Blues Pedalboard Tips for Beginners || Essential Tones
Today I share some blues pedalboard tips for beginners and breakdown all the essential tones and the pedals you’ll need to achieve them.
If you’re a blues guitarist who loves blues guitar tones and you’re looking to update your pedalboard but you’re not sure what to buy then this video is for you. There are so many guitar pedals on the market these days that knowing what to buy can be really difficult so this video will offer you helpful advice on what pedals to consider buying.
In this video I explain the main categories of overdrive used by the blues icons to help you narrow down your search. I also talk about modulation pedals which will elevate your tone to the next level and help you recreate some of those iconic Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan tones!
Here are some Time Stamps:
Intro.- 0:00
Blues Solo (Wampler Tumnus + Trex Alberta + Slap Back Delay) – 0:10
What’s This Video About – 0:37
The Tube Screamer Pedal – 1:06
Tube Screamer Solo Clip – 2:26
Klon-Style Overdrive Pedals – 2:55
Klon-Style Solo Clip (Wampler Tumnus) – 4:07
Transparent Overdrive Pedals – 4:46
Transparent Overdrive Solo Clip (Nobels ODR) -6:02
Fuzz Pedals – 6:45
Modulation Pedals (Slap Back Delay) – 7:30
Leslie/Rotary Speaker Effect – 8:32
Univibe Pedal – 9:25
Outro – 9:53
During the guitar performance clips I’m playing through a clean Fender Blues Junior V3 (all stock) so all the drive your hearing in the clips is coming from the pedals.
I’m also playing my 1997 USA Standard Fender Stratocaster with House of Tone pickups and my Fender Vintera 50s Modified Telecaster.
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My name is Chris Harvey, I’m a UK-based Guitarist, Guitar Tutor, Session Guitarist and Content Creator. I’ve been playing guitar for 15 years and have a Degree in Music Technology.
My channel is all about creating content for the modern-day guitarist. I want to provide you with everything you need to know to achieve the best tone, the best playing, and guide you through the wonderful world of creating a brand for yourself as a Guitar Player.
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Even some of the el cheapo clones sound almost spot on to the originals. Any $50 Centaur Klone is going to get you about 98% to an authentic Klon tone.
My favorite overdrive is split between the DOD FX-50B Overdrive Plus and the DOD 250.
Your great and thank you. John Mayer is good but he is just the flavor that is popular at the moment and by no means a bluesman. He is just a great player that chooses to play blues music. John's facial convulsions for lack of a better word are comical at a minimum. John will definitely be in the top 50 guitarist of all time but he falls way short on being the greatest.
Big thanks .I really enjoyed the video. Cheers
Show the pedal settings when demonstrating.
Your playing is absolutely awesome!
Very informative thank you
This is one of the more useful overviews of blues tone pedal options. Thanks, Chris!
This video makes me happy that my guitar teacher encouraged me to get used to playing with my pinky early on, haha.
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I wonder what sort of pedals the three electric blues guitarists with the greatest tone of them all used – I mean Albert King, BB King and Albert Collins. Any idea?
What are you telling us here that's new? Oh yeah, nothing.
No idea what those pedals do. I would prefer the same riff on the same guitar, with and without the pedal, to compare the with/without sound. And not switching from a tele to a strat after the first sample
Great job, Chris. Video, content and music are all great! Just stumbled across your channel today. Not much of a fuzz fan myself, but will be picking up a Thorpy Veteran soon. The Wampler Euphoria is great for ‘transparent’ overdrive too, although the mode switch means it can do a lot more than that.
Hi,I've just few years experience with electric guitars and I'm considering upgrading my gears but I'm not sure in which direction. At the moment I have a basic zoom g3n /sterling cutlass hss with a bugera v5. Would you say that would be better to replace the multieffect with an OD+ DD or maybe a better multieffect such as moeer ge300 ? The last thing that I was considering was to change the amp to a blackstar id 100. I would use the equipment mainly for home practice. Thank you
Thanks for the info bud I subbed God Bless!
Thanks, I would like to see you play through all of the effects on your pedalboard and how you might use them in a song.
Thanks mate! this was a great vid
No Wah in your signal chain?
best od type demo very very helpful always trying to find the sound in my head thankyou
Love the backing tracks! Are they available?!?
what a bout WAHs? )) Thanks dear! cool video
this does not tkje into account the amp, Tube Screamer or Tumnus would sound choked on a mid-heavy amp. Fuzz and muff may disappoint if ran on a mid-scooped amp. Also a lot of them play well with strat singles or P90 but not so much with humbuckers
The rule of the game, know your guitar, know your amp, then choose pedals that do not clash with frequencies of your guitar and your amp
Nice playing, BTW
I'm a beginner trynna get into blues and this is really helpful!
I really dig your tone. I have the same amp. May I ask what your amp settings are?
Subscribed. Great channel!
thw univibe is not a chorus or a vibrato. if you have ears, it's obvs a phaser type modulation. sheesh. plus trying to talk about fuzz when you don't use fuzz or have any?? OK so now I will talk about my vagina………..
yeah because instead of trying to do something new and original, it's always better to use time, talent, money, effort, and so on to simply reproduce stuff from 40 years ago, cos that's more worthwhile, even though if someone really wanted to listen to blues they could, oh, I dunno, buy some albums by Cream, Eric Clapton, BB King, Albert King, Rory Gallagher, or early Fleetwood Mac. In fact, I would rather go and listen to any of them than this. So, err, bye.
Yawn. Is it still 1975?
Very Nice Chris!
Oddly I've never heard of a univibe before but this is the 3rd video I've seen in so many days recommending one. I wish I kept my Marshall Blues Breaker pedal from when I was a teen, I think I traded it for a metal zone lol
Great video man !
Jesus I went to school with this man ???? good to see you doing well my friend ???? miss the days with our duffel coats, rocking around in 6th form.