I’m seriously thinking of pulling the trigger on an amp and cabinet pedal to round out my Boss only board. I already have all the others demoed here. 👍🎸🎸
Back in the day when my time was horrible, I used a delay with a single repeat to practice over trying to keep everything tight. This was really good for increasing speed picking. A tremolo can also be used similarly. (:
The Looper is a wonderful tool to make practice sessions more creative, productive and fun. I strongly advise getting a Looper that has "Auto-sensing" so it can start recording when you start playing without having to stomp on a pedal switch in perfect time. That will save you a lot of wasted effort. There are a number of good Software Loopers available, some free and surprisingly powerful and versatile.
For me, the big miss here is a hold / pad type effect. So you can sustain a note or chord and then explore a scale over that pad. Something like the EHX Superego or ZCat hold / delay / Chorus
For practice I have a Monoprice Stage Right amp. $225 with real tubes and a Celestion speaker and an effects loop. It’s a great practice amp. You can run it at 1 or 5w. It has master and gain control, an EQ and reverb. Also the Digitech Trio+ “band maker” pedal to create a backing track on the fly with drums and bass. It has multiple genres. It also has a looper pedal built in. Also useful for practice is a TC Electronics infinite pedal to record a sample, which I have feeding into a modulation pedal to create a pad. Say a C major triad pad then you can practice scales over it.
That sounds like a great practice setup! I'd love to mess around with one of those Digitech Trio+ pedals. I should really get one of those short pad/sample type pedals too, that's maybe level 0.5 looping... I should have included that, great way to make a quick chord backing. Thanks for sharing.
I have a review and comparison video on octave pedals. th-cam.com/video/WKJ7iVF1gfk/w-d-xo.html I've got it on my list to do a video on ideas around the different ways you can use an octave pedal, but that one will be some time in the future I think.
@@MichaelBanfieldGuitarThank you. That's great. This was a really good overview. My practice setup. Fender Champion 20w (set to twin reverb) with a touch of spring reverb. Boss BD 2 Paul Gilbert MojoMojo Sonicake Reverb
If you like to play something experimental, it's interesting to get Reverbs and delays. They have something to play along just with you. SORRY MY ENGLISH
Does any one else go through the situation of what sounds great last time tone wise doesnt sound so great 3 days later when you plug back in and hear the tone again?
Well, I listen to a pedal review or instruction video while I'm doing something and get a lot of inspiration to get some playing time in
This is true! There are moments when I spend more time turning knobs than actually practicing on the instrument.
A Looper pedal is a must for me for ideas for writing songs.
Great Michael. Your talk about Art, not only guitar. That's the point
Thank you!
I’m seriously thinking of pulling the trigger on an amp and cabinet pedal to round out my Boss only board. I already have all the others demoed here. 👍🎸🎸
Back in the day when my time was horrible, I used a delay with a single repeat to practice over trying to keep everything tight. This was really good for increasing speed picking. A tremolo can also be used similarly. (:
The Looper is a wonderful tool to make practice sessions more creative, productive and fun.
I strongly advise getting a Looper that has "Auto-sensing" so it can start recording when you start playing without having to stomp on a pedal switch in perfect time. That will save you a lot of wasted effort.
There are a number of good Software Loopers available, some free and surprisingly powerful and versatile.
1. tuner, 2. metronome, 3. looper, 4. amp sim with aux in for backing tracks 5. band-in-a-box
Beautiful video man !!
Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you!
My practice rig at home entails only four pedals: Tuner, Maxon 808, MXR Carbon Copy and an old school Ditto Looper. Easy peasy...
Simple and straight forward, great!
@MichaelBanfieldGuitar I don't fiddle with knobs searching for sounds but I can focus on simply playing
For me, the big miss here is a hold / pad type effect. So you can sustain a note or chord and then explore a scale over that pad. Something like the EHX Superego or ZCat hold / delay / Chorus
For practice I have a Monoprice Stage Right amp. $225 with real tubes and a Celestion speaker and an effects loop. It’s a great practice amp. You can run it at 1 or 5w. It has master and gain control, an EQ and reverb. Also the Digitech Trio+ “band maker” pedal to create a backing track on the fly with drums and bass. It has multiple genres. It also has a looper pedal built in. Also useful for practice is a TC Electronics infinite pedal to record a sample, which I have feeding into a modulation pedal to create a pad. Say a C major triad pad then you can practice scales over it.
That sounds like a great practice setup! I'd love to mess around with one of those Digitech Trio+ pedals. I should really get one of those short pad/sample type pedals too, that's maybe level 0.5 looping... I should have included that, great way to make a quick chord backing. Thanks for sharing.
Boss and a Haircut 🎵🎶
Michael, have you done a longer video about octave pedals?
I have a review and comparison video on octave pedals. th-cam.com/video/WKJ7iVF1gfk/w-d-xo.html I've got it on my list to do a video on ideas around the different ways you can use an octave pedal, but that one will be some time in the future I think.
@@MichaelBanfieldGuitarThank you. That's great. This was a really good overview.
My practice setup.
Fender Champion 20w (set to twin reverb) with a touch of spring reverb.
Boss BD 2
Paul Gilbert MojoMojo
Sonicake Reverb
Boss Looper RC3 and Superego+. And, don't forget it. A simple metronome.
A TRIO + will do your drum rhythms, your bass lines, and multi loops in one pedal.
If you like to play something experimental, it's interesting to get Reverbs and delays. They have something to play along just with you. SORRY MY ENGLISH
Does any one else go through the situation of what sounds great last time tone wise doesnt sound so great 3 days later when you plug back in and hear the tone again?