Building John Mayer's Pedal Board on a Budget!
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- Опубліковано 16 гру 2019
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Tone City Bad Horse Overdrive - tinyurl.com/umcknbw
Tone City Durple "Danish Pete" Overdrive - tinyurl.com/v83m895
Electro Harmonix Micro Q Tron Filter - tinyurl.com/t89tbww
TC Electronic Sub 'N' Up Mini - tinyurl.com/u9moz3c
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Tourtech Medium Pedal Board - tinyurl.com/uvk3v2y
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Check out The Captain and Danish Pete recreate the iconic tones of John Mayer's pedalboard on a budget! Running through some of his most iconic riffs, the guys break down his tone pedal by pedal to find great, but budget-friendly alternatives for each one! Did they get close?
Let us know your thoughts in the comments below, and which pedals you would swap out?
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You should turn this into a series. "Sound Like [insert artist here] on a Budget". And occasionally without a budget...
For under 1500£ lol
They can use my pedalboard, if they’ll going to do the “Lil Wayne on a Budget” or maybe let me play too. 😊
Whiskeyklone this was a good joke
Shitaki Wasabi Joke? No they really should do it!!
Yeah, I'd love to see what they can come up without busting the bank
Prediction: John Mayer sees this video. John Mayer submits a better “sound like John Mayer” video. John Mayer is chosen by Andertons to appear as the winning “sound like John Mayer” entry. John Mayer.
TheLadsBand4ever 🤯
Then the internet complains that John Mayer sounds NOTHING like John Mayer.
is it the Strat John, or the Silver Sky John!?
@@jwlademann Lol!!!!!!! XDD
John Mayer will sue the two guys for the #gayformayer t-shirt.
The thing I love about this as opposed to the 'Sound Like' videos is that you guys went more in depth in how to dial up the tones. This is something as a guitarist that is really challenging for me. I would love to see more of this.
If “Sounds Like Pedalboards.....” is a new series, can we do David Gilmore on a budget please.
there's a pretty good one on youtube using just Mooer pedals...
SEE. The Keeley Dark Side. all in one pedal .
@@harrytuttle8161 Jam Pedals Pink Flow
They already have in the past
Gilmour
Please do a seperate pedalboard series for artists!!! This is awesome, you have your general sounds like with general amp pedals and guitar, and now this series with a lot more detail for specific pedals.
Rabea and Matt: Are we a joke to you?
and Rabea is very good to explain how to use effects to get the sound!
@@TheCrazymicki To be fair Rabea probably would have just gotten a Boss Katana
@@josephhutchins8 Because the Katana is really the only thing you need to be fair.
Niklas Schmid Maybe the thinking that we Are stupid.
They are not stupid at all they sell very high level but this time they messed up a big dear friend I had a very high expectation but very disappointing and really a pity
One of the things that makes Mayer’s tone Mayer’s tone is the fact that he fingerpicks as well as playing through guitar amps that nobody can possibly afford
The whole envelope filter struggle is why Jerry Garcia had an on board effects loop built into his guitars. That way the effect could always be hitting at the perfect response no matter where the volume knob was
John uses a lot of wah in the "where the light is" concert and uses it a lot for the trio stuff. Sounding like John Mayer is tough cause he has literally used everything AND he's just an absolute god at guitar and I would say that is 50% if not 75% of his tone.
I think in some of his newish music like ‘moving on and getting over’ he uses one too I’m pretty sure, 100% agree
Love this kind of tone forensics. Really informative.
I must confess that I am not a John Mayer fan but this video is great in showing the thought process and method behind building a board and sounds from combinations of pedals. Many thanks
All those lovely guitar wood tones running through all those pedals !
Bought the Spark Mini a couple of years ago, I have it always on and use an MXR EQ pedal with it, so good for achieving good clean (fatter) tones.
Well done lads , you nailed it ! Those tiny pedals make great stocking stuffers too!
I would like to see the "Sound Like" series but with the discussion about the tone and the pedal/amp settings.
Great. Love this!
More pedal builds in the future please?!
