Is it time to downsize your pedalboard? Small footprint; serious firepower!!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มิ.ย. 2023
- Have you considered downsizing? XTS built this board for me around the HX Effects. It has some really convenient and powerful features that I explain and play through in this video.
Chapters AND my #1 RULE for downsizing are below, but first:
==GEAR I use EVERY DAY==
PolyTune headstock tuner sweetwater.sjv.io/k0znKV
D’Addario NYXL 10-46 sweetwater.sjv.io/daLXW2
D’Addario NYXL 11-49 sweetwater.sjv.io/Nkzdx1
D’Addario 10.5-48 (VERY COOL) sweetwater.sjv.io/y2yDKG
D’Addiaro Baritone 13-62 sweetwater.sjv.io/
Dunlop Large glass slide 213 sweetwater.sjv.io/k0zndV
Revv Shawn Tubbs Tilt Overdrive sweetwater.sjv.io/0ZmraE
Nobels ODR-1 Natural Overdrive sweetwater.sjv.io/oqz2ME
Line6 HX Effects sweetwater.sjv.io/g1DznX
Eventide H9 MAX sweetwater.sjv.io/EK9n6D
Strymon Mobius Modulation sweetwater.sjv.io/75yAg5
Strymon Timeline delay sweetwater.sjv.io/LXnvk0
Meris Mercury7 Reverb sweetwater.sjv.io/q4ARdg
Meris Polymoon Delay sweetwater.sjv.io/rQGvdD
Revv D20 sweetwater.sjv.io/6eAaLQ
UA OX Amp Top Box sweetwater.sjv.io/vNyLk3
CHAPTERS:
0:21 clean tone and board explanation
3:30 Kingtone fuzz
5:38 Jackson Audio Golden Boy
7:08 Nordland ODR-C
7:26 why I have two totally different boards
10:40 back to the Nordland
12:31 Boss GE-7
14:31 My Line6 HX Effects settings
18:18 Dunlop EP103 (a real sleeper!)
20:06 Legacy effects from the M-series in the HX
21:20 Another scene in the HX
21:53 Does the HX actually have good OD/fuzz tones in it?!
24:39 My Eventide H9 MAX settings
29:59 Consider how I’m using the HX for your own downsized board
31:27 Almost forgot - wah sounds on the HX
32:22 Have a great day, and SUBSCRIBE
===*My #1 Rule:*===
Pedals are tools. They don't do anything until you play through them. For me, they are there to supplement a great sounding amp. Speaking of, just listen to the tone of only my amp in this video. It is AWESOME. (In my opinion, anyway). This is the rule: make sure you're playing through an amp that sounds great on the edge of breakup. This allows you to use fewer OD pedals and either use your pedalboard real estate for other effects or downsize the board altogether. Do not try to "fix" your amp's tone with pedals! And do not get caught up in the idea of what your pedals do. Rather, focus on what YOU can do with certain pedals. It's a subtle shift of focus that puts the music-making and creativity ball in YOUR court, where it has always been, but which focusing on pedals can make you forget at times. Bottom line for me: *I can do my best and my guitars and pedals will sound their best when they are working with a great amp. I play in the studio, so cranking amps isn't a problem for me. I know that's not feasible for everyone, so the other thing to consider is you also might need to pick a smaller amp or one that has power scaling OR look at some cab sims if you have a home setup that allows you to reference your guitar through a set of studio monitors. I might be able to crank a Deluxe Reverb to 10 because my speaker cab is in a different room, but I understand that most people can't do that, especially if you're playing small venues or at church. A direct speaker cab emulator like the OX Amp Top Box (my link is above 🙏) will solve this for you.
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Holy crap your clean tone is amazing.
Great video! Lots of nice textures. Would be cool to watch you dial in some presets on the HX FX sometime, because you always have some good insight to why you make your choices.
Fantastik breakdown of your stuff Justin. And that "Buscuit" is so killer !
You have your Justin tone ,it's signature and sweet . I have learned so much watching this channel .
