What Are The Best Pedals (And Practices) For Great Clean Tone? | Tone Report
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- It may sound silly, but sometimes you need a pedal to make your tone as clear and bright as it can be. In this video, Andy dives into a few tips and tricks for improving the characteristics of your clean tone.
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Pedals Used:
Durham Electronics Sex Drive (Clean Boost)
Source Audio EQ2 (EQ)
Crazy Tube Circuit Killer V (Preamp/Amp in a Box)
ThorpyFX Fat General (Compressor)
Boss Dimension-C (Modulation)
Amp: Hamstead Artist 60
Guitars: Reverend Club King 290, Gibson Custom CME Les Paul, Fender Ultra Jazzmaster, Gray Guitars Grayling
Recording Gear: Universal Audio Apollo 8 QUAD, OX Amp Top Box, Royer R-121
Strings: Stringjoy Signatures
Cables: Sinasoid Sable & Sliver cables 
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A WHOLE VIDEO ON ANDY'S CLEAN TONE???????
imminent meme storm
First of all, here's my clean tone.
*Adds tons of reverb and delay*
@New New Milo Alex Murphy In my mind the difference is between "dry" and "clean" tone: dry tone is totally unaffected tone (so it can be dirty from the amp but no pedals between guitar and amp) and "clean" is just an undistorted tone, so it can have effects and still be considered clean.
Potayto, potahto I guess haha
*bypass signal
Hope someday Beatles part 3 from Potent Pairings come
As always Andy's playing is realy nice!!
Definitely my favourite Andy Rocker. Nothing can Marr my admiration of Mr Martin's ability to Buck the trends and bring The Clean to us, The Great Unwashed.
Reminiscent of Sommers past...
Shut up with your waffle
Amazing informative video Andy. You along with Dan and Mick have shown me a boatload of great info.
Brilliant episode chock full of info! Cheers Andy!
Love my Club King 2 90 for these features, thanx Andy.
That cutting the signal with a clean boost is a great tip! I never thought to work backwards like that! Mind blown 😜🎸🤘🏻
Don’t forget flatwound strings for an eq shift even for all styles of clean tones not just smokey jazz.
How do you play classic rock/blues with a flatwound G? Is there a way? Legit asking.
Michael Furman I mean yeah it’s hard since you can’t really bend the G, but you can always do the bends on the B and high E on lower frets to compensate. It’s a whole different thing with a different mindset to have. Could lead to more creative results since it’s outside of most people’s comfort zones
Jack Pursel Why can’t you do bends on a flatwound G? How far up are you trying to bend it? I’ve used flats on a 25.5” Jazzmaster for years and never had a problem getting where I wanted with bends on any of the strings, and I don’t think I’m particularly tough. Maybe it’s a technique issue? When I started playing around 94 the guy that gave me lessons stayed on me about doing the “Hendrix thumb” and drilled into me how much less leverage you have for bends if your thumb isn’t around the “skunk stripe” area. Obviously it never stopped Jimi or thousands of others that bend with their thumb wrapped up by the low E, but it’s a thought for dealing with higher string tension 🤷🏻♂️
Michael Furman I use lighter gauge flatwounds, 10-48 so you can bend the G but I actually replace the G because the tone is better to my ears. The core of wound strings is the magnetic part so it has to be very thin if the G is wound. Just my opinion. That’s why there’s sometimes compensated pole pieces.
And half rounds.Good word.
Been using a Keeley 4 knob comp for a few years now (the blend knob) is the secret sauce, every compressor should have one! A Wampler Equator EQ pedal allows me to cut and boost frequencies as desired, too bad it does not allow presets. That Source Audio looks interesting.
Thank you for this Andy!
So many ways to do it. Great show!
This just reminds me of how much I love my Boss Dimension-C.
I wish it had a dry blend tho
@@amritjanardhanan Mix knobs are so needed with chorus, inspire by neunaber is the bomb
I would like to see more of this man, he knows his shit and seems like just one of the friendliest most helpful guys around.
