The songs that got me into these effects - Chorus: Message In A Bottle - The Police, Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd, Red Barchetta - Rush, Come As You Are - Nirvana - Flanger: Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love - Van Halen, Barracuda - Heart, She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult, Spirit of Radio - Rush - Tremolo: Born On the Bayou - CCR, Riders on the Storm - The Doors - Fuzz: Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix Experience, (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones, Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins, I Got Mine - The Black Keys, Knights of Cydonia - Muse - Phaser: Eruption - Van Halen, Comfortably Numb/Have A Cigar - Pink Floyd - Rotary/Leslie: Badge - Cream, Something - The Beatles, Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
Chorus on distortion: I played in a band with a guy who never turned his stereo chorus off. His amp was a rack-mount system with solid state Crown amps. He had a custom pedal board with some effects and buttons for effects in his rack, but the stereo chorus was an old MXR 134 foot pedal mounted behind everything in the back of the rack, inaccessible unless you walked behind the rack, reached in and hit the footswitch, which he never did. Every song he played had that same tone. It drove me crazy. One night when he wasn't around I tried his rig, and I turned off the chorus. OMG, he had the tone of the Gods, but he never used it and nobody ever got to hear it because it always had that stupid chorus over it.
Chorus on Overdrive is good sparingly. Like on solo's, certainly licks that need a spooky or happy feel but that's about 20% or less of a song. Chorus on clean on the other hand I almost always have on
@@SirEnVo I had a pedal once that I never turned off because I "got addicted" to it, I liked it so much. It was a compressor. I got rid of it because I couldn't discipline myself to use it appropriately. If you always put pepper on all your food, is it even a spice anymore?
@@sambolino44 no, it's not a spice, it's seasoning! You have your salt and pepper to make the base tone tasty, then you add the spice depending on the dish you're serving. If you know the salt and pepper makes the tone better, why would you prefer something that sounds more bland?
Awesome Zakk intro! I recently had the same experience with fuzz- went literally decades hating it and about a year ago I decided I needed every dang fuzz pedal on the planet.
There was nothing like being a musician in the 80s dude I mean you can literally wear like some silk gold pants or something everybody would be cool with it
You talked about how you get tired of the effects always being on. Literally Van Halen would turn on flange for like one chord or a couple notes and turn it back off. And the effect it has on the overall sound is amazing. As a highlight whatever fx you use can take a riff over the top.
Not to take away from watching this, but a few months ago Josh Scott (JHS pedals) interviewed Paul Gilbert at Sweetwater and his pedal board. It was really inspiring and well worth checking out for use with most of this pedals. Only effects he didn't use was Flanger and Fuzz/Octive. The way he did his pedal board chain was unique and seemed like every tone possible (except harcore/metal) was there. All the 70's/80's/90's stuff was there. Covers most of these effects and explains how they can be used, somewhat subtly without overwhelming tones
Chorus: Def Leppard and Danger danger Phaser and Flanger: EVH TIME Tremolo: Boulard of broken dreams Fuzz: old school rock synth 80' games Rotary: don't know how to use it
Bob, you nailed it when you said you liked some effects to use on only one chord or note. I totally agree. Maybe some people do that, but alot of time is spent pedaling and not really playing. I bought a boatload of effects when I was playing through a bass amp on a 6 string. As soon as I started using a 100 watt traynor guitar amp with reverb, I stopped using effects altogether. Now I don't understand why I bought all these effects. Good video, Thank you.
Mule Blooze Yep! Eddie's "brown sound" on Van Halen I was primarily MXR Phase 90 (the original "script" version) and tape delay (specifically the Echoplex, I think?), and surprisingly low gain on the OD channel of his modded Marshall Plexi. He did use the flanger on occasion, though, on tracks like Unchained, etc. if I remember right.
Not sure if anyone's mentioned this yet, but the Uni-Vibe is a really neat effect, too, once you get it dialed in. A great example of the Uni-Vibe sound is Robin Trower's "Bridge of Sighs"--that tone on the intro and main riff is KILLER.
