@leftundersun I love that LA session guy clean tone lol. It's actually pretty easy to get with modern technology, most people just don't get that you have to completely eliminate any kind of speaker cab or IR from the equation and stick to "in between" pickup settings on a strat. Then compression, delay, chorus, and reverb. It will get you there.
Rectifier and Vox AC30 clean. After owning so many expensive heads, I realized own thing…all of it is redundant. When it comes to gain, you get two basic flavors…Marshall or Mesa. Stringy and easy to play or big, thick and dry. Everything else just slight variations on those two. I got sick of buying 3000 dollar amps only to come to the realization I can’t really record it properly because I live in an apartment and isolation is VERY difficult (air conditioning, refrigerator fan turning on, people outside playing loud music, etc). Then I’d sell the amp, usually at a huge loss, but another one rinse and repeat. I said fuck this and bought a Helix floor. I spend more time recording music now and gigging than I ever did since I got it. Funny how that works. I love that thing because it keeps my focus on doing what I should be doing instead of collecting gear
One time I was half way through a set, went to click on my Wah pedal, and realized it was fully cocked the whole time. Nobody gave a fuck or even noticed.
I've heard of guitarists that keep the wah on and use it to tune the sound so it will cut though for guitar solos or be a darker sound for for chords etc
I'll never forget some interview here where Billy Corgan said something along the lines of white painted guitars sound better, while being completely serious.
The most overlooked benefit of a cheap guitar is that you can personally customize it with paint / stickers or whatever else...and it's 10x more punk/rock than a pricey guitar.
For years I cringed at bandmates with their Line 6 amps. Until it was my turn to use one and all I did was give it a proper EQ and loved the sound. You REALLY need to learn to adapt.
As Tommy Emmanuel once said: "I don't like to have to rely on my equipment being perfect otherwise I can't play. I will adapt to whatever I have in my hands at the moment."
There's a sound guy at one of my local venues that sits at the soundboard and turns all the guitars down when the solos start or just mixes everything at the same volume no matter what is said in soundcheck. Had to instantly obtain a volume and boost in case it ever happened again. Best investment of my life
all those bands used the cheapest shittiest pedals they could find in pawn shops, those pedals were made in factories where they had a mix of parts that were as cheap as the company could find.
Most shoegaze bands ever use studio effects, not alot of pedals. Live? Those dudes realistically ever use or sometimes tour with like several pedals max. I think 15+ pedal shoegaze boards are just a romanticization of the genre and not the norm. The video is still right. Shoegaze or not, anyway.
I think the John 5 thing you're talking about is from his Premier Guitar rig rundown from a few years ago, he shows off his pedal board and says that he heard people criticizing his use of effects so he got rid of them all
This take is wild. Sure, for most guitarists, saturating your playing in a f* load of effects is bad shout, but if you're good, they offer an almost infinite number of creative pathways to explore. Get good, develop your ear, and go ham.
Of course, and this is coming from a pedal geek, but to get good and have good execution you really need to reduce factors to focus on your playing which means less effects and less masking of poor technics and bad habits.
@purplecoloredrock Oh for sure! Nothing worse than setting up a newcomer with a Line 6 spider, haha. I didn't switch to electric until I had 10 or so years of experience on classical, and I think it was the right call really
@@S-be6hp I started also on acoustic. My first rig with electric guitar was nothing fancy, but sturdy enough to only worry about my chops. I can't overstate how critical it is to hone one's skills with a bare-bones rig. Also it makes you focus on having fun and play with friends.
@@purplecoloredrock Nice, yeah I reckon starting on acoustic gives you the best foundation to branch out into other styles of guitar. Yeah, I agree entirely. My first amp was a modelling amp (a spider lol) and I fairy quickly forgot the importance of clear articulate playing after oversaturating everything in reverb and chorus, and yeah, my playing suffered massively. Even with a disciplined background, my playing plateaued for a good 3 years before I got my arse back into gear!
I can honestly say you are 100% accurate about guitar tone. The only thing I will add is that gear (be it a pedal, amp, guitar) might (heavy on the might) inspire you to play something you would not normally play.
@@Pikilloification I hate the guitar tone conversation like any other dude who actually tries to look into it. however I listen to doom metal and wah pedals sound awesome in them
This reminds me of when I had a gig and my pedalboard had some issues and wasn't passing signal. Instead of having a meltdown about it, I just pulled the one pedal I knew would do what I needed most (HM2) and went to fucking town, lead fx be damned. Show was amazing.
