Pretty please with sugar on top make a video where you intentionally show yourselves getting lost in a mix. Then of course demonstrate how to solve the problem by tweaking pedals until you triumphantly claw your way back to the forefront. It's the hardest thing to understand until it happens to you.
@@BrockBarr Missing compression, as well. Using too much compression will end up with your guitar tone consisting entirely of transients, and then pumpy mush sitting below the drums and bass otherwise. GREAT for funk and subtle rhythm, TERRIBLE for standing out in a washy rock mix. Most bands don't play soft rock or prog all night long. Tidbits I've learned from thousands of hours of gigs: 1. Delay and reverb can get you lost, but can also make you stand out. LONG delays can actually work in your benefit. The EQ of the delay/reverb (If it is something you can adjust) is VITAL. Too bright and you might step all over your playing. Too dark and it will add a mushy noise underneath your playing without much information being transmitted. The main thing is to keep your mix very low. What you think is spacey is probably WAY too spacey to be usable. It doesn't take that much delay or reverb to communicate space. 2. Scoop is not actually bad, especially for rhythm. Vox AC30 with a klon clone will murder a singer and make it impossible to hear anything but guitar if you play rhythm. EQ pedal/multi channel amp is good for this. Or use two amps. An AC30/Marshall and a silverface fender circuit would probably be as good as it gets for a two amp switching setup. 3. Super high compression overdrive/compressor pedals is comfortable, but ultimately will make you fade into the backdrop of the mix if you overdo it. Found this out by using a tube preamp into the preamp of my amp normally. Way too much tube compression and sag. Great tone in the bedroom, missing body live. Some compressor pedals compensate for this with fairly aggressive EQ controls. The Diamond compressor is a GREAT compressor because it lets you add a lot of mids/highs with its EQ, which counters the negative effects of compression on your place in the mix.
This is a great topic. The fear of getting lost in the mix actually made me sound harsh on my last gig, which was also my first gig in years, and my first gig with new gear and new music. So I guess one can overdo it. TPS always talks a lot about risks of getting lost in the mix, but it cuts both ways.
So my favorite part of your shows is when you perfectly create a tone reminiscent of a time in history and then play in the style of what would be the iconic song from that time while at the same time not playing that song and skirting around the copyright laws. What a fun dance.
That yellow Tele ... I mean, I like Red, but that yellow tele is just THE tone. Everything that comes out of her is just so defined and well-balanced, and it’s just THE rock-tone to rule all rock-tones.
To be clear ... I'm not sure if you meant to say "tremolo" instead of "vibrato". Vibrato is varying pitch (like a vibrato arm on a guitar) and tremolo is varying volume.
17:53 "I much prefer it tremolo last", says Mick... "Yeah yeah... absolutely" adds Dan... whilst both are wearing a shirt showing a traditional signal chain with tremolo before reverb... ;-)
One of my favourite go to sounds for ambient guitar stuff is a slow, gentle vibrato and a really strong, big reverb sound. The vibrato adds depth and layers to your sound while the reverb smears the "out of tune'ness" into a landscape of ambience!
The thing I love about your show, guys, is how much joy you exhibit when you get a sound you love. I've learned so much from you guys and folks like Brian Wampler (honk) and Josh Scott (honk) about how to shape sound. Love it love it love it
Sound Guy Vs Guitarist episode, bringing in a professional sound technician and showing us some tips/tricks behind the scenes on dealing with guitarist
Mostly just don’t put the mic in the spot where the amp sounds like an ice pick, and don’t let them aim their amps right at a vocal mic. Unless they’re just way too loud, guitarists usually aren’t that bad.
If you listen to the original version of Born To Be Wild, the rotary effects are on the organ only. Guitar just has overdrive. Surprised me too as that album was one of my favorites back in the day.
6:49 is you two having so much fun! I shared it with a band mate who wants to have a channel of our own. Your decibel meter is reading 88:8. That's Chinese numerology for all the luck in the world. Not a follower of such things, but I do wish you two many happy years in your endeavor. We all benefit tremendously from your experience so freely shared, and Dan, by your joyous expression and Mick's obvious glee as he took off when you ratcheted up the reverb for him, just wonderful. Gentlemen, you are good medicine for all our collective hearts and souls!