I'm not into Tremolo so much, but I have used chorus to brighten up the tone in the room, or reverb, compressors, EQ pedal. Oh and a IR cabinet pedal by Mooer that is pretty sweet because I don't have room for all the big cabinets anymore. But I play with all listed above and more. 23 pedals to be exact I use on my board. Pulling them in and out with a Loop pedal. (For those wondering, Its Not a Looper Pedal). and my board is custom built by myself. But I'm an overdrive and distortion pedal JUNKIE! With each new pedal is a new sound. Love it!
Oh wow! That last one was awesome. That will make me want to experiment with some different fx sounds. That totally opened my eyes to new ideas. Thanks Robert
There's probably a tremolo pedal with expression pedal input so you could put the tremolo on the notes you want and take it out when you want, might be something cool to try
For flanger/ phaser try "Too Rolling Stoned" from Robin Trower. He's the swoosh master.. ;) The back half of the song is a master class in envelopey goodness
A little more subtle flanging and faster tempo you can get that slight worbble from While My Guitar Gently weeps. A lot of flange pedals can usually mimic a chorus if set right as well
I've never hated any effects as they all have their uses. There were some I didn't start messing with until recently. The one that I have been messing with the most recently is fuzz. I like to use it in addition to distortion, but it can sound cool on its own. Another one that I've been trying to use more is a phaser. Just really love that kind of underwatery sound it gives me.
FX are awesome, I love them all, but at the same time I really enjoy just playing with a dry signal too, I don't really have a favorite preference of the two
This isn’t a tutorial video, but your videos have been helping me a great deal in bringing my guitar playing to the next level. Thanks for all the great videos :)
i have a pretty good setup for lead tone with preamp overdrive, chorus, phaser and delay. very subtle on the modulation effects. that's the key. use it to give it a richer sound rather than having the effects being overpowering.
I started liking guitar effects on Angels and Airwaves i like the spacey and delay vibe. i always say that “punk rock doesn’t need guitar effects all you need is a amp and guitar that’s it.”
I was never into wah-wah pedals. I used to have the Hendrix one, but I’m not coordinated enough. However... I just bought a Guyatone Wah Rocker and it’s awesome! Thanks Guthrie Govan for the idea. 😆
I'm kind of a newer player going on 5 year's and I've made SOME stride's in my playing that suit me for my being a player for personal pleasure ( so far). When I got my first guitar ( an Epi. Les Paul Studio) I bought a Digitech RP360 XP and it has all the effect's you can ever think of, so I played around with a bunch of them and as I got better I decided to put together my own board instead of the RP and I bought a TON of crap I didn't ever need. Including a Roland Synth that had to have an additional pick up installed and I did it on my PRS custom 24, that lasted all of 2 month's until I got sick of doing more setting of control's than playing, so I sold it. Then I started to scale down my board, got rid of the flanger and the phaser, then the Fuzz ( I added it back though) Got rid of the Chorus ( it's also in the bullpen) and I added a 10 band EQ and A cry Baby Multi Wah, got rid if the old dirt box I had and got a Sabra Cadabra peddle for distortion but I ended up barely using it so I got a Ratt. The reverb on my Marshall DSL 40 was kinda weak so I am using a plate reverb and a digital one with a clean boost. The whole point of my experience of being a new player and having G.A.S. is that I get a GREAT sound just using my delay and the gain on my amp with the Wah on the side. I never needed all that crap to sound good. I Just got a G& L Fullerton Deluxe Comanche and I use almost nothing but the amp with it for blues and MAN does that guitar sound great super glassy clean's and down and dirty Gain tone's , The Favorite of my 12 guitar's so far.
Hi Rob, I wanted to mention something interesting I tried the other day. I’m like you, and tend not to use a lot of fx, aside from some overdrive, verb and a bit of delay, that’s all I really need, but the other day I turned on chorus and turned it way way down so the effect was really subtle. I think basically I just turned the “effect level” down to about 8/100 on my katana tone studio software. I’d be surprised if anyone could actually pick the effect out by ear but it did add this interesting, almost wah-like layer to the sound that I thought was super cool! Give it a try sometime! I’m not sure if it would be adjusted in the same way on other interfaces/setups but if you find a way to apply just a tiny, almost undetectable amount of chorus, it actually helps make the tone sound more alive to me. I’ll try to record a sample somehow if anyone is interested to hear because it’s not at all what you’d expect!
