This tip is hinted at in the instructions. Unfortunately I don’t have a Holy Grail to test this with right now, but to my ear the reverb used in the VERB delay mode of the Canyon Delay and Looper sounds like the room reverb on the Holy Grail. The Canyon Delay and Looper actually makes a decent reverb in a pinch.

Ducking is a technique where the tails of the reverb are delayed, held back, or “duck” out of the way of the lead line. That way they don’t muddy things up. The attacks of the lead line are clean and clear, then the reverb swells in just in time to hear the tails.

We can turn the Canyon Delay Looper into a reverb with ducking by using zero delay and zero feedback. That leaves just the reverb. If you add just a tiny bit of delay before the reverb kicks in then you can “duck” it out of the way of the attacks.

The Canyon Delay has an internal switch to control the tails when you bypass an effect. If you bypass a reverb or delay effect and the tails instantly stop, it can sound unnatural. The Canyon delay lets you set the tails so that when you bypass the effect, the last tails or repeats continue to fade out.

[strong]Control Settings[/strong]

MODE: VERB
FX LVL: 12:00
DELAY: Minimum
FEEDBACK: Minimum

[strong]Playing Tips[/strong]

Use the Secondary Functions to set the length of tails and tone of the reverb. To do ducking, increase the delay to about 10:00. This will let the attack of the notes play out before the reverb starts up. To control whether or not the reverb tails shut out immediately when you bypass the effect, use the Tails switch inside the Canyon.