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[@peterkirdan]

Came across shimmer playing my acoustic guitar and fell in love with it. Then later found out how popular it is in worship music, I understand why, it sounds Heavenly ❤🙌🏽

[@SundaySounds]

One of my first intros to it was playing with a worship leader for acoustic sets, he was running his acoustic guitar through a Blue Sky for shimmer and it sounded so cool! -David

[@dannypresson]

“Love Song” by Third Day (1995) is the first worship song that comes to mind for using some shimmer in the big choruses.

[@fractalcreative6128]

It’s funny you ask if shimmer is dead and will it live on. Also interesting when it started with Brian Eno. I started leading worship in my youth group, age 15, 1988 back in South Africa. Yamaha DX7 made famous by Smitty was the beginning. But before that I had a Casio that could almost reproduce AHA’s ‘Stay on these roads’ with big pad. I started using it in worship. For 35 years I’ve continued to use that sound as a key turner, including touring with Noel Richards and supporting Matt Redman on Korg’s and Roland’s, now I use Sunday Keys (iPad and MainStage) almost exclusively and while shimmer has morphed into something much more spectacular, it’s still the basis for something that unlocks not only a worship audience but a worship band. It has stood the test of time for me for 35 years, I think it’ll continue to do the job… 😊

[@dtumuhaise]

first heard the shimmer in worship on "I Surrender - Hillsong"

[@SundaySounds]

That's a good one! Great example.

[@WilliamA1]

The Oceans 11 reverb pedal by Electroharmonix was my first use-case of Shim. Sometimes I put it on bass, with a short tail.

[@janenmarelia]

Nobody uses shimmer in my worship teams, I am the only one that uses it when I play synth, I always put a shimmer on my drones (usually a layered brass sound) and when I start playing melody I turn it down. And sometimes I turn it in when I stop, than the simmer kicks in and fades away. When I play e-guitar I hardly use any effect, just distortion or reverb, I play mostly in a very small team with my guitar.

[@jonathanmauch4090]

Thanks for the infos! Would love to hear some of the sounds you mentioned from your nice studiologic keyboard (controller?). I do love the pedal hologram microcosm, could it be an upgrade of the shimmer effect?

[@biffbiff1107]

Delirious albums & live concerts are where I first heard the shimmer in Christian music. Mid 90s… or earlier?

[@hatricklov]

The shimmer dial for patches in Sunday Sounds' MainStage template (based on the NK2 knob control) ranges roughly from 7 o'clock to 5 o'clock. I feel that more often than not, once you've hit 9 o'clock you're really pushing the limit for what most patches should have.

[@johnmcvicker6728]

Using shimmer a bit to embellish keys, by using Live Professor and a plugin called Solaris. A free shimmer plugin with a lot of options. If you have a way to run any plugin, such as Live Professor or Waves Superrack Performer, could be a nice add.

[@taviswardlaw]

I’m a big fan of ‘misusing’ shimmer. On plug-ins or pedals that allow for the octaves to be tuned (like the bigsky) I’ll often tune them to a few cents sharp and/or a few cents flat. It makes for a much more subtle effect, more similar to a modulated reverb that slowly widens the sound as it develops.

[@rjp199]

Can we get more info and features for the SundayKeys on computer.. don’t have anything against the app but I prefer using my laptop. Can we have more music or maybe Nord plugins for MainStage?

[@geezee1946]

Just got a Strymon BigSky for our band. I guess we are about to join the shimmer club. 😂

[@noelescobarjimenez6794]

Me gustaría que añadieran.. arpegiadores... Bendiciones...

[@simonprice2845]

Does it say that in the vible?

[@cuteluckydog]

I signed up for the email but it never was sent to my inbox?

[@JimBischoff1184]

It’s a woosh / schwoosh sound ; a U-2 derivative .

[@JosueMartinez-wd3yu]

Loved and used the sound for about 1 year until it started to get really boring. Thus I looked at cinematic composers such as Hans Zimmer/Brian Tyler for other forms of inspiration. Thus I have learned recreating the sounds for a song that church sings is great BUT at a point you change that sound and it give the music a fresher look. Point here that I learned is that don't stay with a particular sound simply because it was recorded like that, explore the various possibilities. I still use the shimmer but not as often. Yall stay safe outhere.

[@abhishekrao6017]

I am more of a tasteful shimmer person as I put one normal reverb on my keys and then i stack a shimmer with it but dial the decay a little back so that I get a sound that has both the normal reverb with the shimmer at a little end and so I think shimmer is great and should be used to its potential and that plugings and pedals do give more control compared to sampling an instrument with a shimmer or a shimmery sound but ofcourse that differs for people still I love my shimmer and will use it till i play probably as I do stuff what I like and not the trends so shimmer will be there for me 😅😊

[@mSarimaa]

Jesus Culture and Ian Macintosh we’re a big shimmer advocates in keysland when they blew up to big.

[@videditorEB1]

Great video😃 The boomers in the room want you to know…Lanois is pronounced “Lan wah”. It’s French. Love you brother. 🙂

[@misterdrucker]

this boomer felt the same, but you beat me to the punch. BUT also let me add…it’s DANIEL (not David) Lanois (lan-WAH). cheers!

[@videditorEB1]

@@misterdrucker yeah, I laughed at that too. Good catch!😂

[@RogerSanderson]

Then Periphery came in 2010-12ish with the first 2 albums having clean instrumental transitions with ambient delays. Worship guitarists really tried to copy. Shimmer was dialed down with extended delays.

[@spawn302]

This is my approach haha I'm not a big shimmer. I probably just suck with it, but love extended delays and another ghostly reverb

[@fishboots7902]

Vibe is a new age term and Christians shouldn’t be saying it

[@therock1232100]

Hillsong made the shimmer big and mainstream...Bethel made it tasteful