This is better than 90% of the guitar videos on UA-cam - and the dude doesn’t at all even seem like he intended to make this. Seems like he’s just chillin talking about guitar shit and someone took out their phone and started filming. Love it.
You’re spot on w your assessment! I’m in 1000000% agreement w you! The dude knows his shit,can play w feel, and isn’t pretentious or talking ‘down’ to you.He’s REAL!. There’s so many a-holes out there.Guys like R hett Sh ule, who I personally don’t know, and could be a good guy.But for me, being a studio keyboard occasional guitar, multi instrumentalist player my whole career, guys like the one I mentioned just sometimes bother me!This guy is f-in awesome. You can tell he’s doing it for the right reasons, not to sell merch or get the most subscribers, which will possibly get him the most subs! I subscribed immediately! Thanks for your take on it!
Stumbled onto this whilst looking through UA-cam and, after reading some of the initial comments I am in agreement, best telecaster playing I've watched. Your range of playing is amazing , I could listen to you all day.
I saw a guitar documentary featuring Andy Summers demonstrating his latest effects rack and foot switcher. The last thing he said was, "basically we use all this stuff to make the guitar sound like it did before we had all this stuff".
@@BkBk-gy6vr Is that all you could think of to say? FFS. Get a glass that's half FULL, pal, not half empty. As someone once said, say nothing if you have nothing positive to say. Night night.
"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations." -Orson Welles The beauty of guitar music is in its limitations. When you are only give a single volume and tone, you will try to maximize the different types of tones. Then you add in the pickup selector. Then you add in the amp EQ. There are so many tonal variations can be achieved with just simple controls, but we live in a modern digital age where we have everything accessible at our fingers with modeling amps and digital amp sims, but there is a beauty in the limitations and it truly breeds creativity and innovation.
This has been known since the late-80s, when the supposedly "advanced" guitars like Steinberger with active pickups plugged into rack$ of outboard FX and MIDI sounded worse than an old Gibson or Fender plugged straight into an old amp for 90+% of anything you'd ever want to record. It's kinda how we got bands like the Black Crows and an entire genre like grunge in the first place.
I have felt like this for many many many years...Countless examples in music and film, just because the limits are lifted does not mean you will create something better.
An even more important aspect of all this though is that with easy software technology for doing anything and everything at a few clicks, this allows businesses to completely control everything that's produced. A corporation no longer needs to bother hiring actual artists and craftspeople to make music or films or whatever else, they can just produce anything from software templates based on whatever the internet data dictates will sell best (which is of course always repeating old things, hence why everything's gone stale) and they can just hire whoever to be a brand image for them and tell them what to do and write their stuff for them etc etc.
Great video! A mentor told me once, “Tone is in the hands”. There’s truth to that. The guitar and amp won’t do all the work. He is one with the guitar. So the guitar gives all it has to offer.
With a bit different amp he could have gone a LOT further than this with minimal effort. No channel switching or EQ needed. One amp-footswitch and one boost pedal does it. With an amp's switchable reverb (preferably an amp with drippy reverb :) and a single boost pedal to keep some headroom, he can extend the range into a (thin but serviceable) Jazz timbre, a Surf, Spy and Spaghetti Western timbre, and Ska & reggae skank rhythms .
I used to hate telecasters until I bought one ,and now I absolutely love them and now I have 3 . A very nice sounding versatile guitar . Fantastic tones sounds great well done .
The problem is so many YT demos of boost and OD are using teles and noodling generic 'blues licks' with no other meaningful context, so when demo'ing the EQ and gain ranges the relatively shrill, thin and 'spiky' timbre of a tele is ear-fatiguing faster than other guitars. Particularly when playing generic blues licks _"oooh yeah, baby....Just cant wait for yet another 3-string-mute-to-wholestep-bend to kick off another"solo" "_ fucking hell, lol
Me too. This is such a common story; I didn't get them at all until I noticed that so many of favourite artists and songs used them. Now mine has pride of place!
It’s a skill a lot of players never figure out. What tone complements your material and playing style, and how to actually use those knobs and switches. He demonstrated it perfectly.
How it should be done ... like Jaco said: "It's all the hands." Someone asked Wilko Johnson what pedals he used, Wilko said: "I'm a guitarist, not a fucking cyclist."