I think the guitar you use, the settings you use on the guitar and amp along with the quality of the effects unit that will make you decide to love or hate an effect. Some effects pedals just suck so you have to be sure to get quality pedals. Some guitars seem more inviting to effects as well. I have an SG, Melody Maker and Strat and to me the Strat seems to be the most accepting of the wilder effects like flange or phaser where the SG really just likes distortion and the Melody Maker can sound good with distortion or more ambient effects like chorus and reverb. I use the Boss GT6 Multi Effects Pedal these days and just plug into my PA though so I may be missing a lot of what sincere tube amps with original stomp boxes can offer but the build quality, convenience and great sound of my rig gives me more time to play and less time adjusting and dealing with knobs or settings etc...
That intro reminds me of the first multi fx pedal I bought in 1997, used. It was really easy to suddenly find a setting with everything dimed and super loud feedback!! Lol I hate processors
I used to have a Digitech GSP21 Legend and it was just a bit two much. I went back to just using my Carvin X-100B With the distortion and the reverb in the amp and the only other tings are my DOD FX-65 Chorus pedal and a Dunlaop Original Cry Baby Wah which I ended up upgrading to a CFH Wha ... Happy Birthday Dime! We miss you!
I always like playing clean rhythms and dirty leads. My main pedal is my Boss SD1 Overdrive a friend got me for my Birthday 3 years ago. My other pedal is a Fender Stargazer. I have 2 model amps with more effects then I need.
I have to be honest. I’m and old time analog guy. Tube Amps and recording onto tape. I recorded over 500 songs analog and basically quit when I switched to digital, because I just couldn’t get vocals mixed right. Wasn’t the equipment, it was me. As far as effects....I like em when others use them. Me, not so much other than overdrive and some fuzz. Really great video Robert!!
Bands like Earthless and Goat Explosion, use fuzz really well. They're both like classic 70's hard rock bands, only they're both modern. Kind of heavy riffy sounds like Page and Iommi used to do.
I've always loved fuzz! If you don't want it all the time, set it to where you are getting the nastiest sound that you'll want with the volume up all the way on your guitar and then turn down your volume knob to clean it up. This works especially well on a Strat. This, imo, is the way to determine which fuzz is best for you... which one sounds best cranked AND dialed back some. The modulation FX though, I like to use a bit just to thicken my sound. They are great for inspiring different ideas. Trem is awesome if you dial back the depth some and make it less extreme. Fun video!
Modulation effects depend so much on the individual pedal, too. I've found my perfect tremolo in the Strymon Flint. I've found two very different perfect flangers in the old-school ADA unit and the very unique Catalinbread Zero Point. Still haven't found the right chorus for me, but the ADA can pull off an alright chorus in a pinch.
I agree with that. I'm not a big modulation guy either but I have an MJM 60'S Vibe ( really good Univibe clone) and a Pigtronix Envelope Phaser that do it for me every now and then.
I love when Lynch uses flanger in Unchain the Night near the end of the song. He plays the main riff with the same tone till that one point and it makes it really stand out and sound cool. Then he goes back to the original tone. I think that goes along with your thought about not having it on all the time. These are good as flavorings.
I got to the point where I was using the guitar to play FX. So I put them up for a while and fell back in love with the guitar. Then to really get away from FX, I started playing Acoustic guitar. Electric guitar into an amp is a effect too. Tone volume saturated tubes speakers etc.
Chorus: 18v chorus that slash Use fantastic beauty n wylde Used it to. Flanger: EVH own that effect :). Phase: hours riding riffs(heart) and boys Are back in Town. Synth: got a keyboard/synth player in the band ;). Rotaryvibe: is a damn cool pedal for clean and acid riffs also a wylde pedal
I really dig stereo de-tune or "static chorus" on distortion... I use a PitchFactor for that, but that new EVH chorus, and new Waza DC-2 are killer also!
Yup...Chorus inspires me to try Randy Rhoads style playing! I love Reverb, will always have it on & i like Delay, Tremolo & on clean sparkly tones, the Chorus, kind of like Eric Johnson.
The only way I can use a phaser and flanger is in long sustained notes and chords and I usually apply them as overdubs unless they are part of the main rhythm
Dude, Robby Krieger + P-90 SG + tremolo= Riders on the Storm. But really Tremolo goes way back and the old Fender Tremolo amps are highly sought after. But lots of killer songs with tremolo to inspire you.
