Mike, I only don’t get one thing: with your guitar you have more than one piezos/mic so you use Bose mixer to separate all channels and use different Eq. But with a one piezo-guitar, what’s the use of the Bose mixer? 500 dollars for just an Eq?
Thank you, you're one of my favorite guitar players and I love your live sound. What I don't get though is the output from the mixer goes into the reverb... You can do that? And then the output from reverb goes into speakers or amp?
Really enjoyed this one and it’s hard not to forget towards the end that this was a 150$ guitar. Mike did an incredible job with this presentation, he was very clear and explained things in a sense where a beginner could understand and shared settings which I liked. Thanks lee and mike for this as I had no clue the importance of that Bose unit in an acoustic show. Was very interesting.
Great to see another acoustic player not shying off on electronics and using it to its profit ... great guitarist, great sound, great ability to cope with new equipment instantly, great video Thanks a lot for sharing
Good to see Mike back at Anderton's again. I really loved his run through of the Sire R7 and R3 guitars. I'll always regret not being able to get one. Mom passed and I'll never get one as they aren't readily available anymore. That Strymon pedal is REALLY DARN GOOD. If you love ambient guitar effects that is your pedal.
Mike is super humble for a guy with the talent of the best guitarists out there. Every interview I see with him is great. He's the kind of player that makes me wish I paid more attention to my guitar lessons when I was a teenager.
Well done Mike, you immediately got me to buy an OC5 from Andertons! 😂 Edit- i already have a Cloudburst on my board (i play fingerstyle and in a duo).
The Van Halen - Jump intro.. man that piece never ceases to stop me dead in my tracks. It's a perfect tribute to both Eddie and the entire band and their influence. Mike's an incredible player and if he's good with this rig, you'd best believe I'd buy it too lol.
A superb video, just wish Mike had tried those pedals on his own gear or at least on his guitar with the new rig. Probably the best guest in all the time I have been watching. Next time he is around film a bunch of acoustics.
My brain and my heart refuse to believe anything else... I can't imagine Eddie seeing this and not being gobsmacked by what Mike's doing with the instrument. It's all the right mixture of taking your heroes and their influence and molding it into your own thing. Mike's done that flawlessly with his music.
Mike Dawes is unbelievably good! Love the guy so much as a person too. Him and Tommy touring together is magical btw... So cool to see my heroes appear on the andertons channel!
This series that you do is on the same level and still better than Premier Guitar's Rig Rundowns. We get such insight of our favourite artists on a limited budget.
I saw him at a small club last year, and he did the Lost guitar pick shtick, which indeed had all the guitar players in the audience searching their pockets trying to be the one to loan him a guitar pick. It was funny; but it never occurred to me that he had that whole thing planned as part of his show, which is pretty hilarious now that I think about it. His guitar playing is out of this world, phenomenal Talent. But not only that, his music is good music; you can't say that about all talented technical guitarists. Plus he has a great sense of humor, and despite being nearly unique in the world, he seems like a pretty humble guy.
I'm playing with a FLAMMA reverb/ delay. Got three tipes of reverb ,( including shimmer) and three types of delay. Only cost me 80 pounds. Got a Larry Carlton acustic guitar with piezo and microphone, cost 420 pounds. Got the boss oc3, 100 pounds. A behringer mixing desk with 6 inputs eq and effects,100 pounds, and a behringer mpa 40 battery powered because I'm a busker 170 pounds. 950 pounds my entire rig including the guitar. And I'm very happy with it . Need nothing else. (Well I miss a magnetic pick up😅)
Cool video! I love the "budget" stuff because it's where 90% of us live. Mike Dawes is a monster on his instrument, and could make a toy Elmo guitar sound amazing. But this is still a cool video.
I just saw mike live last Friday. and this may sound very controversial to a lot of people here but I really loved seeing Tommy Emmanuel live. but I actually loved mike's show a bit more. what an incredible guitarist
This session shows me why I respect Mike Dawes so much. He's genuinely humble even after becoming famous and is willing to come in and do a video for Andertons just for fun. The man is immensely good at what he does and his personality makes it that much better.
Love Mike's awesome technique. Such an inspirational player. Let him know that the next time he needs to fly with BA, he should book his single seat for himself and then call them up and ask to add a 'comfort seat' for his guitar. That's how you get it on the plane as hand luggage 😉
Just goes to show that the instrument itself is less important than the other components. As long as it has a good setup and intonation. The Bose T4S is the equivalent of the others buying a much better amp like on earlier challenges The Immerse really does sound more natural to me. Hope he got it. The Strymon tho. Something he could really have fun with too. Did he get one of those too?