So many great combos mentioned here! One of my personal favorites: octave down with high gain or fuzz. Talk about wall of sound, makes me feel like a rockstar in my basement! Cheers from Massachusetts!
Love the Marr references this week gentlemen . I went to my 28th Morrissey show in Leeds last night. Under rated guitar players... BOZ BOORER. Always. Great show as always guys.
This channel is truly the most informatively relevant source of info for one like me who can just play the guitar enough to enjoy the ability to (and the reason to buy) use effects pedals.
For me, one of the best from TPS. Mick's playing exceptionally appropriate - the Jazzmaster-Comp-Page-Tremolo especially interesting. Then the almost guitar-as-bagpipes reverse echo at the end. Fascinating stuff, yet basic and simple.
Appreciate the increased focus on clean sounds this week; the subject matter is very back to basics but nice tones abound and Mick's playing really on point this week so very happy to spend the 53 minutes.
Thankful for That Podalcast today! Waiting in the hospital eagerly as my wife pops out a new squirt, so pods are all I've got. Reverb into trem for DAYS, please.
Lovely show, gents. Guess I'm going to have to dig out my old dyna comp and phase 90. They were mainstays on my board for decades but fell by the wayside over time. Be well.
Everything I’ve ever heard about Eddie is, on the first few albums he would step on the Phase 90 to boost the highs on solos and had the speed turned all the way down. Great show as always.
Hey guys, thanks for this info. It's timely for me as I am getting a new fuzz pedal soon and am taking the opportunity to rearrange my board when it comes in. You are not only giving me inspiration for combinations, but you are informing my pedal order on the board. Tremolo AFTER reverb! Thank you!
Nice playing Dan! Great to see you getting lost in the sound and feeling the flow. Could you do a Vlog about flow and being “in the moment”? Such a fascinating topic in the context of gear
Hey guys, those flanger sounds were awesome. Some of the combinations I love are- Harmonic Trem into Overdrive Chorus into delay Fuzz into harmonic trem Vibe into compression
I've been a proponent of treble boosters into Kona for a long time now. The warmth of the klon being boosted by a cutting treble booster is just such a great tone that can be very similar to a treble booster into a warm crunchy Marshall. I built a treble booster fuzz face dual pedal that has order switching (fuzz face is germanium NTE158'S and treble booster is a Brian May style Silicon MPSA18). The order switching is great because the pedals react COMPLETELY DIFFERENTLY depending on which is first/last. With the treble booster first you get more gain and with the fuzz first you get more volume. I really love running my Fuzz Face with the input control down and the guitar volume rolled off a bit then using the treble booster after it to being the volume back up. That pedal also has a ton of mods and it has a special 3.5mm jack that runs power to my active pickups. Since I cant use a fuzz face or treble booster with actives I just use the power from the pedal (which comes from a variable power supply) to power the pickups through a TRS cable. No more batteries and I can control the exact voltage that goes to the pickups. And best thing is that i can just plug and play any guitar active or passive with this set up. Anyways i rambled point was that I was happy to see you included the treble booster/overdrive part since it's such a great combination that you dont hear about enough. I also have to mention that my fuzz face treble booster dual pedal isnt an original idea, some of its mods are, but the inspiration came from analogmans Sunlion fuzz. I always loved the Sunlion pedal but wanted a version with a order switcher toggle and a humbucker/single coil selector for the treble booster as well as 3 different tone settings for the treble booster so I just built one. Great video as always! Rambling complete.
A couple potent pairings are octave fuzz before a klon-style overdrive, and a POG before a heavy gain pedal. Also, analog and digital delay together with a timing relationship.
I booked tickets to see you guy's in Liverpool the other day. I went to see Phil X last night in Manchester, where he seamlessly blended a line of the Flintstones into Jimi Hendrix's fire, played behind the nut etc, a full on entertainer never a dull moment, the man's a genius
Loved this episode! I am endlessly inspired by TPS, and by Mick and Dan's beautiful playing. I have found that pairing my Wampler Mini Ego Compressor with any one (or more ) of my pedals is a match made in tonal Heaven. The Ego (blend and sustain at 50%) + Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer (gain off, level dimed) yields holy grail clean tones through my tube amps, especially with my Strat. The combination of either or both of those pedals with the Canyon Delay sounds great, as well. The Ego and TS9 (same settings as above) in front of my Friedman BE OD gain/distortion pedal, yields a smooth, round, saturated high gain sound. The Friedman has a great sound on its own, but with the aforementioned stacking, there is a fullness and depth that I wasn't getting from the Friedman alone. The tone is huge. For light and medium gain, the combination of the Ego and the Tumnus is fabulous, particularly with the Tele. It's a great feeling to be getting my board and my sound pretty well sorted.