Dude I'm the same as you only ever liked a raw tone. Wah wah accepted.. I was given a line 6 mm4 modulator about 8 years ago (it's older than my daughter) I've only just started experimenting with it the last few weeks. Never the less it's been an interesting experience so far amazed I never pulled it out the cupboard 8 years ago haha... got all the effects you was experimenting with in this video. Rotary drum/ rotary drum and horn aren't my favourite on the modulator at the moment.. but time will tell. Enjoyed your video to mate rock on 🤘
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Did you know that the band death used a slight chorus
Out of curiosity, have you seen an increase in viewers after you announced the give a way?
Listen to Pat Travers from the 80ties, great sound😁👍🏻
I love chorus when it is used in indie music. Especially The stone roses
Maybe get an expression pedal, then you can have the fx when you want.
The best part about FX is the way they make you play different.
Yeah, I mean if you have a huge delay on, you're kind of forced to place each note very delicately and melodically. One mistake costs you a lot.
I just bought a BOSS phase shifter and I'm playing things differently and it sounds better. I agree. They change the game.
A good pedal or setting will have you playing things you would never think to play otherwise, no doubt.
Totally. I love the way a Univibe makes me play.
Each guitar makes me play a bit different. ✌️🤪🎸🎶🎵🎶🎵
The songs that got me into these effects
- Chorus: Message In A Bottle - The Police, Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd, Red Barchetta - Rush, Come As You Are - Nirvana
- Flanger: Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love - Van Halen, Barracuda - Heart, She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult, Spirit of Radio - Rush
- Tremolo: Born On the Bayou - CCR, Riders on the Storm - The Doors
- Fuzz: Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix Experience, (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones, Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins, I Got Mine - The Black Keys, Knights of Cydonia - Muse
- Phaser: Eruption - Van Halen, Comfortably Numb/Have A Cigar - Pink Floyd
- Rotary/Leslie: Badge - Cream, Something - The Beatles, Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
Andrew Pappas - Excellent list.
Message in a Bottle is actually flanger, Run like hell is flanger. Your list is wrong.
Comfortably Numb is Flanger
black hole sun is a flanger also
rockychieng88
Comfortably numb was flanger when played live in '80-81. In the studio it was rotating speakers, I think.
@@emptypromises2962 1978-1980 to be exact
If you don't like fuzz it's because you never played with fuzz
Haha fuzziness
I have a ts9, muff, swollen pickle, and carbon copy delay. That's all I've ever used.
I really like a lighter fuzz on a distorted tone. It's always sounded so cool to me.
@@jeepmanxj word.
Chorus on distortion: I played in a band with a guy who never turned his stereo chorus off. His amp was a rack-mount system with solid state Crown amps. He had a custom pedal board with some effects and buttons for effects in his rack, but the stereo chorus was an old MXR 134 foot pedal mounted behind everything in the back of the rack, inaccessible unless you walked behind the rack, reached in and hit the footswitch, which he never did. Every song he played had that same tone. It drove me crazy. One night when he wasn't around I tried his rig, and I turned off the chorus. OMG, he had the tone of the Gods, but he never used it and nobody ever got to hear it because it always had that stupid chorus over it.
Chorus on Overdrive is good sparingly. Like on solo's, certainly licks that need a spooky or happy feel but that's about 20% or less of a song.
Chorus on clean on the other hand I almost always have on
@@SirEnVo I had a pedal once that I never turned off because I "got addicted" to it, I liked it so much. It was a compressor. I got rid of it because I couldn't discipline myself to use it appropriately. If you always put pepper on all your food, is it even a spice anymore?
@@sambolino44 no, it's not a spice, it's seasoning! You have your salt and pepper to make the base tone tasty, then you add the spice depending on the dish you're serving. If you know the salt and pepper makes the tone better, why would you prefer something that sounds more bland?
oh, so he turned his back and you banged his girlfriend too. nice guy
@@godsinbox That might have been funny if his girlfriend hadn't just recently died. Nice job, dude.
