LIVE Viewer Comments & Questions - 15 May 2023
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Couldn't join live, but wanted to let you know you've helped me a great deal. The rig is now complete for the foreseable future. Wet dry wet rig with TR Trad Clean, Ts1 and Friedman BE50. Only pedal is a strymon flint. Thanks guys. Love you
Magic!
A multi-guitar somewhat master class, is Jason Isbell-era Drive By Truckers. THREE guitars and each one is doing what it needs to do for the song. Highly recommend.
Dad was a £10 Pom in ‘74 from Portsmouth to Sydney. I left Southampton for the Gold Coast Qld in ‘96
Placement of EQ control can be considered either a pre-selected focusing control or a post-selected one. An overdrive pedal has, also, within it some measure of EQ change. It may be argued that EQ identifies the character of sound. That, I believe, is the driving (or attracting) force which compels one to continue the search for pedals.
Teaching cannot force you to learn. Learning must draw you in. Then teaching cannot hold back "your learning". Learning is transformed into indoctrination by the force with which applied. Information is transformed into learning commensurate with the "draw" offered. The relationship must be, and kept, alive to continue the benefit.
I have yet to build a set of 10" speaker enclosures designed to utilize a compound angle mounting (each opposite the other). I suppose I should consult a reputable speaker enclosure maker before attempting.
Reinforce what is working - repeatedly. Doin is the only route to having something to reinforce. Whatever you do "nurturingly" becomes the place your heart resides. The heart brings the brain in line with the mind.
Yes! Truth can not be accessed through avenues of thought narrowed by human intellect but must be received from the top. Mankind cannot climb up to break in but, must be welcomed and received on the terms of the Creator. Asking other humans to instruct is like prisoners conferring with each other. The result is not freedom but only a more informed prisoner.
Dan and Mick, an update: Recent financial concerns lead to selling a pile of gear. A few weeks on, I'm actually in a happier place. I focus on playing, and my option paralysis is greatly decreased. Guess I couldn't see the forest for the trees. Cheers for all you do!
There is so much wisdom in that!
@@ThatPedalShow Probably the first time in my life I was ever accused of wisdom lol.
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you can do the powerbank thing with a 10-cell battery box , i've done it. with 10 rechargable AAs. no isolation, though. I got an on-off switch made to plug into the output that also dealt with the polarity issue.
1:01:00 i think you need boogies to play a wet wet wet rig. Triple Wetrifiers, if you will.
hmmm, three times as wet...
2x Zillas side by side, Two Rock straddling with Mesa on top was fine, I have the same tendencies as Mick and it didn't bother me. Seems best for spread for the left/right wets.
Hello, Been viewing videos on mixers, went absent, while the videos moved on, came back and your video was playing.
Lo and behold vintage amplifiers for guitars. Coincidently I possessed two head units decades ago 50 years ago that were unique and amazing but I cannot get a Google hit on their history or even existence. May I ask if you have ever heard of the name: Whitehall.
These two head units were fairly large about 12-14" tall and about 24-26" long 10" deep, They had a polished chrome metal face, one feature that was interesting was across the top of the upper beveled face were large round yellow plastic lights for each feature, such as reverb or "fuzz".
When you struck a string the light for a turned-on feature would glow very bright and then slowly fade just as the effect would fade.
Thought I would ask for a bit of luck.
Defying gravity requires a relative mass component with which one has the prerogative to identify.
Marc ford is an absolute legend 🤘 as are you two …. Fantastic show
As in architecture design, first maximize the passive and then correct with some active remedies.
The black Crowe’s are the most severely under rated band ever. I saw them when they were on fire! Even saw the Jimmy page tour
Black Crows use open tunings a lot one one of the guitars and that is a great way to have something different from one and the other.
To move beyond he "mystery" just remember that "gain" is relative term for the effect of "excess" signal relative to the reproducing system and is perceptible by an ear.
1:39:00 this is why I only write songs in 37/i. I have sampled the sonic boom from the dance floor clearing to use as a kick.
Makes sense that fewer squishy filter circuits in between the guitar and speaker would make it feel better, but that must be subtle!
Amps Tetris Idea: how about the two speaker cabs, on their vertical axes, on either side of the Two Rock, and the second amp on top of the Two Rock?
I just tried that this morning. Could be!
