Guessing you've sorted this out by now, but I'll still act like a know it all anyway for those who are unaware that might wanna know! The reason you're picking up radio frequencies through your amp with the fuzz face on is because your signal cables (the audio leads that link each pedal) and your power cables (the 9v cable coming from the power supply), are running parallel to one another, this effectively creates an antenna! You should always (if you have to have the cables running next to eachother) have them cross over eachother perpendicularly. Hope this helps anyone wondering!
There is nothing better than the excitement that comes with new gear day! Doesn't matter how old you get or how long you've played, it's always like Christmas.
You will find that the Fuzz Face can be tedious to learn to use by itself but once you learn to use your volume knob when it's activated you open up so many doors to tone. I think of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Johnson, etc. Also you can always mess around with pedal arrangement which is fun and helps you get different tones. Good work Mimi!
Ditch the daisy chain and hook them all up to their own spot on the power supply. You have plenty of free spots left to use. The daisy chain is likely why you’re getting the radio interference. Isolating each pedal on its own port is always ideal.
I was just gonna comment on that. The whole point of using a powersupply like that is to feed power to each pedal from own isolated power sources. Im not going to comment on the overall sound other than it left much to desire... but the dress looked lovely on you ;)
Mimi, you are absolutely gorgeous and your talent and personality shine brightly! You are an inspiration to me as a 54-year-old man just beginning his guitar journey. (I'm an Englishman living in the Antipodes for many years now and your videos showing London make me homesick!) It is just a joy to see you making the very most of your youth (you'll be my age before you know it, so do keep it up!) God bless you, darling. Sincerely, an distant admirer, Perth, Australia x.
@@alansturgess1324 fair guitarist? Take it from man playing for 8 years(age 23) now putting in my heart and soul almost rupturing my academic career and with 0 support when i was at her stage, shes n not "fair enough". She plays noob crap. All she does is try to imitate blues players and fails to do so. Thats it. And yes thats boob money. Im also here for the drums and not the pedals.
I’ve found with pedal boards that it’s best to have your wah on the edge, regardless of where it sits in the chain, so you’ve got easy access to it and if you’re clumsy like me you don’t have to worry about bumping dials on other pedals.
I just turned 46 in August and I feel like the most lascivious, perverted dirty old man anytime I watch Mimi's videos. I'm such a tool. She is progressing wonderfully as a guitarist and I can empathize with her about the excitement of the first pedalboard. I have been playing since I was 16 in 1992, and ever since outside of a wah or an overdrive here and there I never used a pedalboard. I spent the first part of this year building mine up and it was a great experience. Only tips I have are don't be afraid to experiment and rearrange and if you're going to buy cheaper "Amazon" budget pedals stick to overdrives and distortion. The Donner, Joyo, Mosky, etc overdrives can be quite good. But steer clear of reverb, delay & modulation pedals on the cheap. It's well worth buying a good quality delay pedal for $150-200 than spend the same on 5-6 budget pedals that just don't cut it. Congrats Meem's.
@@Drylogic_kills 😂, panzy?! Wow brother, I was just being honest. I totally dig how Mimi is progressing; any shorts or new videos always have her playing better & better. I'm just human, I'm sure Mimi knows how many dudes are sprouting wood while watching her stuff.
@@ponderbot34 Well there's still a bunch of perma-virgin goody goodies who think it's criminal to acknowledge Mimi is hot. I love her playing...but I also love seeing her boobs bobbling over the top of her guitar. If that's wrong I don't want to be right.....
"Get's rid of clarity." That's a pretty good description of a lot of the way the times are out there. You're playing well with feel these days, Mimi. Nice path.
The order of the pedals matters too. Some make sense towards the front of the path, some towards the end. Something that boosts the signal will help "feed" the others, and strengthen those effects.
00:23 Can't say I've ever seen anyone use scissors like that. Next time, just open them as wide as they'll go and use them like a knife (pinch the middle where they attach to one another with your thumb and index finger with one scissor handle resting in your palm).
Aside from all the guitar stuff, the editing on this is top notch! No, I’m not being sarcastic. If you watch it again, there is never a moment where to feel the need to fast forward. As someone that used to edit film a lot, I just found that awesome.
That Fuzz Face is a great little pedal. I found that even though it seemed like it didn't change much when I adjusted it, after spending some time with it you can really get alot out of it in conjunction with the volume on the guitar. Good for you!
Game changing crybaby on pedalboard discovery for me was that if you unscrew the little rubber feet you can lift them off the screws, put just the screws back in and it sits much flatter without catching on the pedalboard frame, you get much more freedom of movement. The feet are for keeping it on the floor. I just taped them to the inside of the case with electrical tape so they're with the pedal if I ever put them back on. Honestly, it made a huge difference to how stable it felt on a pedalboard and I have no idea why this isn't more widely shared. Also, if you haven't already, consider a true bypass mod on the crybaby. It's not very difficult and solves the fact that the modern ones "suck" the tone when they're switched off but still in the signal chain. There are places where this is useful, at the front of a pedalboard is not one of them in my opinion! There's a really great kit that costs about twelve pounds that includes a bypass mod, a tone switch for a toggle-on-or-off more "Hendrix" wah feel, and some old-spec transistors that give it a much more vintage voicing that to me feels more blues-rock and less hair metal.
