You NEED These on Your Ambient Guitar Pedalboard

You don't really need a reverb pedal for ambient music. You need 3 reverb pedals)))

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Just getting started on a board, but I'm liking running my volume pedal before the dirt, that way I can swell into distortion. If I want full tilt on the pedal to still be clean, I roll back the volume knob on the guitar.

Very cool! I followed your guide..but used the blocks on my Helix Rack to achieve this rather than stomp boxes. I am playing my 1st ever solo gig in a couple of weeks on NS Stick and bass since leaving my band. This video helped me get on the right path towards building a nice ambient rig. Thanx!!!!

Thanks for this insight Bill. I would prefer the pitch shift after the tuner for integrity of the pitch effect. The overdrive tends to do weird things to a pitch shifted signal to my ears. Yet the trippyness of that effect could be desirable. Depends on what your poison is. LOL!! Thanks again.

Your take upon music facinates and inspires me.

Delay and reverb after the looper?

I love chuggy chuggy and weedly weedly metal but I also love your channel. Thank you.

Could you explain why you put the volume pedal in the middle of the chain, as compared to earlier or later? Thanks

I'm using : tuner into Bluguitar Amp 1. FX send to volume pedal to DD200 to EHX Oceans11 for the poly reverb as a wierd pitch shift. RC10R looper with FS7 as a patch switch for verse chorus stuff and Ditto x4 for decayed loops. Back to the Bluguitar on the left channel and the right into a Katana 50 with onboard fx to give a full stereo live sound that is just huge!
Thanks for all the pointers over the last couple of years, Bill. I was really ill when I started ambient guitar and am now spreading my wings a bit as I recover. The sounds have helped me out of a very dark place!

Davvero bravo 👏👏👏

The Empress Zoia is one pedal I have that I almost always use. I use my piano as a tuner....

omg i love your meditative music. huhuhuhu I bought an acoustic, i wish i had bought an electric to make the music you have on your other channel. maybe I can save and get an electric later

Are you using a half capo?

Bill is the bob ross of electric guitar !!

Great video - this will come in handy when I'm ready to embark on creating an effects board of my own.

My conceptual idea for an effects board is similar, but I'm also thinking to add a couple of additional components - perhaps based on your experience you can suggest where in the signal chain where they best belong:

1) Guitar Synth pedal (e.g. BOSS SY-200) - the idea is that many external sounds, plus additional notes in a given idea can be generated along with my own playing
2) Wah pedal - often times if I find a tone via the expression pedal I might leave it there, but at times I'd use it to alter the tone while playing.
3) EQ (e.g. BOSS EQ-200) - to dial in/out frequencies as needed
4) A pedal that simulates a Rockman - I'm thinking this might come at the end, as I may want to be able to bypass an Amp/Sim

Tried the quad cortex or helix? Id love to see if you have shared any presets

I'd say those are all crucial pedals. Though, I also like having two volume pedals, one at the start of my chain and one before my modulation/delay/reverb pedals. Otherwise, there are only some minor order changes I would make. First of all, I like my pitch shifting prior to my overdrive/distortion. This is because I prefer to emulate multiple guitars going through identical rigs. Also, I prefer my looper to be the last pedal before the amp. This way the loop will have any and all changes to the sound can be added to the loop should I choose to add it.

A LoFi pedal could be interesting. Right before the delay.

Surprised by the lack of a shimmer. Especially with that much love for Strymon. Blue Sky, Line 6, any of this...