How To THICKEN Your Guitar Tone | Master Your Tone #4 | Thomann
How to fix a “flat” or thin sounding guitar tone? Today Kris shows you a few awesome ways of making your guitar tone a bit more exciting or thick. Or both. 
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Interesting bits and pieces:
0:00 Introduction
0:52 1. The midrange
1:57 2. Modulation trick
3:01 3. Time based trick
4:04 Most important +1 ever…
5:27 Everything ON – Outro playing
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TC Electronics Mimiq Doubler pedal!!!
Using a D-Seed pedal on the modulation setting with the same settings described here; lower delay time, lower mix and lower feedback. Works great for fattening up via the delay, via the chorus-y modulation, and makes any clean passage or solo stand out
To be fair with this kind of amp all you actually ever need is a tubescreamer!
Plexis are awsome but they need volume and boost
Most of the times a play with my Amp’s eq section and most of the times it’s the mids.
And the eq pedal tweaks most half obvious and sometimes half imagined pickup swop issues put of existence. Just have to note the settings for each guitar
Where should i place the klon? Before or after overdrives?
Also for EQ: always use it first to take away what you have lots of and only then try to use it to add the tone qualities that you're still missing.
How about a compressor?
Was struggling with my tele's sound being too thin. Ended up changing the strings from 9-42 to 9.5-44. Small change, but it is a totally different beast now.
Tone knob is also a very powerfull tool.
Buy a Gibson LOL
Can i run a noise gate..delay and eq in the effects loop and what order to put them in
Compressor pedal (preferably one with a clean blend)and EQ pedal (6 or 7 band are usually enough for guitar.)
Best to put the compressor after any auto wah or octave pedals that need your unvarnished guitar input. Some schools say EQ before drive, some say after. Mine works for me after.
Chorous pedals are also a good way to sound bigger, if set subtly. Same for reverb.
Andy Summers taught the world the power of a chorus pedal. His use of modulation taught me how to fill a lot of sonic space when needed.
Q: what is your way …. A: practice…
no, I agree on all of them. haven't used a phaser for that so far, Again, inspiring vid Chris…????
I use my old Boss Super Chorus, especially on clean and solos
Poor-man’s and/or simplified approach = mid tone knob on amp. Not as good as these ideas, but might be a consideration when buying a new amp. Making sure it has a mid knob
Thank you for your TOP 5 to thicken a guitar tone. With the profiles in my Kemper Stage I use for clean sound a compressor and just a little more gain and for distortion sounds and especially solos I use the single delay.
Very well explained in less than 6 minutes ????????????
Humble suggestion to add: Compressor
Solid tips – thanks. I like to up the volume and gain a bit and pick lightly – or play with fingers. And combined with the guitar tone knob down a bit.
What i prefer to do to thicken a cleanish tone is, (what you did with the klon) put an od3. If I'm using a "british-style-chimey-amp", I'll probably keep the tone at 12 o clock, and the drive probably at around 9. Now if it's an "American-style-clean-amp", it'll be pretty much the same for the tone (maybe a notch or two down) and the drive would be around 11 or even between 11 n 12. Level matched with the amp's volume. Also, for the ge7, that's a very valuable pedal (specially "Valuable" after the recent price changes *pun fully intended).
But dude!!! +1 for that intro ????????, that was a long awaited roll!
I use an EHX Nano POG. A tab bit of +1 and -1 octive, blended with my dry signal really thickens the sound too.
Excellent video. Totally agree about the shockingly underused (not by pros) 'simple' EQ pedal. Combine with a compressor for the ultimate in tone shaping/thickening.
Strymon Deco DoubleTracker, or a Voodoo Lab Analog Chourus does the trick for me.
Use powder over the strings while playing. Preferably a sweet baby talcum powder. Next, mix it with some lemongrass extract. You will definitely have a naturally thick tone.
Kris let me just mention here what a phenomenal guitar player i think you are. Wish you were my teacher!
Never underestimate the tone knob.
For recording, I like to set aside a track with just the guitar's direct sound, and mix that in underneath the main, amplified track. The DI guitar is naturally midrange-y, with a thumping attack. It's like adding a bit of butter to the recipe.
hey Kris amazing tips! cheers brothaa ????
Harmonic Trem has a similar effect as a phaser, love my Strymon Flint!
What frequency bands to you usually boost to thicken? Or do you remove boost?