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Awesome that she does this- I stopped chasing tone a few years ago, sold my $4,000 boutique amp and bought a Katana. Nobody in the audience cares what your gear is, they only care if they like the music and it sounds OK. Only other guitar players look at what you're using.
WhatWouldHouseDo - I have many tube amps (which I love) but my Katana Artist is every bit as good, with less stress. It sounds and feels like a tube amp, without any hassles.
@@Music_is_fun I have peavey ultra plus 120 watt head with a 2×12 and a 4×12 peavey cabinet. Know what I play through 85% of the time? A line 6 spider V 60 watt practice amp I got cheap or nothing at all. Being I'm currently not in a band right now. That's what I did dialed in a sound I liked. If I wanted a jcm 800 sound I would go to reverb and find a jcm 800. If someone criticizes or complains I just ask "when did I ask for your opinion?". I mean we are jamming in your garage I'm going to haul a stack across town to please you,...... not. Funny thing they usually complain I'm playing to loud with my 60 watt 1×12 line shit amp. Truth is I know how to dial in a tone that cuts through the mix but you know.
Exactly. When i had a line 6 pedalboard i always went to almost the same amps i thought sounded good and just tweaked them to sound more metal or classic rock instead of going like "oh i need to dial a jcm800 model with this cab to play this iron maiden song..."
Indeed, it’s the player as much as anything. I promise she could get a better tone out of a peavey bandit than I could put of a (fill in the blank) stack!
I've used both. People are usually too busy drinkin' & dancin' & looking for a hook-up. Never been booed for digital BUT is tiring to listen to. AND the BIG ONE. It sounds like shit if you're LIVE & recording thru a board. Real crap.
@@buddylobos5277 oh I'm a tube amp guy through and through but he's right. you think anybody cared Albert King played through a shitty solid state amp? Hell no
So true, sir. No regular person would even care. Only the dweebs on the Internet music instrument forums would be upset. And as Slash said; who cares about them 🙃
After 40 years of tubes amps, I prefer my Quilter now. I get great sound from that thing. I used to record at a friend's house with a Lab Series and loved that amp too! I'll never go back to tube amps, pains in the ass to get fixed. Best 2 days of owning my Fender Twin was the day I bought it and day I sold it, heavy as a bastard.
So I just went out and bought myself a GT-1000. The decision was probably 40% driven by this video. Zero regrets. The thing is bloody amazing. My abilities are never going to scratch the surface of what it can do, but more than happy to have something that won't limit me. Would love to get some of Nita's patches for it....
40 years on guitar and I'm a purist. Plug and play...no pedals. I don't tapdance. BUT...I bought this thing after seeing this vid and I will never look back. It goes with me from my live rig to the studio. It is BY FAR the best processor I have ever seen, and it was enough to teach this old cat new tricks.
Nita is just a down to earth player and very kind and willing to teach. Very cool. And love that she uses the Boss. The dweebs on the Gear Page would dismiss this rig in a second 🙄
What a class act and just inspirational as an outstanding guitarist. That's amazing that's all you have for a setup. Coming from a guy that had a JCM 800 and a double stack, pedals, cables, blah.
I met Nita at one of her Guitar Center clinics one time in Raleigh. She and Josh V. were the coolest down to earth people you could meet. They took time to talk to people and made people feel like they wanted to be there.
This is great to see. About 20 years ago I got a GT-3 and haven't plugged into an amp since. Setup and teardown is a snap, as is transport, and you don't deal with phasing issues live. I can radically alter my sound instantly. Of course, I've had a lot of people react with confusion and ridicule because of decades of being sold the "proper" way to do things, which is really mostly image.
Mala chamber - ok , some of it is about image . Most of it is about tone and response, though. That 20 years of amp-lessness has made you forget how good it feels to crank up an amp . Go plug into a great amp and cab and it will all come back to you.
I haven't used an amp for recording since 1994. All direct, and it sounds fine to my ears. Like some of the other comments say, most of the audience couldn't care what yo're using. Bands like Periphery and Dragged Under are using Fractals or Helix and they sound great live.
@@zdave6083 No , if you tinker around you can get that tube sound. Its not the 60's anymore. We live in the 21st century and some of the modern processors can get it.
Once Geddy Lee went direct, he replaced his wall of amps with clothes dryers and rotisserie chickens! I hope rotisserie chicken takes the place of tube amps as the next 'proper'!
I've been playing for 47 years. I did exactly the same thing Nita did, started out with a BOSS GT-8, went to the 10, then the 100. I still use the 100, haven't bought the 1000. There's so much customization you can do with it. For instance, you can turn off the reverb, turn on the delay, turn on the EQ, turn on the lead boost, and turn on the WAH pedal all with a single button press. Pressing the button again returns you to where you started.
