LIVE Viewer Comments & Questions 18 March 2024
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Have been a long time viewer, picking up many bad habits from you two noodling in your shed across the pond. I went from a modest pedal board with a single amp, and now I have a Wet/Dry/Wet rig with a packed pedaltrain pro... Thanks showing us all how to build these rigs, and the hours of free knowledge available on your channel. (Amps in rig: silverface Bassman 50 w/1X15 showman tilt cab, Marshall Origin 50 w/Handwired slant 2x12, and a Peavey Delta Blues 1X15)
Also wanted to add, you are my favorite UA-cam subscription of all time. Thanks for all you do!
Thank you Ricky!
"No one is worse off for being encouraged." What a beautiful statement. Another fantastic show, thanks guys
39:50 Violent Femmes are awesome!
On putting the work in: I loved the (I think?) Warren Huart thing about meeting Jeff Beck. Quoth Warren (i think): I can play “because we’ve ended as lovers”. Jeff hands him the guitar he recorded it on, wiggles some knobs, and said, “go on then, show me.” No pressure.
I think the Greer Lightspeed will go down in the pantheon of ‘classic’ effects. I’m yet to try it with anything and it not sound great. Light gain, medium gain, pushing amps… whatever Nick did in that circuit is just amazing.
Great comments about singing! Just start! I was a singer long before I was a decent guitarist. I just sang all the time from when I was 2 years old. I took up guitar at 7 years old to accompany myself. I’ve told folks who are learning guitar to sing along with playing. No matter how bad you think you are, you most likely are better than anyone listening to you. So just sing! And harmony singing is an out of body experience.
I cannot hear We Are The World without doing my best Bob impression. The finest moments in that song were Dylan’s. Delivered like only he could.
I am still waiting for my chance to purchase a Latent Lemon Hurts, but in the meantime I have a harmonic percolator from Zander Circuitry on the way. Would love to hear either or both on an episode of Effector Du Jour.
I saw the Bill Frisell Trio here in Toronto last year. Just absolutely mesmerizing.
Dang I missed this stream too. I was playing guitar.
Any physical affectation which promotes the quality of one's playing will (and does) have an effect on the development of the player's sound. Even if that affectation is more seen than heard by the viewer it supports the artistry you're listening to. An artist will "feel" what is being delivered whether the listener is "put off" or "drawn in" by viewing the expression of it. More often than not such affectation is the result of the quality of the player's concentration in the music.
The thing with Cory Wong is, he holds the pick kinda in reverse.
Normal person will hold pick with the side closer to finger nail down. He holds it with nail side up. So his downpick is more like normal person up pick.
Also his whole arm movement for strumming is very interesting.
Hard to put it in words, better to watch his explanation, very interesting how he achievse that snappy funky sound.
Yup, Epi Riviera P93.. Needed an upgrade to roller saddles due to the Bigsby, Then, Just as much Schwang as any of my higher end guitars. Nothing to complain about any of my Epiphones. LPs, Acoustics, as with all gear, each one has it's own 'thing'. I've stopped thinking of a guitars merit by what's written on the headstock long ago. Setup is everything. Shame so many people stop learning as yes, their guitars are a nightmare. Set up. 👍
I think Waddy Wachtel was in Linda Ronstads band also.
Yes1 Let's use one system and one set of terms (only if numbers cannot suffice & in one language - English). A number system will more clearly indicate relationship to the "one" (read "root") regardless of "frequency" identity.
Guys I need you to put a soft chair between you in which to have that puppy. More screen time for puppy!
Thanks fellas !!
I have had my hands on some very old wood in my life. I’m 65. Was a restoration, finish, carpenter in the city of Philadelphia. Old wood, given the proper condition, is still showing many signs of life. This is an energy that can always surprise you when you get close enough to it. I truly believe that this is why old musical instruments, made of wood, contain the same life energy that I’m talking about here! To me, it’s not magical. It’s an energy that is a latent force from the monsters we call trees. Scientists are only just beginning to understand how complex these creatures are. They take their time. They know how to stick around a whole lot better than us humans do. So next time you pick up a ‘61 Stratocaster, listen to what you feel where the wood meets the skin of your hands. Don’t just feel it, listen - right there in your hands. What do your hands hear? It’s still alive.
JJZ…(°¿.°`)
Love this! Thank you.
my board for Helix is 3 ext fuzz (Fjord (Berserk2, Kvasir) and VS), SuperConducter, Gainchanger pedal and silver Klon Handmade Daydream. Klon works behind any of them. But in FX loop is LVX and Mercury X. Want MAYBE one more Fjord. Many xtra tones there since VS Pandora has boost colored and SC has boosts.
