I have to admit about 1/3 of my enjoyment of guitar is simply experimenting with different gear (pedals/amps/guitars/modelers/midi). I used to think this was a distraction from playing, but I've come to realize it's an aspect I enjoy all on it's own and there's nothing wrong with it. (And yes, some days I do just go straight into the amp).
Yes yes yes! Totally agree. And of course it helps me justify all the ropey man maths I’ve relied on over the years for yet another distortion or fuzz pedal.
Saw this, and got reminded of the mod vs no mod guitar challenge you did a while back, and remembering that Lee said he wasn't sold on the idea of modding a guitar vs just spending the extra on a better guitar to begin with. One of the things with that challenge was Rob putting in some higher output pickups that Lee didn't like. What I'd love to see was a challenge where the goal was to get a similar or better tone, but with two different starting points. So maybe taking a Squier Classic vibe, setting it up, getting new pickups, and then comparing it to a guitar that has the same price as the end result, and maybe even a higher spec'd model to see if the higher price point is actually a "better" deal.
I have the gold glory Jared James Epiphone- and the first time I plugged it in, I played 3.5 hours straight. I was playing the first songs I wrote as a 15 year old (36 now 😫)… point is- something about less is more. It really revives your passion and focus. Now, I LOVE my mountains of gear and more complex guitars lol… but this comparison really resonates with me
Same here! My wife surprised me with the same guitar. I put an old mini humbucker in it, polished the body and neck, and swapped knobs, but it’s my #2 all day behind my Wizz loaded Les Paul Custom. It’s a seriously great guitar!
I'm older (71) and I've been looking at those JJN models and wanting one. I don't know anyone who has one to ask about it! With 1 Seymour Duncan, if the guitar is built correctly it should be great! As usual, I fully expect to spend 4 hours on the neck. Level/crown/polish, bevel the edges, properly cut/check the nut. It seems like a great price for what you get!?!? Have you found any major issues? Materials? I love larger necks (fat neck), but most are too small? Is that ~ .90 - 1.00 or so? Thanks much!!!
@@gtr1952 mine needed no tweaks when my wife and I went to pick it up from Dave’s Guitar Shop. I’m not sure if they did any work to it prior to me receiving the guitar. It’s a phenomenal player! You won’t regret buying one! The neck is fat. I love big necks, and this one feels great in hand. I don’t have any measurements, but I would assume it’s in the area of 1.00”. It’s a baseball bat neck for sure. It’s also reasonably light for a Les Paul, but I’m sure that varies. The only reason that it’s my #2 and not #1 is that I’ll probably be buried with my Les Paul Custom.
On the topic of the "one pickup thing" I had the pleasure of seeing Julian Lage live a couple months ago. He played a tele with a p90 in the neck. Whole show was on that p90, never touched the amp, volume or tone knobs and the sounds and DYNAMICS he got of that rig were incredible. I couldn't believe the dynamic range.
I saw him in Boston a couple weeks ago, He's the best in my opinion. It's all the fingers man. Effects are cool, but once you've found an instrument with a sound you like, the rest is about making music, which is done with the fingers not the gear.
Marshall nailed it with the JVM. There was a JVM stack as in house backline at a gig I worked, it always sounded amazing, any guitar any player any style. Top tier amp
Amp on the light edge of breakup, guitar volume on 7, 2 pedal gain stages, tremolo, chorus, flanger, octave reverb, dual delay(halo), HAPPY DAYS! Pretty much anything is available short of heavy sounds. Great video! Thanks guys!
Having started playing guitar back in 1966 and professionally by 1973 plugging directly into an amp was the norm! In fact it was rare to see anyone with more than one effect like a fuzz tone or a wah till the late 70’s or 80’s. Some the best tones are guitar straight into a tube amp or maybe even a solid state old school one! No surprise. Pedal boards! That was an unknown concept till maybe late 80’s as far as I remember…
I agree the musicians I listened to Pete Townshend and Rory Gallagher only had one pedal Pete had the fuzz into the hiwatt and Rory used the treble booster with the baseman and that was the rig.
@@realgoodmind Depends what sort of amp and music you're playing. If, for example, you want to play tight, chugging, heavy rhythm through a Dual Rec, you're going to need a Tubescreamer or similar in front of it. There's no other way to tighten up that flabby Boogie bass.
For everyday music, Pete's setup is ideal... For coverband, obviously, you need more... But we can all agree that both setups are very good sounding ! The clean at 27:24 is oustanding ! And the Magnatone amp, what a delight !
The P90 is a killer. I've heard Keith Richards in a live situation use his les paul junior, straight in to the amp and it is incredible. Keith has fantastic tone and I think these days is not well known by the younger generation. You can see him use it live on youtube playing Midnight Rambler.
I used to be all about more is more. I’d create these giant soundscapes with my effects pedals and do crazy stuff. But the melody always got lost. As I improved as a guitarist I’ve gone the other route. Oddly enough, that’s when I got the Helix. However, I finally had amp tones I was happy with. It’s as if I was covering up for my lack of tone and ability. In the end though, it’s all about what inspires you. Hopefully you can figure that out without spending a bundle on something you don’t need.
I’ve always been with the Yngwie camp where “more is more”. Just having the options available is incredible in terms of creativity. You don’t have to use everything but should always have the options available.
I grew up playing a P-bass, and the first CZcams music channel I subscribed to was Fretted Americana, with Phil X playing a les paul Jr double cutaway and a bad monkey overdrive. I guess one pickup, two knobs, and tune the amp to the room always made sense to me.
I rock a single channel Magnatone Super 15 with a single knob single switch wampler db plus boost pedal, along with a 1961 Les Paul jr. I must say it's definitely an inspiration to play that rig
@@alexwoolridge94aw I bought a small 5w valve amp. I use it with a bluesbreaker clone, and an Ibanez AG85 while I get the tele moded. It has 2 mini hambuckers and it sounds amazing, I mostly use the neck, playing with the volume and the tone. I m very happy indeed. Mini humbuckers have some punch too.
I personally get distracted if I have too much going on with a pedal board. That said, it’s nice to have options. An OD, chorus, and wah are just about all the effects I need. I own multi-channel amps, but I tend to stick to a light overdrive that I boost with a pedal. Clean tones can be dialed in with the guitar’s volume and tone pots.
