This is amazing. Now how do I make my guitar sound like a mermaid diving into a black hole?

@thedude2122

4 жыл бұрын

Calcifer Black reverb, fuzz and then a dive bomb?

@joekennick71

3 жыл бұрын

@@thedude2122 I was thinking Digitech Whsmmy Dive-bomb --> EHX Op-Amp Big Muff --> Walrus Audio Slö --> EHX Electric Mistress Flanger

@thedude2122

3 жыл бұрын

@@joekennick71 money

@Asillyhobo

3 жыл бұрын

Guitar > Korg Miku > Chorus and/or Phaser > Eventide Blackhole

@1yearago491

3 жыл бұрын

The wangy bar is key

As a telecaster player I'm quite jealous

@barbdrake5999

4 жыл бұрын

oof

@Juanito._._

4 жыл бұрын

me too

@ragnid

4 жыл бұрын

@@Juanito._._ tele is life :D

@pelevinkolobok

4 жыл бұрын

SAME

@hickorymccay2994

4 жыл бұрын

Get a Bigsby!

Worth noting the Jazzmaster/Jaguar vibrato bar is MUCH longer than a standard whammy bar, which is why whammy strumming is easier on those models or just with that system.

Dude great channel idea. love that someone is doing guitar based shoegaze tutorials on gear and playing. hope this gets huge

1:37 Sometimes Such a subtle MBV reference I salute u fellow shoegaze enjoyer😎

Could you do a tutorial video where you teach us how to play some Shoegaze classics? (eg Only Shallow)

@berlinshoegazer

7 жыл бұрын

Gregory Parker Yeah, why not. It's on the list.

@Shy-Shy23

6 жыл бұрын

You can deduce how to play it by ear & watching the music video. It's pretty simple.

@t3db0t97

6 жыл бұрын

WEEELLLLLL look at you! Prostrate yourselves before Fishyfishyfishy! All hail thy magnificence! Supplicate unto his infinite wisdom and unimpeachable talent for "deducing" guitar riffs from famous songs! No one could possibly need any further help than to merely play it by ear! What's wrong with all of you!? Listen to this man! Heed his timeless advice, you idiots! Just PLAY IT BY EAR, shoegaze peasants, pretenders to the Kevin Shields throne! It's pretty simple!

@Shy-Shy23

6 жыл бұрын

The sheer pretense in this comment is staggering. Good luck, man..

@ccgbassandmore3

6 жыл бұрын

T3d b0t you should learn by ear too

If you don't have a whammy bar on your guitar you can play the chord you are playing one semitone lower and bend it for a similar effect.

@berlinshoegazer

7 жыл бұрын

JayTheEnn that's right. I do that very often. but in a chord it's getting difficult.

@muh2k4

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the advice! Little difficult with the open strings though :)

Great demonstration - I appreciate you taking the time to carefully demonstrate the variations with and without amp, with and without whammy.

This is now my favorite music channel ever!

Awesome video man! I predict you're going to end up with a lot of subscribers

Great technique, and as always attention to detail! Your channel is killing it! I would however; like to see, how you stack your delays. Finally a real shoegaze channel! Crazy awesome!

This was fantastic! Been looking to learn and inject some of these tools into my own music. Thanks for making this. You're very personable. Also, love yer Jag

@bassofd00m

2 жыл бұрын

my brother in Christ it is a jazzmaster

Hey guys, I recently released a new single with my project Unkenny Valleys. Feel free to give it a listen. I'd love to know what you think: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Zoan06ypXc6spLA.html

You rock, man! Loved it!

My new favourite channels have for the help!

many thanks, i try to do this technique, but now i understand how to do.... Cheers

oh god its a new shoegazer video i have been blessed great video as always!

@Max-fb5bm

7 жыл бұрын

kill me Midori 💕

@evelyncisternas8386

7 жыл бұрын

hell yeah my dude

Great and useful video as always! :) Would you consider doing a video on delay pedals and good uses of delay in shoegaze?

