The Strat Sessions

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Strat Session 9 - Reflections

Decided to start 2014 off in Strat-tastic fashion :)

Enjoy!

Strat Session 10 - Bittersweet Sorrow

Testing out the Mooer Elec Lady Analog Flanger,  really neat and compact stompbox (which is really sort of Mooer's modus operandi).  With the Elec Lady, you have three simple knobs: Rate, Color, and Range.  You also get an added bonus toggle switch which toggles between the normal Flanger mode and Filter mode which gives you some really nice harmonic contrast, taking the flanger completely out of the picture and acting more like a Wah pedal that is stuck in the "Toe" position.  For this demo, I left the Elec Lady in the "Normal" mode and set all of the knobs close to high noon.  As you can hear, it is really dynamically responsive to the touch of your picking style.  For most of the recording I used my fingers to pick the strings, and then switched to a plectrum to show the responsiveness.

Strat Session 11 - The Common Cure

I recently took a trip down memory lane in Keystone, Colorado. We used to go skiing there every year when I was a child up until I was about 12 years old.  I'm 24 now, and we all decided it had been way too long since we last made our way over there.  It was a blast, and it went by way too fast.

Hope you guys like the tune! :)

-David

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Strat Session 12 - A Place Where Hours Go By In Minutes

It is FINALLY here! 

I have been wanting this pedal ever since Strymon unveiled it last year, and I can honestly say that it is without question a MUST HAVE for those of you who find that your pedalboard is rather naked without a decent reverb pedal.  Well let me tell you, this one puts them all to shame.  

Armed with one hell of a processor, 12 different reverb modes, and even a speaker cabinet emulator for those of you who (like me) record directly to their computers via USB instead of through a noisy amp and waking up your neighbors at 4am still trying to nail that solo :P

For this demo I focused on the "Bloom" setting, which makes a remarkable background underneath your guitar playing, padding your leads with incredible efficiency.

Enjoy! :)

Strat Session 13 - Eterna

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Strat Session 14 - Starla

Strat Session 15 - This Is The End

just bought myself the Hardwire Supernatural Ambient Verb pedal last week, came in a few days ago.  Been in a bit of a creative rut lately, hence all the re-posting i've been doing, so i decided to wipe the dust off my old Galveston stratocaster and mess around with this thing.  this is the plate reverb effect.   i will also be posting a sample of the Shimmer reverb effect soon, which is pretty incredible as well.  all in all, if reverb is your thing, as it is mine, this is a damn good pedal for $179.

Strat Session 1,  Personae Con Stratae

This is the Shimmer effect on the Supernatural pedal, its essentially an octave-up effect that creates a wonderful sounding background for your track.  this was the effect that really sold me on this pedal, even though you can find it on other ones, though they were way more expensive. im thinking i may re-name this later and just keep it as an original track.

Strat Session 2, The Gathering of the Angels

This was an effort to showcase the Spring reverb setting on the Hardwire Supernatural reverb stompbox.  It was made to mimic the classic spring tank reverb you would get back in the surfer rock days when it was built into the amplifiers.  Enjoy :)

Strat Session 3, The Long Road Home

This was an effort for me to showcase the "Pherb" setting of the Hardwire Supernatural reverb stompbox.  It is essentially a hall reverb with a very subtle phaser running in the background to varying degrees depending on how you set the mix and liveliness knobs.  For this I didn't delve to hard into the phaser, but it is very distortion and overdrive friendly as far as I can tell.  Gives off sort of a David Gilmour vibe.  Enjoy :)

Strat Session 4, Reminisce

For this session, I emphasized the "Shine" setting of the Hardwire Supernatural.  It is a very gentle reverb that produces both a shimmering effect and a chorus effect simultaneously yet separately.  The chorus effect only affects the tone of the guitar notes, while the shimmer effect creates a beautiful background to accentuate whatever notes you are playing with an octave-up effect.  I must admit though on this one I cheated a bit and created a separate undertoned background as well using a 5th note octave-up effect and a deep spring tank reverb as well.  But I'm not exactly doing this for Hardwire, and I think when you guys hear the result you'll forgive me anyway :)  I have used this on other non-strat tracks as well, such as Sanguine Rose and Erased, so for more examples you can check those tracks out too. Enjoy!

Strat Session 5, Living Amongst the Shadows (Remastered)

Strat Session 8, Aliens (Remastered)

For this session, I emphasized the "Plate Mod" preset of the Hardwire Supernatural.  This preset is a plate reverb that has a modulation you only hear in the tails of the reverb (again depending on how far you set the mix and liveliness knobs, otherwise it pretty much leaves the guitar signal alone for the most part). I decided not to mess too much with the background on this one like I did on SS5, so there was no cheating this time ;)

Strat Session 6, Nameless

This will be the final Strat Session for demonstrating the Hardwire Supernatural, as it is the final preset I had yet to demonstrate.   From now on I'll just be adding tracks that are all Strat-based regardless.  For this demo, I emphasized the "Supernova" preset (hence the title), which is a long decay reverb that employs a delightfully classic sounding flanger in the background as opposed to being in the guitar signal too much itself, also there does seem to be a hint of upper-octave in there as well.  To further emphasize the flanger, I have also used an analog delay that produces a very space-age sounding pitch-bend modulation when you kick the time knob back or forth (You may remember it from my track "Aliens") . You can really hear the flanger pretty well when I really get heavier into the modulation from the delay about half way through or so.  Enjoy! :)

The Strat Sessions

David Ackerman