Finally Got My Modern UD-Stomp: Strymon Timeline MX! — Transcript

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1. 0:00About a year and a half ago, I posted a
2. 0:02video calling the Yamaha UD Stomp the
3. 0:05greatest delay pedal of all time. And I
4. 0:08begged pedal manufacturers [music]
5. 0:11to create a more modern version of it.
6. 0:13I'm pleased to report that someone did
7. 0:15it, and of course, it's Strymon. [music]
8. 0:18Thank you so much, Strymon.
9. 0:21Now, why is the UD Stomp so important
10. 0:22[music] to me? Well, just this. It when
11. 0:25it came out in the late '90s, it truly
12. 0:27was revolutionary. It was a delay pedal
13. 0:30with eight independent delay lines that
14. 0:33could be configured to create magical
15. 0:36patches. [music]
16. 0:37And my hero, Allan Holdsworth, had
17. 0:40loaded up the UD Stomp with a set of his
18. 0:43own patches [music] that just sounded
19. 0:45fabulous. And I've always been on the
20. 0:47lookout for more modern pedals that can
21. 0:51do the same thing, or at least be off in
22. 0:53the same territory. And not only that,
23. 0:56many of you know that I am totally
24. 0:58[music] into Robert Fripp and
25. 0:59Frippertronics style looping. And I've
26. 1:02always wanted a delay pedal that could
27. 1:04do the Allan Holdsworth style patches
28. 1:07[music] along with Frippertronics. So,
29. 1:10first off, I want to show you how to set
30. 1:13up a Holdsworth style patch using the
31. 1:17new multi-tap delay type.
32. 1:20Here's a blank patch, and I've got it,
33. 1:22as you can see, the timeline set to the
34. 1:25multi-tap delay. Here's what it sounds
35. 1:28like.
36. 1:31>> [music]
37. 1:32>> Yeah, not very interesting, but let's go
38. 1:34ahead in and configure. I'll hit the
39. 1:37value encoder and hit it again in the
40. 1:39config menu.
41. 1:41And here, you're going to see that there
42. 1:44are eight
43. 1:45delay lines that can be configured. I
44. 1:48only have one set up, one measure second
45. 1:51beat
46. 1:52at a 16th note.
47. 1:55All right, and RPT is repeats. You'll
48. 1:58see a filter if you want to do a
49. 2:00low-pass filter.
50. 2:02And modulation is an option. Let's go
51. 2:04ahead and turn that on.
52. 2:06There we go. And we can pan from left to
53. 2:09right and include a level.
54. 2:12>> [music]
55. 2:13>> Ah, there we go. Little bit of
56. 2:15modulation already.
57. 2:18>> [music]
58. 2:19>> Let me go ahead and add a second tap.
59. 2:21So, I'm going to turn the encoder
60. 2:23and click on the encoder. Now, second
61. 2:26tap is turned on. I'm going to set up
62. 2:29a separate step. Instead of 1.2, I'm
63. 2:32going to set it to 1.3.
64. 2:35>> [snorts]
65. 2:35>> We'll leave the modulation on, and this
66. 2:37time we're going to pan to the right.
67. 2:41>> [music]
68. 2:45>> I want a little more of repeats on the
69. 2:48tap number two. So, let me go ahead and
70. 2:50set that up. There we go.
71. 2:52>> [music]
72. 2:53>> Oh, there we go.
73. 2:55Let's go ahead and add a third tap.
74. 2:59And this one is set up to 2.3, so let's
75. 3:02just hear it as it is.
76. 3:04>> [music]
77. 3:06>> All right. So, we've got one on the
78. 3:08right, two on the left.
79. 3:11>> [music]
80. 3:16>> Let's go ahead and set up tap number
81. 3:18four.
82. 3:20And now we should have two taps on one
83. 3:23side and two taps on the other side, all
84. 3:25running at different tap divisions.
85. 3:31>> [music]
86. 3:34>> And now I can use any of these knobs to
87. 3:36adjust the multi-tap
88. 3:39uh delay itself.
89. 3:41>> [music]
90. 3:42>> Let's say I want to add grit for some
91. 3:44distortion, I can do that.
92. 3:46>> [music]
93. 3:49>> I don't really want to do that, but I
94. 3:50could. I can also add a little low pass
95. 3:53filter in.
96. 3:54>> [music]
97. 3:56>> Actually, I think it's a high pass
98. 3:57filter.
99. 4:00>> [music]
100. 4:04>> No, [music] it's a low pass filter, but
101. 4:06I can control the tone.
102. 4:11I can also control the overall
103. 4:13modulation amount.
104. 4:15>> [music]
105. 4:20>> And not only that, I can combine this
106. 4:24with another delay engine. So, we've got
107. 4:27a little block here. Right now, it says
108. 4:29delay two off. Let me go ahead and
109. 4:31switch that
110. 4:33to series.
111. 4:35Now, we have a second delay.
112. 4:37And I'm going to select a different
113. 4:40delay type.
114. 4:41I'm going to select the one that's
115. 4:42already showing, and it's the ice delay.
116. 4:46So, now we have our multi-tap delay
117. 4:48running into an ice delay. This is going
118. 4:51to make for some really beautiful
119. 4:53uh volume swells.
