Viewer Comments & Questions LIVE! 4 Nov 2024

[@bradenrodriguez5183]

VCQ was already my favourite moment of KZbin every week, but now with the added demo features makes it all the more enjoyable. Love how much effort you guys put into production for the channel. Thank you.

[@tonymoore78]

I know I am late to the viewership, but I am putting in my vote for a second TPS channel if it means we get pick and mix videos again. I do greatly appreciate those as it helps me to keep up-to-date with releases and what the current offerings are. And hearing you guys play them and hearing them played through your set up is my baseline that I very much appreciate.

[@gbarge4]

I love it when TPS keeps pushing quality and capabilities at the production end. The pre-amps, cameras and now possibly keeping the ability to play live at levels. Careful; someone's going to say this is darned professional. And yes, I did see the Adam Levi tips episode where Mick tipped his cap to John Leventhal, as well as the nod to Jack Ruch. I met Jack at the Underdog and he's as nice a guy as he is a great player. Wonderful guy to support. Cheers, friends.

[@moose5206]

Love the new production adds to VCQ. Looking forward to Mondays as always.

[@stevemaass3074]

Totally on board with the mix of voice and amps. And Dan’s playing sounded great!

[@ThatPedalShow]

Cheers Steve 🙏

[@davidrosen1399]

Another thumbs up for the new format - great to be able to demonstrate as you go

[@ryangunwitch-black]

This is a HUGE development. Guitar playing AND talking at the same time!?! This will make those interviews even more awesome. ❤

[@timparker4228]

TPS2 channel, love that idea. Another avenue to overwhelm Mick with correspondance! Please let the first video be a montage of spectacle drops from forehead to face. Cheers, chaps.

[@ThatPedalShow]

This, this!

[@JohnWDGTandTele]

Hey gents, I just got back from visiting Nashville last week. Two shows that I saw that you guys MUST see are: Kelly’s Heroes who play at Robert’s Western World on Broadway and Guthrie Trapp at The Underdog. You won’t be disappointed!!

[@petergoddard1960]

So, having come to the realisation that I've been living under a rock for the last 40? years, thank you Mick for the introduction to John Leventhal in Adam Levy's video last week. His solo album has been on repeat ever since. Now exploring some of his work with Shawn Colvin and his wife too. Incredible.

[@ionobelisk]

I really like this new format, being able to give brief demos of things like the fuzz face cleanup is excellent BTW, my prognosis has improved greatly, my chemo seems to have stalled the tumor. Suffice to say I'm "not likely to drop dead soon" 😁

[@ThatPedalShow]

Chris! That’s fab news geezer. Our continued good wishes to you buddy. Life in the not so old dog yet! X

[@joethrelfall6370]

​@@ThatPedalShowcould you show a video with wireless systems and treble boosters. Id love to see this!

[@yohnsvain9651]

Vocal mikes were fine, and Dan’s playing on the outro was both lovely and moving.

[@whiskersb5296]

Everything looks and sounds great.

[@Kevin-the-Just]

"It's a new dawn, it's a new day and I'm FEEEEELIN' good!" Love the 'new direction' fellas.

[@Kalthos85]

Been a busy season and haven't had much chance to keep up with the legends.... Loooove the pointing stick! haha

[@jeanmiropica]

Thank you Dan & Mick for your response to my question and the great live tone-demonstration! How far technology has come, we live in interesting times. :) I tried to experiment with setting the fuzz and the volume pot as you suggested and it really did help a bit, but did not get as trebly as I wanted it to be. I'm happy to announce that a treble booster first in chain solved my issue completely and pushed my tone the last trebly 10%! I used a ThroBak sTrangemaster, but I guess any treble booster would work. All the best!

[@SigurdSigurdsson]

Thank you for answering my question about the Dumble ODS pedals! I'm really in a rabbit-hole at the moment .. Talked to Simon about the Balladeer. Mick, any opinions? Thought I saw in on a board of yours in a TGP-thread. Cheers!

[@briannacery9939]

Congratulations on a ten year stint, Happy birthday! And how about this subject for discussion. Using improvisation skills to "compose " guitar parts on a songwriting effort such as sections of Abby Road by The Beatles. Including subjects like texture using amp, various gain stages, various guitar models, recording techniques and counterpoint, question and answer and looser improvisation in Blues etc.

