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Single notes, here's just the dry guitar, [D] _
_ _ _ [C] _ then you can bring in that harmony with _ that knob.
_ [A] _
_ [C] _ _ _ [Ab] Now that might not sound that cool but drop in the compressor and distortion [E] and you have
instant Brian May.
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [Eb] Remember that Brian May from Queen, he would do all those parts in multitrack
but you know what you can [Gb] do all this stuff live.
A close cousin to the harmonist is the octaver,
it drops your guitar down an octave.
You can adjust the levels [G] of your natural guitar [F] and
your octave version.
[Ab] And finally you have a simple delay that gives you [B] delays in 10 millisecond
increments all the way up to _ _ 990 milliseconds which is almost a second and you can adjust the
number [Gb] of echoes you hear and the overall level of the effect.
_ We'll look at delay in far more
detail in the next effect but it kind of helps to know that you have another delay kind of
hiding right here in this modulation [Ab] effect should you need it.
And by the way milliseconds
are thousandths of a second so 500 milliseconds is half a second, [G] a thousand milliseconds is a
full [Ab] second and so on.
Okay so let's look at the next module, the dedicated delay effects module.
Right here we have the three ranges of delays, 1 to 99 which can obviously change with the knob
right here.
You can go all the way up to 99 milliseconds but if you want to go longer then
you can select the second range which goes from [Am] 100 milliseconds [Ab] to 990 [Gb] milliseconds which
incidentally is exactly the same range as the one over here.
Now if you want to go longer still then
you can select the next one here and you can take this all the way up to six seconds. _
The knobs here
adjust the time of the delay, the length of that delay, the feedback of that delay.
If you want just
a single delay just put this all the way to the minimum here and then you can also set up the
overall effect level of this delay with a third knob. _ _ _
If you're wondering how to set delay times
to sync up with your song's tempo you [Abm] can google _ BPM delay calculators.
There are some online tools
that will give you [A] a precise millisecond setting for say a quarter note [Ab] echoes at 97 BPM or you
can just wait until we look at the tap function in just a minute [A] where you can set it on the fly
[Gb] by tapping your feet.
The next one here or the next few actually add kind of a different type
of delay sound.
An older [Ab] analog delay just a little bit warmer in tone.
A modulated delay, this is kind
[A] of interesting.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ A reverse delay, [G] this is really interesting.
_ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
A chorus and delay.
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [B] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The next one is
really interesting [Cm] because it will momentarily delay anything [F] that's coming through while you're
holding this down.
In other [D] words if I'm playing a few notes now nothing is delayed.
I could be
playing a few [Ab] notes but then as long as I hold this down any notes that come through while I'm
holding this down will be delayed.
Check it out.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] Now I've stopped playing and [E] you can hear those
delayed notes are going along.
So let me [D] go as _ _ _ I pull it up [Gb] any new notes are [Ab] not being delayed.
Only the ones that are coming through while I'm holding [Gb] that down will [G] actually echo and the older
ones will [C] continue to ring out. _
So do you kind of see the difference between the two?
On and off will
kill the delay effect momentarily.
Will just kill only new notes coming in.
The echoes that were
[Gb] processed while that pedal was being pressed down will play out [Ab] _ until that feedback is all done.
Now I mentioned a couple of moments ago [B] that you can tap [Ab] a tempo in.
The next setting is really
cool if you want your [C] echoes to pulse with the beat with the tempo of your song.
With this set to tap
then you can either set [Abm] the echoes to fall exactly on dotted eighth notes or on quarter notes.
You
have [Ab] two different options right here.
Let's put on quarter notes here and then you just simply hit
the pedal in time with the music and then the echoes will fall right [Gb] on that beat.
You have a
visual representation of the tempo right now.
So let's imagine I was doing a song that went _ _ _ _
_ _ _ like that.
Two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four.
[G] Now I can play along.
You _ _ [Gb] _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Gb] _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ can always play exactly right in the pocket without having to worry about how
many milliseconds that is and do a [G] delayed bpm [Ab] _
_ calculation.
All that kind of stuff.
Now the last effect in this module is the [B] phrase loop and [F] it's really cool.
_ We can record
sound on sound for up to 38 seconds.
Maybe one pass we might do backing chords [Ab] and then
add a lead then maybe a harmony.
All the [Bb] time looping around and around.
I [A] actually recently
saw [E] a street performer on an ME-70 in the middle of Sydney Harbour while I was down there
[Gb] recently.
It was really cool [Ab] to see.
I'm [A] not as good [Ab] as he was but let's see an example
of how we can use this [G] phrase looper.
_ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gbm] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ [A] _ _ [Gbm] _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [A] _ _ [Gbm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Gbm] _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gbm] _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ [Gbm] _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
Pretty cool huh?
I really love messing around with the phrase loop function.
It's really a neat way
of [Abm] bringing up and making up some new ideas.
Now we've been looking at all these effects
by themselves.
Let's look at an example of how we can use the four
lower [Eb] pedals and how they can be used together.
_ [D] _ _ _ [E] _