Lucky for you youtube is full of him! Search Andy Martin and also ProGuitarShopDemos (his old job) for tons and tons of his great explanations and playing over the years.
Over 2100 you tube vids since 2007 not to mention his reverb.com vids Hes nationwide
A germanium style fuzz with the guitar volume rolled down to 1 or 2 (especially with a treble bleed) can give an amazing clean tone
If you add a treble bleed you can do a lot more with your volume knobs on your guitar. I like on a four knob guitar to turn the volume down on my neck pickup and leave my bridge on 10. Three settings, three levels of clean.
I always judge a treble bleed by ear, I hate them on low output teles and strats (I personally find the spiky top end loss works very well), but they work so beautifully on high power humbuckers
Agreed. But then you loose the eq aspect of the volume tone, the high cut. I think a grease bucket circuit would be even better for most purposes
If you run a resistor with the cap you keep most of the stock taper
That intro is so Johnny Marr, I loved it.
I don't think I've ever seen Andy talk after playing in the same shot. A little jarring but cool. Nice video, good concept. I also really like stacking a light clean boost with a compressor and some analog delay on the tail end. Could play like that for days without even stacking fuzzes.
As a regular vintage tweed player, the second input is a constant friend. Lots of great ideas, Andy.
My clean go to forever is the Rc booster from Xotic, so much dynamics without reaching od territories (great for funk, or jazz)
I exclusively play on the 2nd input of the normal channel of a silver face Super Reverb. Might be the least used channel on that amp for most but I think it sounds amazing!
Great tips. Once you have a fairly good clean sound, adding different types of delay and reverb will get you the rest of the way to clean tone heaven :-)
thanks for being you, Andy, nobody else like you of course. Today's Kurt's...thanks for doing his riffs justice through the years. I think my favorite is the time you did it with a Fender Humboldt.
For clean tone on a particularly hot preamp, swapping 12ax7’s out with lower output compatible tubes works wonders. 12at7, 12au7, etc. As far as I know there is no risk to your amp and it makes for a much cleaner and milder preamp. The effect is similar to a low input demonstrated above. The downside is that you can’t get all the way up to the max gain that you had with the 12ax7 without swapping back. If you never crank the preamp, it might be an option worth considering. If you do, going with the low input or decreasing your input level in another way still allows much easier access to the full gain of your preamp.
I have a 4x10 Hot Rod DeVille that was just too hot for my taste, so I put in a mix of 12au7 and 12ax7 and the max is still plenty hairy for me (and the “more drive” sounds MUCH better!)
I honestly think the 4x10 HRDeVille would have sold better with this setup from the factory, and fender could have noted the option to swap in 12ax7s for the customers that wanted it.
Thanks for the tube tip! I'm positive that my Blackstar HT Stage 100 would benefit from this.
Best thing about Andy’s terrific demos: 1) he plays mostly creative rhythm parts with little bursts of lead, so you can hear how the product would sound in an actual song rather than just jamming around; 2) he stays in one key, which should be a given but most guys demoing on RUclips will dart nervously around, changing keys every five seconds, which again doesn’t sound like a song. Andy is not only fun to listen to, but you get a real picture of how this device would sound used in a real band setting. Great job!
Much appreciated! I’m glad you find the videos helpful ✌️
@@AndyDemos Well, you play like an actual playing-a-song serious band musician, rather than Some Skilled Dude Jamming At Guitar Center!
All those beautiful guitars...
Nice to see you using your G&L again.
G&L are criminally underrated.
I’ve found if you can find a treble bleed circuit with the right cap-resistor combo for a particular type of pickup, then you can set your amp for a healthy amount of breakup and your volume knob will act more as a gain dial than anything else, just roll it down to get clean tones.
primeDecomposition I was 53 before I had gear that did this👍🎸🇬🇧
amazing video
Excellent.
My Harmony 8418 reissue has a 2nd input. Does it have less headroom and more clipping like the fender amps?
