How I Get My Tone | Liquid Charlie

[@wolfgang4136]

Thanks Brother, your tone is insane. I was hoping you would give some insight to it one of these days. I know a lot of it is in your fingers but this will help a lot of players🙏👍👍👍

[@leadguitarmiked]

I was not expecting the DR880!?! What a twist! That’s so awesome!

[@michaeldineenSG2018]

You have such an amazing feel with your accenting and bending. I can definitely hear Edwards influence all over it.

[@JosephChavez]

Awesome! I need something like this to front-end my iMac for recording. Brilliant! I'm loving all your pics and videos of Sassy! Glad we are brothers in arms with our mutual new axes!

[@LiquidCharlie]

I love this guitar!!! Hope you love yours!

[@jaketanis3069]

Thank you so much for posting this! I’ve been convinced you were using your Katana for a long time. Always so cool to see how people get their VH tone!

[@5150show]

Awesome thank you 🙏

[@malo6868]

Well done. You took Ed's components as a base and tastefully modified them to make it into your own modernized profile. Thanks for sharing! It's funny how I learned about you through a Van Halen fan site but enjoy listening to your interpretations of the incredible VH classics

[@fre4409]

Love your channel brotha!! Do you have any detune like harmonizer effects? I love the Balance era sound!

[@markmatire]

Thanks for sharing. You have to be one of the best I've ever seen.

[@MarkPritchardGuitar]

Cool pedalboard Charlie, nice setup 👍🏻

[@stevestarr6395]

Awesome amp like tones and playing Charlie! Thank you! 🤙🏽

[@Twobarpsi]

Thanks for sharing this! I listen to your channel on really good headphones, and your tone is incredible! Your playing is incredible too!!🤘

[@Twobarpsi]

🤘🤘🤘

[@victorv3077]

always GREAT.... THANK YOU!!!

[@MikeCindyWhite]

Sounds amazing bro, Super hot tone... Very simple to, thanks 🎸🎸👍

[@got2rock4]

Awesome tone🎸🔥

[@foggyblues13]

Great info Charlie! Thanks for sharing.

[@MusicmanmarkUk]

Really helpful man - as I'm trying to improve my tone! Any updated wisdom?

[@michaelvaldez5453]

Just subscribed bro. Trying to get my chops for some tasty licks and riffs. Been wanting to play some more EVH ever since the 🐐 died. Definitely want a wolfgang special one day

[@joedesimone1444]

Sweet overview. Thx. One thing that gets missed on a lot of "tone" videos is the guitar volume and tone knob settings. I would be curious to know how wide open your volume pot settings are for these tones since the EVH pickups are quite hot. I too have a Wolfie-Spec and struggle to always find that sweet spot while playing and knob rolling on the fly.

[@LiquidCharlie]

Ah yes! Good point! They're both all the way up for everything you hear in this video. I roll the volume off for a cleaner tone, and the Wolfgang pickups clean up quite nicely.

[@joedesimone1444]

@@LiquidCharlie Thanks. One other question... is the boost switch engaged on the 5150 OD?

[@jonbuckley]

Wow. That is a pretty simple effects chain for such a great sound. Thanks for sharing.

[@LiquidCharlie]

Yeah, it's very simple! Thanks man

[@heyjarrod]

Simple? I thought you were being sarcastic! 😝 I went in tthinking I’m probably not going to like this, but I was curious. Then by the end, I’m thinking, this guy gets a gnarly sound! Awesome! I’ve been playing since the mid-80s, Heavy Metal bands, grew up here near Van Halen, and Eddie was a big influence on me-my early look, and playing style. But I just always kept things simple, plug straight into an amp, using my trusty BOSS DS-1. I was fortunate enough early on to also get that Seymour Duncan Custom around 1985, when I read that is what Eddie used. So I always felt like I was getting pretty great tone! But it would be fun to get a gnarlier sound like he’s getting here. I Love the EVH amps, and pedals. I played them at the Guitar Center here on Sunset back when Eddie had that room set up-around 12 years ago. I will have to get with the times one of these days, ha ha. Maybe pick up one of those EVH half stacks. Great stuff! Thanks! 🎸👍🏻🇺🇸

[@daddylogan]

What happened to the Boss Katana? I thought that was your main sound?

[@littlechrisvanhalen8783]

Hi Charlie.. Great sound!!! Do create your own backing tracks with the Boss Dr 880 or do you use backing tracks from youtube when you play Van Halen songs? Please let me now and cheers CHRISTIAN!

