Know Your Knobs….Usable Tricks Used By The Pros.
A lot of intermediate guitar players seem to run every knob wide open but there’s a lot of magic if you start twisting them around a bit. We are going to look at the three primary colors of the guitar world (Strat, Tele, Gibson) and explore what we can pull out of them.
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0:00 Intro
0:30 Strat Tricks
5:51 Gibson Tricks
13:51 Tele Tricks
#Knobs….Usable #Tricks #Pros
Originally posted by UC7GCAQAHu28CQ3ytpr_dnaQ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xUGT1iDr7k
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Hey Nicky just wanted to say thanks for your video on tone. After listening and paying closer attention to my sound, I found that I was indeed using too much equalization and too much gain on my overdrive channel. Thanks again for the tips, Jay
I’m pretty new to guitars and I thought I want to have a Tele (I have a Strat, an SG and two LPs), but for some reason I just can’t find a Tele that’s comfortable. Even though I love the Tele sound and it sounded very good in this video too, I’ve given up on finding a Tele I’d enjoy. I have a guitar stand for five electric guitars and I’m thinking now of filling the last spot with an ES.
This is great, thanks man
Sick bro!!
An oddity of a Baritone Guitar . Either in a B tuning or your choice of setting .
Love it. When I played as a bar band guy in the 60’s and 70’s I played with a Les Paul Deluxe and a Fender twin. I did have a Cry Baby pedal but that was it. I worked with my tone and volume knobs to get everything I needed in tone. It was always about balance, cutting thru the mix and small adjustments were the difference in standing out, blending in and getting lost. Good stuff
Curious if you ever get into the modeling world – especially for when you’re being hired for shows
Nick, you covered a question asked by the audience, and the musicians. Yes people sometimes use the tone controls, as Nick proves. It can make a big difference on certain music. PLAY ON MAESTRO !
Great information.
Strat position2 with tone rolledoff and distortion sounds like a cocked wah.
Thanks for the video dude 🙂 man that strat has some BAD sounding pups, like it sounds like my first bullet squier I got. Crazy. At that point I'd just use a different strat entirely lol I appreciate all the advice tho, thanks man
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You deserve far more subscribers than you have… Great information, how to get a whole buncle of great tones without a milliion pedals.
See a strat i dont think the tone knobs are as good as a les pauls or SG at all …the strats throaty sound trem and kneck are the only things going for them for me …i prefer les pauls and sg guitars …the SG is quite bright sounding…eric claptons gibson days is full of the eq at full and everything controlled on the guitar …(u should not be messing with eq with claptons early stuff as he rolled all them up and controlled everything on the guitar…(by the way listen to the isolated guitar on the recording for sunshine of ure love !…now thats a mediocre tone that does not sound as good as expected .. (but it worked in the mix though!)
Great vid!! Glad I found you????????
Is the Nashville guy's name is Larry Byron why don't you get into his style if you can handle it
Great video! Very informative. A lot of people constantly switch gear when they really need to just turn a knob.
I don't want to throw water, but a lot of strats don't have the bridge pickup wired to any tone knob, any easy fix if you can solder
yeah great advice, turn your volume down on a guitar without a trble bleed circuit and destroy your tone, fool
tricks? wtf are u on about???
Thank you Nicky. One simple but essential concept articulated perfectly. You are able to give more useful guitar information in any given 60 seconds than just about anyone else on YouTube. No waffle, no bullshit, straight talk. Oh, and for anyone who thinks “that’s obvious”, it’s pretty incredible how many players, myself included, take sooooo long to fully investigate the tone permutations on any guitar. As the comments below will testify.
Excellent Video. I learned a lot!
Man, this just opens up a whole new world for me. I’ve just been so set. on everything being flat out for so many years I’ve never really given it much thought but yeah it makes so much sense. Just roll those knobs back and search for that tone.
Just need a 335 for real now, but I'll try all that on my L6 Midnight Special. Everything golden on this video!!
The Strat part was helpful with the bridge pickup. It’s interesting to me that you didn’t utilize the middle position on the Tele at all. One thing I like to do in a Gibson, is to set the bridge wide open, and mix in the neck pickup to taste.
For the start, your tone is thin.