[@corpse-in-orbit]

I think you might really like the Mesa/Boogie Triple Crown, Mick - it's extremely simple to dial in for a Boogie, just normal controls across 3 channels: Clean is a bit like a Bassman/Hiwatt hybrid, Lo is Mesa's version of mid-gain English crunch (a touch of Hiwatt in there too, along with some Marshall and some Vox), and Hi is one of the best-ever high-gain channels, kind of like the perfect cross between a Mark and a Recto.

[@corpse-in-orbit]

Mick, if you guys do the Big Muff show, I'd be really interested to see some pedals that start with the basic Muff circuit but depart from it wildly - the Mad Professor Golden Cello & Amber Overdrive, the Cornish G2, and the PastFX Revolution (based on the G2) are all superb, they're all built on Muff topologies, and none of them sounds like a Muff at all. I am NOT a Muff fan, but those 2 Mad Professors are probably my favorite gain pedals, and the Revolution (based, in turn, on the Buffalo FX Evolution, which was also a modded Cornish G2) isn't far behind.

[@jamesdebenham]

"getting to the point with the finger of tone" - just needed to highlight this slice of genius. Love the format adaptation lads, very cool. Mick I'd love to hear more about the production stuff but then I've been doing tech support in higher education for video for decades so love to talk about it!

[@SteveSZ27]

Listening 3 days later and yeah, the voices are a touch low but the guitars sound freaking awesome. Way more detailed than before.👍👍👍

[@ryangunwitch-black]

9:35 THIS ! Absolutely. Do your homework!

[@alanparkinson4568]

I remember one of the first TPS shows I ever saw was about the Thorpy Gunshot. I bought one.

[@joshuaraysummey7679]

Backing track question: I have hosted and sub hosted many open mics, bose, alto, shure, and several other companies make xlr bluetooth recievers. For sound guy purposes, i have 2 altos. They link together so you can deal with stereo mixes that might have panning issues

[@Telewest792]

Every thing is just fine the audio on my iPad Pro is just right thanks .

[@stanislavmigra]

Regarding the Strat springs audible thru amp. I had Marshall DSL and barely (or not even at all) heard it. Then plugged the same strat into the 18watter Marshall 1974 and 1930 Popular and thru both it was SO loudz that I had to put bit of foam around the springs.

[@johnnyboymcconnell43]

Re: practice time. I always referred to band time as "rehearsal time", where everyone knows their parts and you fine-tune songs and performances. Practice, you do at home, and bring your parts to rehearsal.

[@70mcnevin]

The higher definition looks fantastic.

[@simonwilliams9916]

Guitars sounded great. 🤘🏻👍🎸

[@Joely_dubbya]

That jingle belonged on a game show during a slightly sinister gift shop section. I was choosing prizes I wasn’t happy about, and the game show hosts (M & D) weren’t being very friendly about it.

[@ThatPedalShow]

That’s sooooo TPS!

[@ickebins6948]

A Two-Rock and a Matchless... Could be worse... Thanks for the show guys.

[@Kevin-the-Just]

Regarding RF interference, I recently re-arranged my music room and found my amps started picking up interference that sounded like an old fax dialling tone. Turns out that where I'd placed them, on the other side of the wall is my utility smart meters. The rig was unusable when the meters started calling home.

[@waynestokes7407]

"It's Craw!, NOT Craw!"

[@aspadoni]

Hey D&M. I would love to see an episode covering advice on how to play live with more confidence and conviction. I've been long struggling with this and would love to hear your thoughts, experiences and advice, perhaps others would too. Although I've been playing for nearly 40 years at a fairly decent amateur level, it's still something I struggle with. Although being well rehearsed is surely the biggest factor, it's definitely not the only thing that impacts my live performance. e.g. I had a shocker last night which was mainly due to poor monitoring, where I could hear too much of my guitar through a terrible monitor which sounded flat and sterile. The other main thing for me is my own head messing with me, especially leading up to a solo (perhaps I just need to see a shrink!). Anyway, just some food for thought. Keep up the awesome work.

