How To Get The Jimi Hendrix Clean Tone
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- Jimi Hendrix's clean tone is legendary and I think all Guitarist's want to have it. Here's my tip on how to get it. Hope it helps! Let me know how you get on.
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4:00 That chord and sound together, ANGELIC
Love minor 7th chords
All that to say...use a Fuzz Face and roll your guitar's volume back a bit.
Great playing! Going to get one of these.
James Haire I had to turn it off. Then I saw your review and completely agree!
@@tinmann2537 Grouchy bastard
Pete Thorne's Video about germanium fuzz is spot on. Sweet and short.
@@anthonydavella8350 Yep. Sadly, you can always count on a miserable turd showing up in TH-cam comments...
I have legit started tuning my guitars like you do at 1:57. Tone has improved tremendously.
i used to keep my guitar volume at full and only use the amp for volume and effects, new technique learned today, cheers!
It's a beautiful tone to play around in, when you first cleaned it up and found your sweet spot, I heard you from the other room, your excitement in the notes reminded me of a young doe leaping around trying to find it's feet on a sunlit mountain side. Good call man, inspiring.
Read the title, people - "How To Get The Jimi Hendrix Clean Tone" not "How to Ape Jimi Hendrix". It's THE SOUND he's talking about, and it sounds beautiful! Brill job, Mike :)
Aww cheers Nick
Actually, I've found that running my strat through a crybaby wah ( disengaged) gets pretty close to that punchy sound hendrix had..
Oh my God that one section is one of the best guitar playing.. I've ever heard honestly!!!..when you achieve the sweet spot with the fuzz ..
Best fuzz face demo on TH-cam. No other pedal does this trick. Well demonstrated. Shame the big ones are so bloody dear for what they are. Gotta be a big one.
Cheers buddy, really appreciate it.
Thanks very much for this Mike..that’s exactly how I’m running my fuzz now and it sounds great :) I wanted a pedal that just added a bit of dirt but never really found an OD I like, the fuzz sounds a bit different and adds a bite to the clean tone.
Mike great video - using the volume knob on a strat is so underrated. I have been playing since the mid-90s and I only JUST started messing around with it.
+Jason Wadman It really is Jason, Ive always done it, who needs effect pedals when you have a good guitar :)
Dude, I forgot how great this video is. I’m so glad the algorithm recommended it to me again!
Its a very similar tone to SRV's Lenny
Perhaps but less of the fuzz and more of the reverb.
I love my fuzz face for this reason. When playing live just roll the volume off a touch for the rhythmy bluesy sound. Then when it comes to the solo you just bump the volume to 10 and BOOM you cut through the mix and have soaring leads that melt the audiences ears.
Here's the most important lesson - be Jimi Hendrix
Thats what I've been asking Santa to bring me for Christmas since I was 12 I'm 33 now and I have everything to play HENDRIX music but I don't have HENDRIX himself. Ima try this year to write another letter hopefully he gets it this time.
Always wondered how you guys who turn down your guitar to achieve a semi clean tone from a fuzz or dirt pedal compensate for your loss of volume?
nice strat, classic look and colours
Very sweet!! 🎸🎸🎸
You do have a Jimi Hendrix clean sound despite what others might say. Good job.
Cheers John :)
I can't tell you how much this video inspired me. Thank you!
Truly means a lot hearing this. 🙏
I think i could listen to a strat with fuzz everyday for the rest of my life,..excellent video
Dude awesome video!!! Love your Chanel! In another note I wanted to share the way I got that tone , if your like me and don't have the fuzz face I got it by combining two pedal
First - Fuzz ( I did it with a big muff)
Second - treble booster (I did it with a blues driver and uses it as a booster)
The rest is the same has in the video , roll the volume down and I think you'll get something like in the video at least for me it works
Great I only have big muff.
+Steve Palmer update : you can get the tone with only the blues driver
I'm using a blues juniors as Amp
Can I only use the big muff?
@@ryanbabcock7503 I guess any style of fuzz can work mosr fuzzes on the market are base either on a fuzz face or a big muff
Man it would be really great if you could do a tutorial on those Hendrix licks you were playing. Great playing btw!
