Viewer Comments & Questions 1 July 2024 - Not Live!

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[@Wadey1960CS]

Absolute LEGENDS for going the extra mile to bring this to all of us. BRAVO GENTS!

[@robertlewis8024]

I guess I'm with Dan on this one. If you're playing for an audience and the experience takes them somewhere.....it's music. If you're sitting around strumming two chords and it takes you somewhere.....it's music.

[@kaiserjoe2316]

Thank you guys! You're part of my creative furniture re/arrangement and my happy place. Even when things don't go right you make the effort to give us all a great fix. Cheers! P.S. Rosie is always a wonderful commentator too.

[@chrisquinn9104]

The back up show was brilliant. Please make this system policy for us Monday TPS dependents.

[@stevemaass3074]

What a great surprise! Live is better, but the weekly dialog is always appreciated!

[@johnosborne3187]

Hey all. I just got my TPS t-shirt. It made it to Las Vegas, Nevada very quickly! The size is perfect and the material is very nice and soft. Great quality. Everyone should go to the store right now and buy one!!

[@johnsmith-ug5tp]

Thanks. I was wondering about them shipping to the U.S.

[@hoboroadie4623]

The fabric is amazing, you will want many!

[@ThatPedalShow]

Awesome! Thank you! 🙏 🤓

[@lapk78]

Dan, love your fishing story. A great piece of childhood.

[@ThatPedalShow]

Fun times 🙏

[@zootallures1]

D&M, Thank you so much for doing this! Your dedication to this community and your own excellence is so inspiring. Your frustration with the interwebs was only matched by our sadness of not have this week’s VCQ….and then this appears! Bravo Gents, Bravo. PS: Rosie is truly one gorgeous animal.

[@ScottfromBaltimore]

Thanks for carrying on without Internet, Dan and Mick! I watched it through and enjoyed it all!

[@ScottRainsford-iq6xy]

Unexpected surprise! Thanks for carrying on through challenges and putting this out 🙏

[@koenfilius1467]

Great you still recorded the VCQ! I've got and K&K trinity pro in my Furch acoustic guitar. I really love the 'extra' you get from the mic blend and this system comes with a great pre-amp where your can mix both the mic and the trancducre under saddle pickup separately (high, middle low, volume and gain). It is al total set and forget for me. I am gonna try turning down the mic volume, but it sounds so good so it is probably going right backup! Would love a show on this, acoustic pickups, preamps, acoustic amps, acoustic effects. Thanks for all the great vids, I learned (and learing) so much over the years of watching you guys! Cheers from the Netherlands!

[@jeffrywhite6008]

You guys are the best. Great surprise.

[@bleeknoir]

So appreciate the show despite the internet issues. Thank you gentlemen.

[@HardyNahtal]

Thanks for the video Music can definitely be made alone…. Or is the question, “are we ever alone?” There is always a bug or some creature in proximity to us. Also,I heard a bunch of music growing coming from practice rooms. Not all the time, but I got to hear people find themselves. And, in older cultures, music and religion/spirituality are completely entangled. From shamans to contemporary religions. “I am playing for god” was a phrase that I heard growing up.

[@ThatPedalShow]

God is probably saying ‘turn it down’. Ha! I think - Mick here - just as life isn’t matter and atoms and things, so music isn’t notes and sound. Life is the experience shared between the matter and atoms and things and music is the experience shared likewise. Of itself, it’s just sound. The value is in the connection. Now, philosophically speaking that connection might be between you and yourself - notably not the same thing. And once you understand that philosophically and cognitively, you’ll also come to the conclusion that psychological time is just thoughts in your brain. Conscious presence - the flow of presence in this moment alone - is the only state where actual music can exist. If you’re thinking about, it’s greatly diminished. I think.