I have a complex rig with loop switcher, midi controlled eq, reverb, delay (and soon modulation), into a three channel amp that I can get any sound imaginable. I was late for practise one day so just grabbed a Strat (usually play HH) and used the studio valvestate Marshall. It was some of the best and most fun guitar I've played in years.... I think while the "more" side is fun vs can do everything, it can be a bit of a crutch and can stop you focusing on your own sound and technique....
A similar concept to photography, you can have all the gear in the world but ultimately a great practiced photographer with a really simple cheap camera can still take a gorgeous photo. Having less knobs and settings to tweak makes you use your head and your hands a whole lot more!
To me it's about the right tool for the moment. When I haven't played in a while, I can sometimes write riffs without the guitar being plugged in. But if you've been bashing your head on the same part for days trying to get the right sound, sometimes having a modeler with a million different amps and effects to try out can prove useful.
This is going to be controversial but the best tone danish pete had in this video was with the klon of and the tremelo and reverb on. When he dug in it was the perfect sound for solos and when he played lighter you could hear the tremelo work
Thank you for this. I'm a less is more person. Great concept, maybe a series? Minimalistic for each genres of music. Maybe not, as many videos is not really minimalistic. 👍🏼
Marshall amps are cheap in the UK, 1,599 GBP for a JVM 410C, same amp in Canada is $4,699 CAD ( 2,852.79 GBP ). I thought the Captain made a mistake when he said the price of the JVM. $3699 USD at Sweetwater in the USA ( 3,052.74 GBP )
I know this is about not needing a bunch of gear or money to sound good, but Lee's tone is buttery, creamy, and ridiculously good! Love the videos as always and Merry Christmas to everyone!!!
For me it’s both. I have a stripped back vintage setup I use and I have a complex modern setup that keeps expanding. Both inspire me, both give me huge amount of fun and joy. I think the simple answer is it’s what we feel comfortable with and what we’re looking for. Some days a tele, a Les Paul and a fender amp is enough to drive me, other days it’s an Ibanez into a palladium and a black star with noise gates, delays, reverbs etc. the only thing is it always starts with those basics for me, if I sounds good on a strat, tele or Paul into a Marshall or fender then it’s gonna sound good when built on
I remember thinking if Eddie did it that way, there has to be something in it. When I bought a Kramer i realised that even though it's just 1 pickup and a volume knob, it demanded more from me as a player. Buying that guitar early on really shaped the player I am today.
2023 WhooHoo ! ALL the 'Kudos' in this 'vid' have to go to Pete ... He can make a matchbox, lollipop stick and rubber band play a tune ! I am in awe at Pete's in depth understanding, talents / skills ! (A tot 'o rum for Pete) ! 🤠...
what inspires me more is freshness. I change my board and guitar pretty often. Sometimes it's sparse, sometimes it's complicated. Sometimes I'm straight into an amp with a bit of crunch, sometimes I like a huge pedalboard with an ungodly amount of reverb and delay. Keeping things fresh and changing up regularly is key for me.
I got a JVM410H and a V30 loaded over sized 2x12 cab from you guys, I literally was looking at selling the head and getting something else and even called up Andertons to see what the trade in price would be… I think I’m gonna keep it… it’s a great amp and maybe what I should remember is it may have more sounds than I need but I don’t have to use them all…
Less was best for me. I have found after 30 years of playing, that the less distractions the more music I end up playing. That's how it works for me, and it worked for a ton of the greats too.
I totally agree. I have recently gone to a LP Standard straight into a Super Reverb, or Suhr Hombre and just using the guitar’s volume to adjust tones. I’m much more comfortable and only focus on playing.
Leslie West is said to have chosen the Gibson les Paul jr, with its sole p90, to get the best possible tone he could. Though its a dog ear p90 on those guitars.
Lukas Nelson (Willie's son) plays his 1956 Les Paul Junior through a stereo rig of two Magnatone stereo amps. Occasionally uses an overdrive pedal. One of the most magical guitar tones I've ever heard live.
Wow man, Lee’s playing has improved so much throughout the years. Maybe you should make a video on how you did that Lee. How did you improve your playing, what did you study?
Imho, tone is ultimately in the fingers, it has the core sound of the player, pedals can add effects and ambience etc, but an expressive player can add so much more. I would say look at Brian May, all he has in a basic rig is the Red Special, a treble booster and a cranked Vox AC30. He himself said that it’s his “voice”. Its always up to the individual to “find” their own sound, however that is achieved, and what works for them 👍 Awesome channel, keep up the good work 👍
Put your money into a good tube amp first before spending it on a solid state amp and a ton of pedals. In the long run you will be glad you did. Pete touched on a essential skill that is lost on a lot of people simply because they don't know or aren't taught. Plugging straight into a tube amp...driving it hard...and controlling the dirt with the guitar volume knob. My two channel tube amp w/ built in reverb...a overdrive pedal...delay pedal...and a compressor...gives me 99% of the tones I would ever want or need. From clean to blues to crunchy rock to metal....a good tube amp and about three pedals can take you a long way.
I have been all over the place. I started pretty basic and the once I got into a band I got a boss multi-fx to have all my sounds in one place. Thinking back though I still only used my amp sounds and a delay. I then decided I wasn’t focused on playing enough and I got rid of everything and just got a 2 channel tube amp (no master volume) and no pedals whatsoever. That period I grew the most and got my chops up “surpassing” a lot of my friends (their words not mine). After that I felt a bit of a rut coming on since I could only crank my amp for the nice OD sound I liked so I went and got an HX Stomp pretty soon after it launched. I tried desperately for the last few years to expand my pallet of sounds but, I just decided last week to only take an amp and an ODR-1 to practice and I started a improvised jam that was the most creative thing I have done in the past year at least… I realize I am a simplistic guitar into amp guy but, I am desperately trying not to be as my inspiration tends to come from people using wild sounds. I think I am starting to settle though that my sounds just come from hands on strings and weird bends and time signatures. I am not a pedalboard guy as much as I’d like to be 🤷🏽♂️
I bought a Gordon Smith with just a bridge pickup for this very reason. It really is a learning curve on how to get the best tones with just the amp controls and volume/tone pots. In some ways it is very liberating. Still love a pedal or two though!!
I've always fallen on the minimal side of things even when playing live. Often I would run into my DSL100 with just a TS9 and NS2 when playing live with footswitches for channel and reverb. I think if you have a half decent amp and some reasonable pickups you can get a lot of tones. I think I must be similar to Pete as I don't touch the volume and instead use my picking fingers to modulate the volume. Captain, your playing in the outro jam was amazing. You keep getting better and better!
