Listen to the crystalline tones of this ambient guitar meditation. Ponder the lonely dormant flowers of winter.
Once again, this recording features the ethereal echoes and delays of the TC Electronic Flashback Triple Delay.
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All Hail the Awesome E-Bow!
Learn how to use the Heet Sound EBow (E-Bow) to create luscious legato violin-like sounds with your guitar! This video covers:
1. Introduction
2. Generating a basic sound with the EBow / amp setup
3. Pickup and guitar settings to get a good EBow tone
4. EBow Dynamics
5. Reverb, delay and volume pedal use
6. Switching strings and related techniques
Ambient Guitar Meditation – The Darkling Year
Listen to a mysterious melancholy ambient guitar meditation inspired by the closing of the year. Watch the moon and clouds float in the night sky.
This recording features the ethereal echoes and delays of the TC Electronic Flashback Triple Delay.
Waves Audio Kramer Master Tape / V-Comp Shootout
This is a follow-on to the “Analog Tape Recording vs. Direct to Digital Shootout” video, in which I compare identical digital and analog tape recordings. In this episode, I demo the Waves Kramer Master Tape plugin, using it to see if I can tweak the same digital recording and make it sound as close to the corresponding tape recording as possible. I also demo the V-Comp Vintage Compressor plugin.
Watch, listen and see what you think!
Part 1 (Analog Tape Recording vs. Direct to Digital Shootout)
Ambient Guitar Christmas Carols 2014
What a great Christmas season it’s been! Over the last 3 weeks or so, several Christmas carols re-imagined for ambient guitar have been released on the Chords of Orion YouTube channel. Enjoy!!
TC Electronic Flashback Triple Delay – Creating Ambient Guitar Drones
The TC Electronic Flashback Triple Delay continues to impress. In this video, I demonstrate how to use it in conjunction with the Ditto X2 Looper to create ambient guitar drones.
Analog Tape vs. Digital Shootout!
I am a fan of classic analog tape. I’ve owned reel to reel tape decks for more years than I care to admit, and am always amazed at how good the old tape recordings I created waaaay back in the day sound. I’ve had friends ask me what effects/compression/EQ I used on the old stuff to get that “sound”. The answer is, of course, “nothing”. It’s just the native sound of the tape.
Anyway, I’d been spending time doing some album planning for 2015, and I couldn’t get my mind off my beloved tape. So I decided to do a “shootout”, comparing a single acoustic guitar performance recorded simultaneously to tape and to digital to help me decide if tape really is better than digital.
I’ve included links to the results below. Listen to the 2 recordings, think about which you like better, and then watch the video to find out which is which. Of course, your audition is not the same as mine. I can hook my tape deck up so there is no digital conversion going on, and hear a completely analog sound direct from my Teac tape deck. You have to make do with a digital copy of the tape recording. Check it out though and have fun!
Recording 1 (24-bit/48KHZ WAV file)
https://chordsoforion.com/dl/Shootout-Recording1.wav
Recording 2 (24-bit/48KHZ WAV file)
https://chordsoforion.com/dl/Shootout-Recording2.wav
Watch the video here:
Autumn Lullaby – An Ambient Guitar Meditation
The melancholy wonder of falling leaves. The changing of the seasons…
Listen to a mellow ambient guitar meditation inspired by the falling leaves of autumn. This recording features the gorgeous echoes and delays of the TC Electronic Flashback Triple Delay.
TC Electronic Flashback Triple Delay First Look
I am not worthy. The TC Electronic Flashback Triple Delay is a magical device, combining 3 delay engines that can be combined in series or in parallel. Check out this “first look”/demo video. Yeah, I don’t do a lot of picking in the video, but volume pedal swells abound. Enjoy!
Telecaster Pickup Swap
This is a guitar geekery thang. I really love the Telecaster baritone guitar, but the single coil pickups hum like crazy and it doesn’t stay in tune. See what I did to resolve those issues…