I use the compressor trick to put my always-on Dirty Little Secret into 'clean amp-in-a-box' territory. So the settings on the DLS never change, I just push it with boost, Klon, or un-boost it with a compressor!
Great tip. I was using my comp to unify strings levels into a chorus. And Comp set as un-boost + DLS + Chorus works great also.
Currently running an Electro Harmonix LPB 2-ube valve preamp into a Fat General, into a Golden Eagle klone for my cleans. So tasty.
Interesting! I assumed reverends had the bass roll-off thing instead of having a treble bleed. Sorta weird that they have both since they'd act fairly similarly, I'd think!
I use the Earthquaker Devices Tone Job E.Q/preamp and Zxex Super Duper 2 in 1 boost. Both are useful sculpting tools, withe Zvex adding a little sizzle and presence & the tone job wakes a dull amp up.
Anyone else tried these?
Not really sold on the concept of pedals for clean... but that G&L Legacy's a beauty.
Cool green and brown guitar.
Also, the Thorpy Fat General in Juicy mode has a balance knob which allows you to underdrive the preamp a lot like the sex drive does. It really amazing. The only downside is that the compression is set in that mode.
Andy demoing the Dimension C pedal sounds like what Johnny Marr should’ve sounded like if he’d played through a tube amp and the Smiths had been recorded with a more analog, less 80s sound (which I very much wish had been the case) 😃
awesome video it was really good
I like to have a nice clean platform for lots of pedals.
I like to use a DI box when I can, or multiple solid state amps chained together so I can get the needed volume without cranking the amps too much; Nobody likes the sound of old solid state distortion after all.
Old Peaveys have served me really well.
What kind of jazz master Ali’s that? Also one thing that adds a lot to my clean tone is a vibe pedal set to vibrato mode with low rate and depth.
American ultra Jazzmaster
Andy rules
Nice play. I used clean pedals in the past. Characters of amps will be changed.
Would love a Reverb lamp.
I know this is off topic, but I just got a Starcaster, the one's from the late 90s that have the center block, but I still want to use my muff and rat and was wondering if you could do a show on using overdrive, distortion and fuzz with semi-iollowbodies. There's a whole list of issues to deal with such as low end and feedback. Anyhow, love your videos as always.
Do you find there is too much or not enough low end? Too much could be the wide range mudbuckers on them.
As for the feedback, stick some duct tape over the holes. That should help :P
To help with feedback- (cheap & easy) turn down/ move further away from your amp ( involves investing) use in-ears on stage ( I hate this feel-wise & the guitar doesn’t react/ resonate in the same way) use eq ( Boss GE7 or similar) simply dial down the frequencies that tend to go crazy, or use a parametric equaliser (the type where you dial in the frequency to cut ), you often get these in acoustic preamp pedals like theBossAD2. Or use a gain pedal that has eq on it ....if you’re playing in a band context don’t forget that you can often drastically reduce your lower frequencies, rolling your bass right down ( which sounds awful in your bedroom , but leaves room for the bass player in the mix, and sounds clear & well balanced when you all play together) - I wish someone had told me this stuff 25 years ago when I looked cool but sounded s#@%👍🎸🇬🇧
How is using the second input or a clean boost turned down different from just turning down the volume on the guitar?
Good question! A change to your guitar volume has a huge effect on your pickup's freq response and everything else after it in the signal chain (think about how it may affect clipping in drives or dynamic effects like comp and envelope filter) So, choosing the low input on the amp can be a way to get a cleaner tone without changing the state of the signal path up to the amp's input.
I love when great questions get thorough answers! Thanks Andy!
I came here with a similar comment. The sound also depends on which volume pots you have controlling a particular pickup. I've found that can - often but not always - make a much larger difference in how a guitar sounds, even at full volume than different pickups.
I get the guitar volume thing, but how is it different than just turning the amp down?
Chris Collins I’d like to know that to, since I have a 4x10 Fender Blues DeVille which still is plenty loud on the second input..
That green t style guitar is gorgeous. Who makes it?