Ever since I got my single P-90 LP Junior DC, I find that I now play my old LP Standard far less often. I find most of the time I just want a great RAW overdriven rock tone, and too many 'tonal options' just makes me feel like I could have it adjusted better... So you end up fiddling with switches instead of just 'rockin out'!
I think Pete had too much gear he could have gone so much less taken his pedal away give him an air guitar and let natural tone of his fingers carry the music .
ive recently been plugging straight into a deluxe reverb without anything and its been amazing. that paired with an ODRC and a decent guitar is tonal nirvana
I think that the upshot of this video is that a good guitar player can maximize the effectiveness of whatever rig he chooses to play. Of course, said guitarist must learn every aspect of every piece of gear the guitarist is using in order to get this maximum effectiveness, so it may suit that player to have fewer pieces of gear, gear that is more simple, or some combination of the above -- to wit, a few choice pieces of simple gear. This presupposes that the player is only trying to play original music. The player in a cover situation usually tries to emulate the sounds recorded into music that's already popular. In that situation, the player will need more versatility. Here, more is more. It all depends on what the player is trying to do.
The JVM410c is a superb and extremely versatile amp - does the full range from super clean to having ALL the gain - pair that with a PRS Modern Eagle V (if you want a LOT of pick-up tonal options) or a Special Semi-Hollow and you can pretty much get ANY tone. There is something to keeping it 'simple' and using only what you have to make music, but sometimes, that limited range of options just isn't wide enough to get the sound you wanted. Each to their own and I think it really depends on the 'musician' and what they want/need.
That PJD guitar looks so much like what I'm looking for. I want a Les Paul Special, bolt on all roasted maple neck, with like an Explorer headstock. Maybe some comfort carves. Basically a modern version of a Les Paul. That's like the closest thing I've seen. I have an Epiphone Les Paul Special in the meantime, but that's the dream at the moment.
I definitely suffer from option paralysis. I was so excited for the katana stuff a few years ago and have had two of them, but then went back to a valve amp and a few pedals. Now I have a victory v4 amp and make boards of around 4 simple pedals and I'm very happy. Although.... The GAS always gets you in the end.
One of the best players I’ve ever seen live was a guy named Tab Beniot, he had an old FenderTwin Reverb and a couple Tele Thinline Deluxe that he plugged straight into the front of that old Fender and he dimed everything that was the night I learned that those old fender amps would break up at stupid loud volumes. I saw him at the House of Blues in New Orleans and he was a bad ass and my ears are still ringing 10 years later lol .
One person you could get on your channel is Mark Abrahams from Wishbone Ash, he has a huge amount of tone and some interesting guitars and if he is available, Andy Powell. there are many of us viewing your channel into the older stuff.
Great sounds, gentlemen! With that said, I really wasn't a fan of the minimalist rig; it seemed totally uncontrollable in a lot of circumstances. In contrast, the PRS into the JVM sounded absolutely amazing with pretty much any of the settings Lee tried, and it looked like he wasn't even using his board much, just the tones from the amp and the guitar. I'd really love to hear what Pete can do with that combo of guitar/amp. Also, Lee's playing during the end jam was absolute fire! Disclaimer: the JVM410 is home base for me so it may just be what my ears naturally want to hear.
I like having quite a few overdrives and other various pedals on my board, plus different guitars and amps for inspiration. I post guitar videos to Instagram almost every day and I need that selection availability sometimes to spark some creativity if I am in a funk BUT I also own three Les Paul Juniors. I love the simplicity of those guitars and I am also a telecaster guy so I think it is horses for courses really! Interesting video guys! Happy Holidays to you and yours!
John Klon Van Damme! 😂 That junior and magnatone are all you need though. What a sound when you turn down the volume and tone and finger pick. 😮 I am by far one of the less is more guys. So much more inspiring and you spend less time messing with crap and more time playing!
I adore the magnatone twilighter, just wish I could afford it. The problem with Marshall in the UK is that we are spoiled by them. Americans love it as they are generally well made by comparison to many of the other amp brands they have access to. In the UK an amp brand will simply fail if they don't compete with the Marshalls available so we only really see that level of quality or better.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. The Americans have Mesa, Soldano, Friedman and Fender amps to name just a few, all of which are a match for Marshall when it comes to quality. And I say that as a lifelong Marshall user and an Englishman.
@@markseymour8365 I'm not saying America don't have some fantastic brands and companies, the magnatone is one after all and I would no doubt love a Friedman or a Soldano. It's just that Marshalls whole range of amps are solid and have the iconic sound. They also set the bar high for quality of electronics, in part due to our regulations surrounding our 230V standards. It means amp techs often like them for the good design. And finally they have been an extremely popular amp sound so are fairly common here - maybe not quite the same way that fender is in America but not far off.
@@Crivicus I don't know. I'd question the quality aspect, particularly with their made in Vietnam DSL range. Quite a few issues with the DSL20C for example - so many noise problems that they rerouted the cabling in later iterations. I like the sounds but I don't agree that Marshall amps are any better built than Mesa amps, for example.
@@markseymour8365 I agree, Marshall are no better than Mesa amps these days but that is still quite a high bar to be the minimum. Though it is a shame for both Mesa and Marshall to be going down in quality lately - especially at the more affordable end.
Personally, I feel like there's a bit of a balance to this. I need to restrict myself in one way, but have options the other. If I'm using one amp, I want my guitar to have a good few options, and I always have 3 massively different types of picks on me. But I don't want to be fiddling with the amp too much aside from turning the reverb/delay on or off. Inversely, when I'm playing a guitar with just 2 humbuckers, no fancy switches or anything, I feel most creative when I can switch between 2 or 3 amp settings. To put it simply: in the chain of guitar - effects - amp, you need to strongly limit one half of it while enabling the other half in order so you both have options, but are fundamentally needed to either be using your fingers to get the tone you want, or to be fiddling around with the effects/amp to get what you want. Alternating these is great, too. I love just spending some time fiddling around with the options I have, then turning all of it off and have it just be me and my guitar. Especially the latter is how you get something worth recording.
ahh, the memories. Best guitar buy was over 10 years ago...."75.00 for a HSS S Type. Fender FM212. Killer tone in like 10 seconds, yes, The HB. Long story.Lucky enough to have an LP Jr,,Epi. It's awesome. Now, DS 1 and a F CT BF Semi Clean. Sounds good.
