Pre-Delay Effects for the Electric Guitar

Pre-Delay Effects for the Electric Guitar
Hi my name is Gary Schutt. We’re talking about guitar effects, right now delays. There’s two ways to set up your delays, either before or after your distortion. I’ve talked about delays afterwards in another segment of this video. Right now we’re going to talk about putting your delay before your distortion, you might say, why would you want to do that? Because if you put it after, you can use it for much subtler space filling type of sounds, but if you put it before, it’s much more aggressive, it will be louder because your signal is getting compressed by your overdrive. So right now, I have it off, if I turn it on, it sounds like I’m double picking, which I’m not, I’m just hitting it once. So what I use this for, is that David Gilmore, Pat Travers type of double picking echoes that they use to do back in the early 80s. So if I set my tap time, which this thing is really cool because live you can actually tap out the tempo without having to reach down and set the time dial. If your drummer is playing this, you can tap this out a couple of times and you have your tempo there. I have mind set, you can actually set this to different rhythms – quarter notes, 8th notes, dotted 8th , so for that David Gilmore – Pat Travers double pick echo sound, I have it set to dotted 8th note. If my drummer is playing this, I want to hear this. Which is a dotted 8th note, so this is a dotted 8th note, I tap out this time and my echo will give me a delay that’s a dotted 8th note. Which then, if I play 8th notes, in time will give me this. One-two-three-four. This also sounds really cool with volume swells, if you can do it. This is a good way to fool your audience to make it sound like you’re a really fast picker, so if I were to play this, not very impressive. But if I were to do this, it sounds like I’m a really good picker and I’m actually not. It’s a good way to cheat and fool your audience.