Yeah? And not to hard to install yourself? Or is it a leaver to the pros kind of mod? And where could one find such a kit ? If you don't mind me asking?
@@briansnyder8382 I bought a kit on eBay through a company called GMRSpares. Reasonable pricing and decent enough quality hardware. You could upgrade the provided foot switch to a brand name one if you wanted. Came with extremely high quality instructions with step by step pictures and the seller was also contactable. It's doable if you have soldering experience and a semi decent soldering iron. If not, find someone who does who can help you out. It's achievable within an evening, even for an amateur. Note that it does involve a permanent modification to the circuit board that removes the always on buffer in favour of a proper bypass. In my opinion this is not a bad thing!
Try putting your delay in the FX loop of your amp :) putting it in front of the amp causes the pre-amp to amplify the delay, putting it in the FX loop puts it behind the pre-amp and before the power amp, making it sound a lot smoother! Keep up the great videos!🤗
Welcome to the wonderful world of constantly re-adjusting your pedalboard to suit your preferences! My iPhone is full of photos of my "preferred layouts" that would change every 3-4 months or 5-6 gigs haha!
You would laugh at some of the pedal board s I have built in my younger days lol A piece of plywood shaped like? Lol attach m'Wire and ground and off to the races 🚦🏎️!!!! Lol
That's some great gear. One word of advice... try the fuzz face and the TS at the same time. You can roll back the guitar volume and it sounds less like a fuzz and more like a really good distortion pedal. And don't be afraid to turn down the tone knob on the guitar. Of course, with just the fuzz it'll be the classic sound, but you have a more versatile set up than you may realize.
Always remember change order of pedals for different sounds also. The way pedals play together is a different sound. Keep electrics away from quarter inch cable. Cleaner sound.
That power supply was meant to avoid a daisy chain. The reason you picked up the radio was precisely because you daisy chained. I suggest you call truetone to assist you on what goes where. Good job otherwise! I don't mean to be critical but you do have a nice selection of pedals.
@@mimisounds2843 I totally agree with Peter V. Avoid using a daisy chain whenever possible. There should be enough individual outputs on that power supply. Give each of your pedals their own source whenever possible.
Sell the ISpot and buy strymon. The single most important box on your board is the power supply. Then lose daisy chain. You will never regret it. Pedals come on go but the strymon power supply will never fail you
I want to share my tips how i managed to tame my fuzz face.. as a standalone pedal it's not really impressive.. You seem to have tubescreamer..thats a good start.. Connect fuzz to guitar..fuzz to tubescreamer.. Turn guitar full up and fuzz OFF..dial the tubescreamer to ac/dc type non mastervolume marshallish sound. Now..turn the guitar volume off..max the knobs on fuzz-face and turn it on.. Then start rolling the guitar volume up slowly and discover all the fabulous colors of distortion starting from 'wind cries mary' (around '1' guitar volume) to '3rd stone from the sun'-mayhem (around '10' guitar vol.) and all the colors in between.. i rarely turn the fuzz off when playing Hendrix, instead i learnt manipulating the volume on guitar! Depending on how you want to use your wah, you can connect it before or after the fuzz, but i prefer it after the fuzz and before the 'cranked marshall'-pedal (possibly tube screamer in Your case)..Youll sound like 'Come on (part 1)'.. It took me quite long to figure this out, so i've tried to help other people getting all these nice colors out of fuzz-face that i've fallen in love with.. Throughout the years i've swapped almost all my distortions/overdrives but fuzz has always stayed with me as an option on my board! Best wishes! -Jani
I utterly understand you're feeling about the Crybaby! The frequencies can be so high, and overwhelming! I personally have avoided them since I was younger. Always searching for my tone that is me. The most difficult quest for me was that. They don't make them like they used to. Whenever I do turn on my various Wah peddles. I've discovered, for me I had to adjust my EQ settings, adjusted to take out a lot of the high end, which was too much. I started using programmable preamps, which are not necessary, yet I have so many tone styles I need to perform, I've really complicated. I'm now using, Crybaby, Vox, Morley, and Rotovibe by Dunlop. I've found that they are better when they all have True-bypass, input connectors. Some have from the start. Still, I prefer to not use them if can. I much prefer a stomp peddle with one adjustment knob. to keep it in a perfect spot for that tone. You are a fantastic guitarist, no doubt. No matter what you play through, or the guitar. You have it, in your Hands, and your Heart. You can make a cheap Squire sound great. Can imagine you with a custom shop. It's good we don't get spoiled early on. That's what they tell me. Look forward to hearing more from your fantastic Guitar. It's also so wonderful to see and hear when the younger generation like you, can see the brilliance of the Great Jimi Hendrix. Thank you for your videos, Keep Playing your awesome Rock blues Guitar.
@@tednugentlives Yes I love Morely, my first Wah, it's a great peddle, smooth, has a great tone. plugs in for power. no batteries. wish I still had it. lent it to a friend, he won't give it back. lol. I have the Bad Horse now. need to pull it out to try to use it.
