I love how the drummer adjusts his playing to the reverbs a bit. He’s really listening for the “size” or dynamic and just sitting in the pocket. Great show as always.
Damn I really wanted to hear Mick play an example of his favorite plate reverb with chorus sound! You should do it next episode as an aside. Dan, Mick, Drummer you guys KILLED IT. Great episode. Great jams! And Mick hit it on the head when he said maybe those big "trippy" reverbs are better in a compositional setting. They really shine when the song is written around them more so then in an improvised jam but Dan still killed it especially considering that.
I don't remember what episode Mick said it in, but I still think there needs to be a "No Reverb, No Happy" t-shirt. This episode demonstrates that truth perfectly!!
"The glue". It makes everything treated with it sound as though it is being performed in the same room, hall, cathedral, volcanic rift feature... Superb lesson for more than just guitarists.
36:19 Epic Dan! 1987 Diane and I would drive at 1AM from our little plot in Bellflower LA up the 405 and into the Hollywood hills to feel the Darkness between the lights, on out through Riverside, into the desert for sunrise and breakfast at a little stainless steel diner from the 60's in Tehachapi above the cliffs over the desert. I heard the notes and progression before it evolved. Our band at the time was The Uncalled Four... thanks guys, awesome episode!
Missed this one. Wow. What a fab episode. There’s so much helpful info on reverb. And great demos. But it’s the jams that shine the brightest here. Did I say, “wow”? Love how y’all play, Dan and Mick.
in a trio setup I love super short room verbs/delays and/or long dark plate reverbs, depending on how clean or dirty im playing. Its a amazing how full a short room verb will make your tone in a tiny setup and of course fuzz+plate+long bends is so so satisfying
Hats off to Mick. Great examples of must-have subtle fruity tones but had to smile at Dan for going full on Godspeed!/Silver Mt. Zion there. Cheers guys!
Been watching your channel for years, this jam session style show is so refreshing. I think adding some of these once in a while is stellar, give us all an idea of what the pedals sound like in a mix. You guys rock, hope to see MORE jam sessions!!!
I love big reverbs and I've spent the last week or so on a binge of videos trying to figure out how to get my big reverbs to sound great and huge, while also not mudding up the mix in my band. This video is just what I needed
I literally just looped the Jam section of this with Mick playing and left it on in the background while I prep the dinner 🍽 🙃 unreal episode guys thank you 😊 🙏🏼 Dan's jam is for when I go to sleep in a wash of beautiful reverb ❤💯
Great playing!! Loved Mick's tasty chops!! the transition from room to hall was very cool! The room reverb sounds like a slapjack delay basically. Dan, loved how you continually found chord shapes to show the attributes of each type of verb. Then the Drive>Reverse Reverb>Amps was awe inspiring!! What a pair your two are. AND our man behind the kit was spot on!!
Nice episode. My Bloody Valentine's Kevin and Belinda are masters of the reverse reverb. I saw them live over ten years ago and my head nearly fell off it was so good.
An absolute killer jam by both of you gents!!! I gotta say its been a bit since ive tuned in and MAN can i see serious growth in the playing of both of you gentlemen!! Mick, your love of SRV really shined through for most of your jam before turning into a combo of Beck and Hendrix with your feedback and whammy bar, very very nice!! and DAN, my DUDE. I friggin love the giant textures you go for, but your progress with altered dominant chords REALLY stole the show! Youre developing your solos very nicely and your transitions into different reverbs were spot on. Plus the idea of even goin reverse n2 drive was EPIC. As though you were ripping galaxies apart! Very nicely done fellas, an absolute pleasure hearing you guys as always. Big kudos for the stellar content and for the growth!!
yeah baby get it! so cool to see you guys in your element, playing live guitar in a band with your mates. Normally you teach us all how to use the pedals, but these jams are the WHY! because it's a damn thrill to make music. thanks for doing this gents
I loved the show! I play a lot of worship these days and love the Strymon Big Sky Cloud Reverb. Truth be known I love it all. Greetings from Sunshine Coast Queensland. Thanks for all you do. God Bless!
I loved this show I’ve been watching you guys for a while stroke hundreds of vids and today you gents knocked it out of the park. Favorite part Dan going off in that empress jam. Well done LEG ENDS!
I love my SLO. I used to be one of those guys who never wanted to put reverb on my board because I always thought amp reverb was good enough for whatever I needed. But today's reverb pedals can do some amazing tricks.
TPS is such a vast base of knowledge ... You guys have been a huge influence and help throughout my Pedalboard/Guitar Journey. What i highly appreciate is that you give so much backround information that i can use with my existing equipment without having to buy new fancy stuff all the time but make the most of what i already own. Especially right at the beginning when Mick mentions the HoF ;) ! Thank you guys for that! btw, love the band episodes feat Dougie!
Come on Dan! How soft you pluck the bass is insane! Funny how you strumm the guitar harder as you get more excited (as explained by you in the clean sound show as I understood) but keep it cool on bass... Well done gentlemen, nice show again
Loved this weeks show. Finally ordered me a two o’clock 🕑 shirt. Can’t wait to get it this side of the pond. Greetings and Salutations from Muscle Shoals Alabama hit recording capital of the world 🗺
Awesome episode !! Great spring, plate, room and hall jam Mick, and Dan's swell, shimmer and reverse reverb jam was inspiring... didn't want it to stop. Great playing from everyone. 👌👍
Seriously love your videos. Always super informative and you guys rock when you jam. I've incorporated so much of what I've learned from you into my playing and my tones. I've gotten such a better sound in such a short amount of time from watching your videos. Keep it up!
