It's so apparent how much you enjoy soulful playing by the amount of emotion and importance that you put into every single note. I assure you that if you were to put out an instrumental album featuring your playing, it would sell like gold...
Chris, we don't take it for granted what you are showing us here. Thank you so much for your honesty and your beautiful playing. Such a joy listening to you. Best wishes from Germany
Hey Chris, spent a whole week in Wales, Cardiff, Koch, Caerphilly, Canarfon and Conwy castles in 2009. Made a pilgrimage to Bron-Yr-Aur as well as Zep hang out Skinners Arms in Machynlleth. Beautiful country and home of my ancestors. You have amazing feel and touch. Love your videos, keep it up!
Beautiful playing Chris - I love that slow, crystal clear style - It just makes you stop what your doing, shut your mouth and LISTEN. Absolutely beautiful! ! You are one of my UA-cam favorites- always look forward to your new vids! Keep me coming!
Thanks for the video mate. At 6.00 on the tube screamer (not as a distortion). I did an interesting thing with my boy Josh last night at a pub gig - put an Ibanez Tube Screamer (1999 TS9DX) in line from his J45 acoustic / LR Baggs to a Marshall AS50D 50W - 2 speaker / 2 channel. We set the TS on mode (2) tone 0 drive 0 level 10 o'clock to boost and thicken up the acoustic signal before it got to the amp. EQ and reverb are on the amp. Took a bit of tweaking to find a sweet spot, worked well and gave the guitar more bite and lift especially on more intricate stuff like Dont Think Twice (Dylan) which he finger picks building on the last verse to throw in some stronger plucks (ala Clapton). Shows it pays to play with your stuff and be creative. Pedal: goo.gl/ajeyDj Amp: goo.gl/dkVgCe Guitar: goo.gl/fQaoGt Note: he isn't billy big bollocks at all and is inspired by your channel - 18, been playing for 2+ years, bought his own gear working up to this level, full shifts at Waitrose whilst still at school (A levels) - lied to them about his age and status, got a late shift on adult pay 18 hours a week, paid cash for the Gibson :) other bits second hand. goo.gl/zZuicv
The air slider is a brilliant part of guitar rig. I’ve tried lots of amp sims and rig is deffo top choice for me. I have been using the Strymon Deco pedal going into rig to give compression and saturation, sounds amazing.
Thanks Chris for the video. I been waiting a while for you to do this video. Great insight and thanks for sharing. To be honest, your right, not too much of a secret on the settings but you have a great ear to dial in a great sound. Plus a great touch on guitar, tones in the playing !
Thanks for sharing your guitar settings. I’ve not used guitar rig, but on my line 6 pod 2.0 it has a Fender Bassman modulation and it is by far my favourite. It’s just a big clean beautiful sound, with drive set just before it breaks up. I love the spring reverb you used, wow, that was a game changer in its self. All the best!
Thanks for the video. Great work. I tend to use only one or two amps from Guitar Rig. The Tweedman and the Roland JC120 for funk. As you do, I always build up from basic amps and add "pedals" as I would in a real setting. I like the splitter to drive two amps but that's about as complex as it gets. I find it helpful to experiment with basics rather than diving into the presets because I have to strip out so much to get a good sound. For me, it's easier to build up.
I’ve been circling around Komplete 12 for a while, trying to justify the cost... as a guitar & piano player, in need of drum software as well, it’s got a lot to offer, but wasn’t sure... you just made me sure... they should give you something for having just sold their 599 dollar package... ... doesn’t hurt matters that your playing is mesmerizing... well done, Chris
Chris, I'm guessing you've picked up the latest version of Guitar Rig? To my ears it's a vast improvement ui wise and sonically. Raum is built into it and is an awesome ambient reverb if you haven't tried it. The trial version runs for 30 minutes straight forever you just have to restart it. So I guess you could get away with that though saving is disabled the new presets are awesome. Shame NI didn't reply to you as I'd pay you a stash of cash to demo if I was them 💵😉
All looks like magic to me! Sounds glorious though and I really ought to get 'with' this tech stuff! That 100 watt Marshall of mine is a bugger to tame at home so I tend not to use it. Perhaps If I sold one of my precious motorbikes I could get a decent home set up! Hoping you're well, Chris. Love the move to Victory BTW (if indeed that is what it is), excellent way to go.
on top right corner of the guitar rig window, next to cpu mesurement, you have the "HI" icon. Engaging it gives you slightly "better" sound for the lack of a better word.. I'm sure you know it, but just in case someone doesn't... Thank you for showing the skreamer secret!