I literally have a 50w Boss Katana MKII (no tone studio just pannel) and a $200 Epiphone Les Paul Special and I get the craziest fucking tones so this vid is on point. W Judy.
Two things you really need: i) a guitar, ii) a decent audio interface. No need for amplifiers and pedals, also no need for a midi switching system since you are probably gonna play alone in your house for the rest of your life.
Thats really the best advice for someone starting out. The thing is, most beginners arent going to know how to get all of that working without a little help.
I was already trying the 1 year no new gear thing, I lasted 6 months and then the floodgates opened, it was like being on a strict diet and then suddenly caving in and binge eating all the cake, all the pizza, all the chocolate, it was wonderful
Got to disagree on reverb. Going for a surf sound that spring drip is a major part. I agree the pick attacks or how the strings are played is huge though. Pedals have a part, like with ambient sound
@@NewnodrogbobI fully agree with him, reverb sounds like complete shit on anything other than clean guitars or fucked up sounds where you run it into dirt.
@@kantina4765 1. No you don’t. He doesn’t specify that it’s ok on clean guitars. 2. How much and what kind makes a big difference. There’s not just one way to have reverb.
@@Newnodrogbob 1) i never said that 2) no it universally sounds bad. the natural reverb you get is much sweeter. delay works 100000x better as a spatial effect, so long as you dont go cheesy shred guitar style with it.
@@kantina4765 so, just so I have this straight. The two things you want to express are as follows: 1. “Reverb sounds complete shit on anything other than clean guitars” is NOT you saying that reverb sounds ok on clean sounds, And 2. All reverb is equally terrible, regardless of how much you use, what type it is, how much of it is in the mix, etc. Delay is better, always. I don’t think either of those ideas stands up to an ounce of critical thought.
I learned some U2 songs back in the day without knowing that "delay" was an effect that existed. I was playing "Bad" on an acoustic guitar and my friend was like 'wtf are you doing?' It can be done.
Over the course of my guitar journey, I did learn to accept my 15 watt single channel combo amp for what it is and what it has to offer and make the most out of it. I'm glad I came across this particular content.
One part left out is all the stupid boost pedals on the market. You don't need them. Pick the green one (TS) or the yellow one (SD-1) and move on with your life.
But I like playing with pedals, they're fun. I also like to make weird spacey noises. Reverb and delay are good for that lol. I agree 100% on the expensive amps and guitars though.
I can't stop buying pedals, Uncle Judy, I just ordered my 73rd pedal, and am also learning to build my own...
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I got lazy about plugging in, fiddling with effects and everything and played exclusively acoustic for like 6 months. I was significantly cleaner and clearer on electric when I got back around to it.
I really thought this was an attack on music production. I am personally value the power of studio production in general and also when it comes to guitar tone. However, if you're not in a studio situation, there is no reason to obsesse over the tone of the guitar. The only thing I need when playing at home is a practice amp, a fuzz/dist pedal, overdrive that is built into the amp, and on rare occasions I will use a chorus because it sounds like a synth with fuzz.
Dude, the problem is: too much bedroom playing. When you go play with other people, basically anything is fine, but alone in your bedroom at 3am you'll hear every mf harmonic, so nothing will never be good enough
Reverb is pretty essential, depending on the genre. It's largely useless for rock, but for surf it is crucial. I have one bass and one guitar, and one amp. But I use a Boss gt1000 for my pedalboard 😆
I mostly play a $400 Ibanez RG series with a 16-year-old line 6 spider five that has effects built-in tuner four channels and knobs. I have a pitch shifter with an octave and a wan pedal. That is my set up other than some other guitars very simple.
I played surf punk, so we were sloppy etc. when we played live, but I didn’t care. I was never a great shredder either, but we had fun & we played fast. All I ever used was a Peavey 212 Classic Chorus combo amp (with the chorus/reverb on) & 80s boss pedals (SD1 - super overdrive, DM3 - analog delay, CS2 - compressor/sustainer, & a tuner) into my Mexican strat (with a whammy bar). That’s all you really need. I never understood people with giant pedal boards. In the 70s, Tony Iommi only used a wah & an overdrive. The other thing is that the bigger your board, the more potential failure points there are, as far as connections are concerned. I’ve seen it happen with other bands before.
I havent got much financially at the minute, so all i have is the clean channel on my line 6 spider 2, a borrowed delay, a faulty overdrive, a fuzz and a cheap behringer distortion i got as gifts, and some cheap guitars i salvaged from a friend that i got for free/cheap. even through phone camera recordings, ive had compliments on my tones, i can dial that stuff in. but I do wish i had a £2,000 gibson and a marshall stack lmao
I know some of these videos are jokes but you make a very valid point that I have seen professional engineers say, about reamping and the fact that sometimes reamping does not work because the guitar player played with a certain way that sounded best with whatever amp/amp sim was used during recording so if a completely different amp or cab (or both) gets used on the final mix the recording will not have the same impact as the original tone had.
