Cool sounds! I wouldn't say post-rock is "about" diming effects and going crazy with them BUT WHEN IT DOES HAPPEN it can be oh so great. There's been a lot of nuance and genre-blending in this style of music over the years and that's what i love about it. I feel like it's more about that than diming effects. ANYWAY, I'M GONNA GO TO MY ROOM AND DIME MY REVERB N DELAYS AND PUT THEM IN MY SIGNAL CHAIN BEFORE MY FUZZ AND DISTORTION, HAVE A GOOD DAY!
@@goldenultra I know this is very late, and if you've been looking to make a post-rock pedal board you've probably already built one, but in most post-rock you would often see a reverb at the beginning and the end of your chain, and two delays somewhere after the first reverb. After that you would have things like modulators, distortions, drives, fuzz and etc.
For reverb, I saved up and went Big Sky, for post rock/ ambient or even lo fi stuff it's unsurpassed. But I also have an Old Blood Noise Dark Star on my board. Between them they cover so much.
I mean sort of, really you just need a dumbed down shoegaze chain, surprised you recommended the Boss, just get the small Holy Grail. The chain should look something like: Guitar - Chro tuner - simple reverb (most likely with a plate option) - analog delay (assuming you’re going in to a tube) - overdrive - better reverb (reverse/shimmer option preferable) - chorus (optional) - arguably the most important for post rock SIGNAL BOOSTER, post rock is about dynamic changes - amp Sample branded chain: Guitar (any) - Boss Tuner - EH Holy Grail - MXR Analog Delay - TS9 - EH Oceans - EH Small Clone (optional, can give your tone more variety) - MXR Mini Amp - Tube amp with good head room and nice cleans (Roland JC, Vox, etc. I find the Vox AC’s stock spring reverb cranked with the verb pedals give INSANE tones)
Listen to the end of "Matroshka" by Dredg. Most people don't give Mark Engles enough credit but his tone defined allot of the post prog tones I hear today.
Great job, you chose some pretty great pedals that do alot. The Space Spiral is a Modulated Delay Pedal, not a reverb pedal. I went with the Earthquaker Devices Avalanche Run over the Space Spiral. I liked the Space Spiral but the Avalanche Run gives you alot more options and it's not that much more money. I did buy a modulated Reverb pedal though, I have the Walrus Audio Fathom. The Strymon Big Sky is pretty great but I have others on my list before I break the bank on one of those. The GFI Specular is next on my list, I have yet to hear its equal for shimmer.
I've used the bluesky and sold it. I would say it was too much real. Sometimes you want reverb as an effect rather than creating "the ambient space". I have bought the strymon el capistan for this. I feel like the boss is actually pretty good if you want reverb as more of an effect. Another one is EHX holy grail.
Hello i need help. Im using a 2017 Squier Affinity Tele with stock single coil pickups. Im playing kinda post rock ambient songs or trying to. Do you think i should upgrade the stock pickups? I was looking at Fender Twisted Tele pickups that cost me around my guitar price at the time i bought it and the other one is Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound pickups. Should i change to either one of these pickups or just buy a new guitar. Im looking at 2021 Squier Affinity Tele Deluxe with humbucker pickups. Someone help me please 😔
The classic choice would be a powerful clean blackface Fender amp like a deluxe reverb or twin reverb, but you can really use anything depending on what you’re going for sonically
Can you explain exactly what's happening starting at 4:25? Which pedals are doing what exactly and how does brushing your hand behind the saddle create that effect?
Play a chord with volume on 0, then slowly turn it back up. The technique is called volume swells. The brushing reduces some treble making the tone more pleasant.
Think when making such choices, it's important to understand what you're trying to acheive.I thought "Post Rock",- as opposed to say, old school Ambient, was trying to retain the simplicity and directness of Rock song structure/ writing, while avoiding the histronic and cliche, the same old sounds and styles, the nostalgic.Industrial originally had similar intent, with a broader palette of instrument choices, and an inclination towards the harsh and repetitious.Some claim that "everything has been done", when the truth is, the same things have been done, over and over.Finding fresh sounds and structures should be easy, as long as your willing to experiment a little, actually enjoy playing, and are not easily frustrated.
"The answer is reverb, you might think is delay"....actually you may think is reverb, but the answer is delay :D :D :D No offense, but It seems this is not properly your kind of style. ...however i pushed the like button ;)
Saying "you just need reverb to post rock" means you don't know the fuck how sounds post rock ^^ There is other bands than Explosions in the Sky and tremolo masturbation tricks in the post rock world. They are just the "pop" side of post rock actually
1985cactus oops I mean like really ambient rock that provokes emotions like it has tons of delay and reverb to make it spacey giving it like a very ethereal feeling. This is imo the opposite of like the normal rock and screaming vocals and stuff which keeps you awake. Post-rock is I wouldn’t necessarily say calm because some post rock songs has extreme tremolos in them but they calming compared to the normal rock. Sorry if I didn’t explain it correctly or insufficiently.
Lame af! The settings in the pedals aren’t even the same. Of course the blue sky settings will be more wet if the settings were different. I extremely happy with my RV-6 and I could get those exact sound as the blue sky.