[@ThatPedalShow]

Hello! Mick here. You’re right towards the end of the comment. The start place for this has less to do with playing and more to do with your general headspace. I could write an essay about getting out of psychological time (the thoughts in your head) and exchanging that for actually being in the moment. That’s going to solve about 99 per cent of all the problems in everyone’s lives. Next, perhaps simpler, is remembering that you’re not the centre of the universe. The performance is about the audience first, the collective of the band second, and you a long way distant last. That can sometimes help the perspective a little bit…. Moreover it’s about collective experience of everyone sharing a conscious moment, not being buried in the thoughts in their own heads. That’s the mechanism for it. How you get there takes a great deal of work, but I can tell you from personal experience that it does work! Good luck! Mick here, by the way.

[@ThatPedalShow]

Sorry if that sounds a bit direct, by the way. I’ve been through 10 years of sorting my head out, and I find it best to speak directly. Cheers!

[@aspadoni]

@@ThatPedalShow Not at all Mick, thanks so much!

[@aspadoni]

That's it exactly ... I'm in my head, not in the moment. Thanks for this Mick.

[@ryangunwitch-black]

Also, the volume level seems great to me.

[@christopher-miles]

mick with that strat is beginning to feel like "my safe place". hahah!

[@christopher-miles]

ps: sounded killer for a live stream. plzzzzzz do more of these.

[@belZaah]

The Good Reverend mr. Gibbons (sort of) in character in the series Bones: “I’ve got cars, I’ve got guitars and I’ve got guns. If you are nice to my daughter, you’ll only get to experience the business end of the first two”

[@ThatPedalShow]

Hahaahahah!

[@AL-mn6df]

With Dan’s cough maybe you should the plexiglass back up. (I’m joking of course…)😊

[@stevenkatien3292]

Speaking of KOT… Mick (and Dan I guess), did you ever turn the internal pot in the KOT? Totally different pedal depending on where it sits… (especially Mick)

[@ThatPedalShow]

Yah, Dan likes it up a bit. I wish it went further down. Ha! Never did really gel with the ol KOT. In my own rig. Usually like it in other people’s hands.

[@livingestudiolivesessions5787]

Hey guys , maybe im confused but scott mckeon will be in the show?

[@ThatPedalShow]

We hope so. No exact date in yet

[@livingestudiolivesessions5787]

@ that is so cool!

[@michaelschneider7590]

Happy birthday, Thorpy!

[@nealpike6611]

If I see a short video I’m less inclined to watch it haha

[@stratjed]

Just when I had the audio up so loud, I could hear ya . YOU STARTED GETTING REAL LOUD .

[@ThatPedalShow]

Ha! Yeah, it’ll take us a minute to work that out. :0)

[@stratjed]

@@ThatPedalShow All good .

[@petergoddard1960]

2nd channel? TPST - Just the tangents, none of the facts.

[@guitargeartips1951]

rebrand to Ye olde that analog pedal show given you dont want to embrace change where most pedals selling now are digital😊😊 2nd that digital pedal show😊😊 given

[@ThatPedalShow]

Most food sold is poor quality, full of sugar and salt and has very low nutritional quality. It’s phenomenally popular and cheap. It’s another change we don’t want to embrace. However, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. We use plenty of digital tech in our pedals. Reverbs, delay, control mechanisms etc etc etc. As long as it if has good analogue dry through, we’re golden!

[@lanceleslie5165]

Not a fan of the higher definition. It looks more harshly 'videoesque" and less cinematic and smooth than your previous system.

[@Headroom1]

Well we must keep you happy lol

[@lanceleslie5165]

@ No, YOU don’t have to do anything, mate.

[@ThatPedalShow]

Interesting. I’ll have a look today. It shouldn’t look massively different given the stream/camera settings are the same. Hmmm. Thanks for the feedback!

[@lanceleslie5165]

@@ThatPedalShow Actually, I compared several livestream episodes along with regular episodes, and there is not any quantifiable difference. I need better glasses! Carry on.

[@Headroom1]

@@lanceleslie5165 mate lol

[@Everdaytillsplean]

To the person wanting to gig with tracks. NEVER PLAY TO A TRACK LIVE! Better to play solo that cheapen it with a track.