Oh, Mick, by the way - on the music theory thing, it was very helpful to me to learn that the difference between 2 and 9, 4 and 11, 6 and 13, etc., is that the chord is named by the highest interval it encompasses, **including every odd-numbered interval below it.** So if you say "G major 6," that's just G (1, 3, 5) plus a 6. If you say "G13," that's 1-3-5-b7-9-11-13. A guitarist is never gonna play all the notes in that chord, but the "13" designation is basically telling you what scale/mode will work with that chord. A Gmaj6 could be in plenty of keys, but a full G13 outlines a whole 7-note scale, so you know the harmonic FUNCTION & context of the chord, as well as which notes are in it. (In this case, a G13 has all the notes of G mixolydian, the 5 mode, so you see G13 and know that it would conventionally be the 5 chord, meaning the 1 chord is C, meaning you can play in C major over that G13 and sound "right.")
Thanks Michael. I suspect it has already been done, but I would love to understand more about the cognitive processes required for learning and retaining this info. Reductively, we know that certain neuro-diverse conditions require different methods of teaching. For example the way words and text are taught and explained to people with dyslexia. And less specifically, we know that some people have an aptitude for complex patterns and relationships in numbers, shapes and so on - remembering or predicting events and outcomes with superhuman-like skills. And we tend to call that autism!
Similarly, I watch people who understand this stuff like it was the most obvious thing in the world, but //really// struggle with some of the most basic and simple day to day life tasks.
My point: I’d love to be aware of/investigate/help devise some way of decoding the language of music theory in a way that would help people who really don’t get it, get it.
Whenever anyone explains it to me, I imagine some schoolteacher yelling at a dyslexic kid screaming, JUST READ THE WORDS - IT’S NOT HARD.
Ergo, I don’t think I have the cognitive blocks to comprehend it in the way music people explain it.
@@ThatPedalShow Certainly, yeah, I have a very strange brain myself - I'm completely mystified by affective and psycho-physiological things that seem to happen to me for no earthly reason, just totally immobilized for days or weeks by obsessive compulsions, or panic attacks, or psychotic-depressive gusts that blow in from god-knows-where ... but likewise, certain forms of pattern recognition are not just "obvious" to me (i.e., it's not that I'm thinking normally, just faster), they somehow fully appear to me as soon as I start paying attention. Reminds me Sri Ramanujan, the Indian mathematician who could look into incredibly complex mathematical enigmas and simply announce their solutions, but he didn't and couldn't provide proofs or stepwise reasoning, he just saw the answers and described them as "visions sent by Krishna." (Also reminds me of talking to a Wittgenstein scholar, back in my academic days, and learning that Wittgenstein would sometimes spend an entire day on a task like washing a few dishes, because he couldn't do anything if he didn't feel he fully understood it first, and "understand" was a very rigorous notion indeed for old Ludwig.)
(But to relate it to the original context, you're right, an "augmented 5th" is exactly the same thing as a "sharp 5th," and there are multiple terms for it because each term denotes a certain context for that note. Same thing with enharmonics, the way you name notes differently in different keys and chords - it used to drive me insane when the most theory-savvy kid I knew in high school would say "F-flat," and I wanted to scream "THERE IS NO F-FLAT. JUST CALL IT E. IT'S AN E," until I realized that every Western scale has to include all 7 of the letters from A to G. So even though the notes are exactly the same, if you're in C-sharp minor, the minor third is an E ... but if you call it D-flat minor, you have to use "E" on the second note of the scale, E-flat, so then the minor-third has to be F-flat. Really most music theory terminology, beyond a certain point of basic principles, is there because it specifies some nuance of context, it's just that they don't TELL you that, and the details don't really make sense individually until you have some grasp of the totality. It's inconvenient and unintuitive as hell, and really, if you understand the relationships between chords and scales, you already understand most of "theory." Paul McCartney doesn't "know theory" in the academic sense, but Paul McCartney also knows more about writing songs than, I would dare say, anybody else in human history - he knows TONS of theory, he just doesn't know the official terminology.)
Happy Birthday Mick!
My Birthday is next Sunday. 😊
Happy pre birthday Kim!
Mick holding that two rock on his lap like a toddler.
It’s MINE. MINE!
Andrew Gold Trivia: His mother, Marni Nixon (stage name), was the dubbed singing voice of leading actresses on soundtracks. Three such soundtracks were The King and I (Deborah Kerr), West Side Story (Natalie Wood), and My Fair Lady (Audrey Hepburn).
Woah. Cool!
She also recorded two albums in the 80's with Lincoln Mayorga on Reference Recordings. The first one was Gershwin songs and the second one was Kern songs. Excellent sound quality (that is Reference Recordings brand/calling card). Both are still available and worth a listen if you like the music.
I posted during today’s VCQ that I saw Andrew Gold in August 1976 (at an outdoor venue near Detroit). He was the leader of Linda Ronstadt’s band during the Heart Like a Wheel tour. During the show, he performed a terrific short set in which he played “Lonely Boy.” Great chords, infectious melody, for sure. Some 48 years later, I still remember how entertaining AG was.
