LIVE Comments & Questions 13 December 2021 - That Pedal Show

[Music] don't be nervous now marcus oh no it's all good oh i'm in shock how you doing twangtastic isn't it great hey everyone uh welcome to that pedal show viewers and comments questions live i think i said that right it's been a long day danny mick here hello and marcus here for those of you who don't know this is senor marcus of reeves shire uh who we know uh and love very dearly on that pedal show for his wonderful creations yeah blush so um that was for you that but oh i love that as regular viewers all know we were at anderson's last week and um it seemed that you much prefer other people in the video yes i had to drive down um it's only for the numbers not just me and dan uh so we decided marcus is we're gonna film with marcus tomorrow we're gonna uh build a fuzz face and do some other things marcus is gonna show us how to do it are we using are we using a tag board or anything tomorrow are we gonna yeah so um we're gonna be doing that and he's come down tonight so we thought why don't you sit in on the um on the vcq for the uh coveredly worrying among you we have all tested today so everything is groovy as far as we're concerned we're all positive so that's all like yeah yeah no we're all good we're all good can i just say um i don't know whether anybody knows um uh a guy there's a demo guy called sasha ivan tech oh yeah who's uh been uh in hospital with kovid has he and he was he got out yesterday he got home yesterday so um get well soon sasha um yeah um man's got mad chops if you haven't checked him out check him out um after you've looked at tps yeah sasha i've had evantik ivan tick yeah yeah any more ads you want to do marcus no that's it that's it shall i go now anyway he's been really ill so i you know needed to be said bless him well get well soon sasha um and similarly to anyone in the us who's been affected by the tornadoes sending out all our love to you guys and you know stay safe look after yourselves yeah so if you're if you're affected by that or you know someone is um not much we can say other than uh we hope you're all doing okay as much as you possibly can be okay on to brighter matters uh the good news is dan it's signed me out excellent well there's nothing if not consistent yeah brilliant yeah really good really good uh roll call dan oh yes rocco yeah michael marcus is here so where is everyone coming in from uh uh mike blue says howdy from austin texas wonderful and panacea humbucker he says it the wrong way around says hey everyone from bavaria in germany ah bavaria that reminds me i need to speak to dan drive he facetimed me at the weekend but i was driving so like a conscientious citizen i didn't i didn't uh stay on the call for more than about 20 minutes no i didn't pick up very good dennis fox says good morning from kancake illinois oh lovely like wait lake wazapamani that's the blues brothers thank you isn't it thank you it's ladies night tonight curtis r says answer flags cheers from kansas city hey curtis lovely a lot of people are saying remarking on how good you look mysteries it's because it's the shiny it's the shiny head yeah i took my hat off because i didn't know whether you'd work out who was who and i haven't got my glasses on either so um it looks nice and blurry at the moment i can't pronounce this um marsgoged75 says hello from schezian poland and also phil hatton says hello from the isle of man ah i was born on the isle of man phil for what it's worth wow yeah um anyway is there an isle of women um there ought to be it should be is that is that why you've got the big bike um it's part of it yeah yeah it's part of it um let's keep it cryptic one the iron man is a very famous motorbike race oh i said tt and if you if you're born there you sort of grow up with the smell of synthetic oil in your nostrils and you can't quite ever get over it i watched my first ever motor race on the weekend yeah and i'll probably never watch another one i'm going to say i'm not going to say anything every time we say anything like that we just people i just got really confused not very nice to us oh what you actually went to one no no i just thought i thought i've never watched motorsports in my life and i just watched the race and i just got really confused i mean it was really exciting apparently yeah and um i just got confused but anyway it's all good rules is rules oh no not again just come on down keep on going all right um okay here we go um uh nate cares he says hello from kansas city friends and friends um [Music] and we have no dennis flock i'm not reading that and we uh there we go flapo udenavia says hi dan and mick um [Music] would you ask love from chile would you make a blues driver on the show blues drive is actually an incredibly complicated pedal so probably not but yeah love back to you from chile uh yeah mojogo jad 75 says guys thank you for being so brave reading my my nickname and then i have my hometown you're very welcome bruce key says hello from memphis tennessee i've been there i have not i had a lovely time there walked up and down beale street taking it all in when are we going nick where are we going um not anytime soon if uh if what happens continues to happen yeah david zempiri says she is from verona italy so italy is my favorite place in the world and i just i'm desperate to get back there um it's just i love it wonderful magic man she is from sacramento and cereal zupan says hey hey from slovenia well i've been there too drove him at home there once you've been everywhere man i've been everywhere man i've been everywhere you heard that song matt johnny cash ah and then actually it's been done by a few people but he then reels off a list of places so i guess an old succession when you're on tour it works pretty well because at some point you get to absolutely you get to wherever you get to reno yeah yeah yeah yeah right um for those of us uh for those of you joining and not understanding what's going on if you've never joined us before we do this every monday it's a live comments and questions section we do dip into the floor but we prioritize the super chat secondly it's normally just me and that bloke over there but this bloke here has joined us this is marge this is marcus reeves of reeves electro and he's here because we're going to be filming with him tomorrow and we thought we could maybe theme some of the questions sorry guys my phone keeps making noises yeah i'm going to turn it off off eric eckhart from richmond virginia hello eric oh lovely are you any relation to eckhart toller i wonder probably not jeff harper hello from hickory north carolina nice lake tahoe says james donahue uh mr uh where are mr wilson ah mr wilson with hat bass yeah so dan what guitar are you playing um so this uh a friend of ours um sent us some guitars to try and i ended up becoming very attached to this i'm doing a vlog on this because it's been heavily heavily modified um so i have to say it looks even more beautiful in the flesh yes it's got curves that that roll on that on the neck edge looks absolutely sublime as well it's beautiful isn't it yeah yeah it's a color long bottom guitars yes if you got a cow long bottoms guitar car longbottomguitars.com and you'll see a picture of this on there but yeah so originally it was a a telly but with this shape sorry a t star guitar and then i think i can hear a scud missile coming from fender we've stick some wide range ham buckets and a strap tram on it and it's just turned into this lovely lovely thing it's nice yeah you are you're going through the ringer a bit with with pickups aren't you i am yeah i just need to because it's i'm so used to the tellys i've got that thing where i need to let the guitars be their thing yeah you know and and so paul stacy came over on the weekend um and we had a sort of a band meeting and you know uh didn't play the guitars and he picked this up and he just fell in love with it really yeah yeah and i heard him playing i'm like okay okay yeah that's what that does yeah those notes aren't on my guitar um all right then let's start off with a question from the floor and this is from rick mason thanks rick uh maybe marcus could help help us with this you can see how this is gonna go tonight he says uh hi chaps how does the germanium first impedance first in the chain work with a wireless system hmm well wireless systems and fuzzies are not a great combo i mean they all vary some of them have an adjustable impedance and some don't so you really have to check the specs of your wireless system and yet even if they have an adjustable impedance it's not the same as seeing the inductance of the cause out of your guitar so just to a really good demonstration of this is um brian may's uh germanium trill booster yeah he has it on the strap of his guitar it's on the it comes out of the target and it goes into the troll booster then out of the troll booster into the wireless rick dan has just solved all your problems put it on his trap yeah get your first house in a small enough box to put on your strap guitar into fuzz fuzz into wireless and not not exactly happy days but happier happiest days yeah because then you've still got the massive buffering of the wireless system after it which is going to make it super bright sounding but that would happen on your board anyway so yeah good luck right let's dive into these cues then shall we and dave um for those of you just joining us this is marcus reeves of reeves electro he's here because we're filming tomorrow oh thanks dan right marcus will be joining us for meet feast tonight are you a veggie mark marcus no no no no one that looks like this could possibly be a vegetarian so sabarosa subrosa hello sabrosa uh gents try and complete this sentence as the king of tone is to overdrive pedals so the blank is to distortion pedals right ah that's very good actually um the annie the he said rat i'm gonna say 1981 durv yeah that's very good because it's very good because it is a rat but it's it's a tweaked one yeah yeah it's a modern yeah yeah i'm going to say the timmins at plus pedal interesting yeah nice because it's got the two sides on it you've got the drive side you've got the boost side and i think you know it's apparently in the early days we used to use those a lot and they sound flippant fantastic yeah no three-year waiting list though so oh okay you need the waiting list right sorry my bad probably honorable mention to the ocd as well yeah because that's kind of which phone one point seven um uh what about pete cornish how long's his waiting list he must do it i'm gonna give him a call he must do a totally brilliant distortion pedal yeah of course everything he makes is brilliant yeah depending on the amp you're going into as well what's the analog man distortion pedal then uh it'd be doesn't he mod doesn't he do mods to the um sd1 the sd1 i've never been able to work that thing out we're gonna we're gonna crack it well yeah yeah okay okay thanks so barbarossa plexico hello plexico hello mate he says greetings i wanted to say thanks for sharing your guitar knowledge and editing skills the material in a manner that's beneficial for all happy holidays thanks flexico thanks thank you plexico i particularly enjoy the editing skills comment um given that last week's show was [Music] a little bit challenging yes it's been mix been going above and beyond the call like you know lucky always does but uh you know like last week sometimes shows go really smoothly and they're completely brilliant sometimes you just like you'll get a guitar out of tune and then a patch lead won't work and and you know these these are hardly big problems but yeah but the little problems like that during filming can mount up yeah you know and then and then they'll be we're really into it then there'll be a cutness and they were both really grumpy what's what's happened because one of the cameras has broken down yeah anyway uh kevin rubong hello kevin timely episode he says after buying many amp in a box pedals i finally got the real one a baseman ltd like a tweed uh i'm enjoying the normal channel but any tips on jumping in conjunction with amp settings on the basement yeah it's been so long since i played a basement i don't know it'd be the same as the as the um jtm45 just yeah just check that the channels are in phase yeah but they should be they should be um so or you'll know the technique from a marshall for input marshall like that one there you just put a patch lead in between one of the inputs on one of the channels and one of the inputs on the other channels and plug into anywhere else and that joins the channel so it's important to say though that your input your guitar input your main input into the amplifier needs to go into channel one and then the patch lead goes from the second channel into channel one of the other amplifier that's to get the most out of it to get the most gain yeah yeah um but if that's too much you could try input two too much um the way the way we set it on the marshall when i don't know if a basement is the same but set the normal channel to kind of you know as loud as you like it and then dial in the high treble channel to taste i don't think the differences are quite as marked in a in a basement as they are in a plexi right because i don't think you have that massive wrongly specced bright cap okay interesting the other thing to try is you could put an effect pedal in between in your jumper lead so come out of output two of one channel put in i don't know any effect pedal you like and delay anything else there you go an eq right three that's a great idea especially for that i think my son has just texted can i borrow two quid please dad sorry what boys do he knows i'm doing this right now right he's like well at least at least he knows i'm on my phone does he actually want to borrow two quid he does he does can you guess what that's for dan i can i can some sort of skin on a lincoln computer game anyway yeah just thought i'd share that's my life nice my life it's another another really cool thing is it just a flat no or um it'll be a bumpy note yeah it'll be a conversation conversation that ends with no yeah you know he's got it and that two quid nice yeah