I can’t believe Mick thinks H90 is too complicated but is happy to spend hours on an elaborate wet-dry-wet setup. H90 makes that much easier along with a zillion other things. It’s fantastic.
Hi there! Long-time watcher, just wanted to say Dan's jam with the LVX after discussing his struggles with it is possibly my favorite bit of playing on the show. Truly emotional and marvelous.
just so you know after 35 years of playing ive built my first real pedalboard, inspired by you guys. might sound weird but you are my kind of people. The genuine care you have for each other is beautiful. i have plowed through your back cataloge and have earned SO much. thanks guys. have a great new year
exactly! i am 58 now and a show has to be heartfelt in all areas for me to even bother. i learn so much peripherally from this show. sometimes not even about guitar.
“Can I make this new pedal sound exactly like my old pedals” has got to be the daftest trap guitarists fall into. We all do it, despite probably knowing it’s a folly. It’s a new thing. Enjoy it for what it is.
I acquired a 5150 combo about 4 months ago. No matter how much my guitars made me want to play, my amps were usually a pain. I've had good luck with tubes(I know that sounds cliche), but this amp doesnt sound like the tube amps I had before. No hate on my AC10 but I'm glad they sound different. I want another AC10 tho to replace a cheap vox pathfinder with the 5150 in an at-home stereo rig. That lil solid state sounds awesome getting fed signal after the 5150 preamp. I think the trap is that we want our old tone(for stuff we know or do now) but want more for what's to come. This is the same trap that leads to 15 Les Pauls in one room.
Derangement of the mind is what leads anyone to having 15 Les Pauls. I have owned 20+ guitars at a single time, but they were all very different and most of them cost $1000 or less. Anyone who fills a room with 15 of the same guitar that each cost $2000 to $7000 (presuming there are no Custom Shop models) has something wrong with them.
Great show. Offside comment: Mick is nearly 50, has no grey hair and no kids. As a 46-year old father of two, I’m inferring a direct relationship between the two things. That’s all. Happy New Year fellows 🎉
I'm 53, had to raise 4 very young kids on my own after their mom died, battled a second wife who was narcissistic sociopath for 5 years and another gf who put me through many emotional rollercoasters, and I have nearly no grey hair. And I'm now 100 lbs overweight ftom the stress. Genetics, environment and self care (even when not done very well). 😂
1.) My PRS CE 24 Semihollow. 2.) Keeley Caverns. Really impressed me. 3.) Nobels ODR-1 mini. Works great with my Tele, but just could not get it sorted with my PRS or my Strat. 4.) 1966 Gibson LG-1 Acoustic. That thing just has a richness and warmth that I've been looking for from an acoustic guitar for years. 5.) Line 6 DL4 MKII. 6 and 7.). The Boss IR-2. It was on backorder, it just shipped yesterday so it might be in my hands by the end of the year.
Thanks guys for another year of passion and love for all things music. You provide the community with the best in learning , variety, fantastic playing, guests and humor. As a regular part of my life I feel you both as friends and mentors in life’s greatest never ending journey towards sound and music. Cheers and thanks from Bucks County PA.
My personal answers to these questions; Q1. The thing I've used most - TruFi Colordriver Q2. Surprised me the most - Source Audio C4 Synth Q3. Didn't work out - Fuzz face. I was disappointed that I didn't like it, but it kept leaving me wanting more. To my ears, it was missing something Q4. My favorite thing this year was recording a demo album with my band. Sadly, the drummer since quit the band, but the album is a testament of our time Q5. I've always wanted to try a Hiwatt amp Q6. Last thing I bought - A modulation pedal for the keyboard player of the band, a christmas gift Q7. Hopefully a band or a proper pedalboard.. All I've been using is a slab of wood
Thank you for a wonderful year of sounds. Your talent for interviewing guests is so enjoyable, the warmth and excitement that comes across never fails to bring out best from them. Noel Gallagher’s interview was a lesson in songwriting that really stood out, he showed a level of genius that we all dream of. Thanks again Guys.
1=Fryette power station PS-100 2= Tonex pedal 3=Me 4= Kernom Ridge 5=Midi controler 6=Tonex pedal 7=Sabbadius 69 Univibe or Pedalpawn Univibe + a CNC to create my ultimate guitar!
Thank you Dan & Mick for another year of inspiring content. I watch everything you post and look forward to what you have have planned for next year. I have a feeling it's going to be epic. Wishing you and all the That Pedal Show viewers a lovely 2024 - With Gratitude - John And by the way here's my list : Used the Most : UA Dream '65, UAD Apollo Twin, Macbook Pro with Logic Pro X. Surprised me the most : Origin Effects Cali '76 Stacked Compressor, EHX Tri-Parallel Mixer, Boss SY. - 200. Thing which didn't work out : Boss Slicer, Pigtronix Philosophers Tone. Favorite Thing : Rickenbacker 330 and 360/12, Digitech Freqout. Last Think You Bought : Eastwood Bill Nelson Astroluxe Cadet, Line 6 Pod 2.0, Digitech Drop. The one thing you're going to acquire next year : JangleBox JBX Compressor, RMS X100 V3.
How about a "utility" pedal episode this year? I know you've featured the GigRig heavy weights in the past like Dan's super cool mixer but it might be somewhat captivating to watch you two work out other's offerings, EHX and Old Blood Noise come to mind immediately. I wonder if there's a notable stereo output signal blender. Mix it up with a wet/dry reprise perhaps, and the various virtues of approaching production level signal before plugging into an interface or a desk. Maybe even a guest or two with that focus, especially studio rats that engineers universally love. What do you think?
Amazing where both of your musical journeys are taking you. For what it’s worth here is my list: Most used: PRS SE DGT best gigging guitar you can buy if you only want to take one guitar and not get it nicked. Biggest Surprise: Fractal Audio Axe Fx; didn’t want to like digital but it’s bloody fantastic with the right on stage monitoring Fave piece of gear Empress Zoia; Does everything you need it to and beyond and is super reliable Thing I wanted to try but didn’t; Lexicon PCM 81 really wanted to get one to try but don’t really need it as I have a lexicon MPX one Last thing I bought: Line 6 HX stomp;(I know) Bought as back up for the axe fx 2024 purchase has to be the Poly Effects Verbs. Have a great new year chaps and thanks for everything in 2023
The Kingsley Harlot sounded so freaking great with Dan's les paul that I know I'm going to come back to that bit in the next couple of years. Happy holidays everyone!🎉
Several years ago I caught a superb Texas Blues player who had just acquired an excellent 335 - he said it completely re-arranged his head, breaking him out of his box into a new landscape of not just sounds, but "feels" in his approach to playing.