Whats cool about this series of videos, it really puts real world info into practice about whats good for what needs. I love the £1000 videos, great job
But why you keep the Boss Ts4 if only have one pickup? Get an IR loader, a 12 band EQ pedal and a compressor and you save 200 pound at least. Or you can add an small Ms70CDR or MS50G zoom pedal and you save even more. Isn't it?
I love Mike and any excuse to see him play, but I think this wasn’t helpful rig guidance. Too much emphasis was placed on the Bose, especially for a guitar with only one piezo pickup. If there was a magnetic and mic coming out of the guitar, maybe it would be useful. But honestly any acoustic preamp, EQ pedal, or even good DI could’ve done as good a job and way cheaper. Which would also be good for people with single sources out of their guitar. I’d love to see what sound Mike would’ve gotten with just a piezo and a preamp from Boss, Fender, or LR Baggs or even just a BodyRez. I think those are scenarios more guitarists would find themselves in, and indeed Mike found himself in a piezo only situation in this show and the anecdote he shared. Anyway, there were still great nuggets and moments in this episode.
My pedal board has created so many compliments on my tone and volume thanks to Mike Dawes... Acoustic players need to invest in his core pedals and mixer and don't forget his 4 signals coming from his guitars 4 pickups... gathering all these signals results in various gain stations and amazing head room!!!!! Mike is the best!!!! Thank you Andertons for all your content!!
Wait, you can have a reverb pedal take in the output signal from a mixer? Isn't it a completely different signal than the direct output of the guitar? Also, if you do that, isn't the output of the pedal not strong enough to go into PA speakers directly? Can anyone explain?
Hey, running the cloudburst in mono really limits its sound compared with the immerse and the hall of fame running in stereo. I have got a cloudburst and it is really coming to life when you hear it in stereo, just saying…
In my experience with Acoustic Guitars they all move around from gig to gig , does not matter how expensive or inexpensive they are , Classical Guitars don't have truss rods because the strings are nylon they don't exert the same stress as steel strings
Mike is so amazing. As soon as I saw his name I clicked on the video. I do have to say that the wonky angles of his pedals messes with the small OCD part of me.
What's going on with Mike D's pickup??? Also, the neck rod cover? Amazing guitar playing so inspirational and totally enjoyable. I hope to get the chance to see Mike D live in concert some day! I never thought about using talcum powder to play better. LOL
It's great seeing you bringing affordable guitars and electronics to the schoolchildren , many of f whom come from working class families and now more single parent families but are so enthusiastic about playing music. I was lucky with singing in the church choir from 7 and learning NB actually how to read simple music but in the late 60s early 70s we had group lessons for violin, flute for example as one to one tuition was so expensive but classical lessons were a great grounding and we also hired our instruments from the school and in my case it was a violin as my family were poor but I felt so blessed to have had the chance. I bought an old violin secondhand for £90 and went to a kind violin luthier who sold me a bow and fitted a new bridge and strings for £90 in 2001 in NW Switzerland. Claude Lebed at La Chaux de Fonds . A great old school luthier who was brilliant, loved stringed instruments and was passionate like you and your father in greatly encouraging people of all ages and budgets and abilities to get into learning stringed instruments and drums. It's certain your father built your great shop with you based on great relationships with musicians giving them great service and value for money as many I've known were skint apart from their pride and joy they often saved up hard for doing a paper round or getting it on the never never. I will get a new guitar from the site R3 accoustics very soon after your excellent reviews. I can't afford a j15 Gibson and Sire guitars are great, really playable quality sounding guitars and for £299 amazing. The bass by Sire will be next.
I hope Mike becomes a semi-regular, he's just phenomenal, such a unique approach to his instrument.
Mike is on a different level, spend what you like, on what gear you like,
you're not sounding like that, without years of dedicated practice
Thanks everyone. Thanks Lee and team x
Mike, I only don’t get one thing: with your guitar you have more than one piezos/mic so you use Bose mixer to separate all channels and use different Eq. But with a one piezo-guitar, what’s the use of the Bose mixer? 500 dollars for just an Eq?
Come to NY and p,at the Paramount in Huntington Bro
Great venue. Great acoustics
Thank you, you're one of my favorite guitar players and I love your live sound. What I don't get though is the output from the mixer goes into the reverb... You can do that? And then the output from reverb goes into speakers or amp?
You have to ask yourself, how many hours do you have to put in to be this good, unbelievable talent!
