Ambient Guitar Swells Tutorial

[@noelgriffin7914]

I watched this video for the first time about 5 years ago and it's still a video that I go to to hear a beautiful tone.stunning work man

[@kaemanuk]

Same here! I thought I was the only one that came back to listen to the melody now and again haha :)

[@noelgriffin7914]

Holy crap i just replied a comment to wrong comment(if that makes sense)......he's got an amazing setup.that white falcon is beautiful

[@mohbeenh]

i second that bro

[@computarman]

I think the guitar swell is the most beautiful relaxing sound that man can make. If you had this music at your funeral,, people who did not even lke you might cry.

[@JDL0111]

thats the most beautiful swell i ever heard

[@joncarolino]

+Jonathan Lewis thanks!

[@whazpoppin]

Jonathan lewis music Thats what she said

[@John-fk9ye]

all it sounds to me is expensive. everytime eh strums a chord al i hear is. *eeeeeEEEXXXXX* *peeeeeEEEEENnnn* *ssssIIIIiVVVVeeeee*

[@chrisgarzon1]

This is literally the most beautiful swell I've ever heard

[@sergiunita4257]

listen to Bonamassa

[@christophersmith8486]

Amazing that all of these professional world class guitar players took time out of their day to critique your simple swell tutorial. Lightning in a bottle I’ll tel ya!!

[@AelitaDiAgostino]

Aaaaugh, so beautiful. I could listen to guitar ambient swells all day... they make my skin crawl.

[@krubosh]

Usually having 4+ Styrmon pedals means that you have 0 creativity and a lot of money but then again I absolutely CANNOT argue with those sweet sweet swells. Nice work! I would love to come to a workshop sometime!

[@westonlundquist9202]

I can hear the pastor praying over it already!

[@joncarolino]

yup pretty much. haha #alwayslasttoleaveservice

[@placidbeach]

Heaven!!!!!!

[@davidb4509]

Ahh. I thought this would be much more complicated. Thank you for making it so simple, yet expanding out to the "Advanced Swells" too! Can't wait to get my electric out and try it! Thanks!

[@tvshooter999]

Thanks for sharing this, Jon. It's always nice to see other ambient guitarists share their techniques and learn how they approach things!

[@joncarolino]

tvshooter999 My pleasure! Thats my goal.

[@TylerDickeyMusic]

I feel like 2 Time Lines, An El Cap, and an Analog delay is a bit overkill in the delay department

[@bluepedalsrock9271]

It’s only overkill if that’s not the sound you’re going for. I’ve personally used 3 delays at once and enjoyed the mesmerizing sound that came out of it.

[@EDERSONMASCARENHAS]

Hello, I'm from Brazil and always watch your videos much like the sound you make, God bless your life. A Hug!

[@PhilFeedback]

Pretty cool 😎

[@DopamineOverload]

Great workshop, Jon. I'd love to see the whole thing, if you guys are going to upload more of it.

[@joncarolino]

Thanks! Following the Church Collective. Chris Bellamy and I will be doing a live stream of the workshop very soon.

[@andywinford2770]

Excellent. Do you have a link to the video of the chords you were talking about at 1:04 'Chris's instructions'?

[@CharlesEBusa]

Beautiful tones!

[@joncarolino]

Thank you!

[@chrisattigliato1]

Who the hell has two timelines...

[@Ok-zj2fg]

chrisattigliato1 Right? Heading into tryhard territory.

[@joncarolino]

***** Hahaha. I layer a lot of my delays. Commonly I will use an analog delay, a tape delay and a digital delay to get some of my swell tones. I obviously like the timeline and the things that it does. So if I ever wanted to layer two unique delays like the ice and the dual digital panning left and right in series I have the ability to do so. It just gives me more flexibility in my tone and doesn't restrict my creativity.

[@Ok-zj2fg]

jon carolino Lucky you, wish I could afford even one lol.

[@aeroblivion2823]

Kyle L. Save and time. That’s all it take.

[@rubenj5269]

And el capistan

[@promoted738]

Your pedalboard or a house................I choose the board! Nice work.