[@johnbarlow8234]

Isbell, Vedder, Guy Garvey - some of the best lyricists for me

[@brianrollins7275]

Another great show. Thanks guys. People asking about silent amps or small tube amps for practice I would definitely advise you to check out the Roland Blues Cube amps. Totally underrated amps imo because they are light weight, they sound great and they take pedals very well. I’ve been using a Blues Cube Hot and a Telecaster for the last 3 years and I am completely happy with it. I add and subtract pedals from time to time but the amp and the guitar are the stars of the show. It’s just a couple thousand dollar setup but it covers all my needs and keeps me content. Good luck to all in your search for the right gear for you. I hope you all find what makes you happy. Play on 🎶🤘🏻🎸

[@kcole4001]

Great to watch even an un-live show! Thanks to Don (😁) reading my greeting in the live attempt! Hope everyone had a great day (holiday or otherwise), love and best wishes to all 👍👍

[@billgreen3629]

Thanks for the not live VCQ. It feels nostalgic from the first VCQs.

[@patrickmckay6621]

thank you once more for all those great episodes !!! Greetings from Germany 👍🎸

[@gabesandholm]

Thank you for everything. I love you.

[@davidLPST]

“chicken madras please” - right there with you Mick. Good show as always D&M

[@TheHowardSinclair]

Thanks for going the extra mile to put this out. I joined live for the first time in ages, and it as hard to watch you glitching. Nice to see you both smoothed out :)

[@danbode]

The reason I buy heads and cabs separately- Always have the option for small to large speakers with any amp wattage.

[@shamsam4]

Yay! Thanks gentlemen.

[@eljoel89]

Favorite Acoustic pickups. I have an LR Baggs Anthem installed on my Jumbo. I have a Dreadnaught guitar I will someday buy a Bartolini 3AV pickup for.

[@grahamlong5969]

I have multiple random musics go through my head all day, until I pick up my guitar 🙄 Singing into my phone may be the answer to remembering them. I just hope my work colleagues appreciate my monotonic drone... Thanks for pushing through the issues, love your work 👍

[@kevinmurtagh4996]

Hearing what you guys are saying about songwriting, and how it seems to come “easier” to some people- Robert Pollard comes to mind. When he’s not on tour, he gets up around 7 am every single day, and just starts writing songs. He’ll come up with a handful every day, and records simple demoes of all of them on an old cassette boombox. He’s done this most days of his non-tour life for probably 40 years now. He currently has 3,000 songs registered with BMI. No exaggeration… 3,000. Just insane. I’m amazed by everyone with an intense creative drive, but that’s a whole other level.

[@gregmitchell8633]

Outstanding!

[@benallmark9671]

Thanks fellas

[@yaniv-nos-tubes]

if you want a great small amp with no compromises on cab size and speakers get a marshall 1974x + the matching 1974cx extension cab it's 18 watts ,handwired in england, so you actually get 2 openback oversized cabs with 20w heritage greenbacks.

[@frankachille6076]

Sucks your not live but I’ll watch no matter what!! Cheers!!

[@andreasjohansson1990]

Awesome!

[@alanparkinson4568]

2 channel amp: Mesa Boogie Fillmore 25. Two simple duplicate channels with no pull this or that, separate EQ on each channel, fantastic clean and drive tones. Try one.

[@deanarnold6284]

I was going to say MB Studio Caliber 22, completely separate channels with tons of headroom. Wish I’d kept mine…..

[@Frankie_Holt]

Once again Donald and Mack coming in clutch FTW

[@admarhermans1]

The Laney Cub is a great little amp indeed! I’ve been using the little Cub head for bassguitar on small electric/ acoustic pub gigs for years! I use it with a little old Trace Elliot 1x15 combo I took the amplifier out of and outfitted the combo with a high sensitivity (101dB) PA speaker for extra perceived volume. My own fake Ampeg B-15, 😄: master volume on full, gain as low as possible and you’re off! More than enough low end too. Don’t like the digital reverb that much... 😁 🖖

[@Parariddle]

I have a laney cub 15 that I no longer use and based in Taunton if you guys (Mick and Dan) are ever looking to buy one to try. I have the matching 2x12 but tbh you have better cabs :) Also thanks for still doing the show even recorded, it is the mental high point (along with band practice) of my week!

[@ryangunwitch-black]

Oh dang! It’s way more fun when it’s live but I’ll take what I can get ❤

[@MattVoyageOfSound]

I just released an acoustic instrumental track last Friday. Thank you Dan and Mick for the inspiration to keep creating!

[@jonaserfors6901]

Great news! Where can we hear it?

[@astewart9410]

The Boss IR-2 has a headphone jack for silent practice. I’ve had a it couple of weeks and I’m really loving it.