@berlinshoegazer

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Good idea. Will think about that.

Awesome video, very informative!

@berlinshoegazer

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, so happy it helps. :)

Awesome video.

Fellow Kenneth here, I absolutely love the name unkenny valley and am going to use it from now on. Also great tutorial

@berlinshoegazer

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Kenneth. Alsways wanted to write that. :) Thank you for the nice words. It took me so long to find a fitting project name but I really love this one now.

Dude, I already love the sound going into my BD-2. Can't await for my reverse reverb to arive and hear how it sounds.

@manualofalternativemusic

4 жыл бұрын

hey I'd love to get the BD-2 for shoegazy/alternative sounds, but I'm still not totally convinced, when it arrives can you tell me if it works well for this? thanks

@muh2k4

4 жыл бұрын

@@manualofalternativemusic There is actually not much to it! For starters turn the Volume below 12, the tone at 12 and experiment with the gain with settings beyond the 12.

@manualofalternativemusic

4 жыл бұрын

muh2k4 thanks! Do you think it shows up in a band mix?

@muh2k4

4 жыл бұрын

@@manualofalternativemusic I think so. Use the tone knob for fine tuning. Also you can put a tube screamer, Boss SD-1 or other overdrives additionally in front of it, if you like

@manualofalternativemusic

4 жыл бұрын

@@muh2k4 thanks!! I'll get one then (:

thanks dude

Also if anybody is having difficulty with puting the whammy bar in your palm, you can also try it between your ring finger and your pinky. That's how I wrapped my head around it (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧

Love all of your Web presentations! Are you in an Altered tuning?Or Standard? I saw them live in 91 or 92 in San Francisco and I've been hooked ever since. Shields used a couple of Marshal Guv"nor pedals and at least 3 or 4 Roger Mayer Rocket ship Fuzz pedals into a Marshall Half=Stack...in Fact the entire band used the same rigs. So it was a wall of Marshalls! They nailed Loveless!!! They really nailed the sound of all of their records live...to see their show was such a visceral EXP!!! Especially the 20 minute (at least it felt like that long!) Noise break in the middle of their set! Great stuff, all of it!!

Try the glide guitar section in The Pecan Tree by Deafheaven

Wish I had the tuning stability to do this lol! I use a strat so maybe the difference between the bridges is part of it

Thank You! My Whammy Bar on my Fender Jaguar seems to be to close to the strings and it's spun pretty tight. Yours looks to be about 2 inches from the strings at 1:46. I almost have to play on the neck to have enough distance from the stings to play chords. I don't want to bend it however, I might have to (after I take it off) to play correctly. Keep up the great info!

@saturnjr9136

3 жыл бұрын

Use tape, wrap it around the part that inserts and that'll hold it up higher. Thats what Kevin Shields does

I might actually un-hardtail my guitar and reattach my bar to try this

Stratocasters are pretty good at creating a super noisy shoegaze type sound. I don't know much about guitars but my strat gets some great tones for wall of noose type stuff.

Hell, I can't even play the guitar, but I want to now🤘

@berlinshoegazer

7 жыл бұрын

Haha - thank you!

4:49 w/ reverse reverb

Great tutorial, are you using the stock bridge on your Jaguar or is that a Mastery bridge?

@berlinshoegazer

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Bryon, thank you of the nice words. I'm using the bridge of an actual Fender Jaguar instead of the stock bridge. Are you planning to switch your bridge? If so, try to find some private seller near you or on ebay who sells parts of a real Fender Jag. It now workes great and saved me a lot of money.

Cool Video. I had a couple of questions. When using the reverb, how did you get no pick attack? (not hearing the pick hit the strings). And 2nd, can you teach us how to get Slowdive's synthy tones on a guitar? thanks again, keep rockin

@berlinshoegazer

7 жыл бұрын

Hey man, 1: The effect is caused by the Digitech RV7 in Reverse Mode. 2: I can do that. Just put it on my list. :)

@darkmagicghost6153

7 жыл бұрын

SHOEGAZER Thanks Kenneth!

