My Slide Tone
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2024
- I'm on vacation so today I'm doing a mini-episode showing you how I achieve my slide tone. There's many different ways to get a great slide sound and this is my favorite for melodic and ambient tones that can cut through a mix. In the comments let me know what you think of my slide tone and tell me how you achieve your slide sound.
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Josh's Guitar in this episode:
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Gear in this episode:
2:57 JHS Pedals Morning Glory
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4:53 Earthquaker Devices Dispatch Master
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Stones roses - loves spreads.. great slide intro
Oft said but George Harrison is one of the most melodic brilliant slide players
I heard that How He Loves at 5:31-5:34 ;)
Also, this is exactly my slide tone through a Vox.
Knowing how to play slide guitar is always good to have in your arsenal. One of my favorite slide players, Lowell George, had a very unique slide tone. He used a tube amp, set super clean, and had two compressors stacked (one with low sustain and one with high sustain) to get that tone Little Feat was known for.
Mistertbones: I typed Lowell George in my comment as an inspiration but deleted his name because I felt unworthy. My slide playing isn’t great but his tone is the sound in my head when I think about slide. I always thought it was a Dumble cranked. Now I have two slide tones to try out. Thanks!
RIP rocknroll dr
@@owntone5 Ok good. Leave Lowell outta this. Thank you.
Derek Trucks is definitely my favorite slide player. His playing on “Midnight in Harlem” alone is just superb.
Can you grow a mustache please?
(I just want to see if it looks like your eyebrows).
Love you man.
he has one its also invisible. love him tho too cute
hahaha this is gold
People don't know what's wrong when you have no eyebrows, just that something is wrong
Best slide tone. Derek trucks, Gibson SG->Super reverb->turned all the way up!
I wish a channel like yours existed back in the day when I started buying my first pedals, your energy and dedication make every video a must watch!
George Harrison's standard tuning slide is very melodic too. Very underrated from his solo period.
Yes man! I like Robbie Krieger as well, say from 'Moonlight drive' that kinda vibe.
My favorite U2 album getting a shout out... the slide solo from Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own as well as City of Blinding Lights is what made me want to learn slide as well!
Josh just wanted to say thanks for ALL your great videos. I learn a lot from all of them the more I watch them. Nick’s hands were also a superb addition. Nice job Nick!
Hope you’re having a great vacation and looking forward to your return! Also I have an old Ibanez Phase Tone that needs some help...later
Thanks guys, another great video. I feel complete now. Enjoy your time off!
thank you so much! that little tip of throwing the fingers behind the slide to dead that overtone - so helpful
Just thought I´d let you guys know that I´ve been a fan of the channel for a couple of years and have seen lots+lots of videos and loved them all. Keep up the good work, we really appreciate it!! :D
Love it! My preference is raunchy overdriven slide over clean compressed slide, so this is perfect.
Making want to add slide back into the mix! After being a dedicated straight in kind of guy, I’m trying Fuzz, Overdrive, Reverb (outboard), Delay...still figuring it out. Fuzz/Gain/Distortion while riding the guitar volume is magic.
Right now I have a Pollinator or DOD Carcosa running into a Catalinbread DLS (Super Bass mode), into a 5e3 clone. Apartment volumes, so the Deluxe is actually behaving like a great sounding “high” headroom amp. I’m playing a Strat. Guitar volume on ten = woman tone, six/seven = thick lead tones, four/five = amazing “clean” tones. Pollinator gives up those glassy treble tones on the Strat when running that low.
Want to say thank to you Josh, for opening up new worlds of tones!
Great video! I hope you guys are enjoying your vacation! :)
The most underrated pedal of all time..the Earthquaker Dispatch Master. Bought one in 2012 and have loved it ever since!
Thanks Josh, I’m just learning and dabble with a “glass” slide on my Stratocaster. I hope I can get the tones and rhythm you got today!
Super cool slide how-to. Love the insight.
Love your slide tone man! And hope you are having an awesome holiday!
For me, I like to play slide on my 72 tele thinking reissue, usually a trex Alberta and a klone with fender amp reverb...but after listening to this, I am gonna engage my delay to add some depth and atmosphere!
U2 = mega praise. Slide on “bullet the blue sky” makes my guitar pants go crazy. Thanks for the tips
Hearing the live version of Bullet the Blue Sky from Rattle and Hum blew my 11 year old mind and made me take guitar seriously.
Dustin Anderson that movie is killer. I remember hearing edge do this crazy fast rat-tat-tat on his guitar on Bullet the Blue Sky. So good.
I run my guitar (HB's or P-90's) into my Jaques "Bette Noir" or my Boss BD & JHS Bonsai into my Joyo analog delay through a JHS splitter into 2 Roland Blues Cube Hots (one is the EL-84 Mod) using a brass slide and usually open E to emulate Duane Allman. I love Duane's slide playing . Always enjoy your Vlogs Josh !