Lovely sound
wow you just gave me something to really practice and work on..awesome !!!
i have seen other guitar channels and you are a excellent guitar player.
Thank you so much, means a lot.
nice video can't wait to put it to the test. thanks
Never occurred to me to try cleaning up on my fuzz pedal for that kind of tone...
Can't wait to get home from work & try it on my Strat & Thorpy Muffroom Cloud.
Cheers Mike 👍🏻
+Daren Ashdown Your very welcome sir :)
That amp and guitar combo are not too shabby either! - Meaning that's fabulous equipment. Just about perfect to my way of thinking.
Beautiful tone.
What where you settings for the Bass and treble?
Absolutely brilliant thank you
Awesome playing and vibe Mike Bradley ☆☆☆☆☆!
beautiful playing mate! feelin it!
Sounds fantastic and wonderful playing!
Really helpful thanks m8!
+Hayden Lloyd Your very welcome Hayden
Which fret board did Hendrix use the most .a rose wood or maple neck .
1966-1968 rosewood 1969-1970 Maple
Germaniums give you the early Hendrix sound. If you really want that early stuff you hear, go germanium. It's sludgy, awesome, but its very inconsistent. It is very sensitive to temperature, humidity, so it will sound different in different places (or times of day). Silicon transistors Hendrix used later, you can hear it on Band of Gypsies I believe. These are the "blue" Fuzz Faces normally. I don't think I will ever be much of a fuzz/Hendrix player but I went with silicon (AnalogMan), because this was Gilmour's choice by Meddle (abandoning the germanium) until he found the Big Muff by the time of the Animals album/tour (the Time solo is a great example of super loud amp and a silicon Fuzz Face). It is less sensitive, brighter and sharper, and seems a bit less sensitive to guitar volume, although it still very much is.
Just for shits and giggles I'm going to get a germanium, may end up preferring it, but the whole "better" thing comes from people having a preference for their favorite guitarists tone in a certain period of time. Just my two cents for people wondering about his Fuzz Face comments.
boonexy I agree early Hendricks sounds come from that transistor. I 've been trying to get my hands on that Joe b mini fuzz face by the way!
Great video, delicious tone!
+mikemikemike701 Thanks mike
Yes YEs please would love a Jimi hendrixs licks video
I love the sound. Supersonic sound superb.
What were the ballpark settings on the Fuzzface? Volume at noon/cranked, fuzz at 3 o'clock (etc)? Sounds great! Thanks!
+Nathan Sink Both knobs cranked :)
+Mike Bradley Thanks for the reply! Wasn't sure if it was like the picture you flashed, but sounds like it was. :)
So funny I'm back from the future. It's Dec 2021.
Tomorrow the Fuzz Pedal, I ordered on ThanksGiving here State Side, will be here as I discovered this truck via another, TH-camr, a Stevie Ray Vaughan Style blues player Nic .
Funny how the Algo rthyms keep repeating.
I've been playing guitar since 1998 ,and JUST found this was the " Bondo, I needed to fill in the Sound, IVE BEEN CHASING ,Since Day 1.
Thank you and a great tip
Mike you're fantastic thanks I've heard many guitarists try to sound like jimi Red House is very hard to sound like him the opening part
Thank you for the kind words.
That jam you at around 4:50 sounded great
Answered the questions I had after watching your Hendrix licks video.
Great tip! Thank you
Is that an '80s Strat Plus? What an underrated guitar. I have a "mystery guitar" that I'm 90% sure is a Strat Plus, with the same Lace pickups, except that the body is weird natural/clear finish on a really unappealing dark wood, and somebody before me seems to have glued the tremolo down, as it's not blocked but still doesn't move.
obviously it's not the ideal guitar for that Hendrix sound with a frozen hard bridge, but it's incredibly, incredibly close to the specs on the very first generation of Clapton signature Strats at a fraction of the price. Notwithstanding a very very tiny difference in the neck profile, it's virtually identical. Definitely one of my favourite axes, especially given the price.
It’s a 1996 Strat Plus. Love this guitar. If you see one can’t recommend them enough.
AWESOME! Great thanks !
Glad to help!
