Dial Your Guitar Tone Like A Pro. Nicky V
What sounds great to us sitting in a room with an amp doesn’t always translate to the stage or the studio. This week we are going to break down four ways to take your guitar tone from amateur to studio level and stadium level.
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Are you still rolling with no compressor on your boards? I saw you had an SP Comp there for a while. Love your work bro.
Bla bla bla…????????????????????
This guy's a nutter. No reverb and Vox is good for something? Clearly an escaped mental patient. ????
Guess I better state that I'm joking. Sometimes jokes/sarcasm get lost without verbal/visual cues.
I am glad you mentioned angus young hands down he has the greatest distortion tone in the studio or live and I have seen him 5 times. He Said he doesn’t use any pedals or boost he just backs his volume knob down for the live mix and when he gets ready to play a solo or needs more volume he just turns the guitar knob up that’s his whole rig a plexi Marshall and a sg guitar no pedals.And my go to guitar for years is a stock 95 telecaster American. I Own a few guitars but the tele seems like home and simple to play.
I have pretty much played Marshall and fender amps mostly for 40 yrs they are predictable I start with bass ,treble and mid at 12 o’clock and I may turn up bass a little or back it off if it sounds too muddy but I can’t recall ever turning treble up and I never mess with the mid ever always 12oclock. Live the only pedal I use is a crybaby wah and a distortion pedal for boost when mixing sound with band I start by turning my volume knob back a quarter turn on the guitar and adjust the amp for volume that way I am not stumbling around on stage trying to turn up my volume on amp if I need some extra volume I can just turn up volume on guitar and back it off when I need to.
I've always hated it when people would tell me "oh, the tone is in your hand". Well man, I hear a lot of people getting the tone I want and the obviously don't have the same hands, nor the same picking technique, nor even the same guitar. I'm looking forward to watching this video.
Drummer here, 58tears, have heard everything, so far.
I think guitar teachers need to teach how to find sounds. A signature sound and adding nuances seems to be lost on a lot on
beginners and hobbyists.
You want low end? Play bass… most guitarists listen the guitar in isolation without bass guitar and think "what a letdown" and thus we get the scooped mids.
Yes, guitar is mid range instrument. Electric guitar especially so.
So find what you like, but use restraint and dial it back. This is very helpful, thanks!
This is all so spot on. Been playing in rock bands and occasionally recording for over 40 years. And this advice is freaking gold. I love effects, but use them WAY more sparingly than I used to. I went guitar>tuner>amp for a couple of years and that was an education. Doing some work mixing was audio an education. The levels of dirt and the EQ have so much effect on the front/back of the mix spectrum. Delay based effects do as well. Very well presented, solid info, can confirm.
Glad I stuck around for "nobody's happy with their guitar tone" ha! Totally. Good stuff
Cool, I like this. Learned some things about reverb and delay, Vox is an amp I want to try. Heard a bogner used at the Jason Aldeen show and it was great!.
Man, I love Tele’s and the tone you are getting is the tone I like for clean playing. My favorite amps are the small Fender mustang digital modeling amps set to Deluxe emulations. I like to roll the guitar volume down to control some of the peaks ( transients ). Now to hear what you said a bout overdriven tones.
Good stuff sir⚡️
Thank you for the info and these videos. Very much appreciate it!
This was a great and useful video. Definitely subscribed
Thanks!
Subscribed! Good topic and tips
Every musician in a band serves a certain frequency pattern. The bassist doesn't like it when the guitarist or keyboardist messes with his frequency. Once you understand that, every audience will love you. Assuming the FOH doesn't screw everything up.
Great advice all around!
Excellent video. Well said, easy to digest information without a bunch of crap no one wants to hear. ????
helpful — as for amps, i have only Fender Champ and Orange … given both are solid state, I'm not sure what they emulate. I like orange because it's simple playing out, 2 channels, one clean, 1 w a little brown. The other is a modeler, but I actually play it clean channel but with pedals, blues driver mostly.