About your reverb Chris: I think the reason you can't get it out of your amp has more to do with the fact that a guitar amp is not the same as a speaker for listening to music. A guitar amp speaker is a "wrong" speaker in a way, to get the nice sounds for the guitar, and usually it means other things need to be compromised, like the ability for your amp to play back your backing track sounding like you know it from the home studio speakers. Nice room reverb probably falls under that category too. I think that's more the reason, rather than the digital or analog nature of the reverb. Anyway, that's my guess, I could be wrong !
You probably have heard it before ;) but very tasty playing Chris and classy sound. Everybody ask about audio setup, I'd like to ask what do you use for rec. video and then how you put sound and picture together ? Cheers!
The word "but" is everything. Just kidding. This sounds awesome. The Guitar Rig one of the old vst plugin that is not updated yet you made it alive and it sounds so good. It because you do play fantastic. Thank you.
Which studio monitors do you use? And have you bothered to try other, more recent apps? S-Gear or Bias, for example? Your tone always is fantastic, and i keep getting surprised when i find it's GR5 and not like a Brunetti amp or something, but i wonder if you've dismissed the later software for a reason: 'not better?' I'm not sure what else can be had. I just assume the newer tech offers more realism in the form of nuance, but i dunno. It's usually a PIA to directly compare them and it's never really a perfect comparison, so i end up using what feels most comfortable. I'm now switching between Bias and GR5, but TheGearPage seems to love S-Gear..... And gee, NAMM is coming up. What's next?
Funnily enough, I used Bias a little while ago but couldn't get on with it. An incredible tool no doubt, but a little too much tweakability/control, if anything. I love the fact that it's incredibly quick to get a great tone from GR5. The less time I can spend faffing around before I'm recording the better :) And as for studio monitors, all Friday Fretworks stuff is done using a set of Sennheiser HD280 Pros headphones. Relatively inexpensive but they do the job!
Really an amazing sound, what about your pick-up height? Why so far from the strings? And what about your volume pot? I tried the same settings on guitar rig but nothing similar, maybe because my noiseless pick-up on my American Deluxe. Please answer
Hey Chris! Love all your videos and pedal reviews, also your playing as well. but, i just want to recommend you to buy a pedal called rusty drive from ERV pedals, its made from my country, and i think you'll like it! hehe.
Hello Great video! I am using Guitar Rig too, but only for practise, because of bad noise and that noise gate doesn't work well Can you help me with that please?
So right now i have my Fender Strat but i am currently without an amplifier and have been playng without one for over a year now. I have a laptop that i use. It has 4 gigabytes of RAM. Will my computer work as an amplifier if i go buy one of those things to plug my guitar into my computer. I forget what they are called???? That Focusrite thing. Will my laptop have latency once i get the focusrite being that it only has 4 GB of RAM?
Just tried to replicate Chris' settings on my Guitar Rig. I'm running it on a Windows notebook. Not even close to what I'm hearing in the video. It get's better when I add a treble booster and a compressor in front of the amp. Has anyone compared Guitar Rig in Windows vs Apple?
Hey Chris, which do you prefer playing (ie what do you feel more when playing)? The computer sim or the actual amp? Recorded Your best sounds are when you are through the sim. It’s like better than real somehow. If it’s just for you by yourself which would you gravitate towards for the best feels? Would you ever use the sim in a live environment?