@@elizabethanderson2968but no one says pedals makes you good at playing, Hendrix didn’t used an octavia or an univibe because it made him play better he used those in order to get the space psychedelic factor he wanted to impulse in his songs. People like you won’t like that I’m sure but Les Rallizes Dénudés shows what a few maxed out pedals do and it’s incredible even more for the 70s
Nice … this is why I love my Telecaster. I saw Petty playing one when I was 14 & thought it looked cool, and once I finally got one I understood why so many people use them.
I went pedal buying crazy during Covid boredom. Almost all of them have ended up for sale on reverb. I am now down to 3 or 4 including a tuner. I am trying back to practicing everyday with just the guitar and amp and it’s making me better at understanding the relationship between guitar volume, tone and dynamics and the pre-amp/power amp sections of my amp. Im not a great player, but the fewer pedals I use the better I begin to understand what’s really happening here.
@@Anjohl I like Reverb. My amp has it built in, so no need for a reverb pedal. 50% of my friends like Delay, and 25% of those use both reverb and delay. Am I missing anything by not using both reverb and delay?
I went through six years on the road in the 60s with my Tele and it could do anything, it never broke down and with a rosewood board the tonal possibilities were vast. You have just shown me the ones I didn't manage. What a vid display of our fav. guitar Thank You
I used to own one years ago, and sold it. Just got another one since I've gotten older, and finally realized how amazing they are - and just what they can do. Didn't realize how much I missed a Tele.
Yep. I ditched pedal rigs and even solid-body guitars long ago. I found when I stopped busying myself tweaking gear on stage, my tips shot way up, because I stay connected to the audience instead of the rig. Nice picking control allows you to sound like two players instead of one. I think guys are waaaaay to busy with gear. You start actually playing more sophisticated when you're left with only the instrument Great video post!
Yeah, I agree…tele is the Swiss Army knife of guitars…first thing I grab when I sit down…. You get major cred for being able to throw down bits in so many different styles, thanks for posting
I mean, I get all you are doing on the guitar, and of course all of it works and are great resources, but come on! You got the Midas touch! It is your hands and fingers doing all the work! You are an amazing player! New favorite channel found!
Many guitarists never investigate those partial volume sounds - I use them on all my guitars and in fact IMO I think the best tones lie there. I have the same tele as you do - what a tone machine!
What a great demo by a very cable guitarist. Those wishing to learn from this note how his technique changed to get the most out of guitar sound. Amazing demo of technique here as well as guitar sounds. 👍
Awesome job, but don’t forget surf rock! Bridge pickup, full tone, little breakup, tremolo picking all the way back by the string saddles. Where we pick the strings changes the tone immensely.
I think there’s a time and place for pedals too but this is a great example that you don’t really need them. Also a reminder how simple but versatile a telecaster is. Easy to pick up, hard to master. Why I love teles, and Im not nearly as good as a player
This is worth me clicking subscribe. Great video. Its amazing how many guitarists just leave their volume & tone knobs on 10 and never learn to experiment with all the different sounds they can get just by adjusting volume & tone. I dont mind using effects but adjusting volume & tone on the guitar is a must and a lost art form
I have been playing Fenders for forty odd years. Maple fretboards, though a couple rosewood and ebony, too. they give you so many sounds., the hiss, the harmonics, the squeals, no pedals needed. Love this, because I've got a ' 79 Custom HSS, and a '85 Mexicano, but i just got an Player II Tele that I can't put down. Fenders play themselves.
GREAT tones outta that Telecaster! The main reason I use a pedalboard instead of an amp is because you have to turn tube-amps up to ear-bleed level to get the over-driven tones on display here. That's not always cool, depending on the venue. Tube amps are also heavy and require mains power, and I like to busk. Finally, I work with a looper and delay pedals, again, something that's not going to be present / switchable while playing live on most tube amps. I sing too, so I need a PA as well. My current set-up uses a small battery powered pedal board with a Circle Looper / Drum machine by donner, a digital delay pedal with tap tempo, two cheap analog over-drive pre-amp pedals stacked for various gain staging, tones, run into a Mooer Radar cab sim. It's a stereo rig, and I output the signal to one or two Bose S1 PA speakers which are also battery powered. I plug my vocal mic directly into the BOSE S-1 PA, or into my Zoom H-6 recorder/mixer. My main axe is an acoustic electric guitar with a magnetic soundhole pick-up, so I don't have nobs to control tone and volume at the guitar like Glen demonstrates here. I'm quite happy with the tones I'm able to get at LOW volume levels with a compact set-up. The Bose S-1 gets plenty loud if I lean on it, trust me - and it's clear as a bell. I used to cart around a Mesa Rectoverb 25, but again, it was just TOO LOUD for most settings - at least without pedals in front of it. Heavy too. Trade off is complexity of course, and all the issues that flow from gigging with a more complex set-up. I also have a Boss Katana. Nice solid state amp that you don't have to turn up insanely loud to get great tones, and it's got plenty of on-board effects. Mains powered though, and there's no input for a dynamic mic / vocals which the Bose has and does brilliantly, so the Katana sits in storage as a back-up right now.