You should avoid daisychains, thats causing most of the noise I imagine. Your power supply is a good one and allows you to power each pedal individually. More cables, but a pedal getting isolated power will sound so much better - promise! You look like you're having fun though, so enjoy! 😎
Now you’re really getting there. Playing around with all that stuff is how you find your sound. It’s frustrating, if you let it bother you. Just have fun and keep messing with knobs and pedals, you’ll get it. I went from individual pedals to one multi pedal, to a combination of both… and I always have my Cry Baby off to the side. I like the wah to be last in line, after all other stuff. PS. You are smokin hot! Love watching you mess with new stuff, everything is so right 👊🏼💯❤️🙂
Some fuzz pedals, especially the fuzz face don't really work with the neck pickup on the tele or the strat. Try it with the bridge pickup that would benefit from the added fatness from the fuzz. Good luck on using your new board
The Dunlop Fuzz face works better in front of the Tube screamer and /or the TC electronics Forcefield compressor. That way you get the Band of Gypsys fuzz and the sustain. Otherwise you just have a mosquito type fuzz tone with no sustain. Using the fuzzface , Tube screamer and delay together takes you into Roxy Music / King Crimson areas of sonic wizardry with relatively basic gear.
I first picked up a guitar the end of February. It's so much fun to learn and play. At 52 I wish I would have picked one up when I was younger. My amp can simulate a lot of pedal sounds but actual pedals you can just click with your foot sounds easier than turning knobs on an amp. It has to be crazy being so young helping a bunch of old guys learn guitar.
Lol Mimi , When I was building them and still would if I needed to...I would get a 2" thick piece of pine shelving and attach. the pedals with ties run the wiring neat< I would use like 16 gauge or what ever was around lol..ya gotta remember back then the Power Bricks weren't prevalent or anything like my friend built mean Regulated 9volt power supply and till the day I never had a quieter supply ..and I would always use a hush noise reduction, as they were coming out in pedals.To, the best of my memory .. lol
Great set of pedals. You can get a lot of sounds and have a lot of fun with those! A lot of people insist that they should be in a certain "standard" order, but experiment with them in any/every order you want. Jimi always did.
This pedal board is pretty good. Have you thought about how to connect the delays separately to the amplifier loop? After all, this is how the spatial effects sound more fully.
Keep riding babe and customise your own platform with what you really enjoy with. Test it and set them up by your own desire and needs. You are great with that guitar. Wish you the best.🥰👍
As others have said, take advantage of the nice power supply you have to power as many of your pedals individually. I have the same power supply. Just watch the voltage, there is one that is 18v and 4 you can switch from 9v to 12v. If all your pedals are 9v just avoid the 18v at the end. I have a few different voltage pedals and constantly double check voltages when making changes. Oh and place your wah after the fuzz and it should solve the tone issue. Fuzzes like to be first in the signal chain and don’t get along with buffered pedals.
Rick Beato has an excellent RUclips video called "How To Build a Guitar Pedal Board". He not only goes over the actual build, but also explains the best way to sequence the pedals for the best sound.
I know, when playing live, onstage a chromatic tuner is a must add in. It's really important to have your pedals, in order of your liking, but benefit you as well. Nice setup Mimi. ~Michael
You do know that you get drastically different tones when you configure your pedals in a different order (i.e. rearrange how you have them routed in the signal chain), yes? Having certain effects before or after others sometimes changes it for the worse. You have to route them in certain way to get your best potential sounds. Also, as you turn effects on and off your volume is going to jump up and down (like going clean to dirty). If you are playing live you don't want that. You need your overall volume to be consistent as you turn effects on and off. There are ways to buffer the feed and/or remedy that. But just arranging them in any random order and setting all the volumes wherever will never show you what it could sound like if it was truly optimized.
Your blue fuzz face mini is a silicon fuzz face. Congrats, it was used on the solo to Pink Floyd - Time! Put a buffered pedal like a Boss pedal between your wah and fuzz. It doesn't have to be on. It's about buffers and guitar impedance.
Not a straight pedal on the board… Brilliant! So many people are so anal about builds but not Mimi… Velcro them up and stick em on and get playin! Loved it, wish you could build mine!
Mimi..you might want to knpw that jimi used Fuzzfaces at first,but when he met Roger Mayer, Roger used to gut the FF pedals and use them to put his overdrive electronics in the housing. And most of the concerts you see of Jimi Hendrix plugged in to a fuze face, it's actually just the casing and not a real fuzz face at all.
Radio interference? The audio amp is rectifying the RF and amplifying it. The trick is looping low level cables through the center hole in an appropriate torid. Contact Palomar Engineers for their RFI kit. Works great.
I never use pedals, I only need a couple of rack effects to get the job done but I do love watching you play, we seem to share the same music style, you keep making videos and I’ll keep watching 👍👍
There are so many variables with audio & instrumental equipment when it comes to design and placement . Quality and experimentation are important . Once you get the sound you want , don’t touch anything!
Who ever created you, did an incredible job. You remind me of a cross between the talent of Lady Gaga and the soul of Stevie Nicks. You are going to have everything you’ve dreamed of.
