Delay and Reverb Pedals: Why I Have 4 of Them on my Pedalboard 

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A simple answer to why he has 4 delays and reverbs: It's because he's ambient guitarist. It's that simple. 😂

I've got you beat with 3 delays and 3 reverbs... Lol... Stacking really opens up the creative possibilies...

Very nice examples and justification of GAS! Sounds way better with stacking.

bro, you had me at because

4:06 eeeee vruni vruni vruni

Geez, what beautiful sounds.

I have got so much out of your videos! thank you! very hands on and easy to understand!

I love the sound of stacking these. Thanks for your demonstration!

the Immerse Is my always on pedal for everything.

Good points, and I agree with you! Much richer and deeper sound!

My favorite of all your videos. Would you say that one might want to increase the palette to a third or fourth of delay and reverb?

Very nice!! Thanks!! 🙂

Surely there's no such thing as too many pedals? I love your videos mate.

There is no shame in admitting you are addicted to pedals. Some get G.A.S. with guitars and use excuses that they need a "tonal arsenal". Back in the 70s I would hook up as many EXH pedals as I had, turn on the strobe light and just sit there turning knobs and playing random notes. People thought I was incredible. Your setup cost more than my touring guitar/amp and effects. Tweek away....

I just have a reverb problem and can’t stop myself buying reverb 🤷‍♂️

Excellent video! This is the first time I've ever heard of stacking reverbs/delays. Thank you!

Ahh yes :) you're at the stage where the pursuit can get rather silly, because imho either.... a) you're using a lot of space on the pedalboard to squeeze "hi fi" reverb through guitar speakers - speakers that severely attenuate or ignore altogether all of those fancy expensive high freqs beyond 7-8 kHz. A pursuit of that "final x%" that bears rapidly diminishing returns here. ....or it may be that often b) you're going into a DAW for reverb(s). A single modern multi-core DAW can deliver oodles more than 10 of the best reverb pedals put together can. (and I'm a vintage synth/gear head with $100+K invested in hardware already; I stay away from DAWs until I must!). Some of the _free stock reverbs in some DAWs_ can beat the snot out of _any_ of the pedals(!). ReaVerb can, and is stock in Reaper AND a free VST to use with other DAWs. c) one of each type of pedal (carefully selected to be complementary) can cover 90-95% of whatever anyone but the freakiest of freaks could want. Or better still imho, for more routing flexibility and a sound better suited specifically for _playing through guitar amp speakers, _TWO delay pedals - one analog, one digital - can do even better. Delays impact how you play dynamically much more than reverb, so often you can hold off on any reverb for post/FoH. Add in a genuine tape echo machine, and you'll rarely be wanting for much more of anything in-studio. Portability is another matter, and few but the most high-roller acts do very well at translating their entire studio sound to every venue. ...in the end, it's a _guitar_ so why load up your rig when numerous polyphonic hardware synths can do those sounds and much more for $100+, or for free itb?

I wanted to see what's the hype with the Immerse MKII that has ppl talking about it...I got mine and yep is a great reverb, and a good always on option.

You will get an even bigger sound if you putt the immerse after the big sky.

My CloudBurst stacked with my Ibanez Chorus sounds great....didn't know I was actually doing something logical. thanks!

Amazing video: helped a lot! Just started stacking reverbs! Best regards!

Very true! I stack drives and they do create fuller tones! I'm also stacking delays. Very wonderful tutorial for ambient tone!❤

I find that really good reverb pedals are too expensive, I use the Valhalla Shimmer & Space Modulator plugins instead.

Yeah your right on my board i have 3 boost 2 overdrive 1 compressor 1tuner and 1 distortion 2 reverb 1 delay last cabinet simulator. My #1 boost+buffer is for headroom of the amp 2nd for boosting the bass knob because im using a singlecoil tele and also need for leadlines to cut through the mix 3rd boost is always on, A Klon clone but 0=gain for boosting nice and clear signal

Beautiful, the stacking of the same type of pedals always works !

Awesone and very inspirational video! Thank you!

No offense, my dear friend. Don´t get stuck on ambient swells...otherwise your listeners´ears will. Put it on a musical context and not show us how much ya´ got on you bank account. Peace.

Immerse mk 2!!! I love it.