Thanks for the wisdom. It's always important to remember to practice practice and practice. Maybe listen to music too. But damn if it isn't fun to buy gear.
First video of yours I’m viewing. Good stuff man. You have the presence of a TH-camr whom has a lot more experience and subscribers than you currently do.
This advice is gold. When i started to focus on consistency with my alternate picking across clean, high gain and low gain sounds i kind of realised I dont even need that much gain to sound good. I also only use reverb bc my room is small. Delay just sounds terrible to me when i play. I think people get caught up on sounds they heard on records without realising most of the time its just a guy going through an amo and effects are added in post. I find it funny how to gesr crowd is just shitty guitar players who will use pedals and amps to compensate for their lack of discipline and laziness.
I've more than once messed with gearhead friends by nudging their knobs (not those knobs, brits, I mean their gear) during jam sessions as a way to illustrate my point: Yes, by the END of the session, the sound is pretty different then when you turn the knobs back. Did they NOTICE until I pointed it out? Nope. Yes, it's an asshole thing to do to touch folks' stuff but this was with friends, and it saved them hundreds in future pedal/amp/guitar purchases. I also showed them how dramatic postprocessing, mic placement, and so forth is in shaping the sound, so it was worth it.
Lately I've been playing a lot without my amp on and I've found I not only don't even give myself the possibility of thinking about "tone" but I also am forced to listen more closely to what I'm playing. Holy run on sentence
This is my Intro to you video, dude, and I freaking love it! As someone who started playing in the mid 70's, I think you are SPOT ON here. Granted, my first teacher came along in 1981 and he said so many of the things you're saying here ... and here's the reason I'm boring you with this anecdotal story ... he would occasionally introduce himself to people as my Uncle Brenda! 😅
99% of guitar tone is learning basic common sense with EQ. Guitar sounds too bright? Turn the high down. Too muddy and low? Roll off some bass. Sounds too good? Turn the mids all the way down.
I'm pretty fine with my amp sim, because I realized some day that it's not about sounding good, but sounding the way you want your guitar to. I don't really care between a free amp sim and a real $10000 amp(obviously I do, but not to a degree that I'd pay that much), but having Marshall-ish sound is necessary for me. I don't know what I'll need in the future. Fender reverb-ish sound, delay, flanger, overdrive, whatever. That's also partly why I invest way more on guitars, because making your Les Paul sound like strat is way harder than making free amp sim sound like Marshall amp. Again, not Gibson or Fender, just cheap ones that sounds close in a budget.
I only use 5 pedals compressor, fuzzface, univibe, wah, and delay. It goes into my boss katana and I use a compressor and treble booster to mimic the tube sound.
george lynch once said because he is a self taught guitar player he uses his guitar tone to inspire him, I am a self taught gutarist i recorded couple short instrumentals with bad recording technics but i got into impulse responses and amp sims and broke my players block immediately.
Thank you, I needed this. Started getting back into music like 2 years ago bought gear and some guitars to start making music and I wholeheartedly agree with everything said here. Wasted time where I did not need to a lot of musicians need to watch this.
Good vid. I expelled air from my mouth in amusement several times. Mostly agree. I'll diverge on specific sounds though. You can't sound like french robots getting lucky by just taking your pawn shop off brand strat into the time dilation chamber and getting good while Goku powers up and yells for 10 episodes.
not a lot of gifted TH-cam musicians can teach how to transcend boundaries while making it CRYSTAL FUCKING CLEAR that you are not and will never be friends 7/10
Do you need a review to promote your lessons? Because I will say that I really have enjoyed our lessons and took enough away to keep working on for awhile. Very enjoyable and easy to handle. You were always on time and motivating!
How it feels when you just wanna jam but your guitar buddy has to bring his half stack and his pedal board only to mess with his volume knobs the entire time 😂
As a musician first but lots of countless hours in my journey to being a producer, sure. Reverb can give some awesome effects to accentuate what’s being played in conjunction to the overall sound to the song. But I wish a LOT more people would learn how to use a slap back delay technique, which when tweaked, gives you some of the best reverb in conjunction to TONE to just the guitar, with it sounding very subtle but making much more of a loud difference in how you play and not a studio mix. Great video.