Guys... tremolo after reverb is one of the best tips I’ve learned from you thanks a lot !!! It is just what was missing to my association between Mad Professor Silver Spring Reverb and Henrietta Engeneering Crimson Tremolo... it’s gorgeous !!!
That's a precious episode! Very valuable. BTW, I've been asked to do a workshop on guitar sounds for high school kids. Your shows will have helped with that!
The Vibrato section of the Waza Chorus pedal is the ONLY vibrato I have ever bonded with. It's not seasick, it's just sits perfectly in a mix and modulates a bit like tremolo. Gorgeous. I don't like the out of tune warble of most vibratos.
"Welcome to the show! In this episode, Daniel and I run through some classic effects pairings: two effect types that go together like peas and carrots. Bacon and eggs. Erm, op amps and clipping diodes?" - Mick Taylor. I could add, "Like Dan and Mick." Just so you know that the episode notes are read.
I wouldn't say it's classic, but a favorite of mine is tremolo _into_ fuzz. The choppier the trem the better. The volume doesn't change, but the saturation does. It sounds really mean!
I never thought I would see a Mooer pedal on the show (maybe I missed some others?). I bought an E-lady last year just to have a cheap flanger to play around with, and absolutely love the sound with reverb into a clean amp just like that! Killer! I've said this before, but I would love to see a "cheap pedal" episode to see what kind of tones you could get.
a few channels have done something along the lines of $50 pedal review(though I don't know where Josh got his pedals for under $50USD even the used Danelectro eBayed at $125 ... unless his video drove up prices) or "all the cheap(brand x) pedals on amazon" that said would love a "all the Mooer's" review, I've tried a few with... mixed results the Thunderball bass fuzz was atrocious on my bass rig and my practice guitar rig but kind of sounded OK on my main jam rig
So very cool! Combos I know well and combos that were new to me.... and damn those Vents sound SO GOOD. I need a harmonic tremolo and a Micro-Vent. I forgot how good the Dimension C sounds too! Dan once again playing gorgeously inspired with the delay and flange.... just sublime!
Fuzz into a harmoniser pedal such as a Quintessence or a Harmonist, or even a straight octaver (with a low octave in) was a game changing sound for me. I run a Hudson Broadcast into a Quintessence and its magic.
Yet another great episode. These days I’m very much digging a tremolo set pretty light into a dirty envelope filter (tc’s Pipeline into an ehx Tube Zipper). ...in a wet/dry setup, of course and because of you guys :)
Great show, gents. On the topic of High Gain and Vibrato, while not much use in single-note blues lines, remember Kevin Shields got lots of shoe-gazy riff mileage out of that blend. Throw in your reverse reverb, and Robert's your mother's brother.
Just when I thought I wouldn’t want to watch anymore... I’m sincerely going in the JTV Variax/Helix direction. It will do everything I need for my trio and church. The sounds and effects are excellent. That being said, you guys are so brutally nostalgic that I can’t turn it off. You live sounds that I grew up hearing. ALL the 80’s stuff (shocked you didn’t have it going through a Roland JC-120 - LOL!) is great. Thanks again for giving love and respect to effects that we know from specific artists/songs. It’s why I’m trying to become a [much] better guitarist. I’ll never be as great the people I listened to, but my tones can be. Awesome episode! Loved it!
I absolutely loved this show, thanks so much guys. Made even better by your decision to form a boy band! Some of the sounds you got took me right back to my youth. A great part 2 would be 3 pedals. That would give people on the start of their journey a number of “first pedal board” ideas and be able to hear them. But loved loved loved this, thank you.
