Stacking Overdrive Pedals For Blues Tone - Guitar Gear

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[@ericburnett8163]

I can't even tell you the number of times I've started to dive into something new around guitar and find a video from good 'ol uncle Marty. What a prolific guitar educating legend.

[@michaelm4464]

I have these same pedals except that mine is a tube screamer mini, and have been trying to find the right balance between them for a great blues tone, and low and behold, you post this video today. Dialed in the same settings and finally found the killer tone I've been looking for. Thanks Marty!

[@iainthompson6371]

jeezuss.. Marty, the timing of this is spot on. I'm trying to work this out myself and you've just answered the questions I'm asking myself. Amazing, thanks a million man.

[@simon01ize]

The blues driver makes the tube screamer sound so much better.

[@stevengriffin1676]

Don't know HOW I missed this one but OH! How Important! ThankYou! Marty, for once again teaching me that I actually know less than what I thought! How to take drive from the fine print to scaring the heck outa your valves! Thanks for such an invaluable lesson! Have to watch THIS one again!!!

[@HammocksCustoms]

Another great pedal for stacking too get some cool dynamics out of a drive pedal is a Marshall BluesBreaker MK1 Pedal with a clipping mod (makes it a great clean boost)( adds well to phasers and flangers too).

[@remcolok]

Marty, you are a youtube legend! I bet you inspired en taught thousands of people to play the guitar. Keep it up.

[@MartyMusic]

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[@havenmcinerney2123]

Totally valid approach and I enjoyed the video. Here's another for the sake of furthering the discussion...set both od's at same volume as the original clean signal...perhaps have one slightly breaking and the other with more aggressive drive...now you have options on various combinations of gain stages...for the boost use the channels on the amp or better yet add in the mxr micro amp (or similar simple boost pedal) for boosting...and also work volume knobs on the guitar...produces not only a nice tone, but many many nice tone options on the fly.

[@rosalamanna6069]

I liked that video a lot, I watch a lot of demonstrations lately and yours are really enjoyable, nice phrasing and feel! Great man.

[@Trey-jl9ru]

THANK YOU SO MUCH MARTY, I used to not watch you because I thought you thought more beginner stuff but now I watch you and Steve stine the most of anyone on KZbin! Keep on rockin brotha

[@larrimos]

Very nice Marty! A lot of versatility out of these two pedals. Explained and demonstrated very well sir. Thank you man.

[@MartyMusic]

I really appreciate the comment! I'm so glad to have you supporting me with my own project "MartyMusic" Larrimo!

[@javierf55]

As always, great video Marty!!! You Rock (or you Blues instead). This was exactly the tone I was looking for, I just got my 2013 Stratocaster Standard with Fat 50s pickups and of course a great overdrive tone was missing. I've replicated in my Amplifi 75 which has the two pedals and the sound is pretty close to yours... Of course the guitar player is the one making the difference.

[@darrelbigdaddywhite]

Thanks Marty, Great video on a subject we can all learn from. Blues done right and right.

[@heb2212]

I woul'd like to learn "Before you accuse me". Thank you for teaching me great Bluessongs.

[@paultalbot652]

Wow Marty, you really rock my world. Thanks for all the guitar inspiration! I'm gonna stare at blues pedals for the next few hours and maybe I'll get one or two. :D

[@SaxJockey]

Marty taught us a new word @ 7:00 'Bluesify' 👍 😁.

[@aaronjames835]

Love all the Vids! And Love the Fiesta Red Strat, Mint Green Guard, and Rosewood! Keep it up! Also, if you take requests, I would love to hear your take on "People Get Ready", intro and verse.

[@kevinwilkins9926]

Appreciate your teaching style and knowledge my man. May I ask what eq settings on your amp was?

[@jonathandaveubina4460]

Good job sir! Very interesting videos/demos! Subscribed to your channel after watching to just 2 videos.

[@okaytastic6691]

can you do a video of stacking fuzz and overdrives? what works what doesn't.

[@BackyardRambo]

I just tried this set up with a blues driver and an mxr classic overdrive. Im playing a gibson lp special double cutaway with p90s in it and a hot rod deville 2x12 amp. Getting some great tones with it. Add my morley bad horse2 wah and omfg!

[@MrAnders1976]

great video... A mid EQ boost overdrive pedal (ibanez) with a flat EQ overdrive/fuzz pedal (Boss bd2). The last pedal in the chain will determine more of the EQ character.. Placing the tubescreamer last will always give you this big mid hump with less bass and top end. I saw a guy with a worship pedal setup.. SOunded great.. He was using a Euphoria last as an light overdriven amp sound with a tubescreamer as a boost into that the euphoria.. I find a tubescreamer sounds best into a slighty dirty amp or another dirt pedal that has lows.. set the gain halfway on the tubescreamer into a clean amp and you get this weird tone that is not really rock and roll to my ears.. Another thing that has been mentioned is a weird decay on the dirt on the blues driver.. But that seems to be eliminated when you keep gain at noon or below and the tone pot below 10' oclock..