This video is great! So much advice ive seen on forums over my 16 years of playing was "it doesnt matter how good your gear is if you dont practice. You wont sound good if you dont practice
To me reverb is a good choice when used subtly, when you have it around 2 or 3 it just adds some body to the tone. Same thing with delay, if you have a really fast delay it kinda fattens the tone and adds some depth.
Playing with a band, a compressor and overdrive pedal is everything I’ve ever needed. Borrowed an octave pedal to play one song at a gig but that’s about it. (My tone will be shitty regardless because of my lack of talent XD)
having a decent guitar with locking tuners (i had locking tuners and didnt use them correctly for 15+ years and just started using them correctly now i dont have to retune every song i play!)set up and intunated correctly is 75 % of the battle
I recorded all my Music with cheap guitars and cheap gear! I'm really happy with the results! It's not the best sound quality but who cares , it's better than doing nothing .
Kinda wild to find out there was a lot of people who questioned John 5 at one point in time, no wonder why they don't bring him up as much when talking about shredders and other virtuoso guitar players
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Can confirm the John 5 story as I member it too.
SEE THAT?!
I also remember that interview
@@unclejudymusic premire guitar rig rundown
mandela effect be vibin
John 5 mentions this in his rig rundown videos on premier guitar as well
The line 6 clearly sounds good because he's playing through that Uncle Judy signature model
As someone who upgraded from a line 6 spider, the tone sounds better when the amp is off and you throw the piece of dogshit away.
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Once you hit a certain age you realize there's exactly 2 guitar tones, 5150 and Bassman.
Unless you're into 80s, in which case no amp at all, not even a sim, and ALL the effects.
Or just pick up the acoustic because you’re too lazy to turn the amp on grab the cables etc
@@Patrick-857 😂 yeah man, the 80s were out of control
@leftundersun I love that LA session guy clean tone lol. It's actually pretty easy to get with modern technology, most people just don't get that you have to completely eliminate any kind of speaker cab or IR from the equation and stick to "in between" pickup settings on a strat. Then compression, delay, chorus, and reverb. It will get you there.
Rectifier and Vox AC30 clean. After owning so many expensive heads, I realized own thing…all of it is redundant. When it comes to gain, you get two basic flavors…Marshall or Mesa. Stringy and easy to play or big, thick and dry. Everything else just slight variations on those two. I got sick of buying 3000 dollar amps only to come to the realization I can’t really record it properly because I live in an apartment and isolation is VERY difficult (air conditioning, refrigerator fan turning on, people outside playing loud music, etc). Then I’d sell the amp, usually at a huge loss, but another one rinse and repeat. I said fuck this and bought a Helix floor. I spend more time recording music now and gigging than I ever did since I got it. Funny how that works. I love that thing because it keeps my focus on doing what I should be doing instead of collecting gear
One time I was half way through a set, went to click on my Wah pedal, and realized it was fully cocked the whole time. Nobody gave a fuck or even noticed.
Same happened to me 😂 or having my tone control almost completely down
They call that the “Mick Ronson”
I've heard of guitarists that keep the wah on and use it to tune the sound so it will cut though for guitar solos or be a darker sound for for chords etc
One time I did a set and realised my amp was turned off. I've never had them cheer so loud.
I do this all the time sometimes I do it on purpose to gate the sound right.
I shit you not, I had a professional producer compliment me on my guitar tone once and he had no idea I was playing through a Line 6 Spider IV.
Which producer?
Tone is in the fingers!
@@NateThunder Some producer that owned a studio in Denver. I didn’t catch his name. My roommates hired him to work on a song of theirs.
@@StratMatt777I would actually argue it’s in the way you pick.
@@AsAugustSleeps And how you mute too, if were talking about chugs(technically, part of pickin, I guess)
I'll never forget some interview here where Billy Corgan said something along the lines of white painted guitars sound better, while being completely serious.
Oh shit, hey Jesse!
He probably just likes white so he plays better on a white guitar
The white reflects the most light so your tone will sound brighter
@@JessesAuditorium It was silly but I believe it was about nitrocellulose versus poly finishes more than the color.
And then John Surh goes and says that it's impossible to determine the tonal characteristics of paint in a video tour of his shop.
The most overlooked benefit of a cheap guitar is that you can personally customize it with paint / stickers or whatever else...and it's 10x more punk/rock than a pricey guitar.
100%. Bought a P90 DC off Amazon for 200 bucks and plastered punk band stickers all over it. Love the fuckin’ thing now.🤟
Some day they'll talk about the Line 6 Spider in the same way they talk about 1950s gold tops
A buddy of mine cranked his spider stack up so high that it actually sounded awesome. Drove those speakers to their breaking point.
