How I Make My Guitars Sound Awesome! (Signal Chain Walkthrough) 

I learn so much from you, Jon. I hope you and are your family is well during this time. People like you make and keep rock alive. ✌

You’re the king of riffs 🤘Really enjoyed this video!

Cool, I've wondered about this for a while. Thank you for showing.

Has anything changed since then? Would love to watch an updated version on how you make your guitar tones sound awesome!

thanks for letting us know about your process, I like the sound you are getting out of this recitfier

GREAT !!! I recorded some songs, but did it only from time to time. As your sound is so amazing, I am glad you tell us your secrets! 1000 merci

Enjoyable video with lots of good info (and gear).

I'm glad you talked about Native for processing. I use Native for effects almost all the time, whether I am using my Axe Fx II, Helix or STL Tone Hub I love the L6 effects the sit well in the mix and are easier to automate than using the Fractal.

wow nasty riffs! haha great video thanks for the breakdown, it gave me a lot of ideas to use with my own equipment .

Killer riffs as always and astounding tone you achieve man! you are a reference for tone chasing! It´s funny to see what a "cheap" interface you have ;)

Dude, you ROCK. Period.

I've been waiting for this video for quite some time! The fact that you don't do any eq besides high pass was really surprising. I have a hard time making my guitars the way I want, but maybe a big part of it is micing the speaker instead of using IRs, even more so considering the fact that the speaker is stock Blackstar one. I wonder if changing it to V30 would make a huge difference. Anyway, great content as always, cheers man!

Thanks for the walkthrough. I'd like to try something similar (using real amps and recording DI) but with my Torpedo Live and FM3. I'll have to sort out the details but this video helped!

Maaaan, I wish I had your equipment.....and your knowledge......and your talent......and that iron man hoodie........(cries into coffee at realisation of position in life)

Amazing.... Your Sound is Wonder !!

Killer setup 🤘

The Recto sounds sick here, right? Nice and filthy! One the back I have it set to bold with the diode rectification. Very tight and in your face!

Thank you mate! Now I can try to sound more cooler in my guitars section

I think you’ll like the Captor X it’s very versatile and I get great tones from my mark V 35 by way of the attenuation. Look forward to see how you utilize it.

WHAT? That's so unfair, no EQ and the tone is THAT awesome 😄💪🤘

I record using the stomp too; all 4 tracks, line, send, return and mains. I run the effects loop through a Synergy and I can choose to use the track from the Synergy module OR I can re-amp (or blend).

This was a very informative video, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

Awesome thanks!

Wow. Way more complex than I imagined!

Another great vid Guitarjon! Sorry to see you got some flack on the marshall forum on that JCM 800 comparison vid. I did one for the guys over there but used a DSL and real mics because some guys were complaining so much. The results were, let's say, about the same! You could just use a different mic preamp and the differences would be as noticeable. I love my Marshall tube amps and my marshall brothers but some of those guys just don't get it that a recording chain can change the tone so much that a real vs modeller/profiler is a mute point.

When you got enough money you use axe fx iii as a recording interface😂😂😂😆😆

The tone is amazing, but my God; the setup is light years more complicated than anything I've established Lol. I need to learn some more about this.

I have a question whose answer is eluding me on RU-vid. My stepson is doing well at learning guitar on a used electric guitar and 10watt amp. The amp sounds awful and his friend allowed him to plug his guitar into his box amp, guitar sounds fine (we looked up the guitar and although it's a little worn, a new one would cost over 1k, mom is pleased at her garage sale buy). Also included was a fender headphone amplifier which is what he uses for practicing. We (mom & I) are looking online at amplifiers around 25w, mainly seperate heads and cabinets now that tax season is here! The two we are honed in on are either an "Orange" configuration or, an ENG setup. The 10w setup is idiot proof, plug guitar cable into amp input and turn on. The new split amp/cabinet setup has us a little lost, as the pictures of what's incuded only shows a power cable in the amplifier box. There's no sign of a manual (presumably online pdf?) and definately no cables included which is our main worry! So, could you point us in the right direction please, presumably short "patch" cables of 3ft or less would work?, but then again we don't want to plug them in wrong and blow-up the amp and cabinet! Once it's up and running I will either have bought a couple sets of differently colored cables and put a bit of similarly colored paint blobs by their corresponding location hole!

I *JUST* noticed you have a JTV-59 on the wall. I've been watching your channel for months and don't remember seeing it before.

As always crazy playing and great content, thx a lot for sharing. Since you have axe in front of the amp do you use any axe effects/overdrives in front before the preamp?

Actually a good eq foot switch is a great thing to finetune your amp and you keep the natural sound.

Hi Jon, your recorded tones always sound so awesome. One that that has me confused with the Helix is I seem to have to take a lot of bottom end out of either the internal cabs or any IR's I use otherwise it sounds super boomy, dull and dark. Do you find you generally have to do a lot of low cut, particularly with IR's? For example I find I need to low cut in the IR block around 200 - even 300KHZ to make any high gain tone sound tight though either my monitors or PA. Really makes me wonder if there is some sort of a fault in my Helix.

Could you replace the axe fx with a UAD Apollo twin? Use the instrument in and one of the line outs?

Well Fk, I only understood the words guitar, Amplifier, cabinet and cable.....

so now understand how get amazing sounds !!! fuck yeah !!!

Ty for explain of u chain. In theory can I replace fx3 to something about focusrite interface?

Could you do a vide description of your PC ? I'm looking for spec so I can make a new one ! Also is the Fractal better than the helix for a guitar Interface ?

Hey Jon, I followed your video several times but still come away with a few questions. If you are recording the DI signal then sending it back to the Mesa via the DAW Line Out, wouldn't that create a fair amount of Latency? I was curious how you are monitoring your performance when tracking? Perhaps, I am missing something. My thought was to use a DI box with a split to my Mesa mic'd (to hear/feel/monitor the performance) and then at the same time record the DI signal so that signal could then be re-amped later. Any feedback would be appreciated.

My guitar group is quite disappointed with the sound coming out of Captor X. I am really interested what you as an experienced person will get out of that loadbox and how it will compare to the Fractal one. I am looking forward to the video about your thoughts on Captor X and how you use it to make it work.

Do you have a band? Been following your channel for the gear, but is there any publicly available recordings of your music?

Just waiting for my cubase pro 11 to get fixed and I will start recording hihihi. So I have a question; If I record a raw guitar with no effects and then sent from focusrite 4i4 into my amp after my captor x and after into my focusrite 4i4 channel 1 i should just make the sound pretty much just the way i like tweaking the amp/IR ???? Thank you bro

1:00 war machine !!

I understood some of those words

That’s crazy, you don’t do any eq? Are the IR’s already mix ready?

So like, no microphones or cabinets used anywhere in your set up?

So if I wanted to put my amp into my AxeFXIII,I just come out of the load box,into one of the Axe inputs,then send that same output to my monitors??

Whats the point of reamping? I dont understand. When I am recording, I just copy the mono left to the mono right for a rhythem guitar track

Awesome! But where do the drums come from? :)

Hi, John! What is your take on changing strings and how often do you do it?

🤔......Interesting

Hey pole position is a old 80s Atari racing video game lol..

You have quite a speaking voice

What do you use for drums. Just curious …

oh brother while you hook up your equipment the other day

Left more confused than when I arrived. Good video though bossman.

mmmmm......axe fx III........the key is there. I must say there is too much level here.

This man doesn't even have an audio interface....