Ambient Guitar Swells Tutorial: Techniques & Settings

►► A Beginner's Guide To Ambient Guitar: Free Mini-Course 🎁 → https://www.electricguitarcomposing.com/ambient-beginners-course I am very happy to announce this new video series where I will be teaching all the basics on how to play ambient guitar music. This first video is a tutorial on how to create great ambient guitar swells. We'll cover the differences between techniques and the settings needed on your delay and reverb pedals. I will also give you my rule for perfect ambient swell length and will demonstrate it on top of 2 song ideas of different lengths. 0:00 What are ambient swells? 0:30 Intro (new ambient guitar tutorial series!) 0:56 Volume knob vs. Volume pedal 2:03 Which type of volume pedal to get 2:44 Technique (late, early or perfect swell motions) 4:44 Placement of the volume pedal 5:32 Why you need delay AND reverb 6:52 Best settings for delay/reverb 9:24 Perfect swell length (song example 1) 12:17 Counterexample (chords masking each other) 13:19 Perfect swell length (song example 2) 15:16 The pull back up technique 16:17 My gift (FREE AMBIENT GUITAR COURSE) __________ ► Full list of the pedals and gear I use to make music (these Sweetwater affiliate links support my work at no extra cost to you. Thank you! 😊) - Singular Sound Aeros Looper Gold Edition (get 10% off by entering ANTOINE10 at checkout): https://www.singularsound.com/products/aeros-loop-studio?aff=62 - Strymon BigSky: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/rQqBPR - Strymon Timeline: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/JzvW0R - Strymon El Capistan: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/4PxqY9 - Strymon Ola: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/21LJ6O - Strymon Iridium: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/zN5O2M - Mission Engineering VM Pro: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/6eQD4N - EHX Micro POG: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/eK5jjZ - EHX Mel9: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/m5J1NM - TC Electronic Polytune: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/PyvnnM - Vox AC15 with Alnico Blue speaker: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/QyvEE9 - eBow Plus: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/4PxMoo - Mogami Gold Cables: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/XYvKBg - George L’s Patch Cables: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/OrvWjA - Arturia Keylab 88: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/ZQvR51 - Arturia Keylab 49: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/AW1537 - Focusrite Scarlett 18i8: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/AW155J - Shure SM57: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/VmvddJ - Shure SM7B: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/XYvE5y - Sennheiser MKE 600: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/0ZMzBY - Yamaha HS8 Studio Monitors: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/OrvELK - Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 4x4: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/R5NED2 - Sennheiser HD280 Pro: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/4PxMBL - Pedaltrain Classic Pro: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/NkvEYP - Cubase Artist: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Y9vKkK - Strymon BigSky Plugin: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/m5J1ky