1:23 clean tone - a foundation, not super clean - push the amp to get some compression, some saturation (without breaking up) 3:36 edge of breakup - clean when playing lightly (some compression and saturation), but go into distortion when 'digging in' - a boost can help add some beef to a clean tone 6:00 lead sound - possibility: clean sound + pedal (different pedals = different flavours), .. sustain, smooth vs articulation (more high end) - can be used for chords (omit the 3rd, power chords!) - too much distortion => compression => buried in the mix -> back off the distortion! 10:05 delay + reverb - predelay lets the reverb get out of the way of the attack - slapback delay, dotted 8th sound (palm muting adds percussion) - play TO the effect (usually simplify) 14:15 modulation - add texture to a simple part - tremelo, especially for rhythm (doesn't necessarily have to sync up with the song's beat) - flanger / phaser / univibe is great for chords - subtle pitch modulation with reverb is awesome no pedalboard shot 😞

@raucousriley143

5 ай бұрын

How do you not hurt your ears if the only way to get a good clean tone is to turn your volume way up?

@jayhannah150

5 ай бұрын

@@raucousriley143turn the amp down and turn the guitar up

@sundaynightdrunk

5 ай бұрын

@@raucousriley143 The vast majority of tube amps have a Master volume. That controls the overall loudness of the amp. They'll also have a Volume (sometimes per-channel) or a Gain knob. That control is what Rhett's talking about when he says to "turn up the amp." He could have explained that better, but the other guy probably already knows from playing bass. When you increase the gain, but keep the Master Volume low, you can have lower levels of loudness and still saturate the tubes to get that breakup.

@raucousriley143

5 ай бұрын

Hey thanks for the reply. I think maybe why I don't understand is because I don't have a tube amp. I have a boss katana. I should take his tone course. I've been playing guitar for 20 years but never play electric because I don't like my tone

@sundaynightdrunk

5 ай бұрын

@@raucousriley143 The Katana's very popular but man I didn't like its tone. If you can afford it, find a small tube amp and try it out. 15 watts get pretty damn loud, and 30 is giggable. If you like Rhett's tone, you'll dig a tube amp.

Rhett: I wouldn't even say dirt. Just a little bit of warmth. Some saturation. Phillip: Hmmm. It's like the fuzz on a peach. Amen mate.

Rhett’s ability to clearly explain all these things show his expertise, helped out a lot 👍🏽

Drinking game, watch every Rhett Shull video and take a shot for every use of the phrase "edge of breakup". Dead in like 5 videos lol

Rhett knows the difference between a framing hammer and a finishing hammer........MIND BLOWN........much respect

@1148bucknasty

5 ай бұрын

Peen ain't for finishing

@lanceleslie5165

5 ай бұрын

He built his own studio, so yeah.

@drew004jc

5 ай бұрын

but usually that just means they bought the beer@@lanceleslie5165

@david25876

5 ай бұрын

Everything is a hammer

@Spasmatic

5 ай бұрын

​@@david25876 That's what most dictators believe...😉

This is probably one of the most valuable videos I've seen on KZread! Thanks to both of you for asking the right questions and giving the right answers!

@mattdelany6799

5 ай бұрын

Tory Slusher.

Videos like this are so helpful. Taking a beginner step by step describing different tones and how they are achieved. Wonderful video Rhett.

@rareformtx

5 ай бұрын

This one inspired me greatly, no doubt.

Yo Rhett ! This was one of your best videos. I loved it that you TOOK THE TIME, to showcase, explain, demonstrate these sounds. It's very helpful.

I think the part where you talked about what you’d use with GOOD TROUBLE was such a sick concept. If you did a “Rhett’s picks for…” type series for videos that would be pretty sick.

Rhett - thank you!!!! I’ve found myself a little disinterested in a lot of the guitar influencers channels lately. You’ve definitely got me excited again. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU.

Love this type of video… discussion, with demonstrations .. learned a lot , thank you.

Brilliant format very informative, exactly what KZread should be all about. Bravo Rhett & Philip. Learnt more from this video than watching 1000 equipment reviews. Excellent idea for an extended series.