About 15 years ago I played a vintage ’64 cherry red 335 in a shop in London whilst checking out a pedal I was interested in buying. The guitar felt like it was playing itself, playing me even. It was beautiful, so beautiful that I had a hard time focusing on the pedal, a Strymon Obi-1 - a great pedal and i bought it, though I’m sure the guitar influenced the decision. Haunted, I am. Good luck Mick on your quest! Happy new year TPS family 🙏🏼💜✨
Guys, this might be the best video of 2023, if not your overall best video. I love the discussion and insights on what works for you and what does not and why. Thats the important thing "why". And as always with you, its rarely "this does not sounds good"
Dude those early small stones are pretty incredible. I recently was engineering a session for some recordings of mine and ran a cello through a roland space echo and put an early 70s small stone in the loop of the space echo. Results were glorious
It's cool watching Mick dabble with the Rickenbacker. I have been dabbling with Rickenbackers 20 years now and haven't been able to make one my #1. I have a 1995 330 like the one you have on loan and one of the new 2023 360s which returned to the 21 fret neck as opposed to the 24 fret neck that had been around since the early 70s. Both great guitars and get plenty of looks everytime I take them out. Rickenbacker standard nut widths are at 41.4 mm (1.63″). That's the same as the old Fender width but with the Rickenbacker the neck doesn't widen as much. Also food for thought if you plan to get a late 60s Gibson you're gonna have an even small 39 mm nut width.
It’s so weird. Whatever the measurement of the nut I think the string spacing is more the thing. So I absolutely cannot play this guitar. Just toooo tight. I just bought a 1965 ES-345… Relatively thin nut. It’s one of the most playable and comfortable guitars I’ve ever owned. Go figure!
Discovered Andy Wood through the TPS interview…resulting in a Gearbox and Halo purchase. Using a 73 Tele into a 75 Silverface Twin with JBL’s. Sounds glorious! Thanks for all the education, all the music, and all the fun; you guys are awesome!
My most impactful piece of gear this year was the humble DOD250 Preamp. A standard issue new one, not even vintage. I've finally found my distortion pedal. It play so well with the SG, very dynamic and touch sensitive. Ive been stacking ODs for years chasing a good distortion and was never quite satisfied, and all the distortion pedals Ive tried were either too over the top and/or did not clean up easily. the 250 has solved those problems. Between it and my Nobles I can get all the OD/Dist tones I need, and if I want anything more over the top I can just use a fuzz.
I don't have to tell you, Mick and Dan, that the reason the Johnny Marr Jaguar is such a great guitar is because Johnny really cares about every nuance of the instrument, and the choices he made for that model are all very conscious, deliberate choices. From the 7.25" radius to the non-reverse pickup, to the 4-way switching, to the additional voicing switches, the vibrato arm bushing, the bridge...everything about that model is carefully thought out. Every guitar I get from now on, I want to have that 4-way switching system.
for me, 2023, musically, was epic. Got back into playing with real people, playing with volume. Got a Gibson Les Paul Junior from 2010, which has been the only guitar I've played. Paired it with a Marshall sc20h. Cranked it numerous times. Found pedals to go along with it.
This year was crazy for acquisition and release of some great gear. Acquired: TR Studio Sig+112 cab, Marshall 1958X HW, Gibson Custom '59 dirty lemon, FCS '68 Tele Thinline, Klon KTR, HX Stomp XL(I absolutely need a completely silent solution,) and a few other small things. Sold: '72 Twin Reverb Non-MV, '73 Bassman 50 head, Marshall Class 5, Fender AmDlx Tele, Epiphone Inspired By Gibson ES335, and yet a few other small things. Cutting three amps for the Two Rock was a big push, but I would not have gotten close enough without doing so and I'm more happy with that one amp than I was with the other three.
Hey Brock here, met Nick earlier this year/last/ year NAMM at the Seymour Duncan venue. I'm sure you would remember vividly. ;) Blamed you for many pedal purchases. Love your show!!
Warehouse makes the best speakers. Using them exclusively now, their 8 & 10 Alnico are in both my small combos and I am using their 12" in my cabs and large combo. Will have to grab a 12L. If EV is still making speakers it's probably not in the same quality. Complex is not me at all... Best surprise for that is the Boss Waza Dimension C is really blowing me away. Basically 8+ settings has really worked for me. Digital can be so different because of the ADC/DAC usage and the autoleveler which determines the 1:1 input output volume. Have to send you a couple of 500 series Roll Tubule tub mic preamps. Mick glad to see you did the recording on my birthday :) I run all my mics through my Purple 10 500 series Lunch Box with the Purple monitor and mixer module to stereo output into my interface. Thanks guys for a year of great videos! Thanks Leg Ends TPS family, Happy New Year!
I’m going to have a year of no gear and commit to more regular lessons. I have lovely gear, there’s nothing I want to do that my gear is stopping me from doing…
It's my dream too, getting a vintage 335 and I agree it makes a real difference to my hears. But I am very lucky to have my LP from 2006 and my old GB10. Happy new year guys . Love , music and pesetas ;)
Many thanks Leg Ends, another stunning year for TPS its hard to say what I prefer the most was it the vqc or the pedals or the guest's. I know it's Mick & Dan you guys are just the best. Have a great New year. PEACE AND LOVE TO EVERYONE ❤❤.
Nice way to end the year. Happy New Year to you both! My hope in 2024 is you both show off your pedalboards more (either in proper shows or as VLOGs). My favorite episodes of TPS are always the ones where you pull out your actual boards and make music.
My biggest surprise this year has been the UAFX Dream 65. I had a FM9 but haven’t really been able to get by with it. Use the Dream 65 for in ear monitor mixes on stage and a little bit for front of house. Brilliant solution in conjunction with my on stage amp, a ML Deville. Never thought I’d get away with a digital amp sim, but it’s great!
Cue Jingle - The Best part of waking up is @That Pedal Show in your Cup! Great way to wrap up a wonderful year of content. Enjoy the remainder of 2023 guys, see you soon in 2024! ❤🙏🏼
Its been great spending 2023 with you guys, and I love how humble and appreciative about the amazing gear you are fortunate enough to play with. Ive been expanding my hybrid analog/digital studio and have been loving every second of it. Love you guys and Happy New Year!
Happy new year, guys! I don't think I missed a single episode this year. Took a while to get to some of them, but the backlog is now emptied. A truly extraordinary year. I mean, Johnny Marr, Noel Gallagher, just to mention two. Some lesser-known-to-the-non-guitar-geeks as well, equally lovely. No rest and recharge! See you on the other side! BTW, Wifey got me a lovely "premium" coffee/tea mug for Christmas. Loving it!
