this is probably the best video i've ever seen about tone. so many guitarists, beginner or not, use solid body guitars with single coils it's just so popular and EVERYONE runs into these issues whether they know it or not. this video perfectly shows that the things that affect your tone isn't just your amp and your guitar. there's so many things you can do to change your tone to your liking, and most of them are incredibly simple, as shown here.
You’ve made me fall in love all over again with my Tele! It was my main guitar until I got a 335 w/ Filtertrons. Watched this video and a couple of your other videos and I’m so much happier!
I use 3 drive pedals ( with 1 specifically set for the Bridge Pickup ) = Barber Gain Changer SR > Fulltone OCD > Thorpy Fallout Cloud. I can mix and stack to achieve: Santana, Gilmour, SRV, Zeppelin, or Van Halen tones. Pickups Lollar Dirty Blonde's. Amp' 65 Fender Princeton Reverb & Yamaha THR30II.
My Kemper with Tele: compressor > tremolo > 2 1db boost options > DC 30 25w Ch2 w/ Benson > definition and presence dialed down > delay > reverb (both to taste for song)
Thanks for the tips!! I’m doing what I can with a sparkle drive to Fullton mosfet to ocd ..sometimes tubescreamer definitely looking to invest either tonex or line6
That would be an awesome video idea. Jet makes some killer pedals so I'm sure it would be a close comparison! Especially with their new revelation v2 pedal coming out soon
Keep the 9 gauge and easier playing and simply turn your guitar tone knob down to between 1 and 2 (depending on sensitivity) to start with. As far as staying in tune,as long as your machine heads are working properly and of atleast decent quality,take the extra stretch out of strings during tuning and have as many string winds as neatly possible on each tuner. I whipped out a less expensive Fender Squire at a show one night just to watch the rest of the band and the sound tech laugh and freak out a little. (my other guitars have locking nuts and a floyd rose) After a set of heavy rock including solos,they were all shocked i stayed in tune.
Hey I just wanted to say thank you for this amazing video! I use a multi-effects processor, but it works the same as well. What earphones are you using? Thanks a lot!
@@SamWittek Those are not as expensive as I thought! Do they sound accurate? Also, would you consider doing like a tutorial on creating a worship sound from scratch? No rush and no push!
@@CornerstoneWorshipTutorials Yeah IEMs can be EXPENSIVE lol. The KZs are a great budget option. And yeah absoutely! I do actually have a short playlist on that here: th-cam.com/video/v88mHsMLE7w/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=SamWittek It's pretty old though, I've been thinking about making a more succinct updated video on that topic sometime soon!
So everything in this video would apply to a strat too! The strat bridge pickup is gonna sound a little different from the teles, but all of these principles will thicken a strat up too. Hope this helps!
Yeah sure, since I'm also plays at church I think this channel is the right place to check out for proper worship tone 🎸🎶 thanks for your immediate response brother
@@SamWittek by the way, I'm currently using a budget gear (nux mg30 to be specific), my question is can you recommend some external pedals that i can add to enhance my tone.
@SamWittek Does that translate to running it direct to the board as well? I haven't gone direct yet. I'm just getting things prepped to do that at my church soon.
@@kckrye In my experience the hiss from the headphone out isn't correlated to the regular outputs of your iridium which you'll be sending to the FOH board
The hum hasn't been too bad with this guitar and these pickups. I've had a few instances where the power has been really bad or the stage lights have caused gnarly hum and in those cases I've tried to ride my volume pedal more, switch to the middle pickup in more situations, and make sure I have ground lifts enabled. Hope that helps!
Nice video. But I have to disagree a bit regarding string gauge. Rick Beato & friends did a great video on string gauge, and the resounding consensus was that 9/42s sounded the best. (Link: th-cam.com/video/wGXj_NQONYM/w-d-xo.html.) However, I do make one small concession in this regard. Even though I use 9/42s for all of my electrics, I replace the 9 with a 10 on my single coils. Also, keep in mind that, because of the effect of the Fletcher Munson curve, what might sound good at room listening/playing level will sound very different at louder live church settings. So a pleasing level of brightness at bedroom volume will sound harsh & brittle at live volumes.