120. 4:55>> [music]
121. 4:59[music]
122. 5:07[music]
123. 5:13[music]
124. 5:28>> Oh,
125. 5:29that is gorgeous, beautiful. Now, let's
126. 5:33look at a Frippertronics style patch. If
127. 5:35you're not familiar with Frippertronics,
128. 5:37basically, it's a style of delay,
129. 5:40miniature loops, if you will, of about 6
130. 5:43to 10 seconds long, and [snorts] you
131. 5:46play against the loops, and everything
132. 5:48kind of fades into the distance. You can
133. 5:50create really ethereal soundscapes
134. 5:53with this concept. What we've got going
135. 5:56on here again are two delays in series.
136. 6:00Delay number one is the D Tape delay.
137. 6:02That's Strymon's tape style delay.
138. 6:06And [snorts] I've got it set to a short
139. 6:0860 milliseconds.
140. 6:10I have a few repeats going on, although
141. 6:13I'm going to go ahead and turn them
142. 6:14down.
143. 6:15We've got a little bit of tape age going
144. 6:18on.
145. 6:19We're pushing the record level a little
146. 6:21bit to kind of again get some saturation
147. 6:25going.
148. 6:26I've got a little bit of tape crinkle
149. 6:29and a little bit of wow and flutter.
150. 6:33And that setting is going to go into
151. 6:37in series again, a second delay. This is
152. 6:40the multi-tap delay again.
153. 6:42Because I can do an a very long delay.
154. 6:46Uh [snorts] in this case I can do a 5.1.
155. 6:49I can push it almost just about even all
156. 6:52the way to 10 seconds with 5.1 and
157. 6:57setting the tap to the full 2500
158. 7:00milliseconds that the multi-tap delay
159. 7:03can do. That's a very long delay. So, if
160. 7:06I take my trusty Heat Sound EBow
161. 7:10and set myself up for some volume
162. 7:13swelled EBow notes, here's what I got.
163. 7:26>> [music]
164. 7:35[music]
165. 7:40[music]
166. 7:45[music]
167. 7:51[music]
168. 8:00>> So, let's head on back to the master.
169. 8:01Yes, Allan Holdsworth. If you're
170. 8:04familiar with his music, you may
171. 8:06remember him swelling in chords with a
172. 8:09volume pedal.
173. 8:10When he did that, he would typically set
174. 8:13up a patch with all eight delay lines
175. 8:16set up in varying delay times and
176. 8:19repeats,
177. 8:20but have very [snorts] little dry
178. 8:22signal. So, that when he swelled in the
179. 8:24chord, you would hear the delays, but
180. 8:27not very much of the dry guitar tone
181. 8:30itself. I've got a patch here set up off
182. 8:33in that direction, and I'm using a
183. 8:35couple of twists that the UD Stomp could
184. 8:38never do.
185. 8:39So, first up again is that multi-tap
186. 8:41delay. Fabulous, it really is. And it's
187. 8:44set up to the full 2500 milliseconds as
188. 8:48the master time.
189. 8:50I've turned off all of the tap
190. 8:52divisions, so this is strictly a manual
191. 8:54setting for delay times.
192. 8:57The tap tempo will not affect this
193. 8:59particular configuration.
194. 9:02If you look at all eight of the delay
195. 9:04lines, just focus on that first option
196. 9:07step, you'll see that each tap increases
197. 9:12the step from 1 2 3 4 10 11
198. 9:1713 and 14. So, they're all different
199. 9:22delay times, the shortest being about 38
200. 9:2539 milliseconds,
201. 9:28and then moving on on up from there, the
202. 9:30longest being about 400 450
203. 9:33milliseconds.
204. 9:36This sounds really fabulous, but I
205. 9:38wanted more of a tail on the delay.
206. 9:42So, in order to get that, I decided to
207. 9:45add a second delay engine.
208. 9:47And that is the spectral delay in the
209. 9:50Timeline MX. It's a granular delay.
210. 9:54So,
211. 9:56then when I play this patch, you're
212. 9:58going to hear
213. 10:00a [snorts] Yamaha UD Stomp vibe feeding
214. 10:04into a granular delay. Here we go.
215. 10:08>> [music]
216. 10:17[music]
217. 10:22[music]
218. 10:30[music]
219. 10:38[music]
220. 10:45[music]
221. 10:49>> So, is the Strymon Timeline MX the new
222. 10:53[music] greatest delay pedal of all
223. 10:55time?
224. 10:56Well,
225. 10:57for me, it might just be.
226. 11:00Although it doesn't have every single
227. 11:02configuration option of the old UD
228. 11:05Stomp, it does do all of the UD Stomp
229. 11:09[music] goodness that I'm looking for.
230. 11:12In addition, I can set it up to get any
231. 11:15kind of Frippertronics sound that I'm
232. 11:17looking for. In addition, I can do all
233. 11:21of the standard delay types. In
234. 11:23addition, I can do other types of delays
235. 11:27mixed together that I've never even
236. 11:29heard before. But enough of me and my
237. 11:32blathering. What about you? What do you
238. 11:34think about the Timeline MX? Drop a
239. 11:38comment and let me know.
240. 11:40>> [music]
241. 11:40>> And for comparison, I've got a link here
242. 11:42to the original greatest delay pedal of
243. 11:44all time video that I posted a year and
244. 11:47a half ago. Click on it and I'll see you
245. 11:50over there.