Used a Gibson SG and a Blues Junior with a 10' cable once. Forgot my pedalboard at home and had driven three hours to the venue before realising. Covered a two hour wedding set with it with no real problems.
I also did one gig like this. Used a friends blues junior. I have one now. I used the boost and also dialed the gain up then cleaned up as i needed with the guitars volume. Survived and learned a lot.
I think being old gives an advantage here. Most of the 70s I used eagle Pa valve amp, an electro harmonic screaming tree treble boost, and a 2x12 cab. Cab was actually a vox with blue alnico soeakers which we’d all love today, which I didn’t realise. The treble boost plugged into the amp (a little metal box with a jack plug embedded.). I remember it sounding great but I suspect the other advantages of age is your memory goes.
I approached a seasoned player a few weeks ago just to tell him how perfect his stay tone was. It was clean and had that bell quality. Come to find out he was playing into his laptop with a garage band ac30 and stock delay for just a bit of space. That was it. He made it work.
Hi John. Back in the day I would regularly gig with a guitar running straight into a blackstar studio HT20. Nothing else other than a headstock tuner. You are a fantastic guitar player.
Michael Angelo Batio toured for years doing clinics and concerts with a few guitars, a tube screamer and a boss delay. He did that with backline amps and that's it. Runs low gain on the amp, tube screamer volume and gain full up and tone about 10 o'clock. That's it and it worked.
Recently did a gig where a bit of gear died. Did the rest of the gig, 90 mins, with a MOOER 005 straight to FOH. No one gave a toss accept for me 😂 I got through it, found it liberating. Took me back to my 80s days of JCM 800 with an SD1. The art of the volume knob is dying. End of the day, it's about the songs and your performance. Made me rethink my rig. The audience doesn't care about the dotted eighth notes and the fancy effects, it's only the arm folders at the back that do.
Played a dep covers gig last minute with a massively varied set list (pop, rock, reggae, blues even some metal) with just a Gibson SG 61 Reissue a boss TU-2 and a Marshall Bluesbreaker 2 pedal into an actual Marshall Bluesbreaker 2x10 1958x. What a test it was but probably the most fun gig I've played in years. No Reverb was a very interesting gig and i actually started using pedal Reverb less and less lately.
When I was still a school kid I used to gig with a Ibanez Gio into a Digitech Screamin Blues (Boss BD-2 style) into a Jet City designed by Soldano 50 Watt all tube 2x12 combo. The amp has reverb and two channels. It did everything from clean to gain! For classic rock, I was super happy, it was loud enough and very direct sounding. This was my first 5 years of playing… I did about 30 gigs with this rig. Very nice first rig!
A friend recently sent me a photo I’d never seen before, of me playing in a band in the early eighties. I was slightly surprised to see that I was playing straight into a Fender Bandmaster head into two speaker cabs, with not a pedal in sight! I’d forgotten that I used to do that! At the time, it felt perfectly normal, but nowadays I have a board with six pedals, which just makes it easier ( but possibly not better?)😀
Jan Akkerman used only a colorsound treble booster at his peak. He's still the best rock guitarist I've ever heard. He also used a Fender transistor amp and had a fantastic sound. It's definitely not the gear, it's the player.
So amazing that you came across a piece of content from a musician in the Philippines. Juan Karlos is a really good singer and songwriter over there. Heavily inspired by Jeff Buckley. Nice instrumental over “Buwan” by the way. Which means “Moon” in Filipino. Thank you for this video.
Been in this situation many times. Used to be on a touring gig and only used the BB preamp since most of the gig needed clean rhythm with some solo moments. I also used to use my Mesa Boogie Mark 25 all on its own and just would channel switch for OD/Dist tones. It’s limiting but liberating and if it’s all you need for a specific performance, no need for extra stuff! Also when traveling for gigs, it’s been helpful to only bring what you need!
I did plenty of gigs in the early '70s with a Gibson 335 plugged straight into a Fender Bandmaster, but those were different times, there weren't a whole lotta pedals around! Most recently, I sat in several times with a house band at a bar using two pedals: EHX East River Drive (a TS-808 clone) and an OCD, for several songs. I could probably do a whole gig with that setup, tho it'd be nice to add a delay pedal. Lovely opening jam!
I play in a rock band that covers a lot of ground in terms of music styles. I could play with only my UA Ruby, but for some songs I need some specific delays and some modulation (we play Black Hole Sun and I can't imagine the arpeggiated part without any effect, and same for the delay part in Helicopter by Bloc Party). I used to play in a band in which we only played original songs, and at the time I was playing through the drive channel a Laboga Alligator with a HOF Mini, a TC Flashback and a Digitech Bad Monkey. Loved everything about it. Backed off the volume for clean, use the Bad Monkey for leads and parts. All this with my trusty Tele, and I had all I needed in the world!
