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- Hey everyone. I'm Nick Reinhardt.
And I'd like to introduce you
to the Fender Hammertone pedals.
And in this video we'll be checking out
the time based pedals in the series,
which are the delay, space delay and reverb.
Super cool pedals.
They're compact with player friendly features
and they sound great.
They've got top mounted jacks to make it a little easier
to assemble a solid pedal board.
And they're all true bypass and built like a tank.
So let's go through each individual pedal one at a time,
check out the features and hear what they sound like.
I'm using a '68 Custom Pro Reverb
and the bypass tone sounds like this.
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First up delay, delay is a great effect to add some depth
and space to your tone.
You can sweeten your leads, get that classic country
slap back, longer delays for dramatic swells,
and huge ambient washes.
Delay's used in just about every genre of guitar music.
The Hammertone Delay provides up to
950 milliseconds of delay.
You can add a lush modulation at the flick of a switch
and you have three different delay types to choose from,
super clean digital delay, warm analog delay,
and a crisp tape echo.
One really cool feature is that this pedal
has analog dry through which keeps your tone pure
when the effect is on.
Let's run through the controls.
You got feedback for amount of repeats,
time for shorter or longer delays,
level for overall delay level, delay type switch
and a modulation switch
which activates a swirling coral effect on the repeats
and then the rate and depth for the modulation
can be adjusted with the internal trims ports.
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Next we have space delay.
So if you're going for an ambient kind of thing,
I think the space delay is probably gonna give you
the most options when it comes to building
a massive wall of sound.
Space delay has a nice warm analog style saturation
and a gorgeous tape warble.
You can set it to be subtle and natural
or go big and achieve oscillating waves
and super long repeats.
This one also features analog dry through
to keep your tone sounding pure along with the delay effect.
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Let's check out the controls.
You got feedback for amount of repeats,
time for shorter or longer delays,
level for overall delay level
and the pattern switch that selects
between three separate delay patterns
to emulate classic tape echo units.
And just like the delay
the modulation switch adds a swirling coral effect
on the repeats and the rate and depth can be adjusted
with the internal trim ports.
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Finally, we have reverb.
Reverb is a great effect to add some space
or ambience to your sound.
The Hammertone Reverb delivers three classic
reverb effects, hall, room and plate.
It also has a tone switch, which tames the high frequencies
and allows the reverb to sit more naturally in the mix.
Let's take a look at the controls.
Over here you got time for reverb length,
damp which rolls off highs more gradually
and eventually clamps down on the reverb tails,
level for overall reverb level,
type for your three different reverb types
and a tone switch.
So it has three different reverbs.
I'll go through each one individually
and we'll mess around with controls.
We'll start with hall
which emulates the sound of a large space,
then room which emulates a smaller acoustic space,
and finally plate which is a high end reverb
typically used in studios and lends itself nicely
to ambient tones for guitar.
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All right, three really cool pedals
from the Fender Hammertone Series.
Really nice way to get a bigger sound
and add dimension to your sound on stage, recording,
or just noodlin' around at home.
Head over to Fender.com, check out all the other pedals
in the Hammertone Series.
There's a handful of drive pedals
and some really cool modulation stuff.
Check 'em out, stay tuned here for more pedal demos.
I'm gonna add some distortion in this final play
to show you how nicely these pedals work together.
All right. See ya.
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