FINALLY someone who gets it! The difference between tone and feel.
Great advices man !
Do you think "tone in your hands" could be to do with your right hand attack, and how far from the bridge you hit the string? I rarely, if ever, hear people talk about that. Lately i've been turning up the amp and lightening my attack to change tone, rather than reaching for the EQ (or buying new pickups!). That is usually for jazz but I think it applies to every genre.
Love the vid..I love my compressor though…hehe
I installed reproduction, vintage-style Gibson electronics in my used Ibanez SG copy (also Seymour Duncan pickups) and the range on these potentiometers are super dynamic and versatile. Way better than I expected. I needed a little guidance on how to wield and control so much power! Great video – thanks!
Awesome. Useful in 5 minutes with no fluff to skip through. Great approach to content!!
This is 12 minutes of non stop gold. You’re so right about too much distortion. Go listen to the isolated Hot For Teacher guitar track. I promise you there is not nearly as much gain as you think there is.
Great vid but I just got super self conscious about the Vox AC15 I use live! You’re kinda saying don’t use a Vox live. Any tips for live playing a 15 or 30?
thanks Nick, between the great explanation with compression, and this video, the new song i am working on should be my best effort yet… i appreciate you… keep strummin'!!
I fell across this video this afternoon(currently 5pm in Manchester UK). What a fool I've been! I like to hear bass guitar when I listen to music, but that is a different thing to getting the best from my guitar when I'm practicing or playing along to something in my spare room.
Having been playing for a whole 4 years, ????????and at 64 years old, I'm not heading to a studio, or out on stage any time soon, however, this has made a huge difference to my playing and practice. As I always say, you're never too old to learn, and no one is ever too young to teach you.
Ha!
Think I’m watching it now .❤
very cool man , starting to find edge of break up in the amp for full clean single note tone. Trying to keep it simple more by using the volume know on the geetar to clean up dirty by going down and get full single note tone by going up. thanks , Adam from Australia.
Great Job Nick
LOL yeah I've never been happy with my tone. Every amp I get I'm like there's something missing. I bought the Kemper profiler player. Some things I liked some things I hated. I bougt the new Marshall jtm 20 combo, some things I like some things I hated. Then I decided to run them both at the same time, holy hell, everything I hate about the Kemper the Marshall filled in. Everything I didn't like about the Marshall the Kemper filled in. I switch between the two and I don't like either one. But together they blow me away.
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Thank you, this is the most useful video I have watched on proper tone setting!
I'm guessing you're talking about pop and country music. Also your advice makes certain assumptions about the tonal characteristic of the amp and pedals to begin with.
I play rock, and I use a combination of pedals that result in way too much 1kHz, so my first move is basically to EQ 10dB out of there for the sound to not be too harsh. Then there is rumble in the bass, so I have to high pass that because it makes a big mess at 60Hz and where the kick lives, but I wouldn't turn that up either because it's just rumble, I'm pretty sure the rumble comes from intermodulation of higher frequencies due to the distortion. It adds nothing of value to the sound. Finally I put a bell curve (or use the high pass resonance) at about 100 or 110Hz. For palm muting the low E and A notes, it makes everything sound thick and punchy. So I do boost the bass there. But to do all of this, I use mixing tools, not guitar pedals. I'm not sure I know pedals that do exactly what I described because it's quite precise: high pass + resonance is not something I see on a guitar pedal, there's usually just a bass knob, and I agree, simply turning that up doesn't work so well.
Used to have the fender/vox setup in my old band.
Spanky clean Tele through a twin reverb vs a rounded slightly dirty semi hollow through a Vox ac 50.
Never got in the way of each other and audience always complimented on the well defined roles.
Great advice!!
I always use reverb but it's shouldn't be noticeable but if I use delay I don't use reverb and visa versa but I play mostly clean