[@Idioteque2514]

that guitar looks angelic

[@NoCoverCharge]

One of the greatest guitars ever made the White Falcon

[@Timm4y]

Great tutorial man! Got a Ttimeline and Wet reverb here, so I should be able to replicate some of this :-). I did notice that your volumepedal seems to need a new pot in there? Bit of noise when your bring it up. God Bless.

[@thisnameiseitherrestricted6270]

Ambient guitar - instant guitar player!

[@MrJoshkbye]

but does it djent?

[@richardmg5927]

ImprovisedKaos. church guitarist dont need to djent

[@zeckarius9346]

Juan Miguel. djent is always necessary

[@tonys2705]

Sounds beautiful... That sure is one heck of a rig you got there! And you definitely know what you're doing.... Very cool.

[@samuelcastro9955]

1:59 sleeping in this sound 🤩

[@marcusdembinski5632]

Jesus that's a lot of Strymon.

[@joncarolino]

Marcus Dembinski aint it sweet ;)

[@JDL0111]

+jon carolino no its shweet

[@briorinaldi2310]

+Marcus Dembinski He's keeping them in business! LOL

[@JDL0111]

***** amen

[@ElvisPriceless]

+Marcus Dembinski God ... and a lot of money !! ;-)

[@surajtamang3447]

I love this sound of swells .. 🥰😇 I’m going to try it ...

[@d2vmusic]

Beautiful sounds, many thanks for the tutorial.

[@smb1412]

Very nice! That was fun to watch and learn from!

[@joncarolino]

Thanks!

[@GuitarSerJoLink]

Two Timelines?!!

[@JulienDestange]

HAHAHa, same reaction here !

[@MauriGrau]

Sergio Gonzalez Luna (Kairos A&A) strymon lover jajaja

[@cayvzcvlt]

Even the muddy chords sound great

[@powlperc]

Good swells explaination/demo

[@ITheFight]

Wow what a pedal board! Super amazing sound - great playing to match

[@joncarolino]

Thanks!

[@herrlogi]

Great tutorial :) a workshop by you sounds great !

[@joncarolino]

Thanks!

[@fbdasjkwlsdgbhngvbhnvsjlk]

Amazing tone and some very inspiring instructions. Thanks a lot! You like The War On Drugs?

[@rojoratatatata4002]

Wow, this is really cool

[@z101dc1]

Hey one more delay pedal on that board and you will reverse the space time continuum :-). I love my el cap - it's bigger on the inside.

[@jonbardy7435]

Hey Jon, I like the Ambient Guitar Swells tutorial, especially at 4:57 into the video. You display what you say is playing harsh on the bridge. I just wanted to say that I found it beautifully inspiring. I subscribed to your channel and didn't find a full video of that (harsh) type of playing technique , so I was wondering if you have a 4-5 minute video playing just like that. I'd love to hear a continuation of it. If so how do I find it. Thanks.

[@joshjbradburn]

jon bardy I assume he ment with a band it would be a little too harsh as you would be overplaying where others should be... if that makes sense. If you want some wonderful ambient guitar stuff check out Andy Oathling, song 22 on YT.

[@cpgoimy]

LOL 4 Strymon pedals. I like it, I like it

[@joncarolino]

cpgoimy me too ;)

[@emeryhersh8702]

man i love that sound thanks for sharing !

[@ClaiborneBassard]

Awesome video, man

[@generationterrorist1]

So nice!

[@na27der]

beautiful

[@pomeranianserenader9238]

Nice video. Thankyou for sharing this

[@TimMer1981]

5:12: what chords are those?

[@ПётрВасильев-с9х]

great sound

[@joncarolino]

+Пётр Васильев Thanks

[@2TimothyBand]

Nice. Great swells.

[@AndrewSmith-sy7ws]

Hey man this sounds absolutely amazing cam you please record that tune for me i would love to play it in the background when im relaxing and reflecting

[@rhinojaxx4197]

Hey Jon this is amazing. Thanks for this tutorial. am a beginner in guitar pedals but have been playing guitar for a while... I really need to ask you what delay is best for swells analog vs digital delay if I can only get either one... or a reverb pedal only could do it. its so heavenly sounding. What octave pedal are you using?