Never thought that I would want to use any reverb other than my trusted Topanga spring but this episode of TPS has me thinking that perhaps I've been a bit myopic in this view. Food for thought. Thank you.
Thank youuuuu!!! I've said before, give me all the reverbs. That was some truly stellar playing and jamming, and Doug's amazing. This is one I'll re-watch! Cheers!
So great when you guys Jam together. I have the Big Sky, and will use it (like a guitar synth) to replicate: strings, swells, synth-pads and choir's. It also sounds mega on Acoustic guitar-too. Great episode gentlemen.
I think you guys just wrote side 1 of the next Pink Floyd album between you! :) I love using trippy reverbs and delays as intro pads to start songs in the 3-piece band I was in. Also really useful to have low mixed shimmers and reverse reverbs, paired with a Boss SY-1 to 'fill out' the sound of a 3-piece. Great vid guys!
Have to agree with Mick that there is huge compositional potential from some of the more car-out sounds. Guitar as orchestra is an approach I've long admired and aspired to.
Great episode. Your reverb and delay episodes cranked through headphones is the best thing. Sounds amazing! Really awesome context having the reverb in the band mix. I'm really enjoying these band shows. Any chance of getting the Keeley Caverns v2 on an upcoming show? Pretty sure it's never been on an episode aside from the Robert Keeley at Guitcon one. It pairs so nice with the D&M Drive. Cheers guys!
I love my Catalinbread Talisman Plate Reverb Pedal. I think you can bring the intensity of the effect up higher that a Spring Reverb, without in getting annoying.
One of your best shows! Remarkably instructive thanks in part to the masterful way you went through the different reverb options in the band context. Thank you!
Great episode, and superb playing from all. Mick, the recording and mixing in these band segments is amazing. I'm with Dougie, I like the "white one" too. Thanks!
Great guest drummer! That kit sounds awesome. I've never used much Reverb either recording or gigging as I'd usually add reverb in the DAW for recording and a lot of the places we'd play would already have lots of reverb. Recently, I've started to see how inspirational it can be to play with reverb pedals like the Empress or CXM. A friend sent me a Light Pedal optical/spring reverb pedal and I've found all sorts of uses for it, even running drum tracks through it. Thanks for the video.
Niiiiiice! Having that recording knowledge probably helps no end with getting some live verb going. Doug has been playing with Dan for forever. Such a lovely tubbist and human
Love love love reverb. Almost always on pedals for me. Run dual mono, my JC77's reverb is always on, then I either have the RV6 going usually on shimmer, with shimmer tone low or I have the HoF mini2 on. Dry amp -AC30 - gets nothing but OD pedals so I still get a very clear core guitar tone.
Groovy indeed! What a joy. So good to see Chief Meteorologist Daniel (Walk About) Steinhardt up amongst the clouds. Today will be to the plate for me; I haven't courage enough yet for the atmospherics but am imagining looping possibilities. A tangent re background textures: my friend plays pedal steel in a fun country band and has rigged a midi device to alter the tone to a Hammond B3. Beautiful sustained texture. Check out Buck Nickels and Loose Change. All the warm B3 sound is really a pedal steel. Brilliant. Great show! G
Very important what you guys are showing. It might be just my perception is that adding a lot of reverb in a band seems to be having a very strong effect on the mids. The more reverb you add the less present you are (you sit in the mix). Delay on the other hand seems to preserve the mids better. So I've been favoring small verbs and big delays. The spacy vibes at the end were awesome! Thanks
Great stuff, guys. The jams were so tasty! Totally agree about plate verb + chorus. My humble Fender Tre-Verb has a lovely modulated plate setting (the mod is a kind of shimmery chorus, but not the "shimmer" octave up) and with the tremolo side of the pedal engaged, maybe add some tape delay in front = me, gone for days. The swell on the Empress sounded phenomenal.
I love reverbs, I can't play without them. Reverb is the first fx that I search for when I play an amp. I surely use more reverb than delay; I am 100% convinced that delay can't substitute the reverb, even with some special settings.
Great episode. I always think of reverb as controlling one of the mixing dimensions. We all know about left and right stereo channels, but reverb is like the front-to-back dimension. Adding reverb can just help an instrument to sit in the mix (or as far back as you like) without having to resort to too much volume change (which can kill dynamics).
Incredible episode gents. Love it when Mick really opens up in his playing. And Dan always brings the ambience and chime that I can’t stop listening to.
Hey guys. I really love your show. It’s really informative and you can tell you both genuinely love what you do. One thing is, the majority of your shows tend feature quite expensive pedals. How about some examples of seriously budget friendly boards. So a challenge assuming you already have a guitar and amp. And you have to put a pedal board together with “overdrive, distortion, chorus, delay and reverb. For under something stupid like £150” there are options such as date I say Amazon basic pedals, behringer, there’s even a brand called Tom’s Line. Who I believe currently have a Michael Angelo Batio endorsement and they go for around £20-£25. Just a thought for those who aren’t in the position to go spend £100 up on 1 or 2 pedals.
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