How Nita Strauss Gets Huge Tones with No Amp

I guess this is a good segue to talk about your really minimal last time aside as minimal as possible a little ridiculous huge rig yeah five guys setting it up yeah team it's rigged and now you're like is lean and mean as it could possibly get so this is the boss gt-1000 yes the boss gt-1000 has been my go to fly rig since it came out and before that it was the GT 100 and I've been super super into I mean I had it from the GT 10 to the GT 102 now the GT 1000 yeah and it's been my go-to if you guys have ever seen videos of me playing the national anthem playing at WrestleMania you know playing America the Beautiful at the LA Rams football game like anything big that I do like that is this little baby direct into the board it's a gig bag and yeah exactly one X so long it's a single XLR we have two now and one of them is you guys but you know the thing about this tour is you know we're a small tour you know this is a my solo tour it's a really really small crew and we're all hands on deck with a band and crew for setting up and loading out and tearing down and we can't you know we don't have the budget for you know carting out the ABS and heads and all that stuff so actually everything that you guys are seeing and hearing on my solo tour is all direct if you take a look around the stage feel free to bring the cameras around later after we're done there is not a single cab on stage everything is direct we've got fractals across the front and then my gt-1000 and so the PA drops out all you hear is drums yes drums a really great job but everything that we bring on on this tour can be carried on the plane in your hands which is we know I think important for people to know that it can be done right you can get this huge massive you know arena sound I have done it in a football stadium more than once with just this on its own in a single XLR it's more you're as comfortable with this is anything yeah maybe even more comfortable and you know the cool thing is it's actually got so many bells and whistles that I haven't even played around with yet because I got this I got this exact unit on my first the day of my first clinic on the unit so I was just reading about it studying about it and I'd out in these patches and I've just been going through them yeah okay would you mind taking us through some of your like your go-to for sure so I set up all my rigs the exact same way you guys might remember this from the last one I always have clean rhythm lead an effect lead like something like an auto wah which is my go-to because I like it ottawa and it doesn't I know you know and actually I'll show you a couple different ways that this has a regular wah and an auto wah on it and then the last one is a cool little effect one that I'll show you so you guys heard my clean sound it's sort of a it's sort of a 12-string sounding sound [Music] surprisingly almost acoustic overtones that's why I like this one so much if you go to this split pick up when you're splitting the humbucker in the single [Music] I mean it sounds like a nicely miked acoustic suite close enough to and then from there of course you need a solid rhythm channel and you know do you remember what amp you're basing that on um you know the the GT doesn't have you know the amps per se it's just you just find a sound it's you know I go by ear anyway I find if I start going aren't you just on like a triple rectifier area whatever it is right you know you get a little too caught up in I needed to sound like a jcm800 it doesn't sound enough like a jcm800 so I don't like it right you know yeah it's it's kind of a silly thing that we equate things with but yeah it's like a reference it is just a word it did really yeah I think it's easy to get caught up in that as a guitar player and going well it doesn't sound realistic enough to be a jcm800 or you know a JVM which is what I use on stage with Alice now I would rather just go by my ear it may it may very well have that amp model in there but if it does I just like I just keep flipping through it till I find one that I know exactly and then from there my lead sound is pretty much like that jumped into a pool so you see it's got like a nice long delay not too high of a level on the but something that's got a couple different you know it comes back a couple times is there a little DB bump on that oh yeah I have to yeah Here I am right here yeah I've broadened out the Drover's yes and that's and that's actually as much you know for on stage as offstage because we have a great front of house the engineer that's out here you know he'll push me in the monitor in the front of house when I need to be but if I need to hear myself a little more it's always important for you to our players to have that boost so you can hear what you're doing yeah and good any good bands mix themselves exactly exactly so here we've got and actually you know what while we're on that one I'll show you a couple more things you can do with it or like that so we've got that lis sound right and right now as you guys see the GT has this here which usually I have it set as a volume as well but it also has a pressure switch at the top so if I go up here and I put some weight on it it becomes an expression pedal so you can use it as a wah you can use it as a volume you can use it as an octave or I think I've got this one set is an October so it's sort of its own whammy pedal so how do you do the look like you're doing the switch just by I mean like how are you switching over it's a pressure sensor so you basically just put some pressure on it and the key is when you're doing the volume swap yeah to make sure you're keeping the pressure on your heel and not putting the pressure on the ruin because that's how it activates the second expression paddle how did you did okay so but I mean how do you differentiate between the wah and the and the octave thing so I've got the I've got the Wasat on one I've got the octave on the other one okay so yeah this is my rhythm path and that's the one I've got the octave or set on and then same thing now we go to lead it's volumes well and then it's a walk and it can be a slicer it can be a harmonizer I mean boss effects are great yeah you guys got a harmonizer dialed in on that where is it so it's got Harmonizers it's got it's got all kinds of my stuff built into it I can't get enough of this thing then we have of course my favorite Ottawa was always fun and then the last thing that this thing has not the last thing it's got an infinite amount of cool stuff let's say you're gonna show you guys right now so I had I had the boss synth where you had to use the GK pickup and you know and it was a whole extra step and he never ended up taking on torques it didn't seem like a road thing it seemed like studio thing but it made all this cool synth sounds his cool keyboard sounds and when I started playing around with the GT 1000 I came across this and how cool is that that they managed to get that sense sound with a regular instrument cable okay and for the record I think you're related to Johann Strauss yes oh neoclassical I would love that I mean it's a little bit of more of us had than like a real sense but still like I think it's cool that they got that sound out of it and we're able to do it yeah you can totally do Strauss oh yeah yeah strap straps and then the last thing we have up here is a sure GL XD wireless super reliable I use this anytime I'm not out with Alice this is my go-to again it fits in a little backpack along with the gt-1000 and it's all that I've needed

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Keywords: Nita Strauss, DiMarzio, Ibanez, Alice Cooper, Guitar, Guitars, Shred, Metal, Boss, D'Addario, NYXL, Guitar gear, Nita, Strauss, John Bohlinger

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Length: 9min 13sec (553 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 07 2020