Nick Potocki is here to show you tips, tricks, and advice on all things music! I have been playing for over 11 years now and I am currently a student at Berklee College of Music in Boston.
For tip number three you kept say wet effects before your “amps” and you used the plural. I was confused to if you meant the overdrives as amps or meaning your actual amp
Gotcha! Yeah so when doing worship stuff, in my experience, it’s best to run 2 amps in stereo (either real or I use 2 modeler amps in the HX Stomp). So I was saying put your reverb and delay before your amps/amp models/etc. hope that helps!
You should try it, I heard it in a Bethel stream one time and love the groove. Just get the hihat on the upbeats, kick is 4 on the floor, and snare is 2 and 4 with the exception of a snare hit on the last upbeat with the hat. Good luck!
Yes I'm practicing this song for Easter weekend so I appreciate your video and love the playing! Most, if not all of the drum covers I have come across do not play this song with the hi-hat beat, which is how Bethel plays it in the Cory Asbury version. Most of the drum covers play the Jesus Culture/ Jeremy Riddle version which is still an awesome way to play it but they do not do that fun hit hat beat. I think I will learn both versions in case my MD prefers one over the other when we all play together.
Unfortunately, most venues run a mono sound. My stereo sound is so much better but I can’t run it through the system that way. Lots of good advice in the video.
Its disheartening how very little skill is required to play Electric guitar parts for almost every christian song. So very uninspiring and boring so I usually create my own parts.
Hi, may I know what amp can you suggest for me? My guitar is a s-type that has SSS config. I find it too bright when using AC30 amp sim, and I don't know which one to choose. Thanks in advance
If the mid control on your ac30 amp sim is a tone cut like it would be on a real ac30, dial that up a bit to cut back some of the high mids, as well as bringing back the treble a little bit
I'm glad that you're honing your craft as a worship guitar player. Me personally don't use a compressor for my clean sound. To me, compression on a guitar signal takes the nuance out of your playing. Regarding wet FX, before your amp but after your drive pedals. If not, your delays and reverbs will not sound good. If your amp has an FX loop that is pedal friendly, use it. And if you are worried about a bright delay sound, get an analog delay which is warmer in sound.
I prefer wet after, especially reverb. Sometimes delay first. And in church stereo is good, but if there are a bunch of instruments, mono is also a good choice.
Yeah wet effects before or after depends. If you have a modeler you can test it way more easily. If you dont have a modeler and only have one amp then you are losing your stereo output so after becomes a must if you want to preserve those effects. I use both. For my strat i use a QC to run stereo amps and feed the wet fx into them. Perfect amount of saturation For my strandberg with active pickups, anything and everything sounds more like harsh clipping than tasteful saturation no matter how much i adjust gain and the send level of my fx loop so after sounds better in this case😊
Such an informative video. After watching I finally decided to insert my delay and play with it to see if for the 10th time I was able to understand it’s impact on the sound and wow, it finally it me!! Thx! I have one question. Is this routing ok for massive wet sounds? Guitar > compressor > benson pre> golden boy > volume pedal > stomp > stereo to Walrus Acs1 Delay and reverb going stereo into the Stomp effects loop…. For some reason it does not sound big this way…😢 thx in advance
The reasoning behind that is that using an fx loop is essentially running your wet effects after your amp. That is the purpose of an fx loop. If you really play with the delays and reverbs in your effects loop I'm sure you can make it sound big. I used to always run wet effects before my amp modeler but I now run them after and it has never sounded better. You just have to find what works for you.
