Learn how to create a great sounding ambient lead tone using a compressor, distortion, volume pedal and delay!
After you follow the steps in the video to get your lead tone, practice with some jam tracks I’ve put together for you as a free download!
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Learn how to recreate patches from the Allan Holdsworth inspired Yamaha UD-Stomp with Logic Pro X and it’s powerful set of plugins and presets. No hardware effects were used to create these sounds!
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Learn how to create haunting ambient guitar soundscapes with Logic Pro X and it’s powerful set of plugins and presets. No hardware effects were used to create these sounds!
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This is the 4th in a series of digital to analog comparisons. In this episode, I bounce/copy a full band digital mix to my Tascam A3440 tape deck, then copy the audio back to the computer and compare the results. Does the tape processed mix get some of that tape “magic/mystique”? You decide!
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In this video, we look at how almost any piece of audio can be loaded into a convolution reverb plugin and be used to create cool ambient soundscapes!
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So there I was, creating a test recording with Logic Pro X, working with some of the presets and stock plugins to achieve some ambient guitar tones. As always, I discovered some interesting ambient guitar tones. I decided to make a video showing how the project was created AND make the project available for download here. Check out the video, and then fill out the form below to download the project and play around with it! I’ve included all the audio tracks in addition to the exact settings that I use in the video. Have fun!
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Learn how to stack 12 discrete delay lines together to create awesomely complex delays! Features the Strymon Timeline, TC Electronic Flashback Triple Delay and Yamaha UD-Stomp.
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
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:
If you’ve been listening to Chords of Orion for any length of time, you know that Robert Fripp’s tape looping technique called Frippertronics is a big influence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frippertronics). Although I have several reel to reel tape decks and can get a good Frippertronics sound with them, I really wanted to see if Apple’s Mainstage 3 live performance software was up to the task. This piece is the result. It’s all MainStage 3 and its native effects, along with a volume pedal and an EBow. There is a lot of potential to create great sounding ambient guitar patches using the “stock” Mainstage 3 components. I predict more experiments in the near future!