through all the other pedals and they sound great. Then again you play the Fulltone and I melt. There’s something magic in there that even mega obsessive genius modern pedal makers can’t achieve.
Great show guys! That tape delay pedalboard Dan built was fantastic! So cool how that worked!
Been watching since the GigRig days of the channel and just wanted to say this might have been my favorite episode ever! VERY COOL rig that Dan put together. Great playing and great conversation as always. Good vibes all around, especially given everything going on at the moment. Be well, guys. Cheers!
Great idea Dan! I rearranged one pedal (compressor) on my current board to achieve something similar. For this effect I go Broadcast(Low Gain mode)>Cali76 Stacked>Jam Pedals Retrovibe (Vibrato Mode)>Jam Pedals Delay Llama. Hudson and Cali on dry loop (both amps) the rest on wet amp...the kicker is using the dry signal on the Cali76 and the relative volume between wet/dry amps to do something similar to the Wetter Box. First time I've ever put my comp after gain stages. Great fun.
Wow! When you ran through all of them in series and then switched back to the fulltone it became instantly clear that none of the pedals sounded anywhere close to the actual tape. It reminded me of the difference between the 2 dimensional sound of a cab ir and the more three dimensional sound of an actual mic'd cab. They all sounded great but nothing like the actual tape. Oooohhh this is going to get expensive haha. I did want to say that I bought an APE after watching your demo and it is glorious with all my delays but in particular I really like it with my DD-3. You have to plug a dummy jack into the direct out to get it 100% wet. Worth a listen when Dan is allowed back to the studio. Great show guys thanks!
Yeah, Dan's "tape delay" board is my favorite sound in this episode. Especially that dirty slap Outlaw Blues kinda thing Mick was doing with it.....killer killer killer. Thanks for your endless curiosity, gents. You do the hard (and quite expensive) work for the rest of us. Been watching for a year and a half and it just never gets old. Thanks for everything, dudes.
Love when you look at delays, always learn a lot. Would love to see a whole show on putting modulation effects like flanger or phaser into a delay pedal’s effects loop like an EHX Memory Boy Deluxe or Solid Gold FX Electroman 2. Keep up the good work!
thank you for the distraction chaps.
I have become a Grandad in all the madness (yesterday the 9th April) while my housemate and dear friend lost his father to cancer.
I have coped outside of the limited permitted contact with my family by chaining a load of delay and reverb pedals together and doing a daily Hans Zimmer / Brian Eno 3 minute meditation to positively express my frustration.
Thank you so much for all you do. Sometimes it's nothing short of a lifeline.
Yours sincerely
Kelvin
Congratulations Kelvin, and our condolences to your friend. Covid is having such a radically different effect on different people. We wish you all the best, safe in the knowledge that it will end sometime relatively soon! Stay well sir. :0)
That was killer. Part 2 was spectacular. That was the best explanation of a tape echo I have ever heard. I thought the "LEGO" tape echo you assembled was actually my favorite. All units sounded fantastic as well as both of your playing (as always.) Thank you!
Such a fun episode, great work with the Lego board Dan, that was so informative and sounded incredible! I got the sense that the feel was there as well from Mick’s reaction. Just a great episode!
You know you have been watching too much TPS when you start having dreams that Dan and Mick come over to your house and talk amps, and pedals! Love the show guys! Been watching since the beginning. Thanks for all the great content!
Thanks Luke, you’re so welcome 🤓👍
I love the idea that Dan recreates a delay effect with ... pedals. Only at That Pedal Show! Brilliant, genius, and it clarifies so we’ll how a delay effect works. Well done lads and take care of yourselves.
Absolutely fascinating episode, what Dan did creating his Frankenstein tape delay thing was incredible, kudos to him, playing by both of you was tremendous as well, the Fulltone TTE is an amazing machine but the others tape delay pedals were great as well, what isolation fun !!
Delay Dan is awesome !!! as he repeats, the signal just keeps getting better. more detail & nuance with each repeat. still love my El Capistan, but still hear things for my windfall wish list. Wetterbox...
Brilliant show. Loved Dan’s homemade delay.
Epic show! The "Lego delay" board was incredibly informative and great fun. Good work guys.