Tuner , wha , comp ( I don’t use 1 ), overdrive , distortion all in front of amp - then any effects afterwards and remember your recording loop pedal goes at the end of chain , ( don’t forget to use your fax loop in back of amp if you have one )
Just make sure you get the power supply right (NEVER daisy chain). Everything else like pedals and tones are just personal preference. ;-) Don't forget good patch cables, too. I don't usually recommend brands but what I use now is the Hosa patch cables.
eh you can daisy chain if the total current draw of the all the pedals in the chain doesn't exceed the output mA of the power source. the only thing that shouldn't be daisy chained is a fuzz face, two transistor fuzzes need their own isolated power source or it could fry the pedal (unless they are modded to be able to daisy chain)
@@guitarthings8453 well not to my experience. I also made sure my guitars have been properly shielded/reshielded and changed stock guitar wiring into better ones. Goodbye cycle hum.
Guessing you've sorted this out by now, but I'll still act like a know it all anyway for those who are unaware that might wanna know! The reason you're picking up radio frequencies through your amp with the fuzz face on is because your signal cables (the audio leads that link each pedal) and your power cables (the 9v cable coming from the power supply), are running parallel to one another, this effectively creates an antenna! You should always (if you have to have the cables running next to eachother) have them cross over eachother perpendicularly. Hope this helps anyone wondering!
For some odd reason it’s not as boring as most guitar players tediously messing with their pedal board. Wonder why. Lol
Two reasons.
@@bdgreg add the nighty or whatever in there too.
@fastguitar
You have more periods than a women's volleyball team.
Reminds me of Kurt Angle and Christopher Daniels fighting their way out of a sack (for TNA fans)
Lol right
There is nothing better than the excitement that comes with new gear day! Doesn't matter how old you get or how long you've played, it's always like Christmas.
I hear you and agree but I can see through your comment. I know why you’re here.
Probably the same reason you are there, Sport.
@@CrashTestPilot
Yes champ, but im not reaching out with a comment and hoping for a reply.
@@18JR78 The hell you on about? Nothing about his comment insinuated that he was hoping for a response from her… weirdo.
Idk about u guys, but I’m here to use her voice and guitar playing for sleepy nap time asmr 😬🎸🥱😴
You will find that the Fuzz Face can be tedious to learn to use by itself but once you learn to use your volume knob when it's activated you open up so many doors to tone. I think of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Johnson, etc. Also you can always mess around with pedal arrangement which is fun and helps you get different tones. Good work Mimi!
Ditch the daisy chain and hook them all up to their own spot on the power supply. You have plenty of free spots left to use. The daisy chain is likely why you’re getting the radio interference. Isolating each pedal on its own port is always ideal.
I was just gonna comment on that. The whole point of using a powersupply like that is to feed power to each pedal from own isolated power sources. Im not going to comment on the overall sound other than it left much to desire... but the dress looked lovely on you ;)
In addition while most pedals are 9v some are not and require more volatile and in some instances AC vs DC.
This. Do exactly this. You bought a nice supply, definitely use it to the fullest!
@@Triggerboy62 Have to admit... I came for the dress
@@gadaffi1000 honesty will pay off 👍
That's the right, meaty tone to have. Full-bodied and with a hint of hum.
Thanks for getting those bits from us. 🤘🤘🤘
Hand delivered I'm sure!!
Which bits Captain?
I totally read this wrong.
@@vorpalblades no, you didn't
Bits - indeed.
Mimi, you are absolutely gorgeous and your talent and personality shine brightly! You are an inspiration to me as a 54-year-old man just beginning his guitar journey. (I'm an Englishman living in the Antipodes for many years now and your videos showing London make me homesick!) It is just a joy to see you making the very most of your youth (you'll be my age before you know it, so do keep it up!) God bless you, darling. Sincerely, an distant admirer, Perth, Australia x.
That is an awesome pedal board building dress!
Nope, that's a drummer dress (something to die fore).
Plenty of room to hide the cable and keep it in place.
Especially when leaning forwards to check for a loose connection.
@@alansturgess1324 lol
@@alansturgess1324 fair guitarist? Take it from man playing for 8 years(age 23) now putting in my heart and soul almost rupturing my academic career and with 0 support when i was at her stage, shes n not "fair enough". She plays noob crap. All she does is try to imitate blues players and fails to do so. Thats it. And yes thats boob money. Im also here for the drums and not the pedals.
Great way to put a smile on the faces of many!
I’ve found with pedal boards that it’s best to have your wah on the edge, regardless of where it sits in the chain, so you’ve got easy access to it and if you’re clumsy like me you don’t have to worry about bumping dials on other pedals.
I love it when she bounces up and down with enthusiasm
I just turned 46 in August and I feel like the most lascivious, perverted dirty old man anytime I watch Mimi's videos. I'm such a tool. She is progressing wonderfully as a guitarist and I can empathize with her about the excitement of the first pedalboard. I have been playing since I was 16 in 1992, and ever since outside of a wah or an overdrive here and there I never used a pedalboard. I spent the first part of this year building mine up and it was a great experience. Only tips I have are don't be afraid to experiment and rearrange and if you're going to buy cheaper "Amazon" budget pedals stick to overdrives and distortion. The Donner, Joyo, Mosky, etc overdrives can be quite good. But steer clear of reverb, delay & modulation pedals on the cheap. It's well worth buying a good quality delay pedal for $150-200 than spend the same on 5-6 budget pedals that just don't cut it. Congrats Meem's.