[@SaxJockey]

From this demo the TS into BD sounded best/more balance EQ. Also best with the gain on BD not too high (produces too much Fuzz).

[@rjmilitante2787]

Tubescreamer (distorted) in front of BD-2 (Cllean boost) sounds best

[@garysala5441]

I like the blues driver for grit & tube screamer for lead boost

[@nicomarques9964]

excelente video marty, cual crees que es la mejor combinacion, en tu opinion?

[@marceloaugustogasparfilho5977]

Congrats! Very clarifying

[@toddwilliams3490]

You are such a great player, I love your videos.

[@Blackbeard_actual8]

What's the best cable to use for all your pedals and amp??

[@keithagnew5934]

Hi Marty. Could you do a lecture on the tone of heart breaker, the free time solo pretty please. Thanks keith.

[@matthewpuziss5347]

Nice tones and nice blues chops!

[@joeb3177]

Marty!!! Ty ty ty for the new gear video, I have a boss ds-1 distortion pedal and an Ibanez tone blaster 25R with overdrive built in, I had always heard that your not supposed to stack the two onto one another, after seeing this video my man, I want to give it a shot, do you have suggestions to help me out sir??? As always Marty your are the king of youtube.

[@bluehazeboy]

Great lesson Marty

[@begumkarahasanoglu1740]

where did you learn play the guitar like this? you're amazinggg. ❤❤

[@GTRJohn13]

Great job Marty!!

[@UltimateNinja41]

I'm loving all of these thumbnails recently!

[@MartyMusic]

ha sweet!!!

[@tonyb.7158]

Nice stack. Love your vids. Second reverse stack is grit-a-fied.

[@eddief8153]

Hey Marty thank u for your videos. Im a beginner. Im making progress with the e blues.

[@MartyMusic]

I really appreciate the comment! I'm so glad to have you supporting me with my own project "MartyMusic" Eddie!

[@FarrahnsMom]

Nice Strat and playing

[@buck7477]

Could you do a video on Storyville tone the Austin band Good day for the blues etc! They are using affects on that album that just makes the start sound great! It's a bright tone with maybe tremolo or some bluesy Austin tone special to that band! Can you show how to get that tone! Thanks

[@justinwallace3292]

great as usual Marty, any chance you could teach the serve the servants SOLO lesson?

[@adammirza4629]

Can this be applied with a heavier drive such as the ocd? Which would be the dominant drive and which would act as that "clean boost"?

[@Greg-vq2fv]

you mentioned the signal path. Which side is the guitar and which side is the amp?

[@51MontyPython]

Hey, Marty. Do you know if the tube screamer works well with digital modeling amps? I just got a TS-9 and TS-808 (going for SRV sound), which I tried using (namely as a clean boost) with my Line 6 Spider II (digital modeling amp), and I find that with the pedal boost, I lose the roundness and bassiness of the sound (and that quintessential strat "quack"), and although I _would_ like the added presence, it just sounds too thin and trebly (no matter where I set the knobs). Could it just be that they don't work particularly well with those kinds of amps, or that one specifically? Or is that the normal thing to expect? Thanks for everything. And happy new year!

[@d0ppelganger766]

can you please do tutorial on still breathing by green day? :D love ya man

[@pensatorseven1898]

Great video, very helpful!!!!

[@dalepal]

Very good info and demonstration of stacking those two OD pedals.

[@MartyMusic]

I really appreciate the comment! I'm so glad to have you supporting me with my own project "MartyMusic" Dale!

[@wimensan]

what setting do you use for the tone and volume knobs on the guitar Marty?

[@porterhart3603]

If you could do a tutorial on Hells Bells by AC/DC that would be awesome

[@emmitscully7364]

Covers all the rock FuF, nice work on the FrerFs!

[@Gutslinger]

🎸🎶Please do *Ballad of Curtis Loew* by Lynyrd Skynyrd, with the little bends or licks between the chords. Lol Make sure it has some stank on it when you come to that stop on the end of the measure.. I'd appreciate it a lot. Thanks for being the one that got me and my little brother started on playing the guitar. You'll never know how many of us you helped. 🎶🎸

[@whitediamondswhitediamonds9189]

whats best pedals for solo for rock

[@ultrafloss492]

Thank you! Very cool. Maybe something like a effects processor? I've bought a Digitech RP500 a couple years ago which I mainly use for practice purposes and never went beyond the slight adjustment of some tones.

[@sufifrank]

HELL YEAH ANOTHER AWESOME VIDEO !!!

[@somekindofpepper]

How about "Look on" by John Frusciante? Especially the solo!?

[@Renav21]

I was thinking of buying a second Tube Screamer pedal to gain boost my TS signal (that's the tone i'm pursuing), but now i'm considering buying a Blues Driver instead as it is transparent and the TS 'feel' would still be in there (and I also have more versatility with a different OD). Do you think it would work out like that for my purposes? Or should I buy a second Tube Screamer?

