Mark Lettieri - First Three Pedals You Should Buy

The awesome Mark Lettieri tells the story of his humble beginnings as a guitarist, and recommends which 3 types of pedals you should buy when starting out as a guitarist!
You can watch other videos featuring Mark Lettieri here: • Mark Lettieri @TC HQ
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[@TantissTheEmperor]

Three metal zone should do the trick.

[@alistairclifton1286]

My first 3 pedals, a Tube Screamer, Skysurfer Reverb and Iron Curtain Noise Gate....soon to have the Fangs Distortion! That makes 3 TC pedals.

[@peaelare]

Mark Lettieri, making even Nirvana funky as hell. Smells Like Teen Funk. 1:19

[@tcelectronic]

Comment of the day! 😃

[@samusofthe9th789]

First three are obvious: Bitcrusher, Feedback, Korg Miku

[@dylanpardon9723]

to start with 3 pedals from TC Electronics I'd recommend the Dark Matter (distortion), the Prophet (delay) and the Afterglow (Chorus). A chorus is a very versatile effect, from leslie sounds to ambient tones to 60/70s stoner rock

[@robertcoppola6263]

Dylan Pardon love the Dark Matter!

[@fredoaksmusicheavyonthebas6010]

Boss heavy metal pedal through Peavey Renown Did the trick for me in the 80s

[@michaelbell1204]

I say overdrive, reverb, delay. The Flashback X4 has been one of my anchor pedals on my board for a couple years now. I also use the Polytune, Spark boost, and Afterglow chorus. Love TC pedals

[@tcelectronic]

Thanks, Michael. That's quite the collection!

[@JohnOhkumaThiel]

Guitar wise, this is my doppelgänger! Thanks for the advice future me!

[@sergitur2709]

WAUU FANTASTIC SOUND!!!

[@jerod256]

I own a dark matter, and one way you CAN play metal with it is to stack it with an OD/crunch channel of an amp (or another pedal that can take it (DM and Mojomojo actually stack decently well)). The gain stack should in most cases (unless you're playing something like a Vox or a Fender) give you more than enough gain to saturate for a brutal tone. The DM stacks incredibly well in this config providing alot of tone shaping options. It's more complicated than just dialing in 1 gain and a little EQ. You have 2 gains, 2 levels, and 2 eqs and all of them do different things to the tone. But if you have time to experiment, you can get some awesome metal tones out of it. Just use a noise gate or be prepared for alot of hiss and feedback (I use the TC sentry for that :). Just know that a stacked DM will be a slightly scooped sound overall because the DM has such a broad range of frequencies in the tone. For this reason I prefer the Mojomojo for gain stacking, because I like my first gain stage to be focused in upper-mid range for a punchy feel.
And for price points, honestly, I have yet to come across better values for distortion/OD pedals. I'm extremely happy with my TC purchases.

[@J00PIE]

My first pedal was a looper.

[@southjersey10]

I’ve tuned a 6 string baritone (B Standard tuning) to a 1/2 step below an Arabic Oud (B - E - Ab - Db - Gb - B). Will be experimenting with pedals that compliment Middle East music. Reverb and delay seem to be a good choice as I listened to this presentation. Thanks.

[@JohnOhkumaThiel]

I put a blender in my guitar 🎸 and am in love with all three pickups at once. Same on the Tone control, all the way up, so many more knobs to play with on the pedals and amp.
Totally personal taste.

[@jmanxoom]

Up untill 1:19 I was thinking of my DS1 (still actively distorting on my pedal board since 2000) 👍🏽😎🎸

[@noisesoundtonevibe]

I'd go Mojo Mojo (overdrive), Flashback 2 (delay) and Spark (boost). With the Spark and Mojo, you can experiment with pedal order... The Spark before the Mojo would give more gain out of the Mojo, like an additional channel.

[@DapperHesher]

Noise gate (preferably keyed in the loop like a G-String or Sentry), boost pedal, delay reverb/combo pedal (Strymon, Mooer, Boss, etc.)

[@Erickchicas]

noise gate never lol

[@DapperHesher]

@@Erickchicas Noise gate should be the LAW! You don't even have to turn it up super metal-guy tight. In the loop and barely on is enough.
I'm just fuckall tired of listening to blues geezers' shitty amp hum because they're too cheap to put a gate in there. Wipe your asses, lackeys.

[@rob28781]

Overdrive, Reverb and Looper

[@JonathanKillstring]

Love Mark's style in these videos.
Playing too, haha.

[@tonybrooks476]

I still have a Boss PS2 on my board.

[@spacewombat4569]

Looper, eq, and distortion

[@patrickknox4014]

that mudvayne riff though

[@AZFunk]

Mark would be worth watching if he just played out of the Mel Bay book ;)

[@jgodin312]

had fun making (just my) ears bleed with a danelectro black coffee distortion pedal into a Fender Frontman 25R... into my headphones

[@pascaladesina]

i didn’t realize the Dark Matter was that versatile... 👀

[@tunoman]

🤟VH🤟 11:36

[@Flornmonk]

a wah is probably the tenth thing I'd choose.

[@DapperHesher]

Same here, I use a wah... but many, many, many, many guitar players do without.

[@Erickchicas]

make it 15th for me lol.

[@MrNeilfatmonkey]

Love these! For me though it’d be distortion/overdrive, MXR Phase 95 and a reverb.

[@Rene-lm8kr]

The Darkmatter is NOT an Overdrive! It's a Distortion!

[@elmaildecamiloruiz]

a klon, a pete cornish line driver, and Dallas Rangemaster Treble Booster. Spare no expense :(
.ok, not

[@cyanidejunkie]

Distortion, delay, chorus.... no wah... ever.
Consider this a wah free zone, no kirks allowed.

[@tcelectronic]

😅

[@richjohn2497]

Wah can be fantastic, to colour or produce tones ... not so much wailing the life out of most of kirks solos.

[@jl_woodworks]

@@richjohn2497 I agree. A Wah used in a sensible way can do miracles.

[@lukather1]

Forget 3 buy one Ax8 !!!!