It's me, the Matt Jantzen from Durham who ordered the All You Need is Fuzz t-shirt at 5:50 in the episode. Tomorrow I graduate with my doctorate after working on it for 6 years, but that pales in comparison to hearing my name spoken on an episode of That Pedal Show. My three year-old son and I watch TPS every single week. Some of the first names he ever learned to say were "Mick and Dan." Thanks for all you guys do!
Matt! Thank you so much for buying a shirt and MASSIVE congrats on the doctorate! When we do the kids’ shirts your boy will have a couple with our sincere compliments! Nice one Matt, thanks again!
Matt Jantzen I sorta know the feeling. A couple weeks ago they featured the dope priest in the P90 video because I asked about it a couple times in the comments. I called all my gear nerd friends and couldn’t stop smiling all day.
LOL poor Dan. So emotional and excited he couldn’t even finish a sentence for the first 11 minutes of the vid! I was chuckling at how hard he was trying to express his thought and not getting anywhere. Love the vids guys, and your passion and joy.
The AC30 is pure magic. I have my own theory why it doesn't work for some: when I first played through mine I had been playing for about 13 years or so, and suddenly it was as though I was playing for the first time. I was noticing so many playing habits and techniques that just did not translate into how the AC30 sounds, and my playing sounded sloppy and garbage. There's a transparency to it that really emphasizes the individuality of your gear and playing (good and bad), and it takes a lot of time and dedication to learn how to play with it's strengths so it will play to yours. It's not an amplifier where you dial in the sound you want; it dials the sound from you. I could see how that process would not work for a lot of people, but for me it is inspiring and there's nothing I love playing through more.
So, not only are you guys extremely accomplished musicologists, you are also time travelers! Recording on Friday night and posting on Friday afternoon. Oooooooo (X-Files theme).
I go back to this episode whenever I get discouraged about my vox. Then I remember the sound and fall in love all over again. And remember I never really want any other amp.
That tele, and that vox is just friggin EPIC. Honestly Dan I get just as emotional as you mate! What an absolutely inspiring sound. Writing this at 18 mins in to the video. This is my favorite show guys keep it up!
One of the best shows ever. Full of example and context. Brilliant. And you looked like you were really having fun with the 'Late Late Show'. Looking forward to the first show from the new place.
An oldie but such a goodie. Having just got an AC30 this helped me get to a killer sound in no time and picked the right pedals straight away too. Thanks chaps!
The AC30 is my favorite amp, I swear everything I've ever put into it sounds great. And it's not just amazing for guitar, it's also spectacular for e-piano tones. It also pairs great with other amps. Anyone who doesn't like the AC30 is just wrong.
Just watched this basically straight after the no amps episode... faith restored, its like my ears breathed a sigh of relief... Those clean tones around the 40ish min mark with the fuzz face and guitar rolled back, and then the 335 and the tele with the mudhoney... gave me “ear joy” thanks lads!
This is my favorite style of episode. The ones where you demonstrate your own gear or interview other players who walk through their own rigs are always something special. Demonstrating different pedals and digging into technical stuff is awesome, but episodes like this are where stuff gets real. Maybe a Mick rig run through soon?
Cool, cheers Steve. Mick here. Certainly when there’s a bit more personal relevance (whether it’s us or artists) the videos seem to connect a little better. Hopefully our new space will enable us to grow further down that path. Thanks as always for watching and commenting!
Been waiting for this episode for a long time! I play an ac30 and you’re completely right, in a band mix it just cannot be beaten, keep up the good work guys
This episode defiantly warrants a recap when you guys get the band thing together. All your points will really come across very clearly and I think will be quite an eye (and ear) opener for a lot viewers
This reminded me very much of the Mick's Board Build episode. The tones clearly just hit in such a way as to inspire because of how personalized the sound is. Brilliant racket today.
