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

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

thats the most beautiful swell i ever heard

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!!

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

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!

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!

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

I can hear the pastor praying over it already!

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

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

Jesus that's a lot of Strymon.

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

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

but does it djent?

Who the hell has two timelines...

One of the greatest guitars ever made the White Falcon

that guitar looks angelic

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

1:59 sleeping in this sound 🤩

Pretty cool 😎

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.

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.

Ambient guitar - instant guitar player!

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

Beautiful sounds, many thanks for the tutorial.

Even the muddy chords sound great

Two Timelines?!!

+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

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

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

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

Great tutorial :) a workshop by you sounds great !

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

Wow, this is really cool

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

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

man i love that sound thanks for sharing !

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

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

Beautiful tones!

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.

Good swells explaination/demo

Would this work if you had a volume pedal and the ability to use reverb and delay on your amp at the same time?

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

5:12: what chords are those?

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

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!

Nice video. Thankyou for sharing this

beautiful

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.

Woah Strymon Best Buyer

Thanks brother! Awesome. God bless

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

Awesome video, man

Can we use digital delay instead of analog?

So nice!

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

Great tutorial... Many thanks

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

great video Jon, thanks

"Cheaper of the two reverbs"

Nice. Great swells.

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

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

I don't quite know what to make of this.Somehow it sounds beautiful, but all these strymon delay and reverb pedals and the dreamy chrods tend to make it sound a little sterile and little bit like kitsch. Maybe to me it is a little bit too beautiful.

What happens if you put a transparent Overdrive, even quite subtly, in front of the delay and reverbs?

What notes aré you playing when you swell?

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

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.

Big question for anyone out there. I am starting to get into playing in a church setting. if I get by with a analog delay in a river petal would that cover my Basic needs? What I don't want is to buy 8 to 12 paddles to be able to play in a worship setting?

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

can you achieve this sound with an hh metal aimed guitar?

What are the chords he is playing?

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

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?

great sound

Tape delay is not half way between analogue and digital. It's like the epitome of anologue. I don't see any worship teams using a real tape delay. Sounds nice though.

Its not redundant if you get another delay or reverb eventhough you already have those on your pedal board?

is that wah like pedal a pitch shifter?

If I have a ambient preset with the delay at a certain bpm and I’m doing swells will that work with songs that aren’t the same bpm

How many programmable bands have a timeline? I want to do 8 bands ala Allan Holdsworth. He in his late years used a Yamaha UD stomp.

Very explosions in the skyesque

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.

What’s the best kind of chords to play while doing swells

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?

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?)..

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

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?

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.

im curious what order the pedals are in. Do you have the EB VP after the compression?

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

wel all of the pedals is how many thousands of rand? because the styrom is al ready experience

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?

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

Dude you should look at TC Electronics Hall of Fame 2 on Shimmer it gives you all those sounds of your advanced delay with one pedal..... much easier

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??

What is the delay and reverb setting ?

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.

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