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Hello EarthQuakers! President and Product Designer Jamie Stillman is back with another video manual for the Ledges Tri-Dimensional Reverberation Machine!
Ledges is a compact, three-mode reverb with the ability to save and recall six presets and user-assignable expression control with loads of customizable options. If you’re craving that warm, lush reverb tone from the players and songs you love, then this is your pedal. If you want to push the limits and take it further to sonic reaches that only you can uncover, then this is also your pedal. It’s everything you’ve ever wanted and needed out of a reverb.
We created Ledges for no-nonsense musicians who need access to a wide variety of fantastic sounds and don’t want to mess with menu diving, extra footswitches, or midi controllers. Ledges offers three distinct, rich reverbs that cover all your bases – Room, Hall and the almost infinitely regenerating Plate – with user assignable expression control and six presets to easily switch between settings. Presets can even save expression pedal assignments, making it easier than ever to save and switch between the 6 best reverb sounds that are yours and yours alone.
Ledges has three unique reverb modes: Room, Hall and Plate. Each mode uses a different algorithm, tuned to give specific spatial qualities, while still sitting perfectly in the mix. We steered clear of any tones that were harsh or muddy.
Room (R) has the darkest tone of the three modes. At the shortest length setting it’s like a small, boxy room, reminiscent of 80s reverb. As you bring the length up, the reflections become distant and brighter; similar to playing in a large tile room. If you hit the strings harder, it has an almost spring reverb character without becoming completely washed out.
Hall’s (H) shortest length setting picks up where the longest length of Room leaves off. Hall shifts from a large hall to a massive cathedral with loads of soft, distant reflections that build up faster and trail off longer.
Plate (P), full of reflections, goes from a traditional, large plate to a nearly infinite pad of freezing reflections fed through a high-pass multi-tap delay. Plate picks up where Hall leaves off. The algorithm picks up the highest frequencies of the reverb and feeds it back in, so when the Length is up above noon, it can almost start to self-oscillate. You can tame the oscillations with the Damping control. As you increase the length on the Plate setting and get to those infinite bouncy reflections, you can create a freeze style pad underneath your initial attack.
Presets
Ledges boasts six presets and on-the-fly footswitch preset switching, with expression control that can be mapped to different controls and can also be saved as a preset.
Saving, recalling and overwriting presets has never been simpler.
To save a preset, turn the Preset rotary switch to the desired location you wish to save your preset. Dial in the mode and settings you want to save (including the expression pedal assignment!), hold the save/recall switch down until the LED flashes between green and red, and then release. Your preset is saved!
Ledges has two operating modes which are indicated by the color of the Save/Recall switch LED. In Live Mode, the pedal will operate exactly where the controls are set and any changes will have no effect on the presets unless saved. In Preset Mode, stored presets, including expression pedal mapping, are selected using the Preset switch, and the physical settings of the controls will be ignored.
With Ledges, it’s never been easier to switch between live and preset modes on the fly, vastly expanding your sonic cosmos (no bending down required!). You can also easily map an expression pedal to any of the controls, allowing for limitless experimentation.
Shot by Chris Tran and Jeff France
Edited by Chris Tran and Jeff France
Recorded and Mixed by Jeff France
Performed by Jamie Stillman
Gear:
DIY jazzmaster with Humbuckers
Supro Thunderbolt
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00:00 – 01:19 Intro
01:19 – 02:26 What is the Ledges?
02:26 – 03:28 Interlude Performance
03:28 – 03:37 Three Reverb Modes
03:37 – 03:50 – Controls
03:50 – 04:53 – Room Mode
04:53 – 05:41 Hall Mode
05:41 – 07:28 – Plate
07:28 – 09:37 – How to Save a Preset
09:37 – 10:49 Assigning Expression Control
10:49 – 11:22 – Outro