A great writer. Lonely Boy and Never Let Her Slip Away are wonderful high points. Dave Grohl was going to do an EP about 20 years ago called Solid Gold which would have included Never Let Her Slip away which he described as "one of the most beautifui f**king songs I've ever heard" but..... doesnt seem like it happened. If I ever got to meet Dave, I think thats the first question I'd ask him.
Great show LEG END'S, I read Stewart Copelands book, very funny guy & what a musician. Let alone his father being in the C.I.A and Stewart meeting Kim Philby in Beirut just before he legged it to Russia, in fact there's a picture of Stewart with Philby and his father. What a life, you would live off that story alone for the rest of your life, let alone being in the POLICE!! . I'm not sure Jimmy will do it , but I think David might, why not give him a bell? . PEACE AND LOVE TO EVERYONE ❤❤.
The easy way to understand #5/b6 is to just always call it a tritone. A perfect 5th being 7 frets will never stop confusing me tbh. Whole thing feels like it really wasn't designed for guitar use
Tritone is a #4/b5 interval, right? Three whole tones apart
Like anything else, you can't continue doing what your aren't already. You can't continue what you haven't started. You can't influence the movement of an object which is static. You can't improve what isn't alive. What isn't being done is not alive.
Love your show so much! Can you tell me about Dans SG? Thanks
Hello Ricky. He has two. One is a 61 Les Paul Jr, the other a 62 Les Paul. (Both SG shape obvs). The Jr he’s had forever and is hands down the best guitar at TPS. The 62 is a recent addition. Flippin MAGIC guitar!
1:51:29 what is Dan playing there it's beautiful
Happy belated birthday Mick. In regards to your comments about Ed O'Brien and his playing, have you ever considered getting Nick McCabe on the show?
Yes, Dan and I had a short meet with Nick a few years back. We got the feeling that while he was totally amenable and a lovely guy, doing UA-cam stuff and guitar geeky things is a bit uncomfortable for him. Maybe seeing Johnny and Noel and Ed and Graham do it might make him feel a bit easier about the whole thing. We should reach out again!
Fingers crossed. I've had a couple of online conversations and always found he was very approachable. Lovely guy as well. As a beginner guitarist, your show is invaluable. Thanks
Damn it. I got busy and missed the show. 😢
What do you think about wet/dry rig with deluxe reverb as wet amp and vox ac15 with a greenback as dry
We think yes yes yes all day long! Killer!
Mick and Dan are pretty cool but Rosie is the best!!!
No arguments here! :0)
Mick, curious if you subscribe to my vintage guitar theory - apart from different materials, manufacturing, etc., a guitar is a vibratory modular system, right? You pluck a string, and that makes lots of other parts vibrate, which changes the string behavior + thus the sound ... and when physical materials are subjected to vibration, they gradually shake themselves into the ideal resonant alignment, where they can resonate together w/minimum interference & shifting. So a guitar from 1960 is different, partly, because it's been "played into shape," it's done all the shifting and rattling, and all the bits have had time to lock in; the guitar "knows" how to make sound. And this is borne out, in my personal experience, by the fact that "closet queen" guitars that haven't been played for decades do not feel or sound like guitars of the same model & age that have been PLAYED the whole time.
It works with my sense of logic Michael! But maybe less with some critical thinking. I’ve done a great deal of reading on the various forms of bias and motivated cognition over the years, and have arrived at a position of stuff that I know, and stuff that I don’t know. The latter is basically a probability calculation based on available information… but the minute you choose to believe something to be true rather than actually knowing it to be true, is the moment you step into motivated cognition. So I’ll totally accept it as a plausible explanation that might be true.
Having spent countless hours trying to work it out, I think I’m at a point where I’m willing to accept that there are things we know and things we don’t, circling back on the previous train of thought… What I don’t know is why I ALWAYS prefer a good vintage guitar over a great new one. What I do know is that is that there are forces at play in the universe of which we have literally no understanding. Ergo, I’m happy to leave it at ‘I prefer this guitar and that’s what I’m going to play’. Taken me 35 years to get here. Hhahaahhahaha!
@@ThatPedalShow This is most important of all, yes: not only do we never know ALL of anything, we never even know MOST of anything, and we're making up the parameters of "know" along the way. For me I suppose there's less motivation behind this particular idea, because I *don't* always prefer the vintage guitar, but then trying to figure something out is a motivation in itself ... and after years of avoiding Gibson cos I was leery of the QC and can't afford old ones, I've now been lucky enough to find 2 great Les Pauls and a great SG, and without any prior planning or checking on my part, they're all from 2021! And in side-by-sides, before I knew when they were made, all 3 sound & feel better to me than any specimen of the same Gibson model made any time in the last decade. God knows what 2021 meant, but it appears to be My Year when I need a Gibson ...