Once again you’ve helped me understand the choice of pedals, this time for slide. Joe Walsh and Rocky Mountain Way started me off. Then more recently Joey Landreth. I use an old Fender Lead II with ultra sonic stacked humbuckers and a Joey Landreth brass slide. Pedals have been whatever has been on my board at the time and sounds good.
Try this, the earthquaker devices "the warden" into a normal, squashy compressor, into the Klone, into the verb . Sustain and clarity
I started playing slide after a spinal cord injury that left me a quad for about 2 years. 14 years later I'm almost back to "normal" except for my left hand is still stiff but it is getting better. One of the first things I did was build a slide board using a Analog Man Prince of tone into an angry driver. Then I added the Canyon and reverb and it came alive.... Thanks for the idea on covering timing errors. #noopiates
Gran bel video come sempre.. Cheers from Italy 👍🍷
Great sound!
Take more vacations. Totally awesome video. Thank you
Never dawned on me to add delay. Definately going to try it!
I love that tone! I’m rubbish when it comes to slide, but someday I’ll figure it out.
Just what I was looking for
Never got on with conventional slide technique, fingerpicking and lap steel style on the other hand........sooo relaxing sat on the sofa, and as Josh says great for slower more melodic ideas. :)
Josh, really great episode (like always). I’ve been playing guitar a long time but my slide game is kind of weak. My setup has been:
* Nik Huber ‘59 Orca Custom
* Two-Rock head
So we know it’s not a gear problem. All the drive & reverb comes from the amp. After this I want to try P90s and focus on the mid-range...maybe turn down the gain a bit. It sounds great when Josh does it. Thanks for tip!
Also my favorite piece of slide guitar work is in Pinegrove’s Audiotree session, first track “Need 2.” Friggin beautiful.
Cool sounds Josh! My base slide tone includes an Origin Effects Slide Rig Compact pedal. Input and Output controls set to match your rig. Turn the Blend knob above 1 o'clock to get into Lowell George territory. Follow with a Fulltone Deja Vibe Mini MKII set real slow for some syrup. Then add overdrive of choice - TS and/or OCD - or skip the overdrive and enjoy the clean tone. Set reverb to taste. Guitars - Fender Tele or Reverend Sensei Jr. Amp - Fender EC Vibrochamp.
This definitely reminds me of the slide parts of Lightbulb Sun by Steven Wilson. I dig it!
Cool episode. I agree about needing that midrange for slide. I find it much easier to play slide on a flatter neck (I use a 335) than on a more curved one, like on a Strat, and with strings that are heavy-ish (11s, nothing crazy). And I dig the sound humbuckers make as long as they aren't too dark. Their built-in compression really helps with sustain. I love using delay and reverb (and tremolo) for wall-of-sound type backing parts, sliding into chords. For leads I tend to use my Catalinbread Karma Suture - the humbuckers make it drive hard. If I really need more I add the smallsound/bigsound F&@! overdrive. Even without a compressor it sustains for days.
Cool, great work. Favorite slide tones to which I have long aspired are 1. Ry Cooder (particularly on Safe As Milk and the Performance soundtrack), 2. Bill Harkleroad on the tracks Big-Eyed Beans From Venus and Clear Spot. I also love John Fahey's acoustic slide stuff (of course, of course).
That's a good slide tone! I personally like to use a compressor with single coils. I also like using my Les Paul for slide, especially for a higher gain tone - it cuts through the mix very well. Finally, I think a slapback echo fairly loud can really accentuate the pitch movement.
Thank you for always emphasising that a “beautiful” stand alone tone isn’t always the one that cuts through. So give it this nasal character and with a Klon or a Klon-clone and: voilà! Another method is an “always-on” wah-pedal.
There are so many great slide solos. But one that’s in my ears since my teenage years is the the solo of Victims of Love by the Eagles. I think it’s Joe Walsh. Just great.
First comment?
Just wanted to say I love to play my slide with my JHS Double Barrel, both sides on, my JHS panther cub delay and my HOF mini reverb... Amazing sound!!
I’ve always thought of the morning glory as an alternative to the klon centaur, but now I see how different they are. Stacked that way sounds amazing
I never played slide cause I couldn't have a good sound with it, you just led me the way !!
I like Jimmy Pages use of slide and slide harmonies. I love my echoplex with slide and ebow. It is like another instrument. I have been playing guitar for 52 years and I keep learning. I play while watching TV. I cant put it down. Like a good book. I sure enjoy your JHS Pedal show, I hope to afford a couple of your pedals. Keep up the good work Josh!
I'm another person who loves at least some gain out of a Klon circuit. They're a decent clean boost, but not ground breaking IMO. I think the magic of that circuit is the fattening & presence that occurs with the gain/EQ interaction.