Great stuff - I've been primarily an acoustic player for many moons, but recently acquired both an American Series and a Thinline Tele. This is certainly going to be helpful...
Amazing how many different tones you can get from a Telecaster! Great job Glen, demonstrating how to tweak your Tele to make your sound fit any style of music! Love that Telecaster you're playing, by the way! 😊👍👍🎸🎶✨
Good demo. I've played many gigs with a Telecaster, one lead, and the overdrive channel of a Fender BDR, using just the pickups, volume and tone controls. For the faux wah effect, I hammer on rather than picking.
Great post Steve! But it sparks a question: Why exactly did avoiding pedals improve your playing "a lot"? Can you identify the reasons? That would be really helpful to many of us guitarists
@@cNicely Well as I started out with all them gadgets A active US Charvel guitar Roland effects amp a Zoom and one multi pedal I had that brown sound pretty quick thinking of me as an genius a God! No I was not as gadgets will make 75%. I had turned to an keyboardist as clever in finding and combining spectacular sounds! Yeah I played that guitar with an table spoon and other crazy stunts and it sounded as good whatever I did to it. As I dicovered it I started to scale down and as all the sudden that I wanned to play all kind of music now it was up to skill and boy that I lacked skill. Effects are as much about what you can get from just one guitar and one amp or by some anomalies as that Strat i once had where I could do the U2/Edge all day long. Effects will ensure that it is always there and as easily creating an lazy player.
Whoa...brilliant rundown of the many virtues of the Tele! The cool thing is, with the amp setup properly as you do here, one can do the same thing with a Stratocaster, or a Les Paul, etc., etc.--even one pickup Juniors can exhibit a great range of tones by manipulating the volume & tone, plus where & how you pick--it's all about letting them _breathe_ a bit!
Very informative. Thank you. It’s easy to forget just how many great sounds can be made with the most basic of equipment AND imagination. Once again, thank you.
I'm an extreme metal guy who haven't even touched a 6 string for many years now, (I own a few 7 strings; I love 6 strings too of course, it's just I didn't need one for some time now) but even for me this was beyond impressive. All the tones are very nice, quite on point and Glen plays very well too.
Glenn this sounds great. Seems like it’s really important to get the amp set right to underpin the guitar tones. Maybe a video on how you approach that??
@@robertph1787 59 custom shop those pickups are hand wound by one of feders pickup winders in the fifties they got her out of retirement for a limited run
Very cool. I'm embarrassed by how late in life I started using the knobs, or as Joe Bonamassa calls them, "the forgotten pedals" the wah trick is really fun.
@@benallmark9671 it's a volume knob "trick". Typical wah is a resonant band-pass filter. Most guitar "tone" knobs are a non-resonant lowpass, so they wont get a "quack-a-waka" sound.
Great sounds! Would have been nice if you would have describe how to set your amp at the beginning. It's a shame that many people seem to set their guitar volume and tone knows to 10 and never change them. So much flexibility built into the guitar controls.
I still have a pedal board, but I'm working from the mantra "less is more". By using the knobs on the guitar, the knobs on the amp and the pedals carefully basically every sound can be made. Tom Bukovac recently showed how he uses and EQ pedal to achieve basically all the conceivable tones. All of this taken together is the cure for GAS.
Brilliant playing, mate!!! As much as I love my Strats, I've been playing a lot of Tele. I made a "Barncaster" - took a Squier, burned the body, roasted the neck and gutted it with new pickups and wires/pots, but I also threw in a humbucker in the middle, like a Nashville Tele, but the 3 way is neck, hum, and bridge (all separate).....it's a Tele on steroids!!!!