In a live situation, real amp all day long. I think that's the limitation of digital - it doesn't 'feel right', at least not in my experience. In regard to recording, I tend to gravitate toward GuitarRig because I'm confident in its setup and know how to get the best out of it without being dependent on different studios/microphones/engineers/pre-amps/consoles etc. There's so many variables that I usually find myself going with what I know. That said, ultimately, it's trying to emulate a real amp so I've no doubt that if I spent adequate time experimenting with microphones/placement etc, I'd get something I was equally happy with :)
I need to get something to turn my laptop into an amplifier. How much does the focusrite 2i2 cost used? And once i get that, is that all i need to play guitar through my laptop? Also my laptop only has 4 GB of RAM. Is that enough memory to not get latency?
@@MindsetMastery75 basicly other than that u need software vst and daw or standalone guitar amp sim, minimum i3 processor and u good to go. 2i2 cost around $100 in my area. vst and daw could be expensive, there is a lot great free vst and daw tho.
Oh, crikey. Don't do that! It'll blow the pedal and amp. Your best bet to try and emulate this (I've never done it myself but it wouldn't harm your gear) is to try and put a Tubescreamer in the amp's effects loop (if it has one) but even that will yield very different results to this, unfortunately.
Two questions: 1. How do u set input gain knob on your focusrite ? Every plugin i try, it reacts different so i have to change gain knobs all the time.. 2. At what sample rate do you record ? Btw magnificent playing, i really enjoyed! :D
1. Varies from guitar to guitar. For the Strat for this particular video, I think it was around 11 o'clock. For humbuckers etc, slightly lower. 2. Whatever Logic is at automatically! haha. In this case, 44.1. 3. Thank you :)
Nice ... I think there's a lot to be said for keeping things simple. It's fun to have a play with things now and then but messing too much seems to alienate a fair few ears.
It's so apparent how much you enjoy soulful playing by the amount of emotion and importance that you put into every single note. I assure you that if you were to put out an instrumental album featuring your playing, it would sell like gold...
Every once in a (rare) while, a musician comes along and makes you go WOW. Chris Buck is certainly one of them.
Why can't I play like him..??...we both use the same color pick !!
Haha! Have you tried a different lead?! 😝
Don't buy a similar Strat! I tried it, it doesn't work either!
@@ChrisBuckGuitar ...in all seriousness...im actually a pretty "top shelf" player ....but the touch that you bring to the table is epic "...cheers 🍷
@@MOONNOXX ....i know right ....
absolutely agree
@@marksc1929
Chris, we don't take it for granted what you are showing us here. Thank you so much for your honesty and your beautiful playing. Such a joy listening to you. Best wishes from Germany
Hey Chris, spent a whole week in Wales, Cardiff, Koch, Caerphilly, Canarfon and Conwy castles in 2009. Made a pilgrimage to Bron-Yr-Aur as well as Zep hang out Skinners Arms in Machynlleth. Beautiful country and home of my ancestors. You have amazing feel and touch. Love your videos, keep it up!
Beautiful playing Chris - I love that slow, crystal clear style - It just makes you stop what your doing, shut your mouth and LISTEN. Absolutely beautiful! ! You are one of my UA-cam favorites- always look forward to your new vids! Keep me coming!
The hands of the man, pure and simple.
Thanks for sharing Chris !! But don’t worry, nobody will sound like you, everything is in your fingers
Sad, but true.
its the Alnicos of your heart and soul that make your instrument sound like it does
Just sold me on Guitar Rig! Great video, I really like the camera angle on this video- makes it easier to see your fretboard while you play.
Thanks for the video mate. At 6.00 on the tube screamer (not as a distortion). I did an interesting thing with my boy Josh last night at a pub gig - put an Ibanez Tube Screamer (1999 TS9DX) in line from his J45 acoustic / LR Baggs to a Marshall AS50D 50W - 2 speaker / 2 channel. We set the TS on mode (2) tone 0 drive 0 level 10 o'clock to boost and thicken up the acoustic signal before it got to the amp. EQ and reverb are on the amp. Took a bit of tweaking to find a sweet spot, worked well and gave the guitar more bite and lift especially on more intricate stuff like Dont Think Twice (Dylan) which he finger picks building on the last verse to throw in some stronger plucks (ala Clapton). Shows it pays to play with your stuff and be creative. Pedal: goo.gl/ajeyDj Amp: goo.gl/dkVgCe Guitar: goo.gl/fQaoGt
Note: he isn't billy big bollocks at all and is inspired by your channel - 18, been playing for 2+ years, bought his own gear working up to this level, full shifts at Waitrose whilst still at school (A levels) - lied to them about his age and status, got a late shift on adult pay 18 hours a week, paid cash for the Gibson :) other bits second hand. goo.gl/zZuicv
Love your guitar tones. Thanks so much for the video, big fan keep it up !!!!