JOHN! BIG REQUEST! Please do a video in this vein where you try to get different tones with your tone controls/volume/playing techniques. See how many non-pedal tones you actually have available and try to discover some new ones. Doing some jams where I had nothing but a Behringer Ultratwin with a broken speaker to play through, I actually learned some new tones on my instrument.
I started out gigging with just one pedal. I had a 1970's made in America Fender strat (3 bolt neck) a 50 watt Peavey moss Fett amp (with reverb) and a Boss analog delay. I thought it was amazing. Thinking of that rig terrifies me now. I could barely be heard above the drummer, but he was a Kieth Moon type. I got too close to his set one night and he almost poked my eye out with one of his sticks. I didn't realize he was standing in the bass drum.
Like a lot of others, I forgot my pedalboard once. I was playing through a Marshall TSL 60. I was able to do the whole gig with only the crunch channel and my volume knob!
When I gigged, I only used one amp and one guitar (nothing fancy) and I never thought about needing anything more. I suspect it is the ennui of middle age that has caused me to "need" options. Now I go in the same circle in increasingly complicated ways.
Gig with PRS and a zoo G2G pedal and a volume pedal post pedal into a clean amp for the past 15years even took it to the states to gig sounds great and has the fastest patch change out there!
I use a Dunlop FFM3 like this. I think it works better than the SD9. You get crystal cleans, light transparent overdrive, thick overdrive, and then full fuzz, all with the volume knob.
I used to show up to gigs with my guitar, a couple cables, and a single DOD juice box OD. Same as that guy. It was enough for what I was doing at the time. I probably could now too for my band, but I just don't want to lol. For solo singer songwriter type things I show up with my guitar and a Quilter that I run direct, and that's it.
It’s good that you already anchor your picking hand with your pinky finger- you should be able to adjust to a Blake Mills style volume control pinky anchor. It’d be very useful with a stripped back setup like this. I’m predominantly a bassist and recently stripped back a board of 12 pedals down to a tuner, compressor and overdrive. It’s crazy how little i miss my effects… even when i pick up a guitar now, i prefer that 3 pedal board. With the amp turned up and with proper volume control at the guitar- do i even need an overdrive or compressor??
Really depends on the gear… does the guitar and amp wind down well on volumes, has the guitar got a treble bleed… how many channels has the amp got… etc… My pedal board stop working and I did the whole gig on a Boogie 5:25 with 2 channels with no issues… but the amp had two channels for flexibility and an EQ as a boost…
I used to gig with just a Boss SD1 and a Boss DD3 with my Marshall just going into Breakup, so with the SD1 and a tiny amount of gain I could get away with the delay in front of the amp. But I have played a gig with my old JCM800 and no pedals, just the footswitch for Clean and dirty and reverb on the amp. That will help you focus!
With my Reverend Pete Anderson Tele and my Tech 21 Flyrig I can plug into any PA and make my money. I keep a Katana 100 in my trunk just in case the stage monitors are unusable but 95% of the time the amp stays outside. If I'm playing with my original band I drag out my stereo 2-12 and run both a 67 Fender Dual Showman and the katana.
I've gigged full on with just the Flyrig 5 V2, plugged in to a backline amp I think it was a Fender twin, and used the XLR out to the PA. I was told that it sounded decent enough. :)
If it's a 2 channel amp with verb, 1 boost/comp/overdrive can get you all the sounds you need. A single amp channel I'd set it on the edge of break out and with a good overdrive pedal and guitar volume you'd get there. You might have to change settings between songs ;) As per dual pedal, I have the dual fusion it's pretty cool, very particular sound, not very versatile. I got much more milage out of JHS sweet tea (don't reccommend v3 as it's much darker than v2). JHS double barrel would be also an awesome one for lower gain stuff.
Let’s all go out this weekend and do a gig with one pedal. And it has to be a single purpose single stage pedal, not a Binford XT 1000 that does everything. C’mon let’s do it!
I’ve played gigs with a Fender Tele HH, Tuner, Boss Dm3, Maxon SD9 & Vox wah. Plus a Deluxe Reverb with its two built in effects. That would be the minimum for me.
I have a huge rig but I once played with at fender pro 2 channel tubeamp and a delay. I must say that the focus was more on my playing and less on my gear and 100 sounds. Anyway I love my rig😉😎🎸
I usually gig with just an amp and a wireless. So my homemade Esquire right in the front of the amp. I basically set the amp to breakup about in that SRV range and roll back the volume for cleans. I get no complaints people keep hiring.
Some kind of drive (specifically one that reacts to guitar volume, like the BD-2), a delay, and a reverb. I could manage, those are the essentials for sounding the way I want. All of the other pedals on my board are more about having fun and creating unique sounds. But I understand the appeal of minimalism, and it would definitely push me to focus on the music more than the tone.