Guys enough already , John said he would come to the studio when you saw him at NAMM... He knows you guys , call him !!! He is a really normal kind guy, call his agent or his PR team . He will stop by when in England 🏴, heck he might just hop a plane if you make it fun enough ..... He’s a Big Watch Guy too , commission a one off Andertons / John Mayer Rolex ..... Lol... Be creative he will come ....
Thank you for enlightening me that he uses the octave in the q-from loop! I’m trying that
You have to turn the Q and the gain basically off. And push the pedal with the TS. If you leave the gain up on the q Tron it will clip when it peaks. Leaving both relatively off will prevent that. Also use your middle pickup. You’re welcome.
And use your fingers not a pick to soften the attack.
Finally nailed it when they hooked up the delay. Up till that point I wasn't sure they were pulling it off.
This is really good! More please 💪🏾
The Wah pedal is for sensitivity of the Qtron. It helps to trigger effect if you turn on wah and back off alittle to keep the sound on high end and then leave Wah alone once dialed in.
TC getting some love again from Andertons.
Good Morning and Good Day. Great video, We all appreciate your guitar skills and knowledge,
Definitely love the concept of “Sound Like... pedal board” and I believe he really just uses the wah for his Hendrix covers
That was fun would like to see more like this Thanks
Used blues junior would be the best budget choice IMO
The Wah pedal is definitely used on Fire On The Mountain. Those transitions on the B to A inversions definitely uses the Wah.
The mini tube screamer and the bad horse together was easily a Trio tone. It was super thick and creamy, but also sharp around the edges where it needed to be. The durple was definitely not the answer.
what about a ts + blues crab? (bluesbreaker clone)
Please make this into a series! I this would be great, as is this video
Nice tones at the end there :) Good job boys...
FYI The Boss Octave is a nod to Jerry Garcia, who used the pedal with his Mutron Envelope Filter. So Mayer uses his with his Qtron to replicate some of Jerry’s tones.
Such a subtle advert for the mug with your picture with John Mayer Pete! 😂 0:36
That’s so cool! Thanks for the info!
John Mayer bores me to tears.
Love the Hendrix-y sounding riffs at 11:35-ish, very cool!
It is a hendrix riff! Wait until tomorrow, which mayer covered, and sped up to that speed.
This has got to be a new series!
We are loving all your feedback from this video!
Do you think The Captain & Pete got close to John Mayer's tone? What pedals would you have chosen?
Also, link to Pete's cover of "Rosie" Can be found here: ua-cam.com/video/QPzHgVH9kfU/v-deo.html
*have
I think he was using the auto-wah preset from the Roger Linn Adrenalinn 3 for the recording of trust myself...it was what he used for Bigger Than My Body and Heartbreak Warfare. I have one, and it gets the tone spot on. I think he switched to having the q-tron in his pedal board sometime after the continuum tour.
I need more of that any artist pedal board on a budget!!!
damn this is like pretty damn close to the mayer sounds! thank you!!!! im buying these pedals lol
Haha, budget John Mayer isn't easy! Loving Danish Pete spitting out his tea at the "no way under £1000" comment :)
With the Danish Pete tele, the durple pedal and the dane you are a signature amp from the Danish box set.
Budget...which is why I have to rely on BIAS FX (which I picked up on a big sale). 😄 Great stuff, as always, guys.
I believe John rolled down the tone knob on his strat and either used the neck or the neck and middle pickups.
I also think playing with fingers rather than a pick would get you a little closer to the tones you’re looking for on “I Don’t Trust Myself” and “Rosie”
3:54 - 4:10 Pete was on fire with the "Wah" 🔥🔥🔥
The octave is used for Belief! He uses the polyphonic mode on the OC3 to emphasize the bass notes on the main lick
Their mugs and shirts! Haha we need a proper the Captain and Danish Pete meet JM video
Envelope followers (filters) like the Qtron are very input level dependent. Jerry Garcia was a huge user of envelope filter and had an onboard fx loop built into his Doug Irwin guitars (Wolf, Tiger, and Rosebud) to avoid the inconsistency of trying to balance output level and getting the effect to sound right. If you work your guitar volume a lot, the envelope filter sound will change as you roll it back, until at a given point just fails to work. The onboard fx loop allows for the effect to have a consistent input level and performance while having a master volume on the guitar post fx loop to control the level that hits the next pedal or to the amp. Anyway, you can achieve the same thing with 2 volume pedals.
