Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: hunter on September 11, 2009, 06:12:20 AM
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I've been chasing a certain delay sound since a long time. Was when we recorded our first demo in 1989, the guy used a EMT delay, and I cannot get the sound of it out of my head.
In the past months I've been looking for a pedal that can give me that sound: transparent but not harsh, warm but not muffly, and that certain HiFi quality that reminds you of a top end late 70s HiFi system, sounds fat but not overprocessed and not analog.
Well, I found exactly that sound that I had in my head from that first demo recording, in the Providence 80's Delay. They give you that promise, that the pedal has the same circuit and components as those 80s high end rack units. Not their features though. I mean this is a simple pedal, no modulation, no multiple delays, no tap tempo, and it's in the price range of the Eventide Timefactor, which has all the crazy features and then some. But the Eventide doesn't have that sound.
I tried to capture it in a vid, I think what comes across is how transparent its repeats are without being thin, even at extreme effect mix. Keep in mind that the pedal in real sounds better than on the vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAEwW4MQtM4&fmt=18
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Sounds very good. Nice big arena sounds.
Not that I'm going to trade my RE-20 for it. I like the muffled, warbly, saturated tone.
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Sounds very good. Nice big arena sounds.
Not that I'm going to trade my RE-20 for it. I like the muffled, warbly, saturated tone.
Yeah, I have a Danelectro Reel Echo which does that one quite well, too. The Providence sounds like no other Delay I owned though, which were TC Nova, T-Rex Replica, Lexicon MX200 and the Axe FX ones. In the Providence it's a NOS digital chip for the delay, but all other circuitry is finest analog circuitry, and that's a match made in heaven.
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OH SHI*. Hunter, the delay on the Zep tune is SICK. Where can I get one?!
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OH SHI*. Hunter, the delay on the Zep tune is SICK. Where can I get one?!
Haha, yeah it's nice isn't it?
I have to warn you though, it's gonna be 250 quid :x
I got mine here from the French dudes: http://www.providence-effects.fr/crbst_13.html
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The opening setting you use is as close to the holy grail Lexicon esque/ Landau delay in my head that I've heard... :lol:
I wonder if it would be a waste of money to get it before I got a loop mod on my amp.
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The opening setting you use is as close to the holy grail Lexicon esque/ Landau delay in my head that I've heard... :lol:
I wonder if it would be a waste of money to get it before I got a loop mod on my amp.
I haven't tried it up front, but the Providence guys said it's what most people do, as it's so transparent. I'm gonna have a go at it and let you know.
It is expensive, same range as Eventide or T-Rex Replica. You gotta be after that sound if you buy it. It won't do tape stuff as it doesn't have any LFO. But if it's this special sound you want, you won't find any better (unless you spend 1,500 on a TC2290)
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Sounds superb!
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can't beat a nice delay
hunter I thought you'd be able to dial in something very similar with the PC editor thing for the axe-fx
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any extra reverb on that clip?
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any extra reverb on that clip?
No, just Triamp and Delay.
I tried to dial in similar tones with the Axe, but just fail to get the trail of the delay decays right, there is sth special about that Providence thing...
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any extra reverb on that clip?
No, just Triamp and Delay.
I tried to dial in similar tones with the Axe, but just fail to get the trail of the delay decays right, there is sth special about that Providence thing...
no reverb? then i agree its a bit special!!
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Providence effects are good, you should check out their Anadime chorus as well.