Thank you Gents for this opening! And Mick , Enjoy you recording gear and the Strat with full heart and joy. If they inspire you that is worth it. Life is too short to wait.
Great 2023 guys - thx for all the inspiration :-) Have fun on the vintage ES quest, Mick - I'm lucky enough to have a couple of 60s ES's, and each is unique. I've not come across another electric guitar model with so much variation between individual examples. The neck tone is especially variable, and IMO it's not just the pickups. I'm sure you've played a few over the years, though, and know which ES feel and tone you're looking and listening for.
Thank you! So nice to get this episode while Dan is still away. Nice to spend some time with you guys even though I have to get up real early for a (jazz banjo) gig. Perfect combination. Love and music to you both and the community
I wanted to share this with you guys! I have been addicted to amps since the 1960s. I just recently bought a Magnatone Super i5 and am blown away! The voice of the Angels I tell you! I have over sixty amps, no joke, I am telling you Dan and Mick, you have to get your hands on one of these and do a demo on your show.
I looked up the H90 and I just don't understand the front panel. It has too much going on while trying to look simple. That's not a good combination, it just ends up looking like there's no cues while it looks like there's a whole command center in front of you. I'm already performing, why is there a big knob that says perform? There's three random knobs in the middle. There's a small black visual panel crammed up. There's colored push buttons for random stuff. If it has to be complex and keep it simple, maybe look up Lexicons and other rack effects like TC (that maybe weren't Eventide) because they had quite a lot to tweak but the initial glance didn't make you too confused. If you wanted to run the presets it wasn't that tough, only when you wanted to dive deeper into parameters it started to demand learning. So I'm with Mick there, the H90 just doesn't find the sweet spot for simple yet feature full. Watching the talk about TODP I realized "amp like distortion" is such a wide umbrella term. To one person it means valvestate, to another it means Fender Champ driven to melting, AC30, then there's someone that thinks of Marshall JMP/JCM800 and then there's the person who thinks of 5150. Not limited to those.
Two Rock is great, but Amplified Nation amps completely replaced all others for me this year. I still have my jaw drop nearly every day when I turn it on and play the first note. Just mind blowing.
This was the most fun show from you two lads yet. Loved hearing your recording and band performances. Nothing like seeing a grown man with a unicorn duvet also. No shame! You like what you like. Last year the only new equipment I bought were strings, cables and power outputs. I played a lot more and played with more people and this ended up being my favourite guitar moments of 2023. Just sayin
Mick - Our family tradition over here in the US is to watch the entire Fawlty Towers series every Christmas season - It is my 9-year old son’s favorite thing. I REALLY hope your “Just doing it now, Dear” was a reference to Basil Fawlty. Happy Holidays to you both. Cheers!!!
For 2024, I would love to see a video showing you guys select 2 guitars, 1 amp, and 1 pedal board you would put together to use for all of your non-TPS playing, all the gigs, practices, blues-jams, jazz gigs, etc. for all of 2024.
The mention of odd guitar shops that sold random stuff along side their music gear put me in mind of the now long gone Victor Morris in Glasgow, the only shop I've ever seen that would just as happily sell you a machete or crossbow as a strat 😳 Cheers for another year of awesome videos!
Happy New Year to Mick & Dan and the entire TPS community! I don't know if you are my guides, my enablers, or a little devil perched on my shoulder... but I'm thankful regardless.
I love my 66 Jag. It was my first guitar, bought used in 1985, I put a Kahler in it in 1989 but kept the electronics original. I especially like the neck pickup.
Option paralysis! Couldn't have said it any better Mick! Most of my favorite pedals have four knobs or less, and my favorite amps have five knobs or less. If any single piece of gear does too many things, I panic at all the available choices and freeze. The only exception I took the time to figure out was the Fooz.
Mick - don’t forget Collings I-35 on your search for an ES. I broke down and bought one and have never been happier. Sound for days and as you know quality supreme
I’ve played a good many of them now, and they are without question, fantastic and totally unequalled in modern guitar making. BUT. The body is too small for me, and I have learned, painfully, that I pretty much always prefer vintage guitars to new ones. Just a personal thing. Congrats on that amazing machine!
What a fantastic year of TPS shows! I picked up the halo and expression pedal .... wonderful! Best purchase was a Boss bp-1w boost..... the magic bullet for my rig that Ive been searching for. Thanks for all your great work this year Mick & Dan!
I'm not surprised that Dan is curious about Two Rock amps. I mean common, Mick has been blasting luscious Two Rock tones at him for years. He had to cave in. Now, wait until Dan realizes he is also curious about a Strat and a Tube Screamer. 🙀
Thanks for confirming the reason I sold the h90 and why I'm still trying to figure out if I'm bright enough to make the most of the LVX . Thankyou for 2023 my Friday addiction
Thank you guys for a great year. You’re certainly a part of all of our lives, and we appreciate all the hard work and the relentless consistency It takes to do what you do.
Great episode to cap another great year! Happy 2024, Gents! Also: Your video descriptions are the best on TH-cam - always impressed and appreciate the hard work put into the editorial side.
Hi Guys, this was the year that I finally went TPS wet-dry. I built separate wet and dry 'boards then put a Humdinger between them. Magic. Next stop.. the one board version. Happy New Year to all.
The most times I've seen you two fine gents laughing your heads off is when you plug in the HiWatt. I totally understand Mick's love of the 2rock but when it comes to simple "Are we having fun yet??" moments the HiWatt gets it every time. Granted the DR103 can be hard work at times but the rewards for the effort put in are worth it. Next year buy another one plus a pair of matching cabs then let's see what brand of lunacy can result. Disclaimer: some ear protection may be required.
Dear Mick & Dan, thank you for bringing this great content . It is always a moment of relaxation and the chatter brings back memories playing & discussing with my band in the 90s . Thank you both, have a nice year’s ending, wishing you a healthy and prosperous 2024. Looking forward to the vids in 24. 🎉 greetings from Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪 cheers 🍻
What a great year. And a fantastic list of questions! There are so many comments one could make. I'll just limit mine to the Neve gear. Of all the gear to salivate over, those would be tops. Being a stubborn Abbey Road guy, I'd probably go Chandler Ltd. for my money-is-no-object setup, both rack and 500 series. But boy, was the upgrade to the new Neve stuff noticeable on TPS immediately! And yes, the inspiration is 100% relatable. The sound, the feel, the learning process. Recording gear is yet another very cool rabbit hole down which one could merrily bounce. Cheers, guys.