Perfect sense. I’ve always pushed everything straight into the desk out of my GT100 done and done. I busk with the GT100 and a looper, into a StreetCube running off a single chunky usb battery- the only change for gigs is that the streetcube comes out and the same cable goes to the desk…
Cool vid, and love hearing and seeing how Nit has her rig set up. So simple... and shows what you can do with a simple, but powerful little box - going direct. And man oh man... how could you not love Nita! Love love love Nita Strauss. She is just so awesome!
She seems so pleasing to be around, and a great player too! I have a GT-1 you do have to experiment with different amp models and pedals to get a sound you like. Most of the amp models sound "pretty much" like there namesake but I found like Nita just go with what sounds good to you.
I got tired of chasing tone, and then had to sell all my gear to pay the employees in my company. My plan was to re-buy after the pandemic, however instead I bought myself a soldering iron, a little 5 F1 kit, put a line out Jack on it, and it is the sweetest sounding amp I have ever had. Everybody looks good in Tweed!
i saw the faceless perform with no stage amps and when i was upfront i couldnt hear the mains as well as i could the slapping of the strings acoustically. i go direct myself but my bandmates have cabs to fill the stage air better than just monitors. just an experience of mine personally.
She just seems like such a cool girl next door.... (well cool girl next door that's a rockstar.) I like her and appreciate her common sense approach to playing and life.
I used to play in a band just plugging my bass to my wireless and then to my amp. We played a gig sharing stage with two other bands. One of the other bass players had a huge pedal board and minutes before the show he had an issue and he spent 10 minutes on stage trying to figure out what was happening. I like to use pedals but on stage I try to make it simple.
I think modeling amps will become so good in the near future that classic solid-state won't be used anymore and the valve based amps will be seriously endangered.
I'm running a GP-10 paired with my decrepit but still excellent old GT-8. I think every sound I want is in one of those two boxes, if I could just have the time to figure 'em out :D
She’s a really cool person. She cares about making a point to talk to us, very thoughtful. Here I go down another rabbit hole looking for Nita playing videos.
That just her stagecraft kicking in . Engage the audience. Make them feel you're in a dialogue with them .It doesn't mean she actually cares . She's a pro.
@@zdave6083 she's the same on eg Twitter. She always replies to people, answers their questions, completely approachable. The only times I've seen her anything but nice is when people are being elitist jerks, that she doesn't like. Very down to earth and humble. I don't think that's "stagecraft", I think that's who she is
@@saschaschneider6355 I don't doubt that. I just meant her looking into the camera and talking directly to it. That's stagecraft. I do think that the whole humble and approachable thing is a new trend for the internet age. Its necessary to build a loyal fanbase these days. Frankly, I prefer my rockstars arrogant and entitled. I'm oldschool.
Interesting contrast between this and the rig she uses with Alice Cooper. Quite amazing how guitarists gear has evolved since the advent of digital processing. And I love how excited she gets playing. A very fine guitarist.
Nita is down right amazing. Amp, no amp, big rig, no rig, give her a “Hello Kitty” acoustic guitar and she will still shred! Thanks for sharing your setup, it’s always great to see how innovative you can be with a minimalist approach.
I’ve been playing direct for decades and I finally got my Roadster combo dream amp. I can appreciate the approach and simplicity. I used just a Zoom pedal for most of that time into a clean Jazz Chorus. I’m too dumb to program complex amps so the Zoom stuff still gets thrown into my gig bag when the Heavy stuff stays at home for show and tell now. Haha
The GT1000 does have models based off of popular amps. Just not a lot of them like other units. I personally like the X Amps in the unit and use those.
Yeah , its about the effects. However there are so many levels of eq that along with the reverb, distortion and delay , you can almost dial in any amp sound. Boss processors seem to be heavily under rated , but they are powerful units if you take the time to learn how to program them. Plenty of parameters to adjust and plenty of effects. I have a stereo rig and it rocks.
Absolutely get Nita's point at 7:56 about the GK pickup system. I have one and the sounds are amazing, but I have always felt like I couldn't count on it being out on the road. Hope there will be something more robust out in a near future to replace it.
The great thing about using a unit like that is if it fails and that's a huge if BTW you can get one at any local shop and continue on with the tour. When you are talking tours a unit like that is inexpensive enough to have a spare pre programed and ready to swap out in less than a minute.
The downside is that if you can't get a unit locally your whole board, amp, cab is gone and you can't borrow eg just a spare tubescreamer from another guitarist as a temporary replacement until you've got a new unit. And you can't drop in a multi fx unit from a different vendor if you don't happen to have your setup in a format that's compatible with that device, too. Not saying that I'm against using this stuff, on the contrary, I'm more inclined to get the Axe FX, Boss GT1000 or similar stuff than I'm inclined to amass a huge gear collection, but it does have its drawbacks
I might not care for the floor unit. What I really like is that she is excited and she seems really cool. And she is a beast of a player. She is really good.