Then double that to be as good as Tommy Emmanuel....
2 or 3 at least !!
All of the hours
A lot!
Talent certainly helps but 10,000 hours of practice at minimum is a must.
Really enjoyed this one and it’s hard not to forget towards the end that this was a 150$ guitar. Mike did an incredible job with this presentation, he was very clear and explained things in a sense where a beginner could understand and shared settings which I liked. Thanks lee and mike for this as I had no clue the importance of that Bose unit in an acoustic show. Was very interesting.
What an intro! Mike is one seriously talented player! 👏🏼
Loving the setup too!
Great to see another acoustic player not shying off on electronics and using it to its profit ... great guitarist, great sound, great ability to cope with new equipment instantly,
great video Thanks a lot for sharing
That intro was out of this world. So good!
Never heard of mike dawe but this was highly inspiring and a pleasure to witness. What a smooth dude, I can't believe how good everything was today
Mike with the cloudburst is unbelievable
Good to see Mike back at Anderton's again. I really loved his run through of the Sire R7 and R3 guitars. I'll always regret not being able to get one. Mom passed and I'll never get one as they aren't readily available anymore. That Strymon pedal is REALLY DARN GOOD. If you love ambient guitar effects that is your pedal.
Mike is super humble for a guy with the talent of the best guitarists out there. Every interview I see with him is great. He's the kind of player that makes me wish I paid more attention to my guitar lessons when I was a teenager.
Mike can play the strings off literally anything with strings, awesome video, best of this series by far and I'm a proggy metal player
Well done Mike, you immediately got me to buy an OC5 from Andertons! 😂 Edit- i already have a Cloudburst on my board (i play fingerstyle and in a duo).
Mike is so cool and obviously a great player! Gotta check out more of his music!
Incredible Mike. Love to see you play anything.
I bought my Cloudburst about a month ago. It is amazing. Michael is best of the best guitarists on this planet.
The mighty Mike Dawes. What an awesome human being 🤘
I never knew an acoustic could have that many varieties of sounds. Now I want to go out and build an acoustic board to get these tones
I'm a simple man. I see Mike Dawes on Andertons and smash that like button before watching. Even if it's every five years.
What an amazing intro piece. Well played.
The Van Halen - Jump intro.. man that piece never ceases to stop me dead in my tracks. It's a perfect tribute to both Eddie and the entire band and their influence. Mike's an incredible player and if he's good with this rig, you'd best believe I'd buy it too lol.
And now of course I have to close youtube and go listen to Mike's music for a few hours. Thanks Andertons! 🤣
What a great video guys, Mike turned that little EastCoast number into a Stradivarius . Winning!!! 👍🔥🎸🎼🙏
Where did he go to get the camel spiders attached to his wrists instead of hands?
A superb video, just wish Mike had tried those pedals on his own gear or at least on his guitar with the new rig. Probably the best guest in all the time I have been watching. Next time he is around film a bunch of acoustics.
My acoustic dream would be to see Mike, Tommy, and Monte Montgomery all 3 play together.
I can't even parallel park whilst the radio is playing.... This guy though!
Amazing video. Seriously talented to make that noise from a entry level guitar!
I'm going to go practice now. Cheers!
Please tell me Mike walked out of the shop with a Cloudburst - I really want to see what he can create with it!
I think Eddie Van Halen would be impressed with that intro.
My brain and my heart refuse to believe anything else... I can't imagine Eddie seeing this and not being gobsmacked by what Mike's doing with the instrument. It's all the right mixture of taking your heroes and their influence and molding it into your own thing. Mike's done that flawlessly with his music.
Wolfgang was and reached out to him
Mike Dawes is unbelievably good! Love the guy so much as a person too. Him and Tommy touring together is magical btw... So cool to see my heroes appear on the andertons channel!
Great opener, awesome talent. Cheers from Nova Scotia
This series that you do is on the same level and still better than Premier Guitar's Rig Rundowns. We get such insight of our favourite artists on a limited budget.
Really not a fan of the reverb-heavy style Mike uses. Everything bleeds into another and it can be somewhat of a mush sometimes.
Just heading downstairs to set my little Yamaha acoustic on fire
What a lovely,ridiculously talented guy....😊
Crazy talented, really great with his hands and a beautiful head of hair. Mike isn’t bad too.
