How to use a delay pedal Archives

4 Great Delay Settings For Solos

Have you ever noticed that some guitarist tend to sound really good when they’re soloing? Then, you start listening to what was going on. It didn’t seem complicated but somehow the solo sounded really big and spacious. After a few moments of head-scratching, you get it: it was the delay effect! That’s why, on this brief post, we’re going to go...

Can I Leave My Delay Pedal Always On?

I’m assuming you’ve discovered the joy of having a delay unit on your rig. Suddenly, you get nice and warm repetitions (if you’re using analog delay) or perfect, pristine, locked-in echoes (if you’re using a digital unit). I’m pretty sure you’ve also noticed that your playing sounds more interesting now. Dull guitar parts are now coming alive and even simple...

How to Get Dotted Eighths on the DL4? Learn the 3 Main Ways

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the 24 best delays with tap tempo feature. As you may know by now, the Line 6 Dl4 was one of them. I was surprised though that one common question always surfaced in forums and related boards: how to get dotted eighths repetitions from this pedal. This was interesting because the...

A Match Made in Heaven: How to Combine a Delay and a Reverb Pedal

Have you ever wondered how to maximize the sound of your guitar or how you could make that classical ambient effect that’s so popular among guitarist these days? Well, the answer is pretty straightforward: the trick is to use both a delay and a reverb pedal. The goal of this post it’s to see how reverb and delay can work...

Delay Pedals for Worship: What you really need.

Delay pedals are used by a lot of guitar players ranging from the most diverse styles of music, but if there’s a genre that really exploits the benefits (and misuses) of delay effects it must be Worship music. I know a lot of people don’t like to label contemporary Worship music as a genre, but for the sake of simplicity,...

These Two Players Shaped The Way We Use Delay. One Is Very Famous, The Other Not So Much…

There are many incredible guitar players. Some of them can play a whole bunch of notes within seconds and are able to create the most impressive and skillful guitar experience. They are masters of the fretboard; scales all over the guitar neck just feel like second nature for most of them. Nonetheless, there is another group of guitar players which...

How to Calculate Delay Times (Part 2)

I remember the first time I was trying to get a proper delay time subdivision for a song we had to play at church. Back then I had borrowed a Digitech RP 55 and I was excited because it had the possibility to adjust the delay time according to the milliseconds; in those days I didn’t understand the formula very...

How To Calculate Delay Times (Part 1)

This is going to be a very interesting post. I’m pretty sure not a lot of people actually understand what’s going on with delay times; I have to admit I was one of them. The reality is that having a strong notion about how to calculate delay times and how you can apply that to your playing can make you...

How To Combine Two Delay Pedals

Having one delay pedal can satisfy pretty much most users, but your sonic boundaries can really expand if you have more than one delay unit on your board. If you learn to combine the two of them, your sound pallet suddenly gets new colors and former simple, gray arrangements can come into new life. On this post, we’re going to...