G! Mick here. What I’m realising in slightly forehead-slap, painful technicolour is that all these things really have A SOUND. All the digital models end up sounding kinda the same… but when you actually hear the analogue stuff for real, over an extended period, the penny drops hard. And it’s not about better/worse… it’s just what inspires. And that’s the forehead slap! Ah, it’s this. Or not this. Now I know what I’m doing. Until the next thing. Gagagagag
@@ThatPedalShow We certainly are a questing species, aren't we. There Must always be a next thing and well there should! I'm a wee bit older than you are, Mick, and I'm consistently made happy to see you're farther along your path of understanding than I was at your age/stage. It's very cool. On gear, my list includes some Chandler stuff, including a REDD mic. But after just springing for a new Mac Studio and monitor and a new lightning interface, it's time to pay off the old and earn the okay for more gear by writing and recording some songs. Even as an old geezer, I seem to be starting at the bottom yet again! Cheers, young man, and Happy New Year to you both!
Yo Dan & Mick! You two have changed my "Tone" this year for which I am so Thankful as my sound and playing experience has vastly improved this year. One aspect that your shows offer is the level of detail that has helped my understand of what is happening to the signal when processed in various pedals. Mid-summer of this year I built my own pedal board and had 3 pedals on it. Since then, I have maxed out the available space with 14 pedals!! I wonder what 2024 will bring in your episodes that I will have to build a second/annex pedal board for?! Best Regards, James
I traded my Marshall dsl 15 and black Orange 1x12 cab and a phase 90 for a blue Supro Delta King 12 combo. This is my first " American" style amp. I have always done the Vox and or Orange thing. Last year a friend gave me that Marshall. After a year or so,with my friends approval,it was time to downsize. The supro has been great!
Very nice end of year episode, gents! I liked your choices for the year, especially your recording and preamp epiphanies (and Gareth Johnson is def mad-talented... the Love Bomb pedal for one is exceptional). Getting the sound you want at the time of the recording -- and to take it one step further... being *opinionated* and just capturing the sound you love in the moment -- is so important and beats the pants off of option paralysis! Regarding the good Doctor Z: Peach Guitars down the road from you (and probably others) have the new Z-80 which sounds *mega* and is the Brad Paisely co-designed amp, would love to hear you try it! Happy New Year!
YEAH ! The Harlot is the end of the line for me as far as a 35 year of exploring OD and Dstortion. Can you say unbelievable rich harmonics (the richest), even order harmonics, the most touch sensitive pedal, asymmetrical clipping (like actual amps), and yes even parasitic oscillations ! IT IS ALIVE. I have had it for four years now and I still cannot believe it when I play it. Solid state drive pedals are for the suckers ! .:)
Last thing I bought was two days ago and I've been waiting all year for it. Casually perusing the Sweetwater site, and they FINALLY FINALLY had a PRS DGT SE in stock ready to ship immediately. I didn't hesitate for a second before whipping out the old plastic on that one. I moved to Austin in 1987, and within a few months I went to see Joe Ely, and I can clearly remember thinking "Who the hell is that guitarist and what is that guitar he's playing?" I learned recently that Dave Grissom actually got his first PRS in 1987, and he's definitely the player I most closely associate with PRS. I've played a lot of great PRS guitars, never owned one, but the DGT really seems like the perfect PRS, so I was thrilled when the announced the SE version, and it's pretty much perfect for the first PRS I own. EDIT: I got the gold top with moon inlays for max Grissom vibe.
Hello fine gentlemen. A very fine wrap up to a very fine year. I agree with Dan on the playability of a Jaguar, although mine is the 60th Anniversary CS model with all the funny switches. Mick, I took out the measuring device and checked all my Rickenbackers around your neck/nut width concerns. The narrowest is the 325v63 which is also a short scale and I have to prep myself to play it. I have regular fingers, not long spider like fingers like Buddy Guy, and chords can be stuff, I still don't know how John Lennon did it. I don't have a 330 but do have a 360 and some quick research says that they are the same in nut width, It is easier to play, but I have to hold the guitar with more arch in the left hand, similar to the hold used by your recent guest Jocelyn Gould (which I am slowly adopting overall for comfort reasons). The 381v69 is a 12 string like Roger McGuinn played. That one is hard work. The 660 is a bit wider and easier to play (favoured by Tom Petty) but is not a semi hollow and doesn't have the ring and jangle of the 360. You can get comfortable playing a Rick, but it may require, as it does for me, some mental prep and a change of hold. Cheers to you both and my wishes to all for a brilliant 2024.
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I can’t believe Mick thinks H90 is too complicated but is happy to spend hours on an elaborate wet-dry-wet setup. H90 makes that much easier along with a zillion other things. It’s fantastic.
Hi there! Long-time watcher, just wanted to say Dan's jam with the LVX after discussing his struggles with it is possibly my favorite bit of playing on the show. Truly emotional and marvelous.
just so you know after 35 years of playing ive built my first real pedalboard, inspired by you guys. might sound weird but you are my kind of people. The genuine care you have for each other is beautiful. i have plowed through your back cataloge and have earned SO much. thanks guys. have a great new year
Enjoy your board brother! Now get planning your second!
exactly! i am 58 now and a show has to be heartfelt in all areas for me to even bother. i learn so much peripherally from this show. sometimes not even about guitar.
@@richardclark. Same here
What a great way to end 2023! Thank you, Mick and Dan, for all the great shows! Happy New Year!
Holy crap Dan…that piece you did with the LVX was in incredible. One of the best sequences of playing you’ve done on the show.
Wow, thanks! 🙏
That thing that "Didn't work out", makes me have goosebumps cause of Dan being inspired! Man! Love it!
“I just want to hear the sound I want to hear”. That’s my only aim with guitar gear. Has been for a few years now. It’s so liberating to know why.
“Can I make this new pedal sound exactly like my old pedals” has got to be the daftest trap guitarists fall into. We all do it, despite probably knowing it’s a folly.
It’s a new thing. Enjoy it for what it is.
I acquired a 5150 combo about 4 months ago. No matter how much my guitars made me want to play, my amps were usually a pain. I've had good luck with tubes(I know that sounds cliche), but this amp doesnt sound like the tube amps I had before. No hate on my AC10 but I'm glad they sound different. I want another AC10 tho to replace a cheap vox pathfinder with the 5150 in an at-home stereo rig. That lil solid state sounds awesome getting fed signal after the 5150 preamp. I think the trap is that we want our old tone(for stuff we know or do now) but want more for what's to come. This is the same trap that leads to 15 Les Pauls in one room.
