Using Reverb with Acoustic Guitar // Strymon BlueSky Reverberator

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For Acoustic Guitars, reverb is possibly the most common effect but when using a guitar pedal it can be tricky to get a natural sounding reverb that doesn't sound overwhelming and drown out your playing.
In this video I talk about using Reverb with Acoustic Guitar and the methods that I use to get a natural sounding reverb.
For this Demo I'm using the Strymon BlueSky Reverberator.
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@joelsalazar8096 2 года назад

Great job on this video! Answered a lot of questions I had about this pedal! Thank you

@FabianHollandGuitar 2 года назад

Hi Joel, you're very welcome! Glad I could help. Cheers 🙂👍

@_left_eye Год назад

What really enchanted me, beside your superb playing, is the tone you get with the k&k

@FabianHollandGuitar Год назад

Hi Alfie, thanks so much! It's all to do with EQ. I did a video on how I EQ my pickup here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QlVm8kpiass.html

@mrjonesmusic5770 Год назад

excellent review - clear and to the point - I just ordered one of these for myself

@FabianHollandGuitar Год назад

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the video. Let me know how you get on with it. I'd be interested to know what you think.

@DennisdeWinter 6 месяцев назад

Very useful! thanks so much

@kentinjivek Год назад

Have it since the release and still find nice presets and the sound is really inspiring each time, I use it on the last record « Ontologia »- great explanations and demo 💯

@FabianHollandGuitar Год назад

Ah that's great! Glad you enjoyed the video. Yeah it's my main reverb for almost everything. 👍

@Theweeze100 2 года назад

Great demo. Are used to own this pedal, which I bought primarily for use with my acoustic guitar. Wonderful sounding reverb, kind a wish I had it back. I’m using an Immerse reverb these days. I’m looking to re-buy the Strymon, that’s how good it was!

@FabianHollandGuitar 2 года назад

Hi, thanks for the comment. I haven't used the Immerse reverb but I do love the BlueSky. I thought about getting the BigSky but I only use a 3 or 4 settings at the most so the BlueSky is perfect.

@michael_caz_nyc 2 года назад

I have the Big Sky and it's "Going to the Grave" - with me !!! It was Expensive, but it's like an Instrument unto itself. I get strings, pads, choir's, breath - everything Sounds Phenomenal. A total Inspiration-machine. oNe LovE from NYC

@dezmonseth674 2 года назад

Wow! Beautiful playing and sounds!

@FabianHollandGuitar 2 года назад

Thanks so much! 😊👍

@dezmonseth674 Год назад

@@FabianHollandGuitar What acoustic pickup are you using?

@Elfwingson 2 года назад

Really useful demo, mate! I’d never understand the true potential with the blueSky AND the acoustic guitar😱 Made me pick up my 20+ year old nylon guitar (with an Fishman mic), just go to town with my blueSky❤️‍🔥 Also, this guy deserves way more subs for the tones he gives us!

@FabianHollandGuitar 2 года назад

Hi Andreas, thanks so much. Glad you enjoyed the video. Ah cool, which Fishman mic do you have? Is it an internal mic? The Blue sky is great, I might do some comparison videos with some other reverb pedals to see how they compare to the BlueSky. Cheers! 👍

@Elfwingson 2 года назад

@@FabianHollandGuitar Hi, I really don’t know what Fishman mic that is; my dad put it in way back then but it is a piezo one and he said like ”well, this is one top of the line mic for ya”. I used that guitar a LOT on tours up here in Sweden when I played in our cover band. Anyways, a comparison vid would be pretty cool. Maybe a shootout with some stereo I/O reverb pedals perhaps?🤔 Anyhoo, your vid inspired me to get that old guitar from its case, tune it up and run it through my current pedalboard and I revised some of the old cover songs a long with some new ambient tunes Good times! Cheers!

@FabianHollandGuitar 2 года назад

@@Elfwingson happy to inspire! 🙂 Ah ok it's a Piezo yeah I use K&K contact pickups inside the guitar where the bridge is which acts a lot like a Piezo. It's interesting you mentioned stereo, I've experimented in the past with a stereo setup but with my Lap Steel not acoustic. It is a lot more hassle and gear to carry to gigs having a stereo setup but it can sound amazing.