@antoniaford5478

4 жыл бұрын

Some Slowdive synth tones are the “Soft Focus” patch on a Yamaha FX500 running into either a Fender Twin or a JC-120. Think “Catch The Breeze” and “Machine Gun” If there’s a synth string tone on a Slowdive record, it’s most likely that. Hope this helps!

Is there a way I can make the whammy bar strumming thing without actually using a bar? I mean, I have a tele/jazzmaster hybrid without a bar. A pedal maybe? Idk just wondering

6:05

You have a lot of videos on how to get that really nice fuzzy shoegaze sound , I’m curious as to what pedals and effects you think are used for the high screechy looped melodies in the songs like when you sleep or i only said , I’m having troubles replicating a similar sound

@johnnyguitar7921

4 жыл бұрын

a sampler, man,,,, its not that easy, but i heard they got some riffs and then deconstructed them and looped/played alteerd via sampler

@saturnjr9136

3 жыл бұрын

those are guitar feedback sampled

Is that the original squier jaguar tremolo arm? Did you have any problems with it or is it cool?

hi, what´s the model of a Fender jaguar pickguard it work for the Squier VM?... sorry for my bad english... thks for the info.

I recently got a squire jazzmaster and have had a hard time getting a handle on the glide guitar style, this is helpful to see up close though. Doesn't kevin shields usually use a pick when he glides? I can't recall.

@berlinshoegazer

2 жыл бұрын

Yes he does. I just didn't use a pick sometimes. I don't know why I didn't use one that day. But with a pick it's much easier.

That drum tone.. *lov3* - particularly 5 second mark. Did you use the drums for a song? Tutorial on how to record awesome shoegaze drums...plz? :)

@berlinshoegazer

7 жыл бұрын

thank you. This is the whole track actually: kennethestradaysantiago.bandcamp.com/track/smiley I will think about making a tutorial about drums. Good Idea.

@Hauteclaire16

7 жыл бұрын

SHOEGAZER thanks so much in advance!

@chasewilliamson9873

7 жыл бұрын

Oh nice! thanks for the link. I dig it. Smiley track is on point.

Does the distance from the plate to the bridge affect that? I know Classic Player and J Mascis Jazzmasters have the plate closer to the bridge.. have you played one of those? does it change the feel or the sound?

Any advices for Squier CV 60s Jazzmaster tremolo tuning issues?

Did you change the pickups in your jaguar?

I got a Fender Jaguar CP custom Ken, it looks like yours, I want to buy some stickers for the pickguard, where did u buy the cat one? Nice tutorial btw, i see all your videos!

@berlinshoegazer

7 жыл бұрын

Hey Ag, how are you? The stickers are all made by myself. the feather is a painting of my girlfriend and the cat is the first draft of the shoegazer channel cat.

@Hauteclaire16

7 жыл бұрын

SHOEGAZER the feather is super nice

How you keep Quiet the wammy bar in the jag?, Becouse i have a jag but when i start to play it comes out :(

Who the fuck dislikes this shit

Hello man, can i ask you which pick-up you use on your squire? what do you think about "quarter pound Seymour Duncan"?

@berlinshoegazer

7 жыл бұрын

I use the standard pick-ups that were built in when I bought it. Which one exactly that are... I don't know. :)

I have classic player Jag, the tremelo plate is closer to the bridge than the traditional Jags, I find it to be really hard to do glide on that guitar and the tremolo is screw in type, so much friction and the whammy bar slope is really parallel to the body like it was designed to do the tremolo traditionally style (strat likewise) So i’m looking into Squier VM jag, does the stock tremolo work well for gliding guitar? Or it need modifies I’ve been ur fan and I’ve heard you modified your tremolo system.