Oh man, I remember the Wet Wet Wet years. And 'Stuck in the Middle With You'! Every time I hear a bar band start playing that I get a visceral reaction like I've just smelled a body.
Just set the phone horizontally on a spinner with some sort of gripper sheet between.
I'm going to push back a little on Mick's choice of Squire Strat and Two Rock, over his '61 and a cheapo transistor -- *because* getting another guitar like the '61 is a rare thing, while it's quite easy to (eventually) find a decent amp at a reasonable price. So long term, I think your wrong Mick :) (but very short term you're right). Thanks a lot for all the great content guys, I've loved your show ever since I started watching in maybe 2016 or so! The interaction and respect you two have for each other, plus the obvious enthusiasm makes this channel something special!
I've tried and given up close mic-ing the cab(s) and now simply capture the room from a central point. This is working well, for now, but when I add vocals I'll have two sound sources added. I have no isolation booth because I want an more organic "capture". My room is too small for a sound level which would, perhaps, help control the non amplified vocal. I believe I'll need to set up in the living room but, WHEN? I feel a growing urge to find a way to create a larger studio environment. Ideally this would be sized as a small club venue. O.K., I need a club. Maybe I could build and lease a club with a small stage and record there afternoons. This "hobby" is threatening to grow into something much larger.
‘Butters’ needs a Firebird pickup in the neck position! 😄
Once again, a sound system includes the environment within which the sound is perceived.
I started singing 'chain reaction' in my mind just seconds before Mick joined in. Great minds, and all that.
20:08 Amorica is another fantastic album by the Black Crowes
Re: Jeff Buckley - I'm pretty sure he got his higher-gain tones from the Trem-O-Verb version of the Dual Rectifier, both live and in the studio, and his cleaner sounds were either a Vibrolux (as on GRACE) or a Vibroverb (which he rented for the LIVE AT SIN-É stuff). Mick, I think you said you've used a Trem-O-Verb? I've done enough research now to know that I like the newer and lower-wattage versions of the Recto best, but of the earlier ones, I thought the TOV was by far the most versatile and least scooped/metal. Great cleans and tremolo, though the high-gain modes are still kind of fizzly and boomy for me at all but very high volume.
I hope Mick spoke to Tim about his Monk days, extremely interesting.
By the way… I guess a really cool low volume rig for home playing could be two thr10 in wet/dry. Maybe even worth a tps episode??
When I bought my single 12" amp I was advised to pay $1oo more & get the 3x10" version but I was set on a 12" speaker. I now prefer two 10" amps to that single 12" one and so run all three at once - wet (in stereo) either side of the 12". I run a guitar through an ABY switch with ISO and Phase control through a pedal board (with 4 cable system to the 12") and stereo effects through the 10". Too much to carry but, haven't found anything that sounds better.
A little bit of everything and something new to try
Any chance you guys can feature the strymon zelzah sometime in the future? This pedal just amazes me with all its possibilities and I would be very curious about your opinion on it….
2:22:00 and what a show it was!
Mick, mulch your law cuttings over the summer months (if your mower has a mulching attachment). It puts nutrients back into the soil and is better for your grass.
Alan Watts is a bit like the JAM Eurika fuzz; bit of Fuzz Face, bit of Big Muff, but he puts it together so well.
If you guys do a show in the US, I’m there!
So far, what Ive found. For home/low volume. Semi/hollow bodies are hard to beat and Strats/Teles are very hard to use.
Nice 335/330/Casino into some variation on Tweed Champ sounds absolutely magic at living room level volume.
Jazzmasters are great as they’ve got the 1 mg pots.
Can a standard looking Telecaster neck pickup sound like a Charlie Christian?
Great show Leg Ends, Mick why didn't you mention the original " This guy's in love" by Burt . Radiohead's Creep is " the air that I breathe" by the Hollies & as any writer or comedian will tell you there are only 7 stories and jokes !! But this is just the human condition you can go right back to Ovid & Cicero and the novel was done with Don Quixote Just read Shakespeare . On the plus side there's only 24 Hours in a day it's just what you do with them , I must admit the older I get the more familiar most things get , but so is a meat feast my wife's laugh & a summers day & as the sand's of time are now racing for me I , we must enjoy them all . By the way I watched Queen at LiveAid again today what a set even Bowie struggled following them . PEACE and LOVE to EVERYONE.