Derangement of the mind is what leads anyone to having 15 Les Pauls. I have owned 20+ guitars at a single time, but they were all very different and most of them cost $1000 or less. Anyone who fills a room with 15 of the same guitar that each cost $2000 to $7000 (presuming there are no Custom Shop models) has something wrong with them.
@@darwinsaye
Or they have lots of money.
This! Is so true. More than we care to admit
Great show. Offside comment: Mick is nearly 50, has no grey hair and no kids. As a 46-year old father of two, I’m inferring a direct relationship between the two things. That’s all. Happy New Year fellows 🎉
Totally! Hahahah!
I'm 53, had to raise 4 very young kids on my own after their mom died, battled a second wife who was narcissistic sociopath for 5 years and another gf who put me through many emotional rollercoasters, and I have nearly no grey hair. And I'm now 100 lbs overweight ftom the stress. Genetics, environment and self care (even when not done very well). 😂
41 here. can confirm!
Just watching this. Awesome as always. My 2 cents Mick please DO go on about the two-rock CRS ... dedicated show? ... 😊. Thx!
1.) My PRS CE 24 Semihollow. 2.) Keeley Caverns. Really impressed me. 3.) Nobels ODR-1 mini. Works great with my Tele, but just could not get it sorted with my PRS or my Strat. 4.) 1966 Gibson LG-1 Acoustic. That thing just has a richness and warmth that I've been looking for from an acoustic guitar for years. 5.) Line 6 DL4 MKII. 6 and 7.). The Boss IR-2. It was on backorder, it just shipped yesterday so it might be in my hands by the end of the year.
Thanks guys for another year of passion and love for all things music. You provide the community with the best in learning , variety, fantastic playing, guests and humor. As a regular part of my life I feel you both as friends and mentors in life’s greatest never ending journey towards sound and music. Cheers and thanks from Bucks County PA.
'It's all in pursuit of the note.' Beautiful. What a wonderfully concise summation of the great, complex and immensely rewarding tone chase.
Watching Supernatural and somehow just realized Dan looks just like Bobby Singer. Anyways. Good tones 😂 BALLS!
That clean sound is epic! Huge humbucker fan. Can't get over that. And the harlot. Exactly the tone I love.
My personal answers to these questions;
Q1. The thing I've used most - TruFi Colordriver
Q2. Surprised me the most - Source Audio C4 Synth
Q3. Didn't work out - Fuzz face. I was disappointed that I didn't like it, but it kept leaving me wanting more. To my ears, it was missing something
Q4. My favorite thing this year was recording a demo album with my band. Sadly, the drummer since quit the band, but the album is a testament of our time
Q5. I've always wanted to try a Hiwatt amp
Q6. Last thing I bought - A modulation pedal for the keyboard player of the band, a christmas gift
Q7. Hopefully a band or a proper pedalboard.. All I've been using is a slab of wood
Thank you for a wonderful year of sounds. Your talent for interviewing guests is so enjoyable, the warmth and excitement that comes across never fails to bring out best from them. Noel Gallagher’s interview was a lesson in songwriting that really stood out, he showed a level of genius that we all dream of. Thanks again Guys.
Noel is good but hardly a genius…..McCartney and Lennon are geniuses
@@armandom28 Different people have different opinions, that’s how the world works. Yours is yours and mine is the correct one.
1=Fryette power station PS-100 2= Tonex pedal 3=Me 4= Kernom Ridge 5=Midi controler 6=Tonex pedal 7=Sabbadius 69 Univibe or Pedalpawn Univibe + a CNC to create my ultimate guitar!
Dude I have been watching for 5 years and was running an EV cab when I started and was getting killer tones. Im so happy you brought that up
Thank you Dan & Mick for another year of inspiring content. I watch everything you post and look forward to what you have have planned for next year. I have a feeling it's going to be epic. Wishing you and all the That Pedal Show viewers a lovely 2024 - With Gratitude - John
And by the way here's my list : Used the Most : UA Dream '65, UAD Apollo Twin, Macbook Pro with Logic Pro X. Surprised me the most : Origin Effects Cali '76 Stacked Compressor, EHX Tri-Parallel Mixer, Boss SY. - 200. Thing which didn't work out : Boss Slicer, Pigtronix Philosophers Tone. Favorite Thing : Rickenbacker 330 and 360/12, Digitech Freqout. Last Think You Bought : Eastwood Bill Nelson Astroluxe Cadet, Line 6 Pod 2.0, Digitech Drop. The one thing you're going to acquire next year : JangleBox JBX Compressor, RMS X100 V3.
How about a "utility" pedal episode this year? I know you've featured the GigRig heavy weights in the past like Dan's super cool mixer but it might be somewhat captivating to watch you two work out other's offerings, EHX and Old Blood Noise come to mind immediately. I wonder if there's a notable stereo output signal blender. Mix it up with a wet/dry reprise perhaps, and the various virtues of approaching production level signal before plugging into an interface or a desk. Maybe even a guest or two with that focus, especially studio rats that engineers universally love. What do you think?
Amazing where both of your musical journeys are taking you.
For what it’s worth here is my list:
Most used: PRS SE DGT best gigging guitar you can buy if you only want to take one guitar and not get it nicked.
Biggest Surprise: Fractal Audio Axe Fx; didn’t want to like digital but it’s bloody fantastic with the right on stage monitoring
Fave piece of gear Empress Zoia; Does everything you need it to and beyond and is super reliable
Thing I wanted to try but didn’t; Lexicon PCM 81 really wanted to get one to try but don’t really need it as I have a lexicon MPX one
Last thing I bought: Line 6 HX stomp;(I know) Bought as back up for the axe fx
2024 purchase has to be the Poly Effects Verbs.
Have a great new year chaps and thanks for everything in 2023
Oh forgot I had nothing that didn’t work for me in 2023, but that is to make up for all the stuff I dismissed as crap in 2022.
The Kingsley Harlot sounded so freaking great with Dan's les paul that I know I'm going to come back to that bit in the next couple of years. Happy holidays everyone!🎉
Several years ago I caught a superb Texas Blues player who had just acquired an excellent 335 - he said it completely re-arranged his head, breaking him out of his box into a new landscape of not just sounds, but "feels" in his approach to playing.
Thanks, Dan and Mick for all of 2023, looking forwards to 2024.
About 15 years ago I played a vintage ’64 cherry red 335 in a shop in London whilst checking out a pedal I was interested in buying. The guitar felt like it was playing itself, playing me even. It was beautiful, so beautiful that I had a hard time focusing on the pedal, a Strymon Obi-1 - a great pedal and i bought it, though I’m sure the guitar influenced the decision. Haunted, I am.