[@onenotesolo256]

Ported cab: Jackson side-ported 1x12. They sell the cab with or without a speaker. and even do a flat pack kit for anyone mad enough to build their own. I’ve had one for years (acquired with a Newcastle 30, but used for half my w/d gigging rig with all my amp heads) and it’s definitely a big sound. Closed back, incidentally.

[@billgreen3629]

I keep looking at buying one of their kits.

[@brymills]

Good work chaps, I feel your pain with broadband, I can get nothing greater than 17mbps - but at least it’s a reasonably reliable 17mbps.

[@kierenmoore3236]

Don’t these Q&As normally have Chapters?! 🤔 Would be super helpful!!

[@Jimbodiddley1]

I have the Gladio, and it’s one of my favourite overdrive pedals. But I was under the impression both sides were Dumble-inspired.

[@edwardjons8684]

You are correct.

[@Youtubemademeaddahandle]

The first lyric I developed from an impromptu poem devised in my head upon a visit to an abortion clinic site. It had to be re-written as a song lyric just to fit the instrumental I'd had kept around in my memory. A lot of my songs became that only when lyrics came to mind which fit a long developed instrumental piece - all of which developed from an exploration in style. Whatever the germ, it needs be related to adjoining elements. The quality of the effort is shown in the relationship of words, meaning and sentimentality of instrumentation.

[@captainsnarky6949]

My brother is running the G&L Custom Shop now and he's revamping the hell out of it.

[@xmaseveeve5259]

Aw, great dog!

[@davedavem]

Evening chaps. Saw you pop up at a strange time. Silly Glasto people, don't they know VCQ is on!?

[@kaiserjoe2316]

Guitar Heads just wanna have fun, with Dan and Mick.

[@lapk78]

D&M, thank you for still managing to make the VCQ despite the internet issues.

[@sesa2984]

Still trips me up after all these years when you use the acronym. My high school band was called “The Plastic Shoes.” 1997’s premiere basement troubadourery.

[@gordonrankin3995]

The problem with a sealed cabinet is that the speaker resonant frequency (i.e. in cabinet) will increase the impedance really high. A tube amp does not really like driving high impedance. I use aperiotic which was developed by ScanSpeak. It uses a semi port and limits the impedance and tightens the bass. Mick Thiel & Small created the parameters for which speaker drivers are measured. K&K for me as well, don't like batteries. Dan the woody is still available. Mick funny I have owned a couple Gibson's and they drive me crazy. Currently have a custom Collings C10-35, Preston Thompson and have a Cannon 00M coming in soon. Wattage x2 = only 3dB more loudness! Are amps really 2 channels, most of them just stick a gain/overdrive stage in between before the feedback like a Dumble. Music: Interesting story that happened to me and a good friend. We're at a music event with 18 or so bands. Handed an instrument to sit in and can't get your head around it because it just doesn't feel right (string type, weight, amp, scale length whatever). The performance suffers because your thinking way to much about the instrument and not fitting in. Thanks guys! Dan if you need anything when your in the US just call.

[@david_cummings]

Hey Mick, Always loved the way you can play with economy, and still throw in some verve and elan. Going back to the the Paradiso days. Your playing? . It's what led me to That Pedal Show.

[@ThatPedalShow]

Ah man, thank you David!

[@anthonycutt8854]

Just wanted to say if you want a soundhole pickup, the Gretsch Deltoluxe is very good (albeit rather heavy in weight).

[@ScottfromBaltimore]

Fave sound from a multi pedal: there are three kinds of pedals. Ones with a catalog of sounds (digital), ones that are very adjustable (analog with lots of knobs), and ones that pretty much do one thing (tube screamer). I have none of the first type. I have had a few where sounds vary widely when I turn the knobs, and I find definite sweet spots, eg a modulated delay where I crank speed and depth and minimize delay for a resonant flanger - great with distortion going in, and a few simpler pedals where I choose a setting and leave them that way, like fitting a preamp pedal to an amp. So no, I can't say I know of a particularly great sound on an Eventide pedal or what have you, because pedals of that type frighten me, but I know that the best sounds of any pedal are worth searching for.

