My Secret Guitar Pad Patch From The 1990s

In which I reveal a secret I've kept for nearly 30 years, and show you how to make that guitar pad patch from my Headphones Are Not Stereo video.
Features a guitar generously provided by Glarry for the purpose.
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[@DieSonderschuela]

love the track, can i get it anywhere?

[@DanWorrall]

Just for you: dan-worrall.bandcamp.com/track/secrets-lies

[@SeanGonzalezMDHEXT]

Please, I beg you, please put up the music from "how to mix in stereo without sucking in mono part 2".

[@CaseyFronk]

You've influenced my mixing techniques, recording techniques and understanding of audio. You already had "influence", Dan. :) Secret voiceover chain and processing tutorial when??

[@LoveMeBack]

I miss the Fabfilter voice.

[@nexusobserve]

He's got a voice an Airband works really well on

[@WangleLine]

This!!

[@DanWorrall]

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[@davidestre6677]

DAN! how's your track called in your "headphones are not stereo" video? you did an amazing job with this tune and I would love to buy it!

[@perpetualemotionmachines5797]

Thank you very much, Dan! These videos are some of the best on the net and the links will be used. Best, The Throxx Of Vron, Smoothcore Music, PEM

[@sfilipee]

Amazing. This reminded me of recently watching a Mix With The Masters episode with the producer Illangelo, in the song intro he created a whole world out of a couple of single synth notes, using multiple instances of Timeless and Valhalla Delay. The song was Alone Again, by The Weeknd.

[@gabrielgodwin9953]

If there are ever KZbin Oscar awards, I nominate you sir. Thanks for all your work and for sharing your tips, tricks, and hacks. I've been in the engineer trenches for a long time, it's not often that someone blows my mind. You are treasure Dan.

[@nikitam.4126]

Cocteau Twins Robin Guthrie did this in the early-mid 80’s. thnx, love these sounds 🌌

[@Aqua_1014]

Yup, was thinking this. Very cool sounds!

[@RidtheXS]

That was so creative and fun to watch! Can't wait to try it myself. Thanks Dan for showing us your tricks.

[@CarlyonProduction]

That is really fantastic Dan. I’m gonna use this in a track tonight. I love how good it sounds on a clean guitar.

[@VigilSerus]

Ok well I've been jonesing for an expression pedal for my DAW but now this seals it. Thank you Dan, you are an endless source of help and inspiration!

[@samprock]

That's so, so sweet sounding and naturally controlled sound! never had any urge to get a vol pedal for my guitars, so have none. But I figure it would work as good pressing PolyBrute Morphy controller. So yes Dan, make a pedal!

[@ganderson87]

Dan: "Ima just casually drop a cool trance patch and the end" *mic drops* You're such a tease sir!

[@Xlornick]

But it's not -6 lufs so it's not real trance. Great video as usual!

[@famitory]

@@Xlornick if it's flat, it's trance, otherwise it's psytrance

[@dapliff]

Man always amazing stuff here!!! Love the patch, I will do my best to recreate it…thank you very much!!!

[@daleonov]

Thanks for sharing this! Really smart technique, sounds super clean.

[@coolbackflip69]

thank you mr worrall for all of the videos, i try to watch at least a few a day. its always great to be able to learn from professionals, idk youre a legend and a gentleman, thanks

[@afaydilek]

for a 22 year old like me, you are a stronghold of old skool production in these messed up times of music, if that makes any sense. i can feel that you experienced "the old days" or production and i really envy that. Thanks for sharing these videos.

[@DanWorrall]

In the "old days" having a studio meant dropping serious money on hardware. There were no plugins. Computers did midi only. There were no KZbin tutorials either! You're living in a golden age for music production, IMO: with just free software you can have a setup that blows my first project studio out of the water. I'm expecting great things from your generation ;)

[@Joe-mz6dc]

I will be using this for sure my friend. Thank you very much. Excellent idea.

[@Popbot]

i found this channel a few days ago and I cant stop binging the videos. I would love to see some more sound design explanations or tutorials such as this one in the future.

[@elasticoGomez]

Dan is an enigma; I appreciate everything you share with us.

[@michal.ochedowski]

I would say he is the exact opposite. He shares with us knowledge one could spend months trying to discover. It would take highly imaginative brain to even think of some of the techniques he posted on his channel. All that and a sense of humor delivered regularly for our convenience. A brilliant man.

[@zloboslav_]

Wow thank you so much! I've been trying to do something similar in my POD GO but I didn't use the expression pedal, only switching which needed me to switch between 2 settings and tap dance on each chord change lol... and now I'm going to try this which seems so much more ergonomic and controlled! Awesome tip! :)

[@eugenefullstack7613]

Absolutely genius. I'm going to try this both with my expression pedal and with sidechaining as soon as I get home from work!

[@zacksucks798]

This is awesome. Thank you for sharing.

[@nsjx]

Thanks for the pointers. Your vids are much more than a title can betray. It's almost a trademark and definitely a reason to watch every video.