yeah i've been listening to uh really brilliant actually shout out to bbc sounds and there is a series on bbc sounds called the spark oh yeah you told me about this and it's about um just some slightly more critical thinking than we're encouraged to engage in normally and it is flipping fascinating and the one i was listening to on the dog walk yesterday was about rapport right and this uh couple man and a wife had they're both um psychologists right sorry i'll make this brief they've researched the biggest data set ever on um interrogating prisoners and terrorists right which is pretty dark right yeah pretty heavy stuff welcome to that pedal show and um but but the reason they've done it is because the us government have said can you evaluate all this so that we can understand what works right and what doesn't work and it's fascinating what doesn't work all the things you think would work don't worry anyway they've come out of it talking about um a model for interaction and arguments so they bring it right back down to arguing with your son no way okay are you gonna let me listen to that on the way home that's awesome well done i promise there was a point there in the end i'll put sorted with the dyers on pause and watch that instead sorry about that's my life uh and which dire is that danny dyer uh the two danny's it's actually it'll have you in stitches it's it's bubble gum but it is funny anyway yeah yeah is that anyway iron wolf 1776 ironwolf 1776 says um i received and installed a heavy brass sustain block for my strat it's really made a big difference the guitar sustains longer and the sound is less brittle more what i would describe as mellow cool good call yeah all that stuff has a really big part to play in the sound of your guitar i've told the story before but i um when i first got my junior uh the the bridge on the junior doesn't have any um there's no intonation on it it's just a rapid bridge i thought i'm gonna buy a really expensive bridge for that junior that's got intonation bits on it i bought a bunch of it i couldn't believe the difference that the the original one just sounded so much better yeah than anything else that went on there oh wow really yeah which is amazing and i mean the original one's just it's like really light so it's like some sort of aluminium thing but yes really fascinating i'm um i'm a huge japanese 70s guitar matsumoku oh nice um fan and a lot of the high-end matsumoku's have um brass nuts right um and obviously when the threaded it's don't really it don't really affect them quite so much but the ease especially when you're playing open chords they have so much snap interesting it really is really makes it yeah yeah that's one for everyone out there who thinks that the only thing that makes any difference in a guitar is the pickups there are people that believe that indeed well that's good uh pedro pedro dowd pedro dowd hi awesome duo trio today pedro you probably posted this before where it was revealed um he says uh i want some pedals for the front end of my katana mark two boss katana amplifier uh i'm thinking overdrive and boost and leave the modulation to the amp what do you think he's talking about a thousand pounds that's a lot of money that's my little pedals if you've got a thousand pounds to spend or for something for your katana we've got i have boy do i have something for you it's called a used 65 deluxe reverb i didn't mean that what's let's that there you go so the diamond no back a bit down i'm trying come on oh just getting my shiny head no it's getting your eyes it doesn't want to focus it did earlier okay did it fine earlier one more time come on come on there we go come on smart haven't it not haven't it maybe you need something bigger behind it what you need is mickey's magic touch mickey's magic because he knows it's me i'm not entirely sure i want to know what that is oh stop it how did you do that because he's standing behind it it's a bigger it's a bigger area he's saying that's the largest part of the picture right so what's fair enough so yeah okay i've loved everything i've played of theirs thus far but this is a really wonderful um valve overdrive pedal huge gain range and a really powerful but more importantly really wonderful sounding eq section because normally i don't like pedals that have got bass middle and treble on them i don't find a lot of them sound great but this one sounds flippin amazing and i think into the katana having something with a bit of a valve front end that just warms up that that input section uh could be really good so i think that's a you know something to consider so what is that the val brook kaluna koluna valbert carluna uh my new favorite boost is the thorpy heavy water oh great yeah which is like about 20 bazillion db of it's something else insane amounts of boost or you could just buy a few marxist pedals i think might be nice i would say something with a good eq section definitely because the katana because it's built for playing quietly if you want to crank it that eq curve is going to change a little bit so you might want to take out because it's got quite a lot of bottom end isn't it yeah so yeah it's something as dan has said something with a goody good eq so that you've got some carving you can do yeah yeah i mean they're really you know i think we've played them when we're in japan they're great amps yeah of all of those amps i'm always happy with the katana i think it just sounds good in the box yeah as you say the on board effects the delay and reverb and the modulation perfectly perfectly usable good for learning about those sounds too yeah um and i i actually don't mind the drive sounds in the in the second channel right just the light overdrive sounds yeah sure pretty cool sounds great um it's hard to answer much more than that pedro just because as you will tell looking at these walls there are just so many pedals um it's such a personal choice at the end of the day indeed yeah yeah it depends where you where your wheelhouse is as far as what you play you know if you want a high gain or um i don't know if you're if you tend towards the kind of blue side of things then it makes a massive difference yeah we'll check out actually the bogner brand yeah and the lagrange overdrive and then there's a couple of others that are higher gain than that um always sound good always always always sound good to bogdan stuff yeah bogner very true nice good luck um daniel herbert hello daniel he says happy monday guys okay mate it's my birthday on friday happy birthday please have a couple of pints on me as a thanks for a great year of fun and learning i got my telecaster last time nothing so grand this year but still excited wonderful congratulations back yeah win-win with the telly yeah yeah well talking of telecasters i'm under my strap have a look at this i'm a telly player as well so um yeah oh man that that color does not come out on them on the screen does it that has the best neck i've played on a strat i think it's just perfect uh feces brown i just did the vlog today on the actual color talking about fenders golds over the years and uh yeah i've bought myself a new guitar marcus for the first time in ages a little bit annoyed that it's heavier than i wanted it to be i know yeah it is i'm just deciding whether i can get over it or not but like a proper neck yeah that's yeah that's the neck isn't it for ages they didn't because so the old ones they're thin down here and yeah yeah yeah and they they that one's a really good example of it that reminds me of my telly actually that's that is that yeah nice [Music] yeah i approve thanks um yeah i decided i can't afford an old one so uh so what's the spec of that when was that actually built 62 relic last year nice yeah i'm quite absolutely lovely you'll um uh have a good one daniel and thanks for your kindness seattle phil hello phil he says can you explain underdrive a bit more like how you set it up exactly does the pedal cut volume or gain or both and is eq a factor so underdrive can be a number of things uh it a really uh interesting way to think about it if you just reduce the volume um let's say you've got your overdrive pedals and that's going to the front of your amplifier and then after the overdrive pedals you've got your under drive and it's just reducing the volume then the gain of the pedals don't change however if you're going into the front of your amplifier and your amplifier is doing the gain and then you reduce the amount of signal going to the front of your amplifier then you are fundamentally changing that gain structure and you will have less overdrive so the android drive in that situation you will actually add gain but reduce volume so that you can sort of replicate that sense of limiting that sense of you know overdrive um but there's a number of different ways you can do it having uh also using the effects sweep of your amplifier having something in there that has enough clean headroom to handle the line level signals that are coming from the effects loop and using that as like a like a master preamp volume control so instead of trying to boost more signal into the amplifier what you're doing is you're having your main rhythm sounds as actually reduced volume you turn your amp up and then when the outer drive gets turned off is when you have your boosted signal i think a lot of guys struggle they get a really lovely sound from their amps and pedals and everything everything's great but then they gotta do a solo and just pushing more signal there's nowhere to go the underdrive gives you somewhere to go it works really well yeah is that something you ever do the underdrive thing um not massively i mean i um i use quite a low headroom amp anyway a tweed deluxe um so i guess well i guess i do really because i kind of i look at when i when i kind of set up a new gain structure i'll generally work from where i'm hitting my ceiling of headroom right and work backwards from that as opposed to working up towards it and then like you say you run out of room so you start from where you want to be loudest um volume wise and then come back from that and you're never gonna run out of room then yeah that's my principle yeah and i think phil everything you say about game volume and eq it's all of those things and really if something in the way that your sound is needs to be changed in any one of those factors then under driving it can change any of those things so you can either be quieter and more distorted you could be quieter and less distorted you could be quieter with a different [Music] eq setting and practical examples you know practical applications for that might be for example you've got like a nice big intro to the song which is all fat distorted and huge and you want to keep that fat and distorted huge sound when the singing comes in but if you turn down the guitar you lose all the distortion i guess you could well what could you do what you can do is step on an under drive turn it down keep the distortion from the pedals before it so that's a practical example and seeing as you mentioned eq you might depending on how quiet you've got to go you might get into a bit of fletcher munson where the quieter it gets the sort of more prominent your bass and treble frequencies uh need to be in order to be audible or uh same cat different skin um you might want to scoot the mids out a little bit to get right away from the vocal so i think i might need to turn super chat off how we how we going um i don't know it's obviously logged us out again yeah and just to follow on from that also um there's also um there's nothing quite like taking base out right at the beginning of your chain if you're running out of headroom you'll be amazed how much difference dialing back the base early in your in your chain will actually extend your headroom because it's just not really great getting crushed when it hits you hit your amp that's a great shot um we should say thank you to bv yes bv yes legend today for um for moderating for us bb does an amazing job at keeping that chat a harmonious and enjoyable place to be he's a harmonious monk in fact he's just uh he's just textilized sorry we are all a bit over the place today um are you sprinting to christmas now no i've had my sprint this week you have yeah i had a weightless wednesday thank you everybody who ordered on weightless wednesday by the way um i had my uh last sale day of the year um this on wednesday um i'm i've ordered all the bits and i just working through a bit the builds will start after christmas right i think so um it's been a busy year so yeah no thanks to you two so um but yeah so um no i'm not sprinting i'm i'm i'm knackered really there we go that's what happens when you insist on building all your stuff yourself right we're going to turn the super chats off because uh otherwise we won't get through them so if you have super chatted up to this point we will answer you if you haven't uh please don't and then that will give us some chance of having some dinner this evening i'm starving uh yeah i'm always starving it's going on again it's a gift it's so naughty i just did it and it turned it on again really it's so naughty this sounds wow and now honestly could you one more conspiracy theorist dan good job um deader this is called duda yes sorry i'm looking at the uh and the stuff that's coming um i do know some jokes oh jeff jeff lecter says greetings from kalamazoo pints and a tour of the historic ex gibson factory you're on me we make a pilgrimage so the building is still there is it yeah is there a cigar in there it's inhabited heritage i don't know i don't know if they're in that exact building but i i don't know no i thought that was the case but yeah i wouldn't be able to confirm that um martin cable hello martin he says hello gents do you ever suffer from song fatigue have you ever spent so long learning something that by the time you can play it you're sick of hearing it every time is it better to learn one thing at a time or have a few on the go so i'll tell you what um i tell you what depending on how you're approaching it if you're learning a song for fun since it stops being fun then move on to something else and then come back to it if you're doing like