@brandontaylor387 Год назад

nice man sounds awesome

@FabianHollandGuitar Год назад

Cheers 😊👍

@icarocosta4302 2 года назад

make a part two please!!!! awesome video!

@FabianHollandGuitar 2 года назад

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the video. 🙂👍

@Wobbz9413 Год назад

Very helpful. Cheers.

@FabianHollandGuitar Год назад

Hi Mark, no probs! Glad it helped.

@sseltrek1a2b 4 месяца назад

nice playing, and really good tips...

@FabianHollandGuitar 4 месяца назад

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the video!! 😊👍

@hunterwagar2965 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for the beautiful music

@FabianHollandGuitar 6 месяцев назад

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed the video 🙂

@FirstHomeStudio Год назад

I was trying to decide to get an acoustic guitar or acoustic electric.... after watching this video I need to go with the electric to get a lot more sounds when recording my acoustic guitar. Thank You for the video

@FabianHollandGuitar Год назад

Hi, glad you enjoyed the video! Yeah a pickup can really add something extra to the sound when recording for sure! Thanks for watching 🙂

@jmcbade2960 3 месяца назад

I have owned this pedal for years and play acoustic through it. In front of it I use their Delay, just a touch "thickens" the sound in a "less is more" approach. I use a Grace designs Felix 2 before all this and my effects are inserts. The Felix 2 is great because I have a mic and a piezo sent out as separate signals via a tip/ring/sleeve cable. The Felix gives me separate controls for the two pickups and then I blend the outputs to my liking for the venue. Works well for me.

@FabianHollandGuitar 2 месяца назад

Hi, thanks for the input. That Felix 2 sounds great! I’ve got to check it out. 😊👍

@renebetancourth9097 2 года назад

Great job here.

@FabianHollandGuitar 2 года назад

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it

@DIVINEGuitarLessons Год назад

Nice playing

@FabianHollandGuitar Год назад

Thanks 👍

@fabiencourtoistapping Год назад

sound great

@FabianHollandGuitar Год назад

Cheers!

@alpetteway1387 Год назад

I use the same reverb pedal live in conjunction with a Grace Design “Alix” preamp and the K&K pickup. It’s really hard to beat that for a live acoustic sound. If you get the two-channel version of the Grace preamp, you can also plug in your KM-184 and mix it together with the pickup sound. You have total control over the eq for each channel. It’s just rather expensive at that point. I just run the guitar mic into the P.A. and let the front of house engineer mix it. It’s amazing how close our setups are. I also love your guitar, by the way.

@FabianHollandGuitar Год назад

Ah yes, you use the K&K as well, it's great! I used to use a Sunrise sound hole pickup for a while which I really liked but It's big chunky thing in the middle of your guitar, not very discrete. Still... I've been thinking of exploring sound hole pickups again. Oh those Grace Design Preamps look great! So it's basically a high end preamp with a parametric EQ onboard? Yeah with the KM-184 I usually use a seperate mic preamp into a parametric EQ and then into a Lexicon Reverb unit all in a little rack unit on stage. It's a little bulky but it works for me.

@alpetteway1387 Год назад

@@FabianHollandGuitar Yes the Grace has everything you need. I like the Alix because it also has 9 volt out so that I can plug in my Reverb pedal and tuner into it and only have a large AC cable to plug in at each gig. I used the Tonebone for a few years and this one is just the next step up.

@kevinalexandre4373 12 дней назад

I want this 😍

@OlafThorsson3 2 года назад

Thank you for such a great demo and explanation. What composition was you playing? It sounded incredible.

@FabianHollandGuitar 2 года назад

Hi Olli, thanks so much for the comment. Glad you liked the video. The music was just me improvising. With most of these demo videos I'm just improvising in the moment 😊👍

@GaveMeGrace1 2 года назад

Thank you

@FabianHollandGuitar 2 года назад

You're welcome, thanks for watching!

@tomcatmull5231 Год назад

great vid! Lots of good info/reminders. Unrelated question...what tuning are you in for this thing? Sounds like a drop D, but maybe just a straight open chord? Do tell! ANd thanks!