[@micahdavis3625]

Ashley Chenga Obviously I am not Jon, but I do have some pointers. If you want to have the ultimate usefulness, I would recommend trying to get the TC Electronic Triple Delay so you could have the clean digital delay and the darker analog repeats on at the same time, but in one box. If you can't get something like that (or two different boxes), then I would recommend getting a digital delay that has some kind of modulation control (or maybe an analog like the MXR Carbon Copy). Anything with modulation will sound great with swells, but analog delays generally don't have tap tempo and aren't very clean for percussive dotted eighth type delays (again, not a rule, just a general idea). You can totally get either, but for swells, I recommend analog or digital with modulation so your swells don't sound "sterile."

[@rhinojaxx4197]

Micah Davis Thank you so much. Helped me out a ton. I will definitely look that up TC triple Delay. I recently started building a pedalboard and as far as delay is concerned I was able to get the DD7 Boss pedal for a start. I like the dotted 8 stuff/and tap tempo feature it has (with Foot Switch). And thanks for explaning a little about analog vs digital. I lean towards the digital cause I'm a Boss fan & fell for DD7 first time I saw a demo. Modulation in pedals is a term I am trying to grasp too as I did the analog vs digital delay. So much to learn. Thanks again! Cheers from Mozambique

[@micahdavis3625]

If you have the DD7 already, then I would definitely go for something like the Carbon Copy. It'll get you that darker analog modulation that'll liven up your swells. Cheers!

[@rhinojaxx4197]

Thank you once again. Appreciate your help. Pedals are soooo fun :) but expensive

[@apiladoalecknoel8341]

Woah Strymon Best Buyer

[@jerishp1454]

Great video.. I am a newbie getting to pedals. Ambient music is where I am headed. What are the red and silver pedals on your board ( beneath the strymons?)..

[@jakeandlori23]

Awesome sounds good man just was curious 😜 Rock on man 🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@SavedPulley]

Thanks brother! Awesome. God bless

[@edwardf.1659]

I use swells on my little phatty moog and it sounds greater then the original presets. so mutch fun I get lost in time!!!

[@kevincampeaurecords]

great video Jon, thanks

[@joncarolino]

+Nash Records Thank you!

[@Natesmitguitar]

Hey, I've had the same problem with trails going on and on from having feedback settings on my pedals for good swells. I don't have the gear for it, but you can add another volume pedal at the end of your chain. A little bit of foot dancing but can be crucial to use in some parts.

[@joncarolino]

true.

[@OlawaleOlaleye]

Amazing. Heavenly sound. where is chord instruction he is playing.

[@vonnian1]

Cool thank you for getting back to me with your advice. Now I ask the same question on the freeze pedal lol. I nearly have your pedalboard replicated . Great sound vids and talent you have there btw!

[@joncarolino]

+Marc young Thanks! ask away.

[@ryanllewellyn3472]

Great tutorial... Many thanks

[@joncarolino]

Ryan Llewellyn Thanks for watching

[@ebookpioneers]

I just do it the way Allan Holdsworth has done it for decades: a volume pedal, a chorus, a delay with several repeats and some reverb. Tain't rocket science. It also works great for E-Bow.

[@robinjgill]

John Martyn - "Small hours" 1978. Echoplex + volume pedal kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3K0iod3jJ13j6M

[@danielgalanti2166]

Killer pedal board but there is a crackle in the volume pedal pot. The weak link in the chain. Very cool sounds and playing.

[@Se7enthsonSS]

4:23 that's the absolute truth. This stuff sounds absolutely amazing

[@alexbatz9977]

so do you absolutely need a delay? or can you just do swells with a reverb pedal?

[@gabeus9170]

Alex Batz You dont need delay but it helps to hold the sound of the notes you play longer

[@Tom-ff8cv]

I love how you hold certain chords. Can you please do a tutorial? Like you said, holding a traditional G sounds too muddy~

[@hervinramirez4310]

Hey man thanks you’re a good player I would like to know if ur volumen pedal is the first set or between drives and delays?

