An instrumental ambient guitar meditation. Arrangement of an old traditional hymn tune called “Lasst Uns Erfreuen”, commonly paired with “All Creatures of Our God and King”, written by Francis of Assisi.
Equipment used:
Carvin Holdsworth signature model HF2
Morley Steve Vai Little Alligator Volume Pedal
Avid Eleven Rack
Strymon Timeline
Heet Sound Ebow
TC Electronic Ditto Looper
A short demo of the new (March 2014) TC Electronic Ditto X2 Looper. This video focused on the new looping effects – reverse and 1/2 speed. A great looping unit at a great price. Well done TC Electronic!
Equipment used:
TC Electronic Ditto X2 Looper
Carvin Holdsworth signature model HF2
Morley Steve Vai Little Alligator Volume Pedal
Avid Eleven Rack
Strymon Timeline
Signal path — Carvin to Eleven Rack to Effect send to Volume Pedal to Ditto X2 to Strymon Timeline to Effects return back to Eleven Rack.
A melancholy ambient guitar meditation of a traditional Irish ballad. The tune name is “Kingsfold” and it used in many hymns and other songs.
Equipment used:
Carvin Holdsworth signature model HF2
Morley Steve Vai Little Alligator Volume Pedal
Avid Eleven Rack
Strymon Timeline
Second in a series of ambient guitar meditational music, Divinum Mysterium is a medieval planchant tune. It’s amazing how well some of these ancient melodies lend themselves to ambient guitar arrangements.
Equipment used:
Lowden O35 guitar
Carvin Holdsworth signature model HF2
Morley Steve Vai Little Alligator Volume Pedal
Avid Eleven Rack
Strymon Timeline
tc electronic Ditto
Watch the video here:
A dreamy ambient guitar-based meditation of the traditional tune, Shenandoah. Conceived on the banks of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River near Strasburg, VA USA.
Get the peace of the river in your head…
Equipment used:
Carvin Holdsworth signature model HF2
Morley Steve Vai Little Alligator Volume Pedal
Avid Eleven Rack
Strymon Timeline
tc electronic Ditto
This is the fourth and final part of the Ambient Loop Challenge series, in which I am endeavoring to recreate a hardware-based ambient guitar loop using different recording software. Up to bat – Adobe Audition CC. Check it out!!
Equipment used:
Carvin Holdsworth signature model HF2
Morley Steve Vai Little Alligator Volume Pedal
Meditation from the mountaintop. It is closer than it seems. And we do see dimly.
This is the third part of the Ambient Loop Challenge series, in which I am endeavoring to recreate a hardware-based ambient guitar loop using different recording software. Up to bat – CockOs’s Reaper. As you will see, there was a slight snap using Reaper’s out of the box features. But I love it nontheless!
Equipment used:
Carvin Holdsworth signature model HF2
Morley Steve Vai Little Alligator Volume Pedal
This is the second part of the Ambient Loop Challenge series, in which I am endeavoring to recreate a hardware-based ambient guitar loop using different recording software. Up to bat – Apple’s Logic Pro X. Let’s see what it can do!
Equipment used:
Carvin Holdsworth signature model HF2
Morley Steve Vai Little Alligator Volume Pedal
As the video below indicates – I’ve set myself a challenge.
I normally create ambient guitar loops using hardware. Amps, effects pedals, the like. I do from time to time, need more flexibility, and thus sometimes create loops withing my recording (DAW) software. I can then ensure that the tempo is exact and reconfigure the loop in the middle of the recording or mixing process. SO – the challenge is to see if I can create loops in various software packages that sound the same or very similar to a hardware-based loop. Hopefully, you will find this challenge to be of use, in particular if you need software-based looping capabilities.
The first part of the series introduces the challenge and demonstrates how I set up the hardware-based loop that I will be comparing the software packages to.
Equipment used:
Carvin Holdsworth signature model HF2
Morley Steve Vai Little Alligator Volume Pedal
Avid Eleven Rack
Strymon Timeline
tc electronic Ditto
Signal path — Carvin to Eleven Rack to Effect send to Volume Pedal to Strymon Timeline to Effects return back to Eleven Rack.