My Boss Katana Settings For Clinics & Gigs

[Music] [Applause] [Music] greetings how're you doing good to see you I thought today I talked a little bit about how I set up my boss katana use them all the time for touring I've done a lot of touring recently where I've played abroad and playing abroad has a lot of challenges one of them being travel of course flying all over the place in America makes it really difficult to take amplifiers on the airplane and so what I was tending to do was kind of rely on what a guitar store would have in stock and I kind of came to the conclusion that although my heart lies with traditional valve amplifiers I mean I love them you know they all have their this kind of heart and soul that sort of you know it just has the sound of rock and roll to me what I really needed was something that was reliable rock steady indestructible and was always going to be there and dependable and some of the first choices that I came up with a lot of the guitar stores that I were playing in didn't have and that of course sort of caused the problem so I've been using boss katana for quite a while to be honest with you in my kitchen where I wake up quite early you've got little kids and sometimes I wake up and want to have a jam or write something you know and I didn't want to be too loud because they're gonna wake them up so I turn on I got a 1b 12 katana combo and I play downstairs really quietly of course now I'd use the the wise headphones which are amazing but I play really quietly using the combat and it had this kind of valve sound a low volume which I was incredibly thankful for [Music] but I thought you know it sounds like a valve amp there I mean boss gears I mean you'll probably know this it's pretty much indestructible I've got a tuning pedal somewhere that will outlast me I heard a stat somewhere I think Peter Honora told me this she said that bosses main competitor is themselves which is kind of cool isn't it so anyway I thought why don't I try taking these on the road every guitar center stall has a boss katana the other stores that I was playing at in Australia the places had boss katana as well so I was always going to find one and and then I thought well I need to you know learn to set them up and I've got to always have the same sound I don't like things I don't like to be inconsistent with my tone so I wanted to really focus and take time to get the clean the crunch the gain and then some fun sounds on the side so that when I'm playing a clinic I can have a regular British crunch or kind of slightly pushed you know 800 1974 X kind of tone all that Soldano sweet singing lead or a clean tone which admittedly I don't really use a lot off but it's good to have it there for teaching and so I spent a few days before this tour really getting to know the insides and outsides of the katana range and they've just upgraded all of them with the new katana range and so I've been doing the same thing again because I'm definitely going to be playing some clinics and some gigs so what's the end of this year and undoubtedly some of them will be install clinics and I'll probably just use a katana because it's practical and makes sense it's less to carry around less to set up it's just they're ready for me [Music] and something that I love is the ability to store the different kinds of sounds you've got the panel you can work it out see what sounds great when you've got it where you want it you store it and you know it's practical and it's useful how many more than four sounds am I ever gonna need a big cake probably no more than three to be honest with you so what I'll do is I'll show you the different tones that I use and talk about the settings that I've used to get them I thought I'd also break up this Gibson Les Paul because it's really old and battered and it sounds cool and I haven't used it for a while it does have a little bit of tuning issue so forgive me if things go slightly awry I think in some instances I can forgive tuning overtone until I replace these tumors that have definitely seen better days so we'll start with the crunch tone I've got the pedal on the floor so I can actually hmm here's my little boss pedal on the floor so I can change and chop between things which makes it really practical for me we'll start with the crunch tone I'm putting it on the crunch channel surprise surprise not a lot of the game because the crunch channel can really crank up to some sort of exciting gain levels and then you know I'll show you a view of the panel so that you can see exactly how I've set it and it just gives you that guts and glory kind of driven valve amp kind of sounds I'm tuned to an open slide genie [Music] [Applause] [Music] so you could probably see I'm playing with the tone knob on this the dog is p90s so buzz when you play with the tone sounds great different settings it's almost like different pickup configurations I really enjoy that so it's such a nice tone it's such a human sort of valve II real warm tone that I just love it anyway moving on channel 2 unadulterated filth I don't know about you but when I'm playing lead I want it to be a little bit kind of forgiving I don't want to have it too brittle and sort of in my face I like it to have a little bit of a little bit of sag enough game that you can sustain the note into feedback but not enough that it gets fizzy or mushy and so what I found is a setting that does that and the secret really is that the katana range mimics a valve amp and by that what I mean is if you have the master load down and then push up the volume you don't get the valve break up power valve kind of side but if you crank the master and then use the volume to get the level of volume you really feel the engine sort of kick in my high gain lead setting is the lead channel then I've pushed up the mids so I'm cutting through any kind of backing track that's behind me I've got a bit more presence in the mix I'm adding delay I'm adding reverb now previously when I was touring with the katana I didn't have options like the different kinds of voicing or the different kinds of cabinet emulation but I really like the modern and the vintage cabinet emulations they're great sounding and the different voicings it's just you know they're actually really different they're kind of chalk and cheese so you definitely got to work with them and see which one sits with what it is that you want to say with the guitar but anyway here's how my lead sound sounds [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] yeah that's my league sound I really like it it's kind of easy to play it's forgiving you can drop tune tuning on this might be a cheaper you can drop team through and it sounds great and it's always the kind of sound that you wake up you make a coffee you get ready to play you turn it on and that sound kind of makes you excited to play because it's a little bit forgiving but it sounds great now the sound I use the least which is my clean time I'm using the clean setting again I'm pushing up the master backing off the volume and on excess that it's really receptive to different kinds of pickups so for example I was running my ghost fret with a bare knuckle into it and it was pushing it and giving it a little bit of crunch which are quite liked but you might not want so you've got to make sure that the gain setting on the amp is backed off a bit on the clean channel and you'll get crystal clean that's classic Roland kind of clean tone for days with the gain up you're getting f-type clean tones that you can push which are nice as well so let's see how this sounds it sounds up tune [Music] I do love the sound of the clean it's an organic sounding clean but I don't use it a lot to be honest mostly what I do is put on clean and then maybe put a metal zone on it [Music] there are lots of fun sounds that you can get from the katana range because they've got all of the effects built-in and I think something that I'm definitely guilty of is spending a lot like way too much time playing with an auto wah or whatever configuration of crazy effects but the one thing that really did stick was that I loved the octave sound and so for channel number 4 more often than not I have an octave sound and a bit of a crunch and I'll riff with it and sort of show people how fun that is cuz it's really cool but I mean it could be anything I mean it could be an extreme leads and or a different kind of rhythm tonality [Music] [Music] something that's really cool about that octave sounds that the tracking is spot-on well I was a kid things like that would would they wouldn't keep up with you but now you can sweep you can shred and the octave is just with you laser-guided kind of the whole way it's great I urge you to experiment playing with that I really need to sort this guitar house I hope you've enjoyed that it was really fun for me and if you got any questions put them in the comment section and yeah take it easy see you soon 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Length: 17min 6sec (1026 seconds)

Published: Mon May 11 2020