a chord study i'm doing i'm pulling apart west montgomery's d natural blues at the moment and it's really really tough going but because there are things in there that i want to learn and be able to sort of understand what's going on i understand it's going to be tough going and so i'll just i'll make those incremental steps i'm not i'm not expecting to you know feel incredibly inspired and into the whole thing i just was coltrane's follow-up album was it incremental stuff incremental steps yeah very good very good i was in a function band for a long time and there were certain artists that i refused to put on the set list because i knew that they would ruin my love for songs that i really enjoyed oh yeah can you give us an example stones the jam so no stones no stones no pourer um because you didn't want to play it or no no because yeah i didn't want to ruin it for me oh well interesting because that happened to every other song that we played i'm like no i don't want to hear that song ever again yeah yeah i've had the same thing with a couple of crowded house tunes that i've never purposely made yeah just because i want to enjoy because every time you learn something and you so analysis really important in that whole procedure and when you analyze it and you and you get to understand what's going on it takes the most it does it does take the magic away so yeah as soon purposefully listen to some of the credit house tunes and i turn that analysis part of my brain off and it's actually really hard to do but just learning to be in the moment and just in experiencing that music for what it is i'm almost the opposite of that right it's almost the analysis of the tune that makes it much more interesting it doesn't make it interesting but if i with my brain as soon as i start to you know i can hear the changes and i know what they are and then i'll start to think on it and i'll start to think about the melody and what's going on harmonically and all that stuff and then before i know it i've i know the song and it's like it's it's too much especially then if i start playing that song in a band yeah you know what i mean it's okay it's okay if i do it in the in the odd thing where i'm playing i play it a couple times a year but if i'm doing like could do with dougie absolutely that has ruined some songs for me absolutely i think that's more about the the gig though than it is oh totally but i can't it's but differentiating between the two is really hard right yeah yeah and there's a difference between um being doing covers of the song where they're slavish and owning it yeah right you know because you if you really take it you know um you know to a different place and it does become yours and it's beautiful to play but if you're kind of having you know like function band kind of thing then yeah it hurts or it hurts me anyway you know and i get it with a crowded house actually as well because their stuff is so intertwined isn't it there's no there's so many different things going on to make up that one chord yeah neil finn's music is just so important to me and i i'm a huge fan as well yeah i just anything that takes i think a large part of my career was playing those tunes we played xtc and crowded house was basically you know eighty percent of our upset wow and that was it was no no i'd go to that gig the xcc were massive in australia yeah right really yeah massive wow um like really popular and certainly amongst they were like sort of i don't want to be disparaging towards xtc by the way i'm just saying from a for your average audience yeah yeah playing that much xdc might be a challenge yeah i think so they're kind of akin to steely dan in australia you know the way that muzos would hold them in great esteem right um so yeah and i but i just i it's always the time for the wii song when you do the steely dan track in it yeah yeah everyone who doesn't really like musicians goes off and has a wii when you play the steely down or a meal yeah yeah you know have the car washed and then come back yeah oh yeah that's that's that's a frog little little bit wedding gig weary there where if you're not playing something that's been number one for a long time they're throwing lettuces at you sure uh and how many songs then before it becomes too much just once no no no no no no no not at all could you just not if like uh when we travel when we do it uh favorite crowd house song oh man it's probably it's really hard uh private universe for me you know the girl you think you are is mine fall at your feet um i love pineapple head walking on the spot is another amazing song um you liked him before they were famous though right i really did chocolate cake but the thing is it's not necessarily about how many times i've played the tunes it can be if you really love a song right and you're in an environment and you're playing that song and yeah it's you're singing your heart out and with this song it really means a lot to you and then you finish and you've been transported away as someone really special you finish and you look up and then you get you get the okay like you know what i mean you guess it's complex yeah yeah it is it is it is complex it increases my desire to go into psychotherapy because it's all about the fear of being disliked right my psychotherapist would make an absolute fortune because you don't anyway let's move on um uh gary o'neil hello gary he says merry christmas leggings happy christmas uh love you guys thank you buddy thanks gary uh martin we hope you're not too fatigued by your tunes by the way um more distortion i find always helps uh gary stewart he says i have the origin magma 57 amp vibrato nice and deluxe 61 amp tremolo pedals have you any thoughts on running two preamp pedals like these in parallel with the wetter box rather than stacking them love friday's video it's a great way to do it oh man a killer yeah and we can certainly do some you know show you how that sounds parallel stuff is really interesting yeah um i was parallel on my board right in it in quite different way to how a lot of people use it i literally just have my reverb and my delay in parallel because the reverbs don't get the delays don't get reverbed yeah and the difference is night and day yeah absolutely night and day you know very nice i've got a nice big splashy dark reverb and it and it's still you can still hear it but it's just sat nice and light yeah so what do you do split before and then some again um yeah so i've got a i've got a um i haven't got a wetter box unfortunately damn you're forgetting that i'll go now it's all good um i've got the um ehx triple try parallel yeah yeah um so i've got my dry my my all my drives going straight through um and i'm just using two channels at the moment um the third channel is i'm still kind of playing with really but then it's intrinsically it's a it's like um yeah parallel um analog drive through really you know so i can put any digital pedal in there at 100 where if they if it's not analog drive through yeah yeah so you don't get the like my ehx latency and stuff bits and pieces so yeah so gary yes it would be great i don't know if you've got another amp kicking around anywhere most of us have got that other ramp that we used to play kicking around still or a little practice out what you could try and is just split the signal yeah and essentially do wet dry but like kind of wet wet and have two mono uh dual mono signal paths so you're sending the magma to one and the 61 to the other and you'll be if you do have access to two amps you'll be smiling massively when you try that it's also surprising how little of the second amp you need to make the difference so even if it is a you know what you think is a scratchy old transistor amp try it because you probably only need a tiny little bit and suddenly the sound just goes boom yep so yeah nice um [Music] but yeah kind of as marcus hinted what's not happening is one machine isn't overdriving the other so you're hearing them both unsullied as it were yeah uh dj m check dj and check i've just realized what that probably means is it mic check so a dj's mic check maybe maybe yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah check joke not mic drop doesn't dj check his mic doesn't just kind of go yeah [Music] and then launch into it i've never seen it never seen a dj be really professional type game excuse me ladies and gentlemen i just need to do my right check one second there he had a little lamb can the owner of a 1987 fortier please move please and now on to the meat raffle thank you my complaints about the frozen peas we put eaters in the gents [Laughter] djmcx says love the contextual format uh the six uses of delay show was incredibly helpful dan's intro and mix rockabilly demo were amazing the edge and brian setzer are probably a bit insecure after seeing that i really don't think so thank you so much oh second that i i thought it was a great show as well guys thank you thank you honestly we want to do more of it aside from anything else it is really blooming good fun you look like you're enjoying yourself just actually yeah yeah absolutely honestly this is going to sound slightly crazy i like standing up mm-hmm oh yeah as long as the chairs are uncomfortable and i can't play when i say it's hard to play a little bit uncomfortable yeah no it's fine so how many hours do you think we've done all these stuff oh man i was going to ask you that question actually um because they look they're more comfortable than they look actually yeah yeah yeah you just got to get it hung over the back just right yeah yeah just that yeah yeah yes americans are really concerned about the stools oh really yeah it's a diet thing though wouldn't it it could be [Music] not going there we um we could get some padded ones but what you get is loads of noise you see an icon yeah right okay yeah yeah um but yeah stand up when you're playing sorry to barge in but it makes a massive difference if you do sit down stand up because it'll free you'll feel free yeah you'll need a bit of that better in it it might it's it's just a basic angle thing for me i need to be a bit more like that than like that it's funny though isn't it because if you're in the studio generally you sit down because it's a bit it seems a bit more accurate if you if you you know i don't know don't you oh it's interesting i always say if i'm over doubling in the studio i'll always sit down here's the thing about my standard yeah actually here's the thing about neck shape then so lots of people who like modern guitars don't like fat necks this is a massive generalization but as with all generalizations it's generally true um and so you there you are playing your nice modern guitar wow this next bit fat because where are you're up here your hands all around there okay right yeah it's a completely different kettle of uh whales feces brown um and that's that's why i love that taper thing because by the time i'm at the dusty end my thumb's pretty much always over the top right so uh oh we've hit we have a thousand people watching us right now no way get in amazing thank you everyone carl long bottoms on with a viz top tip oh come on hit us with this top can we is it readable well it's slightly sexy so i'm gonna leave out the first word okay it says uh embossing embarrassing noise leave an empty trombone stand outside the lavatory door and people will just think you're practicing [Laughter] if you've never read this please do and uh likewise i was going to mention uh wolfgang's big night out which i think is brian setzer's christmas record or one brian setzer has done a christmas record with the big band and it is flipping brilliant scene as you mentioned brian setzer just a minute ago uh morton peterson i want to see the stray cats in 1984 no way south enclosed pavilion can you remember much about it uh yeah i can't i was quite i was quite young so uh um they were absolutely blistering rockabilly i just i was yeah were you into guitar at the time um just yeah just that's a long story that is um yeah just yeah yeah yeah so i started playing guitar obviously the question i'm working up to was did he have a gretch and a space echo and oh no i wasn't i wasn't geeking at that age um well he would have had a gretchen i'm sure he would have done yeah yeah yeah he had a big rockabilly guitar that's what i knew at the time massive hair yeah oh yeah it was like that awesome uh morgan peterson no question from you morton so we'll keep a lookout whit anderson hello witt greetings from hopewell new jersey thanks gents i love everything you do your inspiring shows have measurable impact on my happiness playing and monthly expenses ah that's the result that's very good and sorry it's like yay uh good on you whit thanks for being with us thank you thank you mate i appreciate it prague doggy happy monday love the new format will you be doing any jams with two guitars bass and drums i think that's often what people run into problems fitting in the mix love the show it's a very important show to do and we will absolutely do it yeah we need to make sure the couple of shows that we've done have been experiments yeah and so we're we're feeling our way yeah we're learning we're learning that that process two guitars is a very different thing than one guitar so we just want to make sure that we are asking and answering the correct questions with the one guitar thing yeah and then you know we'll get paddy you know we'll definitely we'll definitely get there the other the sort of slight technical issue we have in this room is that it's a very small room so aside from the physical aspect of getting full people in here there's also a sort of maximum spl that the room can take and yeah it all starts to we've got an amazing amount of spill into the drum mics which is kind of how we like it we really really don't want to go down the kind of corning everything off and and making it like a studio because we're not talking about recording studios we're talking about playing together as an ensemble and and on that front one of the things one of the points we really want to hammer home is yes tone is important but what you play is infinitely more important so if there's two guitars playing in the band