Dipping toe in 'ambient' or 'soundtrack-y' sounds, where to start?

siraxeman

This guy is cool - Rabea was good this is a level + 10 up IMO........

Paul_C

don't forget the Miku !

timbuk02

siraxeman said:

This guy is cool - Rabea was good this is a level + 10 up IMO........

inspiring stuff! the e-bow was an eye-opener.

skunkwerx

siraxeman said:

This guy is cool - Rabea was good this is a level + 10 up IMO........

Thats awesome!

jamiexsilver

Get a freeze or superego too. 

antifash

https://youtu.be/NNZ5ONauK5Y

lovebuzz

get a volume pedal for swells.

there's a youtube channel 'chords of orion' - he has loads of videos about ambient guitar stuff.   he has a nice soothing voice, too.  

ToneControl

Michael Brook is one of my favourite guitarists,
he was all over this loop-ambient stuff in the early 90s:





 

Matt_McG

Some inspiring stuff in those videos. I fired the gun on a Neunaber Immerse, and then will see how I go on a delay pedal.

BintyTwanger77

For a £200 budget, I'd look at the MXR Reverb. Superb for the money and I think it sounds better than the Neunaber. You can get some huge ethereal reverb sounds and the tails decay more naturally than the Neunaber. Highly recommended.

Matt_McG

I bought the Neunaber. So far, I like it, although I'm not quite (yet) getting the sounds I was hoping for. I expect I need to work on layering with delay.

frank1985

Make good use of predelay and EQ when layering

Heartfeltdawn

Reverb into delay. Also try two delays set to different times. Do something different to “buy Strymon, noodle, ?, profit”.

ash96

Rabbea recommended the specular tempus reverb pedal as an alternative to the strymon stuff. Still not cheap (about 300) but its a delay and reverb together from what he was saying. My mate picked one up after he said and has got some wicked ambient stuff out of it.