Helpful video Rhett, thanks for sharing!

Wow! Great teaching job. I’m gonna look into that course. Thank you.

Probably one of the best videos describing the basic for a playing musician. Only wish there was a shot of the pedals used later in the video and how to make the adjustments. Need more videos like this.. great job Rhett!!

I learned a lot from this conversational style. Nice and slow and easy to grasp. Thanks Rhett.

Thank you Rhett! This probably the best format for beginners i've ever seen! Congratulations!

Incredible video Rhett. The concept of Playing to the Effect was great advice.

Thanks alot for this. For me, this is the best way to explain the sounds. Someone actually asking you the questions and you showing how to get the sounds. Feels very much like a one on one lesson.

Don't forget the almighty wah wah and octave fuzz. And those volume and tone controls are a guitarists best friends.

Perfectly timed topic for my needs! Great video!

Great video, Rhett! It's amazing how aligned your thought on tone is with mine. So much of this is what I tell people all the time.

Great info on the "tone tool box" approach Rhett..

I found this super helpful Thank you! Great Content

Maybe one of the best intro to effects videos I’ve ever seen. Bookmarked to send to friends getting started with guitar. I had to kind of just figure a lot of this out over the years of playing. This would have saved me a lot of time and money. Also Philip Conrad is such a humble guy! He’s one incredible bass player. Cool to see him humbly coming into this video as guitar is not his main instrument. But man can that guy tear it up on the bass :)

@mattdelany6799

5 ай бұрын

Tory Slusher

Nice vid Rhett, really hit the nail on the head with this one

Thank you Rhett for the entertainment and for sharing your experience and knowledges ! I learn so much these past years at watching your channel. So, massive thank you !

Just getting started with electric - been acoustic til lately - perfect video for explaining what’s what !!!!

Love this. Always great for any experienced guitar players to go back to the basics. Thanks 👍

Super useful to learn how, when and why at the same time.

this is a fantastic vid. very well presented and shown, ive been playing for 20 years and this has taught me new things.

Awesome video, thanks!

Great stuff Rhett!

Well done Rhett !! Ty

I don’t even play, big fan of many genres of music…I find Rhett’s channel interesting and entertaining. This one really took on the educational mode that even I understood albeit at a rudimentary level. I’m also a subscriber to Phillips channel. Keep up the good work Rhett and Phillip.👏👍

this was a great video gentlemen.... hope to watch more

Thank you for this. Straight to the point ❤

As a lifetime acoustic player I found this extremely helpful in approaching electric guitar. A brief masterclass on tones & how to use them. Great questions and understandable answers. Thank you so much!

@mattdelany6799

5 ай бұрын

Tory Slusher

This is one of the best, albeit brief, guitar videos out there. Core info needed by every guitarist presented in a way that’s easy to understand and apply. Really well done. Thanks for this!

@spphmjltd

5 ай бұрын

Just ordered the full Amp course. Looking to learning how to dial my gear in (finally).

@mattdelany6799

5 ай бұрын

Tory Slusher

This is a great video, tons of very interesting info 👍🔝

Thank you for having Phil on your channel. He caught my eye back in the day when you guys would do band type videos. it always seemed in those videos like he’s a super smart cat and has soul to him. I can really tell that he appreciates your knowledge and the way that you guys vibe together is very simpatico. Keep it up 👍

One of my favorite videos you have done.

Rhett, you are really good at explaining all these core concepts.

Really love you explaining one of the main things in terms of electric guitar. That the playing, all the effects and stuff - it's not one-directional thing. It's not just Action. It's InterAction. When you have to let the effects live, let them work, interact with them, instead of just forcefully pushing them to a certain result. And this approach differ from a typical shredder-style sound when you push the hardware to fit your technique. You can't do that with fuzz, for example. You have to let it breathe.

Yo I just got a new tv and I've been going through some KZread vids. I have to say your camera work is some of the best I've seen. Thx for the content.

Rhett, one of your best explanatory videos ever. Keep them coming...

