Blues Pedalboard Tips for Beginners || Essential Tones

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

Thanks for watching guys! Give the video a thumbs up if you're digging the new backdrop! :) A work in progress but it's getting there!

[@frederickthompson8686]

This is one of the more useful overviews of blues tone pedal options. Thanks, Chris!

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

Really appreciate it, thanks for watching! 🙏🏻

[@lambsows4168]

I'm a beginner trynna get into blues and this is really helpful!

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

Thanks so much! Enjoy the journey 👌🏻

[@lonsdalecasa]

Big thanks .I really enjoyed the video. Cheers

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

Thanks so much for watching and for commenting! Really glad you enjoyed the video!

[@johnstudiob2481]

best od type demo very very helpful always trying to find the sound in my head thankyou

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

Thank you so much for watching 🙏🏻

[@hugo_benoitroche]

great videos man !!! I love the nobles sound !

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

Thanks for checking it out, Hugo! Really appreciate your support man! The Nobels is definitely my favourite overdrive pedal at the moment! :)

[@RenoLaringo]

Your playing is absolutely awesome!

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

Thanks man! Really appreciate it 🙏🏻

[@Dobroz99]

Thanks, I would like to see you play through all of the effects on your pedalboard and how you might use them in a song.

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

I’ll do this in a video soon! Thanks for the suggestion! 🙏🏻

[@JamesMatthew-Zero79]

@@ChrisHarveyGuitar If you could add a window showing the setting of the knobs of the pedals, that would be great too!

[@oscarbolger4961]

Great video as always mate, keep em coming!

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

thank you buddy! Appreciate you being one of the first to watch it! Respect to you my friend! You’re a legend 👊🏻

[@alexkrantz4702]

Thanks mate! this was a great vid

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@MrRocketguitar]

Very informative thank you

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

No problem! Thank you for watching 🙏🏻

[@JarridHolscher]

Cracking video, Chris. Solid, concise explanations. Well done, as always!

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

Hey thanks man! Really glad you came to check out the video! So pleased to hear you enjoyed it - the feedback is always super helpful! 🙏🏻☺️

[@preplayer91]

Jesus I went to school with this man 😊 good to see you doing well my friend 😊 miss the days with our duffel coats, rocking around in 6th form.

[@iamanovercomer3253]

You went to school with Jesus ❓ how old are you 🤣❓

[@Tzadeck]

This video makes me happy that my guitar teacher encouraged me to get used to playing with my pinky early on, haha.

[@shawnperrin9692]

No idea what those pedals do. I would prefer the same riff on the same guitar, with and without the pedal, to compare the with/without sound. And not switching from a tele to a strat after the first sample

[@varmutantvibes5669]

Agreed, came here to say the same thing.

[@jonsguitarlessons2500]

Might try out the tone bender

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

That's awesome man! The Tone Bender is a really unique sound! So many great clones out there! You should checkout Rhett Shull's channel, he uses the Tone Bender a lot and has done some great videos about them!

[@alino9534]

Great video man !

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

Thank you so much for watching man! 🙏🏻☺️

[@markush.573]

Subscribed. Great channel!

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

Hey Markus! Thanks for watching and for subscribing man! It’s great to have you along for the ride! ☺️👊🏻

[@duberollinup3452]

Thanks for the info bud I subbed God Bless!

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

Thank you so much 🙏🏻

[@robsondiem]

Very Nice Chris!

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

Thank you for taking the time to check it out man! I really appreciate your support! 🙏🏻☺️

[@dslrrookie6808]

Great job, Chris. Video, content and music are all great! Just stumbled across your channel today. Not much of a fuzz fan myself, but will be picking up a Thorpy Veteran soon. The Wampler Euphoria is great for ‘transparent’ overdrive too, although the mode switch means it can do a lot more than that.

[@mistert4522]

I wonder what sort of pedals the three electric blues guitarists with the greatest tone of them all used - I mean Albert King, BB King and Albert Collins. Any idea?

[@Ironmaiden415]

Love the backing tracks! Are they available?!?

[@AlexBen1996]

what a bout WAHs? )) Thanks dear! cool video

[@djay6651]

Even some of the el cheapo clones sound almost spot on to the originals. Any $50 Centaur Klone is going to get you about 98% to an authentic Klon tone. My favorite overdrive is split between the DOD FX-50B Overdrive Plus and the DOD 250.

[@alessandrorighi1282]

Hi,I've just few years experience with electric guitars and I'm considering upgrading my gears but I'm not sure in which direction. At the moment I have a basic zoom g3n /sterling cutlass hss with a bugera v5. Would you say that would be better to replace the multieffect with an OD+ DD or maybe a better multieffect such as moeer ge300 ? The last thing that I was considering was to change the amp to a blackstar id 100. I would use the equipment mainly for home practice. Thank you

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

I think for home use I would really consider looking at something like the HX Stomp. They have amazing amp models and modulation effects. I know a lot of people who play at home or record at home that love the HX Stomp. So many effects and possibilities for a relatively affordable price used.