When you reversed the EQ at around 13:54 that sounded so cool with the part YOU were playing thru it.
First vid I’ve seen and just Loving your channel! So enjoyable hearing first hand what’s happening now on Music Row and your playing and time is right on, brother! Thank you and just subbed🫡👏✔️💪
Love your channel. Great player, beautiful tones, generous insights. Thank you🙏🏼
Thanks a ton! More to come.
One of the best vids ever for this kind of thing!!! Great job!!!
Nice video and great attitude about gear. I love gear too, and I do love pedals. I never thought about it analytically before, but I think I buy pedals that I simply like the sound of. When I hear them, I get a big "YES" in my brain. So, all of the gain pedals are to my taste to begin with. I swap them out with each other to keep my ears and creativity interested and and inspired to avoid boredom. Even though they don't sound alike, they are pleasing to my ear and can get something a little different out of me on different days. PS: Biscuit is incredible sounding! Yowza!
Your videos are just the best man
The golden boy sounds like a genius pedal. What a great feature to have clickable gain without having to turn the knob. That would be especially cool live!
Honestly I’d be happy with your dry tone almost all day. What a great sound. That’s the key to all this working.
Your hair has grown as much as this channel has :) :) I like the shift in camera views but if I get a vote, I like the coffee bags artwork in the background. Your use of the HX Effects has me intrigued.
Thank's Justin ! That was very informative. Appreciate the insight!
The tone... just that tele and amp is awesome!
Thanks!!
Ive just started using a pedal board- before i had a multi effect pedal but in the amp effects loop- nice rich tone. But im basically the bands utility player. Some acoustic some harp some bass. So i set up my rig to minimize my load. I have it set so when i can switch to harp then click on the distortion channel add a delay or reverb or both. If the next song is acoustic i switch to the guitar feed (baggs preamp) turn off the distortion and select reverb or delay or neither- whatever. So its very much a tool for routing my instruments and some texture. I run mostly clean except the harp so im getting alot out of one amp and a small board. It was born out if a need to be compact and versatile.
Words of wisdom dude! Thank you!
Justin, Cool board I have some of the same pedals anyway thanks for such a cool video and content!!!
Great video, Justin!
You have a great base sound with that Tele.... wow!
Effects only complement to that.
Thanks man!
Yep.Its how you use the pedals. We're all trying to get that sound that's in our head Out!
You are my favorite guitarist on TH-cam - so down to earth, such a great view on gear and shit - just such a tasty player!
Thanks a ton!
Totally! This dude is a MONSTER.
I just did downsize. Went to a much a smaller board, and made another board, with he other pedals, that I can add into my signal chain if needed.
that fuzz sounds so gooooooood
holy cow! Justin I had no idea you used our stuff! Thanks so much! :)
Absolutely love the GB!
Bad ass tele. Killer guitar player.
I would LOVE to get hold of the files for your fave H9 presets Justin.
I've just got hold of an H9 Max. I've never really been a multi-effects guy. There is so much in there so auditioning stuff that some folks have already tweaked is a nice short-cut!
Still hoping 🙂
Hey Justin! Would you offer your HX preset up for sale or download? Would be curious to try out your fx being a huge HX and nordland user. I am touring the Stomp XL with the Nordland
Yes I will post these up at some point
@@JustinOstrander Seconding the request!
@@JustinOstrander shoot me a text if you need help exporting them!
If you post this preset, I wanna buy it too!
Hey Justin, I was intrigued by your #1 rule and it got me thinking about pedal platform amps. I'm curious to know your thoughts on them, considering your emphasis on having a fantastic amp at the edge of breakup. Pedal platform amps typically offer clean tones with high headroom, meaning they don't break up easily, or at least not until they're cranked up really loud. Examples like the Suhr Bella or the Two Rock Traditional Clean come to mind. I'd love to hear your perspective on this. Your philosophy and approach to tone resonate with me. Thanks!