Amen
they just had a crunchy low bitrate back in the day bro
For years I cringed at bandmates with their Line 6 amps. Until it was my turn to use one and all I did was give it a proper EQ and loved the sound. You REALLY need to learn to adapt.
Nah.
As a metal guitarist who exclusively plays bigdumbguy caveman riffs... if it's loud and distorted, it's good enough.
No, no, no!
No metalzone = not metal!
@@fajaradi1223 Well, there maaayy be a few exceptions. 😅
I always turn my amp loud and distortion knobs to 11 and everything else to zero.
Swedish death metal moment
@@fajaradi1223a Metal Zone in a return on an effects loop used as a preamp is an alarmingly good sound.
Seriously...
When everyone else on TH-cam is just whoring gear for The Man, this is very refreshing.. Thank you
Judy you know this is a *lethal* amount of common sense for a guitarist to hear in one shot, right? Especially the small amp bit.
Finally someone had the balls to say it. Fly high uncle booty 🕊️🕊️
As Tommy Emmanuel once said: "I don't like to have to rely on my equipment being perfect otherwise I can't play. I will adapt to whatever I have in my hands at the moment."
Tommy plays primarily acoustics and not cheap ones.
There's a sound guy at one of my local venues that sits at the soundboard and turns all the guitars down when the solos start or just mixes everything at the same volume no matter what is said in soundcheck. Had to instantly obtain a volume and boost in case it ever happened again. Best investment of my life
"Do you feel in charge?"
@@CM4wsler "You are a big guy." "To you."
He's just turning you down even more rofl. Waste of money.
It’s like someone’s never heard of Shoegaze.
all those bands used the cheapest shittiest pedals they could find in pawn shops, those pedals were made in factories where they had a mix of parts that were as cheap as the company could find.
@@richardjblackman dont forget the Chinese slave labor
You don't understand, the tears of the enslaved children make the toan better@@masterofreality230
Most shoegaze bands ever use studio effects, not alot of pedals. Live? Those dudes realistically ever use or sometimes tour with like several pedals max. I think 15+ pedal shoegaze boards are just a romanticization of the genre and not the norm.
The video is still right. Shoegaze or not, anyway.
That's not who the title is addressing though.
I think the John 5 thing you're talking about is from his Premier Guitar rig rundown from a few years ago, he shows off his pedal board and says that he heard people criticizing his use of effects so he got rid of them all
As someone working in the guitar pedal industry please ignore everything judy is telling you
Truth hurts.
Literally, all he said was effects are good in the studio but they get in the way of practice and SOME get in the way of playing live
This take is wild. Sure, for most guitarists, saturating your playing in a f* load of effects is bad shout, but if you're good, they offer an almost infinite number of creative pathways to explore. Get good, develop your ear, and go ham.
Of course, and this is coming from a pedal geek, but to get good and have good execution you really need to reduce factors to focus on your playing which means less effects and less masking of poor technics and bad habits.
@purplecoloredrock Oh for sure! Nothing worse than setting up a newcomer with a Line 6 spider, haha. I didn't switch to electric until I had 10 or so years of experience on classical, and I think it was the right call really
@@S-be6hp I started also on acoustic. My first rig with electric guitar was nothing fancy, but sturdy enough to only worry about my chops. I can't overstate how critical it is to hone one's skills with a bare-bones rig. Also it makes you focus on having fun and play with friends.
@@purplecoloredrock Nice, yeah I reckon starting on acoustic gives you the best foundation to branch out into other styles of guitar. Yeah, I agree entirely. My first amp was a modelling amp (a spider lol) and I fairy quickly forgot the importance of clear articulate playing after oversaturating everything in reverb and chorus, and yeah, my playing suffered massively. Even with a disciplined background, my playing plateaued for a good 3 years before I got my arse back into gear!
I can honestly say you are 100% accurate about guitar tone. The only thing I will add is that gear (be it a pedal, amp, guitar) might (heavy on the might) inspire you to play something you would not normally play.
“Wah pedal is honestly just annoying”
Me, who plays reggae: :(
Fact tho
@@Pikilloification I hate the guitar tone conversation like any other dude who actually tries to look into it. however I listen to doom metal and wah pedals sound awesome in them
This reminds me of when I had a gig and my pedalboard had some issues and wasn't passing signal. Instead of having a meltdown about it, I just pulled the one pedal I knew would do what I needed most (HM2) and went to fucking town, lead fx be damned. Show was amazing.
can't go wrong with an HM-2
I literally have a 50w Boss Katana MKII (no tone studio just pannel) and a $200 Epiphone Les Paul Special and I get the craziest fucking tones so this vid is on point.