Good luck Mick on your quest! Happy new year TPS family 🙏🏼💜✨
Guys, this might be the best video of 2023, if not your overall best video.
I love the discussion and insights on what works for you and what does not and why. Thats the important thing "why". And as always with you, its rarely "this does not sounds good"
Thank you for all the great shows this year, I appreciate everyone for this great community.
"Let's fix it in pre", needs to be on a tee-shirt.
Dude those early small stones are pretty incredible. I recently was engineering a session for some recordings of mine and ran a cello through a roland space echo and put an early 70s small stone in the loop of the space echo. Results were glorious
Thank you for keeping me sane in an insane world.
You guys are the kind of friends I need.
It's cool watching Mick dabble with the Rickenbacker. I have been dabbling with Rickenbackers 20 years now and haven't been able to make one my #1. I have a 1995 330 like the one you have on loan and one of the new 2023 360s which returned to the 21 fret neck as opposed to the 24 fret neck that had been around since the early 70s. Both great guitars and get plenty of looks everytime I take them out. Rickenbacker standard nut widths are at 41.4 mm (1.63″). That's the same as the old Fender width but with the Rickenbacker the neck doesn't widen as much. Also food for thought if you plan to get a late 60s Gibson you're gonna have an even small 39 mm nut width.
It’s so weird. Whatever the measurement of the nut I think the string spacing is more the thing. So I absolutely cannot play this guitar. Just toooo tight. I just bought a 1965 ES-345… Relatively thin nut. It’s one of the most playable and comfortable guitars I’ve ever owned. Go figure!
Discovered Andy Wood through the TPS interview…resulting in a Gearbox and Halo purchase. Using a 73 Tele into a 75 Silverface Twin with JBL’s. Sounds glorious! Thanks for all the education, all the music, and all the fun; you guys are awesome!
My most impactful piece of gear this year was the humble DOD250 Preamp. A standard issue new one, not even vintage. I've finally found my distortion pedal. It play so well with the SG, very dynamic and touch sensitive. Ive been stacking ODs for years chasing a good distortion and was never quite satisfied, and all the distortion pedals Ive tried were either too over the top and/or did not clean up easily. the 250 has solved those problems. Between it and my Nobles I can get all the OD/Dist tones I need, and if I want anything more over the top I can just use a fuzz.
that small stone is INSANE!!!!!
I don't have to tell you, Mick and Dan, that the reason the Johnny Marr Jaguar is such a great guitar is because Johnny really cares about every nuance of the instrument, and the choices he made for that model are all very conscious, deliberate choices. From the 7.25" radius to the non-reverse pickup, to the 4-way switching, to the additional voicing switches, the vibrato arm bushing, the bridge...everything about that model is carefully thought out. Every guitar I get from now on, I want to have that 4-way switching system.
for me, 2023, musically, was epic. Got back into playing with real people, playing with volume. Got a Gibson Les Paul Junior from 2010, which has been the only guitar I've played. Paired it with a Marshall sc20h. Cranked it numerous times. Found pedals to go along with it.
This year was crazy for acquisition and release of some great gear.
Acquired: TR Studio Sig+112 cab, Marshall 1958X HW, Gibson Custom '59 dirty lemon, FCS '68 Tele Thinline, Klon KTR, HX Stomp XL(I absolutely need a completely silent solution,) and a few other small things.
Sold: '72 Twin Reverb Non-MV, '73 Bassman 50 head, Marshall Class 5, Fender AmDlx Tele, Epiphone Inspired By Gibson ES335, and yet a few other small things.
Cutting three amps for the Two Rock was a big push, but I would not have gotten close enough without doing so and I'm more happy with that one amp than I was with the other three.
Hey Brock here, met Nick earlier this year/last/ year NAMM at the Seymour Duncan venue. I'm sure you would remember vividly. ;) Blamed you for many pedal purchases. Love your show!!
Warehouse makes the best speakers. Using them exclusively now, their 8 & 10 Alnico are in both my small combos and I am using their 12" in my cabs and large combo. Will have to grab a 12L. If EV is still making speakers it's probably not in the same quality.
Complex is not me at all... Best surprise for that is the Boss Waza Dimension C is really blowing me away. Basically 8+ settings has really worked for me.
Digital can be so different because of the ADC/DAC usage and the autoleveler which determines the 1:1 input output volume.
Have to send you a couple of 500 series Roll Tubule tub mic preamps. Mick glad to see you did the recording on my birthday :)
I run all my mics through my Purple 10 500 series Lunch Box with the Purple monitor and mixer module to stereo output into my interface.
Thanks guys for a year of great videos! Thanks Leg Ends TPS family, Happy New Year!
I’m going to have a year of no gear and commit to more regular lessons. I have lovely gear, there’s nothing I want to do that my gear is stopping me from doing…
THIS!
Yup I’m in a similar place, my rig has settled at a place where now learning how to play better is my tonal frontier.
HAPPY NEWYEAR GENTS! THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO.
It's my dream too, getting a vintage 335 and I agree it makes a real difference to my hears. But I am very lucky to have my LP from 2006 and my old GB10. Happy new year guys . Love , music and pesetas ;)
Many thanks Leg Ends, another stunning year for TPS its hard to say what I prefer the most was it the vqc or the pedals or the guest's. I know it's Mick & Dan you guys are just the best. Have a great New year. PEACE AND LOVE TO EVERYONE ❤❤.
Nice way to end the year. Happy New Year to you both!
My hope in 2024 is you both show off your pedalboards more (either in proper shows or as VLOGs). My favorite episodes of TPS are always the ones where you pull out your actual boards and make music.
My biggest surprise this year has been the UAFX Dream 65. I had a FM9 but haven’t really been able to get by with it. Use the Dream 65 for in ear monitor mixes on stage and a little bit for front of house. Brilliant solution in conjunction with my on stage amp, a ML Deville. Never thought I’d get away with a digital amp sim, but it’s great!
2023 was a busy and interesting year, the experience day back in Jan was one of the highlights. Thank you all at TPS, lets have a loud 2024.
Cue Jingle - The Best part of waking up is @That Pedal Show in your Cup!
Great way to wrap up a wonderful year of content. Enjoy the remainder of 2023 guys, see you soon in 2024! ❤🙏🏼
Its been great spending 2023 with you guys, and I love how humble and appreciative about the amazing gear you are fortunate enough to play with. Ive been expanding my hybrid analog/digital studio and have been loving every second of it. Love you guys and Happy New Year!
Happy new year, guys! I don't think I missed a single episode this year. Took a while to get to some of them, but the backlog is now emptied. A truly extraordinary year. I mean, Johnny Marr, Noel Gallagher, just to mention two. Some lesser-known-to-the-non-guitar-geeks as well, equally lovely. No rest and recharge! See you on the other side!
