Also, your talk of drone has gotten me very excited. I've nvr hooked up more than 1 delay in my chain before... All I've got is a boring simple Ibanez DE7..could you pls kindly post up sounds of the drones you've created from your magicstomp + also the 2delay2reverb chain? That would make my day and help me get the sounds I've been craving for but dunno how to start.
cheers,
heh, i have been avoiding drum or bass for most of the stuff which i was doing. Mainly because i didnt want to have any thing within those sound that dictate a certain direction or start point/end point kinda thingy. Sorta wanted something which unfold itself in all direction then to have any rhythm that suggest a journey(like a song with intro, verse, chorus, outro etc)
for the actual setting of the pedals, i have forgotten most of it. But i can tell you the concept for those.
For the most basic setup to get a drone going on, you will need to totally kill off the attack of the guitar, prolong the sustain and lengthen the decay of any string being played
With the 4 pedals setup, i had a digitech digiverb first in the chain set to reverse reverb, 100% wet and round 75% to 90% reverb depth. With the reverse reverb, theres a trailing effect with almost bell ringing chime when ever any string is being played on the guitar. This will be the first thing to get a pseudo prolonged sustain/decay going on. And with 100% full reverb setting, whatever string is being striked, you wont hear that pick attack, instead the reverse reverb effect will sound out after couple of milisecond. The delay between the struck notes and the sounding of notes thru the amp is normal(similar to setting a delay to 100% wet)
With the above, the attack is being killed off and the dl4 will come after it(with swell delay setting). The swell delay setting is also similar to the reverse reverb where the mix(between delay and original effect signal) is set to 100%, delay time maybe around 450ms to 50oplus millisecond and repeat at 60%.
the key point for the reverse reverb and dl4(swell delay) is to have the mix at 100% to kill off the string attack. Once done, everytime when a note is stuck on the geetar, you wont hear the sound coming from the amp immediately. It will swell out slowly, according to picking dynamics. And by varying the picking, you can do a pseudo drone on top of drone thingy going on.
The above 2 are the basic one to get the drone thing going on. With the next pedal in line, i had another reverb(used to be the holiest grail, but chanegd to line 6 verbzilla) just to prolong the drone sound from the digiverb and dl4 combined. For this reverb, the main thing will be setting the mix to around 60%-75% or less. The aim just to have a mix between the unprocessed revese reverb+dl4 sound and the process reverse reverb+dl4(thru the verbzilla).
the last pedal, is another delay with the mix set round 60&-75% as well. delay time around 400plus ms and repeat to taste(usually i set it to at least 5 or more repeats). This delay is optional though, coz the role is just to length the sound gotten from the previous 3 pedals. The only reason why i include this mainly because when playing muted notes and striking the string hard, there will be repetitive choppy sound that swell out from the background, which can be used as "colouring/flavour" etc.
Heh, so there you go, the above is for the 4 pedal set up. Heres a clip done with the above set up. The "1" in the title refer to lil big muff which was added in, first in the chain, before the rest, to get a slightly more gritty/dirty drone towards the end..
http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=4076034&q=hi
for the magicstomp one, heres the clip. Its mainly in the background, the airy sound going on.
http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=5187505&q=hi