@Flibbybibby

4 жыл бұрын

@pmellow Go for a Jazzmaster!

how did you get such a good bend in your trem arm?

3:27 with AMP

What amp are you using? Great tutorial!

@berlinshoegazer

3 жыл бұрын

A Fender Princetone 112 Plus. Very lovely clean tone and an amazing drive channel for a 1×12 combo.

kzread.info/dash/bejne/X66stNGbXZPZj84.html sounds so good without any pedals. Does the amp apply some effects? Or is the Jaguar responsible?

Please help! What is that tremolo arm? And I don't (necessarily) mean the whole vibrato unit, but the actual bar. I have a J Mascis Jazzmaster and the stock arm seems to sit lower and it has a different kind of a curve. So has the arm been changed and if has, what is it and where can I possibly get one?

@berlinshoegazer

6 жыл бұрын

I bought my Whammy bar on Ebay for 20 bugs or so. It was simply called 'Squire Jaguar Whammy Bar Replacement' - they promised it would sit tight and it does still. But I can't find it on Ebay anymore. So sorry.

@otsop

6 жыл бұрын

SHOEGAZER Thanks for the answer! I wonder which arm would be a substitute for this... Must go to Offsetguitars.com and dig deeper. :)

Oh man, that amazing. Guitar tune?

@jordanputt

7 жыл бұрын

standard

@berlinshoegazer

7 жыл бұрын

Hey, thank you. For more infos, have a look at the discription.

which tremolo arm is that??

Have you ever had an issue with your tremolo bar squeaking as you strum in this fashion? As mine moves up and down, I can hear an audible squeaking sound. If you’ve encountered this, how did you resolve it?

@3xtan327

Жыл бұрын

It might be the strings having too much tension at the nut

what Jaguar are you playing?

Hi! I know this will sound stupid, but well I bought my first electric guitar, so, is normal that the whammy bar is hard to push down?

@macywhitaker6212

6 жыл бұрын

Elizabeth Erika you should unscrew it a bit so it’s more loose

I want cool stickers for my guitar

@berlinshoegazer

7 жыл бұрын

Alt Esc What images would you like to have on your guitar?

@0v3rgr0wn

7 жыл бұрын

Probably a forest, or something that has to do with nature. But long and skinny like that feather, since that fits so well.

@berlinshoegazer

7 жыл бұрын

Sounds cool. I made them on my own. I can make some for you as well. :)

@0v3rgr0wn

7 жыл бұрын

SHOEGAZER That's awesome dude! How did you do that?

@0v3rgr0wn

7 жыл бұрын

SHOEGAZER And yeah, that would be cool. But I live in the US

kevin shields was as innovative to guitar playing in popular music as eddie van halen

What's the song in the outro?

thats a nice bridge. who makes it?

@berlinshoegazer

7 жыл бұрын

Bought it on ebay used.

Do you think it's possible to get this effect with a digitech whammy? Im sure it cant be exactly the same but can it get close?

@berlinshoegazer

3 жыл бұрын

I actually used a Digitech Whammy before I used a real whammy bar. I always wanted to use less equipment so I got myself the Jaguar and sold my Les Paul and the Whammy by DigiTech back then. But it works great and sounds really cool.

@ozmarichardson6524

3 жыл бұрын

@@berlinshoegazer thanks for getting back to me about that. I have a player series mustang 90 i really love but alas it has no tremelo bar. All the trem bar guitars i had in the past got knocked out of tune too much (granted these were all >$300 guitars). love your stuff! Keep it up

Link Ray may be the Godfather of Shoegaze. Check out " Link Wray - Deuces Wild (The Rumble Man, UK, 1996)" on KZread