I'm a fan of playing a single-pickup guitar with just a single overdrive into a single-channel amp. You'd be surprised how versatile a single-pickup guitar can be.
To me...Less is more. I used to have about the same amount of gear as you guys show on your set. I sold off about 70% of it. Now the gear I still have seems way more dear to me. (Of course I kept the cream of the crop) I'm more creative and I play way more often. Love the show.
For classic rock you can certainly get away with a limited setup, but for more demanding genres with more stark sound contrasts section-to-section like metal there's just no way
I'm finding my happy place is a couple quality but less complicated guitars and amps, but then add the complexity in the pedalboard. Nice blend of both worlds. Your end points are stable fixed variables so much of the tinkering is just with the middle bit.
Do love these kind of videos. Robert Johnson and Leadbelly used department store acoustics and are still remembered and listened to 90 years later! The less approach does make you look for tome in your guitar settings and the amp volume control.
Which is absolutely indistinguishable from someone using midi to control their tone. The ppl listening don't care how you get the tone you get- they just want to hear good music.
@@rexrathtar3893 That ridiculous man- to try and compare playing with pedals to playing with backup music- really? How ridiculous. Get real man, address my actual argument and I'll address your argument- right now you don't have one. Of course, ppl want to hear live music if that's what they paid for- like I said, pedals don't play for you.
“I think Magnatone are the best amps we sell”..... I’ll take your Twilighter and raise you the Benson Monarch you just sold me, better made and THE best tone I’ve ever heard.
It's humbling and a bit embarrassing how much time and money I spent in the last years to put together a board of 12-ish pedals that can do pretty much anything I want, and now it's very hard to strip it down to the essentials because of 'fomo' if I don't have a particular pedal on there. Definitely more attracted to the 'less' side of things as I believe some restriction leads to more creativity than having all the stuff, which in my case mostly just leads to option paralysis and tweakalitis.
KD custom guitar, Blackstar Artist 30 on the clean channel (yes, the amp has reverb in it), cable, electricity, happyness. Less is more nad it teaches you to play better.
Midway through my last gig the pedal board cut out. I didnt have time to troubleshoot so i just plugged straight into the amp and toggled between my rhythm and lead tones with my volume knob. It was refreshing to not worry about what i needed to switch on for which songs and at which parts.
Hi folks, i think less is more as you do the job and not the effects. In the end the effects bore, You do the tonality and in the end this is more inspiring (although reverb you cannot miss).
I had the JVM 215C at home (2 channel 50 watts single speaker). And honestly it was just too much. Gave it back, got a Blues Junior and get every Gain Tone through pedals and I LOVE it. I think I will never go for a big out there Amp again.
Just when I thought I was done with GAS Andertons flash the Apprentice before my eyes. My fav guitarist Charlie Starr has a 57 LP Jnr as his go-to guitar and adopts the less is more principle. May just have to buy one now 🙄.
That is why you need more than one rig! But I feel that if you just want to lay down some tracks, it is easier to go fast with a simple setup, one pick up, volume tone, one amp with some eq possibilities and that can get some gain...
I think enough is more. It’s good if you choose your items of the signal chain conscious, if there is a lot of stuff that confuses you or gives you option paralysis shrink that thing. Just use stuff that is essential for you, inspires you and doesn’t get in the way. For me this results in one amp(setting), one guitar, and a sometimes big, sometimes small pedalboard always having at least one reverb and one delay pedal.
l had a guitar teaching studio in the 90's. We bought 4 new fender red knob Princeton Chorus amps. We bought them b/c they will rock, metal, clean, hi z input for acoustic, have reverb and chorus. l still today have two of these amps. One that has been eminence speaker swapped w/ 2 x 10''s. l have a trick l do w/ the chorus where l set the rate on 0 and the depth on 10 and get a stereo spacial effect. When l take this amp out in smaller venues un mic'ed l may or may not bring a wah and l swear people tell me all the time how good the amp sounds next to 20 watt tubes amps dimed throwing ear screeching amounts of middle to cut thru a mix. People l tell this too think lm crazy until they hear the amps.
Hi Lee. This is not a prank. If you want to see how badly some US customers are treated by Matt Wells in your sales service dept please look into the CreamT order to John James in the US. (BTW yours is my favorite channel on CZcams)
I think the key for me has been having fewer pieces of gear that I’m REALLY familiar with - 1 guitar, 1 amp and about 8 pedals that I know I can quickly dial in.
I have to admit about 1/3 of my enjoyment of guitar is simply experimenting with different gear (pedals/amps/guitars/modelers/midi). I used to think this was a distraction from playing, but I've come to realize it's an aspect I enjoy all on it's own and there's nothing wrong with it. (And yes, some days I do just go straight into the amp).
I totally agree!
some days you just gotta go straight into an amp
same here
A new piece of gear can give you completely new inspiration, and ideas you haven't had before.
Yes yes yes! Totally agree. And of course it helps me justify all the ropey man maths I’ve relied on over the years for yet another distortion or fuzz pedal.
Saw this, and got reminded of the mod vs no mod guitar challenge you did a while back, and remembering that Lee said he wasn't sold on the idea of modding a guitar vs just spending the extra on a better guitar to begin with. One of the things with that challenge was Rob putting in some higher output pickups that Lee didn't like.
What I'd love to see was a challenge where the goal was to get a similar or better tone, but with two different starting points. So maybe taking a Squier Classic vibe, setting it up, getting new pickups, and then comparing it to a guitar that has the same price as the end result, and maybe even a higher spec'd model to see if the higher price point is actually a "better" deal.
That’s a great idea!
Love that idea!
This concept is super interesting, I'd love to see more of it in the future! Minimalist music setups certainly have their advantages!
Watch 5 Watt world on youtube, some really good stuff on there about getting the most out of minimal gear.
I have the gold glory Jared James Epiphone- and the first time I plugged it in, I played 3.5 hours straight. I was playing the first songs I wrote as a 15 year old (36 now 😫)… point is- something about less is more. It really revives your passion and focus. Now, I LOVE my mountains of gear and more complex guitars lol… but this comparison really resonates with me
Same here! My wife surprised me with the same guitar. I put an old mini humbucker in it, polished the body and neck, and swapped knobs, but it’s my #2 all day behind my Wizz loaded Les Paul Custom. It’s a seriously great guitar!