First note. Noticed once you add chorus to the compressor, you leave the country licks at home Second note. Yes, those were majestic clean toes. I need to work on that. Third note. 42:11 gave me motion sickness until you turned the depth down and added the delay. Then it was cool Third note. My brave boots have given my big toes callouses the size of Delaware. Cheers, David
Great show! Hey Dan, I believe I speak for many of your fans when I say- please bring the Lazy J and Cruiser back for a show. I love what you guys do. Also, eternal gratitude for bringing Jam pedals into my life. I have the Rooster and Delay Lama, better builds I’ve never encountered.
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The best part about ThatPedalShow is Dan & Mick.
No shizz
Pretty please with sugar on top make a video where you intentionally show yourselves getting lost in a mix. Then of course demonstrate how to solve the problem by tweaking pedals until you triumphantly claw your way back to the forefront. It's the hardest thing to understand until it happens to you.
I’d love to see a professional sound engineer on TPS
@@tompoynton if just to see the comment section blow up 🤪 but great idea!
Usually it's about mid range and too much effects. These are common causes of getting lost in the mix especially in studio missing.
@@BrockBarr Missing compression, as well. Using too much compression will end up with your guitar tone consisting entirely of transients, and then pumpy mush sitting below the drums and bass otherwise. GREAT for funk and subtle rhythm, TERRIBLE for standing out in a washy rock mix. Most bands don't play soft rock or prog all night long.
Tidbits I've learned from thousands of hours of gigs:
1. Delay and reverb can get you lost, but can also make you stand out. LONG delays can actually work in your benefit. The EQ of the delay/reverb (If it is something you can adjust) is VITAL. Too bright and you might step all over your playing. Too dark and it will add a mushy noise underneath your playing without much information being transmitted. The main thing is to keep your mix very low. What you think is spacey is probably WAY too spacey to be usable. It doesn't take that much delay or reverb to communicate space.
2. Scoop is not actually bad, especially for rhythm. Vox AC30 with a klon clone will murder a singer and make it impossible to hear anything but guitar if you play rhythm. EQ pedal/multi channel amp is good for this. Or use two amps. An AC30/Marshall and a silverface fender circuit would probably be as good as it gets for a two amp switching setup.
3. Super high compression overdrive/compressor pedals is comfortable, but ultimately will make you fade into the backdrop of the mix if you overdo it. Found this out by using a tube preamp into the preamp of my amp normally. Way too much tube compression and sag. Great tone in the bedroom, missing body live. Some compressor pedals compensate for this with fairly aggressive EQ controls. The Diamond compressor is a GREAT compressor because it lets you add a lot of mids/highs with its EQ, which counters the negative effects of compression on your place in the mix.
This is a great topic. The fear of getting lost in the mix actually made me sound harsh on my last gig, which was also my first gig in years, and my first gig with new gear and new music. So I guess one can overdo it. TPS always talks a lot about risks of getting lost in the mix, but it cuts both ways.
Mick: *name drops Johnny Marr*
"Ah, if we only had a Rickenbacker"
Perfectly good jaguar in the back: "Am I a joke to you?"
You are right! It’s a bit sick though. Needs help.... help is on the way!
So my favorite part of your shows is when you perfectly create a tone reminiscent of a time in history and then play in the style of what would be the iconic song from that time while at the same time not playing that song and skirting around the copyright laws. What a fun dance.
That yellow Tele ... I mean, I like Red, but that yellow tele is just THE tone. Everything that comes out of her is just so defined and well-balanced, and it’s just THE rock-tone to rule all rock-tones.
Never understood how people can't get on with vibrato, it's such a great sound! Stick some slow smooth vibrato on a clean signal - total bliss!
drbalchin1 I go through periods of time where my standard clean tone has vibrato
I recently added a Swart ST-Tremolo to my rig and the sound of the trem on that is unbelievable. Wonderful and useable in so many ways ...
To be clear ... I'm not sure if you meant to say "tremolo" instead of "vibrato". Vibrato is varying pitch (like a vibrato arm on a guitar) and tremolo is varying volume.
@@pedalprescription I'm the same! Get to the point where i forget its even on
@@testinguk_Admin I mean vibrato! I do love tremolo too though!
That flanger+delay is awesome. In love with that tone.
32:35 4 years later... and you've done it!
The Marr show was so good, well deserved.