This is one of the best guitar videos I’ve ever seen. All you really need is one amp, one guitar - and the patience getting know the infinite combinations you can have. Sure, you can get a few pedals to add some flavor, but that’s just icing on the cake - if you have a tasty cake, you can forget the icing. Bravo, Glen! (Also, not that it matters, but what amp are you using?)
I'll have to try this with my telecaster and cheap amp. :) Thanks for the tips. The funny thing is that someone could buy a cheap tele, amp, and have a lot left over for pedals for the cost of a custom shop tele.
Man appears out of nowhere and drops probably the best Telecaster showcase out of whole UA-cam's. Not a single second wasted.
Glen is a great guitarist. Ive said this many times; he has one hell of a right hand plus he's super well rounded. Consummate musician
He gives lessons also...
This is better than 90% of the guitar videos on UA-cam - and the dude doesn’t at all even seem like he intended to make this. Seems like he’s just chillin talking about guitar shit and someone took out their phone and started filming. Love it.
You’re spot on w your assessment! I’m in 1000000% agreement w you! The dude knows his shit,can play w feel, and isn’t pretentious or talking ‘down’ to you.He’s REAL!. There’s so many a-holes out there.Guys like R hett Sh ule, who I personally don’t know, and could be a good guy.But for me, being a studio keyboard occasional guitar, multi instrumentalist player my whole career, guys like the one I mentioned just sometimes bother me!This guy is f-in awesome. You can tell he’s doing it for the right reasons, not to sell merch or get the most subscribers, which will possibly get him the most subs! I subscribed immediately!
Thanks for your take on it!
Yeah exactly. No tedious upbeat intro, hard sell etc etc
Stumbled onto this whilst looking through UA-cam and, after reading some of the initial comments I am in agreement, best telecaster playing I've watched.
Your range of playing is amazing , I could listen to you all day.
I don’t hear anything special.
@@BkBk-gy6vr because you still have your head into your own arse.
I saw a guitar documentary featuring Andy Summers demonstrating his latest effects rack and foot switcher. The last thing he said was, "basically we use all this stuff to make the guitar sound like it did before we had all this stuff".
chorus and delay, flange?,…..?
@@bonsummers2657 Don't know. Just quoting Andy. The show was called Equinox, and I believe it was produced in the UK.
@@donne9768 twang bang keraaang a history of the electric guitar!
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Very funny coming from someone with his sound!
Best Telecaster demo. Fender should pay you.
Why I don’t hear anything special.
@@BkBk-gy6vr That's because you have terrible ears ! Get them checked soon
😂😂
@@BkBk-gy6vr Is that all you could think of to say? FFS. Get a glass that's half FULL, pal, not half empty. As someone once said, say nothing if you have nothing positive to say. Night night.
@@percythrower9193 I don’t listen to what someone once said that’s for fools.
This is what's called 'Old School' use of volume and tone controls on an electric guitar, Glen demonstrates this really well.....No pedal required
This man has fully connected hands to his trained ears. Great playing joy to listen 👌👍
Thanks
"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations." -Orson Welles
The beauty of guitar music is in its limitations. When you are only give a single volume and tone, you will try to maximize the different types of tones. Then you add in the pickup selector. Then you add in the amp EQ. There are so many tonal variations can be achieved with just simple controls, but we live in a modern digital age where we have everything accessible at our fingers with modeling amps and digital amp sims, but there is a beauty in the limitations and it truly breeds creativity and innovation.
Absolutely !
This has been known since the late-80s, when the supposedly "advanced" guitars like Steinberger with active pickups plugged into rack$ of outboard FX and MIDI sounded worse than an old Gibson or Fender plugged straight into an old amp for 90+% of anything you'd ever want to record.
It's kinda how we got bands like the Black Crows and an entire genre like grunge in the first place.
Everything you said.
I have felt like this for many many many years...Countless examples in music and film, just because the limits are lifted does not mean you will create something better.
An even more important aspect of all this though is that with easy software technology for doing anything and everything at a few clicks, this allows businesses to completely control everything that's produced. A corporation no longer needs to bother hiring actual artists and craftspeople to make music or films or whatever else, they can just produce anything from software templates based on whatever the internet data dictates will sell best (which is of course always repeating old things, hence why everything's gone stale) and they can just hire whoever to be a brand image for them and tell them what to do and write their stuff for them etc etc.
