Great Performance 👍🎸great amp1 and great guitar player 👍🎸🎸I play the amp1. That's what I've always been looking for. Thank you Thomas. Greetings from The Cute Urchins. 🎸🎸
Hey Thomas, nice vid again! My question is regarding your boost when you use the Vintage Channel. What's your Boost Custom control set to for your Strat + Vintage Channel sound?
@@BluGuitar Actually, I just watched the Si vs Ge pedal demo - nice expressions there at the end. I made a gif of you shaking the big salami lol I want to be as happy playing the guitar as that. But in all fairness, nanotubes does sound way cooler than subminiature. Nano sounds powerful and scientific, very official and inarguable...subminiature sounds weak and small, like it's doing favors for the bigger tubes just to stay alive.
Hi Thomas, brilliant lesson again. A learned a lot about interaction between pedals and amps. Great knowledge gaining... Regarding "Minus Booster": any recommendation for the poti taper / value and the (switchable) treble bleed capacitor value? Are you using a capacitor only or do you have a resistor in parallel / series with it? Greetings from the "Nordpalz" to Saarbrücken... Carsten
For treble bleed I use just a capacitor. 180pF-250pF depending on guitar and pickups. For a minus booster almost anything that’s laying around will do 10-500kOhm
... I use the minus booster only in my (buffered/lo impedance) effects loop, and have the treble bleed in the guitar. If you use a minus booster on the input it needs to be hi impedance!!!
Perfect, Thomas, now it is all clear. I just think about using a minus boost for regular volume and to bypass it for solo volume increase at the end of the buffered effects loop... Gruß aus de Palz Carsten
Ich benutze den Amp1 (Silver Edition) Hauptsächlich als Pedalplartformamp. Es wäre geil wenn es da mal einen Einkanäler vom Amp1 geben würde...vielleicht ein wenig günstiger vielleicht...;-)
Danke für den Hinweis. Das wird bestimmt noch eine Weile dauern, da wir erst mal den AMPX machen... Bis dahin kannst Du mit nem AMP1 arbeiten und einfach nur einen Kanal für deine Pedals nutzen. Genau das machen auch einige unserer AMP1 User. Gerade der Clean und der Vintage Kanal sind bestens für Pedale geeignet... und es gibt keinen kleineren AMP1 in der Leistungsklasse...;-)
*#timepoint** #**44:00** ((( A guitar that does it all, SIMPLE!!! ))) Just put a programmable graphic EQ directly after your guitar before anything else in the chain of your rig. Other than tones of wood, at the end of the day, it all comes down to frequency, hi, lows, mid boost or cut ETC. Just like a studio microphone. Find a really nice guitar that you like and has the MINIMUM requirements for your taste, then use coil tapping methods for humbuckers and a multiiband PROGRAMMABLE graphic EQ and simply TUNE YOUR GUITARS FREQUENCY...ETC The more eq-bands the better*
I agree to a certain extent. A programmable equalizer would give you tons of flexibility, and you could achieve tons of different tones which combines with amp settings could be a very versatile instrument. On the other hand I’m aware of the magic character of instruments which is down the aisle of nuances. For example some of my beloved vintage guitars inspire me because of that special character they give me which is an extra on top of just frequencies. Maybe even imperfections in combination with some perfections are the biggest source of inspiration to me. I guess it’s down to your concept about the instrument: a workhorse that you tame or a character instrument that you follow
Hi Thomas, can you recommend any alternative to the 'Uni Awakening Buffer'- that company in Japan no longer exists as I sent them an email weeks ago but no reply
OR????? : / You can forget about music theory altogether! And just play what you feel and what your ears tell you is good! JUST LIKE ALL THE BLUES PLAYERS THAT CREATED THIS GUITAR STYLE AND MUSIC........ Which came first???? the technique? or the MUSIC???? : / Let me just tell you...... THE MUSIC CAME FIRST! THE SOUNDS, THE FEELINGS.. NO MATTER HOW YOU GET THOSE FEELINGS OUT ON THE FRETBOARD!!!!
Agreed Thing is- calling the minor third an “avoid” note on a blues is not coming from any modern harmonic theory. You will not find any advice like that in Berklee curriculum. Or any recognized jazz/blues literature. That specific harmonic ambivalence is a cardinal characteristic of “blues” in any theory book I can name. Big respect for Thomas but that was weird.
I must say I stopped using my Mesa boogie mark V since I have my amp1. So convenient and flexible!
amazing as always!
Cheers Steven!
Love your streams! Packed with Infos but in the same time very entertaining!!!
We love to do them too! It’s a lot of spontaneous ideas and topics... it’s a nice journey we have started last year...
Let’s see where we get...!
;-)
Great Performance 👍🎸great amp1 and great guitar player 👍🎸🎸I play the amp1. That's what I've always been looking for. Thank you Thomas. Greetings from The Cute Urchins. 🎸🎸
Thank you so much 😊!!!!
Thanks for the lesson🤘
geil wie immer.....