17:53 "I much prefer it tremolo last", says Mick... "Yeah yeah... absolutely" adds Dan... whilst both are wearing a shirt showing a traditional signal chain with tremolo before reverb... ;-)
Sharp eye :)
I am going to swap my Pan/Trems and my Phasers. Sounds discernible on TPS, give it a bash. 👍
I know. I based my order on their old pedal order. Guess it makes sense since amp trem is after your reverb pedal.
@@BeefNEggs057 ...but if you use your amp reverb and trem pedal.....
Mick just wailing out the country at 12:20 well played brother!
When you see the Kingsley Page and a Neo Vent together on one pedalboard you now it's gonna sound awesome.
LOVE that sound. But I can't remember the big song riff/sound Mick starts with (29:58)? Was a big one, WHO????? Please help!!!
centralswitzerland
He did a couple notes of Badge, then Born to be Wild.
@@CorbCorbin Badge!!!! Thanks a lot!!!
One of my favourite go to sounds for ambient guitar stuff is a slow, gentle vibrato and a really strong, big reverb sound. The vibrato adds depth and layers to your sound while the reverb smears the "out of tune'ness" into a landscape of ambience!
The thing I love about your show, guys, is how much joy you exhibit when you get a sound you love. I've learned so much from you guys and folks like Brian Wampler (honk) and Josh Scott (honk) about how to shape sound. Love it love it love it
I just started watching and I hope they talk about my favorite combination of effects, which would be a Boss TU-2 going into a TU-3. It’s amazing.
Sound Guy Vs Guitarist episode, bringing in a professional sound technician and showing us some tips/tricks behind the scenes on dealing with guitarist
Mostly just don’t put the mic in the spot where the amp sounds like an ice pick, and don’t let them aim their amps right at a vocal mic. Unless they’re just way too loud, guitarists usually aren’t that bad.
Thanks for putting the time stamps to your vids in the description guys, makes it so much easier to go back to fav parts.
I avoided this one for a few days... Glad I finally bit down hard and watched (listened). Nice show. Very much so.
Great show. I was right back in the 80’s at one point. Love the captain Anderton lick at 21:50!
PUT THEM ALL ON!
If you listen to the original version of Born To Be Wild, the rotary effects are on the organ only. Guitar just has overdrive. Surprised me too as that album was one of my favorites back in the day.
That yellow Tele is amazing!
6:49 is you two having so much fun! I shared it with a band mate who wants to have a channel of our own. Your decibel meter is reading 88:8. That's Chinese numerology for all the luck in the world. Not a follower of such things, but I do wish you two many happy years in your endeavor. We all benefit tremendously from your experience so freely shared, and Dan, by your joyous expression and Mick's obvious glee as he took off when you ratcheted up the reverb for him, just wonderful. Gentlemen, you are good medicine for all our collective hearts and souls!
0:44 micks face is the ultimate compliment one guitar player can give to another .....universal for right on brother.
So many great combos mentioned here! One of my personal favorites: octave down with high gain or fuzz. Talk about wall of sound, makes me feel like a rockstar in my basement! Cheers from Massachusetts!
11:27 what a stage move! did you guys practice?
I'm a happy man anytime the vent or Sun face is on the board, hearing them together was sublime!
Love the Marr references this week gentlemen . I went to my 28th Morrissey show in Leeds last night. Under rated guitar players... BOZ BOORER. Always. Great show as always guys.
D&M this was perhaps your best video so far. Genuinely inspirational. Thank you both.
Yes - that absolutely nailed the "How Soon Is Now" sound! Hilarious and cool.
Isn't it crazy that so many distortion pedals out there, no matter how boutique they are, still ape the humble ProCo Rat? Such an amazing pedal
“Upsetting singers with obtuse effects” - my new mission in life ;-)
This channel is truly the most informatively relevant source of info for one like me who can just play the guitar enough to enjoy the ability to (and the reason to buy) use effects pedals.
The end was hysterical - thank you for the laughs and the knowledge.
Always a good moment when I receive notification that you guys posted a new video. Love it!
Love a lot of the combinations used here, but I also have gained a new appreciation for my Dyna Comp!
Half way through this episode, I’m thinking: I have to watch it again! Amazing job!
