Blues Pedalboard Tips for Beginners || Essential Tones
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2024
- Today I share some blues pedalboard tips for beginners and breakdown all the essential tones and the pedals you'll need to achieve them.
If you're a blues guitarist who loves blues guitar tones and you're looking to update your pedalboard but you're not sure what to buy then this video is for you. There are so many guitar pedals on the market these days that knowing what to buy can be really difficult so this video will offer you helpful advice on what pedals to consider buying.
In this video I explain the main categories of overdrive used by the blues icons to help you narrow down your search. I also talk about modulation pedals which will elevate your tone to the next level and help you recreate some of those iconic Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan tones!
Here are some Time Stamps:
Intro.- 0:00
Blues Solo (Wampler Tumnus + Trex Alberta + Slap Back Delay) - 0:10
What's This Video About - 0:37
The Tube Screamer Pedal - 1:06
Tube Screamer Solo Clip - 2:26
Klon-Style Overdrive Pedals - 2:55
Klon-Style Solo Clip (Wampler Tumnus) - 4:07
Transparent Overdrive Pedals - 4:46
Transparent Overdrive Solo Clip (Nobels ODR) -6:02
Fuzz Pedals - 6:45
Modulation Pedals (Slap Back Delay) - 7:30
Leslie/Rotary Speaker Effect - 8:32
Univibe Pedal - 9:25
Outro - 9:53
During the guitar performance clips I'm playing through a clean Fender Blues Junior V3 (all stock) so all the drive your hearing in the clips is coming from the pedals.
I'm also playing my 1997 USA Standard Fender Stratocaster with House of Tone pickups and my Fender Vintera 50s Modified Telecaster.
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My name is Chris Harvey, I'm a UK-based Guitarist, Guitar Tutor, Session Guitarist and Content Creator. I've been playing guitar for 15 years and have a Degree in Music Technology.
My channel is all about creating content for the modern-day guitarist. I want to provide you with everything you need to know to achieve the best tone, the best playing, and guide you through the wonderful world of creating a brand for yourself as a Guitar Player.
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Cracking video, Chris. Solid, concise explanations. Well done, as always!
Hey thanks man! Really glad you came to check out the video! So pleased to hear you enjoyed it - the feedback is always super helpful! 🙏🏻☺️
I'm a beginner trynna get into blues and this is really helpful!
Thanks so much! Enjoy the journey 👌🏻
Great video as always mate, keep em coming!
thank you buddy! Appreciate you being one of the first to watch it! Respect to you my friend! You’re a legend 👊🏻
This is one of the more useful overviews of blues tone pedal options. Thanks, Chris!
Really appreciate it, thanks for watching! 🙏🏻
Big thanks .I really enjoyed the video. Cheers
Thanks so much for watching and for commenting! Really glad you enjoyed the video!
Great job, Chris. Video, content and music are all great! Just stumbled across your channel today. Not much of a fuzz fan myself, but will be picking up a Thorpy Veteran soon. The Wampler Euphoria is great for ‘transparent’ overdrive too, although the mode switch means it can do a lot more than that.
great videos man !!! I love the nobles sound !
Thanks for checking it out, Hugo! Really appreciate your support man! The Nobels is definitely my favourite overdrive pedal at the moment! :)
Thanks mate! this was a great vid
Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
best od type demo very very helpful always trying to find the sound in my head thankyou
Thank you so much for watching 🙏🏻
Your playing is absolutely awesome!
Thanks man! Really appreciate it 🙏🏻
Great video man !
Thank you so much for watching man! 🙏🏻☺️
Very Nice Chris!
Thank you for taking the time to check it out man! I really appreciate your support! 🙏🏻☺️
Subscribed. Great channel!
Hey Markus! Thanks for watching and for subscribing man! It’s great to have you along for the ride! ☺️👊🏻
Very informative thank you
No problem! Thank you for watching 🙏🏻
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Thank you so much 🙏🏻
Jesus I went to school with this man 😊 good to see you doing well my friend 😊 miss the days with our duffel coats, rocking around in 6th form.
You went to school with Jesus ❓ how old are you 🤣❓
what a bout WAHs? )) Thanks dear! cool video
Thanks, I would like to see you play through all of the effects on your pedalboard and how you might use them in a song.
I’ll do this in a video soon! Thanks for the suggestion! 🙏🏻
@@ChrisHarveyGuitar If you could add a window showing the setting of the knobs of the pedals, that would be great too!
This video makes me happy that my guitar teacher encouraged me to get used to playing with my pinky early on, haha.
Love the backing tracks! Are they available?!?
Oddly I've never heard of a univibe before but this is the 3rd video I've seen in so many days recommending one. I wish I kept my Marshall Blues Breaker pedal from when I was a teen, I think I traded it for a metal zone lol
Yeah man they’re not too common these days but it’s definitely an essential for those Hendrix tones! I think they sound amazing!
