Backstage with... Skillet (GuitarEdge.com)
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- Guitar Edge's Elliott Politte goes backstage with grammy nominated artist Skillet. Lead guitarist Ben Kasica invites us to check out his amazing tone as well as shows us how he plays Monster and Whispers in the Dark.
John Cooper lead vocals, bass
Korey Cooper keyboard, rhythm guitar, backing vocals, synthesizer
Ben Kasica lead guitar
Jen Ledger drums, backing vocals - Hudba
Watching this in 2017... and I own Ben's old red SC250 now... it's pretty cool to see it in this video.
lucky shit
@@bradfordsoundman sup dude!
@@bradfordsoundman I'll be owning it in 3 years pal
Hmu when you sell it
@@bradfordsoundman well, guess time will tell
@@bradfordsoundman we shall see
this guy has the best guitar tone i have ever heard
"Let's look at your pedalboard." "Oh, nothing too fancy." There's only 11 f'ing pedals!
"Nothing too fancy" is like a distortion pedal, a wah, a delay, a chorus, and maybe a flanger. Or if you're like Trivium, just a wah and everything else is handled by your head unit. O.o
Ben rocks! It's to bad that he left the band. :(
That is almost the exact setting I use on my TS9DX, into an AC30. Fantastic.
I use a line 6 spider IV 150 watt, and a FBV soundboard its great love line 6 its weird with the system to use other pedals
i love ben to death as a guitarist... but i did think it was funny that he got really quiet when he mentioned the tempo pedal ;P
Yesss
This is probably a stupid question, but how does he get away with putting delay through the front of his amps and have it sound so good? Could someone clear this up for me?
It really depends on the signal chain order. Depending on where in the chain you place the delay, it might or might not sound good.
@marsz17 I know this is a really late answer to your question, but it's an external tap tempo for the DD-7. Alot of BOSS's single pedal style delay pedals don't offer the option to set the tempo of the song when you kick the delay on. He uses that to alter the tempo of the delay when he kicks the pedal on.
i love that blue prs....he should give it to me:D
Once I got another electric (Otherwise known as a PRS SE Custom.) I'm gonna have to slap on some 13s and use strictly 11s on my current one so I can keep the PRS in drop B and use my current one on C D and standard. I wonder how Monster sounded so good in drop D... Ben rules.
@BoyRocksWorld but drop C is like going 2 drop D, but then also tune all the strings one step down, not just tuning the E-string to a D
@darkhalo23 Well, one could would always be wrong. C. There's open in Monster as well as fretted chords.
@Bludhoundz8 lol Right on. I still play my little p.o.s. Fender Starcaster every now and then but my primary is my Schecter Omen 7 that put EMGs on (707 neck, 707TW bridge). I am (eventually) gonna start modding the hell out of my Fender with new pickups, tuners, a Floyd Rose, and possibly a custom Warmoth neck.
As far as amps, I was also thinking about a Randall cause I hooked my MXR up to my friend's half stack and it sounded great.
I have studied this video for years and I just wish there was something with just a bit more detail on bens rig.
ben will be missed
@01skillet Hey, in my world, "nothing too fancy" means a wah, a tuner, a distortion pedal, and maybe a chorus pedal
@JttM199 sweet thanks (:
@BoyRocksWorld they don't do a lot in C
more in B and D
savior is in D btw
Collide has some song in C and some of them in D
Comatose is primarily in B
Awake is in B, C and D xD
I think I like drop C the best
it's nice and low, but not too low to loose some sort of sound
i can't explain what sound, but it's missing in drop B, haha ^^
@Bludhoundz8 Yeah, that's why damn near everytime somebody something is better than something else its a matter of opinion. A lot of people like round necks because it feels more solid and it feels good in your hand; I don't. I know what you mean about the single-coil though; my Fender is an HSS configuration and my Schecter has a coil tap on the bridge. I mostly use that for classic rock/blues moments which is always fun.
@Bludhoundz8 I like coil taps and killswitches simply because they're very useful; apart from that, all I need is a volume pot or two. I'm in need of a new amp too; I want something bigger and better sounding than a little Line 6 Spider IV 15. Only problem, I also want a wah pedal...and all that costs money. lol
@Bludhoundz8 Finally! Someone else who agrees with me! Kirk uses his wah to the point where its actually annoying. He's a great guitarist and his solos are awesome, he just needs to calm down. Wah pedals are all about feeling; they're supposed to be used to add feeling and depth to a solo, not just a sound effect.