The air slider is a brilliant part of guitar rig. I’ve tried lots of amp sims and rig is deffo top choice for me. I have been using the Strymon Deco pedal going into rig to give compression and saturation, sounds amazing.
Thanks Chris for the video. I been waiting a while for you to do this video. Great insight and thanks for sharing. To be honest, your right, not too much of a secret on the settings but you have a great ear to dial in a great sound. Plus a great touch on guitar, tones in the playing !
Thanks for sharing your guitar settings. I’ve not used guitar rig, but on my line 6 pod 2.0 it has a Fender Bassman modulation and it is by far my favourite. It’s just a big clean beautiful sound, with drive set just before it breaks up. I love the spring reverb you used, wow, that was a game changer in its self. All the best!
*All those minor4th chords sounds damn good with your playing budd.*
Thanks for the video. Great work. I tend to use only one or two amps from Guitar Rig. The Tweedman and the Roland JC120 for funk. As you do, I always build up from basic amps and add "pedals" as I would in a real setting. I like the splitter to drive two amps but that's about as complex as it gets. I find it helpful to experiment with basics rather than diving into the presets because I have to strip out so much to get a good sound. For me, it's easier to build up.
I’ve been circling around Komplete 12 for a while, trying to justify the cost... as a guitar & piano player, in need of drum software as well, it’s got a lot to offer, but wasn’t sure... you just made me sure... they should give you something for having just sold their 599 dollar package...
... doesn’t hurt matters that your playing is mesmerizing... well done, Chris
great sound. Awesome playing and great feel!
Chris, I'm guessing you've picked up the latest version of Guitar Rig? To my ears it's a vast improvement ui wise and sonically. Raum is built into it and is an awesome ambient reverb if you haven't tried it. The trial version runs for 30 minutes straight forever you just have to restart it. So I guess you could get away with that though saving is disabled the new presets are awesome.
Shame NI didn't reply to you as I'd pay you a stash of cash to demo if I was them 💵😉
DING-DING-DING..... What i've been waiting for...... Just got Guitar Rig myself, largely based on your 'incidental advocacy' (ie. wicked playing).
Damn sold me on guitar rig, sounds amazing!
Thanks man, Brazil is watching you S2
Hi Chris, where can I hear a full version of your cover of Desperado, I was hooked by your snippet in this video. Awesome touch and feel. Thank you!
Re-upping this question! Maybe a tab too?
All looks like magic to me! Sounds glorious though and I really ought to get 'with' this tech stuff! That 100 watt Marshall of mine is a bugger to tame at home so I tend not to use it. Perhaps If I sold one of my precious motorbikes I could get a decent home set up! Hoping you're well, Chris. Love the move to Victory BTW (if indeed that is what it is), excellent way to go.
Thaanks!
Ive been waiting for this! Thanks sir! Like your playing and tone!
on top right corner of the guitar rig window, next to cpu mesurement, you have the "HI" icon. Engaging it gives you slightly "better" sound for the lack of a better word.. I'm sure you know it, but just in case someone doesn't... Thank you for showing the skreamer secret!
Well, I never knew that! I'll have to try that. Cheers Jim :)
hi Chris, great work, you are a legend, can you please also talk about the pickups you are using. if i missed that
About your reverb Chris: I think the reason you can't get it out of your amp has more to do with the fact that a guitar amp is not the same as a speaker for listening to music. A guitar amp speaker is a "wrong" speaker in a way, to get the nice sounds for the guitar, and usually it means other things need to be compromised, like the ability for your amp to play back your backing track sounding like you know it from the home studio speakers. Nice room reverb probably falls under that category too.
