Two pedals to drone - The Chain Gang #12

Infinite notes created by long reverb tails.

A reverb pedal set to 100% wet can achieve this on its own, the delay pedal just makes the wall of sound bigger.

Since I want to mask the transients of my notes, my guitar volume is all the way up but I make an effort to hit the strings very gently and keep my attack consistent.

A compressor pedal could also help with the guitar's attack and volume.

So, the "Time Core" delay is set to a quite high amount of time and repeats.

The mix knob can go all the way, depending of how pronounced you want to hear the notes that you add to your drone.

Turn up to blend new notes in, turn down to hear them more clearly.

The "Snake Bite" takes out the original guitar signal completely, leaving only the very long reverb tail to ring on and on and on...

Organ Experiments - The Chain Gang #10

Well, there's the "Tube Rotosphere" out there and it is no longer in production.
Reading about it led me to a funny experiement:

Let's take a tube overdrive (Hughes & Kettner "Tube Factor") and two chorus pedals and try to set up a Leslie emulation.

So, from left to right:

• Volume pedal to conrtol the attack of my guitar, the amount of drive from the Tube Factor and to do some volume swells.
• Tube Factor with channel 2 engaged for a bit of overdrive.
• The EHX stereo pulsar to split the signal and to give some tremolo effect.
• The "Super Chorus" with an EQ pedal for the low frequencies.
• The "Ultra Chorus" and a EQ pedal for the high frequencies.
• The "Time Core" stereo delay for a bit of room adding to the parallel chorus effects.

From there you could go to a stereo preamp or a two channel recording interface or even two separate amps. Even one guitar amp and one bass amp would be worth a try, I think.

For me it was an idea to try out, let me know about your results, if you ever tried something similar.

There's also a more practical application for the two chorus pedals I came across during this experiment:

The overdrive pedal, combined with the chorus pedals, this time in series.

Switching on the "Ultra Chorus" adds a sweet harmonic overtone to my guitar signal.

Adding the "Super Chorus" creates some additional space and ambient room for single notes.

Just keep the depth knob dialed down almost all the way to "mask" the chorus worble.