and you're playing the same thing might be important in a unison you know part of the song but actually listen to most great music those two guitars are doing entirely different things and therefore they're out of each other's way because they're in a different register they're playing a different rhythm they're doing something different and that there's a lot to learn there about playing as an ensemble because i don't know about you guys but certainly most of the bands i've ever played in in my life are a bunch of individuals trying to be individuals yeah and the best bands i've ever been in my life and there's probably only ever been one of them um has not played for the individuals it's always about the band and about the song yeah about the collective and that if we can help people really believe that rather than just say it then i think yeah everything gets easier but yes we totally will do that we totally will do that as a slight adjunct call up itunes or um spotify or whatever it is you use and listen to the beatles get back remaster it's the one where john lennon is speaking at the beginning he's like oh sweet loretta martin dart she wasn't whatever and you hear somebody there is playing i don't know what it is could be a casino it could be a ricky could be a telly anyway it's a phenomenally trebley guitar into a phenomenally troubly amp a sound that you think would never ever ever work song kicks in that's one guitar and then the other guitar is the lead part which is really muted and mid heavy and you're like wow i'd roll a bit more treble on that if that was me yeah and then you want to play it together do you think so uh what what get back it's the lead part i think lennon plays no he didn't play the bass six on that did he no i'll get back that was on his casino beatles fans out there will know which is which but just listen to it they're panned hard left and right and it is a master class in how to mix two guitars in a mix yeah it's incredible anyway sorry yeah i digress just just just a quick thing we um i'm sure some of you will know we are knocking on the edge of 300 000 subscribers we're really close uh if you haven't subscribed to the channel already please do please do we'd really appreciate it be great thank you what happens when we hit 300. 301. youtube offer the sound of one hundred things youtube youtube have never sent us our little you have to ask for it oh okay we've never asked yeah all right my nephews are obsessed with why we haven't asked for our plaque and what there's enough crap in here already fair enough is it buffered yeah right it's a good doorstop it's buffed um yeah andrew pick up hey andrew how are you andrew came to one of our uh oh yeah nice to hear from you mate he says i'm looking to have an acoustic on stage for a few songs so i'm thinking a small pedal board using my iridium into the pa any tips on setting the iridium for the best result uh apart from getting acoustic amp it's so it's difficult because the iridium uh is modeling guitar amps yeah i think there are better options yeah definitely than the iridium there'd be too much gain even at the lowest going from yeah yeah the eq eq will all be in the wrong place yeah i mean that is assuming that there isn't a specific acoustic mode in the iridium and to our knowledge we don't care it is no it's three three amp models isn't there yeah yeah so um probably not the best solution like a really well equipped di box would be a better would do a better job yep i'll show lr bags yeah have a look at what they do fishman fishermen yeah little boxes i know it's a bit of extra outlay but it will do a much better job than um the iridium yeah i think you'll you'll find with the iridium you'll as soon as you get to any gig worthy a half gig work gig worthy volumes easy for you to say um you'll just end up not being able to play it properly because it would just be howling david tompkins has had a brilliant idea get the plaque and build a pedal out of it oh there you go thanks david that is genius all right done yeah yeah um but before you spend any money at all andrew just try a couple pedals and just give the output of that to the whoever it is sorts the desk out and they will have a really great preamp on the desk that can take care of it for you best guitar sound sorry best guitar i've ever heard um was uh neil i said this a couple of weeks ago i once saw transatlantic and the guitar the singer neil morse uh he was playing this acoustic and his tracks and was like that is the best live acoustic sound i've ever heard and i went out to at the end of the show and said what did you do he said i plugged my it's just piezo pickup into the di box and the guy at the front of the house turned it up that was it passive strength di box so don't put a reverb in the front of house yeah don't i mean try it with and without andrew um but you might find that as long as there's a decent di box or the um front of house is equipped to take that they'll they'll sort it out for you you obviously then got a problem with monitoring but then it would be the same with the acoustic iridium anyway sorry you were going to say something now this is this might lead you down a dead path but i want to see uh chris helm of the seahorses playing acoustic gig uh a couple of months ago um just him um with a board and uh he had the joyo british sound i quizzed him about this and he had it right down the gain right down just volume to get to unity so basically the pedal is is mimicking the same kind of output as the guitar is when it's off there's no volume jump and he literally just used it just to add a tiny little bit of dynamic um and yeah it worked true to be honest um i think one of the one of the best acoustic guitar pedals we've ever messed about with was that lr bags thing that had a bit of preamp and a bit of harmonic overdrive very clever good luck andrew yeah good luck man i hope you get there um pun knotted bum hucker says you don't try and say that three times in a row hey lads i'm only here so you can laugh about my nickname i love you guys and hope to see another fuzz talk soon cheers from toby thanks just heavy yeah yeah be a good one tomorrow george radcliffe uh bearded leggins can you recommend configuration and gain settings for my braun 3260 wet dry rig i'm looking for good clean up and soft clipping with a bit of hair on the top if you could be specific we'd really appreciate it hope everyone's having a delightful december okay i don't know what a braun 3260 is let's have a look it's the razor yeah i use it every day oh he is he's having a laugh i've completely gone over my head it's a joke i'm so sorry soft clipping clipper sorry mate happy christmas i'm getting new clippers for christmas no i don't know i don't know that i am sorry i've sent her the link george so sorry i it does rather rob you have a sense of humor doing this week and week out read that again actually okay i'm looking for configuration and gain settings for my braun 3260 wet dry rig looking for some good clean up and soft clipping with a bit of hair on the top end oh brilliant yeah well yeah we like that nice uh rob simmington yes marcus i ordered a black hat sound on wednesday can't wait for it to arrive i've still got a few of the transistors left so um david rustad long live reeves electro thank you thank you thank you for my two and two face and my 108 master they make my life awesome they made mine a bit awesome as well thank you uh thank you david james green tell mr reeves i need a new d r x c d mine's worn out oh now there's a man i would know it was a band i did this back in the day it was a hobo blues band nice display cigar box and diddly bows and oh wow crack yeah into a little amp made out of an oil can so uh um so who's that again did you have to live in a cardboard box as well or i tried it didn't work that's the whole c16 yeah pretty much yeah yeah yeah yeah actually that is a great record i started out with nothing and i've still got most of it left a few weeks ago did you nottingham yeah how's he doing oh it was a solo show absolutely spellbinding was he yeah people kind of people he's not massive in the us actually so um but in europe it's huge and people kind of see him these you know they they think of him as these big stompy kind of blues rockers you know kind of jew joint things but his um his delivery on the delicate songs is is as good as it gets wow he's got such a breathy voice he's yeah he's yeah he's cool i'm a massive fan i put him on the cover of guitarist once in the publisher i'd lost my mind really it's like they're playing him on radio too he plays the guitar he's going on the cover yeah nice well done anyway shawnee is cubs fan one shawnee is cubs fan one good morning from chicago i've got a greenback and a g12 h anniversary and a 2061 cab for my victory rk50 is this a good idea or not totally mixing uh speakers is just yeah the way forward i'm struggling to think of a better idea actually yeah wonderful yeah wonderful nice one crack on mate it's such a killer ramp that yeah yeah i remember when you went to to the photo shoot of something and you you you heard it for the first time and you're you're fizzing about that for ages yeah i felt i filmed the demo with rabia and martin kid at um one of the studios in brighton and um i was astounded i just wow what a great you know quite often gany amps are one thing aren't they and they sound fantastic but then the cleanup on it is astonishing really hope you're enjoying that um paul gatt hello paul no question merry christmas to all in the team i'll miss dnm time over the break but i hope it's a much deserved break you've earned it lismore new south wales ah happy christmas um we shouldn't have too much of a break paul with any luck we've we've been trying to get a few shows filmed so uh we shouldn't be off air for too long with any luck but if you're choosing to go off the air good on you yeah a little break from screens is uh what we all need from time to time i think alba's band aaron hello mate he says howdy legends marcus included really loved friday's video and thank you for everything you do but serious question are we going to play stonehenge tonight no we're not going to play stonehenge it's so funny friday's video was one of those videos that we were doing and i had completely lost track of time while we were filming um but as you know it was really fun and by the end of filming i think we'd film for like like an hour and 40 or something and i was i thought we'd go for like half an hour really yeah and it was it was great and so mick puts in the most herculean effort to get the thing edited down to i think it ended up being an hour in 18 or something else yeah it doesn't i mean it doesn't sound like difficult does it editing editing it is really difficult all the flipping um masking for and thank you to everyone who's going to give me loads of suggestions about how to do it better yeah thank you in advance but it was one of those videos i thought wow it's um you know it's a really important video to do and the the tps faithful will love it yeah i didn't think anyone else would watch it and it goes it's a you wanted to be a massive video for us it's one of those it's one of those ones where classic sort of tps where the information's there if you concentrate and sift through yeah yeah and not everyone's got the patience for that these days but unfortunately that seems to be the only way we can do it every time we try and slim it down and be a bit more on point a lot of the grease gets lost yeah that's the important stuff a lot of the kind of observations and interesting little inflections get lost so that's an excuse for not being able to do things more succinctly because i mean sometimes it's just a tiny little detail that joins up the dots for you well and it'll turn the light bulb on for someone else yeah yeah yeah you don't want to miss that uh bv's just reminded us that tomorrow night at 7 pm that would be wednesday night at 7 pm not quite sure which uh time zone but um i think it's 6 p.m isn't it uh anyway check out uh mark hopkins youtube channel at home with mark so at home with mark on youtube dan's on there tomorrow night um check in with mark and uh yeah watch that be fun yeah that's great how are you doing that are you streaming it from your phone or are you i don't know yet it depends on what time we finish tomorrow it may be i'll be sat in the vlog room um just on the laptop [Music] nice and maybe i'll be sat in the car and lay by going hey we'll see it's first phase it'll only be 20 minutes i've brought some juicy transistors to oh nice really yeah because i know there's a selection in that yeah but i bought a few others as well it's going to be a big day tomorrow because there's so many questions flying leads to um with it on the board try some different transistors yeah fabulous that's really good we are going to have to set up in here to do that yeah because otherwise you won't be able to hear it that'd be great yeah anyway uh vickstergust victor victor gustavsson hello victor g'day mate he says hey gents had he not sadly passed what would hendrix have done post 1970 in your qualified opinion gear musically collaborations thanks for all you do well i [Music] i don't know how much of this is true but i have on a good authority that he was jamming with miles davis he was on a jazz journey yeah he was not long before he passed he was um him and miles were hooking up and doing some stuff but man who knows uh he'd have been in vegas doing him the the hendrix experience he was not at the end he was not a purist so i think he would have embraced every piece of technology that came along because that's what he was doing at the time i don't think that would have ever stopped but i yeah he was so instinctive with what he did oh who'd like guys who knows i think he'd have written some cracking songs yeah yeah right yeah yeah totally that's you know when you think of hendrix most again too general but a lot of people see guitar history onyx burning guitars you know all the all the sort of cliches we associate with him but man the guy was such a fantastic songwriter yeah and i really loved his voice and there's the thing that he he couldn't stand he