Those Dimension Cs are just spectacular. Every setting is like a John Hughes movie
For me, one of the best from TPS. Mick's playing exceptionally appropriate - the Jazzmaster-Comp-Page-Tremolo especially interesting. Then the almost guitar-as-bagpipes reverse echo at the end. Fascinating stuff, yet basic and simple.
Appreciate the increased focus on clean sounds this week; the subject matter is very back to basics but nice tones abound and Mick's playing really on point this week so very happy to spend the 53 minutes.
Thank you!
Crappy week at work.. good soul food.. my happy place is an old BK Tube Driver and old CE-2.. .. magic
For me, this is one of the most useful episodes
Thankful for That Podalcast today! Waiting in the hospital eagerly as my wife pops out a new squirt, so pods are all I've got. Reverb into trem for DAYS, please.
Lovely show, gents. Guess I'm going to have to dig out my old dyna comp and phase 90. They were mainstays on my board for decades but fell by the wayside over time. Be well.
47:28: "Hark when the night is falling"
"Hear! Hear the pipes are calling"
I dinnae ken that wee Mick could play tha Bag Pipes.
Monster intro Dan! And lovely bit of Jerry Donahue to boot Mick👍🏽
This is bloody brilliant! Love the show chaps!
Everything I’ve ever heard about Eddie is, on the first few albums he would step on the Phase 90 to boost the highs on solos and had the speed turned all the way down. Great show as always.
Hey guys, thanks for this info. It's timely for me as I am getting a new fuzz pedal soon and am taking the opportunity to rearrange my board when it comes in. You are not only giving me inspiration for combinations, but you are informing my pedal order on the board. Tremolo AFTER reverb! Thank you!
Way fun show! Would happily watch several more like that. Thanks to you guys!
Greatest insights ever, guys! Thanks so much
Nice playing Dan! Great to see you getting lost in the sound and feeling the flow. Could you do a Vlog about flow and being “in the moment”? Such a fascinating topic in the context of gear
Hey guys, those flanger sounds were awesome.
Some of the combinations I love are-
Harmonic Trem into Overdrive
Chorus into delay
Fuzz into harmonic trem
Vibe into compression
Fuzz and wah can never go wrong. My favourite combination. Great two pedal series, that was entertaining.
I've been a proponent of treble boosters into Kona for a long time now. The warmth of the klon being boosted by a cutting treble booster is just such a great tone that can be very similar to a treble booster into a warm crunchy Marshall. I built a treble booster fuzz face dual pedal that has order switching (fuzz face is germanium NTE158'S and treble booster is a Brian May style Silicon MPSA18). The order switching is great because the pedals react COMPLETELY DIFFERENTLY depending on which is first/last. With the treble booster first you get more gain and with the fuzz first you get more volume. I really love running my Fuzz Face with the input control down and the guitar volume rolled off a bit then using the treble booster after it to being the volume back up. That pedal also has a ton of mods and it has a special 3.5mm jack that runs power to my active pickups. Since I cant use a fuzz face or treble booster with actives I just use the power from the pedal (which comes from a variable power supply) to power the pickups through a TRS cable. No more batteries and I can control the exact voltage that goes to the pickups. And best thing is that i can just plug and play any guitar active or passive with this set up. Anyways i rambled point was that I was happy to see you included the treble booster/overdrive part since it's such a great combination that you dont hear about enough. I also have to mention that my fuzz face treble booster dual pedal isnt an original idea, some of its mods are, but the inspiration came from analogmans Sunlion fuzz. I always loved the Sunlion pedal but wanted a version with a order switcher toggle and a humbucker/single coil selector for the treble booster as well as 3 different tone settings for the treble booster so I just built one. Great video as always! Rambling complete.
Snakes alive! That tele sounds phenomenal in the intro.
A couple potent pairings are octave fuzz before a klon-style overdrive, and a POG before a heavy gain pedal. Also, analog and digital delay together with a timing relationship.
I booked tickets to see you guy's in Liverpool the other day.