I'm older (71) and I've been looking at those JJN models and wanting one. I don't know anyone who has one to ask about it! With 1 Seymour Duncan, if the guitar is built correctly it should be great! As usual, I fully expect to spend 4 hours on the neck. Level/crown/polish, bevel the edges, properly cut/check the nut. It seems like a great price for what you get!?!? Have you found any major issues? Materials? I love larger necks (fat neck), but most are too small? Is that ~ .90 - 1.00 or so? Thanks much!!!
@@gtr1952 mine needed no tweaks when my wife and I went to pick it up from Dave’s Guitar Shop. I’m not sure if they did any work to it prior to me receiving the guitar. It’s a phenomenal player! You won’t regret buying one! The neck is fat. I love big necks, and this one feels great in hand. I don’t have any measurements, but I would assume it’s in the area of 1.00”. It’s a baseball bat neck for sure. It’s also reasonably light for a Les Paul, but I’m sure that varies. The only reason that it’s my #2 and not #1 is that I’ll probably be buried with my Les Paul Custom.
On the topic of the "one pickup thing" I had the pleasure of seeing Julian Lage live a couple months ago. He played a tele with a p90 in the neck. Whole show was on that p90, never touched the amp, volume or tone knobs and the sounds and DYNAMICS he got of that rig were incredible. I couldn't believe the dynamic range.
I saw him in Boston a couple weeks ago, He's the best in my opinion. It's all the fingers man. Effects are cool, but once you've found an instrument with a sound you like, the rest is about making music, which is done with the fingers not the gear.
Magnatone is my favorite clean tone amp of all time. Just ridiculous how good it is.
You spelled "expensive" wrong Sir.
It is Totally Amazing in Every Way though
Clean channel of a Mesa Lonestar is fantastic as well, but that Stereo trem on the big Magnatone 2x12s indeed is to die for :-)
4:58 that harmonic feedback thing was absolutely amazing
Marshall nailed it with the JVM.
There was a JVM stack as in house backline at a gig I worked, it always sounded amazing, any guitar any player any style.
Top tier amp
Amp on the light edge of breakup, guitar volume on 7, 2 pedal gain stages, tremolo, chorus, flanger, octave reverb, dual delay(halo), HAPPY DAYS! Pretty much anything is available short of heavy sounds. Great video! Thanks guys!
That is a pretty big rig though my dude 😂 one I wholeheartedly support, but far from minimalist
@@tommystratpaul lol, right. So much stuff I had to take a break reading all the pedals.
Having started playing guitar back in 1966 and professionally by 1973 plugging directly into an amp was the norm! In fact it was rare to see anyone with more than one effect like a fuzz tone or a wah till the late 70’s or 80’s. Some the best tones are guitar straight into a tube amp or maybe even a solid state old school one! No surprise. Pedal boards! That was an unknown concept till maybe late 80’s as far as I remember…
I agree the musicians I listened to Pete Townshend and Rory Gallagher only had one pedal Pete had the fuzz into the hiwatt and Rory used the treble booster with the baseman and that was the rig.
@@realgoodmind Depends what sort of amp and music you're playing. If, for example, you want to play tight, chugging, heavy rhythm through a Dual Rec, you're going to need a Tubescreamer or similar in front of it. There's no other way to tighten up that flabby Boogie bass.
JVM is an amazing amp.
Could have done with a noise gate.
Sounds awesome
For everyday music, Pete's setup is ideal... For coverband, obviously, you need more... But we can all agree that both setups are very good sounding ! The clean at 27:24 is oustanding ! And the Magnatone amp, what a delight !
The P90 is a killer. I've heard Keith Richards in a live situation use his les paul junior, straight in to the amp and it is incredible. Keith has fantastic tone and I think these days is not well known by the younger generation. You can see him use it live on youtube playing Midnight Rambler.
I used to be all about more is more. I’d create these giant soundscapes with my effects pedals and do crazy stuff. But the melody always got lost. As I improved as a guitarist I’ve gone the other route. Oddly enough, that’s when I got the Helix. However, I finally had amp tones I was happy with. It’s as if I was covering up for my lack of tone and ability. In the end though, it’s all about what inspires you. Hopefully you can figure that out without spending a bundle on something you don’t need.
I’ve always been with the Yngwie camp where “more is more”. Just having the options available is incredible in terms of creativity. You don’t have to use everything but should always have the options available.
I grew up playing a P-bass, and the first CZcams music channel I subscribed to was Fretted Americana, with Phil X playing a les paul Jr double cutaway and a bad monkey overdrive. I guess one pickup, two knobs, and tune the amp to the room always made sense to me.
I rock a single channel Magnatone Super 15 with a single knob single switch wampler db plus boost pedal, along with a 1961 Les Paul jr. I must say it's definitely an inspiration to play that rig
Just a p90 on the bridge right? I love those LPs
@@Lalairu yes indeed. Single p90 that roars. It's a crazy guitar
@@alexwoolridge94aw I bought a small 5w valve amp. I use it with a bluesbreaker clone, and an Ibanez AG85 while I get the tele moded. It has 2 mini hambuckers and it sounds amazing, I mostly use the neck, playing with the volume and the tone. I m very happy indeed. Mini humbuckers have some punch too.
@@Lalairu very nice brother.
@@alexwoolridge94aw keep rockin' 😁
I personally get distracted if I have too much going on with a pedal board. That said, it’s nice to have options. An OD, chorus, and wah are just about all the effects I need. I own multi-channel amps, but I tend to stick to a light overdrive that I boost with a pedal. Clean tones can be dialed in with the guitar’s volume and tone pots.
I have a complex rig with loop switcher, midi controlled eq, reverb, delay (and soon modulation), into a three channel amp that I can get any sound imaginable.
I was late for practise one day so just grabbed a Strat (usually play HH) and used the studio valvestate Marshall. It was some of the best and most fun guitar I've played in years....
I think while the "more" side is fun vs can do everything, it can be a bit of a crutch and can stop you focusing on your own sound and technique....
How can less be more? More is more. - YJM
A similar concept to photography, you can have all the gear in the world but ultimately a great practiced photographer with a really simple cheap camera can still take a gorgeous photo. Having less knobs and settings to tweak makes you use your head and your hands a whole lot more!
Lee's metal skills are starting to show 👌
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To me it's about the right tool for the moment. When I haven't played in a while, I can sometimes write riffs without the guitar being plugged in. But if you've been bashing your head on the same part for days trying to get the right sound, sometimes having a modeler with a million different amps and effects to try out can prove useful.