5:50 but it also has a pressure switch at the top so if I go up here and then I put some weight on it becomes an expression pedal so you can use it as a wah, a volume, an octaver, so its sort of its own whammy pedal
Blows my mind listening to Nita - she’s as meticulous about how she gets her sound as the rest of us tone junkies. But for some reason she comes across cooler than the rest of us geeks.
@@TintedST214 You missed the point. I'm not talking about her tone. I'm talking about how she goes about getting it;. I've had compliments on my tone from guitar players. You had a chance to make a friend here - but since you started with an attack, you blew it.
Where is this “clean tone”? The cleanest tone is around the 2:50 mark, and it’s not “clean” in the usual sense of being a direct pickup tone, it’s certainly being processed to some degree, so is an effected tone.
@@terrypussypower ok? It's a clean tone with some stereo chorus and reverb baked in. Do you really expect her to play with a completely clean tone given the context of the band she played with at this point in time?
and why is the host fixating on the equipment looking down pretty much the whole video? he's always staring down ? and what's up with him wearing his baby sister's t- shirt and skinnnnnnnneeee jeans
I did a lot of playing in a corporate band with digitech GNX multifx pedals. If you take the time to dial in the right sound today's modeling pedals are going to provide plenty of excellent tones and you don't have the schlepping problems, maintenance headaches or road crew to deal with. Smart gal!
I got an rp355 a couple months ago, and I plugged into the pc yesterday, and after some struggling to make it work with reaper, I was surprised at the quality it delivers at recording, and I barely modified the presets (didn´t have a chance to try it live yet). People usually diss digitech and multi fx units, but they are some devices that can create beautiful tones, even these old devices. There is a guy here in YT that got some amazing sounds from an Korg AX300g, with a DI box after (which was perfect because that one would compress the signal a lot) and you would be amazed at the result! I thought of selling the rp355, but I think I will keep it some more time now...
i paly live with a digitech gnx-4 even today.Would like to get a Helix or something one day ,so i tottaly get what she does.Nobody in the audience would care less what your gear is (aside gear junkies) as long as what you play is palyed in excelency like she does.
Great personality - She's fun to listen to both as a player and as just a talker! I've been using a GT-10 (several generations predecessor of the Gt-1000) for a number of years. I love that that she is working with modestly priced gear to the job done on the big stage. Keep Rockin!
Ampless is the way to go! Used a Line 6 for years and received tons of compliments (they were usually sad when they realized they liked a Line 6 product). Switched to a Tech 21 Blonde a few years ago and haven't looked back.
Met her at NAMM. Super talent and personable. Big fan and this is brilliant tech to give performers the tools to give arena shows in club style venues.
@@mbgmail5911 Shes def gotten help from her gender and looks but guitar playing doesnt mean much without being able to write. I was surprised at how good her last original was. She made a video. It's really good. Better than Gus Gs latest Instrumental in my opinion. And hes a much better technical player. Doesnt matter though. Go listen to both of them and see for yourself.
I stopped. by the Sam Ash in Dallas one afternoon and she was giving a clinic. A great teaching technique for a group. An excellent player without making it a "dig me" event. I will admit that I wasn't familiar with her before accidentally attending her clinic, but I left a fan before getting to hear a single recording.
The "synth" sounds to me sounds like a shimmer reverb with long pre-delay, cause I can get approximately the same thing on my TC Electronics Hall Of Fame 2. I love the sound too
love the simplicity of this lady! She always sounds so down to earth..playing simple major/minor chords focussing on the unit and not crazy jazz chords to show off!
@@mauricewitherspoon8457 its not about me not knowing the jazz chords.i do know..but its about focus on the purpose of the video..which here was to show the gt1k with her and not showoff technical prowess that many guys do. Jazz on mate! cheers
Roger Waters: You know, if the stage split the stadium lengthwise instead, just think of how much more we could... just think of how much bigger the inflatable pigs testicles could be!
Great video and cool tones from Nita who always kicks ass. Also goes to show that somebody who KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE DOING can make Boss GT's sound great. Too often people say these units "suck" because they dont know how to use them properly. Another great point by Nita: she goes by what sounds good to HER EARS. (not by comparing it to an actual amp) I still use my old GT8, and i think of the amp models as preset gain and tone/eq reference points. (like using different stompbox overdrive and distortion units.)
