How To Get Any Blues Tone (EHX Holy Grail, Dunlop Band of Gypsies Fuzz Face, JHS Unicorn)
The blues and guitar go together like biscuits and gravy, and Josh is here to serve up the essential sounds from the genre’s best. Join us as we take a tour from the Delta to Chicago to the UK as Josh gives a brief historical rundown of the Blues’ most iconic musicians and effects.
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Gear on the board
EHX Holy Grail
EHX Lizard Queen
Dunlop Band of Gypsies Fuzz Face
JHS 3 Series Screamer
JHS Milkman
JHS Overdrive Preamp
JHS Unicorn
00:00-00:58 – Pre-War Blues
00:59-04:27 Early Electrified Blues
04:28-05:05 – Chicago Blues
05:06-08:19 – British Blues
08:20-12:14 – Psychedelic Blues
12:15-14:18 – Texas Blues
14:19-17:09 – Modern Adapters
17:10-17:47 – Record Time
17:48-19:09 – Conclusion
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‘Bridge of Sighs’, Robin Trower’s entry into your “Psychedelic Blues” period, was actually released ca. 1974. It’s okay, Josh, the drugs must’ve been kicking in… : )
does it make sense to get a reverb pedal even though my princeton amp has a spring reverb? which one? thx
Josh you nailed an SRV riff. Great work!!
Its the Taylor Swift of blues.????
Josh, to me, yeah, animals, they did it blues, get that I won't I call animalism it's all blues, real good album
I'm gonna go ahead and say that I don't care for the idea that Blues should be codified according to a tone. Just don't use too much overdrive/distortion, and have some kind of reverb on it. Blues is really kind of meant to be feel-based. Analyzing it to the degree where you're trying to nail down this or that tone, in my opinion, is too restrictive.
So jealous of whoever got this pedal board. Serves me right for being so late to the JHS party
6:41 Hackton
I would consider eric clapton in his cream time to also be part of the psychedelic blues. Just listen to his excessive wah wah use in combination with the dallis range master on white room
Thanks Josh!
Creo que llegue tarde al sorteo ????????????
Blues also relied on the framework of hundreds of years of Old World music theory and modern instruments
Thanks, great. Pls more of that.
No mention of CANNED HEAT, sad.
There is no such thing as "blues tone"! There's tone, good or bad.
It's a shame copyright exists because y'all sound incredible! I want more of everything. Let the cymbals ring and the bassist cook! BTW does your band have a name?
12:35 as someone who has worked at Panera Bread and enjoys SRV, i can confirm this
I like this content. Please make more Josh.
…it's the ZZ Top DId It Right the FIrst TIme blues…
What about the blues driver by boss?
Your knowledge on pedals is amazing and your guitar playing as well
that tube screamer needs to be nobels odr1
That’s not a real Addison. It’s a JHS Addison clone, the “Baddy Addy”. A real Addison has a moustache.
Must go shopping????????❤
Hahahaha prisonverb ????
Mississippi Delta-Blues is Acoustic Blues. Chicago Blues is Electric Blues. Muddy Waters Invented Electricty. ????????????????????????????????????✌????
Why does everybody forget about Luther Allison when it comes to blues? Dude could jam. His son is good too.
Need that I'm 7 months left
Having lived a lot of my life in thev western suberbs ofvChicago I. have been lucky enoughbto see all thre Kings Freddi, Albert and BB as well as Muddy Watters, Coco Tayler, JohnLee Hooker, etc – the best Blues Guitar I ever saw was Johonny Winter with Muddy Waters, check out there album : Nothing but the Blues
I think this is the most useful JHS video so far! Thank you! Since the resurgence of blues in the 1980s, some modern pedal geeks turn up their noses at blues tones, and djenters turn up their noses at “repetitive blues licks”, but when people go out to see live local music, it’s very often blues and classic rock with the tones demoed in this video. And some of my favorites are still Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Robben Ford, Ana Popovic, Popa Chubby, and other players with tones like those demoed in this video!
Beano tone was too quiet!