This is going to be controversial but the best tone danish pete had in this video was with the klon of and the tremelo and reverb on. When he dug in it was the perfect sound for solos and when he played lighter you could hear the tremelo work
Tremelo?
Bought my JVM210c for $1600 AUS from my local music store when it was closing down. Owned it for 6 years and still love it
Thank you for this. I'm a less is more person. Great concept, maybe a series? Minimalistic for each genres of music. Maybe not, as many videos is not really minimalistic. 👍🏼
Marshall amps are cheap in the UK, 1,599 GBP for a JVM 410C, same amp in Canada is $4,699 CAD ( 2,852.79 GBP ). I thought the Captain made a mistake when he said the price of the JVM. $3699 USD at Sweetwater in the USA ( 3,052.74 GBP )
That JCM is GREAT
I know this is about not needing a bunch of gear or money to sound good, but Lee's tone is buttery, creamy, and ridiculously good! Love the videos as always and Merry Christmas to everyone!!!
For me it’s both. I have a stripped back vintage setup I use and I have a complex modern setup that keeps expanding. Both inspire me, both give me huge amount of fun and joy. I think the simple answer is it’s what we feel comfortable with and what we’re looking for. Some days a tele, a Les Paul and a fender amp is enough to drive me, other days it’s an Ibanez into a palladium and a black star with noise gates, delays, reverbs etc. the only thing is it always starts with those basics for me, if I sounds good on a strat, tele or Paul into a Marshall or fender then it’s gonna sound good when built on
The Magnatone amp is incredible.
I remember thinking if Eddie did it that way, there has to be something in it. When I bought a Kramer i realised that even though it's just 1 pickup and a volume knob, it demanded more from me as a player. Buying that guitar early on really shaped the player I am today.
2023 WhooHoo ! ALL the 'Kudos' in this 'vid' have to go to Pete ... He can make a matchbox, lollipop stick and rubber band play a tune ! I am in awe at Pete's in depth understanding, talents / skills ! (A tot 'o rum for Pete) ! 🤠...
Me. All used gear. Dearmond LP junior £130. BS HT5 £110. Celestion 12" in home made cab. Eq, sweet cream, both about £20. Inc strap, leads, plectrum
what inspires me more is freshness. I change my board and guitar pretty often. Sometimes it's sparse, sometimes it's complicated. Sometimes I'm straight into an amp with a bit of crunch, sometimes I like a huge pedalboard with an ungodly amount of reverb and delay. Keeping things fresh and changing up regularly is key for me.
I got a JVM410H and a V30 loaded over sized 2x12 cab from you guys, I literally was looking at selling the head and getting something else and even called up Andertons to see what the trade in price would be… I think I’m gonna keep it… it’s a great amp and maybe what I should remember is it may have more sounds than I need but I don’t have to use them all…
Get a different cab like an EVH 412, I found V30's a little harsh with that amp.
Less was best for me. I have found after 30 years of playing, that the less distractions the more music I end up playing. That's how it works for me, and it worked for a ton of the greats too.
I totally agree. I have recently gone to a LP Standard straight into a Super Reverb, or Suhr Hombre and just using the guitar’s volume to adjust tones. I’m much more comfortable and only focus on playing.
@@linkdavies3098 strat into Marshall DSL 40c set to use just one channel in a 800ish mode.
Leslie West is said to have chosen the Gibson les Paul jr, with its sole p90, to get the best possible tone he could. Though its a dog ear p90 on those guitars.
I love this concept! How minimal can a rig be?
Lukas Nelson (Willie's son) plays his 1956 Les Paul Junior through a stereo rig of two Magnatone stereo amps. Occasionally uses an overdrive pedal. One of the most magical guitar tones I've ever heard live.
Air guitar.
@@Oilid The imagination is the best amp and pedalboard.
It's called an acoustic.
Tube amp + good attenuator + guitar. Awesome sound, low clutter.
Wow man, Lee’s playing has improved so much throughout the years. Maybe you should make a video on how you did that Lee. How did you improve your playing, what did you study?
Imho, tone is ultimately in the fingers, it has the core sound of the player, pedals can add effects and ambience etc, but an expressive player can add so much more. I would say look at Brian May, all he has in a basic rig is the Red Special, a treble booster and a cranked Vox AC30. He himself said that it’s his “voice”.
Its always up to the individual to “find” their own sound, however that is achieved, and what works for them 👍
Awesome channel, keep up the good work 👍
Put your money into a good tube amp first before spending it on a solid state amp and a ton of pedals. In the long run you will be glad you did. Pete touched on a essential skill that is lost on a lot of people simply because they don't know or aren't taught. Plugging straight into a tube amp...driving it hard...and controlling the dirt with the guitar volume knob. My two channel tube amp w/ built in reverb...a overdrive pedal...delay pedal...and a compressor...gives me 99% of the tones I would ever want or need. From clean to blues to crunchy rock to metal....a good tube amp and about three pedals can take you a long way.
I mean that's good advice only for those genres you mention. For anything else you're gonna need more headroom and tools than a volume knob
@@ileutur6863 You might....I don't.
this video is more important than most musicians will ever realize!
I have been all over the place. I started pretty basic and the once I got into a band I got a boss multi-fx to have all my sounds in one place. Thinking back though I still only used my amp sounds and a delay. I then decided I wasn’t focused on playing enough and I got rid of everything and just got a 2 channel tube amp (no master volume) and no pedals whatsoever. That period I grew the most and got my chops up “surpassing” a lot of my friends (their words not mine).
After that I felt a bit of a rut coming on since I could only crank my amp for the nice OD sound I liked so I went and got an HX Stomp pretty soon after it launched. I tried desperately for the last few years to expand my pallet of sounds but, I just decided last week to only take an amp and an ODR-1 to practice and I started a improvised jam that was the most creative thing I have done in the past year at least… I realize I am a simplistic guitar into amp guy but, I am desperately trying not to be as my inspiration tends to come from people using wild sounds. I think I am starting to settle though that my sounds just come from hands on strings and weird bends and time signatures. I am not a pedalboard guy as much as I’d like to be 🤷🏽♂️
I bought a Gordon Smith with just a bridge pickup for this very reason. It really is a learning curve on how to get the best tones with just the amp controls and volume/tone pots. In some ways it is very liberating. Still love a pedal or two though!!