I swear Dan, that little section of playing at about 44 mins was about the best I've ever heard you play. Just sublime touch and feel mate, really quite quite beautiful.
off the back of an episode you guys did a few months ago, i bought myself an ac15 greenback and a strat. it's maybe a 5th the price of my other amp, and barely half of what even my fairly small pedalboard costs. but god, that is my favourite amp in the world. I have never wanted to play guitar as much as i do now. Thank you for what you do, from the people who just want to chill and listen to bloody amazing guitar sounds and funny blokes for an hour. Keep on slapping your knees, drinking wine out of teacups and playing the crap out of those guitars!
Hey guys, I've been watching this show almost every week since basically the beginning, back on the old channel, and I want to say that I love the direction the show is going. The quality of production and spread of topics always keeps it interesting, and your excitement about good sounds is always contagious. You guys have taught me so much. Thanks for keeping it going, I'm excited for the new space!
8:18 has the ten seconds that makes this video amazing just watching them alone. The other parts are great too, but that tone gently tears the air with smooth electric waves.
Wow, the Condor! It's cool how you can absolutely hear the midrange tremolo while the highs and lows ring out steady. Gorgeous. Great for recording I would think.
Maybe your best show ever. I actually got teary eyed. 😂 I am a huge fan of moving air with an amp. Mick pretty much was in an altered state with the mud-honey and the 335. Dan, for the open space you have to put in the Roxanne. Your love for the mistress made me buy one from Poland. Got shipped last Monday. Can’t wait til it arrives. I happened upon “Ghost in the Machine” today on vinyl. Boom goes the dynamite!
Dan and Mick your humour,humility and passion for music is fantastic.Let music get away from me for a while.I discovered your show and took a little Marshall dsl40c amp I got from a friend,made some changes,applied the concepts you speak of and shazam !Sounds incredible and inspiring.Thanks for helping to awake my spirit again.
Im so pumped that you guys are doing the band thing to put some of your comments in context. So many musicians I meet dont know how to mix their amp for a band situation. They dial in a fat, monstrous tone at home but as soon as they play with the band, their sound gets lost in the mix. I Love what you are doing! Keep it up.
I will start listening to the podcasts at school will make life so much easier when doing homework being able to listen to you guys talk about pedals and other guitar stuff😀
The best thing I ever put in front of my vox was a tumnus, and still is! Tumnus gain down to 9 oclock and used in the same was as the bad bob with the amp set to where it's most dynamic. Between the volume on the guitar and the tumnus you have a world of range and it all sounds like your guitar and your amp - not like you just plugged into a new rig when you give it gas.
I just got my D&M Drive pedal yesterday! The pedal is awesome and sound great through my Vox ac15c1. I have my KOT and D&M drive on my pedal board now and will remain forever! Thanks Mr. Keeley, Dan and Mick! Getting more shirts soon and will sport them at up coming gigs!
Yep, that's what you get with that amp sweet spot everything sounds good into it. Guitars pedals. The only thing still to play with is the speakers and cabs behind it.
Quite honestly my favorite video from you guys yet! I've been following you guys since you were posting on TheGigRig and something about this episode is just freakin' magical!
Yeah man I own neither but of all the gigs I ever saw, one that shocked me the most was a Christian artist using a vintage Tele into an old ac30 and I had never heard such a sound before or since, just sonically pleasing beyond belief in the right context
You guys continue to make this show better and better and move it into exciting new directions!! Love the Podcasts. Can't wait to see how this whole year unfolds. Thanks as always.
Maybe it’s just me but the shows you’ve done in the evening due to the neighbors have been tremendous! This show is spectacular. Can’t wait to see the band!!
Being a church guy my British AC30(Korg era) lives in an amp room and we use in-ears on stage. But today I pulled it out and recorded for a country gig and had the exact same experience. When that thing hits the sweet spot it's just magic. I forgot how good of a sound that sound was.
I wanted Dan to play the gretsch so bad at the end!!!! The AC30 with the filtertrons I bet sound so freaking good! Regardless, the tone was top notch! Bravo!