When it comes to the same old chords, we all live the same old chords humans have been living since the beginning. We all fall in and out of love, we all lose loved ones, we all have things we strive for, things we fail at, we all sleep, eat, poop. None of it's new, but it's individual to every one of us. That's my two pennies.
The "mind-heart-brain cooperation" is more than the three key words. Is the heart a product of the outer two or just the mind? Also there seems to be a head brain and a gut brain. The mind" may not even need brain.
I have the opposite issue regards motivation to play guitar. I am all…man I want to learn that and that and that and that!!! By next fing week😎🤷♂️🎶
Guys, one for the suggestion box. It's time for a proximity activated light near the camera for pedal close-ups. You'll get quicker and more certain focus and we'll get to see the item better.
There’s one there. I know where it is. Dan still confused. :0)
Can’t wait for Tim’s episode!
Gents, further to Mick’s point about people wanting fresh music, but not wanting it when it comes out. A fantastic Brisbane band from the ‘90’s called Regurgitator released a song called “ I like your old stuff better than your new stuff” and the great TISM released a song called “Garbage” ie- recycling the same stuff.
It’s all been done before, just some people take it a different direction.
Keep up the great shows….Hanging out for the Noel show!!
fuzz pedals are like margaritas. Very few ingredients and every minimal change or derivation makes a hughe difference
Any news on Mick’s Collings I-30 order? Also, I understand why you lift some of the amps off the floor, but I just wanted to note that by doing that you loose ~4db of low end.
Hello! I cancelled it when I had the chance to buy the old Strat! Didn’t have the cash for both.
As for losing low end, there’s no shortage of it in the amps we use. Cheers!
@@ThatPedalShow Thank you for responding. Also, one small point 10" speakers are the least directional. While 15" speakers are the most directional. That is why the treble and bass seem a bit disconnected on a 15" speaker. The highs are laser beam directional and the low end fills the space. 12s are right in the middle. A lot of people thing 15" sound huge, but they generally don't, they sound different.
Dear Mick, I am curious to know what you would like to learn in terms of music theory. I ask because I feel like just “learning theory” is too abstract of a thing. Maybe you want to know why certain chords work together, or maybe you want to sound like Charlie Christian (in terms of note choices not tone). Those are very specific things that may require a bit of theory to learn but I think having a specific goal may provide you with a better “entryway” than any book you may find out there! I have learned this the hard way. Only when I started realizing what I wanted to learn (it was bebop phrasing for me), things started to fall into place and I found a learning direction.
I definitely don’t want to sound like anybody, it’s not that. And I already know why chords work together, kind of. What I’d like is to improve on is my chord knowledge and how that leads to understanding how melody fits. If you watch the Tim Lerch show when it comes out, it’ll add some context to the statement that I’m at cave man level in my playing and Tim is just about as evolved as humans can get. Now, neither of those things are necessarily better or worse, but while I have no real desire to get to the full-on chord-melody jazz improv stuff, I wouldn’t mind at least being comfortable with some changes; you know being able to handle some proper changes and not be so fazed by it. I had to pull out of a gig recently because I just couldn’t handle it musically. I’m not sad about it, it is what it is, but I think some work on the basics will at least help me play more. Cheers!
@@ThatPedalShow Gotcha. I think your playing is great as is and I can tell you have really good musical intuition. If I can give you some unsolicited advice (which you can totally ignore), I would find a couple songs that are at the edge of your understanding of chord changes and work on those changes. Not too easy nor too hard, just enough to push the boundaries of your knowledge a bit further. I feel like that's the most effective way to challenge yourself while not losing motivation. If you had to play those live it would be even better... Good luck, it's a life long journey! :)
Badcat did some great pedals too, right? Late ‘90’s/ early 2000’s?
Or, was that Black Cat?
I know Paul Wheeler, I've recorded him a few times!
Regularly checking your participation in psychological time can become its own participation in psychological time.
That's a great point. An essential part of the learning.
So pleased to have stumbled upon this channel. . .+ 1 New viewer ~~~
Welcome Tim 🤓🙏
Listening to Dan recounting that tale of the Philippino band while Mick just nonchalantly rattles off the Hotel California solo without breaking a sweat and without a hint of stankface..... almost surreal, LOLZ
Do you still have Blue Mick? I know the other Strats have taken over but I wonder if you still kept it. Thanks!
Hello Shane, yep. Blue sits next to my production desk in my 'office'. :0)
Be great to see to Ben Howard on the show. Really unique guitar style and pedal use, especially on the new album, soon to be released !
