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In the first video of this Ambient Guitar Tip series I want to show you how to keep your delays and reverbs out of the way and create a nice swirly wash underneath your your clean guitar signal. The main thing you want to do it keep the delay and reverb sounds darker, while reducing the mix and increasing the repeats.
Playing with the mix on any of the pedals involved can bring the wash more forward or to the background depending on what you want.
The pedals I used here were the Line 6 Echo Park, Strymon El Capistan, and Neunaber Stereo Wet reverb. If you're interested in making these types of sounds on more of a budget, I recommend checking out the Echo Park, the MXR Carbon Copy (a really nice dark analog delay) and the Boss RV-5. All can be found at great used prices if you're patient.
The guitar I used for this video was a 2005 Gretsch Country Classic Jr. Amp was a Matchless Chieftain with matching cab that has a Celestion Blue speaker. I double mic'd that speaker with an SM57 and a Rode NT1000. My audio interface is a MOTU Ultralite mk3 and I used Logic Pro to record/edit the audio. No additional EQ was done to the guitar tracks.
My video camera is a Nikon D5100 and I use Final Cut Pro X to edit the video.
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