Using 2 delay pedals at once is pretty cool

[millsart]

Maybe this is hardly news to most people here, but as I know plenty of forum brothers (like myself) have plenty of OD's and fuzz boxes, how many of us have more than one delay, if one at all ?

Probably not that many right ?

I'm honestly not even a big delay fan, but is messing with a borrowed DL4 (to play with the loop function) and my existing Echo Park, I really had a lot of fun with two delays.

Id set the EP for a very quick dub style slapback and phased and then the DL4 was tapped into the beat of the track and would give me a nice delay line of the "dubby" sounding notes. Hope that made sense, its late where I'm at LOL


Anyways it really opened up some totally different sounds that I've normally gotten with the delay pedal at the end of my chain.


So that said, what are some examples some of you may have come up with using 2 delay pedals ?

 

[jmh151]

Re: Using 2 delay pedals at once is pretty cool

Go on youtube- there's a clip of EVH playing with GE Smith and the SNL band where he's using 2 delays set at different times, presumably in stero

 

[Rich_S]

Re: Using 2 delay pedals at once is pretty cool

Regatta de Blanc, and most of the other stuff Andy Summers did with the Police.

 

[millsart]

Re: Using 2 delay pedals at once is pretty cool

Thats a bit different than I'm talking, the two delays set to different times, such as the Edge often uses, or that the DL4 does with its stereo delay patch (2 seperate delay lines with their own time and feedback ala r/l channel)

still cool stuff of course, but I'm talking more about using two delays in mono run into one another.

So the delay effect of the first pedal is then delayed by the second. Such as using the first for a quick slapback style echo and then the second a long modded delay or something.

It really blew me away in terms of crazy modulation possibilites

 

[Tor]

Re: Using 2 delay pedals at once is pretty cool

I have a volume pedal on my way now, so I'm thinking I will do this:

Volume pedal -> Verbzilla -> DD-20. So I can set the Verbzilla to echo a bit, and the DD-20 for looping. When doing volume swells with the pedal, I imagine (and hope) it will yield an effect I really really like.

 

[Pink Unicorn Horsey]

Re: Using 2 delay pedals at once is pretty cool

I have two Line 6 DL4s.

 

[metallicaxlxl]

Re: Using 2 delay pedals at once is pretty cool

delay is by far my #1 favorite pedal. my shorttimer is quite a battery hog though. really need to get me a powerblock, every time i exchange all my batteries its like buying one, so maybe i should learn...

but yeah that was off topic, delay's rule imho.

 

[WhoFan]

Re: Using 2 delay pedals at once is pretty cool

some of the cooliest 2 delays used at once sounds i have herad are by David Gilmour.... one is the part he uses on Pete Townshends Give Blood which i believe is 2 delays.... and the other is Davids 1984 solo tune Blue Light

 

[MrHeavyMetal]

Re: Using 2 delay pedals at once is pretty cool

I'd like to grab an old analog TC Electronics 2290 for stereo delay effects.

 

[millsart]

Re: Using 2 delay pedals at once is pretty cool

some of the cooliest 2 delays used at once sounds i have herad are by David Gilmour.... one is the part he uses on Pete Townshends Give Blood which i believe is 2 delays.... and the other is Davids 1984 solo tune Blue Light

I'll have to check those clips out, thanks

 

[WhoFan]

Re: Using 2 delay pedals at once is pretty cool

I'll have to check those clips out, thanks

here is some live versions.... youtube aslo offers the original MTV videos as well....

Blue Light
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pKHvULbnDY

Give Blood-(Gilmour on cool Custom strat)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A8UUI13Z4Y

WhoFan

 

[millsart]

Re: Using 2 delay pedals at once is pretty cool

Awesome, thanks man

Cool stuff, Gilmour always blows me away

 

[WhoFan]

Re: Using 2 delay pedals at once is pretty cool

no problem

 

[baritone]

Re: Using 2 delay pedals at once is pretty cool

Reverb into delay makes a cool Edgish sound. Sometimes I run my DigiTech delay with a shorter Tape delay sound into my DD-20 with a longer Digital delay sound. Layering up delays is always fun. And both the DD-20 and the Vox ToneLab have dual-head delay sounds which are pretty funky.

 

[loudriver23]

Re: Using 2 delay pedals at once is pretty cool

Doesn't "The Edge" frequently use 2 delays at once?

 

[Pink Unicorn Horsey]

Re: Using 2 delay pedals at once is pretty cool

Doesn't "The Edge" frequently use 2 delays at once?

Yes -- that is to say, he uses two delays at once. That's how he achieves the classic "Where the Streets Have No Name" sound. How frequently he uses two delays at once, I do not know.

- Keith