I saw a guitar documentary featuring Andy Summers demonstrating his latest effects rack and foot switcher. The last thing he said was, "basically we use all this stuff to make the guitar sound like it did before we had all this stuff".
@@BkBk-gy6vr Is that all you could think of to say? FFS. Get a glass that's half FULL, pal, not half empty. As someone once said, say nothing if you have nothing positive to say. Night night.
This is better than 90% of the guitar videos on RU-vid - and the dude doesn’t at all even seem like he intended to make this. Seems like he’s just chillin talking about guitar shit and someone took out their phone and started filming. Love it.
You’re spot on w your assessment! I’m in 1000000% agreement w you! The dude knows his shit,can play w feel, and isn’t pretentious or talking ‘down’ to you.He’s REAL!. There’s so many a-holes out there.Guys like R hett Sh ule, who I personally don’t know, and could be a good guy.But for me, being a studio keyboard occasional guitar, multi instrumentalist player my whole career, guys like the one I mentioned just sometimes bother me!This guy is f-in awesome. You can tell he’s doing it for the right reasons, not to sell merch or get the most subscribers, which will possibly get him the most subs! I subscribed immediately! Thanks for your take on it!
Stumbled onto this whilst looking through RU-vid and, after reading some of the initial comments I am in agreement, best telecaster playing I've watched. Your range of playing is amazing , I could listen to you all day.
How it should be done ... like Jaco said: "It's all the hands." Someone asked Wilko Johnson what pedals he used, Wilko said: "I'm a guitarist, not a fucking cyclist."
@@elizabethanderson2968but no one says pedals makes you good at playing, Hendrix didn’t used an octavia or an univibe because it made him play better he used those in order to get the space psychedelic factor he wanted to impulse in his songs. People like you won’t like that I’m sure but Les Rallizes Dénudés shows what a few maxed out pedals do and it’s incredible even more for the 70s
"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations." -Orson Welles The beauty of guitar music is in its limitations. When you are only give a single volume and tone, you will try to maximize the different types of tones. Then you add in the pickup selector. Then you add in the amp EQ. There are so many tonal variations can be achieved with just simple controls, but we live in a modern digital age where we have everything accessible at our fingers with modeling amps and digital amp sims, but there is a beauty in the limitations and it truly breeds creativity and innovation.
This has been known since the late-80s, when the supposedly "advanced" guitars like Steinberger with active pickups plugged into rack$ of outboard FX and MIDI sounded worse than an old Gibson or Fender plugged straight into an old amp for 90+% of anything you'd ever want to record. It's kinda how we got bands like the Black Crows and an entire genre like grunge in the first place.
I have felt like this for many many many years...Countless examples in music and film, just because the limits are lifted does not mean you will create something better.
An even more important aspect of all this though is that with easy software technology for doing anything and everything at a few clicks, this allows businesses to completely control everything that's produced. A corporation no longer needs to bother hiring actual artists and craftspeople to make music or films or whatever else, they can just produce anything from software templates based on whatever the internet data dictates will sell best (which is of course always repeating old things, hence why everything's gone stale) and they can just hire whoever to be a brand image for them and tell them what to do and write their stuff for them etc etc.
I used to hate telecasters until I bought one ,and now I absolutely love them and now I have 3 . A very nice sounding versatile guitar . Fantastic tones sounds great well done .
The problem is so many YT demos of boost and OD are using teles and noodling generic 'blues licks' with no other meaningful context, so when demo'ing the EQ and gain ranges the relatively shrill, thin and 'spiky' timbre of a tele is ear-fatiguing faster than other guitars. Particularly when playing generic blues licks _"oooh yeah, baby....Just cant wait for yet another 3-string-mute-to-wholestep-bend to kick off another"solo" "_ fucking hell, lol
Me too. This is such a common story; I didn't get them at all until I noticed that so many of favourite artists and songs used them. Now mine has pride of place!
I went pedal buying crazy during Covid boredom. Almost all of them have ended up for sale on reverb. I am now down to 3 or 4 including a tuner. I am trying back to practicing everyday with just the guitar and amp and it’s making me better at understanding the relationship between guitar volume, tone and dynamics and the pre-amp/power amp sections of my amp. Im not a great player, but the fewer pedals I use the better I begin to understand what’s really happening here.
@@Anjohl I like Reverb. My amp has it built in, so no need for a reverb pedal. 50% of my friends like Delay, and 25% of those use both reverb and delay. Am I missing anything by not using both reverb and delay?
Nice … this is why I love my Telecaster. I saw Petty playing one when I was 14 & thought it looked cool, and once I finally got one I understood why so many people use them.