[@alessandrorighi1282]

@@ChrisHarveyGuitar thank you, I'll definitely look into it

[@brucemarie3059]

this does not tkje into account the amp, Tube Screamer or Tumnus would sound choked on a mid-heavy amp. Fuzz and muff may disappoint if ran on a mid-scooped amp. Also a lot of them play well with strat singles or P90 but not so much with humbuckers The rule of the game, know your guitar, know your amp, then choose pedals that do not clash with frequencies of your guitar and your amp Nice playing, BTW

[@liveseytowers]

Oddly I've never heard of a univibe before but this is the 3rd video I've seen in so many days recommending one. I wish I kept my Marshall Blues Breaker pedal from when I was a teen, I think I traded it for a metal zone lol

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

Yeah man they’re not too common these days but it’s definitely an essential for those Hendrix tones! I think they sound amazing! Ah man, well we can all blame John Mayer for the hype around that Bluesbreaker pedal! I hope that Metal Zone treated you well! 😄

[@chrischamberlain2168]

I really dig your tone. I have the same amp. May I ask what your amp settings are?

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

Thanks Chris! Really appreciate it man! No problem, I tend to run the volume around 5 or 6 (Master volume set to whatever is reasonable for home use). Then I tend to run treble at around 11 o’clock, bass around 2 o’clock and middle really low! Then I pretty much always have a boost pedal (usually the Wampler Tumnus) always on just to fatten the tone without adding any overdrive! I hope this helps 😊

[@chrischamberlain2168]

@@ChrisHarveyGuitar thanks for taking the time to reply and for the settings. I’ve only recently discovered your channel and it’s really great. I’m always searching for a great blues tone and am working my way through your videos. You have a lot of feeling in your playing and I think I will learn a lot from your videos.

[@maxflinter6896]

No Wah in your signal chain?

[@michaelwalker6840]

Your great and thank you. John Mayer is good but he is just the flavor that is popular at the moment and by no means a bluesman. He is just a great player that chooses to play blues music. John's facial convulsions for lack of a better word are comical at a minimum. John will definitely be in the top 50 guitarist of all time but he falls way short on being the greatest.

[@44scoots]

Show the pedal settings when demonstrating.

[@eyank57]

is the best best best 👉👍👍👍☝👍👍

[@CyberRabid.]

EHX's East River Drive is available used for around $50 just about anywhere; Guitar Center, Sweetwater, Reverb, Musicians Friend, etc. That's a good place to start your blues journey.....If that's what you really want 😭. "It's hard to sing the blues from the back seat of a limousine." ~ BB King

[@matejkore]

thw univibe is not a chorus or a vibrato. if you have ears, it's obvs a phaser type modulation. sheesh. plus trying to talk about fuzz when you don't use fuzz or have any?? OK so now I will talk about my vagina...........

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

The univibe has a switch called “chorus/vibrato”... and I’ve owned plenty of fuzzes over the years. Just because I don’t own one now doesn’t mean I don’t have experience using them. Thanks for watching ☺️

[@matejkore]

@@ChrisHarveyGuitar if you used your ears then you would hear phaser not whatever the labels said that they used for marketing reasons. 5 seconds of research would have found that. Thanks for reading.

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

@@matejkore I appreciate your thoughts but you should really read the JHS blog on the Univibe, it’s a phase relationship but it’s certainly not a phaser, nor is it a chorus or vibrato, it’s a univibe, but the characteristic of the sound can similar to all 3. No point in spitting feathers over it. It is what it is! But if that detail bothered you then I’m very sorry.

[@jacksonfingerland]

@@ChrisHarveyGuitar mentioning JHS Josh Scott explicitly says it's a phaser not chorus/vibrato and he should know he's an engineer who makes univibes. Case closed.

[@gunnerjenson]

What are you telling us here that's new? Oh yeah, nothing.

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

Remember, it’ll be new to some people. Not everyone is well informed, beginners have to start somewhere

[@jacksonfingerland]

Yawn. Is it still 1975?

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

It wasn’t the last time I checked! Thanks for watching ☺️

[@jacksonfingerland]

@@ChrisHarveyGuitar sounded like it in this video.

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

@@jacksonfingerland can’t please ‘em all I guess! Still appreciate you taking the time to engage with it 🙏🏻

[@jacksonfingerland]

@@ChrisHarveyGuitar how very zen

[@marcusmaynard1526]

@@ChrisHarveyGuitar Jesus you completely destroyed that guy’s negativity

[@matejkore]

yeah because instead of trying to do something new and original, it's always better to use time, talent, money, effort, and so on to simply reproduce stuff from 40 years ago, cos that's more worthwhile, even though if someone really wanted to listen to blues they could, oh, I dunno, buy some albums by Cream, Eric Clapton, BB King, Albert King, Rory Gallagher, or early Fleetwood Mac. In fact, I would rather go and listen to any of them than this. So, err, bye.

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

Not really sure what your point is...this video isn’t about stealing licks, it’s about the foundation of good tone and understanding the iconic tones that defined the blues genre. Thanks for watching ☺️

[@matejkore]

@@ChrisHarveyGuitar the foundation of "good tone" from 50 years ago that has zero relevance today. Thanks for reading.

[@ChrisHarveyGuitar]

@@matejkore I’d say it’s pretty relevant since every pedal manufacturer and every well respected guitarist today in the area of blues; John Mayer, Joe Bonamassa, Josh Smith, Matt Schofield, Kirk Fletcher etc all use pedals inspired by these designs. I appreciate it’s good to be “different” but a lot of people like to chase those tones today and recreate them for enjoyment. Not everyone wants to be a trailblazer - it’s why every pedal company makes a Tubescreamer. so I’d say it’s pretty relevant but again, I’m sorry if that bothered you.