Candor: An Ambient Song

Gear used:

Warmoth Thinline Telecaster with Revel WRHB Pickups
Matchless DC30 (Line 6 Helix)
Bogner Shiva (Line 6 Helix)
Earthquaker Devices Organizer
Strymon TimeLine
Strymon BigSky
Trinity Chorus (Line 6 Helix)
Barberpole Phaser (Line 6 Helix)
AutoPan (Line 6 Helix)
Meris Polymoon
Meris Mercury 7
Boomerang III Looper

Recorded in one continuous take using the Boomerang Looper.

Thanks for listening!

Candour

This is a collection of sound clips from my Candy Turquoise Warmoth Jazzmaster, which was inspired by the Fender ULTRA series Jazzmaster. It is wired a bit differently, with the S1 switch in the tone pot switching the pickups from in-phase to out-of-phase, and the upper slider combining both pickups in series. It makes for a pretty versatile guitar!

I played the guitar into a Line 6 Helix Deluxe Reverb amp, with delay and reverb from my Strymon El Capistan and Meris Mercury 7 respectively.

Bridge + Neck - Series - In Phase - Dirty

Bridge + Neck - Parallel - In Phase - Dirty

Neck - Dirty

Bridge - Dirty

Bridge + Neck - Series - Out Of Phase - Clean

Bridge + Neck - Series - In Phase - Clean

Bridge + Neck - Parallel - In Phase - Clean

Bridge - Clean

Neck - Clean

This is an Ambient Guitar song, performed in one continuous take using a Boomerang III looper. It is inspired by my families recent relocation from the desert of Southern Arizona to the woods of Eastern North Carolina. The picture is my back yard.

Gear used includes:

Fender Nashville Telecaster
Fender Twin Reverb (Line 6 Helix)
Vox AC30 (Line 6 Helix)
Auto-Pan (Line 6 Helix)
Strymon El Capistan
Walrus M1
Strymon BigSky
Meris PolyMoon
Meris Mercury7
Boomerang III

Back East

"One Warmoth Strat and a Warmoth Jazzmaster,
Digitech Trio+, Helix tone-crafter,
iMac and Logic Pro, two sets of strings,
Them's what got used to cut 'My Favorite Things'...
(Oom Pa Pa, Oom Pa Pa, Oom Pa Pa, Oom Pa Pa)"

My Favorite Things

I have not encountered many disappointments with the Line 6 Helix. Generally speaking it's exceeded my every expectation. I'd say the only thing that has really fallen short of my expectations are the spring reverb effects. Having grown accustomed to Fender tube amps and their lush onboard spring reverb tanks, I crave that drippy, springy, surfy goodness. And the Helix spring reverbs really didn't have it. I finally decided to do something about it and recently tracked down a Malekko Spring Chicken and put it in a Helix FX loop. It is exactly what I've been missing, I should have done this a long time ago!

I recorded the first sample with the Spring chicken, then for comparison I replaced it with the Helix's Spring Reverb and '63 Spring Reverb effects in the other samples. The amp is a Deluxe Reverb, the guitar is a Nashville Telecaster.

Enjoy!

Reverb Comparison 3: Helix '63 Spring Reverb

I have not encountered many disappointments with the Line 6 Helix. Generally speaking it's exceeded my every expectation. I'd say the only things that have really fallen short of my expectations are the spring reverb effects. Having grown accustomed to Fender tube amps and their lush onboard spring reverb tanks, I crave that drippy, springy, surfy goodness. And the Helix spring reverbs really don't deliver. I finally decided to do something about it and recently tracked down a Malekko Spring Chicken and put it in a Helix FX loop. It is exactly what I've been missing, I should have done this a long time ago!

I recorded the first sample with the Spring chicken, then for comparison I re-amped it with the Helix's Spring Reverb and '63 Spring Reverb effects in the other samples. The amp is a Deluxe Reverb, the guitar is a Nashville Telecaster.

Enjoy!

Reverb Comparison 2: Helix Spring Reverb

TCHOK!dukkadukkadukkaPing!

This is a collection of sound samples recorded from my Nashville Telecaster with recently installed Steel Pole Tele Mojo pickups by Revel Custom Pickups. They are billed as "50% Tele, 50% P90", and I think they hit the mark!

