Tommy Emmanuel Talks About Reverb

This is a video of Tommy Emmanuel talking about his live reverb and midrange applications. This is from a workshop at The Blue Door in Oklahoma City on August 29th, 2009. I was lucky enough to get a front row seat for the clinic. Later in the workshop I got on stage and played "Precious Time" with Tommy. It was a great day.

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Music

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• Tommy Emmanuel
• Maton Guitar
• Midiverb 2
• TC Electronics
• The Blue Door
• Oklahoma City
• Workshop
• Mark Galloway

[staffansvahn]

Hello Mark!

Really cool... Seems a truly nice person. I like the way he depends on a reverb from the 80's although he could get anything he wants.

I hope all is well with you. I am busy working on my right hand. It will be fun to show that you can teach an old dog to sit.

All the best

Your friend

Staffan

[markgalloway]

@staffansvahn

Thanks Staffan.

The Midiverb 2 really has a great sound for live performance. Especially when using a Maton with the AP5 pickup/mic system.

I bought my Midiverb 2 on Ebay a couple of years ago for $48.00. What a great investment. It really has a great live sound.

On the Midiverb 2, 23 is the short reverb and 26 is the longer reverb Tommy usually uses on ballads.

[loveforsteelstrings]

@markgalloway Hi Mark. I was just wondering what you mean about "23 is the short reverb and 26 is the longer reverb"? Is that different settings on the reverb unit? If so, are the 23 and 26 the only ones tommy use? Kind regards/emil

[markgalloway]

@loveforsteelstrings Yes, Tommy uses #23 on most of his faster tunes, it is a short reverb. In the video he explains how the shorter reverb decays quickly. He uses #28 for balads like Those Who Wait, Over the Rainbow and Mona Lisa. #28 is like a big hall reverb. He also uses more midrange on the balads to make the melody cut through. He uses another setting in the 90's for Initiation. I think it's #97. It is a big delay.

[skeletone111]

TY. Wheres the video of you playing with him? Would love to hear it:)

[markgalloway]

@skeletone111

My camera batteries ran out after about thirty minutes. I wish I had video of our duet.

[markgalloway]

@JPRBlues

Please do check him out. He is one of the worlds finest guitar players.

[superreverbfreak]

@markgalloway check out the strymon blue sky if you havent already....man i got it about 6 months ago....and aside from the eventide prolly my favorite reverb ever...

[loveforsteelstrings]

@markgalloway Thank you very much for answering my question! /Emil

[1wiesehoefer1]

thats great ********

[stawney]

Wish I could see your duet with TE! Thanks for sharing this video Mark!

[Qpidon]

I never get bored watching TE..... always back to basics...

Hey Mark, long time no see? All th best for you!!

[adihaz2]

i love how he comes up with that run in 4:18 like it was nothing!

[biggfingger5]

Tommy is so amazing1 Every time I think I'm getting a pretty good handle on guitar(even after 43 yrs it's still a struggle) I find a new video of Tommy,like this one. He is just messing around and is miles beyond me.Thanks so much for posting.Get to work!

[6K6R]

Nice one Mark

Thanks for posting

Claude