Joe Bonamassa's Tips For Improving Your Guitar Sound 

Full Interview Here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kUbo8mreVWA.htmlsi=PhK5Adq4OLPMn_BT

I could listen to Joe fiddle around on the guitar all day.

Joe is always happy to share what he's learned. Master musician yet honest and humble 💙🎸🎶🎤❤️

Being a guitarist that uses a simple rig myself...I have to agree w/ Bonamassa. He's been a brilliant player for a long time!

even though i do not like his music, Joe is a great player, geek and I can listen to him talk gear all day. it is great to see passionate people that are successful and Joe definitely deserves it.

Bonamassa, such natural brilliance. He's a treasure and I can't get enough of him. What a beautiful soul and presence.

I really love that no matter what, Joe will come and talk to both you and us, and be happy. To me he is a true legend.

"just plug straight in" (To your heavily modified vintage marshall amp in a place that is equipped to handle enormous volume...)

Saw Joe live on Monday in louisville to kick off the tour. Amazing show and what a venue.

Im happy that Joe plays a lot in interviews. So many players sit there and hold a guitar and dont play or teach us much of anything.

I saw Joe open for the Stones last week in Seattle and he didn’t disappoint. In fact it was incredible!

Front pickup humbucker, you get your Johnny Winter. Nuff said.

In my opinion, Joe’s tips and identity are what every guitar player should aim for, efficiency and versatility

that interview finally got me into Joe Bonamassa. Guy seems to play effortlessly.

I'm glad you had Joe on because I love the way Joe plays thank you Rick

Love the shout out to Glenn Hughes. Oneof my favorite rock vocalists

Love these snippets on YT2…would like a segment on improvisation. Joe B sparked the interest.

I'm a senior citizen living on Social Security, Rick, so I can't afford anything. But watching your show gives me so much joy that I just wanted to take this opportunity to say "Thank You."

Bravo RB2🎸《☆》I'm always impressed when players say Back pickup or Front pickup😎It's easy to forget which is which if you're not from the psychedelic 60s✌🏼😁☯️

What a player. Always amazes me.

Joe B . Cool on the inside and cool on the outside . A mad man on stage . Blues legend . ✨✨✨🎸✨✨✨🇺🇸🎼🎼🎼

Fantastic interview and very insightful ❤

Nice blue player. Like the way he plays and use the notes.

It’s hard to hate this guy… but he’s hoarding all the classic guitars 😊

Joe is the best!

That Les Paul sounds glorious

The lighting makes that burst just burst out of the screen. It’s all I can look at.

People are stuck in high school, they see the jowls and sunglasses and want to put him down to differentiate themselves from the nerds. But he seems like a perfectly humble and intelligent, generous person, and he really plays amazing. I probably won’t tear up listening to him play, but I still have plenty to learn from him.

I marvel at Joe's effortless precision right hand technique.

Joe doesn’t always play this ways in his songs because he has many different tones he can use, but man that British blues thing is perfect with the bridge pickup through the Marshall. Amazing

Fantastic player, he makes good music, great singer also, so, great guy

So true Joe! It’s so important to use the lower frets in your solo’s and not spend too much time on the 12th fret and up shredding away! Variety is the spice of life! And singing is critical. There’s a plethora of ass kicking guitarists out there, believe me! There are a lot fewer guitarists out there who can also sing! I prefer to sing and play guitar. As the saying goes, “the hardest instrument to play is the voice”!!!

@Dirk Kolk. Be patient. Listen through. You can do it.

Seeing Joe at the Ryman this summer and can’t wait!!!

Finally subscribed, and thank you for what you're doing with Beato 2. In a nutshell, I've appreciated Les Paul tone because it's always (from the '60's on) seemed like it channeled the human voice, a soul singing through it whereas, unless heavily effected, a Strat or Tele sounded like an electrified device. Then, of course, there was Freddie King playing small clubs live here in Texas diming a Super and willing his soul through a 335 with metal finger picks, a sound apart like the difference between a flashlight and a welder's arch. A wise man explained to me years ago there are musicians, performers, and entertainers. When we experience a performing musician who is also an entertainer they seem imbued with the Divine and we feel attracted, awed, and blessed. Please take care of yourself so we can enjoy your great work for many years to come. doc

That was funny when he said he gets a running start up to the Mike to hit that note lol

I'm a fan of his music and actually really enjoy Joe's informal playing like in this vid a lot

great tips...will certainly come in handy the next time I'm playing for a few thousand people outdoors.

Melody overall is the most important of music.

BIG FAN! I saw Joe this past fall in Providence, RI and already have my tickets to see him in Hyannis, MA at the Cape Cod Melody Tent this August! He is amazing!

In my top 3 favorite guitarist of all time!!!

I have a boss katana and an SG custom and a DD8 delay… I can do so much with that 😊 for under $1000

Let the natural vibe of the guitar shine through. Exactly. Pretty much the opposite of gimmick Tom Morello.

Joe is the man

Great vid!

Cool interview on his approach to soloing!

Yesterday, I was subscribed. Today, not. WTF. I complain to YT. GREAT content Rick! Thank you for being amazing!!!

Nothing better than a Paul through a Marshall.

I'm a huge blues and guitar fan. Four of us went to see him in Ottawa. We walked out half way through. The performance was was so disconnected from the audience. We were not the only ones. He is an amazing guitar player, but there was something missing for all of us. Just my 2 cents.

Rick, I wish you would have discussed the settings you were using that day, on the jubilee, and what pedals he was using, if any, people want to know the specifics. e.g. where did you have the output master and lead master set when you recorded this?

If you really want to improve your tone, study Joe's vibrato technique.

Respectfully that tone sounds a bit unforgiving but Joe sounds great on it. What a player.