Chorus on leads just reminds me of John Sykes and his killer tone
Oh yes !! Agree..👍
That intro was willlld!!!! Love it
Wylde
Yep Miracle Man and I did it as an intro on a couple videos about televangelists LOL
Awesome Zakk intro!
I recently had the same experience with fuzz- went literally decades hating it and about a year ago I decided I needed every dang fuzz pedal on the planet.
There was nothing like being a musician in the 80s dude I mean you can literally wear like some silk gold pants or something everybody would be cool with it
ABQ Skies so true!!
You talked about how you get tired of the effects always being on. Literally Van Halen would turn on flange for like one chord or a couple notes and turn it back off. And the effect it has on the overall sound is amazing. As a highlight whatever fx you use can take a riff over the top.
Not to take away from watching this, but a few months ago Josh Scott (JHS pedals) interviewed Paul Gilbert at Sweetwater and his pedal board. It was really inspiring and well worth checking out for use with most of this pedals. Only effects he didn't use was Flanger and Fuzz/Octive. The way he did his pedal board chain was unique and seemed like every tone possible (except harcore/metal) was there. All the 70's/80's/90's stuff was there. Covers most of these effects and explains how they can be used, somewhat subtly without overwhelming tones
Y'know, Robert kind of looks like Sabbath-era Ozzy
Chorus: Def Leppard and Danger danger
Phaser and Flanger: EVH TIME
Tremolo: Boulard of broken dreams
Fuzz: old school rock
synth 80' games
Rotary: don't know how to use it
I used to dislike using tremolo. Then I discovered tremolo in a wet-dry stereo setup. So good...
"Tremolo with the Strat-olo" made me laugh...
Bob, you nailed it when you said you liked some effects to use on only one chord or note. I totally agree. Maybe some people do that, but alot of time is spent pedaling and not really playing. I bought a boatload of effects when I was playing through a bass amp on a 6 string. As soon as I started using a 100 watt traynor guitar amp with reverb, I stopped using effects altogether. Now I don't understand why I bought all these effects. Good video, Thank you.
Mate, the synth should be your signature rock tone, for trolling 🤣
hahahaha
@@RobertBakerGuitar Synth feels like it pushes me to play cleaner.
Kevin Parker: "I want ALL the FX"
Get something from Fractal...you won't be disappointed
That progression you made up for the tremolo was beautiful please make a whole song with it it’s to amazing to go to waste
Kept wanting him to merge it into Rain Song
Thanks!
@@psalm23v6 haha, I thought so too! Haha
A friend of mine keeps the chorus all the time, even during solos. The sound drives me crazy! ✌️🤪🎸🎶🎵🎶🎵
I LITERALLY JUST WATCHED YOUR ZAKK WYLDE VIDEO and then I get this lmao
HA!
I love when Rob plays some Zakk 🤘🏼
That "Take A Walk" riff....sooooo good and never talked about!!
That was your best video! The ideas your effects inspired took you to a whole new place!
The Flanger always leads me to “Ain’t talkin’ ‘bout love” by Van Halen.
I love my Big Muff Pi with the wicker switch.
Phaser,which was on 90% of the album
Mule Blooze, I had the digitech turbo flange which sounded really close. Thanks for the information
Mule Blooze Yep! Eddie's "brown sound" on Van Halen I was primarily MXR Phase 90 (the original "script" version) and tape delay (specifically the Echoplex, I think?), and surprisingly low gain on the OD channel of his modded Marshall Plexi. He did use the flanger on occasion, though, on tracks like Unchained, etc. if I remember right.
Not sure if anyone's mentioned this yet, but the Uni-Vibe is a really neat effect, too, once you get it dialed in. A great example of the Uni-Vibe sound is Robin Trower's "Bridge of Sighs"--that tone on the intro and main riff is KILLER.
If you dislike an effect just remember that you probably like a song with that very effect.
I'm not into Tremolo so much, but I have used chorus to brighten up the tone in the room, or reverb, compressors, EQ pedal. Oh and a IR cabinet pedal by Mooer that is pretty sweet because I don't have room for all the big cabinets anymore. But I play with all listed above and more. 23 pedals to be exact I use on my board. Pulling them in and out with a Loop pedal. (For those wondering, Its Not a Looper Pedal). and my board is custom built by myself. But I'm an overdrive and distortion pedal JUNKIE! With each new pedal is a new sound. Love it!