Modelling had been predicted as the future long back and now we have Artist like Nita proving that, yeah all you need is a good board. There are very versatile boards like BOSS, Line 6 or maybe any other board that could just replace your whole pedal board's analog mess and an amp that may need 2 giants to pick. i use a Affinity into a Vox pedal into a 10 watt amp and yes i tweak hard to get the tones, but i do manage to get close.
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She's a nice person great player happy for her success
I saw her at a GC clinic in NYC. Great player and a very nice person.
A shred god who is stunning and a great person. Epic combo
The full combo with very nice personality and cute as a button.
Awesome that she does this- I stopped chasing tone a few years ago, sold my $4,000 boutique amp and bought a Katana. Nobody in the audience cares what your gear is, they only care if they like the music and it sounds OK. Only other guitar players look at what you're using.
WhatWouldHouseDo - I have many tube amps (which I love) but my Katana Artist is every bit as good, with less stress. It sounds and feels like a tube amp, without any hassles.
Absolutely agree 10000%
But do YOU care?
@@ruiseartalcorn no it’s not
@@Danielfucks69 I can only report how it feels to me.
She makes a great point when she points out not getting caught up in “I need a Rectifier” or “I need a JCM800 sound” and just using your ears.
Exactly use whatever gets you the tone you are looking for. Doesn't matter if it says line 6 boss or whatever.
@@Music_is_fun I have peavey ultra plus 120 watt head with a 2×12 and a 4×12 peavey cabinet. Know what I play through 85% of the time? A line 6 spider V 60 watt practice amp I got cheap or nothing at all. Being I'm currently not in a band right now. That's what I did dialed in a sound I liked. If I wanted a jcm 800 sound I would go to reverb and find a jcm 800. If someone criticizes or complains I just ask "when did I ask for your opinion?". I mean we are jamming in your garage I'm going to haul a stack across town to please you,...... not. Funny thing they usually complain I'm playing to loud with my 60 watt 1×12 line shit amp. Truth is I know how to dial in a tone that cuts through the mix but you know.
Exactly. When i had a line 6 pedalboard i always went to almost the same amps i thought sounded good and just tweaked them to sound more metal or classic rock instead of going like "oh i need to dial a jcm800 model with this cab to play this iron maiden song..."
I like to just use the effects and my own amp then the modded amp rigs. They are getting closer to amp sounds but not quite there in my opinion.
Indeed, it’s the player as much as anything. I promise she could get a better tone out of a peavey bandit than I could put of a (fill in the blank) stack!
a seasoned vet of a musician once told me "I've never been boo'd off stage because I didn't have tubes in my amp"
I've used both. People are usually too busy drinkin' & dancin' & looking for a hook-up. Never been booed for digital BUT is tiring to listen to. AND the BIG ONE. It sounds like shit if you're LIVE & recording thru a board. Real crap.
@@buddylobos5277 oh I'm a tube amp guy through and through but he's right. you think anybody cared Albert King played through a shitty solid state amp? Hell no
True, as long as it's not something like a Line 6 Spider II 15.
So true, sir. No regular person would even care. Only the dweebs on the Internet music instrument forums would be upset. And as Slash said; who cares about them 🙃
After 40 years of tubes amps, I prefer my Quilter now. I get great sound from that thing. I used to record at a friend's house with a Lab Series and loved that amp too! I'll never go back to tube amps, pains in the ass to get fixed. Best 2 days of owning my Fender Twin was the day I bought it and day I sold it, heavy as a bastard.
Nita is a beast! She’s not trying to be anybody else - she’s true to herself and her fans know what to expect each time she hits the stage.
I've seen her 3 times and yeah....uhh........yep I have a serious crush on this woman.
bfd
@@dustinmitchell3510 ... if ya don't care then don't say anything that simple..
I saw Nita twice on tour with Alice Cooper.. she's a friggin BEAST
I was lucky to see AC once this year.
Saw her once with Alice Cooper. Ridiculous stage presence. Fun to watch and a great player.
beast with a 6-string, heh
And she's hot as hell to boot to add to the beast status.
It's great to see her behind the scenes. She's so down to earth and focused, really an inspiration to me.
So I just went out and bought myself a GT-1000. The decision was probably 40% driven by this video. Zero regrets. The thing is bloody amazing. My abilities are never going to scratch the surface of what it can do, but more than happy to have something that won't limit me. Would love to get some of Nita's patches for it....
you seen the new ones out now?
In all the interviews of Nita Strauss that I've watched, she always comes across as being a very nice, humble, and friendly person.
40 years on guitar and I'm a purist. Plug and play...no pedals. I don't tapdance. BUT...I bought this thing after seeing this vid and I will never look back. It goes with me from my live rig to the studio. It is BY FAR the best processor I have ever seen, and it was enough to teach this old cat new tricks.
I could watch her all day. Her enthusiasm for what she does is so genuine and amazing to see.