Christ that Hendrix tone is spot on 👌
This "geeza" is the ONLY DADDY THAT'LL WALK THE LINE. All killer, no filler. Just mad skillz.
Total Tele-slingin' badass.
Great video! A mentor told me once, “Tone is in the hands”. There’s truth to that. The guitar and amp won’t do all the work. He is one with the guitar. So the guitar gives all it has to offer.
Truth to that, check out Roy Buchanan! Telecaster, cord, Fender Vibroverb, period!
With a bit different amp he could have gone a LOT further than this with minimal effort. No channel switching or EQ needed.
One amp-footswitch and one boost pedal does it.
With an amp's switchable reverb (preferably an amp with drippy reverb :) and a single boost pedal to keep some headroom, he can extend the range into a (thin but serviceable) Jazz timbre, a Surf, Spy and Spaghetti Western timbre, and Ska & reggae skank rhythms .
Tone is in the brain, but stereo echo and flanger are in the brain high on acid
I used to hate telecasters until I bought one ,and now I absolutely love them and now I have 3 . A very nice sounding versatile guitar . Fantastic tones sounds great well done .
Cheers
Happened to me. Now they are my main guitars.
I tell people I'm a recovering Les Pauler.
The problem is so many YT demos of boost and OD are using teles and noodling generic 'blues licks' with no other meaningful context,
so when demo'ing the EQ and gain ranges the relatively shrill, thin and 'spiky' timbre of a tele is ear-fatiguing faster than other guitars. Particularly when playing generic blues licks
_"oooh yeah, baby....Just cant wait for yet another 3-string-mute-to-wholestep-bend to kick off another"solo" "_ fucking hell, lol
Me too. This is such a common story; I didn't get them at all until I noticed that so many of favourite artists and songs used them. Now mine has pride of place!
I still hate Telies, I use a Danelectro DE56-D instead
It’s a skill a lot of players never figure out. What tone complements your material and playing style, and how to actually use those knobs and switches. He demonstrated it perfectly.
How it should be done ... like Jaco said: "It's all the hands." Someone asked Wilko Johnson what pedals he used, Wilko said: "I'm a guitarist, not a fucking cyclist."
Jaco is extremely respectable and I’m not sure where that quote is from but he did use loopers, delays, reverbs, and chorus often.
@@pjsawyerthomas The quote is from Jaco himself. he did use tricks when needed, but mainly it was all in his hands
@@elizabethanderson2968but no one says pedals makes you good at playing, Hendrix didn’t used an octavia or an univibe because it made him play better he used those in order to get the space psychedelic factor he wanted to impulse in his songs. People like you won’t like that I’m sure but Les Rallizes Dénudés shows what a few maxed out pedals do and it’s incredible even more for the 70s
@@omnirath Its a subjective thing
@@elizabethanderson2968 yeah but there’s no way it should be done, effects are tools, the saturation of a bassman too
Amazing what variety of tones, even without touching Amp buttons, only guitar selectors, great presentation 👏👏👍
This video is up there with Joe Bonamassa's Les Paul tone lesson for showing just how much variety you can get out of just volume and tone knobs.
Nice … this is why I love my Telecaster.
I saw Petty playing one when I was 14 & thought it looked cool, and once I finally got one I understood why so many people use them.
I went pedal buying crazy during Covid boredom. Almost all of them have ended up for sale on reverb. I am now down to 3 or 4 including a tuner. I am trying back to practicing everyday with just the guitar and amp and it’s making me better at understanding the relationship between guitar volume, tone and dynamics and the pre-amp/power amp sections of my amp. Im not a great player, but the fewer pedals I use the better I begin to understand what’s really happening here.
I’m 62 been playing since 15 I’ve never had a pedal. Used overdrive on amp and reverb . I know I guy who couldn’t play a gig because he lost a pedal
All I use is a reverb pedal and a drive, if my amp doesn't have those built in.
Agreed
@@Anjohl I like Reverb. My amp has it built in, so no need for a reverb pedal.
50% of my friends like Delay, and 25% of those use both reverb and delay. Am I missing anything by not using both reverb and delay?
@@cNicely Just colors the sound more, personal preference on that
Masterfully demonstrated. This video should be required viewing for electric guitarists.