I saw him at a small club last year, and he did the Lost guitar pick shtick, which indeed had all the guitar players in the audience searching their pockets trying to be the one to loan him a guitar pick. It was funny; but it never occurred to me that he had that whole thing planned as part of his show, which is pretty hilarious now that I think about it. His guitar playing is out of this world, phenomenal Talent. But not only that, his music is good music; you can't say that about all talented technical guitarists. Plus he has a great sense of humor, and despite being nearly unique in the world, he seems like a pretty humble guy.
I'm playing with a FLAMMA reverb/ delay. Got three tipes of reverb ,( including shimmer) and three types of delay. Only cost me 80 pounds. Got a Larry Carlton acustic guitar with piezo and microphone, cost 420 pounds. Got the boss oc3, 100 pounds. A behringer mixing desk with 6 inputs eq and effects,100 pounds, and a behringer mpa 40 battery powered because I'm a busker 170 pounds. 950 pounds my entire rig including the guitar. And I'm very happy with it . Need nothing else. (Well I miss a magnetic pick up😅)
Cool video! I love the "budget" stuff because it's where 90% of us live. Mike Dawes is a monster on his instrument, and could make a toy Elmo guitar sound amazing. But this is still a cool video.
Can you just do a 40 minute video of Mike Dawes playing please 😁
4:15 of all the amazing information just presented to him, the interviewer is wowed by the Boss OC having a frequency cutoff 🤦🏻♂️
I would be amazed if you manage to put out a better video this year. Bravo!
Well, that was lovely. I might have to give up guitar. 😅
Fantastic video and a very unique rig 👍
I just saw mike live last Friday. and this may sound very controversial to a lot of people here but I really loved seeing Tommy Emmanuel live. but I actually loved mike's show a bit more. what an incredible guitarist
This session shows me why I respect Mike Dawes so much. He's genuinely humble even after becoming famous and is willing to come in and do a video for Andertons just for fun. The man is immensely good at what he does and his personality makes it that much better.
Love Mike's awesome technique. Such an inspirational player. Let him know that the next time he needs to fly with BA, he should book his single seat for himself and then call them up and ask to add a 'comfort seat' for his guitar. That's how you get it on the plane as hand luggage 😉
Probably my fav artist to come from subscribing to Andertons. Right next to my admiration of some afro.
Man......Cloudburst into Immerse....❤❤❤
Just goes to show that the instrument itself is less important than the other components. As long as it has a good setup and intonation. The Bose T4S is the equivalent of the others buying a much better amp like on earlier challenges The Immerse really does sound more natural to me. Hope he got it. The Strymon tho. Something he could really have fun with too. Did he get one of those too?
That last Mike video was 5 years ago??? Time's moving too fast.
It's always nice to see Mike though. HIs playing's great and he's a fun personality.
Cap that fields of barley with the pedal, was kin ooh beautiful.
Super interesting set up, what a player!
Whats cool about this series of videos, it really puts real world info into practice about whats good for what needs. I love the £1000 videos, great job
This video is undeniable proof that it isn't the instrument, it's the player. I'm convinced that Mike Dawes is an alien.
"True humility is masturbating street dogs without expecting anything in return." - V. Zelensky
Yeah, I'm definitely looking this guy up, what an amazing player :O
I can only dream of ever getting to that level. Brilliant. Maybe I should head to the crossroad 😂
Loved this one
wow best retailer? holy moly. well done.
Very impressive. But none of this has much to do with acoustic music or acoustic guitars.
Simply the finest all-genre player I've ever seen
Would have been super cool to have Mike try out an Afterneath as well.
Great guitar player. Needs to be in a band. PRS should give him an electric guitar.
What an incredible musician..wow! inspired
That's a whole lot of reverb. Amazing playing as usual but blimey, such a lot of reverb! Wetter than my Scottish uncle Drippy McDrip from loch McDrip!
But why you keep the Boss Ts4 if only have one pickup? Get an IR loader, a 12 band EQ pedal and a compressor and you save 200 pound at least. Or you can add an small Ms70CDR or MS50G zoom pedal and you save even more. Isn't it?
I love Mike and any excuse to see him play, but I think this wasn’t helpful rig guidance. Too much emphasis was placed on the Bose, especially for a guitar with only one piezo pickup. If there was a magnetic and mic coming out of the guitar, maybe it would be useful.
But honestly any acoustic preamp, EQ pedal, or even good DI could’ve done as good a job and way cheaper. Which would also be good for people with single sources out of their guitar. I’d love to see what sound Mike would’ve gotten with just a piezo and a preamp from Boss, Fender, or LR Baggs or even just a BodyRez. I think those are scenarios more guitarists would find themselves in, and indeed Mike found himself in a piezo only situation in this show and the anecdote he shared. Anyway, there were still great nuggets and moments in this episode.
