Rockabilly / Psychobilly Guitarsound with pedals

Hi!
Made this video to show how you can get a decent rockabilly/psychobilly guitarsound, without having to spend a lot on a Gretsch hollowbody, expensive Fender amp and a huge tapemachine for echo. I will reveal a pedal, (that is quite affordable) that will probably make any amp/guitar-setup sound very rockabillyish!
The guitar I used is my Fender Player Series Stratocaster with Floyd Rose, with D'addrio 0.10 - 0.46 Strings. I'l be switching between the bridge humbucker and the neck singelcoil.
The amp I used is my Bugera Vintage V22 Infinium with Turbosound speaker, set at clean channel.
The camera used for the video is my Canon 760D with external RODE-mic.

[@GhostBastardsband]

Really cool and useful video! Thanks for sharing

[@gringogreen4719]

Psychobilly is really more HOW YOU PLAY than WHAT YOU PLAY! Its more about attitude. That said reverb, echo/delay, and overdrive are your main friends. I played a show with Curse of The Pink Hearse (I'm not in their videos) and my setup were my two Ibanez Artcore Hollow Bodies (AK86 with a Vintage Vibrato and Roller bridge and a stock AFS75T) straight into my Vox VT 30. It sounded just fine for Rhythm guitar. The main reason I went with this amp was built in effects and I could control the wattage so I can get the most out of my Hollow Bodies. I have a few amps that range from 5 watts to 100 watts and there are pros and cons to all of them. I would really say, find the sound you have in your head and find thw way to get to that sound without having to either buy everything or bust the bank. 😎👍✨

[@ChrilleMH86]

Aha, sounds interesting, I will have to look that band up! Yeah, I think the thing with a hollowbody guitar is more about the style. I Do have a Epiphone Riviera P93, and it does have some sort of snappy midrange thing in its tone though, that gets noticeable with some drive, and I tend to think that tone fits extra well in psycho/rockabilly. Otherwise my Les Paul or strat will work nice too. The sound that comes into my mind when thinking about the 50's and psycho/rockabilly is some sort of slapback echo. I think the a analogue bucket brigade type delay (like a boss DM-2/DM-3 Delay) does this very well. The echo in that type of delay sounds more vintage " old magnetic tape" tone, compared to digital delays (with echos sounding as crisp/clear as the original sound). According to some sources, the Behringer Vintage Delay is electronically a copy of Boss DM-3, and its really affordable, kind of like a "go back to the 1950's for just 20 dollar"-pedal, hehe. For touring and doing lots of live shows I't would probably better to pay 10 times as much for a Boss DM-2, that has a durable metal casing.

[@gringogreen4719]

@@ChrilleMH86 Nail on the head. Usually the tone is 1950s Rockabilly pulled through 1970s Punk. P-90s definitely can do the aggressive tone. The big difference guitar wise is hard tail vs a Trem. Bigsbys rule here but Wide Swing Tremolos like on Jazzmasters and Jaguars can do the blue note bends too. 😎👍✨

[@mattx5499]

Cranked clean channel on the amp with a little breakup and some wet slapback echo from any delay pedal will do the job. You don't need a pedalboard for that. Tone can be set on the amps eq. Maybe a compressor pedal can help to make the tone more jangly and even. Guitar really doesn't matter unless you wan't hollow body sound which is kinda different than solid body one.

[@ChrilleMH86]

Yeah thats true. But I live in a flat, and I don't feel like getting in to a feud with my neighbours, hehe. Beside rockabilly and psychobilly, I play a lot of typical 70's classic rock, 70's progressive, 80s rock, 80's metal. The pedal board kind of compensates for the lack of space that I would need for all the different types of amps I would need for those genres, hehe. True, I played a Fender Strat in this video, but I do have a semihollow Epiphone Riviera P93 as well, and I like the hollow body sound for a lot of 50's stuff!