You're not a tool, good God man!!!! Stop being a panzy
@@Drylogic_kills 😂, panzy?! Wow brother, I was just being honest. I totally dig how Mimi is progressing; any shorts or new videos always have her playing better & better. I'm just human, I'm sure Mimi knows how many dudes are sprouting wood while watching her stuff.
Wow
Lol finally someone addresses the elephant(s) in the room
@@ponderbot34 Well there's still a bunch of perma-virgin goody goodies who think it's criminal to acknowledge Mimi is hot. I love her playing...but I also love seeing her boobs bobbling over the top of her guitar. If that's wrong I don't want to be right.....
"Get's rid of clarity." That's a pretty good description of a lot of the way the times are out there. You're playing well with feel these days, Mimi. Nice path.
The order of the pedals matters too. Some make sense towards the front of the path, some towards the end. Something that boosts the signal will help "feed" the others, and strengthen those effects.
00:23 Can't say I've ever seen anyone use scissors like that. Next time, just open them as wide as they'll go and use them like a knife (pinch the middle where they attach to one another with your thumb and index finger with one scissor handle resting in your palm).
Beautiful, talented, and smart. Unbeatable combination. YOU ROCK MIMI!
Aside from all the guitar stuff, the editing on this is top notch! No, I’m not being sarcastic. If you watch it again, there is never a moment where to feel the need to fast forward. As someone that used to edit film a lot, I just found that awesome.
This cracked me up. Hehehe.
@@FrankyFeedler Me too. He was too busy looking at...
This is the best pedalboard intro I've ever seen.
Seen one you have seen them both.
There's a pedalboard in this video?
Glad you got the fax today regarding “smart casual” day.
That Fuzz Face is a great little pedal. I found that even though it seemed like it didn't change much when I adjusted it, after spending some time with it you can really get alot out of it in conjunction with the volume on the guitar. Good for you!
Hi,,from phillipines
This is by far my favorite video of yours. You're so precious
Game changing crybaby on pedalboard discovery for me was that if you unscrew the little rubber feet you can lift them off the screws, put just the screws back in and it sits much flatter without catching on the pedalboard frame, you get much more freedom of movement. The feet are for keeping it on the floor. I just taped them to the inside of the case with electrical tape so they're with the pedal if I ever put them back on. Honestly, it made a huge difference to how stable it felt on a pedalboard and I have no idea why this isn't more widely shared.
Also, if you haven't already, consider a true bypass mod on the crybaby. It's not very difficult and solves the fact that the modern ones "suck" the tone when they're switched off but still in the signal chain. There are places where this is useful, at the front of a pedalboard is not one of them in my opinion! There's a really great kit that costs about twelve pounds that includes a bypass mod, a tone switch for a toggle-on-or-off more "Hendrix" wah feel, and some old-spec transistors that give it a much more vintage voicing that to me feels more blues-rock and less hair metal.
Yeah? And not to hard to install yourself? Or is it a leaver to the pros kind of mod? And where could one find such a kit ? If you don't mind me asking?
@@briansnyder8382 I bought a kit on eBay through a company called GMRSpares. Reasonable pricing and decent enough quality hardware. You could upgrade the provided foot switch to a brand name one if you wanted.
Came with extremely high quality instructions with step by step pictures and the seller was also contactable.
It's doable if you have soldering experience and a semi decent soldering iron. If not, find someone who does who can help you out. It's achievable within an evening, even for an amateur. Note that it does involve a permanent modification to the circuit board that removes the always on buffer in favour of a proper bypass. In my opinion this is not a bad thing!
Opening box tip... You can usually just rake the scissors across the boxing tape. No need to use the scissors as intended.
Try putting your delay in the FX loop of your amp :) putting it in front of the amp causes the pre-amp to amplify the delay, putting it in the FX loop puts it behind the pre-amp and before the power amp, making it sound a lot smoother! Keep up the great videos!🤗
I use it before the overdrive to play Dead kennedys jeje.
Yo jack so true ,good point bro👊✌
This is actually a fine piece of unintentional ASMR
Welcome to the wonderful world of constantly re-adjusting your pedalboard to suit your preferences! My iPhone is full of photos of my "preferred layouts" that would change every 3-4 months or 5-6 gigs haha!
And I thought it was just ME! Thanks man, i thought maybe i was OCD or something! ss
Same here.
Yeahp.. same.. or like I just did a Mayer 2021 Dead and Co replica board..
Indonesia nyimak👍👍
You would laugh at some of the pedal board s I have built in my younger days lol A piece of plywood shaped like? Lol attach m'Wire and ground and off to the races 🚦🏎️!!!! Lol
I am so much happier now than I was before I watched this!
Thanks for posting this Mia and including us in this experience. I love your playing. And you look fabulous in that dress!!
Mimi
@@prelovedguitarsni1436 ?
@@jhors7777 her name is Mimi.