[@cmd_f5]

Such huge and lush sounds. Those chords are perfect for showing this effect off. I've done vol swells and octave shimmers but not delay swells. This effect sounds a little like Paulstretch. Very ambient and glassy time stretchy goodness. Great stuff as always.

[@juliocamacho8354]

The genius is in the details. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience. Your videos sounds like the best kind of documentary's.

[@rubievale]

That was absolutely savage. Brilliant

[@graywyot]

Amazing sharing! Thank you Dan!

[@KneedleKnees]

You may feel churlish, but we all appreciate your honest opinion about the guitar's sound. For that price, it's definitely worth installing some new pickups.

[@picksalot1]

Absolutely brilliant! 👍 Thanks

[@SaintLuminus]

Oh wow! I haven't looked at FabFilter plugins in ages. Damn, they've really added a lot of features. Thank you for the vid Dan.

[@seansley]

In one way inspiring; in another, intimidating. So much can be done with the know-how.

[@Aqua_1014]

I always try to do this with just the volume knob but I'm not too great at it haha. You just made me realize how much I really should be using a volume/expression pedal. Awesome video and thanks for sharing! :)

[@frequencymanipulator]

Magic mate. Thanks for sharing.

[@fabiang.805]

Man, that technique is awesome. Also I really need to get Timeless 3.

[@floppydisk921]

Really nice! I’ve been messing with the frippatronics just volume pedal into delay with 100% feedback but you can’t control when the pad ends. What you can do that way though is play a lot of different notes up and down the neck and create a huge pad

[@yachimitsou]

you are very creative and talented with a great explaining voice, i wish all my professors would sound like you.

[@meis18mofo77]

loved the gated version at the end

[@BruceRichardsonMusic]

Wow, man. Great, simple trick. Thanks!!

[@nickthorne5872]

Wow what a flex, ending your video with a bang! You sir are impressive

[@natura808]

Thank you Dan, our bottomless well of knowledge.

[@planzed463]

Great video! I do this with my modeller using assigns... I’ve been using the much slated BOSS GT1000 & lovin how it works

[@VincentSebastianMusic]

The electro-harmonix superego totally does this sound!

[@samkenny3075]

Brilliant-- and simple! You've totally influenced me--

[@macronencer]

Fundamentally quite simple, but so effective! I'm going to share this with a few guitarist friends. I wonder what other instruments could be used instead of guitar... I mean, the first thing I thought of is vocals - with the right kind of voice, I think it would be interesting.

[@c3r1c38]

Thanks a ton, it was enlightening.

[@waveguider]

Thanks Dan! I tried this with my Boss DD 500 using a separate volume pedal and expression pedal. I have the same ART midi controller so I might pull it out of storage and try it that way.

[@joost3783]

Dan is one of two channels on youtube where I press the like button before I even start watching.

[@rogerfurer2273]

Wow Dan. Thanks for the clues. I guess it's time to investigate what else my MIDI controller can do. I obviously only scratched the surface.

[@marioblack8099]

Amazing this is something I dream of for live performing

[@planzed463]

Love your content Dan 👌🏼 thank you

[@nkozi]

Hah! Been doing this for a few years on the Boss DD-500 and the Line 6 HX Effects. Pedals have come a looooooong way, my friend. Happy to be carrying on the tradition!

[@thrisighsty]

BEST music knowledgebomb dropper on the whole tube!!

[@hyperactivists9390]

Lovely! Thanks so much :)

[@RobFlaxMusic]

Ahhh this is great! Empress Zoia can do this… and I’m immediately stealing this technique. Thank you!

[@No.0.o.0]

Going to be doing this with a Fractal and Bitwig ASAP. Cool song at the end. Lovely chords.

[@jamescuttsmusicjcm5013]

Thank you for sharing this Dan. I have done many a similar thing but never this exact idea. I will give it a try for my ambient endeavours. P.S - I actually caught this video 2 hours after you uploaded it, but I was busy and never got around to commenting. Since you put so much work into your videos, and they are undoubtedly great quality, I figured I should come back and comment. Keep up the good work my man. :D.

[@aural_supremacy]

Just bought a Roland FC-300 with 2 expression pedals and connections for 3 or 4 more, will definitely investigate this thanks.

[@_Stin_]

Then... suddenly... TRANCE! Amazing. Can't stop watching your vids, Dan. Thank you.

[@PASHKULI]

Dan "the influenza" Worrall. Actually this was a very creative FX oriented video. Extremely interesting for live and automation purposes as well.

[@kailo1619]

Been waiting for this

[@jimimaze]

Very cool Mr Worrall. Now I’ve forgotten all about what phase shift is, and the speed of light, and want to play spaced out guitar.

[@thelanavishnuorchestra]

I liked the Headphones are not Stereo video and now two good vids, I'm subscribed.

[@amptechron]

I use my Korg A1 for similar sounds with a midi pedal/CC. Its FX routing and modulation control via CC is amazing, I will never part with mine..... Love your show!