I find that amps with a lot of headroom are susceptible to large jumps in volume when stepping on a boost pedal. I just prefer when the amp is cooking to the point that I can go from from clean to grit all in my right hand attack. When set that way, the amp doesn’t get a lot louder when I step on a boost. It’s like self-mixing in with the band. Cheers!
I was going to ask Justin the same question - you worded it really well.
Perhaps if you have a pedal platform kind of amp (something with a ton of headroom that barely breaks up) you could obtain similar results by having an always-on light breakup overdrive last in your OD section - something like a lightspeed.
My tone is nowhere near as good as Justin’s, but this is what I’ve been doing with my two-rock studio sig.
Justin’s videos, however, make me want to plug into my 3rd Power Wooly Coats Extra Spanky MKII, which will get that edge of break-up tone like a Deluxe.
Cheers Justin 🍺
Thanks!
Really cool and sage advice. Thanks Justin. You've inspired me to dig deeper into my HX. It's been on one of my boards for a while now and l Iove it, but I really dig the way you're using it w your other FX. Agreed, the HX legacy patch sound quality is better than the M9. Just about to send my beloved old M9 out for the JHV3 overhaul. BTW: Is your Boss EQ stock? I need to incorporate one in my next rig. Also agree too many mind games:) LOL. Cheers!
Thanks! Yeah this EQ is stock.
Great! Thx again Justin!
That could be the closest thing to a Fuzz Face clean and a Tone Bender all the way up!
Hi Justin (and folks)! Your videos are getting better and better, great insights! Was wondering tho...how did you set the Echoplex and H9 to be before the timebased effects in HX exactly? Trying to figure out myself but no luck so far...
The HX has two loops in it. So you can have two pedals "inside" the HX. If you get the HX Edit app, you can assign where in the order of effects your two loops happen. I assigned mine between the last HX delay and the first HX reverb. Hope that makes sense. Maybe I'll do a video about getting around the HX.
@@JustinOstrander thank you Justin! And oh, I just got the Throbak drive because of your video and the pedal is amazing🤘
H9. Love it.
I wish I could see the settings you have for that American Spring preset. I just fiddled with mine some today. I can get my "rate" to match yours, but not sure what the other "knobs" are set to on the H9 app. You probably arent using the default, which has all 4 knobs after Mix and Decay, set to max. And the resonance knob at zero.
I just found you can bypass that “capacitance” on the HX
The neck on the Biscuit is too cool. Seriously historical relic there. What an incredible piece.
Agreed. And it is the best feeling neck, too.
@@JustinOstrander love it
Justin, how do you approach a humbucker guitar vs. single coil with your board? both of you board demos included your tele, but I wonder what changes you think about or hear diferently with a humbucker. Thanks
Great question! Believe it or not, the bridge pickup on the Biscuit is hotter than pretty much every humbucker guitar I have. For me, it comes down relying a ton on the guitar’s volume and tone controls rather than having different pedalboard settings for Tele, P90s, Jazzmaster, Strat, humbucker, etc…
I'm super curious how your are setting up the expression pedal at 16:51. Do you have it mapped to both Mix and Feedback? 0-100 or a certain range? I love this concept of controlling delay with expression pedal. I'm thinking of adding a 2nd expression pedal to my midi controller just for this purpose. I use it to control Helix Native, which is essentially the software version of HX Effects.
It’s patch dependent. But yeah on the one delay it is controlling mix and feedback
I bought the GB because of you. It sounds fantastic. My only issue is the delay when you turn it on. Is this an issue for you during recording? I also bought the mercury 7 and it too sounds killer. Do you find you can get the same quality of plate reverb from the hx effects? Thanks!! These videos are incredible.
All of my tube amps take longer to turn on. The HX and the H9 also take a second to boot up. That said, the GB did have a bit of a learning curve for me. I tried several times to activate the drive and boost together, forgetting that this is how the pedal stages the gain in 25% increments. Took a while to break myself of that.