I went through six years on the road in the 60s with my Tele and it could do anything, it never broke down and with a rosewood board the tonal possibilities were vast. You have just shown me the ones I didn't manage. What a vid display of our fav. guitar Thank You
I used to own one years ago, and sold it. Just got another one since I've gotten older, and finally realized how amazing they are - and just what they can do. Didn't realize how much I missed a Tele.
Just caught this. I'm usually late to church, work and school so pardon my tardy arrival. Yeah, best use of a tele I've seen. Thank you, Glen.
Yep. I ditched pedal rigs and even solid-body guitars long ago. I found when I stopped busying myself tweaking gear on stage, my tips shot way up, because I stay connected to the audience instead of the rig. Nice picking control allows you to sound like two players instead of one. I think guys are waaaaay to busy with gear. You start actually playing more sophisticated when you're left with only the instrument
Great video post!
Best tele I’ve watched all night.
Brilliant display of versatility!
Yeah, I agree…tele is the Swiss Army knife of guitars…first thing I grab when I sit down….
You get major cred for being able to throw down bits in so many different styles, thanks for posting
I mean, I get all you are doing on the guitar, and of course all of it works and are great resources, but come on! You got the Midas touch! It is your hands and fingers doing all the work! You are an amazing player! New favorite channel found!
This video is the best Telecaster demo on UA-cam probably
Many guitarists never investigate those partial volume sounds - I use them on all my guitars and in fact IMO I think the best tones lie there. I have the same tele as you do - what a tone machine!
What a great demo by a very cable guitarist. Those wishing to learn from this note how his technique changed to get the most out of guitar sound. Amazing demo of technique here as well as guitar sounds. 👍
He got all these great examples for the different sounds! Very organized❤
This how a well versed player knows what their guitar is capable of . Legendary 👍
Thanks, great stuff...you have that flexible tone clearly on your hand...too. I love these wonderful iconic riffs clearly played and cooked....🥍
Just cut the grass, three beers in, don’t know exactly what’s going on after them beers but I do think I’m impressed!
How did the grass turn out?
@@spiderman0863 Don`t walk on it... smoke it...
Awesome job, but don’t forget surf rock! Bridge pickup, full tone, little breakup, tremolo picking all the way back by the string saddles. Where we pick the strings changes the tone immensely.
That was an incredible demo. I'm looking for a tele now
Absolutely FIRST CLASS Sir. What a great Tele showcase. Well done
I think there’s a time and place for pedals too but this is a great example that you don’t really need them. Also a reminder how simple but versatile a telecaster is. Easy to pick up, hard to master. Why I love teles, and Im not nearly as good as a player
This is worth me clicking subscribe. Great video. Its amazing how many guitarists just leave their volume & tone knobs on 10 and never learn to experiment with all the different sounds they can get just by adjusting volume & tone. I dont mind using effects but adjusting volume & tone on the guitar is a must and a lost art form
I have been playing Fenders for forty odd years. Maple fretboards, though a couple rosewood and ebony, too. they give you so many sounds., the hiss, the harmonics, the squeals, no pedals needed. Love this, because I've got a ' 79 Custom HSS, and a '85 Mexicano, but i just got an Player II Tele that I can't put down. Fenders play themselves.
What a brilliant video. The Tele in combination with a decent amp is so versatile. Beautiful playing, too. Thanks.
Absolute joy to watch this fella, as a tele player I'm inspired to rely less on my fx when playing live and use the guitar controls more! Nice one.
GREAT tones outta that Telecaster!
The main reason I use a pedalboard instead of an amp is because you have to turn tube-amps up to ear-bleed level to get the over-driven tones on display here. That's not always cool, depending on the venue. Tube amps are also heavy and require mains power, and I like to busk. Finally, I work with a looper and delay pedals, again, something that's not going to be present / switchable while playing live on most tube amps. I sing too, so I need a PA as well.
My current set-up uses a small battery powered pedal board with a Circle Looper / Drum machine by donner, a digital delay pedal with tap tempo, two cheap analog over-drive pre-amp pedals stacked for various gain staging, tones, run into a Mooer Radar cab sim. It's a stereo rig, and I output the signal to one or two Bose S1 PA speakers which are also battery powered. I plug my vocal mic directly into the BOSE S-1 PA, or into my Zoom H-6 recorder/mixer. My main axe is an acoustic electric guitar with a magnetic soundhole pick-up, so I don't have nobs to control tone and volume at the guitar like Glen demonstrates here.