Gray Guitars from the UK
Clean for me is a BF'd early 70's SF Twin w/C12N Jensens.....That is a Clean tone!!
Ok now I want that Club King! Darn you Andy lol.
I hear you, but play a Stu D Baker or an Unknown Hinson and then that's what you'll want more. I speak from experience.
Just buy a Roland JC amp. Cleans sorted.
Or roland 80x and turn 'bright' mode on clean, that's basicly jc tone
Agreed !!
Princeton reverb / deluxe as well, the two greatest clean sounds ever. Unfortunately... Some JC amps can have a humming issue. I have a microcube and although it's cheap, it has that humming issue I hear of. I still adore roland, and I still want a JC one day but I have to admit that the hum is a worry of mine
Arthur Veldhoen I had a JC120 in the early 1980s , and was amazed that it could go to dirt or dirt and chorus with a footswitch! ( pedals were not available in the same way as today , and a pedalboard was science fiction!) ....Oh if I could only tell that handsome young idiot what I know now...I could’ve been a contender...I could’ve been on Top of the Pops.....👍🎸🇬🇧
The sex drive has been on my board for over 10 years . It’s my favourite:)
whoa i watched half of this and just realized “wtf am i watching”
Hey..... I've got that T-shirt (and the pedal).
Something that can’t be said enough is try using the volume knob in the guitar turned down with a dirty amp. I can’t go back now. My regular clean sound currently is a modeled high gain Friedman with my guitar’s volume turned down. Complimentary pickups and an amp that does this well are crucial to doing this (pickups with stronger mids and an appropriately lower amount of bass) and an amp that doesn’t always have to be boosted to have good overdrive and not crazy amounts of compression in the distortion (hot rodded plexi’s, 5150’s). Experiment. If you can find a rig that can use the guitar’s volume, it’s so liberating (you can tailor your distortion/cleans on the fly, per the song/section).
Is it possible to see a black G&L Legacy and not get Andy-stalgic?
What was that first song? “Life freak”?
A great way to enhance clean tones is with "always on" style subtle tone shaping pedals like the Xotic EP booster(with gain all the way down) or Voodoo Labs Giggity
Spark mini does a great job too
A low gain preamp tube, 12at7 or weaker, in position 1 of your tube amp is another option.
finally out of 10 thousand pedal demo, someone make demo with pedal on and off, isn't it a great idea?
Covid stay at home reference "Take some hair off the edges " Andy the boss 🤗
Andy playing The Cureish?
👍🇺🇲❤GOD BLESS ALL 👍THX, GREAT DEMO TIPS
The fat General is a winner
I never knew a second input on amps. The jazz chorus has a bright switch and that brings up the top end of the guitar. Especially with single coils.
Just a random comment: I think I haven't saw Andy playing standing up ever.
I didn’t know he could stand until I saw him refereeing the Paul Gilbert / Josh Scott basketball game. 🤪
For half the price of the Source Audio EQ the latest ver of the MXR 10-band EQ has pre AND post boost, which is a pretty nifty combo for shaping clean tones. You do lose the programmable functionality tho.
That Source Audio pedal just looks sick. I tapped to it last night.
My tip is buying a Joyo American Sound. Pedal costs 30$ and cleans up your guitar so good.
Need a pedal that goes into the negative try a did mystic blues overdrive not the best overdrive but it goes well into the negative and I used to use it as a clean channel on a one channel fender I had with better overdrive than the pedal pushed but I still wanted a clean channel and the volume knob on the guitar change the tone too much so I found out unity gain on the mystic blues overdrive was at 12 o clock and negative db from there thus my most useless pedal had a use after all
wes mitchem I had a similar thing when I discovered that the volume slider on my Boss GE7 (eq pedal) did that - by going below unity, it even has a name ....” underdrive” you can set the eq & level so that when you turn it off it pushes your amp to the sweet spot.....I don’t need it now as I use a Fender blues Deluxe , which has super clean tones for days, and more headroom than any amp I’ve used, so I get all my dirt from pedals.... but yes “underdrive” ...I just like that term, more players should be told......👍👍🎸🇬🇧
Input one: single coils. Input two: humbuckers. This trick might save you from having to readjust everything when you switch guitars.