For my slide tone, usually my Echoplex preamp (dimed) into my Arion Tubulator with the gain dimed, about 75% on the tone knob and volume to taste.
Thanks for the tips on delay! Firing up my rig now!
Good slide tips - thanks! I would throw a compressor into that mix as well to help even out the sound and add a bit more sustain.
"When the levee breaks"
that Jimmy Page's Slide blows my mind every time
(I know Josh didn't asked for favorite slide song on this video, but i just had the need to comment this) :P
I really like that sound. I’m struggling with slide at the moment. Inspired by the music of Santo and Johnny, I converted a mustang bullet into a lap steel. I have made some nice sounds, but it mostly sounds “experimental”.
I usually play with different slides, metal or copper or glass slides, in order to have many sounds as possible. But, must of the times the only pedal I turn on it's a special double overdrive made for me by The Mad Hatter that allows me to cut through the mix and set two different levels, for different playings. But tonite, I'll be on stage and I'll pair the Morning Glory and the Klone, just to see if it can be a valid alternative to my usual sound. Congratulations!
Good tip on muting the back end of the string. Glass slide is my preferred sound choice too, BTW.
One of my favorite slide guitar works is on U2"s Bullet the Blue Sky.
The solo on Red Rider's Lunatic Fringe is pretty awesome too though I think that was a pedal steel guitar.
Anyways, I always liked slide but was never really good at it especially finding the right tone so this is really helpful.
no rest for the wiked! i think you miss us, lol and your guitar.
hope you have a great vacation bro
I wish you would have commented on your guitar set up. Like, string height, tuning, etc. Thanks for the videos.
Standard setup, nothing fancy. Standard tuning
@@jhspedals Thanks for the reply. That's very interesting. I play dobro and lap (just started 6 months ago) and I've never been very comfortable playing slide in standard tuning and/or regular position. You must have a really nice soft touch on those strings. So happy to have discovered your channel. You've really inspired me to keep learning. I've been playing guitar for 30 years but it's only been in the past year that I've been using pedals. Thanks again.
EBEG#BE + A short scale Silvertone 1448 with light strings HEAVEN! I never play standard any more.
So, how about... Telecaster --> Soul Food --> Blues Driver --> Canyon Delay --> RV-6 --> Blues Junior for a "slide" signal chain?
Nick’s hand through the end of the food screenshots is easily my favorite part of this video 🤷🏼♂️😂
Pink Floyd and cold play are who got me to really try slide!
that is a nice guitar.. styling is sharp.. headstock is the large Fender type which i love.. and it has binding on the body which i like too
I play slide on a national resonator (resorocket wb with a hotplate pickup)...I use a metal tone dome slide and run the signal through a Mesa Tone Burst, Boss Tremelo, MXR Echoplex delay and top it off with a Boss Reverb through a clean Fender Black Face Princeton... love old country blues... still relevant to me... sounds dreamy...
The slide guitar in Bob Seger's Like a Rock is amazing too.
I'm am now a proud owner of the panther cub, pink panther, and the double barrel. I love them so much.
Thanks!
This video just taught me how to play slide.
Sounds slick. Zippy!
Your assistant thing was the best part!
Are you sure that assistant was "Thing" and not "Hans"?
@@valvenator just a guess
I like slide on an acoustic nylon string. I play with a brass thimble from my mother’s sewing kit.
Ben from All Them Witches has a great slide tone on their last album and kexp video. Btw thanks for pointing out those slide parts on that U2 album. I have to say although it is the first piece of music I actually owned and I ve heard it probly like 100 times I never really noticed much sliding going on.
I just love the slide at Shine from Slash's Snakepit, in combination with the wah wah
You beat me to it. Slash has a fee really tasty slide riffs and solos, and Shine is probably my favorite.
Always find it hard to play slide, cause my comfortable finger is the middle one (at least it’s ok for power chords, but unfit for mixing slide and regular solos), and cause I try to follow the melody in my head, but it’s never easy to do it on standard tuning. Love the ep. and the rig.
Edit: loved the food visualizing. Enjoy your vacation!
It might help to try singing the melody while you play - Rory Gallagher did that a ton, it's fun to do, and it does help your ears and fingers to match up.
I love slide! I usually play it on Open G and I use my Epiphone SG with my amp turned all the way up. I get some really great sounds from it that way, but it's too much gain for fretting and stuff, so I just back off the volume on my guitar to play rhythmic stuff and then I just crank it for the solos. No need for reverb when it's that loud! The drumset on the room does that for me!
Great video! Also anyone else notice the morning glory logo looks like an IUD?
Good video, using the finger instead a guitar pick give a great tone too ! :)
And now, slide right back into that beach bed, have a good vacation :)
This has to be the most educational channel around . btw, i took attention to slide hearing the first Rose Tattoo record.