Yep. I ditched pedal rigs and even solid-body guitars long ago. I found when I stopped busying myself tweaking gear on stage, my tips shot way up, because I stay connected to the audience instead of the rig. Nice picking control allows you to sound like two players instead of one. I think guys are waaaaay to busy with gear. You start actually playing more sophisticated when you're left with only the instrument Great video post!
What a great demo by a very cable guitarist. Those wishing to learn from this note how his technique changed to get the most out of guitar sound. Amazing demo of technique here as well as guitar sounds. 👍
I mean, I get all you are doing on the guitar, and of course all of it works and are great resources, but come on! You got the Midas touch! It is your hands and fingers doing all the work! You are an amazing player! New favorite channel found!
Many guitarists never investigate those partial volume sounds - I use them on all my guitars and in fact IMO I think the best tones lie there. I have the same tele as you do - what a tone machine!
well, except every other 25 1/2" scale electric guitar. it's TIMBRE is wiry, spiky and thin. _Tone_ and tonality is about **intervals** (triTONE, diaTONic, pentaTONIC... get it?) not the amp setting or sound of pickups etc... but people are stuck in a dysfunctional terminology, so here we are
I think there’s a time and place for pedals too but this is a great example that you don’t really need them. Also a reminder how simple but versatile a telecaster is. Easy to pick up, hard to master. Why I love teles, and Im not nearly as good as a player
I'm an extreme metal guy who haven't even touched a 6 string for many years now, (I own a few 7 strings; I love 6 strings too of course, it's just I didn't need one for some time now) but even for me this was beyond impressive. All the tones are very nice, quite on point and Glen plays very well too.
Finding your own tone just with a guitar and an amp seems to have become a very underated quality today. Every beginner already has tons of effects and amp (simualtions) available and the results mostly sound the same, because a lot of the players rather seem to be more interested in copying tones from others than developing their own one instead. Billy Gibbons can play a Les Paul or a Tele or anything else through a Marshall, Bassman or Magnatone amp and he always will sound like Billy Gibbons. Same with Hendrix, Blackmore, Beck, Page, Rpydal,... Same with guitars, if you have three great sounding tones available and know, what to do with them, this mostly is more than enough instead of 20, which do not really sound good. At least in my world. Same with amps, why is a Tweed Princeton, AC-30 or 1959 still sounding awesome today and a lot of modern multi-feature multi-channel amps are not in direct comparison or simply do not offer the same "magic"? Using effects is the spice on the tones, sometimes useful, sometimes simply too much, but all the effects do not automatically create a better tone. They can improve things, but also make them sounding worse. Great playing and nice volume swells!
This is worth me clicking subscribe. Great video. Its amazing how many guitarists just leave their volume & tone knobs on 10 and never learn to experiment with all the different sounds they can get just by adjusting volume & tone. I dont mind using effects but adjusting volume & tone on the guitar is a must and a lost art form
The answer is: People who live in appartments for rent. If i would play my amp at the edge of break up the cops will knock at my door in a few minutes. 😅 So i am realy happy about my FX pedals. 😉
@@whatisthis__95 thank you soooo much🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 i never thought about that before. You realy saved my life. 🙄 ..... There are amps without a master volume, you know?
@@marquisdecarabas1312 if you have a send in/out, you could get the JHS little black amp box. I had the same problem as you, that box kept my tone and lowered the volume. But only on a send in/out
The sound is so much more organic when you don't clutter things up with effect pedals and rack gear. Just a 2-pickup guitar with a volume and tone knob plugged into an amp where overdrive is controlled by the volume knob can deliver such an amazing palette of tones. So many great guitarists from Walter Trout to Angus Young got great tones by plugging straight in sans effects. No reason why we knuckleheads can't do the same!
Origal spec American Tele > old RAT pedal > a classic Marshall = more tones than you could ever use, and all are built to last for life and be easily repaired. Everything from Jazz, to Blues, to Punk to Stoner Rock, to the highest level, for life.
I tend to put pedals into two categories. One is tone and the other is effects. Most tone pedals aren’t needed beyond needing more gain. Effects like chorus, delay, rotary, wah etc. can’t be replicated but depending on what type of stuff you’re playing you may not need them. I generally think it’s better to have and not need than need and not have. An occasional effects pedal can be very effective……
Very cool. I'm embarrassed by how late in life I started using the knobs, or as Joe Bonamassa calls them, "the forgotten pedals" the wah trick is really fun.
@@benallmark9671 it's a volume knob "trick". Typical wah is a resonant band-pass filter. Most guitar "tone" knobs are a non-resonant lowpass, so they wont get a "quack-a-waka" sound.