I think that's more the reason, rather than the digital or analog nature of the reverb. Anyway, that's my guess, I could be wrong !
Just subscribed 👍 From a fellow South Wales boy ( Newport ) 😋
would love a series demonstraiting nice combinations of gear in guitar gir. good job man
Finally! \o/ I was looking forward for watching this for so long! Haha
When I get home, this will be playing for sure!
Awesome 👍🏻
You probably have heard it before ;) but very tasty playing Chris and classy sound.
Everybody ask about audio setup, I'd like to ask what do you use for rec. video and then how you put sound and picture together ? Cheers!
The word "but" is everything. Just kidding. This sounds awesome. The Guitar Rig one of the old vst plugin that is not updated yet you made it alive and it sounds so good. It because you do play fantastic. Thank you.
Damn I did not expect that tone to come from DI. Impressive
Which studio monitors do you use? And have you bothered to try other, more recent apps? S-Gear or Bias, for example? Your tone always is fantastic, and i keep getting surprised when i find it's GR5 and not like a Brunetti amp or something, but i wonder if you've dismissed the later software for a reason: 'not better?' I'm not sure what else can be had. I just assume the newer tech offers more realism in the form of nuance, but i dunno. It's usually a PIA to directly compare them and it's never really a perfect comparison, so i end up using what feels most comfortable. I'm now switching between Bias and GR5, but TheGearPage seems to love S-Gear..... And gee, NAMM is coming up. What's next?
Funnily enough, I used Bias a little while ago but couldn't get on with it. An incredible tool no doubt, but a little too much tweakability/control, if anything. I love the fact that it's incredibly quick to get a great tone from GR5. The less time I can spend faffing around before I'm recording the better :) And as for studio monitors, all Friday Fretworks stuff is done using a set of Sennheiser HD280 Pros headphones. Relatively inexpensive but they do the job!
@@ChrisBuckGuitar Thank you, sir. Very much appreciated.
Inspiring as always, thanks Chris.
Thanks a lot, Chris!!!
Sounds pretty good....thanks mate!!
Really an amazing sound, what about your pick-up height? Why so far from the strings? And what about your volume pot? I tried the same settings on guitar rig but nothing similar, maybe because my noiseless pick-up on my American Deluxe. Please answer
Hey Chris! Love all your videos and pedal reviews, also your playing as well. but, i just want to recommend you to buy a pedal called rusty drive from ERV pedals, its made from my country, and i think you'll like it! hehe.
Great video
Question
Why do you prefer the compressor after the Centura instead of the Compressor before the Centura ?
Great tones.
Hello
Great video!
I am using Guitar Rig too, but only for practise, because of bad noise and that noise gate doesn't work well
Can you help me with that please?
What do you think of this M-Audio AIR 192|4 -
usb interface
you get new subscriber....what's kind of music genre did you play? is it jazz, smooth, or kind oh rock? I really love that's tone....
So right now i have my Fender Strat but i am currently without an amplifier and have been playng without one for over a year now. I have a laptop that i use. It has 4 gigabytes of RAM. Will my computer work as an amplifier if i go buy one of those things to plug my guitar into my computer. I forget what they are called???? That Focusrite thing. Will my laptop have latency once i get the focusrite being that it only has 4 GB of RAM?
One of the best "clean" amp sims I've ever heard. Could you somehow share the ***.ngrr preset?
Cheers man. I'll look into that...
Your tone is in your hands
Thank you good sir! Righteous tones!
My pleasure man :)
Buck And Evans you tried kemper yet? Was shocked at how good the tones were
Lawton Chiles I have, but only briefly in a studio with headphones. Would be intrigued to see what one sounds like in a live scenario 🤔
Buck And Evans yeah not the same as amp in room but pretty darn close
Tried FRFR cabs but sticking with Yamaha 8 reference monitor
Wait. What? That glorious sound I want to emulate isn't coming from a high dollar tube amp?
Was waiting for this one// thank you
Just tried to replicate Chris' settings on my Guitar Rig. I'm running it on a Windows notebook. Not even close to what I'm hearing in the video. It get's better when I add a treble booster and a compressor in front of the amp. Has anyone compared Guitar Rig in Windows vs Apple?