I love pedal and tone channels because they know a shit ton about tone. It is so cool.
But I can name a few that do this funny thing where they show off the tone by playing the same riff in every video.
Especially Leon that does axe fx iii videos.
Get Jimmy Page in the room and say, “Now, you interview us.”
🤣
Amp query: After 30 years of playing I’ve never had a tube amp (gasp!). I’m a Fender clean guy but I hear things about Fenders that make me hesitant. Never heard a bad thing about a Vox Ac15 though. Thoughts on AC15 C1 (12" Celestion G12M Greenback Speaker) vs C1X (12" Celestion Alnico Blue Speaker)? I assume AC30 is too much for home use.
Millions of people use Fender tube amps, us included. Likewise Vox tube amps! AC15 is a great thing. We have a modern reissue and it’s a great amp. Ours has a greenback, but Dan prefers the Blue… but not enough to go to the trouble of swapping it out. Read into that what you will.
As for AC30 being too much for home… depends on your home! Most people can’t use em at gigs any more, or AC15s cranked for that matter, again, read into that what you will!
Thanks and I didn't mean to disparage Fenders, of course they’re good, I’ve just heard of fires and build quality issues etc. For this house an AC30 would be like having a Ferrari and only ever driving it in town - couldn’t crank it up. The C1X may have my eye but I’ll try some in shopped and see. Anyway I’m on the case, maybe I’ll join tube amp master race soon. 😉
@@astewart9410for my 2 pence, I've just got a Vox AC10 as my first valve amp. Pleeeenty loud enough and giggable too
@@johnseaton Awesome thanks!
Is it possible to emulate the cali 76 using multiple compressors (notanotaklon style)
Solid Mule Variations call haha
What’s he building in there?
Maybe my 76 strat sounds so much better than the other much hated 70ies fenders because its not the 70ies anymore and its played in and has been loved (at least by me) for decade(s)
Ha! maybe! I think a lot of people have changed their mind about ‘all’ 70s Fenders being one thing. They most certainly were not. And we reckon the bulk of the survivors are the peachy ones!
I have to say tho, it has been modded to HSS config. I had it put back to SSS with the bare knuckle Irish tour bridge pickup. Also had a refret wit tall frets and a fixed term (aftermarket brass saddles) but hey... It's more than the sum of its parts I guess... If I ever manage to come to an experience day, I will show you @@ThatPedalShow
Dan - Robocop, Mick - Porky's, is that the ultimate wet/dry setup yet?! 😂
That Pedal Dog
can you play heavy metal with a Peavy rockstat
You can do metal on any Peavey. Peavey IS metal. :0)
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What's 'Snipers Alley'?
Age 50-65 when all your friends (and maybe you) start getting heart disease, cancer, strokes and tumors. If you make it through, you’re winning!
@@ThatPedalShow thanks mick/Dan... I'm 2 years dodging the flak.. i stood up too quick last week though. Had to put my hand on the back of the sofa for a few seconds.. Dodged a bullet it seems... AND... I just , right now, a second ago celebrated my old age with clicking BUY on a Hot Rod Deluxe!!! Spend it before it gets traded in for a coffin i guess.
Rock on peter
@@GROCK619 Well my last blast of inspiration nearly took the windows out. JTM45 2x12.
My Word.!
I had to drop the wattage for the sake of the crockery.
Any excuse for a beveraged auction.
Can heay meatal be played on a peavy rockstar
I´m here for the pedal show, not a dog show...
Dog dissers not welcome here chum. Bark off.
alright, barked off and unsubscribed...@@ThatPedalShow
See ya !!!
😂 brilliant response
But they can show you how to walk your amp on a leach, loud and assertive !! 😉
I hate to gripe after all these years of entertaining, informative, and uninterrupted content, but now I get smashed in the eardrums with ads for nonsense I'll never buy right in the middle of listening to our beloved TPS leg-ends. Something smelly is afoot...
Get youtube premium mate, it is awesome
We have to have the ads to stay afloat. It’s as simple as that. Way less than 1 per cent of people who watch buy merch from us, which is the primary way the show gets income. If that figure was 2 or 3 per cent, we could turn ALL the other income streams off. As it is, the ads have to stay. Just for the record, we do not and have never accepted any payment to place product or feature product. Cheers!
That's fair, enough. It's your content and you're 100% within your right to make a living from it. Frankly, I was more worried that the algorithm overlords foisted that upon you.
Too much bloody perspective.
Snobs...
This should be the more boring UA-cam show ever. Two blokes, mainly (albeit enlightened with sound gender politics) talking about guitars, etc... So why is it so captivating? Talk about quiet chemistry...
It’s my favorite guitaristology show, universal, loud and schwangy indeed!!!