W Judy.
been getting some great tones with the katana after learning how to eq to my taste, it's all about ADAPTATION
How could we forget the tone wood? I get the best tone out of my solid body electric made of balsa wood, can't miss! 😁
Unclejudy oiled up clappin it
Two things you really need: i) a guitar, ii) a decent audio interface. No need for amplifiers and pedals, also no need for a midi switching system since you are probably gonna play alone in your house for the rest of your life.
Thats really the best advice for someone starting out. The thing is, most beginners arent going to know how to get all of that working without a little help.
I was already trying the 1 year no new gear thing, I lasted 6 months and then the floodgates opened, it was like being on a strict diet and then suddenly caving in and binge eating all the cake, all the pizza, all the chocolate, it was wonderful
Bro doesn’t understand shoegaze
Got to disagree on reverb. Going for a surf sound that spring drip is a major part. I agree the pick attacks or how the strings are played is huge though. Pedals have a part, like with ambient sound
His view on reverb is definitely a bit extreme.
@@NewnodrogbobI fully agree with him, reverb sounds like complete shit on anything other than clean guitars or fucked up sounds where you run it into dirt.
@@kantina4765 1. No you don’t. He doesn’t specify that it’s ok on clean guitars. 2. How much and what kind makes a big difference. There’s not just one way to have reverb.
@@Newnodrogbob 1) i never said that 2) no it universally sounds bad. the natural reverb you get is much sweeter.
delay works 100000x better as a spatial effect, so long as you dont go cheesy shred guitar style with it.
@@kantina4765 so, just so I have this straight. The two things you want to express are as follows:
1. “Reverb sounds complete shit on anything other than clean guitars” is NOT you saying that reverb sounds ok on clean sounds,
And
2. All reverb is equally terrible, regardless of how much you use, what type it is, how much of it is in the mix, etc. Delay is better, always.
I don’t think either of those ideas stands up to an ounce of critical thought.
Danny Gatton would do slap back delay with his picking hand without the pedal
I learned some U2 songs back in the day without knowing that "delay" was an effect that existed. I was playing "Bad" on an acoustic guitar and my friend was like 'wtf are you doing?' It can be done.
3:50 why do you own an excavator?
So he can bury his guitar easier
Why not?
I also just use 3 pedals
1. Chorus
2. Distortion
3. Looper
Over the course of my guitar journey, I did learn to accept my 15 watt single channel combo amp for what it is and what it has to offer and make the most out of it. I'm glad I came across this particular content.
One part left out is all the stupid boost pedals on the market. You don't need them. Pick the green one (TS) or the yellow one (SD-1) and move on with your life.
Fr, for high gain, its either 2000's metalcore and everything afterwards(TS), or classic 80-early 90's Distortion
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"There's really no reasson to buy a reverb pedal." THANK YOU. Been saying this for years
Ambient music is the only reason you need a reverb or delay IMO.
the loud wire interview with john 5 using a hello kitty guitar is awesome
Dang I was scrolling looking to seee if someone said this earlier and didn’t see it! I said the same thing
But I like playing with pedals, they're fun. I also like to make weird spacey noises. Reverb and delay are good for that lol. I agree 100% on the expensive amps and guitars though.
I can't stop buying pedals, Uncle Judy, I just ordered my 73rd pedal, and am also learning to build my own...
I got lazy about plugging in, fiddling with effects and everything and played exclusively acoustic for like 6 months.
I was significantly cleaner and clearer on electric when I got back around to it.
4:01 this is why a whole lot of guitar players got into modular synthesizers about 10 years ago. Haha.
I really thought this was an attack on music production. I am personally value the power of studio production in general and also when it comes to guitar tone. However, if you're not in a studio situation, there is no reason to obsesse over the tone of the guitar. The only thing I need when playing at home is a practice amp, a fuzz/dist pedal, overdrive that is built into the amp, and on rare occasions I will use a chorus because it sounds like a synth with fuzz.
"This thing does fucking everything"
Shout out to the ole Toob Screamage
Have a $40 Caline clone. Use it Every. Fucking. Day.
Can’t confirm that John 5 story but from what I’ve seen of the guy…the dude is a straight freak of nature on guitar.
4 minutes ago? this is definetly a moment in history
Dude, the problem is: too much bedroom playing. When you go play with other people, basically anything is fine, but alone in your bedroom at 3am you'll hear every mf harmonic, so nothing will never be good enough
Reverb is pretty essential, depending on the genre. It's largely useless for rock, but for surf it is crucial.