hated his own voice but no one else could do those songs yeah you know i remember the interview with paul mccartney when they went to see him and sergeant peppers came out the day before and he played it alive that night yeah yeah and the and the ball the beatles were there like oh my god and you imagine him yeah with the crane masters doing his peppers just like it was his first uk show he wasn't amazing yes i always think i think of clapo you know there he is not much has happened in guitar for ages well it has happened but not in the way that it happened with eric eric comes along he's god and uh you know no one's touching him really and then timmy walks in it's like hey there's this golden eagle well here's this whatever's bigger and more flashy than a golden eagle um yeah yeah yeah yeah tungsten albatross yes well that's it because it was unimaginable wasn't it yeah it was entirely unimaginable how that could be anyway thanks victor um i yeah i mean if you look at all the artists from that that generation clapton's a good example clapton's one of the very few who actually did anything of great worth after the glory days right yeah i mean a little bit rocky but yeah definitely yeah good yeah i mean whose career just continued to yeah 461 ocean boulevard is a beautiful album i love that album and then i mean i know about nowadays but you know certainly in the 80s when he came back with journeyman and all that i mean that was massive it was absolutely massive on his 96 day run at the albert hall me too we were probably there together yeah probably sat next to you um yeah yeah what was the um blessing oh man the soundtrack he did for that mel gibson film blade runner no sorry blade runner edge of darkness that was done no no no no oh god edge of darkness no that was um that was a bbc thing that you did the soundtrack for you he did it yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah about nuclear waste being transported on a train sorry i've derailed you no no i just yeah nice train and derail though i like that i'm here all week trying to stake g barge hello g says jimmy was very high in trait openness he would have remained outside orthodoxy yeah lethal weapon sorry that's kind of what marcus was saying yes yeah yeah yeah uh jiminy cricket says last gig at the uk isle of wight you can hear jimmy play differently all the scales extra unusual vibes he was moving always yeah totally nice nice um eagle ray rob hello rob how are you doing he says do either of you use the preamp on the gig rig 321 during the three during the tps episodes happy holidays generally no we only ever use it if we're demonstrating the difference between output levels of guitars but 99.9 percent of stuff it's never on before i you change the pickups in the gretch my white gretch i would use it sometimes because it was so impossibly quiet you generally do mention it though if you do don't you oh yeah yeah we would always say if we were using it because obviously it amplifies it a bit but it buffers it a bit as well well it buffers it so that changes everything downstream um yes zita martin zita martine hey you guys she says at least one woman here from germany oh fantastic thanks eater thank you for joining us one of the two percent yeah one of the two percent thank you for being one of the two percent be great if it was more than two percent um scott copeland red dot sound for 2021's best pedal oh scott thank you scott there's an interesting conversation um oshino grady nice to hear from you maybe we haven't heard from you for a while hope you're doing okay uh i know sheen says hey guys i rehearsed with my band for the first time in ages nice and i found that in the room the right level for the guitar is where you can barely hear it not enjoying that at all my i like it when you can barely hear anything else move closer to the amp yeah maybe if you're talking about your reaction of your bandmates um point the amp up at you um stand near the amp all those things actually if if it's when singing is happening then i'd totally conquer totally because you really do need to drop back a long way when they're singing happen happening yeah ideally yeah it's gonna sound like you know some sort of mix if if they can sing if not bit louder and still play along with melody or learn harmonies connor larkin no question just wishing you lads some very happy holidays oh bless you thank you mate that's very kind thank you jolly willard uh i've got buried modulation issues he says uh i'm having trouble hearing chorus and vibrato clearly in the live mix the effect is beautiful on recordings any tips it's so interesting a bonus for marcus any plans on a reeves modulation pedal no not at this point it's too complicated for what for how i do things but never say never be really interesting though yeah uh yeah so modulation is really interesting my electric mistress when i first heard that changed everything for me and then i put it on my pedalboard for a gig and then i kicked it in the middle of a song and it pulled me out of the mix just to just drop the volume just enough to pull me out of the mix it depends on what the what the pedal is doing a lot of it is a phase relationship between the two signals that are modulating so if you've got um you know your flange or your phaser or you know your chorus where you're you're creating a phase relationship between your normal signal and a modulated signal and sometimes that can thin the bottom end out and so um you know it'll alter the phase in certain in certain frequencies and that modulates it's not necessarily so like like you said when it's recorded it sounds great but you perceive it as a volume drop and it's a psychoacoustic effect so sometimes and some manufacturers do it where when you kick on the modulation you'll actually hear a boost get a bit louder so that that doesn't happen and some pedals actually have a gain control a little gain control circuit in there which is basically you know varying a resistor on an op-amp um [Music] yeah totally so it was really important that we had the ability to not only mix in the modulation but to control the level because depending on what you're doing that you know that modulation effect can either you know drop you out just enough to pull you out of the mix um look you know one thing we did today with a chorus pedal when we had a really slow low depth chorus we were looking specifically at clean sounds for those of you who really like clean sounds and video we've made today which will go out in a few weeks yeah and it sounds amazing but what you do here is it it does thin things out you know that that really tight um slow modulation but it sounds wonderful so yeah uh the the only solve for that is find a way to boost at the same time yeah unless the pedal that you've got is a you've got a the option to increase the gain and then what can happen as a result of that is if you're running the the modulation quite you know with plenty of modulation and you're boosting it then it can get soupy and kind of take take over everything and our sole for that is wet dry so if you've got the option to use two small lamps and just make one of them really wet and one of them really dry i find that yeah just you you can't not hear it at that point because you get the stereo effect of the two sources even though it's not stereo i think modulation into into one amp or if you're moderating into something you're giving it some beans into either a pedal or or an amp that's that's on the edge of of headroom what also you can find is that the modulation because it's being clipped as it is the modulation is getting less wide um so you might find an eq sweep but your volume or your whatever the modulation is doing is being reduced because it's not being able to do that it's it's just doing that as well so you find it gets smaller yeah so there's a there's a question jolly where are your chorus and vibrato pedals in relation to your overdrives because if they're before try them after and then you'll hear more of the modulation possibly if you've got an effects loop try it in effects latency but that could be a whole other set of problems with all sorts of things but try it yeah experiment with order definitely experiment with order and it affects loop is a natural extension of that so yep uh keith friedman hello keith morning from az arizona legends um any chance y'all are familiar with the festive trans-siberian orchestra their tones and christmas jams are superb i have heard of the trans-siberian orchestra because one of the people who plays for them was on desert island discs on radio yeah i hadn't heard of them as well yeah that's new to me well we'll check them out maybe we'll have a listen tonight keith thanks for the uh thanks for the heads up um tony davis uh tony we've got a super chat from you but there's no question so i'll keep an eye on my device steve harvey hello steve hello steve steve's an old friend well he's not old but i've known him for a long time um legends thank you i've recently moved to a hot rod deluxe from my boogie mark five wow that's a jump uh no need for three channels anymore i've now learned how to get the best out of my ever expanding pedal board and i'm loving it amazing oh well dancing that's awesome um i hope steve won't mind us mentioning steve works for martin guitars and uh used to be a journalist like me that's how we know one another and um journalist and uh he came in one day and he wanted some advice on how to get the best out of his mark five and we just ended up going into the clean channel with a bunch of pedals and it was great okay not to say that you can't get great options out of all those channels in the mark v but for what steve particularly wanted to do this was a much more simple i've never gone into multi-channel amps it always feels like a compromise to me yeah i always like one of the channels and dislike the other one that's not a um thing you know some people love them but it just doesn't work for what i do yeah that said i had a mark 3 boogie for ages and i used that in the three modes right wow yeah yeah yeah awesome horses courses nice to hear from you steve merry christmas mate hope you're doing well uh cinnamon street 80s band hi guys dave bone here hello dave i play in an 80s tribute band called cinnamon street thanks for tips on picks i recently changed to a dunlop primetime 1.5 and i haven't looked back it's made a big difference to my tone very good nice uh please check out cinnamon street dave's band excellent ah another dave dave friedman's birthday today says happy birthday mr freedom it's all about friedman's yeah um i've been on a bit of a pick journey actually have you yeah well i i always use some pics i always used to use the thumb pick for for about about 10 years and um just because of the blues thing really to be honest as i mentioned before is in a kind of hobo blues band and that worked really well for that kind of slidey stuff and um getting back into rehearsal we've got a new bass player back into rehearsals with this current setup that i've got and it's a lot louder and i've been giving it beans and breaking strings with this thumb pick obviously because they're just like a hook yeah yeah yeah and i've gone back to flat pick after oh god probably a decade well right wow and the first rehearsal i was actually scared i was like oh i've given it a little bit on the acoustic but i thought no i'm just going to wait till i get in the room and muscle memory is an absolutely amazing thing well i was straight back then it was and it made such a difference to the way i played and the amount of cut that i had yeah right just because you had so much more yeah you got that 360 degree thing whereas with the thumb pick it's kind of you know one-dimensional really yeah we talked about that today in the clean sound show um one of the items was just use the natural compressor you were born with and um it was pretty interesting wasn't it fascinating pretty interesting i've always been on nick about um right hand is amazing he's he's so clean with the way that he picks and it's i find it really hard to duplicate so he went through a bit of that today it's really yeah it's even harder when you're trying to explain it and do it yeah rd says ron here checking in from jury duty hello ron so hope you don't want to influence yourself in any way but definitely guilty yeah we've probably just completely ruined the case haven't we as we all laughed at this probably really serious work that everyone is doing um yeah guilty um sorry it's not funny at all it's not funny at all it's very serious work have you ever done it yes long time ago yeah yeah i haven't yeah i've got i've come up with ways to get out of it if it ever happens but i have never been picked yet committing more crimes that sort of way i uh i just think when they're talking to you when they're selecting you just a lot of winking every now and then yeah yeah yeah just i think yeah i mean that'll do it yeah guitar mogul salute from brussels salu cracking show last week could you do a similar one with fuzz pedals into different amps and gain levels it would be fascinating um we've done we've done a couple of those i think we totally could i mean we certainly have covered that territory before but to do it specifically and to try and be a bit more on with it would uh would be good yeah it's a huge huge area though because fuzzies more than any other pedo i think react differently to a different guitar and a different amp you have the same pedal same settings put it into a cleaner or dirty humbuckers or single calls and it will be utterly different unrecognizable and it's a that's i think that's the challenge people get with fuzzies and very often people put off buzzes because their first contact is just off-putting yeah it doesn't work for what they and i think that's what fuzz is i'm not i can't be doing that yeah i think but even people get into them maybe too early in their journey yeah without really understanding dynamics and that sort of stuff yet well you you say that i mean i think we've played enough fuzz pedals now to say we have a pretty decent understanding of them but when we had our experience day i loaded my board up with