I went to see Phil X last night in Manchester, where he seamlessly blended a line of the Flintstones into Jimi Hendrix's fire, played behind the nut etc, a full on entertainer never a dull moment, the man's a genius
Flanger => Delay was really eye opening for me. I instantly heard a favorite Dave Mason song. The reverse delay was also very cool 😎
Loved this episode! I am endlessly inspired by TPS, and by Mick and Dan's beautiful playing. I have found that pairing my Wampler Mini Ego Compressor with any one (or more ) of my pedals is a match made in tonal Heaven. The Ego (blend and sustain at 50%) + Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer (gain off, level dimed) yields holy grail clean tones through my tube amps, especially with my Strat. The combination of either or both of those pedals with the Canyon Delay sounds great, as well. The Ego and TS9 (same settings as above) in front of my Friedman BE OD gain/distortion pedal, yields a smooth, round, saturated high gain sound. The Friedman has a great sound on its own, but with the aforementioned stacking, there is a fullness and depth that I wasn't getting from the Friedman alone. The tone is huge. For light and medium gain, the combination of the Ego and the Tumnus is fabulous, particularly with the Tele. It's a great feeling to be getting my board and my sound pretty well sorted.
Guys... tremolo after reverb is one of the best tips I’ve learned from you thanks a lot !!! It is just what was missing to my association between Mad Professor Silver Spring Reverb and Henrietta Engeneering Crimson Tremolo... it’s gorgeous !!!
OCTAVE AND FUZZ WHAT A KILLER SOUND!
That's a precious episode! Very valuable. BTW, I've been asked to do a workshop on guitar sounds for high school kids. Your shows will have helped with that!
Johnny Marr! Has he been on the show? I was always a metal guy but there was just something about Johnny Marr's playing that was so cool!
That intro riffage was epic
The Vibrato section of the Waza Chorus pedal is the ONLY vibrato I have ever bonded with. It's not seasick, it's just sits perfectly in a mix and modulates a bit like tremolo. Gorgeous. I don't like the out of tune warble of most vibratos.
This was delightful.
A slap after the wah and fuzz is also nice.
Mick - I would love a vlog on how to use wah wah like you... different types, buffer vs no buffer, where you like it in the chain and why... etc.
Let’s do it. I know wah-wahs about as well as I do Les Pauls. Ie, not really. Could be fun!
I recently began experimenting with reverb in front of drives and love it!
And now I think a compressor in front of chorus is in my future.
Thanks!
Really late to this one but I really enjoyed this and learnt so much. Rebuilding my pedalboard at the moment so much to look forward to now.
The wonderful playing of Dan and Mick is the thing that really makes TPS great. Bravo!
Thank you Mike, very kind!
i like delay into chorus. delay into 2 amps. chorus in one. playing with the repeats sounds great!
Absolutely awesome Playing, Mick with the wah/fuzz!! Classic "getcha some of this!" Great show as always gentlemen!! Thank you!
Thank you!
That intro Dan and that tele sound WOW!!!
Black Strat sounding really good in this ep. The bridge pickup has a nice twang thang goin’ on.
"Welcome to the show! In this episode, Daniel and I run through some classic effects pairings: two effect types that go together like peas and carrots. Bacon and eggs. Erm, op amps and clipping diodes?" - Mick Taylor. I could add, "Like Dan and Mick." Just so you know that the episode notes are read.
Whenever mick says "I just want to see if this will work" I know I'm about to hear something awesome. Fuzz onto rotary, bloody killer soumd
Very good idea and video. Thank you.
Great show guys!
Van Halen: Ain't talkin bout love was a flanger. Atomic Punk and Eruption was the Phase 90 :-)
I though ATBL only had flange on the C-B-C at the end of the main riff? Pretty sure there's phase and chorus in the mix throughout
@@mattburdock1734 flanger on those notes in the riff...phaser on the solos...then flanger in that middle section just after the quiet section 👍
You definitely need to have Johnny Marr on the show! You must make this happen!
I wouldn't say it's classic, but a favorite of mine is tremolo _into_ fuzz. The choppier the trem the better. The volume doesn't change, but the saturation does. It sounds really mean!