Danke 🙏
Hey Thomas, nice vid again! My question is regarding your boost when you use the Vintage Channel. What's your Boost Custom control set to for your Strat + Vintage Channel sound?
I personally crank the boost all the way up. Then I have plenty of gain that I can reduce with my volume potentiometer on the guitar
@@BluGuitar Thanks for the reply! Much appreciated! :)
Love the videos but I am always waiting for the arrival of Thing 2
russell zauner ...stay tuned... It will come one day...;-)
@@BluGuitar Actually, I just watched the Si vs Ge pedal demo - nice expressions there at the end. I made a gif of you shaking the big salami lol I want to be as happy playing the guitar as that. But in all fairness, nanotubes does sound way cooler than subminiature. Nano sounds powerful and scientific, very official and inarguable...subminiature sounds weak and small, like it's doing favors for the bigger tubes just to stay alive.
Hi Thomas,
brilliant lesson again. A learned a lot about interaction between pedals and amps. Great knowledge gaining...
Regarding "Minus Booster": any recommendation for the poti taper / value and the (switchable) treble bleed capacitor value? Are you using a capacitor only or do you have a resistor in parallel / series with it?
Greetings from the "Nordpalz" to Saarbrücken...
Carsten
For treble bleed I use just a capacitor. 180pF-250pF depending on guitar and pickups.
For a minus booster almost anything that’s laying around will do 10-500kOhm
Thank you, Thomas!
... I use the minus booster only in my (buffered/lo impedance) effects loop, and have the treble bleed in the guitar. If you use a minus booster on the input it needs to be hi impedance!!!
Perfect, Thomas, now it is all clear.
I just think about using a minus boost for regular volume and to bypass it for solo volume increase at the end of the buffered effects loop...
Gruß aus de Palz
Carsten
Exactly! That’s what I do as well...!!!
That was nice 🤤
Hi Thomas, eine Frage zum Amp X: Wird es möglich sein ein dual Mono Wet/Dry Setup mit Tweed-Style Amp (Wet) und einem Plexi (Dry) Sounds?
2:05:24 Best quote ever!
...be professional.... lol!!!!! ;-)
Ich benutze den Amp1 (Silver Edition) Hauptsächlich als Pedalplartformamp. Es wäre geil wenn es da mal einen Einkanäler vom Amp1 geben würde...vielleicht ein wenig günstiger vielleicht...;-)
Danke für den Hinweis. Das wird bestimmt noch eine Weile dauern, da wir erst mal den AMPX machen... Bis dahin kannst Du mit nem AMP1 arbeiten und einfach nur einen Kanal für deine Pedals nutzen. Genau das machen auch einige unserer AMP1 User. Gerade der Clean und der Vintage Kanal sind bestens für Pedale geeignet... und es gibt keinen kleineren AMP1 in der Leistungsklasse...;-)
*#timepoint** #**44:00** ((( A guitar that does it all, SIMPLE!!! ))) Just put a programmable graphic EQ directly after your guitar before anything else in the chain of your rig. Other than tones of wood, at the end of the day, it all comes down to frequency, hi, lows, mid boost or cut ETC. Just like a studio microphone. Find a really nice guitar that you like and has the MINIMUM requirements for your taste, then use coil tapping methods for humbuckers and a multiiband PROGRAMMABLE graphic EQ and simply TUNE YOUR GUITARS FREQUENCY...ETC The more eq-bands the better*
I agree to a certain extent. A programmable equalizer would give you tons of flexibility, and you could achieve tons of different tones which combines with amp settings could be a very versatile instrument.
On the other hand I’m aware of the magic character of instruments which is down the aisle of nuances. For example some of my beloved vintage guitars inspire me because of that special character they give me which is an extra on top of just frequencies. Maybe even imperfections in combination with some perfections are the biggest source of inspiration to me. I guess it’s down to your concept about the instrument: a workhorse that you tame or a character instrument that you follow
Hi Thomas, can you recommend any alternative to the 'Uni Awakening Buffer'- that company in Japan no longer exists as I sent them an email weeks ago but no reply
I would try a buffer pedal... haven’t tried it yet - have to do this myself too...
@@BluGuitar Thanks for replying Thomas
I assume any buffer will do 95% of the job. The rest is a matter of taste...;-)
OR????? : / You can forget about music theory altogether! And just play what you feel and what your ears tell you is good! JUST LIKE ALL THE BLUES PLAYERS THAT CREATED THIS GUITAR STYLE AND MUSIC........ Which came first???? the technique? or the MUSIC???? : / Let me just tell you...... THE MUSIC CAME FIRST! THE SOUNDS, THE FEELINGS.. NO MATTER HOW YOU GET THOSE FEELINGS OUT ON THE FRETBOARD!!!!
Agreed
Thing is- calling the minor third an “avoid” note on a blues is not coming from any modern harmonic theory. You will not find any advice like that in Berklee curriculum. Or any recognized jazz/blues literature.
That specific harmonic ambivalence is a cardinal characteristic of “blues” in any theory book I can name.
Big respect for Thomas but that was weird.