What pedals do YOU use for ambient/muse-y music?

DELAAAAAAAAAAAAY

 

seriously. i love delay.

 

Delay, REVERB, lo-pass filters, volume swells, bass micro synth, and my Taurus 3. Results in my signature.

Ambient I what I do on my own time - helps me get lost in music really. Good stress reliever. Doesn't do much for my hand technique though

 

The EHX POG2 lends itself to this very well. You can dial in several octaves, roll of the attack (slow attack) and use a low pass filter all in one pedal. It also has a detune effect for a more organ feel to it.

I was running this in conjunction with delays and reverbs and it sounded amazing! Especially particle verb. I was using my line 6 m9 but I found i was getting some really weird feedback (almost like a clipping noise) that would infinitely loop in a regular fashion. If came to be known as the cricket noise. The only way to fix it was to unplug the power supply from the m9. My guess is the m9 was freaked out by the amount of octaves / signal coming into and once it layered that with delay and verbs it screws up.

So I sold my m9 to a friend and now I use just the POG2 with a volume pedal. I may ad a delay or verb down the road but not anything m series.

 

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Big fan of the ambient.

From my feeble attempts, delay, verb and a looper/sampler are a necessity. It helps to have a volume pedal and modulation works depending on the song's mood.

I think that's..... derp. Forgot to mention fuzz. OD/dist can work, but signal destruction lends itself well to ambient if you lowpass out the spiky bits.

 

Forgot about fuzz. Lends a nice quality and sustain to stuff, especially if mixed right - and filtered down.

I suppose there is more or less ambient, but typically I think of ambient as less about rhythm and more about tones/song structure. Anyone else have other thoughts?

 

I use the following:

Plus-EBOW
Los of fuzz usually very saturated
EHX HOG
Roland RE-20 Space Echo FTW!
Infanem Faye Sing
Tech 21 Boost DLA set to a very smeared out BBD like delay

Ohh and sub'd!

 

Also subbed
Due to harware limitations my current attepts include long delays (long time and feedback) plus volume swells and a bit of fuzz or some synth. Can create cool bckground sounds with synth (keyboard) like sounds.
Wanting a Pog2 badly though

 

Feeding other effects into a Strymon TimeLine delay(or by itself, so many awesome modes). That brings the Ambience.

 

POG2 > Multiwave Bass Distortion > volume pedal > Freeze > TC Electronic SCF > Modfactor's Undulator > Timefactor....ooof!

If you kick in the Shimmer setting on the Blue Sky Reverb after a while, brings the whole thing up a few notches...

 

I've noticed that synth/fuzz tones greatly benefit from a chorus effect. Mmmm...

 

My experience in entertaining myself before the rest of the band shows up usually requires delay as a minimum. From there modulation and additional octave content either through a dedicated octave device, synth pedal, or even a fuzz will built on more interesting frequency ranges. But yeah, delay is essential.

 

Reverb + Delay. I'm hoping when I can finally get my hands on an M9 that I will be able to go mental with ambient stuff.

 

i use flanger/chorus/delay (x2)/volume pedal/overdrive/etc...im an effects junkie...check out track 1 on Paradigm Collapse | Duluth, MN | Rock / Post Rock Noise / Psychedelic | Music, Lyrics, Songs, and Videos | ReverbNation - i put a ton of ambience on that one (as well as the others)...you can do a lot more with bass than people think if you are game to take time and learn how to wrangle in effects...this can be almost as time consuming as actually practicing playing, but is worth it for the kind of stuff i'm into

 

volume pedal way huge aqua puss delay ..qtron..

 

Sunmachine Fuzz O))) -> Custom Black Arts Toneworks Dual LSTR / OCD -> El Capistan -> Timeline -> Boss RV5

Using the sound on sound setting on the el cap into different (usually pattern or brigadier for me) delays on the timeline yields some really wicked results, swell delay on the timeline is also really useful, shimmer and modulated reverbs are handy as well. I'd probably be into picking up some sort of octave pedal but with three guitar players in the band its kinda redundant.

 

All of my solo material is ambient stuff. Unlike the rest of you I rarely use fuzz but I have it handy in case I get the urge. Fretless plus ebow is a match made in heaven for ambient stuff. I've been getting good results out using a violin bow for ambient sounds as well. Its a bit tricky and messy but the results are great. Signal chain goes like this usually: digitech xp-100>eb volume>Russian big muff>sansamp bddi>digitech phaser>line 6 space chorus>ehx stereo memory man w/hazarai>digitech digiverb. I often use vst plug ins on my daw for recording.

 

My ambient solo material if anyone wants to hear it. www.soundcloud.com/oneirogenic

 

I agree with that. I think ambient has some similarity to post-rock in that both have an emphasis on sonic textures and soundscapes. I've found ambient typically keeps everything at a certain level of intensity as well; some of it does use a lot of builds and crescendo too though.