Bethel Guitarist Kenyon Reed’s Tone Journey

[@cliffberry]

Appreciate the podcast, a lot insight from Kenyon. If I may suggest, putting a gate on your mics for when the other person is talking would make for a better audio experience. Every time Kenyon speaks, I am hearing him in the other microphone. I am sure you guys will get better the more podcasts you do.

[@frequencyco]

Thanks for the feedback, Cliff. Will definitely do that next time!

[@Stuxe_907]

Incredible! Can't wait for more stuff like this!

[@frequencyco]

More coming for sure! Thanks for following!

[@augustphlieger3718]

Love it!

[@frequencyco]

Appreciate it!

[@iamkennymartin]

Fully agree on the longer decay on the 70s/Plate on the Flint. I miss that pedal for sure sometimes.

[@frequencyco]

There is something special about it for sure!

[@MattLawhonMusic]

Great job with this one guys🔥

[@frequencyco]

Thanks Matt, glad you liked it!

[@chas.tabone]

Love it man!

[@frequencyco]

Thanks!

[@Zakkiss]

Nice chat! ;) Media offline at the end, I know that feeling :D

[@frequencyco]

Can't win them all I guess...

[@Tim-545]

interesting that he mentioned first wanting to go deeper with guitars due to Pope/Strand's influence and having the 'XI' album as his north star...I've always thought he and Hislop were responsible for shifting the style of Bethel's guitars away from those guys towards something more similar to what you might expect from hillsong/elevation etc. The mixes have defo moved in that direction over the past 10 years or so. Go back to Tides live/Brave/Have It All and the style is so much more 'in your face’, where there would only ever be 2 parts or very occasionally a 3rd textural part. Now there’s like 4/5 guitar tracks per song and they’re arranged as if they’re not expecting to be loud in the mix. I'm sure it's not always the guitarist's choice, but if Pope/Strand were his inspiration I can imagine that being a frustrating trend for him.

[@frequencyco]

Maybe we will have to get him back on and talk about that next time! I think you can be influenced by someone, yet still go a different direction stylistically. Love that you mentioned Tides. I feel like that album gets overlooked a lot but it is SO good. We Will Not Be Shaken has some really subtle, yet brilliant guitar stuff. I think the newest album, Come Up Here, kind of heads back in that direction.

[@Tim-545]

@@frequencyco I would love an episode like that! Yeah so true! Tides is also interesting tonally because its one of the only albums where the majority of the guitars are double tracked rather than stereo. WWNBS is similar in that way, but as you say its much more subtle and the parts are generally more textural in approach. But there are a whole load of amazing acoustic parts that take centre stage on that one!

[@frequencyco]

@Tim-545 Yes! The acoustic parts on WWNBS are so good!

[@Aaronbray91]

Fralin Pickups are so goated

[@frequencyco]

100000%

[@matthewneedham2125]

Quick question, are you saying I should add a preamp pedal before my helix and that will warm it up or do I need to put it in the effects loop at some point?

[@brysonsamsill2533]

I would say before personally. Kenyon may have a different opinion!

[@anthonygroves16]

27:33 🤣🤣🤣 I stand by what I said, those Bloomery’s are odd looking

[@frequencyco]

LOL. It's funky looking but works great!

[@CalebCarpenterMusic]

Which tophat is that in the back? A king royale?

[@frequencyco]

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[@CAZUALWHiTEguy]

Heads up.. there’s already a long running KZbin guitar show named tone talk..

[@jameslugo]

Yeah it’s Mark and Dave Friedman.

[@tone-talk]

Thanks…they should change the name

[@frequencyco]

Just changed it, sorry about that guys, didn't mean to encroach on y'alls show.

[@dennisrichards4254]

Where is your shop in DFW?

[@brysonsamsill2533]

Fort Worth! 1605 Clover Lane Fort Worth Texas

[@frequencyco]

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[@LuisRios3015]

I'd rather let the pedals do the work to go dirtier. leave the gain at 12. Great Interview!!!!

[@frequencyco]

Yeah I totally get that. And thank you!

[@BobbyCulpepper.srv3fender]

What? Im in Denison

[@frequencyco]

👀

[@tone-talk]

May want to change your show name…

[@frequencyco]

100%

[@tone-talk]

@@frequencycogreat thank you! 😊 best wishes