The JHS milkman could work really well I think. Its a combined boost and delay. It only draws 27mA, so you could easily power it off a 9v battery. Alternatively a Keeley DDR is a combined drive and delay. At 100mA, it's probably better with external power, so maybe not much of a faff saving versus a small pedalboard.
Interesting question. The minimum for me would depend on the gig. For a jazz gig or blues gig, I could do guitar & amp for a theatre show or orchestra pop gig then at least a pair of drive pedals, delay, wah prob get the job done
If I’m using my Badcat amp, it has a great drive and pristine clean channels, good verb, and tremendous tremolo. I’d really only need a tuner, delay, and the amp footswitch. Or just an hx stomp.
All depends what music you play . For example , if you are playing covers then generally you will need delay and some form of modulation along with a dirt pedal and solo boost 👍
I mainly "99% of the time" use 2 pedals. OCD for overdrive/lead and then a carbon copy delay pedal into a 15 watt marshall with a greenback. I can't believe how loud 15 watts can get.
One Telecaster, a cable, and a Fender BDR (not even changing channel) has been my setup for many gigs. One time, I didn't even use the amp, but went into a Behringer GDI21 amp simulator pedal, then straight to the PA. That wasn't very good!
If I’m playing a short set within a specific genre, I could probably get away with a boost, wha, and amp. When I play with my cover band I find I lean a lot on my Headrush pedal board with about 6 presets to cover 4 hours of multiple genres. I’m currently looking at a scaled back rig now to try to rely on my playing more than effects
Yeah I could probably do an entire gig with an overdrive and any decent amp. Might try to trick the sound guy into doing some sound changes with delay/reverb at the board for me ("Just bring my reverb up by like 20% for this one song!"). Playing with in ears for years has me used to super dry and direct tone. Which overdrive is a good question. I'd probably use something super modern like a Plumes/other tubescreamer copy that has mods such as re-adding the bass or different clipping so I could tweak it per amp a little more. Hell, that new Keeley line probably has something that would work perfectly. Then again, the best sound I get is usually just running my ARC KV2 (Klone) through a slightly pushed amp, so a klone would probably do me fine.
I personally believe every guitar player should play a gig straight into the amp at least once, makes you a better player That said, I hope you check out the Hologram Chroma Console, super powerful but also small multi effects unit
I gigged with a Keeley mod BD-2 (imho same ballpark of the SD9) into my Fender combo, and I always missed MIDS for solos. More fortune, Twin reverb + DynaRed distortion or a RAT. I'm afraid you'll need more mids in a pop/rock band scenario, playing leads with that SD9 and a Strat...
I tend to use a lot of delays and reverbs at bedroom level hen I practice or record but as soon as I am in a live band situation, the delays and reverbs go way down (or are even off sometimes) as they tend to drown your sound. I feel you have to be more intentional with effects when you're in a 4/5 piece band
I know this is going to sound crazy, but guitar players used to just plug into an amp. No pedals at all. There was that Brit guy; Eric something or other who did that. WTF? 🤣🤣🤣
When I played in a band, a long time ago now, I used a Peavey Bravo [two channel amp] and a Boss SD1, and I used to get confused with that! I think the modern equipment gives you much more possibilities, so why not make the most if it, providing you don't over do it?
If i have space for a pedal and i can take an hx stomp why not? You can have a SD9 in front or a klon clone if you need it... On the other hand you can also go direct and it will probably sound just as good. You kinda want to be prepared for every scenario and having 1 pedal is not it for 99% of all gigging musicians out there.
I’ve done arena gigs using only a Fuzz Face the whole show through a Super Lead. Here’s my old touring rig: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oVOA0uf8oJ8.htmlsi=wCVmBdoEYmSwMQbY
@@David-q3f3d Google is your friend, search 50's vs Modern Wiring on an electric guitar. There's a great video by That Pedal Show explaining it. It's one of the vlog episodes by Mick
@@David-q3f3d Technically it’s output loading (putting the tone circuit after the volume pot) which gives a truer volume control without tone loss, as opposed to coil loading (putting the tone circuit before the volume pot) which darkens the tone instead of simply reducing volume (I already have a tone pot, I need a volume pot too not a tone pot and a volume/tone pot) you would have to go into LCR circuits and when/why highs shunt to ground etc. but suffice it to say there is no discernible reason why you have to pay $3k for a guitar to come wired right, when it costs no more or less to simply change which lugs get soldered to which. Drives me nuts lol
One pickup, one amp. Did it regularly in the '80s. I use a Helix, these days. I DO have presets with just an amp block and nothing else. Whether it's a modeller or a valve amp, as soon as you start adding effects, you are degrading your tone, not enhancing it.