@Bludhoundz8 Yeah Omens are great and so is Schecter, especially for the money. If I had any complaints at all it'd be that the neck profile could be a tiny bit thinner on mine. It may sound strange, but I think its the closest you can get to building a custom guitar from scratch without actually doing it. The wood actually sounds great, its just the equipment that's crap. When its all done the body will be the only original part; hell I may even convert it to a 7-string. lol
@BoyRocksWorld Yeah, that's what I do for standard tuning now, like if I want to play osme blues, or Casting Crowns or something I'll just tune my low C to a D and capo 2, bam, standard tuning! Although, I'm not sure really how much they do drop C, Monster, Rebirthing, Should've When You Could've, and I think Savior are all in C, but I'm not sure what else.
@Bludhoundz8 Yep. And on top of that, its kind of hard to do harmonies and dual solos with ONE guitarist! lol
If Ben doesn’t use a boost pedal into the Mesa, how does he get it to sound so tight for the rhythm stuff?
@TheCalzone04 I love guitar geek conversations. :P
does anyone know what the thing on 2:01 is used for? (the boss-thing, not the wah ofcourse ^^)
and does he really use a lot of delay on stage?
@prsrbeast Good luck with the money. Although, I personally like the DS-1 more than his dist. pedal. I'd try all of them first though, a ton of pedals doesn't necessarily make it sound better....
@Songwriter4God I'm pretty sure she has a Dave Navarro signature model.
@Bludhoundz8 Solid states are definately more versatile and easy to use though because you don't need pedals, but their strength is also their weakness; because they're so versatile, they're only good at everthing, and not great at everything. I've played around with a few Fender and Vox amps at Guitar Center and I'll admit that they do sound great, but I've been wanting Marshall for a long time; or possibly Mesa/Boogie. Only issue with those two brands is the price.
@Bludhoundz8 But at the same time though, a lot of amps have piss-poor distortion even with an overdrive pedal giving them a hand. Plus, if you get the right distortion pedal (MXR Fullbore Metal comes to mind; something I own) and mess around with the settings on the pedal and the amp, you can get some amazing sounds. Provided you don't use it on anything as digital as a Line 6, or a Peavey Vyper.
@Songwriter4God i think it still sounds better in C ^^
i've got a PRS 2, though it's not a costum but a SE singlecut
love the sound of it (:
@guitarplayingdork100 what does that pedal do?i havent heard of that b4
What pickups does he have in the red SC250 and the blue SC250
Hey, anyone know what guitars Kory uses? I think she uses a Modern Eagle II, but I don't know what else. The white one is her drop B though, they use that in the intro and Whispers.
Songwriter4God Korey Cooper mainly uses PRS Custom 22 models these days. If she used a Custom Eagle II, she retired that guitar.
is that blue one an sc 250 as well? i couldnt hear him
@marsz17 Nice.
How come in all this older videos people are @ing each other and not just replying to there comments? I’ve been using CZcams for about 10 years now and as far as I can remember replying to a comment has always been a thing
what kind of pickups did ben say he put it at 9:21?
what did he use on my obsession?
@Bludhoundz8 I play mostly metal, so a thin, fast neck is my best friend next to a set of decent pickups and stable tuning. The main reason I don't like Fender's is mostly the neck; way too round and chunky feeling to me. Fender does own the "most versatile" title by a long shot, but they still fall short. Any instrument that can do everything well, will never be as good in a field as a dedicated one. Example: Fender's work for metal, but they fall short against guitars like my Schecter.
some of those pedals are what pedals somewhat seth has
@njbaberuth sc250 pickups
@guitarplayingdork100 haha lol. but u'll hear it anyways if he makes mistakes i think... :P
Does anyone else think Ben and Jen ledger linked one another
Nope
@BoyRocksWorld Nah, they use drop tunings.
@Bludhoundz8 Eh, you actually heard wrong. The only reason the neck on mine is too thick for me is because I prefer super thin necks (like that on a Dean ML). I've only played a PRS SE 24 once at Guitar Center and I will say it was a great guitar; but pricey as hell. I've never cared much for Fender's though; overrated in my opinion.
@Bludhoundz8 Yeah, but you gotta admit, bands would be shit without us! xD
At the same time though, bands would be nothing without drummers, bassists...vocalists, you can take em or leave em for the most part. In a band, everybody is actually of equal importance and the truly great bands are the ones that have realized that and don't hold themselves up higher than their bandmates.
This is OLD
@ironfan24 when your playing.. and your pounding away on the strings and you happen to get off the tempo of the song the guitar wont make any noise that is off the selected tempo lol its a cheater pedal :) lol
@marsz17 like he ever did before he quit the band lol that was the worst mistake he ever made in guitar playing.... :(
You know, I'm not a very big fan of Singlecuts. I don't really like Ben's guitar, it's a bit too... standard. I love Kory's though.