How to Sound Like Jerry Garcia: DIY Grateful Dead Guitar Rig
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Have you ever wanted to model your tone after Jerry Garcia? Our friend and resident Jerry expert Packy Lundholm came by to show us his rig and to share some of his Jerry wisdom. What part of Jerry’s sound do you want to emulate most?
Line 6 Helix users: download Packy’s Jerry patch at https://bit.ly/3W9MiwB
Check out Packy Lundholm’s music: packylundholm.com
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0:00 – Intro/”U.S. Blues” Jam
1:42 – The Guitar
14:51 – “Scarlet Begonias” Jam
15:49 – The Amp
22:27 – “Estimated Prophet” Jam
23:18 – The Effects
31:04 – “Eyes of the World” Jam
31:54 – Effects Continued
35:45 – Picking Technique
38:32 – “Eyes of the World” Jam Continued
Special thanks to Rhino and Warner Music Group for the use of The Grateful Dead’s music in this video.
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This video is goddamn awesome…I actually do want a part 2…3…
Packy is the man!
You know, at the time I hated on Collective Soul because they didn't live up to the arbitrary criteria of "real" that I created in my head. This many years later, I have to admit that these riffs are ridiculously good and the songs are so well written. I, and alot of us, would have gotten farther toward our dreams if we'd have had an open mind in our youth.
Great video, Packy you are a master! I use a Helix to make Bobby Weir tones with Raising The Dead and have exchanged Jerry patches with Packy. Never considered the OBEL ins and outs were all available on the Helix, tho!
You can get a nice consistent quack from the Micro QTron by putting it on LP Q at 0 and Drive 10.Probably not the best setting but simple .
Jerry Garcia played a lot of those ugly Alembic guitars with active electronics, it would be expensive to get that tone.
For those looking for that Jerry amp tone, check out the Milkman “The Amp” 100! It’s a Fender-type tube front end with a 100w digital power amp, and a mosfet boost circuit in between the tube stages. With a JBL speaker, it NAILS Jerry tone. And the amp itself is only 2.5lb! I use one with a JBL K120 in a Coscia 1×12 “Hard Truckers” style cab. The whole thing is about 35lb.
Jerry was a banjo player, so that's a big factor
Technically, that first cable output is not stereo. It's a TRS cable with one signal going out of the guitar and then coming back on the wire that normally be used as the 180 degrees "out of phase" wire in a balanced system.
Good stuff. I just don’t know why the Reverb guy chose expensive stuff to demo as an alternative. His pedals cost more than my guitar and amp combined.
Man for a guy known to have so issues with “substances”, Jerry sure managed to deal with a complicated AF guitar rig. Gotta respect that.
FUCKING LAME! NOT A REAL JERRY GUITAR AND ALL SECOND HAND SPECULATION. FUCKING CLICKBAIT! DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME…
Really good stuff
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Hope Joey and Stu from King Gizz watch this vid and get some inspiration!!
The ‘77 Jerry tone is my favorite.
Let’s not forget Gabe from Smokin Amp Co ,some of the best budget pedals ,hand build that sound super good .
a couple Chicago greats! Breakin' it down!
Isn’t that OBEL just the same as putting a volume pedal at the end of your chain, or in the amp’s effects loop?
Overkill. Any cheap humbucker guitar would sound almost the same.
I like what he said about the IR file of a well-miked JBL speaker/cabinet. That changed my tone more than almost anything else. The other thing is those picks. I also need to dial in a little bass on a digital model of a Twin. I’m using a Strat that has the wrong pickups in it, but I can get into the territory.
Super cool video! Mostly went way over my head, but very interesting to see all the aspects that went into Jerry's sound.
To gain control over the mutron III, I used to use a compressor before it, and and a gain pedal after it. To get it to respond better to my weak pickups, and improve upon the single (skinny) string responsivity. The gain pedal after the filter acts as a master volume (for the filter sound).
For a very musical budget alternative to the original Mutron, I recommend the factory version of the Snow White Autowah from Mad Professor, as it needs no pedals before or after. And is nearly impossible to make it sound nasty! (The handwired version is more grainy like the original Mutron, but needs trimming of the input and output gain too.)
Garcia never played bluegrass guitar.
He was a f*** around guitar player and then was doing some folk stuff when he discovered five string banjo, and that was the first instrument that he really got into.
It was only 64-65 when Mother McCree's electrified that he got back into guitar.