bunch of pedals and i tried tried five different fuzzies and i just didn't like any of them that day and i i don't know why that was just something wasn't just wasn't happening yeah and yeah they are a finickity thing aren't they really you must get that how many when people buy pedals from you are they confused about which one they should buy um i try and answer the questions really you know people ask quite specific questions and if they don't i'll kind of go overboard on on my answer about you know which fuzz works best for what but because my what what at the moment the fuzzies i make are quite distinct and different from each other there are very different characters so people generally ask me you don't do 27 versions of a first face like this what's the best for cleanup what's the best for gating what's the best you know that's generally the question i get and i'm like okay you want go you want the you want the red dot sound you want something fat and gnarly you want black out if you want something that cleans up you know and so on so hitting a mast intruder yes yeah that would be the uh the big box blackout sound yeah yeah yeah yeah foolish deep says hey megan dan you two are my heroes do you think you can get dominic miller on the show someday i'd love to get dominic on that would be cool yeah he's not bringing his mate though rico's been there done that he's done he has done that it would be great to talk to dominic actually um you must have interviewed him before uh i haven't personally but i have presided over numerous interviews with him right yeah uh sting played for sting presumably does lots of stuff but yeah he's best known for doing sting mr sting who isn't if you've never seen vic and bob's interview with sting when they get him to sit on his feet and i've forgotten about that can he look in chair oh mr sting he just said oh no kelly looking chair yeah stop starting and stop stopping and he sits on the chair it's made of matchsticks and it breaks it's the most predictable thing in the world hilarious i was an absolute avid of rick and bob yeah me too just completely the stock brothers what's on the end of the stick anyway uh if you don't know vic reads bob mortimer big night out google it yeah shooting stars remember shooting stars that's where matt lucas is that one yeah anyway sorry anyway yeah i'm playing in a venue on thursday that has the dove from above over the stage no way fantastic where is that getting in leicester called the sound house [Music] yeah we do that regularly at a gig dan cobley hello dan he says hey i asked my girlfriend to marry this weekend and she said yes well done congratulations mate that's amazing yeah he says don't suppose you could give mark knopf for a quick call and see if he can congratulate me [Laughter] mick are you regretting starting this gag yet oh i see i see i see what's going on i'll see what's going on um uh let me give them a call i do i just need to nip out for uh to get a cigarette it's ringing hello mark oh where johnny cunning lad how's it going luke it's mark knopfler here from the tune from the famous bandai straight snake you know sultan's insulting of swing i am today anywhere what can i do for y'all paul uh we've got a young lad who's just become engaged uh do you have any advice for him ah normally done calmly isn't it i think he's getting married to his wee girlfriend there can he last singers better once do a new big market spot of some fighter miles anywhere congratulations dan uh i hope you have a lovely day and now dimly play and entire squares otherwise i'll slap you with a copyright bill i read matt see you connie danny lord cheers mate thank you i really appreciate it you'll be good talk to you soon you missed it what did i miss you missed martin offline oh no way yeah yeah he called how is he he's good he's good he's really good he sends his love very complimentary about you i was listening to communique this week i've got it environmental i really like it [Music] i've got a bit of a love hate relationship with with dire straits because it was it they weren't as a band that were cool to like when i was at school right the school that i was at and kind of you know that goes in it's like your sponge isn't it your first things that go in stick in your brain and um but i do listen to him and go yes i like that i haven't realized there's so much that i that little things that i play all the time and i you know when people say who's your favorite guitar player and i always say stevie ray and you know eric claptonized to listen to loads and all the people that i love and i never mentioned not flirt and he is so he's in there such a dynamic player isn't he rs2 chaos as well mark muffler really sounds like matthias assato they're they well they grew up in the same neighborhood they did not a lot of people know that yeah and billy gibbons and billy gibbons old school friends yeah do napoli gears uh anyway uh congrats dan that's awesome man and the future misses down um or the future mrs mister whatever her name is ian fan legs uh i bought a martin road series which i've longed after forever the strings and my fingers cause a lot of squeaking any ideas on lessening that uh stringies what's it called the um fast fret fast fret yeah yeah look at the string material i don't know what the road series come with there's various compounds of strings for acoustic guitars so the squeakiest ones are the bronzist ones yeah the less squeaky ones are the phosphor bronze ones in addition to that you can get coated strings and coated strings are many in various um i am big fan of dario exps they're quite expensive but they have a coating on them which gives you some of that finger noise but not all of it you can then i don't even know if elixirs still do them but alex first yeah they do a nano coat yes oh sorry right right and then they do like a whole coat and i don't know if they still do the whole code right and the whole coat so it used to be that they coat the whole string then they just coat the wrap wire and if they coat the whole string you get almost no none of that finally check out a string called monel which is a nickel alloy instead of a brass type alloy monel's used by lots of mandolin players they're also used in blue grass oh cool and it looks like an electric guitar string but it isn't it's a nickel alloy for acoustic guitars and they are really really nice they they start off kind of bright they go off immediately and they stay there for a long time i'm a big big fan of mono strings oh wow so try those um yeah look at look at the different compounds of the string wrap material because that's what's giving you the biggest squeak probably um a tri-coated trim nails and see if that helps it is it's an interesting thing when i was studying music and i was uh in uh dawn with a bunch of classical guitarists and you it's really here in the classical guitar it's a lot really really hard to get rid of um you know and they're doing those you know these massive changes everywhere yeah yeah it's like hearing a grandmaster flash in the background yeah no no no yes yeah yeah do you like scratching yeah i mean yeah the other thing to say is it is an essential part of the acoustic guitar sound so you don't want to get rid of all of it one other side of it is embrace it well listen to some of your favorite finger style guitarists carefully and you will be quite surprised how much finger noise there is actually on recordings so tom morello yeah yeah um somebody like um oh his name escapes me now um john martin preston reed uh adrian the chap you had on here john johnson john smith absolutely i listen to you put me right onto john smith actually yeah he's amazing a wig doesn't go past that i don't listen to him john smith but a lot of finger noise on his guitars and also it is also about technique as well as he would alluding to that you know it as part of your playing as well so if you you could as well as look at strings maybe look at um practicing that part of your um of your technique yeah to reduce it as well yeah it's uh the thing none of us want to face jiminy qriket says oh i see talking about string theory now is it you guys really do satisfy all my youtube needs string theory here brian barrett hello brian um no question from you uh so hopefully maybe we'll see one in a in a while but thanks for the super chat uh demani johnson damani johnson i can't stay but i just had to thank marcus i have the two and two the red dot black dot and the 108 master which has become a vital part of my sound wow thank you very much amazing johnson i i have to say um i i i'm quite astounded that they are people that um i've got quite a few customers that you know pretty much got the full set and it blows my mind so thank you everybody yeah i would imagine it's a similar sort of feeling that we get when we have a lot of very loyal people that watch this show and buy stuff from the pedal show store and it does it's it's pretty humbling isn't it it is people are willing to sort of offer the two most valuable things they have in your direction time and money do you have a daughter named ella i do she said hi dad oh hello lovely i thought you were working today hello ella almost so i've got this question marcus i think you're the man to answer this it is from brad jackson hello brad brad says i've got this rash no no no yeah he says i know all about that he says hi all could you please discuss the burns buzz around what's the circuit like is it most similar to a tone bender or something else the burns buzz around um now i'm in a private chat group with a lot of really hardcore fuzz builders so if i get this wrong i'm going to get lynched now about that rush usually yes yeah yeah um i believe it's a [Music] zonk mark 1 e zonk machine kind of variant um that is quite um it's it's similar in tone to the to the maestro f7 so it's very buzzy very bumblebee that's off the top of my head i might be wrong actually i might be worth a google i just googled it and it says um 1965 burns buzzer now this is interesting right because the history of the maestro f7a it turns up in 1965 and it's that sound you hear on loads of records most famously satisfaction but also loads of other records from the period and every person involved in electronics manufacturer for electric guitar given that it was a boom time for that goes wow we've got to make one of those so what happens uh solar sound make the tone bender that morphs into the first face around all of that um grow all of these variants on that circuit from various different manufacturers marshall super first vox did one everyone did one up north uh john hornby skus and co did the zonk machine which he just mentioned so the buzz around here we are burns right burns of london 1965 surprise surprise obviously inspired by what's everything that's going on this information i'm reading here says three nkt 213 transistors so three germanium transistors yeah and a a tambour control which gives different dimensions to your fuzz tone so it had an extra knob yeah yeah i guess yeah yeah now um that sounds like i haven't i have the pig dog version rumor has it and it's so epic some of those pedals that we've just talked about will be resurfacing next year oh interesting at least two of the ones we've just mentioned will be resurfacing next year wow and i can guess where yep um so more on that to come i think is that is the best way to to say that brad um yeah ever played one can you remember well buzz around yeah uh not to my knowledge uh no has it got anything to do with that thing that jack white uses um up there somewhere the bumble buzz or does that sound different no that's different no i think we'll have to compare it to your zombie machine but it's very zonky okay yeah i think we're gonna be talking about those some of those things very specifically in the new year uh plexico hey dnm please tell us how you gauge um oh dm and m he says thank you plexico please tell us how you gauge uh nos transistors and parts happy holidays ha ha it's well it's a it's a secret no please please do tell there's voodoo um you need a full moon and a chicken leg no so um it's pretty you need obviously a couple of there's a couple of uh testers um a transistor tester that tells you the gain on a transistor which is basically you could equate it to the the cubic capacity of an engine basically and so the more i think the underpants analogy is quite good yeah yeah you've got your gain and your leakage right yes exactly yeah um and it it's more about trial and error to be honest because an experience once you've you know what works you just kind of test it and say oh those figures in my head make sense i'll put that in the a pile basically um what's your what's your percentage pass rate uh well it on transistors it really really depends for the black hat sound it's about 10 right um because i'm very specific about the hfa on those um for the red dot sound i've been lucky enough to to get a load of uh pre-graded oh wow i actually um i bought them by weight there were that many of them wow so uh yeah and they're all that's why the red dot sound because the red dot means they've been graded so i can literally transistors yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and some fat back resistors um that is a great tune yeah yeah memphis soul studios absolutely yeah yeah you're wondering oh god who is it i don't know i can't remember anyway where were we yes so yeah the the pass rate can be high can be really low it depends on you on curtis and the kingpin that's right yeah um a bit of a scatter gun answer there really there's no real principle to it i think it's just a case of knowing what you want and knowing what works no and that only comes with it and having used enough of them to know what you want but yeah you're testing for gain and leakage are you not will i predominantly use silicon right so i don't i don't have the issue with with leakage um which which does take um a lot i'll be honest with you it takes a lot of the wizardry out of it my the the bit that i do that takes the time is right at the beginning when i design a circuit yeah and once i've got that absolutely down pat it's pretty repeatable because you'll know the spec