My Wife like to put a wood chip tube inside a closed Propane grill. Its a little too much for me, but a possible partial solution. I simpler unbeatable better?
I've managed to avoid the issues related to how I may perceive an audience's reception of a piece -whether or not original, covered, interpreted, or replied to. This does require that I not enter a contract (written or implied) which attempts to control such limitations. The only way I know to deal with this is to express regard for an audience's sensibilities in deliverance of the performance.
I play in a covers band, and we haven’t been gigging much lately. Not being ‘match fit’- and about to hit 50yo, hands and arms are killing me after a 21/2 hour show, as we play pretty full on. Any suggestions
Hello Mike, Mick here. I’m no physio but I would think that improving general fitness and flexibility will help - simple stretches or maybe even Pilates or yoga. Tai chi… Y’know, any of the ‘gentler’ approaches to suppleness and movement will help in so many ways.
More prosaically, try a simple warm up routine that focuses on breathing a little bit too. Chances are you’re carrying quite a bit of tension and that’s going to take its toll because your body will be under way more stress when you’re tense.
Drink plenty of water and eat well in the days leading up to the gig. Finally, try lighter strings, put the guitar up one strap notch and……. Breathe! Good luck man.
Any thoughts to 2 amps to one speaker ? I have a 1965 fender bandmaster which is amazing clean and I love my hughes and kettner amp for high gain ,so instead of channel switching I use a aby for amp switching I guess .... As I'm not really doing a wet dry thing is it ok to aby it back to one speaker ?
Not really. Impedances will be very hard to match, although there are devices that switch two amps into a single speaker. And indeed if you have two speakers in a single cab, they can be split to each take a different amps. Cheers!
Thank you
Was stuff edited out? I hope is wasnt just tangents taken out, i watch purely for those haha. Best way to fill a day in the office. Keep up the epic vids and streams, I look forward to the EHX catalogue challange if you ever do one. Germanium muff 2n1 and nano pulsar are on my recommendation list.
Nope. Live was just a little glitchy now and again as well. As far as I could tell only ever seemed to be just a few seconds at most that would drop out.
2:06:00 ive seen a bunch of badass psych rockers using PRS guitars lately
So many cables :)
The part when Mick was playing the Hotel California solo was epic. Thanks for the upload lads.
Hi Gents. Just catching up. Got to the Ed Sheeran lawsuit. It's interesting how the discussions all seem to focus on the second aspect of the US legal standard. Fair enough, since that makes perfect sense. The first half is to do with whether the underlying composition is itself unique and innovative enough to protect. The jury receives the law in the form of jury instructions (both orally and in hard copy for their deliberations) and usually, a jury is instructed to answer one question first (e.g. was there negligence) before entertaining at all the second question (e.g. apportioning fault). Sometimes we get to know, based on how they return the verdict forms, what they decided and how far they got. Not always. (I'm much more familiar with how it works in the criminal context) Anyway, the Sheeran jury may have evaluated the earlier piece and decided it didn't qualify for protection. Sound odd? Why is it okay to write yet another 12 bar blues without fear of being sued? Which previous 12 bar blues could complain that theirs was a protectable advance from those previous to it? Anyway, Sheeran is right that other profit motivated complainants will ever be in the wings, which is a separate and very significant bother. Cheers
iOS phones both scratch and break but Android ones do not.
11:01 Start of Q&A
Do it like Eric Johnson, Mick: place the Mesa 50/50 in a 90 degrees angle behind one of its cabs or behind the Two Rock combo amp. No one needs to see it, do they?
Done...,
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The other set up with the bigger Two Rock is rather silly, isn’t it? Except when playing freakin’ Wembley..., 🤣!
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Hahah! We live for silly. :0)
Edit all you want, Mick
Oh my, a mention of Serge Gainsbourg! Could you please mention his English romantic and musical partner next time, the lovely Jane Birkin. Talk about sensual music that wouldn't make it through the chastity belts of the guardians of today's airwaves...
When is Reeves coming to the show?
He’s been on already!
@@ThatPedalShow when?? How did I miss that, I watch every episode.
And Bill Nighy enters the chat😂
When’s Noel on the show?
Maybe this Friday, maybe next!