Oh wow! That last one was awesome. That will make me want to experiment with some different fx sounds. That totally opened my eyes to new ideas. Thanks Robert
Flanger with distortion kinda sounds like a fighter jet flying high above you
I like tremolo, but mostly just the subtle, slow-roll, always on sound. Not really the choppy sound. Great vid.
There's probably a tremolo pedal with expression pedal input so you could put the tremolo on the notes you want and take it out when you want, might be something cool to try
Keep yourself alive by Queen is the song that got me into flanger
me too
For flanger/ phaser try "Too Rolling Stoned" from Robin Trower. He's the swoosh master.. ;)
The back half of the song is a master class in envelopey goodness
yep !!
saw him live many times
It's a Univibe
A little more subtle flanging and faster tempo you can get that slight worbble from While My Guitar Gently weeps. A lot of flange pedals can usually mimic a chorus if set right as well
The flanger on the solo to Cherub Rock is awesome.
I've never been into modulation effects, but I recently got a Wampler Terraform. It's definitely making me experiment and play differently.
Try acoustic guitar with phaser and some reverb, played gently 🙂🎸💥
Really loved the tremolo playing!
I have always used flange for intros and chorus guitars that we mix under the main guitars to add something underneath for character.
I've never hated any effects as they all have their uses. There were some I didn't start messing with until recently. The one that I have been messing with the most recently is fuzz. I like to use it in addition to distortion, but it can sound cool on its own. Another one that I've been trying to use more is a phaser. Just really love that kind of underwatery sound it gives me.
FX are awesome, I love them all, but at the same time I really enjoy just playing with a dry signal too, I don't really have a favorite preference of the two
Chorus in stereo with the level down works good with lead ,you’ll get there 😎
Distortion with chorus is VERY Rockman. Love it!
Dave Meniketti (Y&T) - big on distortion/chorus.
This isn’t a tutorial video, but your videos have been helping me a great deal in bringing my guitar playing to the next level. Thanks for all the great videos :)
So glad they are helping.
i have a pretty good setup for lead tone with preamp overdrive, chorus, phaser and delay. very subtle on the modulation effects. that's the key. use it to give it a richer sound rather than having the effects being overpowering.
As a bass player I always play with a little bit of of phaser. It just thickens up my sound a bit more and adds more flavor
I started liking guitar effects on Angels and Airwaves i like the spacey and delay vibe. i always say that “punk rock doesn’t need guitar effects all you need is a amp and guitar that’s it.”
I was never into wah-wah pedals. I used to have the Hendrix one, but I’m not coordinated enough. However... I just bought a Guyatone Wah Rocker and it’s awesome! Thanks Guthrie Govan for the idea. 😆
Really appreciate ric flair in the clip art for the video. KEEP ROCKIN! WOO!!
I'm kind of a newer player going on 5 year's and I've made SOME stride's in my playing that suit me for my being a player for personal pleasure ( so far). When I got my first guitar ( an Epi. Les Paul Studio) I bought a Digitech RP360 XP and it has all the effect's you can ever think of, so I played around with a bunch of them and as I got better I decided to put together my own board instead of the RP and I bought a TON of crap I didn't ever need. Including a Roland Synth that had to have an additional pick up installed and I did it on my PRS custom 24, that lasted all of 2 month's until I got sick of doing more setting of control's than playing, so I sold it. Then I started to scale down my board, got rid of the flanger and the phaser, then the Fuzz ( I added it back though) Got rid of the Chorus ( it's also in the bullpen) and I added a 10 band EQ and A cry Baby Multi Wah, got rid if the old dirt box I had and got a Sabra Cadabra peddle for distortion but I ended up barely using it so I got a Ratt. The reverb on my Marshall DSL 40 was kinda weak so I am using a plate reverb and a digital one with a clean boost. The whole point of my experience of being a new player and having G.A.S. is that I get a GREAT sound just using my delay and the gain on my amp with the Wah on the side. I never needed all that crap to sound good. I Just got a G& L Fullerton Deluxe Comanche and I use almost nothing but the amp with it for blues and MAN does that guitar sound great super glassy clean's and down and dirty Gain tone's , The Favorite of my 12 guitar's so far.