@FabianHollandGuitar Год назад

Hi Tom, thanks. Glad you liked the video! I'm using DADGAD tuning here. It's a very popular tuning amongst fingerstyle players. Cheers! :-)

@DomBlus 3 месяца назад

Good evening Fabian, congratulations on your activities and your skill, your brillant talent. Regarding my acoustic setup I would like to insert a reverb and I'm thinking of Strymon Bluesky or Cloudburst. I kindly ask you if you have ever tried the Strymon Coulburst reverb pedal effect: could you advise me? thank you

@FabianHollandGuitar 3 месяца назад

Hi, thanks so much. I’m glad you enjoyed the video! 😊 I’ve never actually tried the cloudburst myself so I can’t say what the difference is between that and the BlueSky, however the Cloudburst is more recent and looks like it has more features.

@ErwinLeader 2 года назад

What other reasons would you day this is better than bigsky and or other reverb (boss etc)?

@FabianHollandGuitar 2 года назад

Hi Erwin, I'd say the BigSky has everything the BlueSky has and much more but it depends if you really need all those features? For me with each pedal I have I use maybe 2 or 3 of my favourite sounds and that's it. So having a smaller pedal makes more sense. But the BlueSky has something a lot of other reverb pedals don't and that's two controls for the High and Low EQ. For me this is very important because it gives me control when shaping just the reverb signal.

@mariomalette4155 2 года назад

Very well explained .. Many thanks! Would this pedal work for a saxophone,, Always strugglin to get the right reverb for solos. Sometimes too much,other times not the right one either,,or not enough. Thanks Mario

@FabianHollandGuitar 2 года назад

Hi Mario, thanks for the question. I'm guessing you have some sort of pickup for the saxophone so it can plug into the pedal right? Yeah it can be tricky to get the right balance sometimes, what I find really useful with this is being able to EQ the reverb itself which makes it a lot easier to get that balance the way you want it.

@mariomalette4155 2 года назад

Hi Fabian I apreaciate your comment and video. Yes well i use two microphones for saxes,on Senheiser 421 and just bought a Electrovoice RE20..i don t like clip on,,etc Used one guitard reverb in the past,but it changed a lot my sound,,which i did nt like at all. I want my sound to stay as natural as possible,but with a bit of reverb ,,so i don t sound dry. It s always a pain somewhere to get the aound that i need with a soundboard,or others trying to give me what i really want! Thanks again Mario

@FabianHollandGuitar 2 года назад

@@mariomalette4155 Hi Mario, no problem at all. Do you use both microphones at the same time? If so then I would use one with reverb and one without, that might have some interesting results. I use a pickup and a microphone (Neumann Km184) for my guitar on stage and I have the Strymon for the pickup and I have the microphone going through a Lexicon rack mounted reverb unit. I find giving the two signals different kind of reverbs works for me. But then a pickup and a mic have very different sounds so it's not the same as using two mics.

@mariomalette4155 2 года назад

@@FabianHollandGuitar Fabian I use only one at a time. So i wonder if i just set up like i need it too that it should be find? Like i said,i want the most natural sound of my tenor and soprano,but with a bit of reverb ,so i dont sound dry,and also mostly i would like myself to take care of that ,not another person which is never right,most of the time. Maybe this will not work,but i am willing to try. Thanks. Take care.

@erichzann890 2 года назад

Thank you for this nice video! What guitar are you useing here? :)

@FabianHollandGuitar 2 года назад

Hi Erich, you're welcome! Thanks for the question. The guitar is a Lowden O10 Mahogany back and sides and Cedar top, they're made in Northern Ireland by luthier George Lowden, well the early ones were made by him but now he has a small team helping him out. Amazing guitars! I actually have a gear page on my website were I talk about all my guitars and gear: fabianholland.com/gear

@erichzann890 2 года назад

@@FabianHollandGuitar Thanks a lot Fabian! ;)

@edmon2763 Год назад

👍😎

@nauczsiegrac Год назад

This record was using also preamp? or you record it only with daw on computer?

@FabianHollandGuitar Год назад

Hi, yes I also used the Radial PZ-Deluxe on this video before going into the BlueSky. Thanks!