I know exactly what point Dan is referring to, when I first started to play guitar I was always kind of scared of that, because I felt it was too loud (back then). Nowadays, I turn my amp all the way up and I still can't hear it over my brother's drumset! But yeah, when I play I always try to get at least to that point if I can, that's where everything nice starts to happen. I think this has been my favourite episode of TPS so far. With some of the others, I rather feel like I don't really understand some of the things you talk about, myself being not really experienced with many amps, or many guitars, or many pedals. But this episode, I really can relate to that point were everything just makes sense. That point that I know is the reason the bands I like sound the way they do. Awesome sounds all around!
Really good show. I had made up a Matchless DC30 clone and struggled a bit getting my pedal board to sound good with it. Once I put an attenuator on the amp and dialled in the sweet spot the whole character of the sound changed for the better and it made the amp take pedals like a dream. Could not stop playing with it! Cheers guys
Yeeeeeep! I get that same sweet spot with a much less powerful amp with vox type mods. When you are there, every gain pedal sounds good. Even my metal pedals. It still has the attack and crunch while it grinds. It's a thing of beauty. That D&M Drive on the tele. That is it right there. Perfect, no need to tweak it at all. Great show.
Had exactly the same experience with my AC30 on stage during a sound check. Just tweaked the volume up a little bit and everybody was like "whoa!". Even the sound guy was like "leave it there - it's glorious!".
when i first started playing guitar i bought this cheap multi-effects pedal from korg that had a couple amp emulations on it.. id be on AC10 or AC30 non-stop. Years later i started playing more electric gigs and it was a no-brainer.. went with the AC10 and i couldnt be happier. Something about Vox's sound is just MONEY to my ears. Love this video guys! gave me some ideas for pedals and settings for some more cool tones.
Great video fellas! It has taken me many years to learn this simple lesson: The pre-amp has to push the input of the power amp sufficiently to achieve the sweet spot regardless of how much gain you use. This allows both sections to work together in an organic way with just the right amount of sustain and compression. Too much input from the pre-amp (or pedal) and the sound will get squishy, the treble harsh and the low end will get muddy/flubby. This is why I have amps with both pre-amp gain and pre-amp volume (don't confuse these 2) then you can push the frontend of the power section just enough to get the range of dynamics you need. After setting this up the next stage is the master volume which will provide an additional level of saturation from the power section (only if pushed to loud levels) which can be attenuated by a soak. I personally don't like soaks so I have amps I can change the wattage with.
I know I'm late the comments, but Mick's Strat with the Red Dot, Analogman, Fathom, and AC30, wins the award for one of the best sounds ever. That play @43:00 is lovely.
Listened to half of this on the way to work this morning and the other half just now heading home.......guys your playing was so inspiring today cheers to you two AND Simon. The nice plus is I also have an AC30 plus an Analogman sunface !!!
I sometimes turn on TPS just to ogle Dan's Telecaster, that is one astonishing and beautiful machine, and best of all he shares its tones freely with us
when Mick hit that Touch Drive on the 335 I had the biggest grin on my face because I was thinking exactly what he was feeling. Brilliant show! I hope this means there's one for Mick coming up with his amp!!!
This principle is so central to why the guitar was the dominant lead voice in music between the 60s and 2000s. If you go back to the Beano album you can hear it happening in front of you (for perhaps the first time successfully in a recording?), and thank you Mr Clapton for prompting all that folllowed. It’s why I wanted to “play” the electric guitar (not withstanding my love for all kinds of other aspects of music). We don’t operate or use guitars and amps. We “play” them with all their dynamic, surprising and lifelike character. Your analogy with horses was closer than you realised, Mick.
And that is the way a Vox sounds, hehe in case anyone was wondering... show the new place!!!! love ya guys, big fan of your show and a Vox Tele fan as well.
Nice!! I think that making a video with a five essnetials pedals for each one would be great to see. Like the 350 pounds pedalboard video you made but without price limit, justo your favorite 5 pedals to set a complete pedalboard. Cheers!!