That last chord was sexy
P 90s dont have pole pits like that. I'm not sure but I think those are single coils like on a jazz master.
Clean tone is indeed a matter of definition. To some it's just the dry amp on 1, to a metal player something else. My pure clean tone needs to have something going on, usually plenty of reverb, some ambient delay and perhaps a chorus, played on a strat.
Fender Deville 4x10 good clean town
4:41 Is that... Is that Rocky Horror?
After a 4 year search for the best Chorus my pic is the Neunaber Inspire
Same eric! The hi and lo setting with gain is my favorite but so many amazing options. I sold my ce2w for it and I’m very happy
Hey WB, reverb won't let me reply to your comment, but I support it.
I thought the Hamstead amp sounded great by itself. At 60 amps you can be pretty clean, if it starts to break up, just back off guitar volume a bit.
Low input was mo betta
The secret to REAL clean tone. Single coil pickups, compressor, and a fender style or pedal platform amp. Done.
It’s funny with something as effective as an eq pedal for tweaking a tone,
wonder why you almost never see them on guitarist pedalboards 🤔🤔
To me, clean means no break up.
Yes, but it’s a gray area because some of the best ‘clean tones’ actually have breakup-SRV’s Little Wing and Dick Dale’s Miserlou are prime examples. Regardless, these tips can be used by players on either side of the fence. Thanks,
Andy
for sure
@@AndyDemos Totally agree. John Frusciante also has a really deceptive "clean tone", most of his stuff has more gain than you'd think e.g. Scar Tissue
Butler Crow I believe it to be a correct modern usage of the term “clean”, which appears to now include tones that I would refer to as “ very nearly clean” or “ on the edge of breakup” or “slightly hairy “ etc...🧐👍🎸🇬🇧
Clean, and clears, feel free, walking on the grass paths. Playing watering on the roots.....fruits...orchards roads ...music far away
I bought that boss Chorus Waza pedal, I hate it, it immediately takes away from your tone.
Bought a Walrus Julia instead, so much better, night and day
I don't have the same definition of what is a clean sound : a clean sound is a CLEAN sound. it means it doesn't have no overdrive, even light.
doesn't sound like clean tones to me, anyway, you're a great player, really great!
In my experience, it depends more on the amp than some pedal.
but first here's my clean tone
* *CLIPPING ON EVERY NOTE* *
fluff???
Clean dirt 😎
On my setup mostly i just use the second input on my amp Andy,,,,maybe sometimes by rolling down my guitar volume (best with treble bleed) ,been doing that only more than 20 years on several amps i got due those eras,but works well for me,,,i dunno what you guys think about those methodes i got,hopefully it can be the option,,,,i made a really amateur video about that if you got time to check it Andy 🤔
ruclips.net/video/ZNdLW5aLnv4/видео.html
EQUALIZER !!! I have an equalizer for every amp I own !! The eq700 is $25. You set your tone controls at noon on your amp, and use the EQ to tailor your sound. Remember, if your tone sucks, then it's in the mirror not the gear.
You could also play a Rickenbacker but a JM will do just fine lol Also this was in my play list ruclips.net/video/s6tQAM44Y8Y/видео.html
That Dimension C is not subtle.
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Brandon Smalls, lol
Reverb you should hire Pete Thorn or Brett Kingman to do the demos. Andy lacks on various musical styles wich impedes him in showcasing the products in different styles of music.
Everybody but you loves and he’s playing. And we all know Pete thorn does the same thing on his own channel, so why don’t you just go watch his channel dumb ass
Lol a whole episode about “not a clean tone”. I prefer those dirty cleans over squaejy cleans. However when using 80s chorusy sounds it should be clean as f%^*k
The Best Pedals Are the Ones I Can’t Afford..
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