[@johnsuede]

4:44 Blues Traveler “The Hook” was actually a bet that the singer placed with I believe his producer that he could just write nonsense lyrics and it would still be a hit. He did and it was.

[@mikedr1549]

Rosie!!!!!

[@cleftturnip7774]

I find the idea of it not being music unless other people hear it bizarre.

[@mattswanton795]

Mick, on the topic of writing: I've talked to some of my professional musician friends and they all say the same thing about lyrics and I concur. Always seems to be the hardest part. And the songs that I'm most proud of have all come quick. What do you do when you need to finish one but the lyrics aren't just coming out? Any exercises or insight to help work through those songs that have been sitting on the back burner?

[@kaneheuer]

I gotta say, my EVH 5150 iii EL34 50w head has both great clean and great gain channels.

[@trollstjerne]

Thanks guys! I agree about acoustic pickups.. none of them sounds good.. My Lakewood have a L.R. Baggs Anthem and it sounds alright, but nothing special compared to my KM184 microphone... but if its for live try using an IR loader and load up the Taylor 312ce IR ( found using google) or maybe some other good sounding IR and blend in.

[@malsmith3806]

Late seeing watching this video, but I hope mick wasn’t too embarrassed when he figured out his fly was down… haha

[@nealpike6611]

I’m only 37 but I have arthritis and very loose joints and while It makes think hard to play It’s made me work on what I can do and made me make my own style

[@patrickmckay6621]

🔥🔥🔥Notice: for all of you guys that like Schmidt Array type pedalboards but cannot afford : try to find one of these ancient accordion cases online which have the same shapes and measures. If you are lucky you will get one really cheap, and i promise they are perfect! i mentioned this on TPS before a few years ago and i see folks using them more and more. Enjoy✌💪🎸

[@martintracey4949]

Thanks gents for the sound advice on my first tube amp for home use. Just to clarify (limited characters in the chat), I wasn’t particularly looking for a 2 channel amp, I was referring to the secondhand Hughes & Kettner Edition Tube 20th Anniversary 2-Channel 20-Watt 1x12", which as the name notes has 2 channels. Are the controls in this amp shared? Also Mick, unbelievably a local-ish music store has posted a Cornford Hurricane Combo in stock! Would it be to loud for home playing? I was close to pulling the trigger on the Bassbreaker, but I believe it has a digital hall reverb.

[@stuntkiwi]

Re: 15w amp - Supro Amulet, same features as a princeton, with attenuation, bit different grind character to the breakup, great value. No love for the Maton AP5 acoustic pickup?

[@martiboucat]

It's not Juan. It's Joan. It's catalan, not spanish. Pronounced like Joanne in english 🙂 Best from Barcelona and thanks for the VCQ!

[@jeanmiropica]

Another idea regarding songwriting - changing instrument helps! Learn a little bit of piano, violin, banjo, mandolin... If i get stuck on a song i change instrument, it is almost a guaranteed way forward since the brain gets some new stimuli and ideas. It will also get you a new perspective on the parts or riffs you already have written. Also - when writing music on instruments you can't fully control, you get some helpful limits which keeps your music a bit more simple and - for us guitarists - less "guitaristic"! Just my two cents, gents! :)

[@jeanmiropica]

...and i hope for another one of these not-a-live!-shows around halloween ;)

[@AD-kb5ki]

Hi guys. Bit of a noob but I'm keen and I love the show. Big Noel Gallagher fan and my main guitar is an Epiphone NG Riviera. Interested in your thoughts around vibramates and bigsby's. I'm hoping it opens up some cool tones and also look the beans. Thanks guys

[@BGTsoundandvision]

Re: G&L Superhawk - Yes it has the thick poly finish. I don't know what the body wood is could be maple or ash I don't know. It also had a tone control for each PU which I changed to master tone and bass cut. The bass cut sounds good with a fuzz.

[@anthonycutt8854]

If you've got a loop pedal or backing tracks it can be music on your own IMO.

[@Kevin-the-Just]

Music is in the ear of the beholder.

[@redbirdjazzz]

Ted Gioia is a jazz critic, musician/composer, producer, and music historian. I highly recommend his book "Music: A Subversive History."