My pedal board has created so many compliments on my tone and volume thanks to Mike Dawes... Acoustic players need to invest in his core pedals and mixer and don't forget his 4 signals coming from his guitars 4 pickups... gathering all these signals results in various gain stations and amazing head room!!!!! Mike is the best!!!! Thank you Andertons for all your content!!
That's hilarious! "Does anyone have a pick" in a Mike Dawes audience, lol. That's like Victor Wooten asking the crowd if anyone plays bass.
Watching this and Pete playing the Squier Sonics the other day makes you realize that it ain't guitars Andertons should be selling its fingers!
One of the better episodes for sure
Adding bass to piezo makes a huge difference! If you have one, a para eq makes all the difference! Reverb makes it sweet! Nice one, Mike!
Wait, you can have a reverb pedal take in the output signal from a mixer? Isn't it a completely different signal than the direct output of the guitar? Also, if you do that, isn't the output of the pedal not strong enough to go into PA speakers directly? Can anyone explain?
Noob question. Why would you spend 60% of your budget to get that multi channel Boss mixer when your cheap guitar only got one pickup?
this is an awesome useful video - very inspiring, mostly for practicing, and a bit for shoppin :D
Sage to say not too many people have heard a £150 guitar sound like that. Astonishing. Worth listening to it all again through earphones.. trust me.
I think the Cloudburst was in mono... totally less captivating because of that...
Is that a Joyo American Sound I see? Cool!
Listening in awe.
Hey, running the cloudburst in mono really limits its sound compared with the immerse and the hall of fame running in stereo. I have got a cloudburst and it is really coming to life when you hear it in stereo, just saying…
Uh oh … now I need a bunch of effects for my acoustic? Might as well give it a go… maybe I will sound more “orchestral” in my office…
Was that a Joyo American hiding under some tape? I use one of those for open mic nights, it’s a great budget pedal when going direct to a board.
My man dropped a "shreducational". This guy fucks.
5 years? I saw him 1-2 months ago playing something with jump.
Just makin that HOF sound like a billion bucks
In my experience with Acoustic Guitars they all move around from gig to gig , does not matter how expensive or inexpensive they are , Classical Guitars don't have truss rods because the strings are nylon they don't exert the same stress as steel strings
Sell sell sell
Lee, stop cutting him off when he's playing!! 😂
Yes he was so irritating
my first guitar was a Taylor 214 - tell me your a little rich boy without saying it.
Mike Dawes' C chord even sounds so much better than mine...
Mike is so amazing. As soon as I saw his name I clicked on the video. I do have to say that the wonky angles of his pedals messes with the small OCD part of me.
What's going on with Mike D's pickup??? Also, the neck rod cover? Amazing guitar playing so inspirational and totally enjoyable. I hope to get the chance to see Mike D live in concert some day! I never thought about using talcum powder to play better. LOL
Idk that Immerse sounds much better than the other reverbs even though my shitty phone speakers.
It's great seeing you bringing affordable guitars and electronics to the schoolchildren , many of f whom come from working class families and now more single parent families but are so enthusiastic about playing music. I was lucky with singing in the church choir from 7 and learning NB actually how to read simple music but in the late 60s early 70s we had group lessons for violin, flute for example as one to one tuition was so expensive but classical lessons were a great grounding and we also hired our instruments from the school and in my case it was a violin as my family were poor but I felt so blessed to have had the chance. I bought an old violin secondhand for £90 and went to a kind violin luthier who sold me a bow and fitted a new bridge and strings for £90 in 2001 in NW Switzerland. Claude Lebed at La Chaux de Fonds . A great old school luthier who was brilliant, loved stringed instruments and was passionate like you and your father in greatly encouraging people of all ages and budgets and abilities to get into learning stringed instruments and drums. It's certain your father built your great shop with you based on great relationships with musicians giving them great service and value for money as many I've known were skint apart from their pride and joy they often saved up hard for doing a paper round or getting it on the never never. I will get a new guitar from the site R3 accoustics very soon after your excellent reviews. I can't afford a j15 Gibson and Sire guitars are great, really playable quality sounding guitars and for £299 amazing. The bass by Sire will be next.
28:58 What’s this song? Sounds familiar but can’t figure it out
Output signal at the end of the chain goes into PA speakers or amp?
I’m convinced Mike had hand reassignment surgery to replace his hands with camel spiders.