Music has been usurped by business so that law suits may allow some to redistribute funds to another (while creating a cut" to take for themselves). The performer then has ceased being the focus and recipient of monetary appreciation which acts as the contract between the two.
Hey, what was the LZ bass amp that they mentioned?
Wallace Amps
All the truths are also?
Intrusive thoughts: there's probably enough gear there to pay off my mortgage 😅
Mick you seem unhappy man. I think you need a break or something. I was looking back at your vids from several years ago and you seemed so at ease and like you were having a good time. Now it seems like you're just not enjoying yourself bro. I hope I'm wrong but take care of yourself and remember... don't sweat the petty things, pet the sweaty things.
Thank you. I’m not always happy, but I am at peace after many years of unconscious mind shit. But part of you is right, at the moment it’s all work and zero play. And that gets a bit old, even when you get to work here!
More… I think it’s an indication that there’s still a lot of brain work to be done. Whatever you do, there are three modes of being: acceptance, enjoyment and enthusiasm. If you’re not in one of those states in //any// thing you are doing - if there is non acceptance, judgement or resistance - you need to stop doing it because you are suffering. Can’t stop doing it? Then your perspective needs to change and you need to get to a point of acceptance at the bare minimum. I’m saying this because it’s a lesson and revision for me. Thank you.
@That Pedal Show I'm glad you have perspective. It's sound and logical reasoning for sure. You guys sure do a good job at what you do. I hope you continue to find that enthusiasm and purpose. Nobody is happy all the time man. I have to evaluate my behavior pretty regularly to not let my pessimism drag my wife down. But I do find that music, guitar, cool pedals, watching you guys do your show, and taking time to enjoy all those things helps my mindset. I hope you find your "zen" or some version of it.
By the way, your playing is an absolute inspiration. Thanks for that, and for taking the time out of what I'm sure is a busy life, to share that with all of us that follow what you do.
Telecaster pickups......any recommendations from ANYONE???
I'm a fan of Fatpups Blackguards. What sort of sound are you looking for?
@@andycasile Not too muddied on the neck, and a little snarly on the bridge
The Fender Twisted Tele set would work. Mick here. Cheers!
@@SK-yi8cf Apologies if you have been asked this before, but have you tried disconnecting the tone pot from the neck pickup? Some folks find they can fix the mud that way. If not, I hear nothing but great things about the Twisted Tele set. I'm partial to Blackguard-style pickups, but there are tons of good options.
Lollar 50’s Tele pickups are really good. They came stock in my Nash Black Tele. My personal favorite are the Cavalier Nashville Lion King pickups on my Blonde Tele. They are way more mid-range. Twisted Tele pickups are also good.
Allan Holdsworth managed to evolve his music, imagination beyond boundaries
Indeed, but with every respect to him, he never made a fantastic living of it. Vis a vis the conversation, we were talking about popularity and despite his undeniable genius, he was anything but popular in any wider sense. Probably makes the point harder than most, may he rest in peace.
@@ThatPedalShow yes that’s a fair point, still, takes some doing to create a whole new voice on the instrument and possibly 100% cliche free, which ultimately was probably his undoing in achieving anything remotely considered popular. I guess that’s why those of us who liked him, liked him. He did manage to get on a level 42 album 😆🙏
Ren is new and different
I foresee a new tps t-shirt: It's always a cable.
Yes! Yes yes yes!
In IT, it’s always a network issue…
@@brymills More specifically, DNS ;-)
worrying about what sequences or melodies you have heard before in other songs, really sucks the joy out of music. They're a means to convey an emotion, it only gets boring when it doesn't do that.
I agree. Mick here. Right up until the lawyer’s letter arrives. Hahaha!
Come on Mick just say it: kingsland now isn’t it.
Hahahaha!
I think Dan should grow out his hair and rock the mad scientist look, after all he basically is one.
I endorse this. Mick here.
In fact we could compete for Bad Hair Days. At the moment I always lose. Mick here
@@ThatPedalShow Lets make this happen, the gauntlet hath been slapped. I'm with you Mick on the identification journey - I hope it's fruitful for you. I routinely grow my hair long then shave it all off, grow and remove beards and mustaches to escape identifying myself too much with anything. Get some funny looks at the post office tho when I have to show photo ID.
Dan and Mick, I love you both and I love your show, but... it drives me mental when one of you plays the guitar when the other is talking or reading comments. And it's even worse when the guitar isn't even connected to an amplifier. 😬