[@Nimbin]

very inspiring. thank you

[@iainmackenzieUK]

10:03 "nice" :)))

[@autarken]

ahhh love to see the old ValveFX. I picked one up I wouldn't be able to afford otherwise after working at a music store in high school... then in college I added ValveFX modules to the RPEdit software that had been done for the RP10/RP12, so I could make that "hard to program for guitarists" problem a bit easier. good times.

[@nickjash]

Great tips for sound design. Digitech, ART, still in my rack.

[@simpleKyle]

That outro sounds so good ala Shpongle. Cheers!

[@jjdubois6101]

I had to align and redrill the bridge on mine, crazy value though

[@EvgenyRosso]

mind... blowing... wow... thanks!

[@nolyspe]

Brilliant.

[@mixourband]

Another awesome video.

[@noice7381]

You never disappoint! I bet changing the amp tone going into the chain could also yield more possibilities for different sounds and textures

[@Mansardian]

Damn...sitting in my office right now, but can't wait to try it! By the way Dan, you are the only English native speaker I have heard so far who pronounces the Ü correctly. My compliments!

[@kristianTV1974]

You haven't heard too many native english speakers then. Most people I know get it right.

[@Mansardian]

@@kristianTV1974 Das würde ich nicht sagen, ich habe in Newcastle gelebt. Aber ich bin ein Pedant bei sowas und schwer zufriedenzustellen. Dan's Ü ist wunderbar geradlinig und weit vorne im Mundraum, ohne der üblichen englischen Vokalbiegung. Wirklich gut!

[@RothmanHarv]

Ooh very nice. Some old Alesis reverbs (like the XT:c's) have a "Hold" button which made for some very gravelly and glitchy pads. The "cyclic" sound of the Timeless3 sound like a much more sophisticated, controllable version of that.

[@MgClbustos]

Very cool technique! This can be done on the analogue world with a delay pedal with expression pedal that can be set to control the feedback, like EHX Memory man/boy. I like to use it to freeze chords, like Dan does it here, or to create mayhem, setting the feedback over 100%.

[@cutseencinematics]

great tutorial

[@mucknog]

So Cool!

[@HazyJ28]

Yayyyyy always a good day when you upload

[@The-Bloke]

"I'm finally seeing some rewards.." You mean sharing your knowledge isn't its OWN reward? :) Well it certainly is to us, so I hope people keep sending you stuff so it gives you all the more reason to keep making great videos :)

[@Lovingdeadboy]

Love you Dan !

[@raycochrane3971]

That was fun...I'd have loved to see/hear the old unit in the signal path as you used it way back then.

[@DanWorrall]

It doesn't power up properly these days :( But maybe one day I'll let you hear some of an old band demo, if you're really interested...

[@raycochrane3971]

@@DanWorrall Please.

[@HHFan420]

Man your playing in this video sounds exactly like Michael Franzino from A Lot Like Birds. Always wondered how they were approaching their reverb/delay trickery. Excellent video as always.

[@cantankerousclankingcontra8295]

Must have been fun doing this live back in the day.

[@EdKidgell]

So much of goodness!

[@orbik_fin]

Nice idea. First I thought MIDI-controlled feedback is like a sustainer that feeds sound back into the guitar body, through a separate pedal-controlled amp.

[@MCAlvesPortugal]

Thanks Very much.😎

[@famousdavemusic]

This is absolutely mega. I'm going to go and have a play with my Plethora X5 and see if I can do something similar. Has anyone else tried this with a Plethora?

[@curtis_chip]

C R E A T I V I T Y great Dan, Thanks !

[@nusphere]

Awesome 👌

[@m.i.stapes]

Daaang I really need to learn how to use Saturn and timeless better. It seems mind blowing to me how you use those things Dan!

[@Mennenth]

I was thinking multi-tap delays with diffusion as it sounded like the Meris Polymoon, but done differently and having different properties. Sounds really nice!

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[@elitefitrea]

Pretty cool

[@unclemick-synths]

11:37 😎. Great video. I wouldn't have thought of the feedback as something to modulate. Lesson to self - be more imaginative!

[@monosbeats7398]

This gave me lots of ideas. 😱 ... Oh no! Now they just keep coming! I need to get to the stu!

[@mudsh4rk]

I did this but with a flanger instead of a delay in a Digitech GSP2101 back in high school and blew a speaker. The repair tech I took it to said the spider was completely detached and he'd never seen anyone do that to a guitar speaker before.

[@damiMarciano]

Congrats! I was waiting this! The pickup comparison is outstanding. Fender loose this one!

[@shanonkiyoshi4784]

PHENOMENAL 👀‼️ ...Thank you 😎👍⚡

[@steverushforth7009]

Brilliant, just brilliant, I dug out my Yamaha midi pedal, such great fun. Your name seems familiar, I am sure you are a member of the "Archers"

[@elmo7sharp9]

I did exactly this with a Roland VG-88. I was after Fripp-style textures, punching-in new material with the pedal. Worked well, but the VG-88 has only 1800 mS of delay to play with...

[@SoundAuthor]

Brilliant!