I have one bass and one guitar, and one amp. But I use a Boss gt1000 for my pedalboard 😆
I think its almost crazy how hard it is to find an actual good surfy reverb, that alone has kept my Ventris on my board.
I mostly play a $400 Ibanez RG series with a 16-year-old line 6 spider five that has effects built-in tuner four channels and knobs. I have a pitch shifter with an octave and a wan pedal. That is my set up other than some other guitars very simple.
I played surf punk, so we were sloppy etc. when we played live, but I didn’t care. I was never a great shredder either, but we had fun & we played fast. All I ever used was a Peavey 212 Classic Chorus combo amp (with the chorus/reverb on) & 80s boss pedals (SD1 - super overdrive, DM3 - analog delay, CS2 - compressor/sustainer, & a tuner) into my Mexican strat (with a whammy bar). That’s all you really need. I never understood people with giant pedal boards. In the 70s, Tony Iommi only used a wah & an overdrive.
The other thing is that the bigger your board, the more potential failure points there are, as far as connections are concerned. I’ve seen it happen with other bands before.
out here doin the lords work🤘
I havent got much financially at the minute, so all i have is the clean channel on my line 6 spider 2, a borrowed delay, a faulty overdrive, a fuzz and a cheap behringer distortion i got as gifts, and some cheap guitars i salvaged from a friend that i got for free/cheap. even through phone camera recordings, ive had compliments on my tones, i can dial that stuff in. but I do wish i had a £2,000 gibson and a marshall stack lmao
I know some of these videos are jokes but you make a very valid point that I have seen professional engineers say, about reamping and the fact that sometimes reamping does not work because the guitar player played with a certain way that sounded best with whatever amp/amp sim was used during recording so if a completely different amp or cab (or both) gets used on the final mix the recording will not have the same impact as the original tone had.
I was gear chasing for a couple years ago but I left that phase. This is so cathartic to hear someone else agree with me
Thanks for the wisdom. It's always important to remember to practice practice and practice. Maybe listen to music too. But damn if it isn't fun to buy gear.
Jokes on you, I play shoegaze.
First video of yours I’m viewing. Good stuff man. You have the presence of a TH-camr whom has a lot more experience and subscribers than you currently do.
This advice is gold. When i started to focus on consistency with my alternate picking across clean, high gain and low gain sounds i kind of realised I dont even need that much gain to sound good. I also only use reverb bc my room is small. Delay just sounds terrible to me when i play. I think people get caught up on sounds they heard on records without realising most of the time its just a guy going through an amo and effects are added in post. I find it funny how to gesr crowd is just shitty guitar players who will use pedals and amps to compensate for their lack of discipline and laziness.
I've more than once messed with gearhead friends by nudging their knobs (not those knobs, brits, I mean their gear) during jam sessions as a way to illustrate my point: Yes, by the END of the session, the sound is pretty different then when you turn the knobs back. Did they NOTICE until I pointed it out? Nope.
Yes, it's an asshole thing to do to touch folks' stuff but this was with friends, and it saved them hundreds in future pedal/amp/guitar purchases. I also showed them how dramatic postprocessing, mic placement, and so forth is in shaping the sound, so it was worth it.
8:45 dood an UncleJudy gun channel would be hilarious. "All of it is stupid, just practice..." oh wait, that's just OvertonWindex.
Lately I've been playing a lot without my amp on and I've found I not only don't even give myself the possibility of thinking about "tone" but I also am forced to listen more closely to what I'm playing. Holy run on sentence
We really are focusing on the wrong aspects of our trade/hobby/passion and it’s about damn time someone said something about it.
This is my Intro to you video, dude, and I freaking love it! As someone who started playing in the mid 70's, I think you are SPOT ON here.
Granted, my first teacher came along in 1981 and he said so many of the things you're saying here ... and here's the reason I'm boring you with this anecdotal story ... he would occasionally introduce himself to people as my Uncle Brenda!
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Young Jack Parsons giving me guitar lessons, i am blessed
The algorithm doing its job… 100% agree
99% of guitar tone is learning basic common sense with EQ. Guitar sounds too bright? Turn the high down. Too muddy and low? Roll off some bass. Sounds too good? Turn the mids all the way down.