BTW, Wifey got me a lovely "premium" coffee/tea mug for Christmas. Loving it!
Thank you Gents for this opening! And Mick , Enjoy you recording gear and the Strat with full heart and joy. If they inspire you that is worth it. Life is too short to wait.
Thanks guys for all the hard work this year! Please do the Dr. Z / AC30 / Matchless comparison video. Would be very interested in hearing that.
Great 2023 guys - thx for all the inspiration :-) Have fun on the vintage ES quest, Mick - I'm lucky enough to have a couple of 60s ES's, and each is unique. I've not come across another electric guitar model with so much variation between individual examples. The neck tone is especially variable, and IMO it's not just the pickups. I'm sure you've played a few over the years, though, and know which ES feel and tone you're looking and listening for.
Great stuff ! Thank you lads !
Thank you! So nice to get this episode while Dan is still away. Nice to spend some time with you guys even though I have to get up real early for a (jazz banjo) gig. Perfect combination. Love and music to you both and the community
I wanted to share this with you guys! I have been addicted to amps since the 1960s. I just recently bought a Magnatone Super i5 and am blown away! The voice of the Angels I tell you! I have over sixty amps, no joke, I am telling you Dan and Mick, you have to get your hands on one of these and do a demo on your show.
60 amps. You’re at home here mate.
Love the show and watch alot!! Great job!
Mick...
I looked up the H90 and I just don't understand the front panel. It has too much going on while trying to look simple. That's not a good combination, it just ends up looking like there's no cues while it looks like there's a whole command center in front of you. I'm already performing, why is there a big knob that says perform? There's three random knobs in the middle. There's a small black visual panel crammed up. There's colored push buttons for random stuff. If it has to be complex and keep it simple, maybe look up Lexicons and other rack effects like TC (that maybe weren't Eventide) because they had quite a lot to tweak but the initial glance didn't make you too confused. If you wanted to run the presets it wasn't that tough, only when you wanted to dive deeper into parameters it started to demand learning. So I'm with Mick there, the H90 just doesn't find the sweet spot for simple yet feature full.
Watching the talk about TODP I realized "amp like distortion" is such a wide umbrella term. To one person it means valvestate, to another it means Fender Champ driven to melting, AC30, then there's someone that thinks of Marshall JMP/JCM800 and then there's the person who thinks of 5150. Not limited to those.
Two Rock is great, but Amplified Nation amps completely replaced all others for me this year. I still have my jaw drop nearly every day when I turn it on and play the first note. Just mind blowing.
A great year of TPS shows. I am looking forward to what you guys have in store for 2024. Happy New Year Dan and Mick!
My favorite purchase this year have been the benson delay for pedal and a two rock vintage deluxe for amp
You guys are great! Cheers!❤
Thank you!
This was the most fun show from you two lads yet. Loved hearing your recording and band performances. Nothing like seeing a grown man with a unicorn duvet also. No shame! You like what you like.
Last year the only new equipment I bought were strings, cables and power outputs. I played a lot more and played with more people and this ended up being my favourite guitar moments of 2023. Just sayin
Mick, I have a 1966 ES 335 that has some issues, and I can tell you first hand, it is wonderful. Can't wait to see what you end up with!
Mick - Our family tradition over here in the US is to watch the entire Fawlty Towers series every Christmas season - It is my 9-year old son’s favorite thing. I REALLY hope your “Just doing it now, Dear” was a reference to Basil Fawlty. Happy Holidays to you both. Cheers!!!
The way Mick said it, it definitely was! 😀
Happy New Year guys. God! Dan's Les Paul is a stunner.
For 2024, I would love to see a video showing you guys select 2 guitars, 1 amp, and 1 pedal board you would put together to use for all of your non-TPS playing, all the gigs, practices, blues-jams, jazz gigs, etc. for all of 2024.
Thanks for all the shows in 2023, wish you a great 2024!
love you guys, great year of shows, great year of shared knowledge. have a great new year
The mention of odd guitar shops that sold random stuff along side their music gear put me in mind of the now long gone Victor Morris in Glasgow, the only shop I've ever seen that would just as happily sell you a machete or crossbow as a strat 😳 Cheers for another year of awesome videos!
Gorgeous chords with the "Inspiration Machine", Dan
Happy New Year to Mick & Dan and the entire TPS community! I don't know if you are my guides, my enablers, or a little devil perched on my shoulder... but I'm thankful regardless.
Hahah! All of the above. :0)
Truly an epic year for TPS. Looking forward to 2024! Thanks for everything you do.
I love my 66 Jag. It was my first guitar, bought used in 1985, I put a Kahler in it in 1989 but kept the electronics original. I especially like the neck pickup.
Option paralysis! Couldn't have said it any better Mick! Most of my favorite pedals have four knobs or less, and my favorite amps have five knobs or less. If any single piece of gear does too many things, I panic at all the available choices and freeze. The only exception I took the time to figure out was the Fooz.
Thanks for another fun year of TPS! Hope to see more of Dans Les Paul in 2024. Love it!
Mick - don’t forget Collings I-35 on your search for an ES. I broke down and bought one and have never been happier. Sound for days and as you know quality supreme
I’ve played a good many of them now, and they are without question, fantastic and totally unequalled in modern guitar making. BUT. The body is too small for me, and I have learned, painfully, that I pretty much always prefer vintage guitars to new ones. Just a personal thing. Congrats on that amazing machine!
What a fantastic year of TPS shows! I picked up the halo and expression pedal .... wonderful! Best purchase was a Boss bp-1w boost..... the magic bullet for my rig that Ive been searching for.
Thanks for all your great work this year Mick & Dan!
I'm not surprised that Dan is curious about Two Rock amps. I mean common, Mick has been blasting luscious Two Rock tones at him for years. He had to cave in. Now, wait until Dan realizes he is also curious about a Strat and a Tube Screamer. 🙀
Tee hee: great tone is great tone..
Thanks for confirming the reason I sold the h90 and why I'm still trying to figure out if I'm bright enough to make the most of the LVX . Thankyou for 2023 my Friday addiction
I agree, the simplicity is above the complexity. You need to love the pedal for user friendlyness.
Mick I’d love a deep dive into the studio gear and how you use it. ! At least one view from me you’d have !!
Thank you guys for a great year. You’re certainly a part of all of our lives, and we appreciate all the hard work and the relentless consistency It takes to do what you do.
Thank you kindly!
"Let's fix it in pre". Brilliant!