Ah man, well we can all blame John Mayer for the hype around that Bluesbreaker pedal! I hope that Metal Zone treated you well! 😄
Might try out the tone bender
That's awesome man! The Tone Bender is a really unique sound! So many great clones out there! You should checkout Rhett Shull's channel, he uses the Tone Bender a lot and has done some great videos about them!
this does not tkje into account the amp, Tube Screamer or Tumnus would sound choked on a mid-heavy amp. Fuzz and muff may disappoint if ran on a mid-scooped amp. Also a lot of them play well with strat singles or P90 but not so much with humbuckers
The rule of the game, know your guitar, know your amp, then choose pedals that do not clash with frequencies of your guitar and your amp
Nice playing, BTW
I wonder what sort of pedals the three electric blues guitarists with the greatest tone of them all used - I mean Albert King, BB King and Albert Collins. Any idea?
Hi,I've just few years experience with electric guitars and I'm considering upgrading my gears but I'm not sure in which direction. At the moment I have a basic zoom g3n /sterling cutlass hss with a bugera v5. Would you say that would be better to replace the multieffect with an OD+ DD or maybe a better multieffect such as moeer ge300 ? The last thing that I was considering was to change the amp to a blackstar id 100. I would use the equipment mainly for home practice. Thank you
I think for home use I would really consider looking at something like the HX Stomp. They have amazing amp models and modulation effects. I know a lot of people who play at home or record at home that love the HX Stomp. So many effects and possibilities for a relatively affordable price used.
@@ChrisHarveyGuitar thank you, I'll definitely look into it
I really dig your tone. I have the same amp. May I ask what your amp settings are?
Thanks Chris! Really appreciate it man! No problem, I tend to run the volume around 5 or 6 (Master volume set to whatever is reasonable for home use). Then I tend to run treble at around 11 o’clock, bass around 2 o’clock and middle really low! Then I pretty much always have a boost pedal (usually the Wampler Tumnus) always on just to fatten the tone without adding any overdrive! I hope this helps 😊
@@ChrisHarveyGuitar thanks for taking the time to reply and for the settings. I’ve only recently discovered your channel and it’s really great. I’m always searching for a great blues tone and am working my way through your videos. You have a lot of feeling in your playing and I think I will learn a lot from your videos.
No idea what those pedals do. I would prefer the same riff on the same guitar, with and without the pedal, to compare the with/without sound. And not switching from a tele to a strat after the first sample
Agreed, came here to say the same thing.
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No Wah in your signal chain?
Show the pedal settings when demonstrating.
thw univibe is not a chorus or a vibrato. if you have ears, it's obvs a phaser type modulation. sheesh. plus trying to talk about fuzz when you don't use fuzz or have any?? OK so now I will talk about my vagina...........
The univibe has a switch called “chorus/vibrato”... and I’ve owned plenty of fuzzes over the years. Just because I don’t own one now doesn’t mean I don’t have experience using them. Thanks for watching ☺️
@@ChrisHarveyGuitar if you used your ears then you would hear phaser not whatever the labels said that they used for marketing reasons. 5 seconds of research would have found that. Thanks for reading.
@@matejkore I appreciate your thoughts but you should really read the JHS blog on the Univibe, it’s a phase relationship but it’s certainly not a phaser, nor is it a chorus or vibrato, it’s a univibe, but the characteristic of the sound can similar to all 3. No point in spitting feathers over it. It is what it is! But if that detail bothered you then I’m very sorry.
@@ChrisHarveyGuitar mentioning JHS Josh Scott explicitly says it's a phaser not chorus/vibrato and he should know he's an engineer who makes univibes. Case closed.
What are you telling us here that's new? Oh yeah, nothing.
Remember, it’ll be new to some people. Not everyone is well informed, beginners have to start somewhere
Yawn. Is it still 1975?
It wasn’t the last time I checked! Thanks for watching ☺️
@@ChrisHarveyGuitar sounded like it in this video.
@@jacksonfingerland can’t please ‘em all I guess! Still appreciate you taking the time to engage with it 🙏🏻
@@ChrisHarveyGuitar how very zen
@@ChrisHarveyGuitar Jesus you completely destroyed that guy’s negativity
yeah because instead of trying to do something new and original, it's always better to use time, talent, money, effort, and so on to simply reproduce stuff from 40 years ago, cos that's more worthwhile, even though if someone really wanted to listen to blues they could, oh, I dunno, buy some albums by Cream, Eric Clapton, BB King, Albert King, Rory Gallagher, or early Fleetwood Mac. In fact, I would rather go and listen to any of them than this. So, err, bye.
Not really sure what your point is...this video isn’t about stealing licks, it’s about the foundation of good tone and understanding the iconic tones that defined the blues genre. Thanks for watching ☺️
@@ChrisHarveyGuitar the foundation of "good tone" from 50 years ago that has zero relevance today. Thanks for reading.
@@matejkore I’d say it’s pretty relevant since every pedal manufacturer and every well respected guitarist today in the area of blues; John Mayer, Joe Bonamassa, Josh Smith, Matt Schofield, Kirk Fletcher etc all use pedals inspired by these designs. I appreciate it’s good to be “different” but a lot of people like to chase those tones today and recreate them for enjoyment. Not everyone wants to be a trailblazer - it’s why every pedal company makes a Tubescreamer. so I’d say it’s pretty relevant but again, I’m sorry if that bothered you.