I'm pretty fine with my amp sim, because I realized some day that it's not about sounding good, but sounding the way you want your guitar to. I don't really care between a free amp sim and a real $10000 amp(obviously I do, but not to a degree that I'd pay that much), but having Marshall-ish sound is necessary for me. I don't know what I'll need in the future. Fender reverb-ish sound, delay, flanger, overdrive, whatever. That's also partly why I invest way more on guitars, because making your Les Paul sound like strat is way harder than making free amp sim sound like Marshall amp. Again, not Gibson or Fender, just cheap ones that sounds close in a budget.
Uncle Judy has become my favorite guitar youtube channel haha. Amazing humor dude and based
Chorus is the caps-lock button for guitar playing. IT'S CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!!!
I only use 5 pedals compressor, fuzzface, univibe, wah, and delay. It goes into my boss katana and I use a compressor and treble booster to mimic the tube sound.
george lynch once said because he is a self taught guitar player he uses his guitar tone to inspire him, I am a self taught gutarist i recorded couple short instrumentals with bad recording technics but i got into impulse responses and amp sims and broke my players block immediately.
Thank you, I needed this. Started getting back into music like 2 years ago bought gear and some guitars to start making music and I wholeheartedly agree with everything said here. Wasted time where I did not need to a lot of musicians need to watch this.
Man this made me feel so much better about not splurging on shit. I knew I wasn’t crazy, IT ALL SOUNDS THE SAME
Good vid. I expelled air from my mouth in amusement several times. Mostly agree. I'll diverge on specific sounds though. You can't sound like french robots getting lucky by just taking your pawn shop off brand strat into the time dilation chamber and getting good while Goku powers up and yells for 10 episodes.
I use my katana more than i do my mesa boogie. I've been contemplating selling it for a long time, and i think the day has come.
not a lot of gifted TH-cam musicians can teach how to transcend boundaries while making it CRYSTAL FUCKING CLEAR that you are not and will never be friends 7/10
If im playing im gonna be drunk af so my tone is always gas.
Now do shoegaze with that setup
Sweet Water Associate here, open your door Judy
5:13 Lmaooo the screensaver turning on is a struggle
Plugging in a guitar directly in a amp works for me.
Do you need a review to promote your lessons? Because I will say that I really have enjoyed our lessons and took enough away to keep working on for awhile. Very enjoyable and easy to handle. You were always on time and motivating!
It turns out the REAL tone is the friends we made along the way
Bro the humour, education, production value is immense. Subbed
Hey man - Waylon Jennings used a phaser on almost everything. Which were some beautiful washy cowboy chords.
This video turned me into one big trigger. My family doesn’t even recognize me now. They’re just looking around for the rest of the giant gun.
How it feels when you just wanna jam but your guitar buddy has to bring his half stack and his pedal board only to mess with his volume knobs the entire time 😂
“Are we learning how to play guitar or are we learning how to turn fucking knobs?” So true so true… 3:56
I started with a shitty broken squire mini but it still sounded great to me coming out of my 20 dollar little amp. Now I have an Ibanez tho
Spitting straight facts honestly.
As a musician first but lots of countless hours in my journey to being a producer, sure. Reverb can give some awesome effects to accentuate what’s being played in conjunction to the overall sound to the song. But I wish a LOT more people would learn how to use a slap back delay technique, which when tweaked, gives you some of the best reverb in conjunction to TONE to just the guitar, with it sounding very subtle but making much more of a loud difference in how you play and not a studio mix. Great video.
This video is great! So much advice ive seen on forums over my 16 years of playing was "it doesnt matter how good your gear is if you dont practice. You wont sound good if you dont practice
Everybody repeat after me….tone is in THE FINGERS. Period.
To me reverb is a good choice when used subtly, when you have it around 2 or 3 it just adds some body to the tone. Same thing with delay, if you have a really fast delay it kinda fattens the tone and adds some depth.
Funnily enough i have an Uncle Judith. But he is not into being called Judy. Still though, yeah? Guys?
Playing with a band, a compressor and overdrive pedal is everything I’ve ever needed. Borrowed an octave pedal to play one song at a gig but that’s about it. (My tone will be shitty regardless because of my lack of talent XD)
thank you for not slandering chorus
It’s not about tone. It’s about feel.
having a decent guitar with locking tuners (i had locking tuners and didnt use them correctly for 15+ years and just started using them correctly now i dont have to retune every song i play!)set up and intunated correctly is 75 % of the battle
I recorded all my Music with cheap guitars and cheap gear!
I'm really happy with the results!
It's not the best sound quality but who cares , it's better than doing nothing
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The editing in this video is crazy
Kinda wild to find out there was a lot of people who questioned John 5 at one point in time, no wonder why they don't bring him up as much when talking about shredders and other virtuoso guitar players