Andy Wood tackling EVH tones with his AFIII

[Dave Merrill]

Andy has toured with Rascal Flatts.

I'm aware, besides of which he can wear anything he wants, because he can play anything he wants

 

[Dave Merrill]

If you really want to do the W/D/W thing, it seems to be a mistake to run the delay blocks in parallel, because, as Dave points out, you get a little bit of the first delay mixed in with the second delay.

Also because you'd really want 3 speakers, L/C/R, so you'd want 3 output channels.

 

[Smittefar]

And of course, I wrote it wrong. It would be a mistake to run the delay blocks in SERIES

But in the end, it comes out of only two speakers (PA or stereo speakers), so the channels will be mixed at some point.

 

[chucma]

What a great, informative video! Super chuffed with this, been playing around with it for a couple of hours now! Thanks Mr Wood (and of course Ian for sharing)!

Now need to check why my YT subscription didn't tell me about this!

 

[luke]

You can do the delay with a single delay block using the Dual Delay and panning the two voices hard left and hard right respectively.

Agreed. I’ve been doing that since the Ultra days. I ran a true w/d/w rig with three 4x12s live for many years, with the Lexicons and Eventide H3000s, you need a dedicated dry cab to feel it during performance IMO. Of course most places were in mono back then so it was strictly for my amusement.

 

[NightWalker]

i tried the Andy Wood preset,but i used diferrent cabs & amp settings to make it work with my guitar.

 

[Bakerman]

Not quite, since the input to delay 2 includes some of delay 1 mixed in. May or may not be significant and/or better/worse.

Turning up the Feedback L>R or Feedback R<L parameter accomplishes this with the dual delay. For the exact value (to match what you have no control over with the series routing) use 2(blockmix%)(LevelL) for that feedback value. That's for L as "first" delay and assumes mix is under 50%.

 

[unix-guy]

Nice!

Andy has such a great demeanor!

 

[Chewie5150]

Well i know what i'm doing all afternoon.

 

[Harm]

I made the preset according to the video. I did swap out the cab because I found it hard to hear individual strings. Also, the delay works great, but it blurs sthing up when pumping a faster riff. I connected the mix to a pitch modifier. Works much better.
I thought about posting it, but I do not want to take away some views from him.

Harm

 

[brianv4]

If I could only listen to one guitar player for the rest of my life I'd pick Andy.

Great guitarist and a great tip for many guitar sounds. Fairly simple preset, he should've just posted it in axe-change instead of trying to sell it. I mean, you can basically copy it from the video anyway. And you don't need to use 2 delay blocks. Just use the dual delay and pan L/R like this (main tempo is set at 120BPM):

 

[Harm]

Great guitarist and a great tip for many guitar sounds. Fairly simple preset, he should've just posted it in axe-change instead of trying to sell it. I mean, you can basically copy it from the video anyway. And you don't need to use 2 delay blocks. Just use the dual delay and pan L/R like this (main tempo is set at 120BPM):

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He was selling it? Weird because he really walks you through and shows and explains every parameter. I figured he makes money through youtube so that is why I didn’t post the preset here. Every view counts, right?
You showed the settings on the dual delay. Thank you for that. Are you suggesting to use these settings for this preset or did you just show it to make a point about the dual delay?

 

[NightWalker]

He was selling it?

https://www.andywoodmusic.com/shop/...fx-3/90s-evh-preset-fractal-audio-axe-fx-iii/

 

[brianv4]

... I do not want to take away some views from him.

I doubt that'd be an issue

He was selling it? Weird because he really walks you through and shows and explains every parameter. I figured he makes money through youtube so that is why I didn’t post the preset here. Every view counts, right?
You showed the settings on the dual delay. Thank you for that. Are you suggesting to use these settings for this preset or did you just show it to make a point about the dual delay?

You can use it for Andy's preset, Eddie type stuff or any preset where you want the wet/dry/wet setup. Just thought I'd offer it up as it only requires 1 delay block and does the same thing Andy is showing using 2 blocks

 

[is9582]

Am I the only one who wanted to reach in to the screen and put the two delay blocks in parallel
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@Smittefar Love the preset!! Thanks for sharing! Lee

 

[Smittefar]

Nice, thanks

 

[JoKeR III]

While delays in parallel may be the "correct" way to get a W/D/W, all one needs to do is watch and understand the point of the video; to create Eddie's W/D/W sounding tone. Andy even mentioned that he tried the delays in parallel and it didn't sound right. It seems some people just can't help themselves.

 

[jlynnb1]

I'm sure he gets traffic to his site that doesn't see what he's doing on YT. Plus there are a LOT of people out there who'd rather pay 5 bucks than take the 5 minutes to dial it in.

 

[R.D.]

yes, it sounds great either way, because there's absolutely no sonic difference between the two, apart from there may be slightly less dry signal when everything is in series. this whole "wet / dry / wet" thing is proper bs, imo when you're just doing it in stereo

Unless you have 3 monitor speakers, it does sound kinda useless IMHO .... When I'm going Stereo, I prefer the VH I approach. 90% Dry Guitar on the left and 90% Wet Guitar on the right ! Volume balance gets kinda 'wonky' ..., but I much prefer the sound !

 

[Harm]

Anybody ever purchase one of his presets? I bought one as a mixture of “nice to have” and “thanks for the EvH”. I didn’t get a download straight away after paying. It is called an “order” so maybe he manually mails them later. Nothing is mentioned on his site. Anyone know his method?

Harm