How did you modify it :0

Cool video, but I think you may mislead people into thinking that that specific part of the song has reverse delay. I thought that as well but now that I'm currently in the process of dissecting that mix so that I can recreate it (which means a shit ton of research) I realized that the only place I hear reverse reverb being applied is in the outro. Otherwise, this song has almost no reverb or delay in any track whatsoever (not on vocals, not on guitars and not even on drums). Here's the fx chain that I've gathered so far: rhythm guitars- heavy compression, maybe a bit of overdrive in the chorus and maybe a bit of chorus (or maybe just tape wow and flutter). They're played pretty much like you're playing in the first example (good job on that!) lead guitars- same as rhythm, but maybe a bit more overdrive and played through two amps facing each other with tremolos set to different speeds (though Kevin states that while using the tremolo in the amps, he hears a bit of reverb coming in as well so if you're using pedals you might want to take that into account). Also here's the other instruments for anyone who might me curious :P synths- Kevin sampled the lead guitars and played them one normal the other one an octave higher. Not only that but this time the main melody was played backwards to the lead guitars. bass- overdrive, distortion or straight up fuzz in the chorus, but fairly clean in the verses. No compression used, but that bass was unusually consistent all across the neck (they spent a good amount of time choosing the perfect bass), so one to recreate the effect might need to use a bit of it. drums- pretty dry and direct sound. Possibly no room mics or external reverb used. Heavy use of parallel compression so that it cuts through in the mix and I'm hearing a bit of sidechaining in the guitars in the chorus (thought it might just be the use of the tremolo bar combined with some tape saturation in the mixing stage) vocals- upwards to 10 takes tracked with no compression. Maybe heavy use of compression later in mixing (I haven't gotten to that part yet hahaha) That's it. Cheers!

I'm about to buy a Whammy pedal specifically for the "down 2nd" function so I can play like this because exactly zero of my guitars have a whammy bar.

@berlinshoegazer

3 жыл бұрын

EHX Pitchfork with a Expression pedal of your choice works great as well and is a little more space saving. But the Whammy by Digitech is also great.

@rockguitarist931

3 жыл бұрын

@@berlinshoegazer I was thinking about the pitchfork but having the built-in exp pedal on the Whammy is the selling point for me. It's one less cable to worry about!

@sanctummm3950

3 жыл бұрын

@@rockguitarist931 hey if you don't have the whammy yet, check out the EHX slammi! some digitech whammies require weird power cables, and the slammi has a blend knob (dry signal/pitchshifted signal) which can give you sort of an "ensemble" effect. you can also use a sort of "push/pull" feature on the slammi where you can make the pedal bend both ways. another upside of the slammi is that it's both cheaper and smaller than the whammy. lmk if this helped!

@rockguitarist931

3 жыл бұрын

​@@sanctummm3950 I have tried both the Whammy and Pitchfork since commenting on this video, and they just aren't good imitations of a whammy bar (in my opinion). I am buying a J Mascis Jazzmaster later this summer because it is the only guitar I've found with a whammy bar that is worth what it costs. I figure that, a reverb pedal, and a blues driver will get me relatively close to the heavy shoegaze sounds I want to make. Then I can evolve and improve my rig from there.

Is it a stock bridge on your guitar? I'm looking for some replacement bridge for my mustang-project guitar to handle better with a jazzmaster-style whammy.

@CheesyBaconable

7 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure it's a stay-trem bridge bridge. They're a great investment for this kind of music.

@maliesklipiun5799

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate. This bridge cost more than my entire guitar, lol :( Gotta find used one or maybe something cheaper.

@_lowcountry

7 жыл бұрын

Maciej Klimiuk try a warmoth modified mustang bridge. It all depends on what radius you need though. The staytrem bridge isn't too expensive. At least compared to a mastery it isn't

@dennieskate

7 жыл бұрын

I think he uses Graph Tech saddles on his bridge.

@berlinshoegazer

7 жыл бұрын

I'm using a staytrem bridge. Mastery is cool, but way too expansive and actually not necessary for what I do. I also bought a new whammy bar on ebay. One you can simply stick in and that is tight.