The wiring is a bit... eccentric. I used a Rothstein Super Switch wiring diagram for a 2-pickup Tele, and added a push/pull switch to swap out the neck pickup for the middle pickup. SO it is essentially wired as a "dual 2-pickup" guitar rather than a true "3-pickup" guitar. The switching goes like this:

Push/Pull down:
1 - Bridge
2 - Bridge + Neck (Series / Out of Phase)
3 - Bridge + Neck (Parallel / In Phase)
4 - Bridge + Neck (Series / In Phase)
5 - Neck

Push/Pull up:
1 - Bridge
2 - Bridge + Middle (Series / Out of Phase)
3 - Bridge + Middle (Parallel / In Phase)
4 - Bridge + Middle (Series / In Phase)
5 - Middle

The recordings were created with a Line 6 Helix and Logic Pro X.

Thanks for listening!

Revel Pickups Steel Pole Tele Mojo
https://revelcustompickups.com/store/tele-mojo/
Wiring Diagram:
http://guitar-mod.com/wiring/5way_tele.gif

Nashville - Revel Tele Mojo

Bridge + Neck (Series/Out of Phase) - Clean

Bridge + Middle (Series/Out of Phase) - Clean

Bridge + Neck (Series/In Phase) - Clean

Bridge + Neck (Parallel/In Phase) - Clean

Bridge + Middle (Parallel/In Phase) - Clean

Middle - Clean

Neck - Dirty.

This is a collection of sound clips captured from my Warmoth JazzMaster with Rumpelstiltskin pickups. It is wired such that the pickup selector toggle remains active on the dark/rhythm circuit.

The guitar is being played through a Line 6 Helix using the Deluxe Reverb model. The Helix ZenDrive model is used for the dirty clips. Reverb comes from Strymon Flint and Big Sky.

Thanks for listening!

If you are interested, the guitar is wired with components and diagrams found in a kit that I sell here:

https://reverb.com/item/2606407-sidewinder-guitars-jazzmaster-wiring-kit

JazzMaster

Bridge (Dark - Dirty)

Neck + Bridge (Dark - Dirty)

Neck (Dark - Dirty)

Bridge (Norm - Dirty)

Neck + Bridge (Norm - Dirty)

Bridge (Dark - Clean)

Neck + Bridge (Dark - Clean)

Neck (Dark - Clean)

Bridge (Norm - Clean)

Neck + Bridge (Norm - Clean)

Neck (Norm - Clean)

Resolve

Gear used is as follows:

Warmoth Thinline Telecaster with Lollar'Tron pickups.
Fender Deluxe Reverb (Line 6 Helix)
Earthquaker Devices Organizer
Bubble Vibrato (Line 6 Helix)
Transistor Tape Delay (Line 6 Helix)
Adriatic Delay (Line 6 Helix)
Strymon TImeLine Delay
Meris Mercury7
Strymon BigSky
Boomerang III Looper

Recorded in one continuous take, although not necessarily the FIRST take...

Resolve

This is my rendition of the jazz standard The Way You Look Tonight. It's slow and dreamy and probably has too much reverb, 'cause that's the way I do stuff...

It is performed on a 1959 Silvertone Aristocrat. Other gear includes:
Fender Deluxe Reverb (Line 6 Helix)
Auto-Pan (Line 6 Helix)
Strymon BigSky Reverb
Meris Mercury7 Reverb
Meris Polymoon Delay

The Way You Look Tonight

"Longanimity": An Ambient Song

Gear used includes:
Warmoth Strat (Black Korina, Rosewood on Mahogany Neck)
Fender Deluxe Reverb (Line6 Helix)
Tremolo and Vibrato (Line6 Helix)
Earthquaker Devices Organizer
Strymon TimeLine
Strymon Big Sky
Boomerang III Looper
Meris PolyMoon
Meris Mercury7

Longanimity

This is my rendition of the exceptionally jazzy demonstration of a Gibson ES-175 performed here:

https://youtu.be/bryr8cC0N3k
(Played by Florian Brettschneider)

I used the following gear:
Warmoth Jazzmaster (Rumpelstiltskin Pickups)
Matchless DC-30 (Line 6 Helix)
Meris Polymoon Delay
Meris Mercury7 Reverb
Boomerang III Looper

-VB-

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