Great slide tone! Im a novice at slide, about 6 months in. I use a glass rockslide. Normally play on a strat, tele, ot prs custom 24. I been favoring open E, but have tried drop D and standard. I have a spark boost pedal for my resonator ive been meaning to try on the electrics.
In the place of your Klon, I use a bit of an off the wall solution to cut through. I use my Sioux Guitars Flanger with the depth frozen. It acts as a cocked wah type effect that you tune to best cut through
I use middle finger, brass slide, 12-52's with a wound 3rd, Les Paul, Keeley Caverns reverb and delay, Strymon Sunset set on Texas mode, and a Chet Atkins/Warren Haynes finger picking technique.
I use a brass slide, usually with a rolled back fuzz face for clean and volume full for dirty! With a deluxe memory man always on with a little gain boost and delay
Props for admitting you like U2. I feel like they’re so unfashionable it’s hard for people to remember how awesome they were and how rad the Edge always is.
Slide solo on Bullet the Blue sky sold me on the idea that slide wasn’t just for blues guitar.
Also the little bit of acoustic slide in the beginning of Running To Stand Still is, although very simple, just what the song needed.
U2 was always hit or miss for me. Mostly miss. Bullet the Blue Sky is fantastic! Killer slide work on the bridge section. I also like a few other tunes by them. But for the most part they don't appeal to me. But, that doesn't make them bad, they're just not a band for me. That is the beauty of music... we can have different likes and dislikes, and it is OK.
I have that guitar strap! Christmas present from my wife. She has awesome taste.
statesboro blues fav slide intro
Lots to think about I've always played acoustic slide more because there's not as much sonic noise that can get in the way but I can see how you use the pedals to cancel out the extra noise thx for the vid
So, its nice to see someone else not use a compressor playing slide, my normal set up is a amp set to really growl when the guitar is at 10 (orange, um vox, super reverb turned up) a boost or drive turned down (a LTD by Barber or a '81 inventions DRV) and a verb delay pedal when I wanna be all spacy (a dispatch master is the best for this, not just because it's made by friends, but because its a one stop shop for that sound)
Basically the drive pedal is there if I'm usong an amp that wont get really growly like a bassman or a mig 50... I use a rock slide brass slide and I use a 335 style/semi hollow boddy guitar... I play alot of slide
very Robert Randolph esq tone, sounds great!
I’m not much of a slide player, but totally going to do that eBow thing when I get a chance...
There's an excellent performance by guitarist Martin Simpson on the Museum of Making Music channel, the first song of the full concert has him playing slide with an E-bow on acoustic guitar, and it is totally haunting and mesmerizing.
Fingers with the size of baseball bats must be very helpful in baseball. Great slide tone btw, have a nice vacation!
I always have a compressor on for sustain... otherwise, pretty similar. Something like a Keeley Super Phat Mod for grit, and whatever is nearby for delay/reverb. But also add harmonic tremolo for warble. The Keeley Vibe o Verb is perfect - harmonic trem only on the reverb trails.
Josh, it warms my heart every time I hear you talk about using Klon-style pedals with the gain up. It’s my favorite gain sound but most people seem to ignore it and use it as a simple boost. I just don’t get it...
i've recently picked up learning lap steel so this has been on my mind for it. thinking i need a good compressor in a similar line for it to really shine.
I find that using a compressor with a Strat really give me that rich, glassy slide tone I crave. Listening to Bonnie Raitt's sound really turned me onto this idea. I use either side of the Double Barrel depending on the application. That into the Keeley 30 ms Double Tracker and I'm in George Harrison heaven.
I love this guy, I don’t care much about the topic but I just want a video with him in it
Listener - Death By Shotgun. the slide is great, but the creative instrumentals are what makes it for me. chains, ratchets, and trash cans. incredible musicianship.
I like a ceramic slide (Mudslide is my go-to), Suhr Koji Comp into some light OD (Mad Professor Royal Blue is the current fave) into my Strymon Flint. Fingerstyle always, much more control, usually on a Les Paul (sometimes a Tele)
I bought a slide in 1999 just to learn the RHCP Scar Tissue solo… and I peaked. I need to get back into it.
btw happy birthday Josh
Slide tone in phx az!. Tele straight into a slightly moded epiphone valve jr. The one knob is just past 12 o'clock. If we need a slight bit more "bite" just add a bit of soulfood to taste.😜
Love the guitar on the back, looks retro, like a Teisco del rey
Every time I watch a slide video I have to watch Gilmour play one of these days off Pulse. BRB
That T-Shirt rocks!!! And you know it! ;)
For slide check out Mike Snowden, Hollowbelly and RL Burnside. Or Hound Dog Taylor, Fred McDowell and JB Hutto...for old school! Cool video!
John Butler Trio’s stuff has great slide parts....on a 12 acoustic guitar going through a Marshall amp...