[@SavageSoundsProd]

+Miguel F regarding your question about does it get "redundant if you get another delay or reverb even though you already have those on your pedal board" I don't know if you caught what he was explaining when he moved onto what he calls "advance swells" but he went from one delay pedal & one reverb to an "analog delay, a 'dual delay', a really washy reverb" & an additional reverb on top of that. there's nothing really "advanced" about it you're just using more effects pedals but there is a difference in sound, if you could hear it, with more a deeper more effected sound & the chords decayed slower. it's really just a matter of preference & the sound you're going for. as far as if you mean the exact same pedal like having one electro harmonix holy grail and adding another holy grail to your board that's still a matter of preference. if you really like the reverb or delay produced by a certain pedal why not? to have two delay or reverb pedals that have different features or can do slightly different things such as looping abilities might add more tools to your sonic palette. hope this helps

[@KJayDrums]

Hey. So you made a mention of chord structure for swells. Is there a video for that too?

[@joncarolino]

Kevin Nicholas no not yet. If you attend one of our workshops, my buddy Chris Bellamy goes over that.

[@hiJonguitar]

very nice

[@josephlongo3991]

AWESOME PEDAL BOARD!! What are the fingerings for your chord inversions?? I have the Boss GT-10, which is a digital multi-effects processor. However, there is a "manual" mode I can put it in, which resembles analog stompboxes, in the sense that I can turn effects on and off under the same patch. It's actually pretty cool. Anyway, what should the settings be for: delay? Reverb? Modulation? I can have two delays set up, too. Should I use some slight overdrive, like the TS9? We don't have a keyboardist at the moment, so I would love to create ambient noise in between songs.

[@00jknight]

Basically tape delay with infinite reverbs. Mostly his sound is coming from the Strymon Big Sky Bloom effect, pretty sure, but if you use a slow attack and a tape delay, you will achieve something similar

[@smurphy28]

Great tutorial! Where do you place your volume pedal in your chain and which model do you have?

[@briantost7125]

Hmmm, all those Strymons and a Visual Sound OD? I suppose you don't even need a great OD pedal with a Badcat and a Jackson amp behind you. Sounds pretty great.

[@joncarolino]

Brian Tost This was my ambient set up. I was playing a solo gig and didn't have a need for my overdrives HOWEVER don't you underestimate VS (or truetone's) overdrives. They have become MUCH better.

[@aldrinclementina4297]

Nice bro. But how do you handel the feedback problem with those F-holes? I still have that problem. Thats why I'm using a solid body strat like guitar.

[@joncarolino]

Aldrin Clementina unless i got a ton of overdrive on or a monitor blaring right back at me, i normally don't have feedback issues with it.

[@FinderofNemo]

Aldrin Clementina Feedback isn't much of an issue with a semi-hollow guitar, it's the fully hollow ones that feedback like a bitch.

[@lcglazer]

Hi Jon, the swells at the end "with everything on" sounded really nice.. Could you please tell me what was the signal chain for it? Thx!!

[@xchorro]

i bought the big sky a while ago and maybe i just don’t know much working around it but i’m not a huge fan of the synthy sounding finish for the swells on big sky

[@Claviceptic]

Are you playing a Hammock song through this? It sounds a lot like one of their tracks to me.

[@katavia4131]

itsounds familiar to me somebody please tell me what song that is

[@Itsvanillarice]

torikelly4131 lol sorry it’s 2 years late but the song is kinda great are you lord.

[@ameliaboucho2150]

Hey Jon, thank you ! What is the brand/model of your 2 switchers loopers ?

[@jpzeus]

Best swell tutorial that I've seen (even though your using a lot of delay and 2 reverbs) but what about using reverse delay setting??

[@joncarolino]

dkfno1 Ive done that before too. It all just depends on your setup and what textures you want to achieve in your swells

[@guitarofdestiny]

Very explosions in the skyesque

[@tonirazz5565]

Bridge pickup, a good amount of gain and then swell single notes.