A good episode as usual. Relaxed, interesting discussions and good tone. What’s not to like? Best way to start a lazy Sunday! 👍

Bro... such a good video. Felt myself wishing it was longer haha.

great video. years ago I went to a prs seminar with some guy named David Grissom...he echoed a lot of this info here.

These videos with Phil are some of Rhett’s best content. Love hearing them bounce ideas off each other

Love experimenting with tones... would love to see more videos about tone!!!!!

Great lesson for someone who's getting ready to take the next step 👍

Great overview!

Cool! Like your Tele and amp!

Excellent ans very well explained video.

I used black panel Fender amps with a tube screamer since 1995 and never touched the volume control on the guitar. Rhett's videos opened my eyes to dynamics and using the amp and guitar volume knob. Bought a 20 watt cathode biased amp with power scaling. Now I set the amp dirty and roll the guitar volume back to clean it up. I can get any sound I want without touching the amp and I no longer own an overdrive pedal of any kind. It's been my setup for 2 years now. I wish I had learned that years ago.

@sundaynightdrunk

5 ай бұрын

It's actually pretty uncommon to get *all* your tones just from a cranked amp. Most will set it up for rhythm crunchiness on the amp, roll the volume back for cleaner parts, and hit a pedal for lead tones. But hey, whatever works for you is your own jam!

@maxpeck4154

5 ай бұрын

@@sundaynightdrunk Well, I have a reverb pedal and a delay for some slapback. Overdrive pedals? Nope. Don't own one and don't need one. The key is the amp. Could I do what I do with a Twin Reverb? Not in a million years. My amp has a gain control, a master volume, AND power scaling, and it's only about 20 watts.

A lot of gold nuggets he just dropped for all the dudes - love it Rhett god bless this channel

Rhett is a very good teacher. Patient, clear and positive.

Great video!

As a beginner, I found this video to be extremely useful and valuable. I was extremely receptive just like Phillip. Thank you for making this video. What i learned today will stay with me forever.

Great video, as someone who learned to play before KZread I remember so many things I wanted to know how to do but were things you might be embarrassed to ask at the guitar store or somewhere. Great info in here for everyone

Thanks a lot, you guys are amazing!

Loved this!

This is such a well executed explanation. I almost didn't watch, I've been playing with full size pedalboards for almost 20 years now, but I'm so glad I did. This will be the first video I recommend to new players and I gotta admit, I don't think about pre-delay as readily as one of the first tools on a reverb as it was explained in the video. Really helpful tip!

That thumbnail is RANCID.

Great information. Thank you...

That CS Tele is the one you played in the Telecaster comparison vid?

Great, informative video. Although I keep it simple with a cocktail of slight gain, slight delay, and slight reverb about 99% of the time, I have found that by randomly turning on an effect, I immediately start playing something different. I just hit a button and/or turn a knob on my Katana and see what comes out. Boom, inspiration. At least it works for my budget-gear-low-talent self!

This was nice. Thanks dudes.

Great starter lesson.

Thanks Rhett, your wisdom is gold….

Thx Rhett. I like the dirty channel on my orange so much it seems to live there. You've inspired me to explore my clean channel more.

1000% useful ☺️. Masterpiece video 🙏🤘

This video proves very useful and timely as I recently expanded my pedal board and signal chain.

like the fuzz on a peach... very nicely put

Fun fact, If it wasn't for Rhett there would be no Rick Beato channel. Thank you for your service to humanity and great to see your channel doing so well.

Rhett also shows just how much ground you can cover with a good tele and a good amp

this video is so good, i think you deserves a oscar! 😍😍

Absolutely enjoyed this video alot. MAYBE we could have a current pedalboard update??

This really good, I took all my guitar lessons in the 90’s and never learned how to play to effects like this. I’m good with reverb and tremolo, but this is showing my why can never really connect with any delay pedals, I don’t know how to use them.

This was a great video. Thanks for all the pro tips. Were you using the Volt? Do you like it ? Would you recommend it? Does it have DSP like the UA twin quad x?

Excellent way to describe some of the infinite ways to shape sound! Guitar is a life long battle of trying to find a way to express the thing that's in your in your head, in the way you hear it....Welcome to your new nemesis Phil.

this video is exactly what i’ve been seeking, but never found in any lesson i’ve ever taken.