Nita is just a down to earth player and very kind and willing to teach. Very cool. And love that she uses the Boss. The dweebs on the Gear Page would dismiss this rig in a second 🙄
What a class act and just inspirational as an outstanding guitarist. That's amazing that's all you have for a setup. Coming from a guy that had a JCM 800 and a double stack, pedals, cables, blah.
That clean sound is so 80's, it sounds great!
Reminded me of George Lynch during the Dokken days.
I met Nita at one of her Guitar Center clinics one time in Raleigh. She and Josh V. were the coolest down to earth people you could meet. They took time to talk to people and made people feel like they wanted to be there.
She has such simple approach to getting sounds & gear. Very impressive.
Sounds pretty bad. 😅 Pure honky midrange
Love Nita. Such a well rounded musician with a great personality. She seems to be grounded in common sense.
And on the top of that, she´s fuckn HOT! :D
This is great to see. About 20 years ago I got a GT-3 and haven't plugged into an amp since. Setup and teardown is a snap, as is transport, and you don't deal with phasing issues live. I can radically alter my sound instantly. Of course, I've had a lot of people react with confusion and ridicule because of decades of being sold the "proper" way to do things, which is really mostly image.
Mala chamber - ok , some of it is about image . Most of it is about tone and response, though. That 20 years of amp-lessness has made you forget how good it feels to crank up an amp . Go plug into a great amp and cab and it will all come back to you.
Ya I'm considering a gt 100 vs an amp
I haven't used an amp for recording since 1994. All direct, and it sounds fine to my ears. Like some of the other comments say, most of the audience couldn't care what yo're using. Bands like Periphery and Dragged Under are using Fractals or Helix and they sound great live.
@@zdave6083 No , if you tinker around you can get that tube sound. Its not the 60's anymore. We live in the 21st century and some of the modern processors can get it.
Once Geddy Lee went direct, he replaced his wall of amps with clothes dryers and rotisserie chickens! I hope rotisserie chicken takes the place of tube amps as the next 'proper'!
I've been playing for 47 years. I did exactly the same thing Nita did, started out with a BOSS GT-8, went to the 10, then the 100. I still use the 100, haven't bought the 1000. There's so much customization you can do with it. For instance, you can turn off the reverb, turn on the delay, turn on the EQ, turn on the lead boost, and turn on the WAH pedal all with a single button press. Pressing the button again returns you to where you started.
Perfect sense. I’ve always pushed everything straight into the desk out of my GT100 done and done. I busk with the GT100 and a looper, into a StreetCube running off a single chunky usb battery- the only change for gigs is that the streetcube comes out and the same cable goes to the desk…
I'm a drummer, but the guitar player in my old band used one of these and we did a lot of stuff in dropped D and B. He had a killer guitar tone.
Cool vid, and love hearing and seeing how Nit has her rig set up. So simple... and shows what you can do with a simple, but powerful little box - going direct. And man oh man... how could you not love Nita! Love love love Nita Strauss. She is just so awesome!
I do the same thing with my Zoom multi-effects into my amp which is set to clean to let the tones come from the Zoom. I like her approach!
It's the way of the future!!!!
her excitement is contagious!
She seems so pleasing to be around, and a great player too! I have a GT-1 you do have to experiment with different amp models and pedals to get a sound you like. Most of the amp models sound "pretty much" like there namesake but I found like Nita just go with what sounds good to you.
Nita is on another level. Up there with the very best, and has years to get even better. I’m 43 and I’ve got her poster on the wall.
I got tired of chasing tone, and then had to sell all my gear to pay the employees in my company. My plan was to re-buy after the pandemic, however instead I bought myself a soldering iron, a little 5 F1 kit, put a line out Jack on it, and it is the sweetest sounding amp I have ever had. Everybody looks good in Tweed!
Kudos for giving up your gear to support your employees. 🙂
Boss GT-1000 really keeps a rig rundown short and sweet.
i saw the faceless perform with no stage amps and when i was upfront i couldnt hear the mains as well as i could the slapping of the strings acoustically. i go direct myself but my bandmates have cabs to fill the stage air better than just monitors. just an experience of mine personally.
BOSS Rig to rule them all, BOSS Rig to find them, BOSS Rig to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them
This beautiful and talented lady is just a dream! Looking forward to seeing her with Alice this summer!
She just seems like such a cool girl next door.... (well cool girl next door that's a rockstar.) I like her and appreciate her common sense approach to playing and life.
Great video. John is the BEST and Nita is a straight POWERHOUSE! Thanks for the upload!
Probably the coolest inlay I've ever seen on a guitar. Damn.