I like "More" because it can be at any moment "More or Less"
i think with experience one can appreciate the concept of less is more more
that old amp made me feel something. It was amazing
I've always fallen on the minimal side of things even when playing live. Often I would run into my DSL100 with just a TS9 and NS2 when playing live with footswitches for channel and reverb. I think if you have a half decent amp and some reasonable pickups you can get a lot of tones. I think I must be similar to Pete as I don't touch the volume and instead use my picking fingers to modulate the volume. Captain, your playing in the outro jam was amazing. You keep getting better and better!
Ever since I got my single P-90 LP Junior DC, I find that I now play my old LP Standard far less often.
I find most of the time I just want a great RAW overdriven rock tone, and too many 'tonal options' just makes me feel like I could have it adjusted better... So you end up fiddling with switches instead of just 'rockin out'!
I think Pete had too much gear he could have gone so much less taken his pedal away give him an air guitar and let natural tone of his fingers carry the music .
Magnatone and T-H-A-T tremolo...heavenly! I am so glad that I was ready to grab the short lived, handwired Evil Robots when they were around.
Precisely why I tore the neck p'up out of my Tele and throw it through a Big Muff Pi. It simply rocks!
ive recently been plugging straight into a deluxe reverb without anything and its been amazing. that paired with an ODRC and a decent guitar is tonal nirvana
I’d love to hear Pete’s rig with the Klon cranked and his or Lee’s Les Paul plugged in!
Pete's rig sounded stunning.
Snowy White always said he'd be happy with just a Les Paul and an AC30. And he would still sound amazing.
THAT CLON IS KIN AWESOME OH WHAT.
I think that the upshot of this video is that a good guitar player can maximize the effectiveness of whatever rig he chooses to play. Of course, said guitarist must learn every aspect of every piece of gear the guitarist is using in order to get this maximum effectiveness, so it may suit that player to have fewer pieces of gear, gear that is more simple, or some combination of the above -- to wit, a few choice pieces of simple gear.
This presupposes that the player is only trying to play original music. The player in a cover situation usually tries to emulate the sounds recorded into music that's already popular. In that situation, the player will need more versatility. Here, more is more.
It all depends on what the player is trying to do.
Merry Christmas to you guys! Thanks for all the great videos...keep em coming.
The JVM410c is a superb and extremely versatile amp - does the full range from super clean to having ALL the gain - pair that with a PRS Modern Eagle V (if you want a LOT of pick-up tonal options) or a Special Semi-Hollow and you can pretty much get ANY tone.
There is something to keeping it 'simple' and using only what you have to make music, but sometimes, that limited range of options just isn't wide enough to get the sound you wanted. Each to their own and I think it really depends on the 'musician' and what they want/need.
Yeah JVM's are great if you can stand the weight.
That PJD guitar looks so much like what I'm looking for. I want a Les Paul Special, bolt on all roasted maple neck, with like an Explorer headstock. Maybe some comfort carves. Basically a modern version of a Les Paul. That's like the closest thing I've seen. I have an Epiphone Les Paul Special in the meantime, but that's the dream at the moment.
I definitely suffer from option paralysis. I was so excited for the katana stuff a few years ago and have had two of them, but then went back to a valve amp and a few pedals. Now I have a victory v4 amp and make boards of around 4 simple pedals and I'm very happy. Although.... The GAS always gets you in the end.
One of the best players I’ve ever seen live was a guy named Tab Beniot, he had an old FenderTwin Reverb and a couple Tele Thinline Deluxe that he plugged straight into the front of that old Fender and he dimed everything that was the night I learned that those old fender amps would break up at stupid loud volumes. I saw him at the House of Blues in New Orleans and he was a bad ass and my ears are still ringing 10 years later lol .
One person you could get on your channel is Mark Abrahams from Wishbone Ash, he has a huge amount of tone and some interesting guitars and if he is available, Andy Powell. there are many of us viewing your channel into the older stuff.
My answer is yes. Lol. Both rigs are amazing and either one would inspire me differently.
Great sounds, gentlemen! With that said, I really wasn't a fan of the minimalist rig; it seemed totally uncontrollable in a lot of circumstances. In contrast, the PRS into the JVM sounded absolutely amazing with pretty much any of the settings Lee tried, and it looked like he wasn't even using his board much, just the tones from the amp and the guitar. I'd really love to hear what Pete can do with that combo of guitar/amp. Also, Lee's playing during the end jam was absolute fire!
Disclaimer: the JVM410 is home base for me so it may just be what my ears naturally want to hear.
My heaviest item of gear was an Ashdown ABM810 delivered in a flight case. Nearly gave myself a hernia trying to pickup just one-end!
I like having quite a few overdrives and other various pedals on my board, plus different guitars and amps for inspiration. I post guitar videos to Instagram almost every day and I need that selection availability sometimes to spark some creativity if I am in a funk BUT I also own three Les Paul Juniors. I love the simplicity of those guitars and I am also a telecaster guy so I think it is horses for courses really! Interesting video guys! Happy Holidays to you and yours!
John Klon Van Damme! 😂 That junior and magnatone are all you need though. What a sound when you turn down the volume and tone and finger pick. 😮 I am by far one of the less is more guys. So much more inspiring and you spend less time messing with crap and more time playing!
I adore the magnatone twilighter, just wish I could afford it.
The problem with Marshall in the UK is that we are spoiled by them. Americans love it as they are generally well made by comparison to many of the other amp brands they have access to. In the UK an amp brand will simply fail if they don't compete with the Marshalls available so we only really see that level of quality or better.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. The Americans have Mesa, Soldano, Friedman and Fender amps to name just a few, all of which are a match for Marshall when it comes to quality. And I say that as a lifelong Marshall user and an Englishman.
@@markseymour8365 I'm not saying America don't have some fantastic brands and companies, the magnatone is one after all and I would no doubt love a Friedman or a Soldano.
It's just that Marshalls whole range of amps are solid and have the iconic sound. They also set the bar high for quality of electronics, in part due to our regulations surrounding our 230V standards. It means amp techs often like them for the good design. And finally they have been an extremely popular amp sound so are fairly common here - maybe not quite the same way that fender is in America but not far off.
@@Crivicus I don't know. I'd question the quality aspect, particularly with their made in Vietnam DSL range. Quite a few issues with the DSL20C for example - so many noise problems that they rerouted the cabling in later iterations. I like the sounds but I don't agree that Marshall amps are any better built than Mesa amps, for example.