@@prelovedguitarsni1436 I do not think you are correct
@@prelovedguitarsni1436 Her real name is Mia.
Man I could watch those all day long
I knew it’d be a pedaltrain, I looked at mine when I saw the notification 😂
Best pedalboard build tutorial on the internet
That's some great gear. One word of advice... try the fuzz face and the TS at the same time. You can roll back the guitar volume and it sounds less like a fuzz and more like a really good distortion pedal. And don't be afraid to turn down the tone knob on the guitar. Of course, with just the fuzz it'll be the classic sound, but you have a more versatile set up than you may realize.
I back this up fully, and would like to suggest: TS into Fuzz face
also you can check thomas blug's academy of tone about jimi hendrix
Always remember change order of pedals for different sounds also. The way pedals play together is a different sound. Keep electrics away from quarter inch cable. Cleaner sound.
Thank you for sharing your pedal board experience. I also think it is a great idea to begin to sing!
Hello
You're guitars are very happy they ❤ your touch
My wife and I just built our first pedal board this past week as well! So much fun! Cheers kiddo! Great channel!
Nice to follow your musical journey Mimi! Have fun, that's as important as practicing.
That power supply was meant to avoid a daisy chain. The reason you picked up the radio was precisely because you daisy chained. I suggest you call truetone to assist you on what goes where. Good job otherwise! I don't mean to be critical but you do have a nice selection of pedals.
haha i spent so long trying to figure out the others i just settled with the daisy chain. thanks for the info!!
@@mimisounds2843 I totally agree with Peter V. Avoid using a daisy chain whenever possible. There should be enough individual outputs on that power supply. Give each of your pedals their own source whenever possible.
Sell the ISpot and buy strymon. The single most important box on your board is the power supply. Then lose daisy chain. You will never regret it. Pedals come on go but the strymon power supply will never fail you
Call Dan and Mick of "That Pedal Show". I'm sure they'd sort you out in double quick time and it would make a great video for both of your channels
I want to share my tips how i managed to tame my fuzz face.. as a standalone pedal it's not really impressive.. You seem to have tubescreamer..thats a good start.. Connect fuzz to guitar..fuzz to tubescreamer.. Turn guitar full up and fuzz OFF..dial the tubescreamer to ac/dc type non mastervolume marshallish sound. Now..turn the guitar volume off..max the knobs on fuzz-face and turn it on.. Then start rolling the guitar volume up slowly and discover all the fabulous colors of distortion starting from 'wind cries mary' (around '1' guitar volume) to '3rd stone from the sun'-mayhem (around '10' guitar vol.) and all the colors in between.. i rarely turn the fuzz off when playing Hendrix, instead i learnt manipulating the volume on guitar! Depending on how you want to use your wah, you can connect it before or after the fuzz, but i prefer it after the fuzz and before the 'cranked marshall'-pedal (possibly tube screamer in Your case)..Youll sound like 'Come on (part 1)'.. It took me quite long to figure this out, so i've tried to help other people getting all these nice colors out of fuzz-face that i've fallen in love with.. Throughout the years i've swapped almost all my distortions/overdrives but fuzz has always stayed with me as an option on my board! Best wishes! -Jani
You are the stuff dreams are made of
Great set of pedals! As a guitarist myself it’s great to see someone playing with a smile! You’re a great player! And a beautiful woman
you horndog
I utterly understand you're feeling about the Crybaby! The frequencies can be so high, and overwhelming! I personally have avoided them since I was younger. Always searching for my tone that is me. The most difficult quest for me was that. They don't make them like they used to. Whenever I do turn on my various Wah peddles. I've discovered, for me I had to adjust my EQ settings, adjusted to take out a lot of the high end, which was too much. I started using programmable preamps, which are not necessary, yet I have so many tone styles I need to perform, I've really complicated. I'm now using, Crybaby, Vox, Morley, and Rotovibe by Dunlop. I've found that they are better when they all have True-bypass, input connectors. Some have from the start. Still, I prefer to not use them if can. I much prefer a stomp peddle with one adjustment knob. to keep it in a perfect spot for that tone. You are a fantastic guitarist, no doubt. No matter what you play through, or the guitar. You have it, in your Hands, and your Heart. You can make a cheap Squire sound great. Can imagine you with a custom shop. It's good we don't get spoiled early on. That's what they tell me. Look forward to hearing more from your fantastic Guitar. It's also so wonderful to see and hear when the younger generation like you, can see the brilliance of the Great Jimi Hendrix. Thank you for your videos, Keep Playing your awesome Rock blues Guitar.
Thanks for the lovely comment, great info!! 🙌
@@tednugentlives Yes I love Morely, my first Wah, it's a great peddle, smooth, has a great tone. plugs in for power. no batteries. wish I still had it. lent it to a friend, he won't give it back. lol. I have the Bad Horse now. need to pull it out to try to use it.
@@mimisounds2843 Your so very welcome indeed. Please keep playing and posting here. Good day to you! ♪♫
You should avoid daisychains, thats causing most of the noise I imagine. Your power supply is a good one and allows you to power each pedal individually. More cables, but a pedal getting isolated power will sound so much better - promise! You look like you're having fun though, so enjoy! 😎
Good advice Neiil, on pedal board build. I had to figure that out on my own over time especially with vintage type sc pick ups.