What are the names of the MBV chords he plays about a minute in

@JeserNoob

6 жыл бұрын

Charlie Hawk i think they're major sevenths

@4scended498

5 жыл бұрын

Major bar chords

what bridge is in your jaguar

@berlinshoegazer

5 жыл бұрын

I took it from a original USA Fender Jaguar.Don't know the specific name.

Any adivces on shoegaze/dream pop sound without reverse verb and whammy bar? Is there any chance to at least get close to that amount of "dreamyness" like in this video? PS: i love that feather sticker. it really fits that jaguar.

@berlinshoegazer

7 жыл бұрын

I made 3 videos about dreamy chords. these chords are perfect for dreampop. I played them with a whammy bar and with reverse reverb, but actually they sound most awesome on an acoustic guitar without anything else. check them out.

is it possible to do this with a Stratocaster? or only jaguar/jazzmaster

@berlinshoegazer

4 жыл бұрын

Every guitar with a whammy bar is welcome. The Stratocaster whammy bar is a little shorter so it feels different but you could do it as well.

@gwkiv1458

3 жыл бұрын

@@berlinshoegazer does glide guitar damage the guitar at all? I mean Kevin Shields still has the same guitars from over a decade ago

What's that guitar pedal that sounds like a whammy bar?

Can you show the reverse guitar on this song?

@berlinshoegazer

7 жыл бұрын

There is no reverse part. Just chose the chords for the whammy demonstration and used reverse reverb to create a shoegazy feeling.

How do you manage to stay in tune with using it that much

@NasalSexForLife

7 жыл бұрын

Chris Happe there's some really great resources online for setting the jag/jazz tremolo up (very minimal effort) and like it will never go out of tune which is rly helpful for gigs, I barely ever have to tune these days they're just rly clever systems! Look up mikes guitar bar blog for tremolo stuff if you were like asking for like personal reasons! Sorry for the essay!

@chrishappe5410

7 жыл бұрын

GullieGumdrops no, thank you for the information I got so tired of my strat going out of tune I hard tailed it with a piece of wood, now I'm considering buying a jazz master or jaguar just because of this new info

@vac8846

6 жыл бұрын

cool video. i have a hard tail guitar and whammy 5 pedal (set to -2 pitch down) it has a chord mode...not as good as owning a jazzmaster/jaguar though haha. the swervedriver guitarist uses whammy 5 with his les paul the same way. please listen to swervedriver's 'last rites' intro to hear the whammy 5 pedal do shoegaze ;)

@vac8846

6 жыл бұрын

gotta be careful not to press whammy 5 too much. down one semitone is best. i put some foam under the treadle to stop it going too far :)

where did you get that trem bar?

@berlinshoegazer

7 жыл бұрын

ebay. ;)

@prolinea4

6 жыл бұрын

I was wondering too, and already looked at ebay. . Is it the 'Japanese' one? And does it fit the Squier VM Jag directly? Does it fall out easily or not?

What's that first chord?

the delay of a fully-wet reverse reverb is hard to get used to

@berlinshoegazer

5 жыл бұрын

This is why I would recommend to run the reverse reverb on 75%.

Vibrato tutorial: WANK THAT BAR

At 1:22, the guitar feels like it's singing 'Mary go'round', repeatedly. Or is it just me?

@TakeThePillsOfficial

4 жыл бұрын

very late reply but wow cool catch

Besides the staytrem bridge, is the guitar stock?

@berlinshoegazer

7 жыл бұрын

The whammy bar is also new because the original one falls out constantly. The pickguard is originally wine-red instead of white.

jokes on me i have an sg :(

@berlinshoegazer

3 жыл бұрын

I love SG's.

Do a CABBAGE tuning video

Hola Kenneth!! Saludos desde Argentina. Me encantan tus vídeos. Quiero compartir un enlace de una canción instrumental de dreampop inspirada en la banda cocteau twins, en la cuál utilizó sutilmente la palanca de Wammy de mi stratocaster. kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZImgq6mHgaSZirA.html