And the Best Guitar for Ambient Is...

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Equipment used:
Wampler Ego Compressor
Morley Little Alligator Volume Pedal
Avid Eleven Rack
Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 firewire audio interface
Apple Logic Pro X

chords of orion - ambient/post-rock guitar music for the mind and heart.

bill vencil - guitars

[TheOligoclonalBand]

I got a 81 Les Paul Deluxe on my 18th birthday. It‘s a rock machine, but after not really using it for a few years I fell in love with it again when getting into ambient.

[crock]

Love your videos....helps me stare out at the passion flowers and butterfly when I need a moment...

[acatnamedjoex]

Pickups make the sound. Body only makes a difference for sustain and acoustic volume. But yes, p90s are versatile pickups

[Bloor]

90s Epiphone SG, bags of fuzz into a volume pedal, n turn into delay and reverb.

[NateBreidenbaugh-ggfs]

I love my PRS and my nylon strings for ambient stuff as well!

[rivagesfm]

I make ambient with a PRS Custom 22 and a Strat. The strat because it has these neck and middle pickups, the PRS because that mid position with the two pickups is insane.

[Shred_The_Weapon]

I recommend a model like the replica I bought in February 2024 of the Brian May Red Special. The Special combines the best of all worlds, the Strat, the Tele and a semi-hollow like the 335. Mine (a preowned Burns replica) may not be the best example, but it works for me.

[Koldunya]

the best ambient guitar is the one in your hands :)

[marvan]

Any fart you put through 20 pedals, can sound ambient.

[motosportadv]

its the player not the guitar! Helps that your a great player Bill!

[craigroaring]

My observations of ambient guitar playing is the high percentage of headless guitars being used.

[davidmckelvey]

I mean, if it's all going to sound pretty much the same if you are playing through a wall of effects.

[Ivan-yflu]

what strings do you use for big semi hollowbody? My came with 13s

[captaincharlie]

Beautiful guitar! What model is that semi hollow?

[Domn]

When you have a wash of pedals and don’t need to play fast, it can literally be any functional guitar.

[static]

i found a strat to be very flat and uninspiring for ambient music as compared to my jazzmaster.

[Stooky_Person]

But I though Strats are the *Strat*egy?!

[lightstreamscomedance]

My classical guitar using a strymon big sky and eventide timefactor through a Spark mini amp sounds way better than that. I much prefer using my classical over my otherwise amazing gretsch for ambient tones.

[zerocrossing]

Fripp practically invented the genre using a Les Paul.