I play guitar (& keys) in church too, albeit without all these bells and whistles. Tell me, when did talking like a dufus become a prerequisite to being a good worship musician ? You're not alone, bro', but why not just talk normally ?
Definitely not! They help just because worship music employs less grindy pickups. Single coils are great, even some rippin’ EMGs can pdub if used right! Clean is the name of the game for your base tone
Absolutely! Try dialing in your amp a little dirtier and using your volume control on your guitar! Turn it down when you want to clean it up, boost it when you want drive. Hit your OD pedal to send it to the next level for lead tones!
I am struggling with tone. I have an AC 30 emulator pedal, a fender emulator and a boss katana 50. Every guitar I try with any combination of those, unless it's a high gain and drive sound, any bridge pickup just sounds nasally and shrill to me.. part of it is personal preference I guess, but I hear you guys online and it sounds good on the bridge pickup like at the very end of your video. I dial in tones at home for the bridge but at church I always end up switching to the neck pickup. Am I just nervous about really standing out? And yeah, I'm pushing mids up but I think I need a 10 band eq to get to what I like.
I get that! My favorite thing to do is dial the amp in for the bridge pickup. Turn down the treb, *maybe* tuck the mids depending on the amp and the guitar, and don’t be afraid to let some low end through. Make sure the amp is on the edge of breakup too (which is typically MORE gain than people feel like they should have, especially when listening in isolation). Then use a pedal like a tubescreamer that dumps low end whenever you need to use your bridge pickup. Let me know if you’ve tried any of this before!
@@churchmusicco Thanks! Last Sunday I think it actually worked out pretty well because I adjusted for the bridge specifically. The only drive pedal I have at the moment is a blue driver clone, but a TS is on the list. Side note for entertainment: I was using a NUX multieffects for some reverb and delay. We had just started practice when it decided it was going to set itself to factory default and started going through the presets without me even being anywhere near it! It stopped on a high gain autowah preset and everyone just turned and looked at me like "what the heck are you doing??" Lol. It got ripped out of the signal chain real fast!
It’s all in Helix Native. I don’t remember the exact chain from this video, but I usually do Kinky Comp(SP comp)>Heir Apparent(KoT)>Pillars (TS)>transistor Tape>AC30 Fawn>Dynamic Hall or Plate