@@AdaptivePhenix Headphones only, but high quality, Audio Technica.
Great Chris. How do you convey the audio quality through video n youtube. What video set-up do you use?
Hey Chris, which do you prefer playing (ie what do you feel more when playing)? The computer sim or the actual amp? Recorded Your best sounds are when you are through the sim. It’s like better than real somehow. If it’s just for you by yourself which would you gravitate towards for the best feels? Would you ever use the sim in a live environment?
In a live situation, real amp all day long. I think that's the limitation of digital - it doesn't 'feel right', at least not in my experience. In regard to recording, I tend to gravitate toward GuitarRig because I'm confident in its setup and know how to get the best out of it without being dependent on different studios/microphones/engineers/pre-amps/consoles etc. There's so many variables that I usually find myself going with what I know. That said, ultimately, it's trying to emulate a real amp so I've no doubt that if I spent adequate time experimenting with microphones/placement etc, I'd get something I was equally happy with :)
3:39 😭😭 can you do a tutorial on that?
Cheers for that Chris, any album news?
Cheers Chad. Nothing yet; still nailing down distribution (fun, fun, fun...). I'll keep you posted :)
I notice than you have zero hum on the single coil positions. What hum-cancelling pickups are you using?
Hey! Your input is in Mono, do you open guitar rig in mono to stereo? Or just mono?
What is your I/O Buffer settings to make it feel real? Mine seems to have a slight delay and I'm not sure what exactly is wrong.
I recognise that opening E motif- because I stole it right underneath you!
Playa For Sure!
I use the Focusrite 2i2 but that's about the only thing we've got in common!! Bargain bit of kit of though
I need to get something to turn my laptop into an amplifier. How much does the focusrite 2i2 cost used? And once i get that, is that all i need to play guitar through my laptop? Also my laptop only has 4 GB of RAM. Is that enough memory to not get latency?
@@MindsetMastery75 basicly other than that u need software vst and daw or standalone guitar amp sim, minimum i3 processor and u good to go. 2i2 cost around $100 in my area. vst and daw could be expensive, there is a lot great free vst and daw tho.
Anyone know if you can place a tube screamer between amp and speaker in real life? Or would it blow up the pedal?
Oh, crikey. Don't do that! It'll blow the pedal and amp. Your best bet to try and emulate this (I've never done it myself but it wouldn't harm your gear) is to try and put a Tubescreamer in the amp's effects loop (if it has one) but even that will yield very different results to this, unfortunately.
@@ChrisBuckGuitar Thanks for the headsup : ) Love your videos.
How are you able to monitor it in DAW without any delay?
I was looking to see what fuzz he uses?
I have just got the 5 pro irig- will this give me those settings?
Two questions:
1. How do u set input gain knob on your focusrite ? Every plugin i try, it reacts different so i have to change gain knobs all the time..
2. At what sample rate do you record ?
Btw magnificent playing, i really enjoyed! :D
1. Varies from guitar to guitar. For the Strat for this particular video, I think it was around 11 o'clock. For humbuckers etc, slightly lower.
2. Whatever Logic is at automatically! haha. In this case, 44.1.
3. Thank you :)
What kind of picks do you use?
What software you use for recording?
Savage!
Hi Chris, I was wondering what guitar pick do you use?
Hey man. Dunlop Tortex 1.14mm 🙂
How are you monitoring your sound? Through the MacBook or monitors out of your focusrite?
Just a set of headphones. Sennheiser something or others. I forget the model name...
Is this guitar rig 5
Nice ... I think there's a lot to be said for keeping things simple. It's fun to have a play with things now and then but messing too much seems to alienate a fair few ears.
What about your volume nobb
take a shot at every "to be honest" he said
butt!
BUT...:))
You’re so good, but please take a test for your allergies.
Stop making me sound so shit!!!..my wife is catching on and may clamp down on my GAS😵😵😵
Porca merda... quanto cazzo sei forte.
You set your tone very very dark for a strat player
What monitors are you using?