For the 'I Don't Trust Myself' tone, try rolling off the tone on the neck pickup. Make the Q Tron more subtle and that should be closer.
Captain meets john frusciante 2020 !!
I'd love to see him more than the mayer gayer
@@fraenkiboii they're both absolute legends
Josh Hamilton the One (jf) more than the other in My musicaly opinion!
Frusciante barely leaves his house
That would be sooo sick!!
The key to a great envelope filter /auto wah sound is the blending of the full frequency unfiltered sound with the filtered sound. Your not going to do that by sending and receiving the entire sound through the filter. Bootsy Collins splits the unfiltered Mutron sound pre Mutron to one amp and the filter goes to another amp. With the Qtron plus there is an in and out plus a fx send and return which enables one amp to mix the 2 sounds. The Digitech Synth Wah pedal has a dry output as well as a wet output.
Make this a series please! Would love to see you build Claptons board.
Alright that T-Shirt is something isn't it? 😂
I think it's a cool perfect budget blues rock/pop set up for a new artist that has just started touring 😁👍👍👍
From what I've seen of John using a wah, this past summer tour he had used one pretty regularly during the outro solo for Belief. Other than that, songs that has he has done with the Trio like Good Love is on the way or Wait has the wah used during the solo
And a blistering rendition of All Along the Watchtower which is on youtube
Absolutely series on pedal boards on a budget and pedal boards with no limit.
Void the cost of the power supply and the board in the total price.
Hey @andertons Mayer uses the Q-Tron for dead and co. They have a few songs where Jerry would use that sound. Jerry had an old pedal called a Mu-tron. Look up a Grateful Dead song called “shakedown street”.
Well done guys sounds greet
Well done!
Nice guys! Sounds close enough from this end. Keep the wah and ditch the Qtron is what I’d do. He uses it during a few solos. One thing I’ve never had, but want. Do a flashback versus aquapuss delay. I’m curious if there is any difference at that subtle setting used by Mayer and others.
Damnit I wish I could play like Pete. Jesus. He's so good.
I really felt like some sort of dumble based drive was missing to nail that Belief solo. Also a fuzz for the Hendrix covers?
My JM inspired setup is:
Strat - Polytune mini - EHX Octavix - Mooer Ninety Orange - TS mini - JRAD The Dude - Ibanez Mini Delay -Amp (V40)
You know you're addicted to Andertons, when you play black metal and watch a video on a knockoff John Mayer pedal board.
A-fuckin-men
Hamse Anders I’ve never heard straight black metal that had any good tone, what’s some good stuff to check out?
Seriously. There’s likely a support group for that but maybe only for dark gray metal. Black metal maybe too niche. 😏
@@nostalgiajunkie Good tone is subjective to the genre.
Knock off John Mayer pedalboard inspired by Jerry Garcia too LoL
A lot of catching that qtron filter right is using your fingertips to pick instead of a pick. It can fool the filter with the softer dynamics.
John Mayer ‘s board is actually less snooty than a lot of the pedal boards on the Gear Page as well as a lot of church pedal boards I see on any given weekend.
There are so many little things in this video that have me laughing so hard. You guys are absolutely great.
They’re going to release the Mayer interview on Christmas Day, aren’t they? Aren’t they??
Richard Littlewood it feels like this is the direction we’re headed in, doesn’t it?
YES PLEASE!!!!! YES PLEASE!
#gayformayer #manstalk
@@cruzcontrol1303 #Gayer?
No
loved this video you guys loved it
What I’ve been waiting for
I love that the Durple sounds better. It actually does, but it also conveniently adds to the marketability.
Saw him on this European tour in Copenhagen and it was wah-city that night
I really like the idea of this. Will buy the gear and still sound like a less crappy version of myself
Wah pedal is maybe for the Rosie solo, Moving on and Getting Over, and I think Another Kind of Green. And octave is on the solo of his version of Crossroads and the Belief solo.
