Three Essential Guitar Tones with Mark Lettieri
Check out the gear used in this video:
PRS Fiore Electric Guitar:
https://www.guitarcenter.com/PRS/Fiore-Electric-Guitar-Amaryliss-1500000342401.gc?source=4GOA4LOBA
PRS HDRX 20W Guitar Amp Head:
https://www.guitarcenter.com/PRS/HDRX-20-20W-Guitar-Amp-Head-Black-1500000384463.gc?source=4GOA4LOBA
J.Rockett The Melody Mark Lettieri Signature Overdrive:
https://www.guitarcenter.com/Rockett-Pedals/The-Melody-Mark-Lettieri-Signature-Overdrive-Effects-Pedal-1500000213609.gc?source=4GOA4LOBA
J. Rockett Hot Rubber Monkey Overdrive:
https://www.guitarcenter.com/Rockett-Pedals/Hot-Rubber-Monkey-HRM-Overdrive-Effects-Pedal-Black-and-Silver-1500000377623.gc?source=4GOA4LOBA
Keeley HALO Andy Timmons Dual Echo:
https://www.guitarcenter.com/Keeley/HALO-Andy-Timmons-Dual-Echo-Signature-Effects-Pedal-Black-1500000376776.gc?source=4GOA4LOBA
Five-time Grammy Award winning guitarist, composer, producer and educator Mark Lettieri identifies his three essential guitar tones, and shows you how to get them. As a member of the instrumental groups Snarky Puppy and Fearless Flyers—as well as his own Mark Lettieri Group—the versatile guitar player seeks tones that can work seamlessly with almost any style of music.
Watch Lettieri as he demonstrates how to get an “edge of breakup” tone (“That sounds like a Hallmark movie,” he says. “I should write the soundtrack to that.”), a higher-gain lead sound and ambient reverb textures.
As the video unfolds, he also shares solid performance advice, such as “Hear how the amp sounds first before you start throwing pedals in front of it” and “Don’t forget to use the tone and volume controls on your guitar—you don’t have to have everything on 10 all the time.”
Lettieri doesn’t even mind if you totally hate the sounds he is dialing in.
“The beauty of using gear to make the music,” he says, “is you can find your own three essential tones.”
Keep tabs on Mark and his projects:
https://www.marklettieri.com
Chapters
00:00 – Intro with Mark Lettieri
00:54 – Three Essential Guitar Tones for Every Guitarist
01:26 – Mark’s Clean Sound
01:57 – How to Achieve a Classic “Edge of Breakup” Tone
06:50 – Demo: Mark Lettieri’s Higher-Gain Lead Tone
07:13 – How Mark Get His “Gained Up” Lead Tone
10:38 – Mark’s Method of Creating an Ambient Reverb Tone
13:17 – Mark’s Final Thoughts on the Three Essential Guitar Tones
14:30 – Outro
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Which of the tones that Mark demonstrated was your favorite? Let us know in the comments! ????????
Great! I admit it feels to me that on the 'high gain' demo the reverb would be far too high… But having said that, I was really impressed at a Cory Wong gig last week at how much reverb there was for the guitar feature, and it sounded amazing.
The point where Mark was stumped defining Snarky Puppy’s genre was pure gold!
Hello , whats the cab please ? 1×12 or 2×12 PRS… Thks
I needed to see this
A very Warren demartini sounding distortion
Mark looks like Nick bromhall
Everything explains so simple and effective. Right to the point, thanks so much
I've been practicing that clean part he was playing.
Mark Lettieri is the man! Loved this guy ever since seeing his super cool looping videos years ago and obviously love all his Snarky Pup, FF and solo stuff. Killer player and all around good guy
Love that tone he’s getting with the HRM high gain.
Hmm . . . nothing bad here, but nothing new either. I'd really enjoy seeing someone at Mark's level of musical proficiency doing a deep dive in to something like the Roland GR-55. That machine still has sounds in it that no one has ever heard yet.
who is this guy?
I really dig the mid-gain tone here and how the playing dynamics change the sound substantially. I’m not a guitarist, but could understand his explanations well. I saw Mark with Snarky Puppy about a year ago and wow what a great show. 10 guys packed on a small stage and everything was clean, tight, and sounded great.
…. coming from myself who wants some real gear, BADLY.
Thank you Mark, your playing and knowledge is very impressive and inspiring… you're really doing the thing in the music business, wow. Humble and funny too, loved it.
LOVE the clarity of his explanations!
Love Mark’s work with Snarky Puppy. Fisrt time I’ve really heard the PRS Fiore in depth. Different from my PRS (US Silver Sky ahd a SC594) – reminds me more of my 1985 Fender HSS strat a lot
I think the way you play, the quality of the guitar and amp is what make good sounding tones
My favorite guitar player for a long time. Great personality and I really like his PRS Fiore better that the other 😉
Shook his hand in appreciation of his skill at NAMM some year ago, a very pleasant individual!
Do you select your different tones with some kind of midi pedal to reset the various settings for each tone?
He is so good. Such tasty licks, no matter if they are shreddy or bluesy.
Does anyone know what that console at 6:50 is?
That clean tone was terrible….no go
deep tone !
Are all of these pedals going through the front of the amp or was he using an effects loop (for example) for the delay pedal? Thanks!
What a nice person!
千鳥のノブ、こんなにギター巧かったのか。
芸達者だな。
Been my favorite guitar player for at least 10 years! ????????????????????????????????????????????????
Mark caught my attention back in 2010 at a live show here in Atlanta when nobody but musicians knew who Snarky Puppy was.
Mark stays busy because he knows how to get alot of tone from the tools he uses. Very smart, very practical, and a fantastic artist.
This guy looks like John Mayer finished Berklee
I have PRS Fiore guitar and I can say that's very universal instrument with 11 pickup combinations. Mark with Paul designed fantastic guitar with very clean sound and great sustain.