I never thought I would see a Mooer pedal on the show (maybe I missed some others?). I bought an E-lady last year just to have a cheap flanger to play around with, and absolutely love the sound with reverb into a clean amp just like that! Killer! I've said this before, but I would love to see a "cheap pedal" episode to see what kind of tones you could get.
a few channels have done something along the lines of $50 pedal review(though I don't know where Josh got his pedals for under $50USD even the used Danelectro eBayed at $125 ... unless his video drove up prices) or "all the cheap(brand x) pedals on amazon"
that said would love a "all the Mooer's" review, I've tried a few with... mixed results the Thunderball bass fuzz was atrocious on my bass rig and my practice guitar rig but kind of sounded OK on my main jam rig
INSIGHTFUL EPISODE GUYS! THX!
Thoroughly enjoyed this as always!
This was great! Thanks! Much food for thought... I've been enjoying
overdrive > tape echo > reverb > amp with more reverb
Cheers from Seattle.
So very cool! Combos I know well and combos that were new to me.... and damn those Vents sound SO GOOD. I need a harmonic tremolo and a Micro-Vent. I forgot how good the Dimension C sounds too!
Dan once again playing gorgeously inspired with the delay and flange.... just sublime!
Fuzz into a harmoniser pedal such as a Quintessence or a Harmonist, or even a straight octaver (with a low octave in) was a game changing sound for me. I run a Hudson Broadcast into a Quintessence and its magic.
Yet another great episode.
These days I’m very much digging a tremolo set pretty light into a dirty envelope filter (tc’s Pipeline into an ehx Tube Zipper).
...in a wet/dry setup, of course and because of you guys :)
You guys are good....I am getting back into playing since moving into an rv.....your look at John Mayers setup is greatly appreciated.......
Next episode: 11 Weird Guitar Effects Pedal Combinations
1) Miku + OD
2) Miku + Reverse Delay
3) Miku + Shimmer Reverb
4) Miku + Wah
5) Miku + Fuzz
6) Miku + Chorus/Vibrato
7) Miku + Flanger
8) Miku + Tremolo
9) Miku + Rotary
10) Miku + High Gain
11) Miku + Miku
You're going to love Miku and wah into a Heil Talk Box. 🙉
Stacking the Miku
How to fatten your solo sound without distortion?
Kyle Brenneman 12. Miku + Rainbow Machine 🙀
14 seconds from launch, probably a record for me
Great show, gents. On the topic of High Gain and Vibrato, while not much use in single-note blues lines, remember Kevin Shields got lots of shoe-gazy riff mileage out of that blend. Throw in your reverse reverb, and Robert's your mother's brother.
Great video, guys! What was Dan using in the opening of the video?
Really good episode. Gotta love that wah/fuzz sound. Not particularly related, but you do need a SG in the rack.
Amazing video guys....well done
Just when I thought I wouldn’t want to watch anymore... I’m sincerely going in the JTV Variax/Helix direction. It will do everything I need for my trio and church. The sounds and effects are excellent. That being said, you guys are so brutally nostalgic that I can’t turn it off. You live sounds that I grew up hearing. ALL the 80’s stuff (shocked you didn’t have it going through a Roland JC-120 - LOL!) is great. Thanks again for giving love and respect to effects that we know from specific artists/songs. It’s why I’m trying to become a [much] better guitarist. I’ll never be as great the people I listened to, but my tones can be. Awesome episode! Loved it!
I absolutely loved this show, thanks so much guys. Made even better by your decision to form a boy band! Some of the sounds you got took me right back to my youth. A great part 2 would be 3 pedals. That would give people on the start of their journey a number of “first pedal board” ideas and be able to hear them. But loved loved loved this, thank you.
On Jon Lord: He stopped using a leslie around "In rock" and didn't use one again until the "Burn"-record, if I recall correctly :)
First note. Noticed once you add chorus to the compressor, you leave the country licks at home
Second note. Yes, those were majestic clean toes. I need to work on that.
Third note. 42:11 gave me motion sickness until you turned the depth down and added the delay. Then it was cool
Third note. My brave boots have given my big toes callouses the size of Delaware.
Cheers,
David
Chorus+ light flange is brilliant. Stick an overdrive or fuzz on that and woah!
Great show! Hey Dan, I believe I speak for many of your fans when I say- please bring the Lazy J and Cruiser back for a show. I love what you guys do. Also, eternal gratitude for bringing Jam pedals into my life. I have the Rooster and Delay Lama, better builds I’ve never encountered.