Flanger,trem and phazer are very cool fx
Hi Rob, I wanted to mention something interesting I tried the other day. I’m like you, and tend not to use a lot of fx, aside from some overdrive, verb and a bit of delay, that’s all I really need, but the other day I turned on chorus and turned it way way down so the effect was really subtle. I think basically I just turned the “effect level” down to about 8/100 on my katana tone studio software. I’d be surprised if anyone could actually pick the effect out by ear but it did add this interesting, almost wah-like layer to the sound that I thought was super cool! Give it a try sometime! I’m not sure if it would be adjusted in the same way on other interfaces/setups but if you find a way to apply just a tiny, almost undetectable amount of chorus, it actually helps make the tone sound more alive to me. I’ll try to record a sample somehow if anyone is interested to hear because it’s not at all what you’d expect!
2:10 That's the tone I had been looking for so long until I recently bought a chorus...
Edward uses chorus and distortion on the OU812 album.
Being able to use any effect at certain spots is the whole reason for a pedalboard. That way you have footswitches for those notes.
I think the guitar you use, the settings you use on the guitar and amp along with the quality of the effects unit that will make you decide to love or hate an effect. Some effects pedals just suck so you have to be sure to get quality pedals. Some guitars seem more inviting to effects as well. I have an SG, Melody Maker and Strat and to me the Strat seems to be the most accepting of the wilder effects like flange or phaser where the SG really just likes distortion and the Melody Maker can sound good with distortion or more ambient effects like chorus and reverb. I use the Boss GT6 Multi Effects Pedal these days and just plug into my PA though so I may be missing a lot of what sincere tube amps with original stomp boxes can offer but the build quality, convenience and great sound of my rig gives me more time to play and less time adjusting and dealing with knobs or settings etc...
That intro reminds me of the first multi fx pedal I bought in 1997, used. It was really easy to suddenly find a setting with everything dimed and super loud feedback!! Lol I hate processors
Great intro and samples their sir!
the distorted chorus effect you have reminds me a LOT of EVH's tone in panama's intro
aww man. chorus + distortion = delicious
some flanger effects too! and rotary....
I used to have a Digitech GSP21 Legend and it was just a bit two much. I went back to just using my Carvin X-100B With the distortion and the reverb in the amp and the only other tings are my DOD FX-65 Chorus pedal and a Dunlaop Original Cry Baby Wah which I ended up upgrading to a CFH Wha ... Happy Birthday Dime! We miss you!
I always like playing clean rhythms and dirty leads. My main pedal is my Boss SD1 Overdrive a friend got me for my Birthday 3 years ago. My other pedal is a Fender Stargazer. I have 2 model amps with more effects then I need.
One of my favorites is Uni-Vibe! I’ll give you a guess who lead me on to it
I think the tone at 2:16 sounds like some the Van Hagar era guitar sound!
Intro had the Robin Trower vibe
I love the chorus on my Roland JC-40.... fills the room.
I have to be honest. I’m and old time analog guy. Tube Amps and recording onto tape. I recorded over 500 songs analog and basically quit when I switched to digital, because I just couldn’t get vocals mixed right. Wasn’t the equipment, it was me. As far as effects....I like em when others use them. Me, not so much other than overdrive and some fuzz. Really great video Robert!!
Thanks man!
Tremolo sounded sick mate. Very atmospheric.
Can you put the tubs of the start solo of every video on the screen please?
I'm digging the Les Paul KM. Awesomeness.
I love the flanger, phaser and chorus, not a tremelo or fuzz fan... All mine are MXR pedals, with the EVH distortion of course!
I like a strongly compressed with fair distortion with a touch of reverb.
I liked the tremolo effect. I've never heard one before. It's not highly useful like an overdrive pedal or distortion pedal, but it was cool.
That outro though - same one from the Esquire video? I don’t know what it is but that riff catches my attention every time .
“Most hated guitar FX”
No ring mod?
Bands like Earthless and Goat Explosion, use fuzz really well. They're both like classic 70's hard rock bands, only they're both modern. Kind of heavy riffy sounds like Page and Iommi used to do.
I just like some reverb, tho you can take delay at 400ms and do some harmony with yerself
Yeah you can't beat a nice delay and verb.