I was told some of those cheap suplies look like isolate sources but they are not....what a scam
actually some of the best distortion I’ve ever heard ….warm and rich
A pedal I use to own was the envelope filter , for some Grateful Dead songs that I would play.
Purple Haze ending, sweet!
Is very interesting the different class of pedals that there are in the store. Thank you Mimi for the video
All I know is I could watch you build pedal boards for days. :) I enjoy your musicianship as well.
Yes you’re easy on the eyes no matter what you play
All is in the "as well" 😆
You can get some really sick samples if you record bits of talk radio. Then try running it through a vocoder with ambient synth as the voice engine.
Now you’re really getting there. Playing around with all that stuff is how you find your sound. It’s frustrating, if you let it bother you. Just have fun and keep messing with knobs and pedals, you’ll get it. I went from individual pedals to one multi pedal, to a combination of both… and I always have my Cry Baby off to the side. I like the wah to be last in line, after all other stuff. PS. You are smokin hot! Love watching you mess with new stuff, everything is so right 👊🏼💯❤️🙂
There is a pedal board in this video?
Nothing beats laying here watching My MiMi do all the work in living color!
Hey Mimi, Lee, Pete and myself all say hi :-)
Sup rob
Hey guys!! thanks for the comment :)
@delt Can't imagine why he would delete a spammer who just posted the same comment three times.
clicked for the sun dress stayed for the fuzz.
Some fuzz pedals, especially the fuzz face don't really work with the neck pickup on the tele or the strat. Try it with the bridge pickup that would benefit from the added fatness from the fuzz. Good luck on using your new board
The Dunlop Fuzz face works better in front of the Tube screamer and /or the TC electronics Forcefield compressor. That way you get the Band of Gypsys fuzz and the sustain. Otherwise you just have a mosquito type fuzz tone with no sustain. Using the fuzzface , Tube screamer and delay together takes you into Roxy Music / King Crimson areas of sonic wizardry with relatively basic gear.
I first picked up a guitar the end of February. It's so much fun to learn and play. At 52 I wish I would have picked one up when I was younger. My amp can simulate a lot of pedal sounds but actual pedals you can just click with your foot sounds easier than turning knobs on an amp. It has to be crazy being so young helping a bunch of old guys learn guitar.
You are amazing Mimi!!!😜
Wow, what a unpackaging experience! but the guitar sound is just unbelievable.
Purple Haze :) The first thing I noticed was indeed the sound of Jimi and that is freakin awesome!
Long time since a *long video* hehe. Good to see you Mimi!!
Glad I'm not the only one who's opened a box with scissors that way.
Most beautiful guitar player i’ve ever seen😍😍
Hmmm!!! Gretchen Menn……….
The moment I heard the sound of your Tele connected to the Fuzzy Face I hit the like button!!
As an admitted pedal addict avoiding both intervention and therapy, I am so happy to see you heading down the rabbit hole. Welcome!
Lol Mimi ,
When I was building them and still would if I needed to...I would get a 2" thick piece of pine shelving and attach. the pedals with ties run the wiring neat<
I would use like 16 gauge or what ever was around lol..ya gotta remember back then the Power Bricks weren't prevalent or anything like my friend built mean Regulated 9volt power supply and till the day I never had a quieter supply ..and I would always use a hush noise reduction, as they were coming out in pedals.To, the best of my memory .. lol
Great set of pedals. You can get a lot of sounds and have a lot of fun with those!
A lot of people insist that they should be in a certain "standard" order, but experiment with them in any/every order you want. Jimi always did.
Yes, great set
I'm glad this video ended up in my feed. Thanks for making such a great video.
This pedal board is pretty good. Have you thought about how to connect the delays separately to the amplifier loop? After all, this is how the spatial effects sound more fully.
Watching a beauty just mess around is always a 😹 joy, keep it up and keep being beautiful by just enjoying yourself
I think you'll find it more comfortable to actually place the Whaa pedal outside of the pedalboard. Enjoy your new settings. :-)
Keep riding babe and customise your own platform with what you really enjoy with. Test it and set them up by your own desire and needs. You are great with that guitar. Wish you the best.🥰👍
As others have said, take advantage of the nice power supply you have to power as many of your pedals individually. I have the same power supply. Just watch the voltage, there is one that is 18v and 4 you can switch from 9v to 12v. If all your pedals are 9v just avoid the 18v at the end. I have a few different voltage pedals and constantly double check voltages when making changes.
Oh and place your wah after the fuzz and it should solve the tone issue. Fuzzes like to be first in the signal chain and don’t get along with buffered pedals.
That looks like a lot of work. In the future, if you need a hand, or any other body part, let me know.
Rick Beato has an excellent RUclips video called "How To Build a Guitar Pedal Board". He not only goes over the actual build, but also explains the best way to sequence the pedals for the best sound.
I missed the pedal board install for some reason must watch again, WOW!!!!
Love Rick right but... he doesn't look anything like her;)
The Fuzz Face is my kind of pedal. Dirty 60s and 70s blues rock. Very cool 😎
I’m with you on the metal sound. Turning wrenches the whole sound is delightful.