I'm quite happy with the tones I'm able to get at LOW volume levels with a compact set-up. The Bose S-1 gets plenty loud if I lean on it, trust me - and it's clear as a bell. I used to cart around a Mesa Rectoverb 25, but again, it was just TOO LOUD for most settings - at least without pedals in front of it. Heavy too. Trade off is complexity of course, and all the issues that flow from gigging with a more complex set-up.
I also have a Boss Katana. Nice solid state amp that you don't have to turn up insanely loud to get great tones, and it's got plenty of on-board effects. Mains powered though, and there's no input for a dynamic mic / vocals which the Bose has and does brilliantly, so the Katana sits in storage as a back-up right now.
Great stuff - I've been primarily an acoustic player for many moons, but recently acquired both an American Series and a Thinline Tele. This is certainly going to be helpful...
Awesome examples of how many miles you can get out of just a guitar and amp. Thank you!
Bro… I played a 70s tele today with humbucker on the neck and I was wondering how to get different tones from it. This was magic!
Awesome showcase of the multitude of sounds you can get from a telecaster!
Amazing how many different tones you can get from a Telecaster! Great job Glen, demonstrating how to tweak your Tele to make your sound fit any style of music! Love that Telecaster you're playing, by the way! 😊👍👍🎸🎶✨
Nice demo - Guthrie is an advocate of this approach too! Thanks for posting.
Good demo. I've played many gigs with a Telecaster, one lead, and the overdrive channel of a Fender BDR, using just the pickups, volume and tone controls. For the faux wah effect, I hammer on rather than picking.
I am with you. I stoped using effects a long ago and my playing improved a lot.
Great post Steve! But it sparks a question: Why exactly did avoiding pedals improve your playing "a lot"? Can you identify the reasons? That would be really helpful to many of us guitarists
@@cNicely Well as I started out with all them gadgets A active US Charvel guitar Roland effects amp a Zoom and one multi pedal I had that brown sound pretty quick thinking of me as an genius a God!
No I was not as gadgets will make 75%.
I had turned to an keyboardist as clever in finding and combining spectacular sounds! Yeah I played that guitar with an table spoon and other crazy stunts and it sounded as good whatever I did to it.
As I dicovered it I started to scale down and as all the sudden that I wanned to play all kind of music now it was up to skill and boy that I lacked skill.
Effects are as much about what you can get from just one guitar and one amp or by some anomalies as that Strat i once had where I could do the U2/Edge all day long. Effects will ensure that it is always there and as easily creating an lazy player.
Whoa...brilliant rundown of the many virtues of the Tele! The cool thing is, with the amp setup properly as you do here, one can do the same thing with a Stratocaster, or a Les Paul, etc., etc.--even one pickup Juniors can exhibit a great range of tones by manipulating the volume & tone, plus where & how you pick--it's all about letting them _breathe_ a bit!
*breathe
(agreed)
A 335-type semi-hollow with coil splitting rules them all, imho
The only thing i use is the cable, straight in the traynor tube amp. Volume tones pots🤘
Jam packed, pun intended. So good. Thank you!
Wonderful guitar technique.
Music is really on the body first of all, not first on the gear. The gear helps getting more variety.
Thanks a lot!
Forget all those tones. You got that touch that makes those riffs sound super tasty!!!🎉🎉
Every guitar player ever, should watch this video. 👏
Very informative. Thank you. It’s easy to forget just how many great sounds can be made with the most basic of equipment AND imagination. Once again, thank you.
the feel is for real, fabulous playing!
I'm an extreme metal guy who haven't even touched a 6 string for many years now, (I own a few 7 strings; I love 6 strings too of course, it's just I didn't need one for some time now) but even for me this was beyond impressive. All the tones are very nice, quite on point and Glen plays very well too.
The best guitar ever made.
Very versatile.
Kinell!! At last someone has explained how to use the knobs. I'm gobsmacked. Fabulous demo. Brilliant, no-nonsense video. Many thanks.
Glenn this sounds great. Seems like it’s really important to get the amp set right to underpin the guitar tones. Maybe a video on how you approach that??
Good idea!
Sounds great Glen, what amp do you use?