@@markseymour8365 I agree, Marshall are no better than Mesa amps these days but that is still quite a high bar to be the minimum. Though it is a shame for both Mesa and Marshall to be going down in quality lately - especially at the more affordable end.
There aren't enough single-pickup guitars out there - awesome demo!
Love these guys, so honest and genuine!
Personally, I feel like there's a bit of a balance to this. I need to restrict myself in one way, but have options the other. If I'm using one amp, I want my guitar to have a good few options, and I always have 3 massively different types of picks on me. But I don't want to be fiddling with the amp too much aside from turning the reverb/delay on or off.
Inversely, when I'm playing a guitar with just 2 humbuckers, no fancy switches or anything, I feel most creative when I can switch between 2 or 3 amp settings.
To put it simply: in the chain of guitar - effects - amp, you need to strongly limit one half of it while enabling the other half in order so you both have options, but are fundamentally needed to either be using your fingers to get the tone you want, or to be fiddling around with the effects/amp to get what you want.
Alternating these is great, too. I love just spending some time fiddling around with the options I have, then turning all of it off and have it just be me and my guitar. Especially the latter is how you get something worth recording.
ahh, the memories. Best guitar buy was over 10 years ago...."75.00 for a HSS S Type.
Fender FM212. Killer tone in like 10 seconds, yes, The HB. Long story.Lucky enough to have an LP Jr,,Epi. It's awesome.
Now, DS 1 and a F CT BF Semi Clean. Sounds good.
I'm a fan of playing a single-pickup guitar with just a single overdrive into a single-channel amp. You'd be surprised how versatile a single-pickup guitar can be.
Peter, you said “volapyk”…love it!
To me...Less is more. I used to have about the same amount of gear as you guys show on your set. I sold off about 70% of it. Now the gear I still have seems way more dear to me. (Of course I kept the cream of the crop) I'm more creative and I play way more often. Love the show.
For classic rock you can certainly get away with a limited setup, but for more demanding genres with more stark sound contrasts section-to-section like metal there's just no way
I'm finding my happy place is a couple quality but less complicated guitars and amps, but then add the complexity in the pedalboard. Nice blend of both worlds. Your end points are stable fixed variables so much of the tinkering is just with the middle bit.
One of my favorite less is more combos… Is a LP Junior and a Fender Pro Jr… Crank it up and go… It sounds amazing..
Do love these kind of videos. Robert Johnson and Leadbelly used department store acoustics and are still remembered and listened to 90 years later! The less approach does make you look for tome in your guitar settings and the amp volume control.
Which is absolutely indistinguishable from someone using midi to control their tone. The ppl listening don't care how you get the tone you get- they just want to hear good music.
@@rexrathtar3893 That ridiculous man- to try and compare playing with pedals to playing with backup music- really? How ridiculous. Get real man, address my actual argument and I'll address your argument- right now you don't have one. Of course, ppl want to hear live music if that's what they paid for- like I said, pedals don't play for you.
“I think Magnatone are the best amps we sell”..... I’ll take your Twilighter and raise you the Benson Monarch you just sold me, better made and THE best tone I’ve ever heard.
It's humbling and a bit embarrassing how much time and money I spent in the last years to put together a board of 12-ish pedals that can do pretty much anything I want, and now it's very hard to strip it down to the essentials because of 'fomo' if I don't have a particular pedal on there. Definitely more attracted to the 'less' side of things as I believe some restriction leads to more creativity than having all the stuff, which in my case mostly just leads to option paralysis and tweakalitis.
KD custom guitar, Blackstar Artist 30 on the clean channel (yes, the amp has reverb in it), cable, electricity, happyness. Less is more nad it teaches you to play better.
Midway through my last gig the pedal board cut out. I didnt have time to troubleshoot so i just plugged straight into the amp and toggled between my rhythm and lead tones with my volume knob. It was refreshing to not worry about what i needed to switch on for which songs and at which parts.
Love the JVM series. Had the combo and now have the 410H head. Love em! So versitle. I have Machless & Dr Z heads. I keep going back to my Marshall.
Not sure it's fair with Pete using a Magnatone Panoramic Stereo. I have one of those and it is an amazing sounding amp.
Pete’s guitar is messin with my head. A Gibson body with a Tele neck. It’s a sweeet thing!
Hi folks, i think less is more as you do the job and not the effects. In the end the effects bore, You do the tonality and in the end this is more inspiring (although reverb you cannot miss).
I had the JVM 215C at home (2 channel 50 watts single speaker). And honestly it was just too much. Gave it back, got a Blues Junior and get every Gain Tone through pedals and I LOVE it. I think I will never go for a big out there Amp again.
I love the Magnatone Amp ❤
Just when I thought I was done with GAS Andertons flash the Apprentice before my eyes. My fav guitarist Charlie Starr has a 57 LP Jnr as his go-to guitar and adopts the less is more principle. May just have to buy one now 🙄.
That is why you need more than one rig! But I feel that if you just want to lay down some tracks, it is easier to go fast with a simple setup, one pick up, volume tone, one amp with some eq possibilities and that can get some gain...
I think enough is more.
It’s good if you choose your items of the signal chain conscious, if there is a lot of stuff that confuses you or gives you option paralysis shrink that thing. Just use stuff that is essential for you, inspires you and doesn’t get in the way. For me this results in one amp(setting), one guitar, and a sometimes big, sometimes small pedalboard always having at least one reverb and one delay pedal.
l had a guitar teaching studio in the 90's. We bought 4 new fender red knob Princeton Chorus amps. We bought them b/c they will rock, metal, clean, hi z input for acoustic, have reverb and chorus. l still today have two of these amps. One that has been eminence speaker swapped w/ 2 x 10''s. l have a trick l do w/ the chorus where l set the rate on 0 and the depth on 10 and get a stereo spacial effect. When l take this amp out in smaller venues un mic'ed l may or may not bring a wah and l swear people tell me all the time how good the amp sounds next to 20 watt tubes amps dimed throwing ear screeching amounts of middle to cut thru a mix. People l tell this too think lm crazy until they hear the amps.
Hi Lee. This is not a prank. If you want to see how badly some US customers are treated by Matt Wells in your sales service dept
please look into the CreamT order to John James in the US. (BTW yours is my favorite channel on CZcams)
that jam was magnificent
Great idea for a video! I guess we all could benefit from doing this exercise 😅
I think the key for me has been having fewer pieces of gear that I’m REALLY familiar with - 1 guitar, 1 amp and about 8 pedals that I know I can quickly dial in.