Great stuff, but I routinely come back to the video just to listen to your playing from 4:50. Trying to figure out what shapes you were playing around the chords there, so good!!
floydthebarber71 isnt that the verse section tge wind cries mary?
No, he made it up and finished off with something that sounded like Wind Cries Mary. It's just playing around pentatonics on the chords he mentioned, as far as I can see..
@@floydthebarber71 that's chords embellishments, hendrix/mayer style
The amp is under driven so the sweetness of saturation and bite isn't going to happen making a clean and more "solid state" transparency to what is happening here.
Jimi also had an EQ built into a knob with a "Q" on another knob to give a a permanent wah position setting that he crept in to taste. He also used specially the 1966 JTM 45/100 head and bled in a little bit of Fender Showmans. 010, .013, .015, .026, .032 and .038 string gauges. The reverse head on the guitar also changed the sonic quality of the strings due to the lengths being reversed.
Always get something useful from your demos Mike, many thanks for what you do for us it is much appreciated.
+tenodogblu Aww cheers buddy, means a lot.
That sound is so nice, thanks for that. I found that I could replicate what was done here by putting my shitty black star fly 3 on over drive and my guitar on around 4 in volume. No where near as nice sounding but I'm getting a taste of that sound.
Hi, is it correct that it seems here at 9:55 that there is a highly noticeable difference in levels when u adjust the volume knob? Meaning at low volume knob numbers, the sound will be lower? Which does make sense?
I was expecting that at different volume knob numbers, only the texture will differ.
Yep..........I saw the unicorn herd running through the green meadow and splashing through the gentle rolling brook...........once the volume was rolled back.
Hey Mike, can you make a video (or answer this in your next Q&A; I'm not on facebook) about some of Hendrix's chord voicings and the theory behind them, as in how they fit in a key and stuff?
Noob question, I know.
Can do, though def check out my lesson on chord inversions.
Thanks man, you're the best...or should I say the beast lol!
very useful.
Hi, that sounds great! Finally someone with a strat plus. I own one too, and always thought the lace sensors sound a bit sterile. Perhaps I should try a fuzz! How do you adjust pickup height? Close to the strings or down? Cheers
Nice touch you got there man. So come to think of it with this set up you're sort of using the Fuzz as a compressor. Then this also explain the "spongy" feel.
Cheers Ron, yes indeed good shout there!
The best clean tone to sound like Hendrix is with Marshall JTM 45/100
Tone depends on if you want his studio sound or what he did live.
That sounds great! I really enjoyed your playing!
Cheers buddy!
Some good playing there!
Mike,i have the Boss Katana.Can it do the trick?Ah that pedal.
Great,i wasn't paying attention,again😮Joe Bonnemasa fuzzface mini with a germanium chip inside.Allright!!
The katana can just about do anything!
knew about the trick but I watched anyway because I like your playing and personality.
Cheers Chris
Pieuw Pieuw wieuw!!! Great sound man and nice Amp!!
Thank you Mike that was helpful, I appreciate the effort you have put into sharing your knowledge. I have a BigMuff rtaher than a FuzzFace, so I'm hoping I can do the same with it, and donlt see why not! Going through your tone control settings on guitar and amp would also have been good. Looks like you cut mids on the amp?
I like mids tbh always around 5-6
Awesome -- thanks!
Thanks Mike, great video! I feel like I new to start paying you for this! much appreciated!
+Jerry Rodriguez your very welcome, cash is always welcome! :)
Fuzz face, Fuzz face, nice but I hate tuning down to E flat. But that doesn't mean I don't like it! It's great to hear from you. ☯️🎸☮️🎼🎶🎶🎶😎👌👌👌👌
Excellent video. I ask you to please answer some questions. How would you describe this sound sonically?. They call this one glassy?. If so, the glassy sound is bright but not harsh?. Some say the glassy sound goes a little overboard in the high and upper mid frequencies. The sound in this video also has the midrange scooped?. Thank you very much for answering.
When he's jamming at around 4:12, what scale is he using? I'm working on my scale licks but they all sound shit.