Danish Pete really is the comedic relief here
The wah is used in between songs as a filler, in between many songs to slow down the pace like Belief. He also clicks it to the floor to use it as a volume control.
I think he uses a wah in some of his crazy live solos, he certainly did during a long Rosie solo when i saw him on tour this year
Since John has said when hes in town he should come by and have him talk about his sound, pedals, amps, etc
Little Known Fact: Rosie is played with a Miku.
Are you serious? It's impossible to detect sarcasm through this! XD
@@gabopalacios2028 My mother in law told me I have "mastered the art of sarcasm". Lol!
The octave into the Q tron is for Grateful Dead tunes...Jerry used one
Octave = Belief solo, among other songs.
Interesting I’ve always wondered that
Came here to comment that too, that's a great tone on that solo
@sfairraid 13 if it is the Micro Synth, the octave slider is cranked up on the pedal for that killer tone. This video might help us determine: ua-cam.com/video/HOW6yrEmNQo/v-deo.html
wouldn't he use it on covers of Hendrix's Machine Gun?
More vids like this please. I love hearing the why behind the gear choices
The solo in Good Love is On the Way from Where the Light Is DEFINITELY has some wah-wah in it! Maybe its just a jammy feature
Pete's face after they dropped the Tube Screamer. "Oh! THAT'S where all my lows went!"
I think the micro qtron can do the sound. I use it with the LP mode, Q under 9 o clock, and DRIVE almost maxed out
Arrghh! Those patch cables!
Sorry, you just frightened me.
22:40 I've got the feeling the Sub'n Up gives the MicroQTron a better responsiveness. But the lows scream for EQ'ing them out.
Dope. You guys did a great job.
Where's the link to the video of Pete playing Rosie with the silver sky?
Cheers
It would be cool if you ever get John Mayer to be in one of these videos, helping to build his own pedalboard on a budget
Good stuff guys. I love Sound Like series but I feel Rabea and Matt should spend more time on pedals.
I believe the OC-2 is used more with dead & co. You’ll hear it sometimes on Fire on the mountain
John used the Wah quite often on his Trio songs.
Building . . . Pedal boards on a budget would be an awesome series!
No compression pedals?
Yes! This is going to be an awesome video!
Pete mentioned “Fuchs” amps - I work for them and if Andertons doesn’t stock a couple of them, they should. For real. Very much the way you do custom orders from the fender custom shop you should order a couple of ours. Really.
thank you !! Merci
Well Done 👍👍🎶🎶🎸
suggestion for the power supply: buy a USB to 9V converter cable (~10€) + daisy chain cable (around 5€) and use a power bank you probably already have. Makes the board even much smaller and more portable.
I want this t shirt right now !!
The octave pedal is used on Althea, cats under the stars, feel like a stranger, looks like rain and other dead songs. Qtron on estimated prophet, shakedown, Fire on the mountain, etc. Wah pedal is used for pre 1972 dead songs, after 1969 mainly used by “setting it in a single position for the song... not being varied. The phaser on Candyman, waiting for a miracle, some shakedown streets. Delay mainly used on JGB songs. Overdrive, Boss, too many to list. As with everything dead it’s all up for grabs as every song was played differently every time.
Big part of Jerry Garcia’s tone was a fender blackface/silver face preamp into a solid state McIntosh MC2300 solid state audiophile amplifier through JBL K120 until replaced by 3 or usually four vertically stacked JBL e120s. This covers 1970 to 1993.
Also most everything he plays and thus Mayer plays with dead and co is on the middle pickup with a split humbucker used from 1977 on.
Jerry rig reverb.com/item/11837750-jerry-garcia-1977-1978-pedalboard-collection-mutron-mxr-alembic-and-more
1993 on rig images.equipboard.com/uploads/source/image/54425/big_Jerry-new-gear.jpg?v=1501787125
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The best Jerry Garcia player is John kadlecik... this is three different levels of pedal boards/effects used by john. www.johnkmusic.net/gear.html
That Pete kid is going places, guitar-wise. Keep practicing son!
He is pretty good, isn't he? ;)