@@JustinOstrander Sorry, to clarify, when I depress the foot switch there is a delay from when I press it to when the pedal engages. Every other effect pedal I have engages the effect when I depress the foot switch. It does’t sound like it’s an issue for you, which is good to hear! Thanks again for the wealth of info. I’ll buy your presets when they are available.
@@BoBigReds Ah! I see. Yes, there are a few pedals out there that activate on the release of the switch rather than the pressing of the switch. This is part of how the GB was designed due to how you cycle through the different kinds of gain and boost. I totally agree-that was a learning curve for me as well.
Plz come route my board (.. seriously sounds like you have it figured out.. you do what works for you.. and that could change tomorrow.
What are you using for the volume and expression pedals? It seems like it's hard to find the right balance of size, affordability, and function.
Dunlop minis
What are your thoughts on the HX effects vs the H9?
I use an HX Stomp for most of my work these days, whether it's DI or in front of a Carr Rambler amp. The H90 piqued my interest but if the old M9 is good enough for Uncle Larry, it's hard to imagine needing to upgrade anything Helix.
If I had to pick one, it would be the HX
I’ve been dealing with my HX Stomp since pandemic. I’ve never been successful With 4 cable method. I’ve had good luck in the studio, especially mixing live amps and Stomp. It’s great to learn the software, but it’s great to be able to make adjustments on the pedal especially in the studio. I like your concept of pedals. I may be old school, for a sound or a tone to work, it has to fit the music and feel good with the fingers.
One last question, where is the volume pedal in the chain? Is it first or after drives? Do you have it set up with a expressionable pedal like the one Xts made you on the other board?
After drive/boost pedals before HX
@@JustinOstrander Perfect!
When you create a sound that becomes identified with a certain song, are you ever asked not to use it on any other songs?
Very rarely. I think we generally are on the same page as producers and writers when a certain sound or trick has run its course.
Yeah man
What's the size of this board?
I don’t have exact measurements, but it fits in a Pedaltrain 2 mono case.
Couple things: Do the lights on the clock pedal and the HX blink simultaneously once they’re locked together?
And, after watching days and days of guitar content over the years, something has become clear. The guitar crowd consists of three main groups:
1. Players - “If it sounds/plays good, it is good."
2. Collectors - "I want the cleanest/most beautiful version I can find."
3. Dealers - "What's the resell value?"
Whichever description fits you best affects how you view gear. All these groups are valid and no one is exclusively in just one group. Be careful though, if you're a player, it doesn't serve you to get too wrapped up in what collectors think. (Sell them pedals if you wanna.)
I'm a player and I often switch between my Custom Shop Strat and my Mexican Tele. They both sound incredible and connect with me. I waited until I found the guitars that I bonded with because that connection is way more important to me as a player than whether it's collectible or what the resell value is.
I'm with you on your pedal assessment. You seem to be a player. Don't get too wrapped up in what collectors and dealers are interested in. It's fun to dabble in those worlds but being a player wins when in doubt.
Love the channel!
I don’t know if they do sync up the blinks. Never paid attention. Thanks for the comment. And I agree with you-I’m at the point now where I just want to find keepers. Cheers!
@@JustinOstrander yeah man. I’m in the same place.
Hi Justin, do you use the GE7 into the Overdrive Pedal or boosting the Overdrive Signal? Thanks
GE7 is after fuzz and ODs.
I understand that a fellow has to pay his bills! Got it! But I've always been curious how (clearly amazing players) music row guys would sound, or perhaps more importantly, approach a progressive rock or metal song. It (perhaps it shouldn't but feelings are feelings) bums me out that y'all are always having to be in "trim the fat" mode and essentially cater to the least musically perceptive audiences.
I leave this comment with the highest respect. God bless you and your family!
Promo*SM
i'd like to see your secret "cabinet room" sometime...and maybe get some tips on how to set one up. i'd love to be able to open up some of my amps once in awhile, but i have neighbors on each side of me, only about 10 feet separation(city living). i know they can hear everything because i can hear everything.
Check out my “do not spend $$$ on recording gear” video. I go through my whole setup. Spoiler alert: I don’t have a cabinet room