[@Biggie_P]

awesome i really enjoy seeing your tech could you teach the unforgiven. 2

[@Symbiotespider5]

what do people generally prefer, blues before tube or vice versa? so new to all of this. Any help would be appreciated. FIrst time with this stuff, so it goes for me guitar, then big muff, polytune tuner as the buffer/tuner, then blues then tube. The send goes to the reverb, then delay, then returns back into the amp. is this proper?

[@eddief8153]

Thank you very helpful

[@buck7477]

I guess I'm just looking for something to make my strat sound less harsh when I'm strumming and singing something soulful like good day for the blues! To make it sound sweet!

[@fiftypeehead]

buck7477 look at the love pedal Kalamazoo, smoothest overdrive I’ve tried

[@SexyRudolf]

ill love it if u make a lesson for still loving you

[@kanenas9437]

Marty why you didnt make already a video with do re mi by nirvana is the last song which kurt wrote

[@whyohwhy357]

Thank you Sir!

[@cooper512atx]

Marty is the man!

[@PeterKertesz2013]

beauty tones

[@keaneong4591]

thank you so much marty!

[@MartyMusic]

Thank you Lance!

[@TheHahaEffect]

Can you teach us what you played at 4:20 onwards!?

[@maxwesmont]

Just some octaves

[@maxwesmont]

Check out Wes Montgomery

[@MrBuggmann]

Hey, do something on delay pedals!

[@ptb2314]

Thanks MArty

[@miketaylor803]

just a quick query - you may have said it in the vid and I missed it (sorry if that's the case) - but what order between guitar and amp are the pedals in in each set up? Looking into stacking there's people that say the higher gain setting is before the lower / clean boost - is this what you did? I noticed you changed the order of the pedals at one point is that to maintain this?

[@iuchilton]

mike taylor I was wondering that very thing

[@Krizl-fr5op]

Nice solo there

[@zsthsmus2255]

Awesome marty

[@0903dhaley]

how about some wah pedals

[@michaeldrevyankosr6180]

Marty, I have the same 2 pedals, and I could never get them to sound as well, I really appreciate your time to teach us. Btw , what was the settings on your amp ? Mike

[@randybrandes8885]

you need to teach that jazzy riff at about 5:00

[@kevinhunt5362]

Maybe "Girls Got Rythem" AC/DC ?

[@garden2571]

Can you teach some blur songs please??!

[@steveskeggs4513]

Marty please could you do locomotive lesson by g n r

[@hungr755y]

Nice. Thank you.

[@MartyMusic]

I really appreciate the comment! I'm so glad to have you supporting me with my own project "MartyMusic" Paul!

[@bilbobagainsaoe]

great

[@ArmedAlex]

Does anyone know what scale Marty was using at around the 5:14 mark? Cheers

[@lild4131998]

He was playing pretty fast, but it just looks like minor pentatonic in position 2 with a few extra notes outside maybe.

[@rayross997]

Nice sound & fine playin'! Maybe sometime a video on the various types of reverb, one on a diatonic pitch and/or a pitch shifter, the various delay types. Really helpful stuff Marty, you are Dr.Schwartz, the Guitar Professor.

[@jake8726]

please teach jimmy buffett trying to reason with hurrcane season

[@straight2helll]

Marty,what pick ups do you have in your Strat?

[@krazziee2000]

thanks man

[@MartyMusic]

Thanks!!!

[@randybrandes8885]

great video btw, I'll have to watch a couple times in order to absorb all the knowledge, really could hear differences in peddle set ups

[@MartyMusic]

Cool thanks Randy!

[@miguelruiz8183]

Combined they are the Scream Driver!!!!!!

[@kanenas9437]

and oh me bt nirvana too

[@damonmcgraw5864]

hey mary could you teach us how to play How the Gods Kill by Danzig that would be awesome

[@damonmcgraw5864]

i meant marty

[@Jakuup12]

pls next Nirvana song

[@_pant0m]

just use od channel of the amp then use od pedal to boost

[@davidthomas3725]

Not all amps have a OD channel. Fender Deluxe etc....But they have a great clean tone!

[@Morespizzle]

How to make a strat sound like a Les Paul

[@alexgormley1565]

Hi

[@maxen5421]

Good night

[@victortufino2081]

you fuckin rock marty!

[@MartyMusic]

very kind of you Victor!!!

[@deadchords4919]

hey

[@elianhernandez7960]

next can you do billy currington's people are crazy ?

[@jorhay1]

Holy flying IC chip fart tone. Shouldn't the non effected dry tone into your amp you start with not suck and sound anemic?

[@ivanczar]

Anyone know the chords he played on the loop at 4:20?

[@matthewtaylor808]

Ivan Czar Sounds like a B7 going to F#7

[@sashabowers6053]

hey marty there is a song you normally wouldn't do but i really love it, at least listen to it... headfirst for halos by mcr