Now im looking foreward to this year guys. Rock on
The Harlot is MY base tone for everything. My favorite pedal of all time.
Great episode to cap another great year! Happy 2024, Gents! Also: Your video descriptions are the best on TH-cam - always impressed and appreciate the hard work put into the editorial side.
Hi Guys, this was the year that I finally went TPS wet-dry. I built separate wet and dry 'boards then put a Humdinger between them. Magic. Next stop.. the one board version. Happy New Year to all.
The most times I've seen you two fine gents laughing your heads off is when you plug in the HiWatt. I totally understand Mick's love of the 2rock but when it comes to simple "Are we having fun yet??" moments the HiWatt gets it every time. Granted the DR103 can be hard work at times but the rewards for the effort put in are worth it.
Next year buy another one plus a pair of matching cabs then let's see what brand of lunacy can result.
Disclaimer: some ear protection may be required.
Dear Mick & Dan, thank you for bringing this great content . It is always a moment of relaxation and the chatter brings back memories playing & discussing with my band in the 90s . Thank you both, have a nice year’s ending, wishing you a healthy and prosperous 2024. Looking forward to the vids in 24. 🎉 greetings from Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪 cheers 🍻
Also greetings & best wishes to the crew behind the screen! Cheers! 🍻
What a great year. And a fantastic list of questions! There are so many comments one could make. I'll just limit mine to the Neve gear. Of all the gear to salivate over, those would be tops. Being a stubborn Abbey Road guy, I'd probably go Chandler Ltd. for my money-is-no-object setup, both rack and 500 series. But boy, was the upgrade to the new Neve stuff noticeable on TPS immediately! And yes, the inspiration is 100% relatable. The sound, the feel, the learning process. Recording gear is yet another very cool rabbit hole down which one could merrily bounce. Cheers, guys.
G! Mick here. What I’m realising in slightly forehead-slap, painful technicolour is that all these things really have A SOUND. All the digital models end up sounding kinda the same… but when you actually hear the analogue stuff for real, over an extended period, the penny drops hard. And it’s not about better/worse… it’s just what inspires. And that’s the forehead slap! Ah, it’s this. Or not this. Now I know what I’m doing. Until the next thing. Gagagagag
@@ThatPedalShow We certainly are a questing species, aren't we. There Must always be a next thing and well there should! I'm a wee bit older than you are, Mick, and I'm consistently made happy to see you're farther along your path of understanding than I was at your age/stage. It's very cool. On gear, my list includes some Chandler stuff, including a REDD mic. But after just springing for a new Mac Studio and monitor and a new lightning interface, it's time to pay off the old and earn the okay for more gear by writing and recording some songs. Even as an old geezer, I seem to be starting at the bottom yet again! Cheers, young man, and Happy New Year to you both!
Right on Gents! Thanks for another great year of commentary! Happy New Year to all you and yours.:)
Yo Dan & Mick! You two have changed my "Tone" this year for which I am so Thankful as my sound and playing experience has vastly improved this year.
One aspect that your shows offer is the level of detail that has helped my understand of what is happening to the signal when processed in various pedals.
Mid-summer of this year I built my own pedal board and had 3 pedals on it. Since then, I have maxed out the available space with 14 pedals!! I wonder what 2024 will bring in your episodes that I will have to build a second/annex pedal board for?!
Best Regards,
James
I traded my Marshall dsl 15 and black Orange 1x12 cab and a phase 90 for a blue Supro Delta King 12 combo. This is my first " American" style amp. I have always done the Vox and or Orange thing. Last year a friend gave me that Marshall. After a year or so,with my friends approval,it was time to downsize. The supro has been great!
Very nice end of year episode, gents!
I liked your choices for the year, especially your recording and preamp epiphanies (and Gareth Johnson is def mad-talented... the Love Bomb pedal for one is exceptional). Getting the sound you want at the time of the recording -- and to take it one step further... being *opinionated* and just capturing the sound you love in the moment -- is so important and beats the pants off of option paralysis!
Regarding the good Doctor Z: Peach Guitars down the road from you (and probably others) have the new Z-80 which sounds *mega* and is the Brad Paisely co-designed amp, would love to hear you try it!
Happy New Year!
YEAH ! The Harlot is the end of the line for me as far as a 35 year of exploring OD and Dstortion. Can you say unbelievable rich harmonics (the richest), even order harmonics, the most touch sensitive pedal, asymmetrical clipping (like actual amps), and yes even parasitic oscillations ! IT IS ALIVE. I have had it for four years now and I still cannot believe it when I play it. Solid state drive pedals are for the suckers ! .:)
Best end of the year guitar show I hav ever seen. .:)
You guys should start doing guitar and amps like you do pedals in your show. Would love to see Mick do a bunch of A/B/Cs with strats.
Last thing I bought was two days ago and I've been waiting all year for it. Casually perusing the Sweetwater site, and they FINALLY FINALLY had a PRS DGT SE in stock ready to ship immediately. I didn't hesitate for a second before whipping out the old plastic on that one. I moved to Austin in 1987, and within a few months I went to see Joe Ely, and I can clearly remember thinking "Who the hell is that guitarist and what is that guitar he's playing?" I learned recently that Dave Grissom actually got his first PRS in 1987, and he's definitely the player I most closely associate with PRS. I've played a lot of great PRS guitars, never owned one, but the DGT really seems like the perfect PRS, so I was thrilled when the announced the SE version, and it's pretty much perfect for the first PRS I own. EDIT: I got the gold top with moon inlays for max Grissom vibe.
30:40 - 31:50 🤯 that was gorgeous mate!
Hello fine gentlemen. A very fine wrap up to a very fine year. I agree with Dan on the playability of a Jaguar, although mine is the 60th Anniversary CS model with all the funny switches. Mick, I took out the measuring device and checked all my Rickenbackers around your neck/nut width concerns. The narrowest is the 325v63 which is also a short scale and I have to prep myself to play it. I have regular fingers, not long spider like fingers like Buddy Guy, and chords can be stuff, I still don't know how John Lennon did it. I don't have a 330 but do have a 360 and some quick research says that they are the same in nut width, It is easier to play, but I have to hold the guitar with more arch in the left hand, similar to the hold used by your recent guest Jocelyn Gould (which I am slowly adopting overall for comfort reasons). The 381v69 is a 12 string like Roger McGuinn played. That one is hard work. The 660 is a bit wider and easier to play (favoured by Tom Petty) but is not a semi hollow and doesn't have the ring and jangle of the 360. You can get comfortable playing a Rick, but it may require, as it does for me, some mental prep and a change of hold. Cheers to you both and my wishes to all for a brilliant 2024.