of the track transistor is unique yeah absolutely whereas with germanium transistors because the leakage varies so much across them and it's very very difficult to get a germanium transit two germanium transistors with the same gain and the same leakage and be able to base a range on that um you have to bias every unit individually um interesting paul moutillovich has said the burns is like a mark one with pots for biasing each transistor more or less that sounds pretty simple that would make sense yeah yeah yeah yeah nice they're probably a very limited bias i would say yeah yeah probably not a wide sweeper you just just just end up getting like i can't get anything okay back to my bbc sounds podcasts i've heard a new take on bias a really really clever way of thinking about bias which is not biasing transistors but a bias you know having a bias towards something yeah motivated cognition oh i like it yeah we'll come back to that earlier very good fascinating yeah that makes sense yeah tim good timmy be good he says uh legends i had two gigs on the weekend same rig both nights different venues i think we know what's coming uh first night it sounded great and inspiring second night it was a struggle to get my sound right any clues what happened there oh man um it's so interesting before we move on we can all relate yes this is not unusual yeah i used to have different amps for different venues that i played in because i played these venues so often and i would have so like i knew my my ac30 on its own uh at the walkabout in um that's in north london w ding dangalong ding dang along and it sounded epic in that room uh the walk about shepherd's bush it was the ac30 in my c10 twin together at the uh at the walkabout in uh not acting dan only does gigs in australian theme pubs he's exactly yeah just so he can figure it but these are gigs i used to do all the time got to know the sound of the room and i i experimented enough with each venue uh so it's fascinating the the sound of the room is such a massive part of the way how everything sounds then it changes when people come in and then it changes with humidity and then it changes the temperature it all plays a part yeah and it changes with how you feel if you've got a cold you know if you're in a great mood if you're feeling confident if something's happened and you're tired and whatever the next day it all plays a part i think that the ambient sound of the room thing is such a big deal yeah absolutely because what you're you know you'll hear what you're hearing is not just what comes out the speakers you're hearing the reflections of every hard surface and absorption of soft surfaces and indeed reflection and absorption of medium surfaces in that place which is a very overly complex way of saying you're here in the room and the the prominence of frequencies within that will depend on what that room is what it's made of everything that he just said about danny room danny waves yeah and how loud you play yeah probably you know the louder you play the more those problems are going to manifest yeah so if you how loud do you do you play um not super super loud cranked um toy deluxe um yeah kind of loud feeling it yeah yeah oh yeah yeah yeah yeah you get that from room to room yeah yeah completely yeah sometimes it's just like where's my amp you know probably one of the one of the most fail safes that i that i can say is if you can consistently get your amp up against the wall um it will probably help towards it being consistent that's a really good shot yeah what that is really great so where your amp is positioned is a massive deal if it's in a corner yeah if it's as he says against the wall or off a wall or off a sidewall or a back wall what is on as well so if you're on a big wooden stage with loads of or even a small wooden stage you're going to get quite a lot of extra bass response because that's going to be rumbling around that big wooden box like a like a subwoofer almost so one of the things you might be able to do is get a little stand yeah and that will help isolate it from whatever you're standing it on and you can get to more of a um [Music] a standard if you like might not be the best sound in the whole world but it might make it more consistent we did a gig for the young farmers association not far off it so we turned up did sound check and you know sound check was was really loud and then i you know ac30 was there giving it some and then we went i had some food then come back and it was rammed full of the drunkest people i have ever seen in my life and it was so loud in the in there i couldn't hear a thing wow and and the like ac30 cranked nowhere else to go could hardly hear it well it's funny how that happens yeah yeah so just the ambient noise of everyone in their frivolity was enough to drown out a loud band the drunkest highest yield audience yeah cool i've been to a few young farmers those and it's a drink fest isn't it yeah yeah they they know how to let loose yeah yeah and farmers have a kind of that no oh i've never mind yeah we're we're on a farm here yeah and uh have a honk in their voice yeah yeah right in the nose 1k get off my land kill it all yeah um jeff harper hello jeff i just ordered a nobles odr one mini and should have it by the end of the week excellent thanks for all your shows i need to try one of those out actually i've not it's not something i've experienced we can do that tomorrow yeah they're fun i'm not a um i'm not a big overdrive user actually i i i'd kind of the other side from you guys i'd kind of use it use a gainey-ish amp so um we've got a broadcast that i kind of push into that because it's just it's such a great thing just crazy i mean even into like a a moderately broken up deluxe it just adds so much texture yeah it's a yeah i yeah i'm speechless about them they are good we were getting we were getting we had a clean sound today we were doing clean sounds in the video this morning and uh with no overdrive we were getting feedback nice like not not was that with the casino no no no no not body uncontrolled feedback actual harmonic feedback off a note on an electric guitar it was quite amazing magic quite amazing sorry he was talking about harmonic richness and yeah that's what it is uh neil kearney hello neil um no question from you thanks for your super chat i'll just check sorry if we've missed you um we will get to you at some point david broche or david brooch or david brocker or david bross i'm going to say brochie hello david cheers mates thanks for a great year of videos and streams i learned a lot merry christmas oh thank you thank you thank you very much i think it's fair to say we've learned a lot as well isn't it it's been fascinating we get a lot of very kind comments of people saying you know thanks for all your knowledge and everything it's a learning curve as much for us yeah totally you'll never stop with i mean just just look at the amount of knobs there are to twiddle you're never going to get to the end of working out what every one of those does are you so just keep on keeping on and it's you know just as as you get to a point of thinking yeah i think i've understood most of this now it's like oh wow and then you find the nobles odl one yeah you know it is uh yeah uh g barge log he says um love your choice and guests recently yeah sorry to let aside also love the uh also love to open the case and smell the braces and adirondack top of my acoustic excellent what are your favorite sensory boosts other than tone alone happy holidays solder smoke that's it's tricky there is there is a certain smell that um fender amps of a certain period cooking yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i think old i mean thanks people we're allowed to say old guitars or is that too close to yeah a lot of people think the smell of old guitars is nitrous early those lacquer it's not it's the glue in the case more often right um it's very interesting yeah i just think you know guitars that you've gigged with personally that and there's just they have they get a smell about them yeah that's yours which is really lovely i love the smell of my own pheromone yeah i quite like lime and bay by the white company i've started making your gin drink oh nice and everyone loves the smell of that because i've started you know passing away it's a little something i knocked up earlier and it's so good what was it again it was it's uh so it's an orange peel yeah and you've got it for the squeeze yeah but you it's not just you know the peeling you've got to squeeze it and get a little bit of that you know when you get the ice peel in your eye ah that stuff you squeeze that in there bit of ginger oh ginger that was it the ginger four peppercorns yeah and then you let it seep in with the gin then you add the ice and then you put the mixer in i bought this fancy-ass japanese gin and i was reading on what the botanicals were in it and uh it suggested pepper and ginger and i thought well that's interesting try that anyway we made one didn't we so good myself and sarah been smashing the cocktails recently we're not smacked yeah smashing yeah i'd say and we've gone right back to the classics cosmopolitans yeah um i can't even remember cosmopolitan i'm a big martini fan ginny martini yeah i mean it's pretty like yeah it's very powerful yeah we're um we're um gearing up for uh for a proper long island iced tea i think um sometime next weekend because the ones you get in you go out to a bar they're not they're not it's white lightning on ice it is insane we should make some up yeah the uh one-legged we've we've actually got some oh bill's building a fuzz face on a hangover there's a show what's happening tomorrow brilliant yeah just to finish that off we've got some original 1970s baby sham cocktail glasses that we use as well and they're just so insanely uh kitsch next to the neon flamingo and the cocktail bar anyway that's not anything to do with me remember the ad oh yeah i'll have a baby sham and it was my dad was talking about baby was made down the road and the the deer the small prancing deer was on top of the shepherd mallet factory oh really yeah did you did you watch um uh that was the one about the ad guy um madman matt did you watch batman we we got bored okay yeah we loved it and i got into old fashions yeah yeah yeah because he just was always drinking he just looked like he was having so much fun happy holidays g and thank you cheers thank you for always being here mate we really appreciate it um dave dave thanks for asking my question on friday can you talk about the interaction of master volume with a dynamic load so like a captur x for example in terms of headroom oh yeah dave i think i answered you in the comments so dave's saying add your reactive load attenuator to your amp and my uh assertion i think was that if you've got your amp set like you know set in a certain way and you're enjoying a certain amount of clean headroom the minute you add an attenuator it always seems to overdrive more to me because it should be the same sound but just quieter right but to me it always seems like it's overdriving more and i guess there's shouldn't be anything that surprising about that because you're asking the you're asking everything to do more work aren't you by attenuating it or are you not uh well you're changing the impedance relationship if you put the attenuate if you don't touch anything else and you put the attenuator in and dial that down uh and are we still going in the same speaker cab everything is the same you just add the attenuator right um or in the case of the capture x i guess you could have a direct feed off as well yeah well i think the well yeah the the parent section that everything's gonna be uh that that's changing the way that's being loaded and he's going to be working harder that's it so and you're getting you know more harmonics and that sort of stuff and yeah absolutely yeah because the the now let's see the whole point of it being a reactive load is that impedance changes with frequency yes so therefore but i guess the the logic is all you're doing is the amp is chucking the same thing out the speaker cable that it would have been doing if it was just the speaker so there shouldn't be any difference yeah but the reactive load changes from speaker to speaker as well right so it's like um you know with the the ua one we know that that reactive load is based around the uh deluxe transformer yeah so and it's different yeah it's a different thing than the you know you've gone between your marshall and 4x12 even though those cabinets those impulse responses are in there the actual physics of the reactive load is different do you want to use them um i've tried i i'm if you've got nothing to say well yeah i've got nothing to say about that you're not a fan yeah yeah i'm not actually and i think i mean sorry the art of a good attenuator as as dan said is is how it deals with the changing impedance versus you know the output and i don't it's a hard thing yeah exactly i don't i don't think i haven't tried the ox yet and i know a lot of people that i whose whose views i trust say it's it is a thing um but yeah i i can't get on with them i wonder if it could be something as prosaic as everything's got quieter i need to hit my guitar harder yeah yeah you what we experienced today right when the app was really loud and i struggled with the clean thing and that was you you sort of on it because you've got you've got so much more control in your right hand well i'm also playing a strat not telly hello i'm here true but now imagine me on that sound as soon as that gets attenuated turned down yeah i'm you're right i'm there yeah yeah you know so that's definitely a part of it interesting i think it's also about expectation um we've all probably gigged very very loud and loved it and that's our kind of benchmark you know if we regularly gigged hard and loud that's where that's where we feel it yeah i think if you've come from playing your apartment or playing more quietly and you're you've never as as something you've mentioned a lot you've never played loud um an attenuated sound might be something that gives you the gives you the feel yeah yes you know because it's not something