That Delay Pedal

How to Sound like The Edge… On a Budget

On a previous post, I attempted to break down how The Edge and Paul Reynolds redefined the way we use the delay effect. For me, this was interesting because they did it in such an original and effective way that is still being imitated and cherished by guitar players all over the world (just listen to Walk the Moon’s “Shut Up...

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...

How to Transport Your Pedalboard through the Airport Security Check

I think this is a topic that is often overlooked until you must deal with it. If you are a musician or guitar player and you need to travel with your gear, what do you do? Is that possible? How do you transport your pedal through the airport security check? I’ve traveled a lot with my guitar (once the flight...

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...

What Is Lo-Fi Delay?

The delay pedal realm has never been more fantastic, because there are so many different types of units to choose from! But that might also produce some sort of confusion to the newcomer at the time of finally picking a delay box. Lo-fi delay pedals might probably be the new kids on the block on the delay industry, but they’re...

Affordable Echoes: 5 Great Delay Pedals under 100 $

What if you just want to start experiment with delay pedals, but you’re not willing to spend a lot of money? Delay units are great, but a new stomp box can easily go beyond the 120 U$ range. I’ve been there, I wanted to have a delay that could mimic the Boss DD-5; so I bought a cheaper version (I’m...

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...