4:50 damn man. I enjoyed that section of playing A LOT. Sounded brilliant. Really nicely done sir 👍👍👍
Same right away n the pocket, all the elements clicked
If you want that early '66-'67 Hendrix tone you HAVE to pick up an MJM London Fuzz Pedal. It uses a germanium transitor just like Jimi's original fuzz pedal which was made by his guitar tech Roger Mayer. Check out proguitarshop's demo of it, NAILS the tone to a T, better than a fuzz face (unless you have the bread to buy an original). They also make a version with a silicon transistor which Jimi switched to from '68-'70, which has a sharper sound.
+diba8 The fuzz I'm using does have the germanium chip in.
I would say yes, but I think it doesn't really matter, I play an old mxr fuzz unit, I don't think they have a germanium transistor, but still I manage to get a great 66 67 hendrix tone through my bassman, It will help, but the way you play the guitar counts more and how to set up your amp , and to detune the guitar to E flat or even D ( often in D for live versions) . But of course it will help if you have germanium chip, but really you can do without!
Thanks my guy...been messing around with tones and sometimes you just need to hear it from somebody else
Great lesson and playing sir!
+RICHIE RICH Thanks Richie!
Knowledge is tone! great playing mate very Hendrix indeed
Thank you Troy :)
Thank you!
Hey Mike, I liked your tone and I understand your guitar volume is on 5. What was your Fuzz Face set at for volume and fuzz?
I think all the way up :)
My setup Clapton strat with Vintage Noiseless into a Marshall JVM410 Crunch Green with the gain on 6, Hendrix clean sound! Sometimes I go to Crunch Orange to cut out the highs at large volumes tho.
Very nice! Can u please give your tabs for the licks my friend?
Hi man, could you do a video on how to get John Fruscainte's tone?
+Jacob Jones Good idea!
I like the burning Hendrix lead sounds type of fuzz best.
Love your playing! Very inspiring!
Love the fuzz with rolled back guitar volume. I eq the amp after the fuzz is rolled back on the guitar to get the best sound then run a plexi pedal after. Univibes sound best to me after this fuzz trick.
Nice playing man ! Most of the Fuzz Faces used by Jimi would have had Silicone transistors . But I like my Williams MkI which is built using NOS components inc. Germanium transistors and that cleans up brilliantly too . At Monterey I don't think he had any pedals , just straight into the amps. If you haven't already buy the Fender Hendrix Strat - You won't be dissapointed: You can sound like Dick Dale on it too :-)
Hi Mike, just stumbled across your channel - very refreshing - thanks..
Cheers Stephen
WOW !! AMAZING ! That was a really great tip on how to get the Hendrix tone :D :D
Hey Mike ! Great video mate, but quick question here : Will this volume knob trick still work with my Strat ? Because I've got a treble bleed on my volume pot and I don't own the fuzz pedal yet, i just wanted to know if it'd still work like that. Thanks in advance !
My musicman has a treble bleed. Some fuzz pedals it likes, some it doesn’t. So I would say take your guitar to a shop and try a few out to see what works best.
4:48 how do I learn how to do that? He is just riffing right? Anyone got any tips? If i had to guess I’d day music/note theory is huge?
Just subscribed and love your channel! You're really fun to watch. Great hair man!
+BodyLectric Aww cheers buddy
Three Questions: I see you have a Fender Super Sonic 22w amp. I think it is the best amp for clean tones with a lot of head room. But, I have seen some negative reviews for a loud popping sound when switching channels, and a loud tube hissing when not being played. (1) What do you think of this amp? (2) What speaker upgrade changes would you recommend. Some people think the Cannabis rex speakers would be great. (3) What do you think a perfect speaker would be for this amp?
I've had mine since December 2013 have done probably over 100 gigs with and used it many times in the studio and its great, the only problem I have with it now is that the reverb has gone in it.
soundz great mate. love the supersonic
+Wadenkrang Guttenberg Cheers buddy!
Great playing man!
+Ed Jackson Thanks Ed!
Thanks man! You're a great musician!
+Tirtharaj Banerjee Cheers buddy
Awesome video....thanks
I'm getting a fuzzface right now then. Excellent video!
+Gastón Ruiz haha.. have fun!
You bought that red 345 hey!! Good on ya 😊
top notch advice 🎸
Excellent! And great playing. Thank you!