David Gilmour 'sound-on-sound' through efx loop, possible?

[Dreamert]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to figure out a way of achieving the David Gilmour 'sound-on-sound' thing with my Mark V. I don't really want to replug all my pedals diffrently if I can avoid it. I'm awaiting my volume pedal so I can't really try it right now but I know you will be able to answer.

Basically trying to do this: http://www.gilmourish.com/?page_id=156 (look it up on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9GhEjBp6Lo)

Volume pedal -> chorus -> delay
You shut the volume off, play a chord, open the volume so that the resounding chord gets picked up by the chorus then repeated in loops by the delay and shut down the volume again.

then you can solo over it (providing you still have a parallel sound path to the speaker.

I read the Efx Loop on the Mark V is serial... so I can't use the volume -> chorus -> delay through it as I will shut my hole signal path off when I bring the volume pedal back down after my chord is looping through the delay...

How can I then keep a parallel path out to the speaker?

My first thought is to use a Y cable from the SEND and reunite the 2 paths with another one at the RETURN. Would that work ? So my guitar signal would travel both to the volume /chorus/delay and straight out to the speaker in parallel path, allowing me to close one path with the volume pedal as I wish.

Some like this:

EFX Loop SEND --------------------------> EFX Loop RETURN
|--------------> Volume pedal -> Chorus -> Delay ----^

Would that work ?

Thank you folks, appreciate your inputs in advance.

YParadis

 

[Vogelsong]

I don't know but that clip was awesome. Beauty in simplicity.

Good luck, I love Gilmore.

 

[Dreamert]

Well, glad you loved it as much as I do

 

[fredster]

I'm pretty sure you're going to need some kind of pedal loop device like these:

http://www.tonebone.com/re-bigshot-efx.htm
http://www.tonebone.com/re-bigshot-mix.htm

Maybe you can move up to a rack effects unit that has pedal controllable parameters. For example, the AxeFX can do this very easily by allowing the delay's input to be controlled by an expression pedal. I tried it and lost a few hours playing around with this effect - awesome to play with! :lol:

 

[Dreamert]

Since this seems to be a tough one I'll try it out and let you know.

I got my Ernie Ball volume pedal yesterday so I'll give it a try straight in the effect loop and see what goes on. That'll tell me if the ABY switch is necessary (I'm waiting on my Morley ABY anyway).

Stay tuned.

PS: I wish I could afford an AxeFX XD