Everybody here to see these beautiful pedals!
Throw that ts9 in front of the fuzz, and dial them way back Use the ts9 to push that fuzz and it gets real nice.
I know, when playing live, onstage a chromatic tuner is a must add in. It's really important to have your pedals, in order of your liking, but benefit you as well. Nice setup Mimi. ~Michael
You do know that you get drastically different tones when you configure your pedals in a different order (i.e. rearrange how you have them routed in the signal chain), yes? Having certain effects before or after others sometimes changes it for the worse. You have to route them in certain way to get your best potential sounds. Also, as you turn effects on and off your volume is going to jump up and down (like going clean to dirty). If you are playing live you don't want that. You need your overall volume to be consistent as you turn effects on and off. There are ways to buffer the feed and/or remedy that. But just arranging them in any random order and setting all the volumes wherever will never show you what it could sound like if it was truly optimized.
Your blue fuzz face mini is a silicon fuzz face. Congrats, it was used on the solo to Pink Floyd - Time! Put a buffered pedal like a Boss pedal between your wah and fuzz. It doesn't have to be on. It's about buffers and guitar impedance.
Not a straight pedal on the board… Brilliant! So many people are so anal about builds but not Mimi… Velcro them up and stick em on and get playin! Loved it, wish you could build mine!
haha what can i say i was just happy it worked! 😂
@@mimisounds2843 I loved it, a great breathe of fresh air, keep up the good videos Mimi
Mimi..you might want to knpw that jimi used Fuzzfaces at first,but when he met Roger Mayer, Roger used to gut the FF pedals and use them to put his overdrive electronics in the housing. And most of the concerts you see of Jimi Hendrix plugged in to a fuze face, it's actually just the casing and not a real fuzz face at all.
Que genial, algún día me compraré un pedalboard, excelente video
Radio interference? The audio amp is rectifying the RF and amplifying it. The trick is looping low level cables through the center hole in an appropriate torid. Contact Palomar Engineers for their RFI kit. Works great.
Hey Mimi, you should try and get your hands on an Avalanche Run, it's a delay and reverb! It would be a great addition to that board!
Your love for music and all the accouterments is fun to watch Mimi
I never use pedals, I only need a couple of rack effects to get the job done but I do love watching you play, we seem to share the same music style, you keep making videos and I’ll keep watching 👍👍
Sono contentissimo di tutti Mimi's pedalboard. Non ha importanza quanti chitarristi lasciano la musica per Mimi. Auguri. Gregorio
There are so many variables with audio & instrumental equipment when it comes to design and placement . Quality and experimentation are important . Once you get the sound you want , don’t touch anything!
Fascinating!
Beautiful😍
When using a fuzz face try turning your guitars volume knob down a bit to clean it up.
Well that was entertaining channeling your inner Jimi.
For a moment I was wondering if she was going to sing kiss the sky or kiss this guy. lol
I love your pedals too.
Who ever created you, did an incredible job. You remind me of a cross between the talent of Lady Gaga and the soul of Stevie Nicks. You are going to have everything you’ve dreamed of.
What a beautiful PAIR of.....guitars.
Who is here to look for the pedal board? 🤣🤣🤣
Tuner , wha , comp ( I don’t use 1 ), overdrive , distortion all in front of amp - then any effects afterwards and remember your recording loop pedal goes at the end of chain , ( don’t forget to use your fax loop in back of amp if you have one )
Just make sure you get the power supply right (NEVER daisy chain). Everything else like pedals and tones are just personal preference. ;-) Don't forget good patch cables, too. I don't usually recommend brands but what I use now is the Hosa patch cables.
eh you can daisy chain if the total current draw of the all the pedals in the chain doesn't exceed the output mA of the power source.
the only thing that shouldn't be daisy chained is a fuzz face, two transistor fuzzes need their own isolated power source or it could fry the pedal (unless they are modded to be able to daisy chain)
@@EcoCentrist yes you are right. But having isolated power supply for each pedal is safer in the long run and would be a very good investment.
@@adrianwilsontangal8669 right, until there are more pedals than outputs... running 12 pedals on voodoo Labs PP2+ at the moment hehe
@@EcoCentrist yup that is always reality for us who have GAS. Gear Acquisition Syndrome that is. hehehe
@@guitarthings8453 well not to my experience. I also made sure my guitars have been properly shielded/reshielded and changed stock guitar wiring into better ones.
Goodbye cycle hum.
i could watch that thang resting on the body of the guitar for days. good content. thikkkkk
Picking up the radio is probably because of you cables. If you’re using unshielded cables, they act like an antenna.
Isn’t there something in real fuzz circuits that picks up radio. I used to have a fulltone that picked up something. Even with a battery on its own
I've got some funny stories about stuff I've picked up due to cheap/unshielded cables. It's almost worth having one laying around just to experiment.
@@WilDBeestMF ghost 👻
@@Hassan-Alnajjar I wish. The best one was a radio conversation relating to using a Cornetto as a...well...you know..
@@WilDBeestMF 😂 I remember before alot of people had this issue, & other people used to tell them that you house is hunted 😂
You had me at, “hey guys”