Thank you guys for the amazing video! I have a VOX AC30 inspired amp - Tophat King Royale. I think your pedalboard sounded absolutely incredible... Time to get rejigging on my pedalboard I think!
I went to a great show last night ( Basement, Citizen, Pronoun, and Souvenirs ) and saw Basement played through a couple of Hiwatts; awesome! Then your AC30 (killer tones) so amps that might be fun to put in a band context show? Can't wait to see shows based on the band idea! Great show guys, and good luck with the new digs.
So hyped for what's to come! You've already taught me a lot about my own tone and tone in general. I found my Vox Bruno TB18C1 sort of by accident when I set out to find an AC15 but it's the best thing that could've happened. It made me dive into pedals more as well as learn how an amp should sit in a (recorded) mix. You already made me go out and get a King of Tone and I"m now toying with the idea of a Broadcast. And it's not gonna be the last thing either, I'm afraid.
Gents - just a quick note to let you know that this episode helped me immensely. I had band practice last night and after watching this video last week I feel like I finally got my AC30 tones dialed in so much better in the band mix, plus I could hear myself without being too pokey or thin, plus I had so much more control over my tone and timbre from my guitar volume/tone/pickup combinations. Even my band-mates commented on the great tones as well. Plus I feel like my amp responded better to my pedals like never before as well. You really helped me to find that 'sweet spot' that opens these amps up and makes 'em so special! Thanks for making these videos, and I'm so glad you did one on the AC30. Keep up the great work! Cheers. -Tim in Minneapolis, MN, USA
Ah, that’s awesome Tim! Yep, the AC30 is one of those amps that due to its limited eq options takes a little push to get dialled in right. Great stuff mate
Many thanks for the reply! (and by the way, I LOVE how you reply to many of the comments on your videos, it really helps us as fans and fellow musicians connect with you guys...it takes LOADS of time and effort - but just know it's really worth it!!!) thanks for all you do. Cheers.
WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU. 😂 No, my band plays pretty loud rock music (and we are lucky to practice in a big space) so I'm able to 'open up' my AC30 enough to where I can find that sweet spot of clarity and crunch, all while it can respond well to my pedals and guitar tone/vol. At home, it's trickier (I don't own an attenuator), but I've got a master volume on my amp so I can dial in my preamp to try to find that sweet spot I found in the band, and then keep the master low. On evenings when my wife is out of town I might push that master up a bit as much as my ears can handle in my home studio. It certainly isn't as good as when you can open it up in the band, but it IS an AC30, haha. Good luck!
Great show! Tele and VOX combo is my happy place so this was epic! Great job as always! And... your neighbor must be a complete tool! If I heard that magic all day... dang would be awesome!!!
Ive watched every show since the beginning (on the gig rig channel) but it's been quite a while since I've commented. That said, I have to chime in here... these tones and subsequent inspired playing from you both this episode were simply fantastic. Most appreciated and informative as always. Thank you. Dig it.
I love how Mick picks at Dan's brain and asks questions. This show would consistently be half the length if he didn't do that. Thank you for doing that, Mick. And thank you for having seemingly endless knowledge, Dan.
“Three beverages tonight- one for my brain” *takes out tea cup* “one for my heart” *takes out another tea cup* “one to keep me alive” *takes out comedically large green bottle*
CONDOR!!!! I use the same harmonic tremolo-esque setting on mine (and as an EQ’d boost, and a soupy univibe-type thing if you ramp the bass too). Haven’t tried an expression pedal yet... It’s so good!
Thanks so much, gents, excellent show. You are the highlight of my week. I have two requests, from things you've mentioned of late: -The Hudson Broadcast came up again today. I got one recently based having discovered it in your show about different overdrives about a year ago (a long quest.) I’d love to see you dig into it, also fuzz and other pedals with good dynamic response, with tips about the techniques to get the most out of that quality. -A few episodes ago you had a new Princeton, and said we'd see more of it. (Please?) A show on the sweet spots in that and other Blackface amps done in a similar way to how you just brilliantly got the best of the AC30 would be great.