I've always loved fuzz! If you don't want it all the time, set it to where you are getting the nastiest sound that you'll want with the volume up all the way on your guitar and then turn down your volume knob to clean it up. This works especially well on a Strat. This, imo, is the way to determine which fuzz is best for you... which one sounds best cranked AND dialed back some. The modulation FX though, I like to use a bit just to thicken my sound. They are great for inspiring different ideas. Trem is awesome if you dial back the depth some and make it less extreme. Fun video!
I use a flanger as a chorus just turn the rate down all the way so that it's a slow rise and fall.
Modulation effects depend so much on the individual pedal, too. I've found my perfect tremolo in the Strymon Flint. I've found two very different perfect flangers in the old-school ADA unit and the very unique Catalinbread Zero Point. Still haven't found the right chorus for me, but the ADA can pull off an alright chorus in a pinch.
I agree with that. I'm not a big modulation guy either but I have an MJM 60'S Vibe ( really good Univibe clone) and a Pigtronix Envelope Phaser that do it for me every now and then.
I love when Lynch uses flanger in Unchain the Night near the end of the song. He plays the main riff with the same tone till that one point and it makes it really stand out and sound cool. Then he goes back to the original tone. I think that goes along with your thought about not having it on all the time. These are good as flavorings.
The way you were playing with Trem on made my ears feel like they were hallucinating..
Okay but can we talk about the clean tone with the strat? Gorgeous 😍😍😍
I think flanger is phaser with the added modulation (like chorus).
Sick shredding on that Zakk Wylde riff bro!
I am with you reverb/delay
I got to the point where I was using the guitar to play FX. So I put them up for a while and fell back in love with the guitar. Then to really get away from FX, I started playing Acoustic guitar. Electric guitar into an amp is a effect too. Tone volume saturated tubes speakers etc.
Chorus: 18v chorus that slash Use fantastic beauty n wylde Used it to. Flanger: EVH own that effect :). Phase: hours riding riffs(heart) and boys Are back in Town. Synth: got a keyboard/synth player in the band ;). Rotaryvibe: is a damn cool pedal for clean and acid riffs also a wylde pedal
Why do ring modulators exist?
Right! maybe to make heavy fuzz sound even more broken???
Sabbath, Floyd, Purple, to begin with.
Why do they?
I really dig stereo de-tune or "static chorus" on distortion...
I use a PitchFactor for that, but that new EVH chorus, and new Waza DC-2 are killer also!
Yup...Chorus inspires me to try Randy Rhoads style playing! I love Reverb, will always have it on & i like Delay, Tremolo & on clean sparkly tones, the Chorus, kind of like Eric Johnson.
Dude, Sounds miracle man solo is spot on, been thinking of learning it too! Definitely going to learn it after that!!!
The only way I can use a phaser and flanger is in long sustained notes and chords and I usually apply them as overdubs unless they are part of the main rhythm
I had a boss pedal for a long time , but some how my wife's stuff ate it :@ havent seen it in 5 years
Always loved a mild touch of flange. 80s ruled
I have tons of effects and use them sparingly. Like specialty tools. Why not have your toolbox full! 🤘
Dude, Robby Krieger + P-90 SG + tremolo= Riders on the Storm. But really Tremolo goes way back and the old Fender Tremolo amps are highly sought after. But lots of killer songs with tremolo to inspire you.
Im gonna take my Katana MKII and make a Phaser driven Tapping Patch for my FB Boss Katana Patches Fan site . Thanks for the inspiration Robert !!
always hated fuzz but recently got a little big muff. digging it tho. great for soundgarden stuff.
Dude I'm the same as you only ever liked a raw tone. Wah wah accepted.. I was given a line 6 mm4 modulator about 8 years ago (it's older than my daughter) I've only just started experimenting with it the last few weeks. Never the less it's been an interesting experience so far amazed I never pulled it out the cupboard 8 years ago haha... got all the effects you was experimenting with in this video. Rotary drum/ rotary drum and horn aren't my favourite on the modulator at the moment.. but time will tell. Enjoyed your video to mate rock on 🤘
Been digging vibrato FX for a while, going for mac demarco but with a little more jazz harmony