[@bischanney5812]

So Jon, can you share the chords you used for those swell, please?

[@novi493]

What church is this? This looks like my old church a lot. Very similar, beautiful swells

[@yuanyuanzeng6442]

How to play pads on a guitar basically. The volume pedal makes it easier than the volume knob obviously.

[@cph2004]

This would go well with projections, and a light show.

[@fernandobarahona9683]

What model is your guitar?? Its like the white falcon but kinda smaller... Love it!!

[@isaacmontano5689]

What are the chords he is playing?

[@LemonMeIon]

Isaac Montano A, C#m, B, Abm Pretty typical ambient worship guitar chord progression. More commonly used is C, Em, D, Bm

[@gdawgs101]

@@LemonMeIon interesting you said Abm instead of G#m

[@John-fk9ye]

@@gdawgs101 possible a bass player or a keyboardist hahahh

[@dancarlson4982]

"Cheaper of the two reverbs"

[@rauliciii]

do you have the volume pedal before the drives/compressor?

[@deadlegend3427]

Did you ever find an answer because I also need to know

[@myrhh2260]

@@deadlegend3427 hey, usually put the volume pedal in the beginning of the chain, otherwise when you pull back on the pedal, the sound will cut out, so to give it the ambience sustain, you wanna put most of the effects after the volume

[@deadlegend3427]

@@myrhh2260 thanks for the info

[@mackicagadas7941]

Hey man, your videos are so cool, could I ask how you chain your pedals? I'm trying to copy them for church.. Hoping to hear from you :) God bless you!

[@joncarolino]

I can. but check out some of my other videos. I go through a bunch of ways to chain it all together.

[@jesusdrumz]

nice job man. what's the name of the tune in this video? I can't find it on bandcamp

[@shivankarsen1055]

Would you kindly inform me about the chords? They're wonderful..

[@jimbob20051]

What are the chords Jon used from 2:00 till 2:17? Thanks :P

[@TheCrewesin]

I dunno but i have heard it in a the XX song ive been wondering what they are

[@ivanlabanowski6444]

MADTAIL did u realiced that the pedal tuner shows u ? xD

[@MegaNickGuy]

Strange question, and I hope you potentially answer this. When you start playing chords that you described as larger chords, may I ask at to what they were if you have recollection? Roughly halfway thru the video. I adore the sound of those chords, but I can’t quite figure them out. Thanks in advance. :)

[@MegaNickGuy]

Starting at 2:00

[@joncarolino]

I think it’s a Gsus2, D/F#, Asus4, A

[@MegaNickGuy]

jon carolino Thanks!

[@theguitarist2007]

What notes aré you playing when you swell?

[@invalidusertoken7152]

you guys realize why indie films and games have such hard hitting emotional sections? THIS IS THE ANSWER. and yes I do have a guitar

[@joncarolino]

@@invalidusertoken7152 do you make games or films? I’d be happy to make some tracks for you 😁

[@TheSWA2011]

is that wah like pedal a pitch shifter?

[@felixdhermillon]

+ryan martin no its a volume swelling pedal

[@Truth1nNature]

I just purchased the ernieball vp jr 25k ... Hope I got the right one. I plan to use it in effects loop. Do you have the 25k or the 250k?

[@intothelight5418]

Carolino, don't you have a youtube channel anymore? I want to subscribed to your cannel.

[@joncarolino]

+Into the Light yeah go hit subscribe!

[@gabrielbergmanlahovary9478]

Where do you put the volumepedal? Because i heard its different if you put it before distortion or after. I want the volume to do cool swells and when i dont want the distortion to be clean when im using the volume pedal when i put it down. i want the gain to be the same all way to quiet. Also where do you have your POG and freeze in chain?

[@Mdogbrown]

Will the hot rod deluxe suit well for cleans? worship? I need to buy an amp and I'm having a hard time deciding but don't want to break the bank. I tried fender blues jr and vox ac10 and loved them.. Does having the vintage 30 speaker help with sound? thanks.

[@davidisaiahlibrando9582]

The one that hes playing its sounds like this is i belive by hillsong