@@martindonnelly1556 that was a Marshall ds1
Great player, hits hard and clear
I pretty much think the same. I usually play with a single humbucker superstrat through a Marshall TSL: red channel for solos and orange for rythms.
Your tele sound so good, especially the neck pick, I hear it more clarity like strat neck
Thanks a lot!
@@glenparish7056 which tele and pickup do you use . Thanks
@@robertph1787 59 custom shop those pickups are hand wound by one of feders pickup winders in the fifties they got her out of retirement for a limited run
@@glenparish7056 that's great. Sound neck pickup is very suitable to me
You made me appreciate my tele again.
This really reminds me about that video of Joe Bonamassa doing the same thing with a Les Paul.. never thought a Tele can be just as versatile!!!
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Tele was the first guitar that I bought for this very reason. So many greats played it
So simple and so eye-opening.Good job!
I’ve never seen someone actually pull off using the tone knob for a wah pedal. That was great.
Great video,got a ton of pedals but went back to basics with my Tele, forgot just how versatile they are,many thanks for a brilliant display 💯
Quick and to the point great video subscribed.
Really good demo. I have changed my mind back to a tele.
You've proved that It all comes down to the skill of the player, not how much you've spent on effects.
Very cool. I'm embarrassed by how late in life I started using the knobs, or as Joe Bonamassa calls them, "the forgotten pedals" the wah trick is really fun.
What's the wah trick ? Please share it.
@@benallmark9671 it's a volume knob "trick".
Typical wah is a resonant band-pass filter. Most guitar "tone" knobs are a non-resonant lowpass, so they wont get a "quack-a-waka" sound.
I just bought the amp he’s using in this because of this demonstration. I already had the Telecaster lol.
What was it???
@ Marshall DSL1. He put it in the description.
Being good at guitar is better than any pedal you can find
Those middle position licks are exactly what I play in that position. Sounds great.
Perfect illustration as to why you only ever need one electric guitar. The original and still the best. The Fender Telecaster
I've always said I like my slew of guitars...which does not include a Tele....but IF I could only have one I'd sell all of them and get a Tele.
great job brother!
Great sounds! Would have been nice if you would have describe how to set your amp at the beginning. It's a shame that many people seem to set their guitar volume and tone knows to 10 and never change them. So much flexibility built into the guitar controls.
Just got a Tele. Thank you. Your technique is pro level. Fantastic.
I still have a pedal board, but I'm working from the mantra "less is more". By using the knobs on the guitar, the knobs on the amp and the pedals carefully basically every sound can be made. Tom Bukovac recently showed how he uses and EQ pedal to achieve basically all the conceivable tones. All of this taken together is the cure for GAS.
Absolutely fantastic!
Your amp also contributes to your tone and your playing not only the guitar.
Thank you, Glen, for the most insightful video on guitar tone!
Masterful playing pal👍
Thank you
Genius. Always loved my tele but think I need to get to know it even better now - after God knows how many years! Thanks mate.
Great display of options..
Great video. Lots of good for thought on all the tones you can get out of a tele.
Awesome playing and tones! 🤘
Brilliant playing, mate!!! As much as I love my Strats, I've been playing a lot of Tele. I made a "Barncaster" - took a Squier, burned the body, roasted the neck and gutted it with new pickups and wires/pots, but I also threw in a humbucker in the middle, like a Nashville Tele, but the 3 way is neck, hum, and bridge (all separate).....it's a Tele on steroids!!!!
You surely inspire me to play more!
This is one of the best guitar videos I’ve ever seen. All you really need is one amp, one guitar - and the patience getting know the infinite combinations you can have. Sure, you can get a few pedals to add some flavor, but that’s just icing on the cake - if you have a tasty cake, you can forget the icing.
Bravo, Glen!
(Also, not that it matters, but what amp are you using?)
Wow, thanks!
What was the amp Glen????
Great ! I also don't use pedals, only the tone and volume controls of the guitar. Greetings from Hamburg Germany
Amazing video. I use a Tele to play hard rock and metal on. It has so much tonal range, there is so much you can do with it.
I'll have to try this with my telecaster and cheap amp. :) Thanks for the tips. The funny thing is that someone could buy a cheap tele, amp, and have a lot left over for pedals for the cost of a custom shop tele.
Great demo of sounds........
Okay, I’m impressed!!!!
That performance is only perfect lad. Ingenious as well!