I think he had his best tone when he was using Buddha Amps.

Rick I am subscribed and bought your teaching materials.

Number one tip to improve your tone: a 58 Les Paul straight into a Marshall duh

This is what I don't like about modelling amps, they can make your guitar sound a certain way, even with different amps. It's just so much more rewarding to explore the tones in you guitar and amp, I think everyone should learn this way if they want to master the instrument and not some software package - rant over 🙂

Rick, hope to see John Mayer one day on your channel. Finger cross🤞🏻

Would have loved to see Joe pick with Jerry Reed. Unfortunately that ship has sailed, but I think they would make a great team.

Joe, do you still have that Great Candy Apple Red Custom Telecaster from when you were 11 years old and played it on that TV show with Barny Fiffe.

Joe is an astonishing musician. Only seen him with Black Country Communion, who are amazing. That Les Paul is stunning. Beautiful looking and awesome tone. I'm quite envious 😁

Best rock singer Layne Staley

Subscribed and rang the bell Rick

Jim Babjak (Smithereens) has a tuner pedal...period. 😎

Not feeling the tone but, he can play cool licks.

Well that was cool but I didn't get much tone advice out of it. Idk, he is not the only one, I have seen other players seem reluctant to get into the nitty gritty of what settings yield what tones. So who else noticed that he kept fiddling with the neck Tone pot but the switch was on the bridge pup?

when Joe playes "a bit" during an interview, it usually sounds way better than a lot of peoples records, that they've spend days or weeks and more in a studio to achieve.......yep

7 commercials is too many for a 9 minute video

A band that I was in opened for "Bloodline" in the mid ninties, he was very good , being chaparoned by his Dad . LoL !

"Singing is the hardest thing....its so predicated by how you feel..." i got the allergy blues.

Some people get great tone by practicing what they play I get great tone by pressing play!

Joe’s Blooz Toanz on a Gibbons 😃😃

Good tone

The real joe bonamassa pls stand up

Get John Mayer on the show!

I remember following you since you've been about 16 very very very very very good. You guys need to write some hits you got the technique you might as well quit worrying about that you develop that when you're a little boy you're really good son listen to Jimmie Vaughan Derek trucks everybody's looking for a sound it's your fingers😊

Does Joe own Alvin Lee's 335?

The great joe walsh said "take yer guitar plug it into the amp and turn it up".

Joe is a great player, but I wouldn't say anything he does is unique.

At last a guitar player who talks about singing!

I love collecting the cool diagrams people are making online for different guitarists' rigs. Despite what Joe says here, Slash's live rig diagram is actually ENORMOUS. Here's his signal path: Les Paul through a Dunlop Cry Baby (SW-95 Slash Wah) > MXR Smartgate, > Dunlop Cry Baby Q Zone > ANOTHER Dunlop Cry baby (SW-95 Slash Wah) > MRX Phase 90, classic orange like you remember > MXR Slash Octa/Fuzz prototype/MXR CAE MC-401 Boost Line Driver > MXR M134 Stereo Chorus > MXR M159 Stereo Tremolo > Boss DD-3 Digital Delay > Into an A/B Switcher Box, that splits into a clean amp(Marshall 2555 Silver Jubilee Head) and/or a dirty amp (Mashall AFD100 Slash Signature Head). The two amp heads drove a wall of Custom 1960 AV/BV Marshall Stacks loaded with Celestion Vintage 30s. Meanwhile: here's Eric Clapton's signature path from the Yardbirds: a Fender Telecaster > a Vox AC-30 2x12 Combo Amp. Yeah, that's it. WHen he got to Cream, his rig got REALLY complex: he played a Gibson ES-335TDC and put it through a Vox Wah pedal before going into his wall of JMP100 Super Lead Heads driving two Marshall stacks. I guess no one ever keeps it simple for long.

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I been playing today! And the only thing I learned from the video. Which is what I needed to learn. Is that the jubilee has white noise just like my origin 50 H. And I bet Joe has it “crancked” to a point. Today I was going to wake my amp Coz I crancked and it made white noise and made el think it was bad or something. What I want to learn now is where to set it so it’s crancked but I can go to clean in a snap. Being a 1 channel amp.

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Don’t get a cold, ok, check ✅

Rick gets guys to play during interviews by setting out guitars and amps the artists can keep their hands off.

He just seems to get faster!? I seem to get slower😂

I subscribed bro

Never heard of this fella. Smooth chops. Speaking of guitar players who are good singers, Zakk Wylde has a great set of pipes.

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Great singers treat vocals as an instrument. Which of course they are.

Lets dial in a tone...and proceeds to say I'm playing a '58 Les Paul

If you want great sound first, buy a $250,000 guitar. Then, blast it through a vintage Marshall in a studio with a professional mic. set up. It also helps to have other-worldly talent.

the thing that's kool about Joe is that there are at LEAST 500 or so guitarists out there who do this exact same thing. If he were to disappear tomorrow, we'd have plenty of replacements.

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not gonna lie when i play my les paul i plug straight in to my champ 100 sound better wit no effects

Cool All I need is some vintage guitars and some vintage amps.... And no neighbors...... It's true but totally impractical for 99% of us.

Love me some widely-widlies! 😆

I might have to quit and give up my dream. How can this guy fail?

Last week I tried a 58 Custom Les Paul Reissue.... with Orange Dark. There is NO need for any pedals...nothing. If you play a really high end guitar with a tube amp... you get the tone irrespective. It dawned on me.... Pedal industry is robbing people of buying a really good guitar. Guys save up and buy the best guitar you can afford. THen add some pedals.....100 boutique pedals will not improve your basic guitar !..

Sounds like Malcolm young!!! Hahahah sorta blues and rockabilly!