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Summary: The reverb guitar effect makes it sound as if you are playing the guitar is a large room, hall, auditorium, or studio. Get expert tips and techniques for guitar effects in this free video.
Stephen Haendiges is a seasoned musician, guitarist, teacher, composer and performer with over 15 years of experience. Stephen has recorded and performed in top clubs all around the...read more
"In this example what I'm going to show, again using the reverb and the spring reverb in this case, I'm going to mix chorus and delay to give you an idea of what you can do with your guitar playing at least in the clean tone context. I'm going to play an A major chord here. As you can hear it decaying off you're hearing a mixture of the chorus, delay and reverb which is very common, again using, with playing in the clean context particularly in rock music. So what I'm doing here is just going, and then adding my pinky to the seventh fret, and what I'm doing in my strumming there is just doing a basic strum and add a little scraping there. What it's doing is I'm getting the, I'm using all those effects to color my sound and also using the delay effect to add to the scraping and at the end of it again I'm making a nice added fatter effect to your tone."