Ambient Guitar Swells Tutorial: Techniques & Settings
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I am very happy to announce this new video series where I will be teaching all the basics on how to play ambient guitar music.
This first video is a tutorial on how to create great ambient guitar swells. We’ll cover the differences between techniques and the settings needed on your delay and reverb pedals.
I will also give you my rule for perfect ambient swell length and will demonstrate it on top of 2 song ideas of different lengths.
0:00 What are ambient swells?
0:30 Intro (new ambient guitar tutorial series!)
0:56 Volume knob vs. Volume pedal
2:03 Which type of volume pedal to get
2:44 Technique (late, early or perfect swell motions)
4:44 Placement of the volume pedal
5:32 Why you need delay AND reverb
6:52 Best settings for delay/reverb
9:24 Perfect swell length (song example 1)
12:17 Counterexample (chords masking each other)
13:19 Perfect swell length (song example 2)
15:16 The pull back up technique
16:17 My gift (FREE AMBIENT GUITAR COURSE)
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#Ambient #Guitar #Swells #Tutorial #Techniques #Settings
Originally posted by UCq6821TyGAUmmDedBtLCdMA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr09gOEHRZ4
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Man thank you so much for this! This is exactly what I needed to create that ambiance in my church's music ministry. Ive been going bonkers trying to figure out how to eliminate that initial pick strike sound and blend the sounds together better. Great video without a doubt!
This is helpful. Thanks
Wonderful teaching ????
Great teaching of avoidance of polychords!
Thank you Antoine for this helpful tutorial!
What do you think about "auto-swell" pedals like the EHX Attack Decay or the TC Electronic Crescendo?
Thank you
Very cool, just sub! You have a beautiful guitar man, perfect color.
This is some really great stuff. Thanks for taking time to do this.
Antoine, since you are doing more videos of this, would you be willing to make a video about how to make ambient guitar music with vst's? An example of one that would be helpful is one like the Cory Wong Archetype.
HELLO! Please consider make and sell guitar ambient chords pack for Scaler 2.7 ????
Antoine, I love your teaching style. Your videos are so practical and easy to understand. Just got my 1st reverb pedal and can't wait to start creating ambient riffs!
Superbe tuto ! Merci !!
thank you for this tutorial! it also has a fantastic sound quality to it.. I would like to know how do you maintain the quality by uploading it to youtube? what app do you use for rendering your videos, what file-format do you use, and what exactly are your rendering settings?
Happy New Year, Antoine! Sending great energy your way!????
Happy new year my friend! I’m so happy to see new tutorials from you. I hope you are feeling better!
Happy new year to you and your family mate. Hope you have a great 2023.
thanks Antonie. your tutorials are very helpful for making guitar ambient! Thanks a lot! I myself use swells actively on my channel
first comment!!
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