Its her signature ibanez model
Ibanez Jiva
Finally, someone who sees that sometimes adding elements is just adding pain (for those of us who ACTUALLY love our multi FX pedals)
I used to play in a band just plugging my bass to my wireless and then to my amp. We played a gig sharing stage with two other bands. One of the other bass players had a huge pedal board and minutes before the show he had an issue and he spent 10 minutes on stage trying to figure out what was happening.
I like to use pedals but on stage I try to make it simple.
Sold my 1986 Mesa/Boogie MkIII that I had built for me... I now use a Boss GT-10 and that is all. No amp
Kool! I went from the Roland VG-88 to the Boss GP-10. Can’t believe how much the modeling technology has improved over the years.
I think modeling amps will become so good in the near future that classic solid-state won't be used anymore and the valve based amps will be seriously endangered.
I have a Boss ME80 and love it.
I'm running a GP-10 paired with my decrepit but still excellent old GT-8. I think every sound I want is in one of those two boxes, if I could just have the time to figure 'em out :D
She’s a really cool person. She cares about making a point to talk to us, very thoughtful. Here I go down another rabbit hole looking for Nita playing videos.
That just her stagecraft kicking in . Engage the audience. Make them feel you're in a dialogue with them .It doesn't mean she actually cares . She's a pro.
@@zdave6083 shhhhh let him dream
@@zdave6083 she's the same on eg Twitter. She always replies to people, answers their questions, completely approachable. The only times I've seen her anything but nice is when people are being elitist jerks, that she doesn't like. Very down to earth and humble. I don't think that's "stagecraft", I think that's who she is
@@saschaschneider6355 I don't doubt that. I just meant her looking into the camera and talking directly to it. That's stagecraft. I do think that the whole humble and approachable thing is a new trend for the internet age. Its necessary to build a loyal fanbase these days. Frankly, I prefer my rockstars arrogant and entitled. I'm oldschool.
That last synth sound is actually the delay shimmer effect of the Gt1000. Pretty cool.
Both here in this video are so sympathetic and down to earth cool personalities!
You are right on Nita - Boss Rocks - I have been playing Boss for a long time - Keep up the great work
She's a total guitar nerd. I love it!
what a lovely warm person she is.. so humble and gracious .....and awesome musician,,,, refreshing
Interesting contrast between this and the rig she uses with Alice Cooper. Quite amazing how guitarists gear has evolved since the advent of digital processing. And I love how excited she gets playing. A very fine guitarist.
That clean on 2:51 is SO GOOD! :) Nice surprise at the end with the Organ-like synth.
She seems like a genuinely nice person that mastered the guitar
Nita is down right amazing. Amp, no amp, big rig, no rig, give her a “Hello Kitty” acoustic guitar and she will still shred! Thanks for sharing your setup, it’s always great to see how innovative you can be with a minimalist approach.
I’ve been playing direct for decades and I finally got my Roadster combo dream amp. I can appreciate the approach and simplicity. I used just a Zoom pedal for most of that time into a clean Jazz Chorus. I’m too dumb to program complex amps so the Zoom stuff still gets thrown into my gig bag when the Heavy stuff stays at home for show and tell now. Haha
Me too 38 states ...70 countries...almost all direct
Great video. We sold all my tube amps few years ago and bought a pod go. I have never been happier with my tone. I never going back.
The GT1000 does have models based off of popular amps. Just not a lot of them like other units. I personally like the X Amps in the unit and use those.
Yeah , its about the effects. However there are so many levels of eq that along with the reverb, distortion and delay , you can almost dial in any amp sound. Boss processors seem to be heavily under rated , but they are powerful units if you take the time to learn how to program them. Plenty of parameters to adjust and plenty of effects. I have a stereo rig and it rocks.
Yeah ! I do exactly the same ! Same setup. The boss GT1000 is perfect for stage, for studio, for all :)
She seems like such a normal very cool person. It's nice to see in the crazy music world filled with arrogance and fake egos.
From what he is publicly, Kirk Hammett is a pretty cool guy. Think he did a video recently with Gibson.
I've heard second hand she's cool af in person, it shows
@@AarPlays Kirk who?
Absolutely get Nita's point at 7:56 about the GK pickup system. I have one and the sounds are amazing, but I have always felt like I couldn't count on it being out on the road. Hope there will be something more robust out in a near future to replace it.
The great thing about using a unit like that is if it fails and that's a huge if BTW you can get one at any local shop and continue on with the tour. When you are talking tours a unit like that is inexpensive enough to have a spare pre programed and ready to swap out in less than a minute.