@TehSquishie 2 года назад

What about strumming? Curious to see how the reverb affects it.

@FabianHollandGuitar 2 года назад

Hi Nico, thanks for the comment. I mainly focus on just fingerpicking with most of my videos but if it's something that I feel enough people are asking for then I'll definitely consider doing more strumming especially in my demos. Cheers

@manongdimboi Год назад

wow

@reagenpitoyo3662 2 года назад

that sound amazing.. love it so much.. greetings from Indonesia..

@DomBlus 3 месяца назад

That's right: you're referring to the Strymon "Cloudburst? Right?

@richarddlewis5422 Год назад

Can a Joyo Atmosphere pedal compete with a Strymon on an acoustic guitar?

@FabianHollandGuitar Год назад

Hi Richard, thanks for the question. I haven't tried the Joyo Atmosphere before so I can't say but it's good that it has a tone control so you have some customization on how the reverb sounds.

@henrryvaca1098 Год назад

Que lindo pedal imagino que es lo que necesita mi violín

@icarocosta4302 Год назад

How do you use it for strumming exactly?

@FabianHollandGuitar Год назад

Hi, thanks for the question. I don't really do much strumming myself so it's hard for me to answer but If I was strumming I would just turn down the mix and decay a little. The more notes that are in there and the louder you play then the more overwhelming the reverb is so (depending on what kind of sound you're after of course) I would turn these parameters down until the reverb doesn't become an overwhelming mess but instead compliments the chords that you're playing. Hope that makes sense.

@PriyanPereraGuitarWorks Месяц назад

What's the guitar model? Sounds dreamy.! 💜

@FabianHollandGuitar Месяц назад

Thanks! It’s a Lowden guitar, they’re hand made in Northern Ireland.

@rickcurtis2983 2 года назад

Excellent demo and playing, it's good to include your personal likes and dislikes!!

@FabianHollandGuitar 2 года назад

Hi Rick, thanks glad you liked the video. Yeah it wasn't so much a review of the Blue Sky but more advise on using reverb in general but yeah I'll try to add more of my own opinions on the pedals I'm using. Cheers 👍

@allabarkun5882 Год назад

What the difference between Big sky and Blue sky?

@FabianHollandGuitar Год назад

Hi, thanks for the question. I think the main difference is the big sky can do everything the blue sky can do and LOTS more but the blue sky can't do everything the big sky can do. And obviously theres a big difference in the price. I think there's videos on RU-vid explaining the difference between the two in detail. I dont own the big sky so my knowledge in that pedal is limited. Thanks, hope that helps.

@dividedbytimestudios 2 года назад

What pickup is in that guitar

@FabianHollandGuitar 2 года назад

Hi, It's a K&K pure mini.

@jessaie-detre-chretien 2 года назад

Great sound but you’re playing just a few notes, I am wondering how to use a reverb when you’re playing alone and want a bigger sound but playing chords

@FabianHollandGuitar 2 года назад

Hi, thanks for the comment. Ah yeah like using reverb with strumming? Same kind of principals would also apply with strumming but you're right I don't do any examples with strumming. Most of my videos are directed towards finger picking but in future I'll do more examples with strumming as well. Thanks for the feedback, always appreciated! 👍

@jessaie-detre-chretien 2 года назад

@@FabianHollandGuitar yes this sounds awesome with fingerpicking 👍 I have to try a few settings and see how it sounds live 😉

@jessaie-detre-chretien 2 года назад

@@FabianHollandGuitar there are almost no videos regarding reverb for acoustic guitar. I am convinced that artists / sound engineers use it though 😅

@FabianHollandGuitar 2 года назад

@@jessaie-detre-chretien yeah that's true there's no much on reverb with acoustics. Yeah sound engineers are more likely to use some rack until reverb like a Lexicon or something and an engineer can give you a nice sounding reverb but I've always found it better to come with your own reverb and effects, so you can get the exact sound you want.

@jessaie-detre-chretien 2 года назад

@@FabianHollandGuitar exactly I think it’s better to handle that personally. I tested yesterday night live and a long reverb with 60% mix sounds amazing on arpeggios 👍