How To Play Ambient Guitar #21 - Tips for Producing Good Tone (with Guitar and Effects)

Watch and listen as I discuss and demo tips and tricks for producing good ambient guitar tones. We start with fingers and picks, move through the guitar and look at compressors, distortions, delays and reverbs. It's a long video, so I have time indexes below so you can skip from topic to topic

**** Topics ****
Fingers or Picks? 0:55
What Kind of Pick? 2:20
Location of Picking: 4:09
Tone Control on Guitar: 6:07
Let's Look at Effects! 7:54
Compressors Affect Tone 8:20
Distorions! 9:38
Delays 11:59
Reverbs! 15:23
Delay + Reverb 18:08
Delay + Reverb +Distortion 19:04

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Equipment used:
Carvin HF2 Allan Holdsworth Signature Guitar (Kiesel)
Wampler Ego Compressor http://amzn.to/2iGtW6a
J Rockett Pedal Holdsworth Overdrive http://amzn.to/2qx0mCB
Morley Little Alligator Volume Pedal http://amzn.to/2es8L2M
Earthquaker Devices Avalanche Run http://amzn.to/2qxfRdY
Neunaber Immerse Stereo Reverb
Focusrite Saffire Pro 40: http://amzn.to/2es9elp
Apple Logic Pro X

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