there's a there's a thing about you know you cross a border and you never you know in all you know in all parts of life when you kind of cross a certain threshold you never really can come back from it and i think that happens with guitar volume in that you know if you get the feels from playing you know you're too rock and you're never going to be the same again yep yeah there is an element of that there is no and that i think that's not just doing it once and really liking it i think learned behavior having to do it yeah night after night after night after night month after month year after year year after year and it just becomes the norm so it is is learned behavior as you say yeah unexpected result it doesn't make any one attenuator good or bad it's just i think how we as a player yeah experience it yeah so i think the thing to say dave is probably if you're coming to that setup expecting this exactly the same result through your attenuator into your interface or however it is you're using it it probably is more helpful to go well this is necessarily going to be different therefore i shouldn't really be worried about changing things you know changing the settings on the amp changing whatever i need to change in order to get to the place where i'm happy so expecting it to be exactly the same is probably the bit that's causing you the most yeah trouble it also depends whether you're going direct or through the speaker yeah because obviously if you're using your speaker um for the attenuated sound it's going to be vastly different because that speaker is just going to be kind of sitting there yeah instead of yeah so there we are it's lots of variables uh filter champ filter champ from australia mr reeves g'day from melbourne australia g'day he says uh any tips or sources for pedal circuit diagrams to start dabbling with oh straight away um i would go to um tag board effects um it's a it's a community run uh website and uh it just has thousands and thousands and thousands of layouts um and and also great threads with those layouts of people troubleshooting and the mods going in and explaining you know why those troubleshooting you know while those things are happening what your work rounds are um yeah if you just i think um we can get the i can't remember the exact uh guitar fx layouts it's called sorry yeah um it's an absolutely insanely good the url is tagboardfx.blogspot.com tagboardfx.blogspot.com it's it's where most of my contemporaries kind of um played the jews yeah what's a good circuit to start with would you say i would probably say um some kind of simple boost like the lpb1 um or the rangemaster or a fuzzface they're all based roughly around the same topology anyway um and they just got kind of little different bits bolted around them so yeah just a simple boost lpb1 is probably um a great start because it's easy to build and you'll plug it in and go holy crap this sounds great i have made fire yeah exactly yeah yeah it's always good to get a really good kick off you know when you're trying to do something so um but i would say i mean we'll probably do a bit more about this tomorrow because we're doing um you know uh but um brush up on your soldering first do some practice stuff that doesn't need to be used just to get your soldering right because that's that's where so many people fall down building during pedals yeah daryl robinson hello daryl he says hello from florida i've been playing a strat for years but i'm looking to add a telly what is your opinion on the american original 50s teles and 60s and the newer ultra luxe line american originals is what vintage reissue american nitro finish fender now is they're not as vintage specific as the last lot really nice guitars you don't say what your strat is if i don't know if you've got like a modern strat or a more vintagey type strap if you've got a more vintagey type strap chances are you're going to like a more vintagey type tele in which case go for the american original type the ultra lux do things like add a conical radius fingerboard so 10 to 14 inch radius board noiseless pickups slimmer necks um they won't that i would imagine they're probably not nitrocellulose finish i don't know um and they'll have things like sculpted heels probably and all that stuff that takes that ancient design and makes it more modern so it's a teleshaped guitar well depending on the kind of strat you play you might like the more modern take to it or the more vintage you take to it actually the modern american originals aren't that vintage specific as they used to be but certainly don't have things like noiseless pickups um i've got a feeling the american originals might even be a nine and a half inch radius board there are the american originals then we became the new originals and they left and we just went back to the originals and then shark sandwich if you can if you can i know it's difficult in these times but just try and play them one of those guitars will speak to you um and it is very hard to generalize because you might play you know two of the same guitars and you might really bond with one of them and not the other both will be great guitars if you want a vintagey one go for american original if you want a more modern guitar go for the ultra lux i i have to say i'm a non-big telly player i've found telly's trying out telly's probably more variation across telecasters than any other guitar i've tried out i've got a theory about that and it's a theory that uh i think josh scott from jhs first proposed to us indeed it's very so it's not my theory it's it's his theory and um it is that because it's so simple like a fast face yeah i know exactly what you can say what am i going to say because it's made up of so few uh constituent parts change one tiny little bit and it's like a soup made of four ingredients yeah you know you change you you change one of those ingredients it's going to make a massive difference if you've got 20 ingredients change one it's not going to make the big difference so yeah yeah yeah sorry i've stolen your thunder no no no not at all i think it shows that we're all on the same page it's more simple guitar yeah sorry i gotta pick in my hand uh he says hey lads question about volume in a band setting do you guys have any tips that you use mid gig to confirm that your guitar is at the right volume i don't have any iems or monitors going on in my band cheers trust the sound man yeah and if you don't if you don't have a sound engineer yeah okay yeah yeah move around the stage yeah you know so make sure it sounds good where you are but just have a little meander around the stage and yeah annoy everyone on the way really important but just have a listen to it's really important that you mix yourself on stage you know make sure that you know the noise coming off the stage has got to sound good so just have a walk around and make sure that um you can hear it get someone out front yeah listen i mean it's so everyone wants to be heard all the time right well when they're singing when somebody's singing you need to be quieter than you think and when they're not singing and you're playing a solo if you are playing a solo or an important guitar line you've got to be way louder than you think and that causes a lot of problem in bands because when you're sound checking or when you're setting up everyone thinks that that loud sound is way too loud and it's not the guitar solo needs to be as loud as the lead vocal yeah and that is very hard to understand uh if you haven't been doing it a long time and that volume variation you need from your rig so this is the opposite of how a lot of modern gigs work right because and actually a lot of gigs in general you go there and the sound engineer says can i have all your sounds please you play your clean sound it's gonna have your overdrive sound you play the overdrive sounds like that's way too loud mate and i'm like no it's not have it last google played exactly um because i'll deal with it well what happens is by about the 14th bar of your 16 bar solo the the sound engineer looks up from facebook and was like oh that dude's taking a solo up on the fader and i just can't be doing with that yeah it's like tell you what we're a dynamic band we play as a band and we play respectfully of one another and we manage our volume so if you could just be on that what you'll get is a nice dynamic response out front now don't get me wrong i'm not talking about 50 000 people in a stadium because that changes everything of course and you're dealing with like 100 billion trillion watts that does really change everything but like normal club and pub type gigs the way we've always done it anyway is you regulate your volume and be loud when you need to be loud and be quiet when you need to be quiet play like a band play the song make sure the singing is the most important thing that happens all night and you're golden yep as long as you have the head room on your app to be able to do that yeah would you yeah exactly yeah yeah yeah yeah i guess that's the i suppose if you've got a small amp cranked then you really do need to rely on that out front yeah it's it's again it's just changing variables isn't it yeah and understanding the the game so like you say as the as the venue gets bigger your reliance on the sound engineer is much higher because you're not going to hear a deluxe reverb in wembley stadium none of us are playing wembley stadium so it's not a problem yet yeah yeah watch his space um but sorry to answer your question more simply leon ask somebody yeah hopefully you've traveled to the gig with with somebody else not just you guys um uh you know have them as your scout as your spotter turn your guitar down go is my guitar loud enough oh no justin bailog hello justin hey justin uh right my les paul bridge pickup is crazy bright and beautiful the neck is a bit woolly and crazy bright and beautiful then neck pickups to wooly any thoughts on balancing them out rather than rolling off the bridge tone pick up height maybe yeah get an underwound for the neck it's a very very common story yeah it's it's really yeah if the pickups don't sound balanced in the middle no matter what you do or you know when to switch between them um it's a really hard thing to do like in my in my um vlog where i did expensive pickups in a in a cheap guitar you can hear that the original pickups nothing i do to those will make them sound balanced um regardless of height or you know tone control or whatever i put the new pickups in there and it's just i couldn't make them unbalanced yeah you know so if you'll come down to if the pickups if the neck pickup was right or not you know getting a a low wind neck pickup is a really simple but check out the lolla i think they're called imperial low winds they just sound spectacularly good every guitar i hear i mean i really like them um you've got in there already so les paul could be anything i don't know whether it's a vintage reissue type one or if it's a ceramic magnet four nine eight t or whatever they were 500 t um obviously that will have a bearing but definitely check out a super traditional underworld paf style um which could get you there plenty of people do yeah lots of people um diamond marcus says paul matulovich hello paul uh what are you why are your pedals so good i can possibly tell you i have no idea and mick have you seen the new sircarlis srv pedal no i haven't i'm kind of interested in that oh it looks spectacular does it it does cool yeah their stuff is so good every time i think i understand the srv tone something new convinces me that i really don't so um could be time to dive back in nice um and spencer hey there big fan of the show do you guys still use the baby echorec you have i just purchased a modern unit from a guy named marcelo in italy and i'm psyched uh i haven't used it for a while so what i found is i bought it first it broke the day i bought it the wire came off the drum and so that went in literally the day i got it and that went in it was like an eight hundred pound repair to get that sorted out yeah that's an 800 pound repair i saw an invoice off and that was and that was at mates rates you know uh so one thing i found with that with the baby wreck is that you turn on it sounds amazing after about half an hour sounds even better because that tiny little bit of heat in the wire makes it expand and actually actually puts the correct amount of pressure on the heads oh no way that's that's how finicky is well you don't want to travel with that do you no no no i mean it's it won't be doing any gigs any time soon but it's a magic magic thing i messaged you a few weeks ago saying i've got this uh carlsbrough uh mantis echo oh yes it's in the car oh fantastic you're gonna love that yes we'll do yeah you're leaving it here with us then yeah for a bit yeah yeah absolutely yeah yeah paul collingridge says volume check that's how you know if your girlfriend is a keeper it's true it's true she says no turn it up um and uh apparently the crazy tube circuits crossfire pedal uh might be an srv one by the sounds of things it makes sense yeah yeah um actually crazy tube circuits and circadis they're greek they're both greek aren't they um what is it with those crazy greeks they've made some damn good pedals don't they they really do yeah there we are i think we're i think we're all done excellent so thank you everyone yeah thanks for being here marcus thank you thank you marcus anyways guys it's uh it's been uh it's been fun i think you are our first guest here for vcq you are yeah there we go it's nice it's nice to get some different perspectives first we talked a little bit about first i guess in the future we could uh probably let people know that guests are coming we weren't sure marcus was going to make it in time today so we didn't want to um didn't want to promote it as it were and let everyone down better to under promise and over deliver dan isn't it i just took the word straight out of my orifice uh speaking of horuses orifices we need to go and stuff them quickly insane late let's do that yes right place out there dan very much guys thanks for being with us you

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Published: Mon Dec 13 2021