They also take a sim card with the presets on, they can get a spare locally and get presets from the sim card
The downside is that if you can't get a unit locally your whole board, amp, cab is gone and you can't borrow eg just a spare tubescreamer from another guitarist as a temporary replacement until you've got a new unit. And you can't drop in a multi fx unit from a different vendor if you don't happen to have your setup in a format that's compatible with that device, too. Not saying that I'm against using this stuff, on the contrary, I'm more inclined to get the Axe FX, Boss GT1000 or similar stuff than I'm inclined to amass a huge gear collection, but it does have its drawbacks
Great demo Nita. I love that you said that you don’t get so caught up into the technical and play what sounds good. Awesome stuff!
Intelligent, very kind and accommodating, supremely talented and quite beautiful. She's perfect.
This video and the one by Tom.Quayle made me buy my GT1000...never parting with it. I learn new things about it every day. Love it....
Right on!
I might not care for the floor unit. What I really like is that she is excited and she seems really cool. And she is a beast of a player. She is really good.
I had a rack system, the floor unit is so much less to drag around.
5:50 but it also has a pressure switch at the top so if I go up here and then I put some weight on it becomes an expression pedal so you can use it as a wah, a volume, an octaver, so its sort of its own whammy pedal
God damn that chorus setting sounds absolutly fantastic O_o
Blows my mind listening to Nita - she’s as meticulous about how she gets her sound as the rest of us tone junkies. But for some reason she comes across cooler than the rest of us geeks.
Find yourself a woman, fast, dude.
Blows your mind? Time to raise your standards.
@@rockhead69 Married already guy. Got something constructive to say?
@@TintedST214 You missed the point. I'm not talking about her tone. I'm talking about how she goes about getting it;. I've had compliments on my tone from guitar players. You had a chance to make a friend here - but since you started with an attack, you blew it.
@@odyssey6684 dude...that's constructive in so many ways !
This woman is amazing,...I could watch her talk about this stuff for a hundred years. She is super damn COOL!
Her comments about getting caught up in amp sounds is spot on. Well articulated.
2:48 that is one of the best clean tones I've ever heard. Very very nice sound
That’s not a clean tone. It’s an effected tone. It’s got some processing going on in there for sure.
too bright
Bummer! I should've attented her clinic here in Wellington/NZ in February! But I had no idea who she was then and that she was such a genuine person.
Man, that would have been epic!
She is a monster player and seems a gem of a human!
@@dustinmccrindle343 - Yes, I'm sure of it! And yes, I too get a really good vibe from her 🙂
Her clean sound is better than 99% of the clean sounds of modern guitarists. Amazing.
Where is this “clean tone”? The cleanest tone is around the 2:50 mark, and it’s not “clean” in the usual sense of being a direct pickup tone, it’s certainly being processed to some degree, so is an effected tone.
@@terrypussypower ok? It's a clean tone with some stereo chorus and reverb baked in. Do you really expect her to play with a completely clean tone given the context of the band she played with at this point in time?
@@blu3fityz That’s still not a clean sound. It’s an effected sound. The OP claimed it was a “clean sound” and I pointed out its NOT a clean sound.
@@terrypussypower he meant clean. clean, as in no distortion, overdrive, nothing.
Damn, she can talk... Why do they even have a host she's like literally hosting herself lol.
She sounds like a news reporter. So well spoken!
Yeah shes actually got an energetic personality. Pretty cool.
and why is the host fixating on the equipment looking down pretty much the whole video? he's always staring down ? and what's up with him wearing his baby sister's t- shirt and skinnnnnnnneeee jeans
@@johnlarge6104 Because he's taller? You're looking for things that aren't there
Yeah the host looks ridiculous, he's so damn cringey. The younger bald host is way better on rig rundowns. This guy makes my teeth hurt lol 😬
She's a nice person. I have a GT-5. In a road case and still working! 👍
I did a lot of playing in a corporate band with digitech GNX multifx pedals. If you take the time to dial in the right sound today's modeling pedals are going to provide plenty of excellent tones and you don't have the schlepping problems, maintenance headaches or road crew to deal with. Smart gal!
I got an rp355 a couple months ago, and I plugged into the pc yesterday, and after some struggling to make it work with reaper, I was surprised at the quality it delivers at recording, and I barely modified the presets (didn´t have a chance to try it live yet). People usually diss digitech and multi fx units, but they are some devices that can create beautiful tones, even these old devices. There is a guy here in YT that got some amazing sounds from an Korg AX300g, with a DI box after (which was perfect because that one would compress the signal a lot) and you would be amazed at the result! I thought of selling the rp355, but I think I will keep it some more time now...
She is awesome. I might have to check out that board. Her signature guitar is pretty cool too.
Sounds great! It's nice to hear and see someone making such effective use of modeling gear.
I love Nita's guitar, it looks so lightweight compared to my standard gibson which weighs a ton.
I got the NUX MG-100 very similar with what Nita Strauss is showing off when small and nice to play around with. Great video.