Whoa...brilliant rundown of the many virtues of the Tele! The cool thing is, with the amp setup properly as you do here, one can do the same thing with a Stratocaster, or a Les Paul, etc., etc.--even one pickup Juniors can exhibit a great range of tones by manipulating the volume & tone, plus where & how you pick--it's all about letting them _breathe_ a bit!
This is why, in 2017, after deciding a year prior that my imminent retirement merited my first decent electric guitar, researching and deciding a Tele was for me, and after finding out a modestly second-hand commemorative one from my birth year would cost tens of thousands in any currency, I bought a Fender Standard Maple Neck Brown Sunburst MIM Telecaster. Just with the basic Tele with ungraduated Tone & Vol. reduced to say, 10 different levels, plus the 3-way pickup switch, we have 10 x 10 x 3 = 300 different settings. And that doesn't count: - Pick or not Pick characteristics Pick location, angle, velocity, attack, stroke angle, and more.
Very informative. Thank you. It’s easy to forget just how many great sounds can be made with the most basic of equipment AND imagination. Once again, thank you.
This is one of the best guitar videos I’ve ever seen. All you really need is one amp, one guitar - and the patience getting know the infinite combinations you can have. Sure, you can get a few pedals to add some flavor, but that’s just icing on the cake - if you have a tasty cake, you can forget the icing. Bravo, Glen! (Also, not that it matters, but what amp are you using?)
Brilliant playing, mate!!! As much as I love my Strats, I've been playing a lot of Tele. I made a "Barncaster" - took a Squier, burned the body, roasted the neck and gutted it with new pickups and wires/pots, but I also threw in a humbucker in the middle, like a Nashville Tele, but the 3 way is neck, hum, and bridge (all separate).....it's a Tele on steroids!!!!
Great post Steve! But it sparks a question: Why exactly did avoiding pedals improve your playing "a lot"? Can you identify the reasons? That would be really helpful to many of us guitarists
@@cNicely Well as I started out with all them gadgets A active US Charvel guitar Roland effects amp a Zoom and one multi pedal I had that brown sound pretty quick thinking of me as an genius a God! No I was not as gadgets will make 75%. I had turned to an keyboardist as clever in finding and combining spectacular sounds! Yeah I played that guitar with an table spoon and other crazy stunts and it sounded as good whatever I did to it. As I dicovered it I started to scale down and as all the sudden that I wanned to play all kind of music now it was up to skill and boy that I lacked skill. Effects are as much about what you can get from just one guitar and one amp or by some anomalies as that Strat i once had where I could do the U2/Edge all day long. Effects will ensure that it is always there and as easily creating an lazy player.
Glenn this sounds great. Seems like it’s really important to get the amp set right to underpin the guitar tones. Maybe a video on how you approach that??
I still have a pedal board, but I'm working from the mantra "less is more". By using the knobs on the guitar, the knobs on the amp and the pedals carefully basically every sound can be made. Tom Bukovac recently showed how he uses and EQ pedal to achieve basically all the conceivable tones. All of this taken together is the cure for GAS.
@@robertph1787 59 custom shop those pickups are hand wound by one of feders pickup winders in the fifties they got her out of retirement for a limited run
After 37 years of messing with electric guitars, over the last decade I’ve more or less settled on the Telecaster and own 9 now. I like Strats too and have 5 but the Telecaster always wins the day!
That's awesome. Really hope to get a telecaster one day. I feel like every effect one adds creates an entire new kind of instrument with its own capacity for expression. In that way, someone who knows how to play a simple clean/boosted guitar and be expressive isn't more or less than someone who knows their way around pedals and how to get the right sound out of them. There's guitar-centric music like shoegaze that really wouldn't be what it is without pedals. Metal too. You need to know how to work a simple string obviously and the basic stuff you get with a guitar, but no one should say that those with a big pedalboard are lesser guitarists.
I have a 52’ American original tele reissue in butterscotch blonde. That’s about as classic stock tele as it gets and as a professional touring musician for pop artist, it’s forever going to be a strat if i have to travel with only one. 2nd and 4th position (that’s middle mixed with either bridge or neck) on a strat is on a ton of records from the last 40+ years and cannot be duplicated by any other pickup configuration. The Strat can go Jazz with the tone knob rolled back and if u put a humbucker in the bridge you can keep up with the output of a Les Paul. Strats also has the trem arm if u need to dive bomb/r&b things up. A strat will duplicate a tele sound more than vice versa.
Great sounds! Would have been nice if you would have describe how to set your amp at the beginning. It's a shame that many people seem to set their guitar volume and tone knows to 10 and never change them. So much flexibility built into the guitar controls.
