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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- Singular Sound Aeros Looper Gold Edition (get 10% off by entering ANTOINE10 at checkout):
- Strymon BigSky:
- Strymon Timeline:
- Strymon El Capistan:
- Strymon Ola:
- Strymon Iridium:
- Mission Engineering VM Pro:
- EHX Micro POG:
- EHX Mel9:
- TC Electronic Polytune:
- Vox AC15 with Alnico Blue speaker:
- eBow Plus:
- Mogami Gold Cables:
- George L’s Patch Cables:
- Arturia Keylab 88:
- Arturia Keylab 49:
- Focusrite Scarlett 18i8:
- Shure SM57:
- Shure SM7B:
- Sennheiser MKE 600:
- Yamaha HS8 Studio Monitors:
- Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 4x4:
- Sennheiser HD280 Pro:
- Pedaltrain Classic Pro:
- Cubase Artist:
- Strymon BigSky Plugin: