R.J. Ronquillo last time I did this it was: Tiese wah / EH Big Muff PI / Box of Rock / Voodoo Labs Micro Vibe / El Capistan. Still haven’t gotten around to getting an octave fuzz!! Your tones and playing are killing!
Vox standard wah(cheapest one), BC109 Fuzz Face, MXR La Machine, Mojo Hand FX Villanova(U-vibe), Then to get the album effects, a Blackout Effectors Whetstone, Caroline Guitar Company Kilobyte and Meteore.
Nice to see an 'inspired' board in the spirit of Hendrix, rather than train-spotting vintage snobbery and authentic original units. Hendrix himself embraced the technology of the day, and would surely have revelled in the gear and pedal choices we have today. Nice playing, too! :)
As for the voodoo-chile-lick: When you first played it I immediately thought: "Yea, this guy took a closer listen to the original recordings than most people do."
The voodoo child lick in question that everyone ends on 7 on A is actually this: after the double bend on 5 on D, is 7-5-7 on D open A string quickly, then back to the 9 on G. The end of the lick is also a double pull off from 9-8-7 on G. This is the same for the 3 pass through the riff. The second pass of the riff is double bend 5 months D to 7 with heavy vibrato. The end of that pass is then 9-9 on G with heavy vibrato. I hope that made sense the way I typed it out but it's the only way I could think of doing it. And yes the guitar is a half step down but I left typing that out for brevity. Very nice tones btw.
The fulltone Clyde Standard has a buffer that gets rid of that squeal that’s caused by impedance. I know a few other wahs have that too. The buffer is only on when the pedal is engaged. When it’s off it’s true bypass. It’s a great sounding wah. Made me wish I’d tried it years earlier. It has that great Hendrix wah sound.
Been a big Hendrix fan for 50 yrs. You are terrific. Such authentic tone and playing. You get all the tricky nuances right. Well done and thanks An education. I have a Kemper profiler but i dont think I'd be able to get these sounds with it. So time for me to get some of these excellent pedals
The feedback thing from the fuzz to the wah is actually caused by differing impedance on the outputs. If you put a pedal in between them it will go away, cool video mate!
I have three 68 original fuzz faces. A friend of mine has 50 vintage ones traded a strat to him and he let me pick three I liked. I don’t use them that much. But they sound amazing
Voodoo Chile with all the notes sounds like an arrangement a guy would put in a book...the ghost note version you figured out sounds like a more direct transcription of the lick. Great playing and teaching...
Those wah tones gave me a huge wave of nostalgia. Genuinely reminded me of hearing that song for the first time. Just an awesome video man - nailed it.
Just re-watched this. It's fantastic. I wonder if you could do a similar thing but with a more 'budget-friendly' set of pedals.... Both to help us po' folk, and also to serve as a basis for comparison, so we can decide whether an individual pedal really is worth the 'extra dough.'
You are one of the few guys that understands about having the fuzz going into a drive sound! I have seen so many videos of guys using a clean amp and it sounds like a swarm of bees in a Jar! All the pedals sounded great. I just thought the Octave had a bit too much high end. You should try the cheese wedge octavio if you can get one. All in all great tones!
Tones and frequencies are also affected from speaker selection, tubes, biasing, pickups, guitar pots, guitar cables, guitar picks, pedal placement and more. It's not always just the effect pedal. For example, there's a reason why Hendrix & Brian May prefered curly chords. Billy Gibbons uses Mexican coins, Brian May English coins.
Wow RJ, I really appreciate your videos and this one in particular since I'm getting into Jimi's stuff lately. I think none of these pedals would sound any good without your absolutely superb playing. I'm gonna do my homework now. Wish you all the best brother, cheers from Germany.
Also a Deja Vibe guy. I found I prefer a less intense "Modern" switched version for Hendrix stuff. I also run mine into some hotter OD's for the cranked Plexi sound but the Modern version has more bass in the throb or at least less low end roll off. Sounded more full and Hendrixy to me. Killer setup, sounded great!
Joe Gore makes great stuff! I have used different versions of the Foxrox Octron for the last 17 years and has never let me down. I use the version that allows footswitching each by themselves or multiple.
Nice choices for the board. Hits all the right tones. That Suhr amp sounds pretty fantastic, too. Nice clean channel, and takes all the effects nicely.
Hey RJ, not sure if you still read comments from these older videos but I think a big part of how you got the “right” sound on the VC intro is because you pick the notes when you tilt back on the wah instead of forward. Watch the video again and you’ll see it. Great demo BTW. I’ve watched it a few times.
Awesome! I’ve unconsciously (consciously?) been working on this kind of board. Very helpful to see a Pro put one together. Have to seriously think about the amp clone pedal. Have been working on using my guitar volume to change my tone. My Fuzz tone is rocking my world this way, but can never quite get “there”...stacking it into a tone clone seems like the right move? Stacking into a normal over drive doesn’t work without setting my amp to a piss-off-my-neighbors level. Q: Do the amp clone pedals react to over drive pedals like a real amp?
RJ - you’ve certainly captured the Woodstock and Fillmore Band of Gypsies sound! Great video from a true student of sound. Best of luck to you in all future endeavors.
Lots of live variations for vc intro lick... and others ! He played whatever he felt like on the day , though we're all used to the studio version, he just seemed to go for it. I bet he'd be a total gear junkie just like the rest of us now, he used what was available. Good vid, inspired 😃
I saw Jimi Hendrix at his last gig in the U.K. at Afton in 1970, he was using Marshall amps and he actually played some of that performance using a Gibson Flying V. ........Great sound you have there.
That's crazy you pointed out the difference in the voodoo child lick. I hadn't even realized I was playing it the "correct" way until you showed the difference.
R.J: I love your videos! I still play my original 1961 Strat every single day and have done so for the past 52 years yet you teach me new things everytime I watch you play yours. Do you think that any of us will ever figure out how Jimi created the ever so elusive Still Rain' Still Dreamin' licks and tone? I could go to my grave feeling completed if only I could find the key to unlock that wonderful mystery. Any thoughts on this? If anyone could do it it would be you. Keep up the great work, brother. Play on.
This is more than a man can stand. I'm putting together my first pedal board as I type this. After watching a few videos I have come to the conclusion that I will be messing with the placement of my pedals all weekend. Fuzz before Wah, Wah before Fuzz, Octafuzz before Uni-Vibe, where am I gonna put the compressor I just got, ect...I just watched a BB King instructional video, he didn't have 1 pedal and sounded like a dream. Lol...Thank's for the post brother, merry X-Mas and Happy New Year to all.
Hey RJ check out the Robin Trower set it he only using four pedals straight into a Marshall reissue mark ll series 100 watts head into 4/12 ap.loaded with 30watt greenbacks or ithink 70 watt hi powered celetion spk
Sounds awesome man. Keep on keepin on. I was always under the impression that my od/boosts came before my fuzz. I appreciate the insight into that. Will definitely switch em up and see what happens. Thanks for the time.
Idea: shoot closeups of the pedal settings. This was a super helpful video especially to frugal guys like me that don’t buy many pedals to experiment with. Thanks!
On the recorded version of Voodoo Chile Hendrix seems to change it and not do the same thing every time. So I think both versions you played could be right (I wasn’t listening that close… I didn’t know there was going to be a quiz at the end - lol).
I hope you guys enjoy the build and the tones in this video! What pedals would you put on your "Hendrix Inspired' board? ❓❓
We are girls who play guitar and love hendrix, too...
@@Moloka90 Awesome! Thank you for watching my channel 😀
R.J. Ronquillo last time I did this it was: Tiese wah / EH Big Muff PI / Box of Rock / Voodoo Labs Micro Vibe / El Capistan. Still haven’t gotten around to getting an octave fuzz!! Your tones and playing are killing!
Vox standard wah(cheapest one), BC109 Fuzz Face, MXR La Machine, Mojo Hand FX Villanova(U-vibe),
Then to get the album effects, a Blackout Effectors Whetstone, Caroline Guitar Company Kilobyte and Meteore.
Dunlop Crybabe (maybe I must try others wah), Analog.man Sunface BC 183, Fulltone Octafuzz, Jam pedals Retrovibe, Rockett Animal (old version), Empress Tape Echo, Mojohand dewdrop reverb
Yeah dude, you nailed this. Hendrix is the reason I picked up guitar, I need to build a board like this.
Same.
You've wasted the last 3 years of your life.
This video rejects the last 30 years of building from the professional builders.
@@subzero308 well, this video is full of hocus-pocus lies and wrong advice.
Nice to see an 'inspired' board in the spirit of Hendrix, rather than train-spotting vintage snobbery and authentic original units. Hendrix himself embraced the technology of the day, and would surely have revelled in the gear and pedal choices we have today.
Nice playing, too! :)
Great video and playing dude! You got that shit down! :)
As for the voodoo-chile-lick: When you first played it I immediately thought: "Yea, this guy took a closer listen to the original recordings than most people do."
I think a lot of us have SRV in our heads
BeetleJuice shirt! that’s awesome!
Saw that too!!!
It's really the main attraction in this video.... ... Nah, Im jokin'... But it's cool!
First thing I noticed
The voodoo child lick in question that everyone ends on 7 on A is actually this: after the double bend on 5 on D, is 7-5-7 on D open A string quickly, then back to the 9 on G. The end of the lick is also a double pull off from 9-8-7 on G. This is the same for the 3 pass through the riff. The second pass of the riff is double bend 5 months D to 7 with heavy vibrato. The end of that pass is then 9-9 on G with heavy vibrato. I hope that made sense the way I typed it out but it's the only way I could think of doing it. And yes the guitar is a half step down but I left typing that out for brevity. Very nice tones btw.
I would add a compressor to simulate standing in front of cranked marshall feedback.
The fulltone Clyde Standard has a buffer that gets rid of that squeal that’s caused by impedance. I know a few other wahs have that too. The buffer is only on when the pedal is engaged. When it’s off it’s true bypass. It’s a great sounding wah. Made me wish I’d tried it years earlier. It has that great Hendrix wah sound.
RJ you're a freaking legend. This is awesome
Great video R.J. It's good to watch stuff from a real working musician and not just some who is primarily a youtuber, salesman, or teacher.
Been a big Hendrix fan for 50 yrs. You are terrific. Such authentic tone and playing. You get all the tricky nuances right. Well done and thanks
An education.
I have a Kemper profiler but i dont think I'd be able to get these sounds with it. So time for me to get some of these excellent pedals
The feedback thing from the fuzz to the wah is actually caused by differing impedance on the outputs. If you put a pedal in between them it will go away, cool video mate!
Hendrix would like to use this board ... great sound...
I think he would it dig it!
I have three 68 original fuzz faces. A friend of mine has 50 vintage ones traded a strat to him and he let me pick three I liked. I don’t use them that much. But they sound amazing
Merry Christmas R.J.,
Thanks for all the joy you bring me and countless others throughout the year.
Spanish castle is amazing. Nice video!
Those grey socks have great tone.
I like the dark tones.
@@RJRonquillo They sound really warm.
tonecolors actually do more than tonewood stuffs
Voodoo Chile with all the notes sounds like an arrangement a guy would put in a book...the ghost note version you figured out sounds like a more direct transcription of the lick. Great playing and teaching...
Writing from Bangkok, Thailand. Love your stuff. Gonna have to get me an Echo Plex. Saw one yesterday...Merry Christmas RJ. You're the best.
Thanks and Merry Christmas!
Those wah tones gave me a huge wave of nostalgia. Genuinely reminded me of hearing that song for the first time. Just an awesome video man - nailed it.
Thanks man! See you next month!
Just re-watched this. It's fantastic. I wonder if you could do a similar thing but with a more 'budget-friendly' set of pedals.... Both to help us po' folk, and also to serve as a basis for comparison, so we can decide whether an individual pedal really is worth the 'extra dough.'
You are an amazing player. You inspire me to play even more! thank you for the video.
RJ your content is always the best, thank you
Oooh that was great. One very happy subscriber tonight.
Wooow RJ, you really get that organic Jimmi's tone!!!
My inner Hendrix is salivatin'
You are one of the few guys that understands about having the fuzz going into a drive sound! I have seen so many videos of guys using a clean amp and it sounds like a swarm of bees in a Jar! All the pedals sounded great. I just thought the Octave had a bit too much high end. You should try the cheese wedge octavio if you can get one. All in all great tones!
Tones and frequencies are also affected from speaker selection, tubes, biasing, pickups, guitar pots, guitar cables, guitar picks, pedal placement and more. It's not always just the effect pedal. For example, there's a reason why Hendrix & Brian May prefered curly chords. Billy Gibbons uses Mexican coins, Brian May English coins.
At least one gal here! Great tone, so much of Hendrix' sound is in the fingers and guitar controls, and you nail it 🙂
No problem. Jimi was always interested in new equipment and would certainly have loved today's stomp boxes. That's Rock'n'Roll baby...
Wow, I'm completely stunned, thank you so much for sharing that with us
Wow RJ, I really appreciate your videos and this one in particular since I'm getting into Jimi's stuff lately. I think none of these pedals would sound any good without your absolutely superb playing. I'm gonna do my homework now. Wish you all the best brother, cheers from Germany.
Merry Christmas R.J ......and thanks for all the hard work you do throughout the year to bring us all such an awesome channel.
Merry Christmas and Happy 2019, thanks for watching!
Also a Deja Vibe guy. I found I prefer a less intense "Modern" switched version for Hendrix stuff. I also run mine into some hotter OD's for the cranked Plexi sound but the Modern version has more bass in the throb or at least less low end roll off. Sounded more full and Hendrixy to me. Killer setup, sounded great!
From Eastern Kentucky: love the pedal demos & your channel. Merry Christmas and thanks for all you do...
Joe Gore makes great stuff! I have used different versions of the Foxrox Octron for the last 17 years and has never let me down. I use the version that allows footswitching each by themselves or multiple.
Man the Deja Vibe into the plate reverb is beautiful 🤩
Great idea, R.J.! Thank you for this inspiring video! Way to go!
Nice choices for the board. Hits all the right tones. That Suhr amp sounds pretty fantastic, too. Nice clean channel, and takes all the effects nicely.
Hey RJ, not sure if you still read comments from these older videos but I think a big part of how you got the “right” sound on the VC intro is because you pick the notes when you tilt back on the wah instead of forward. Watch the video again and you’ll see it. Great demo BTW. I’ve watched it a few times.
R.J. OUTSTANDING.... love it.
Cool video for Quarantine time
Sounds amazing, great playing and awesome pedal board build. Thanks for doing this!
Sounds awesome! Great video RJ!
woof! solid fingers man. lots of feel in those notes!
Fuzz full on on both sides...you got it right!
Thanks RJ for sharing your expertise .I can see your passion .You nailed it dead on with that mcwah and j45 ,nice .Gots to have the deja vibe .
Nice job I been looking for a petals effect video
Dude, very nice. The jtm 45 pedal sounds so close to the sound. Sounded like his tone at live at Berkeley.
I love this channel! R.J is a real working guitarist that knows what he's talkin bout!
I like the video already have 3 of the pedals you have (good start ) right!
This might just be my favourite TH-cam video of 2018. R.J. - You da man! Thanks so much for taking the time to produce these.
Thanks for taking the time to watch and thanks for the kind words!
Awesome! I’ve unconsciously (consciously?) been working on this kind of board. Very helpful to see a Pro put one together. Have to seriously think about the amp clone pedal. Have been working on using my guitar volume to change my tone. My Fuzz tone is rocking my world this way, but can never quite get “there”...stacking it into a tone clone seems like the right move? Stacking into a normal over drive doesn’t work without setting my amp to a piss-off-my-neighbors level.
Q: Do the amp clone pedals react to over drive pedals like a real amp?
Most amp-style pedals i've tried react to drive pedals like the real thing.
The early Plexi amps did ghost and the reissues turned up . Good Job at low volume
Amazing tone.
I ordered your SusMaryOsep! pedal, RJ 😊
Holy guacamole!! Very nice, amigo!!
Thoroughly enjoyed your build. Particarly the j Rockett 45 underneath.
RJ - you’ve certainly captured the Woodstock and Fillmore Band of Gypsies sound! Great video from a true student of sound. Best of luck to you in all future endeavors.
Have to say I haven't been impressed by any tone videos of late but this was great. Really interesting. Well done dude!
Thank you Jim!
Great and informative! What about another video on a Hendrix inspired pedalboard on a budget. Some of us don't have a grand to drop.
You got mad chops...great stuff!
I would add a DL4 for the reverse effect. Love to hear you play some of his stuff using it. No one seems too.
You perfectly right about voodoo chile intro! That's definately the thing
Board builds are really fun to watch! You should do more pedalboard videos!
nice one ! i use a Deep Trip BOG fuzz but same Deja Vibe - great tones and great playing !
So inspired by the “machine gun” sound and always wondered what else could he used besides a vintage vibe. Love this 🔥
One of my fav gear videos, you really nail it RJ 👍👍👍
This is some slick & serious playing!
Dang ! Back to the pedal store. Nicely done
Very well done. Merry Christmas RJ.
this video is so rad. really inspired to tone chase and try some of these pedals.
Lots of live variations for vc intro lick... and others ! He played whatever he felt like on the day , though we're all used to the studio version, he just seemed to go for it. I bet he'd be a total gear junkie just like the rest of us now, he used what was available. Good vid, inspired 😃
I saw Jimi Hendrix at his last gig in the U.K. at Afton in 1970, he was using Marshall amps and he actually played some of that performance using a Gibson Flying V. ........Great sound you have there.
Love your vids and superb playing have a great Christmas sir all the best from Bonnie Scotland
Nailed it IMO. Thumbs up!!
Really fun and good pedal review!
68 Marshall Plexie 100w super bass ... jimi and Duane Allman's fav amp.
That's crazy you pointed out the difference in the voodoo child lick. I hadn't even realized I was playing it the "correct" way until you showed the difference.
R.J: I love your videos! I still play my original 1961 Strat every single day and have done so for the past 52 years yet you teach me new things everytime I watch you play yours. Do you think that any of us will ever figure out how Jimi created the ever so elusive Still Rain' Still Dreamin' licks and tone? I could go to my grave feeling completed if only I could find the key to unlock that wonderful mystery. Any thoughts on this? If anyone could do it it would be you. Keep up the great work, brother. Play on.
Nicely done! Good ears!
Gonna have to do my own version of this for tone, using an MXR Poly Blue Octave pedal for octave fuzz...and a convoluted way of approaching uni-vibe 😁
Great video, R.J.. Thanks very much. You nailed Jimi's sound(s), and part of that is your incredibly musical playing, of course. Happy New Year.
This is awesome ! Great video !
Jimi had one of the most versatile boards. Wah, fuzz, vibe, delay, octave: you can do so much with so few pedals.
Love it. Marshall, fuzz face, cry baby, I sold mine off. Lots of natural distortion and loud .
Nice board! Your review on the Spanish Castle convinced me to buy it by the way
Great to hear!
This is more than a man can stand. I'm putting together my first pedal board as I type this. After watching a few videos I have come to the conclusion that I will be messing with the placement of my pedals all weekend. Fuzz before Wah, Wah before Fuzz, Octafuzz before Uni-Vibe, where am I gonna put the compressor I just got, ect...I just watched a BB King instructional video, he didn't have 1 pedal and sounded like a dream. Lol...Thank's for the post brother, merry X-Mas and Happy New Year to all.
Merry Christmas!
You sir have the basics down pat. And you're playing pretty good too!
You did the legacy of the Jimi sound proud here. Superb video : )
perfect sound , congratulations man
Love the Echoplex.
Hey RJ check out the Robin Trower set it he only using four pedals straight into a Marshall reissue mark ll series 100 watts head into 4/12 ap.loaded with 30watt greenbacks or ithink 70 watt hi powered celetion spk
Sounds awesome man. Keep on keepin on. I was always under the impression that my od/boosts came before my fuzz. I appreciate the insight into that. Will definitely switch em up and see what happens. Thanks for the time.
Idea: shoot closeups of the pedal settings. This was a super helpful video especially to frugal guys like me that don’t buy many pedals to experiment with. Thanks!
really good sound in my ear...
Sweet tones and great playing as always!
u am stoked, my wish list for sweetwater has every type of pedal you have here except for a couple - great info, you nailed some of those tones!
Hi RJ great playing and you sound awesome what's your fav type of neck on your strat.....
On the recorded version of Voodoo Chile Hendrix seems to change it and not do the same thing every time. So I think both versions you played could be right (I wasn’t listening that close… I didn’t know there was going to be a quiz at the end - lol).
The Keeley Monterey pedal has some very convincing Hendrix tones, too, trying to sound like Jimi's Star Spangled Banner.