This is an improvised ambient piece I recorded after a few people had asked about my pedal board. The effects used in this are primarily the Strymon Blue Sky Reverberator and two loops running on the Strymon El Capistan in sound on sound mode and the Electro Harmonix Stereo Memory Man in loop mode. The reason for running two loops is for the atmospheric ambient mixing you see me do at the end. It allows me to independently mix and fade out the loops, I introduce tape age artifacts on the swells from the El Capistan and I throw the Stereo Memory Man loop into reverse and bring it back up on the fade out. An Electro Harmonix Micro POG and Stereo Electric Mistress are used to color sounds here and there and the swells are done with the volume pot on my guitar and are sustained through the Deluxe Memory Man.
My setup is quite simple despite how it looks on the board. I'm playing a Japanese 62 reissue strat that I've had forever into the pedal board with the formerly stated effects. From there I go into a MOTU firewire interface which brings the signal into my MacBook Pro running Logic. I used stereo channels with amp simulation. I use Amplitube simulating 2 Fender Princetons each panned hard left and right. Most of the stereo imaging is back at the pedal board with the Strymon Blue Sky.
Complete Pedal Board:
Boss Compressor CS3
Boss Overdrive OD2
Electro Harmonix Micro POG
Electro Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man
Ernie Ball Volume Pedal
Electro Harmonix Freeze
Strymon El Capistan Delay
Electro Harmonix Stereo Pulsar (running in mono)
Electro Harmonix Stereo Electric Mistress (running in stereo)
Electro Harmonix Stereo Memory Man (running in stereo)
Line 6 Verbzilla (for lo-fi reverb sounds running in stereo)
Boss RV5 (used for modulated reverb)
Strymon Blue Sky (lots of different reverb sounds depending on the music)
MOTU Firewire Interface
Apple MacBook Pro
Logic Pro
IK Multimedia Amplitube