Hit mostly good notes, put some kind of weird shit on the amp, play loud -- oldest formula in rock guitar -- still works, always real.
That clean crisp is the rockman 80s all day 👌
As a Fractal user for 13 years, this sounds great. She has some cool live tones. Kudos!
i paly live with a digitech gnx-4 even today.Would like to get a Helix or something one day ,so i tottaly get what she does.Nobody in the audience would care less what your gear is (aside gear junkies) as long as what you play is palyed in excelency like she does.
Sounds killer! I need to check out a GT1K. Boss knows what they are doing!
Great personality - She's fun to listen to both as a player and as just a talker! I've been using a GT-10 (several generations predecessor of the Gt-1000) for a number of years. I love that that she is working with modestly priced gear to the job done on the big stage. Keep Rockin!
Ampless is the way to go! Used a Line 6 for years and received tons of compliments (they were usually sad when they realized they liked a Line 6 product). Switched to a Tech 21 Blonde a few years ago and haven't looked back.
Tech21 RK5 with an tuner - sd1-compressor - wah...into any clean amp or PA and it sounds the same everywhere I go
That blonde is great isn't it !?
I use mine for recording bass direct and it's so good !
Met her at NAMM. Super talent and personable. Big fan and this is brilliant tech to give performers the tools to give arena shows in club style venues.
She's my girl crush.....she's so awesome. Just a great American success story of hard work and perseverance paying off. She slays!!
Her and britt lighting for me
@@mbgmail5911 do you just not like anyone?
@@mbgmail5911 Shes def gotten help from her gender and looks but guitar playing doesnt mean much without being able to write. I was surprised at how good her last original was. She made a video. It's really good. Better than Gus Gs latest Instrumental in my opinion. And hes a much better technical player. Doesnt matter though. Go listen to both of them and see for yourself.
@@mbgmail5911 you're right. But she has gotten better and isn't in that iron maiden cover band anymore. She's pretty cool.
@@mbgmail5911 Oh, shut the hell up. 🤦♂️
I stopped. by the Sam Ash in Dallas one afternoon and she was giving a clinic. A great teaching technique for a group. An excellent player without making it a "dig me" event. I will admit that I wasn't familiar with her before accidentally attending her clinic, but I left a fan before getting to hear a single recording.
Thom Tremblay I saw her first at one of Alices cooper concert, she’s amazing !
That rhythm channel sounds like a killer lead sound.
Loved that first split-coil tone
Thank you for this video!🎤🎸🎵🥁
The "synth" sounds to me sounds like a shimmer reverb with long pre-delay, cause I can get approximately the same thing on my TC Electronics Hall Of Fame 2. I love the sound too
She seems like a very nice person plus incredible talent
love the simplicity of this lady! She always sounds so down to earth..playing simple major/minor chords focussing on the unit and not crazy jazz chords to show off!
you should learn the jazz chords sir ||| Use them
@@mauricewitherspoon8457 its not about me not knowing the jazz chords.i do know..but its about focus on the purpose of the video..which here was to show the gt1k with her and not showoff technical prowess that many guys do. Jazz on mate! cheers
Meanwhile, Angus Young, "are you sure 9 Marshalls are enough?' 😁
Roger Waters: You know, if the stage split the stadium lengthwise instead, just think of how much more we could... just think of how much bigger the inflatable pigs testicles could be!
that clean sound is amazing. id love to know how its setup.
sound guys thank you big time too since they dont have to deal with vocal mic bleed as bad
Nita seems like such an approachable and cool person...this was super cool to watch.
I get it done with a Boss ME-70...it's not the size of the tool it's how u use it
She’s correct about modellers. Too many people obsess about comparing the amp model to the real thing instead of just using their ears.
Great video and cool tones from Nita who always kicks ass. Also goes to show that somebody who KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE DOING can make Boss GT's sound great. Too often people say these units "suck" because they dont know how to use them properly.
Another great point by Nita: she goes by what sounds good to HER EARS. (not by comparing it to an actual amp) I still use my old GT8, and i think of the amp models as preset gain and tone/eq reference points. (like using different stompbox overdrive and distortion units.)
Modelling had been predicted as the future long back and now we have Artist like Nita proving that, yeah all you need is a good board. There are very versatile boards like BOSS, Line 6 or maybe any other board that could just replace your whole pedal board's analog mess and an amp that may need 2 giants to pick.
i use a Affinity into a Vox pedal into a 10 watt amp and yes i tweak hard to get the tones, but i do manage to get close.
If your not famous and in a big band, you are at the mercy of the sound man with the floor rigs
That's the whole point
You are with a real amp as well
Ain't it the truth.
Modeling had improved a lot. So many great options right now. I sold my amps and never regretted it.
3:04 I thought she's gonna play Pirates of the Caribbean 😂