[@LiquidCharlie]

Hey thanks. I do create my own backing tracks for everything. I don't use the DR880 for that though. I program the drums in Logic Pro :)

[@rc-rh6ug]

Holy shit... that is FKn amazing 🔥

[@theoravelo136]

Awesome Charlie

[@rodolfomisao123]

So expensive for me. It's very expensive in my country or buy international, because the Dollar is like 4,67 times the Brazilian Real. I use a Mooer Ge 100, I've tried to use the Ac 30 simulation with tube screamer simulation or Boss Overdrive simulation. Is that correct effect to achieve this tone?

[@KingGrio]

I envy your effortless playing

[@KalphosZeromar]

A pretty neat tone

[@evanmiller2579]

Thanks for posting. Question I have is do you have a "gigging" version of this tone that you put together with some amps/pedals, etc? Thinking in terms of amp distortion vs pedal distortion, delay, reverb. My experience has been with the plugins now available through Logic and Universal Audio, dialing in the VH tone from the different eras is no longer much of a challenge. That being said, a live gigging sound at various volumes is more of a challenge. Appreciate all you do and love the channel.

[@nata5579]

Best tone on youtube!!

[@jeff-TessAD2022]

killer tone Charlie. Just curious are you going through the effects loop on the amp or straight from guitar through drum machine and then pedals? Thanks for sharing!

[@jeff-TessAD2022]

I just realized you said your not using an amp. So when you use your amp, do you use the effects loop ? thanks!

[@flyingdutchman80]

Wow, killer set up. I can replicate everything but the computer portion of this set up. I was looking at getting that same MXR ISO brick. Did you get the package with the pedal board from Sweetwater by chance? Cheers and thank you!

[@littlechrisvanhalen8783]

Hi Charlie... I love your tone ..awesome VH !! Please i need your opinion.. Is this a good combination.. MXR 5150 OVERDRIVE (GAIN DOWN LIKE YOUR SETTING ON THE VIDEO) WITH A BOSS SD1 WAZA OVERDRIVE ( MORE DRIVE SETTING) ? TO GET YOUR SOUND?? I HAVE ALSO THIS PEDASL TOO MXR EVH MXR EVH PHASER MXR 117 FLANGER MXR COMPRESSOR MXR 6 BAND EQUALIZER MXR REVERB DUNLOP ECHOPLEX DELAY THANKS FOR ALL CHARLES! YOUR VH- BUDDY FROM AUSTRIA LITTLE CHRISVANHALEN!! STAY LIQUID CHARLIE!!!🤟😎🔥⚡⚡⚡⚡

[@littlechrisvanhalen8783]

And the Mxr 5150 Overdrive pedal for sure too

[@littlechrisvanhalen8783]

And the Boss Ps6 Harmonizer!

[@pascalbarat1993]

Waiting for you advices to play Cathedral....i never succeed in playing this song....( tone setting and ...fingers !!! )

[@LiquidCharlie]

Oh! I’ve never ever tried to play that to be honest! Maybe a while

[@heyjarrod]

Hey Pascal, it’s pretty much just a broken barre chord and volume swells-and some delay. You can do it! You’ll get the timing of it with a little practice. 👍🏻🎸

[@FoodFolksandGuns]

Set the delay for one repeat at full volume. Delay time is just under 400 ms The rest is timing and practice to get a clean sound. And use chorusing as well

[@Kinger1625]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

[@davidfournier3355]

You the man Charlie👊🏼

[@atticussampson776]

If I am starting as a beginner but was serious about devoting the time and effort to get good, would you recommend getting the BOSS DR-880 now only because it's discontinued and will likely be harder to get as time moves on? Plus if you can find it the price will be a lot higher. Suggestions? Anyone please. Thank you!!

[@antuanheath8234]

Cheers mate much respect sounds 👌

[@francoisfavreau769]

Hi Charlie,do you know if the Liquid tone for the Boss katana would work on my Katana Artist?Because on the website it features only Katana's MK2

[@dougcampbell3593]

So good!

[@FloydUpgrades]

👍👍👍👍

[@JONNIE_ROCKER]

👍 good video, Nice info

[@LiquidCharlie]

Thank you

[@JONNIE_ROCKER]

Is the song from the video (with your new guitar ) something you are working on, or is it ready,

[@Deaner78]

👍👍👍

[@tomthumb1769]

What speakers do you use