Thanks for the feedback! I too watched this video and I have a couple thoughts. They did use a les paul for that string test, and the consensus that the lighter strings were "better" mainly came down to the fact that they cut better. With my video centered around single coils, I'm more addressing the fact that single coils naturally can cut TOO much and be overly thin, as opposed to something like a les paul which doesn't inherently have that issue as much, and providing some solutions that can help thicken up a single coil. Definitely a bit of an apples to oranges comparison. Appreciate the thoughts though!
Thanks for the tips!! I’m doing what I can with a sparkle drive to Fullton mosfet to ocd ..sometimes tubescreamer definitely looking to invest either tonex or line6
this is probably the best video i've ever seen about tone. so many guitarists, beginner or not, use solid body guitars with single coils it's just so popular and EVERYONE runs into these issues whether they know it or not. this video perfectly shows that the things that affect your tone isn't just your amp and your guitar. there's so many things you can do to change your tone to your liking, and most of them are incredibly simple, as shown here.
You’ve made me fall in love all over again with my Tele! It was my main guitar until I got a 335 w/ Filtertrons. Watched this video and a couple of your other videos and I’m so much happier!
LOVE to hear that! The tele really is so solid. It can do it all!
@@SamWittek so I actually put some 10-48 Flats on it and it sounds SO GOOD! I love your approach for tone crafting. Appreciate your content!
@@tyleryoungblood2276 Nice!! So glad the videos have been helpful! 🙌🏻
I use 3 drive pedals ( with 1 specifically set for the Bridge Pickup ) = Barber Gain Changer SR > Fulltone OCD > Thorpy Fallout Cloud. I can mix and stack to achieve: Santana, Gilmour, SRV, Zeppelin, or Van Halen tones. Pickups Lollar Dirty Blonde's. Amp' 65 Fender Princeton Reverb & Yamaha THR30II.
My Kemper with Tele: compressor > tremolo > 2 1db boost options > DC 30 25w Ch2 w/ Benson > definition and presence dialed down > delay > reverb (both to taste for song)
My boy know’s of the secret pick 👌🏻. It honestly has become a core part of my worship tone and I can’t live without it anymore. Great vid Sam!
Haha yess the secret pick ❤ Same here man, it's totally changed the way I approach picking. Thanks brother! 🙌🏻
"The earth is flat" - me holding my strat.
😂🤚 too funny
Strats are awesome 😂 thin sound but so much variety
Love the technique walkthrough bro
Thanks man ❤
Thanks for the tips!! I’m doing what I can with a sparkle drive to Fullton mosfet to ocd ..sometimes tubescreamer definitely looking to invest either tonex or line6
I’m curious to see if you could put more jet pedals on your board and still achieve the same sound! Like a Strymon competitor board
That would be an awesome video idea. Jet makes some killer pedals so I'm sure it would be a close comparison! Especially with their new revelation v2 pedal coming out soon
you mean v3 LOL@@SamWittek
@@SamuelStephen idk if they’re calling it v3 but yeah haha basically v2 with a whole new flex of sounds
You're absolutely right@@SundayMorningGuitars They aren't calling it a v3
@@SamuelStephen YES thank you lol
Keep the 9 gauge and easier playing and simply turn your guitar tone knob down to between 1 and 2 (depending on sensitivity) to start with.
As far as staying in tune,as long as your machine heads are working properly and of atleast decent quality,take the extra stretch out of strings during tuning and have as many string winds as neatly possible on each tuner. I whipped out a less expensive Fender Squire at a show one night just to watch the rest of the band and the sound tech laugh and freak out a little. (my other guitars have locking nuts and a floyd rose) After a set of heavy rock including solos,they were all shocked i stayed in tune.
Hey I just wanted to say thank you for this amazing video! I use a multi-effects processor, but it works the same as well. What earphones are you using? Thanks a lot!
Thank you!! I'm using the KZ ZS10 pros for in-ears at the moment. Let me know if you have any other questions!
@@SamWittek Those are not as expensive as I thought! Do they sound accurate? Also, would you consider doing like a tutorial on creating a worship sound from scratch? No rush and no push!
@@CornerstoneWorshipTutorials Yeah IEMs can be EXPENSIVE lol. The KZs are a great budget option. And yeah absoutely! I do actually have a short playlist on that here: th-cam.com/video/v88mHsMLE7w/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=SamWittek
It's pretty old though, I've been thinking about making a more succinct updated video on that topic sometime soon!