My board has 2 reverb, 2 delay as well. Your reasons are very similar to mine for choosing multiple effects. Some pedals are just too hard to want to remove... :p

Antoine, love it! What is your recommendation for patch cables? My board is beginning to look like a nest!

Paint me inspired and I know this inspiration will hurt my wallet. I also know I am less than half as talented as you but I am going to stack delay and reverb pedals "because ... ."

what about the delay on the bigsky? Magneto. its a delay that feeds into a reverb. What do you think of it?

This is Extreme value videos 🥰 thank you

excellent explanations and sounds. more is more 😃❤️🧘🏼‍♀️🌈

Maybe a lot of people don't know (or forget) but Neunaber pedals are programmable pedals (in fact one pedal is four or five i don't remeber exactly), "Immerse" can turn into a "WET" Reverb pedal for example: simply connect the pedal with usb cable on your PC and with a very simple operation you can change the settings and tranform into another amazing Neunaber pedal

Antuaan..whay not TC Hall of Fame ?

Dumb question my friend but how are you able to use an expression pedal on both delays? Or at least it sounds like it. Gracias 🙏

very nice

I’m looking for a reverb pedal and leaning towards the walrus fathom I already have the arp 87. Any opinions or suggestions?

Can't have enough :)

What pedals would give the wettest sound ever? So wet it sounds like dripping water, I heard this one guitarist one time, a song on the radio somewhere and it sounded like water dripping, but not like a fake computer tone it was guitar, just a perfect wet sound, better than any I ever heard. How to get that tone?

Do You alternate delay--- reverb--- delay--- reverb?

Because there is no room for another one?

Dude you need more reverb and delay pedals for sure

Unbelievable tone!

Can you achieve the same quality of stacking effect using a dual DSP reverb pedal such as the Source Audio Ventris? This is the first video I have seen which gives a good potential reason to buy that pedal.

Great video!!

Just curious, do you do (signal) > (reverb) > (Delay) > (Out) or (Signal) > (Delay) > (Reverb) > (Out)?

love your videos!

Wow...that is a beautiful cloud of sound...lovely Antoine!

Hi where do I put the afterneath in my chain ? Beginning or end ?

This is awesome! Thanks a lot, this is especially interesting for ambient guitarists!

Sometimes I feel that guitar players spend more time playing the effects than what they do playing the guitar - using the instrument as some sort of controller.

That works for guitar really well, but I'm not sure I'd want that on my keyboards.

Are these swells from the pedals or are you using a volume pedal? Thanks.

great video, what are those patch cables? would you recommend them?

I've gone through many reverbs and delays and agree that these four are the ultimate. I'll never get rid of them. I like to come back to your videos whenever I'm tempted to try the latest and greatest thing rather than the things I have 😉

What do you think of having 3 Reverbs and 3 delays? hahaha is a serious question because i want that!

Great info

Very interesting ;)

You have it figured well but I wonder what amp setup you have Antoine..Great job and beautiful sound.

Antoine I am a worship guitarist and I use the ambient style that you teach. Thank you for your wonderful teaching videos! I have learned so much!

Does minimalism work on pedals 😉

Eeeeee Froonie froonie froonie

Un vrai scientifique, j'adore

if having too many delay and reverb pedals is wrong I dont want to be right!!!!!

How about the Source Audio Ventris and Nemesis? Have you tried them? They allow for stacking two of each effect on each pedal.

Antoine, el capistan or grand canyon?

thank you

How to get rid of the slapback on the delay, and the repeats? I like the big dreamy echo sound. I want to make it sound super wet and dreamy, I just dont like the bouncebacks when I am playing. Can you post up an answer? I got the MXR Carbon Copy and the Boss DD-3.

4:54

the Wet is gone :-(

What if he said "Because Im rich" and the video ended right there

My always on pedal is the Earthquaker "Afterneath " ....I couldn't imagine my pedal board without it! Then I use my nuenaber immerse . I have a question for anyone. If you own the old blood noise "Dark star" do you get a lot of hissing sound out of it? I was reading the Amazon reviews and it has some bad reviews. Is this just a bunch of idiots that don't understand the pedal, or is there a problem with the pedal?

If I had to guess why you have so many pedals? I’m gonna put it down to rich parents 🤷‍♂️

Geez thank antoine, now I gotta buy a big sky...