Man this is liquid gold!! Thanks a lot for the knowledge shared! Now I have a quick question, if you were to live with only 1 amp for the rest of your life, what would it be? Like the most versatile and do-it-all amp on your opinion of course

Man, thank you for this! I'm just building my virtual pedalboard in my reaper and this is just great!

One small note from this video that I really appreciate is a little bit of validation in that tremolo usually isn’t dialed in airtight to the tempo. I use it a lot when in situations without a second guitarist, and I always kind of wonder what do I do if I get in a situation where I’m required to get my Flint locked into the tempo. Anyways.. killer vid loved it!

One hack to new players is - usually set up your guitar a bit brighter than you initially might think it’s good. Once the bass and the kick drum come in with the low end, your “too bright” guitar becomes great in the mix.

@malmmlam

5 ай бұрын

That’s a great tip!

I wasn't that happy with guitar reverb, until I started to run the really good modern reverbs into matching stereo amps (VOX ACs here too - love them with delays). A mono spring is nice, but it's more of an effect than a sense of space. But a great stereo reverb into stereo amps, it's like moving from flattened painting to one with perspective. Similar, but to a lesser extent, with delays. Moving it to stereo / ping bong, with the dry sound in the middle, helps seperate too. It's one of those unfortunate cost things with guitar tone, that it's hard to get away from the fact that a really great reverb sound isn't cheap to setup. Wasn't that into phaser flangers until I started using the ones in the delay loop of the Polymoon, set at a lower level, or the send/return of a DOD rubberneck so the phaser or flange is just on the delay trails. I find them a bit too much if they're too heavy. Similar with chorus, I really dig the stereo chorus sounds of CE-2W, TC SCF+, DC-2W into stereo amps. Live, I might not go with stereo amps, but for recording I prefer it.

phil's aesthetic has gotten better and better throughout the years on this channel lol

Dope vid!

Discovering pre-delay on a reverb pedal was a game changer for me... EDIT: also, truth about not necessarily wanting to tempo-match your tremolo style effects. It can feel a little to "match'y" if it tempos exactly with the time signature.

I love guitar. What a great instrument. I'm so glad I took it up.

Real good. Thx.

I love that relic tele❤

OMMMGGGG!!!! I am a bassist and I am now trying to learn guitar and this is the video I needed!!!!!!!!! Getting a good bass tone is so much different than getting a good guitar tone.

Rhett and Philip great job explaining the complexity of guitar tone in 19 minutes. It took me 19 years to learn this stuff! Lol.

@Fernando-ry5qt

5 ай бұрын

Imagine having a Rhett close to you when learning..... would've wasted a LOT less time chasing the tone I was looking for if I was just able to name it haha

while I like edge of breakup clean tones, don't write off squeaky cleans. Clean tones with no dirt at all is a very useful sound. You may have to use a compressor to get the feel you want, but pristine cleans are gorgeous.

@Fernando-ry5qt

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I mean, there is a reason why the Roland JC amp got so popular right? the hospital cleans it provides

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, sometimes I feel guitarists chase that edge of breakup tone a little too fiercely. It’s not always the right choice.

@Fernando-ry5qt

5 ай бұрын

@ It is understandable, since it is a tone that allows you as a player to express yourself by means of intensity, speed, different attacks and volume, gives you a lot of tools. Playing clean has that too but the contrast is a lot less dramatic

“A little hair on the notes” is how Leo Fender put it. I like a squeaky clean neck pickup sound with a touch of compression to add some weight along with a simple delay or reverb to create ambience.

So personally what I love to do, at least at home, playing out…places get weird, but I like to absolutely crank the amp into saturated distortion, then just use my volume knob to control my gain and volume. Works great! And sounds glorious. So usually unless I’m playing lead, my volume on my guitar lives between 6 and 8. Then when time for lead, just roll the throttle full on. 😊

So play with dynamics use your volume control, maybe a boost reverb and done.Amp sounds great, what are you using Rhett?