@@SamWittek Oh that's great; I didn't see that playlist. Thank you!!
@@CornerstoneWorshipTutorials Of course brother!
Another great video! Just noticing your guitar strap and I like it. Do you know what kind it is? Thanks again!
Thanks Kyle! Yeah it's actually a Gear Supply Co strap from back in the day!
Keep in mind, a lot of this can change once you are playing in a band and how many guitarists are playing.
Oh absolutely. Especially with multiple guitarists, you might even want to thin things out more. Really depends on the situation
so what kind of tele is that, the model i mean... And is that lake placid blue ?
It’s a modern player, one of the made in Mexico ones from like 2015 I think? And yep it’s lake placid blue!
@@SamWittek looks so good!!! All the LPB that are availble where i live are way darker blue than yours. Enjoy that beautiful guitar!
@@BerryPitje Thanks man! 🙌🏻
Hey great video , would I use this same process on my hx stomp ?
Thanks man! Absolutely. You should be able to make similar tweaks with the stomp!
Hi, can you also make this kind of video for the strat style guitars as well. Thanks 🎸🎶
So everything in this video would apply to a strat too! The strat bridge pickup is gonna sound a little different from the teles, but all of these principles will thicken a strat up too. Hope this helps!
@@SamWittek oh i see, anyway, thanks for this approach so that I have a benchmark on where to start my tone for bridge pickups
@@kevinreyes970 For sure! Feel free to hit me with any other questions 💪🏼
Yeah sure, since I'm also plays at church I think this channel is the right place to check out for proper worship tone 🎸🎶 thanks for your immediate response brother
@@SamWittek by the way, I'm currently using a budget gear (nux mg30 to be specific), my question is can you recommend some external pedals that i can add to enhance my tone.
When i have headphones connected to my iridium you can hear such a loud hiss. Ever experience this?
Yeah I've experienced this. It hasn't been TOO bad for me but I've heard that it can be a pretty annoying issue for some others w/ Iridiums
@SamWittek Does that translate to running it direct to the board as well? I haven't gone direct yet. I'm just getting things prepped to do that at my church soon.
@@kckrye In my experience the hiss from the headphone out isn't correlated to the regular outputs of your iridium which you'll be sending to the FOH board
@SamWittek ok. That is what I had heard and was hoping that was the case. Thanks for the feedback.
@@kckrye Sure thing!
How do you feel with the hum that comes with single coils? Especially in high gain situations?
The hum hasn't been too bad with this guitar and these pickups. I've had a few instances where the power has been really bad or the stage lights have caused gnarly hum and in those cases I've tried to ride my volume pedal more, switch to the middle pickup in more situations, and make sure I have ground lifts enabled. Hope that helps!
Thank you, I was having the same problem. I have been just riding the volume pedal when not playing
Nice video. But I have to disagree a bit regarding string gauge. Rick Beato & friends did a great video on string gauge, and the resounding consensus was that 9/42s sounded the best. (Link: th-cam.com/video/wGXj_NQONYM/w-d-xo.html.) However, I do make one small concession in this regard. Even though I use 9/42s for all of my electrics, I replace the 9 with a 10 on my single coils. Also, keep in mind that, because of the effect of the Fletcher Munson curve, what might sound good at room listening/playing level will sound very different at louder live church settings. So a pleasing level of brightness at bedroom volume will sound harsh & brittle at live volumes.
Thanks for the feedback! I too watched this video and I have a couple thoughts. They did use a les paul for that string test, and the consensus that the lighter strings were "better" mainly came down to the fact that they cut better. With my video centered around single coils, I'm more addressing the fact that single coils naturally can cut TOO much and be overly thin, as opposed to something like a les paul which doesn't inherently have that issue as much, and providing some solutions that can help thicken up a single coil. Definitely a bit of an apples to oranges comparison. Appreciate the thoughts though!
Bump 500 k. That's how you get thick.
yup!
Dang your guitar sounds super compressed😢 and your comp is turned off😢😢
Thanks for the tips!! I’m doing what I can with a sparkle drive to Fullton mosfet to ocd ..sometimes tubescreamer definitely looking to invest either tonex or line6