[@johnsmith-ug5tp]

Awhile back I watched a 1944 Film Noir movie called Double indemnity and throughout the movie I couldn't figure out who I knew that was reminding me of the leading man Fred MacMurray. Well, last evening I watched a 1954 film noir movie Push Over with Fred MacMurray again, and...WHAMO! It hit me! Mick from that Pedal Show. ha

[@ziggystardust1798]

A true masterpiece

[@MattVoyageOfSound]

I use the Supro Delta King 12 it's awesome

[@mikeblue385]

lyle lovett uses a sunrise acoustic pickup. soundhole model. sounds amazing.

[@ScottfromBaltimore]

Cheap guitar - Western Auto Truetone Rock Star. One microphonic pickup in the middle, thin body, cheap everything. It had a sound like molten brass. Sold it for $80.

[@eaglerayrob]

❤

[@Zan_Halford]

Hey Mick and Dan, I think I heard that source audio collider flips polarity . Did you happen to notice this and adjust polarity in wet dry setups?

[@822nivla]

Bondi Effects Del Mar is a Klon style/Tubescreamer mix but still apparently its own thing.

[@ThatPedalShow]

It’s epic ( Dan here)

[@longshoredrifters]

On the subject of home use amps / silent practice, any love for Quilter Superblocks?

[@user-jy3us9rl7n]

as I do music only by myself (unfortunatly), I do say it is music, even on my own

[@happihockey8601]

Is music a form of communication? I think it is, so do you need others there to communicate or can you just be communicating with your soul when you're playing by yourself? And for what Dan is saying I think that we communicate with our essence, the non ego part of us when you play something magical by yourself. Isn't that the heart of song writing, the universe of sound and whatever we are communicating to bring something new to the universe.

[@ThatPedalShow]

It’s a philosophical discussion at that point. You can certainly be in the moment of creating and that may well be music for yourself. And perhaps it’s a flow of sorts. It may be a moment of satori, even. But the minute you start thinking about it, or defining it as something it becomes psychological time and therefore entirely of the ego with all its expectations and judgement. For me anyway, music is the flow of presence on a collective level, not an individual one. But hey, if it’s music to you, cool!

[@LarsonGuitarPlayer]

Q&A question: Been thinking of going from Velcro to 3M DUAL LOCK, but they have so many options. Is SJ352B the one you use?

[@rbrwr]

I am definitely referring to it as the "Eurovision Football Contest" from now on.

[@trharding]

Fighting GAS ahead of Justin Sandecoe’s Blues Immersion course. Just plugging my current guitar into my current amp and playing more has won for now but the temptation is strong.

[@Rob-B2A]

See on the 18th Mick :)

[@ThatPedalShow]

Wooop!

[@andyw6026]

Gibson mainly use LR Baggs as Acoustic pick ups

[@peterhall4852]

Songwriting. Melody first.

[@repomanband]

Where did the questions come from if you weren't live?

[@ThatPedalShow]

We started live and had to cut it because of crap internet. All the questions were in by that point, so we saved em and answered them.

[@Paul_Abbott_Landsraad_Project]

Having written dozens of songs and harmony lines, lyrics are the worst, so I do feel the pain Mick

[@peterhall4852]

Lyrics are always difficult, but sorry seems to be the hardest word.

[@ThatPedalShow]

Hahhhah!

[@ianminogue-corps7472]

Was it the Headway pickup system you were thinking of Dan ?

[@ThatPedalShow]

I reckon it was. Mick here.

[@Telewest792]

Hey Dan get a safe ,all legal and important papers and of course the passports , great show as always .

[@ScottfromBaltimore]

When does it become music: when it's about what you're hearing, rather than what you're doing. - when is that? I don't know, but I know it when it happens.

[@petergoddard1960]

Nordvang Gravity in stock at Peach Guitars

[@matthewcasey892]

Have you had a Bartel amp on the show?

[@hoboroadie4623]

😸👌

[@Goran-nn2hi]

I have never seen you review any eqpedals, not seen any on your pedalboards either. To me that is a very important pedal to have. What is your stand on eqpedals?

[@ThatPedalShow]

We’ve done whole shows on eq 👍

[@benlaw2634]

You mentioned a book at 34.40 but didn't give the name of the book or author. Anyone know it? Sounded interesting.

[@PlanetRoss365]

The book is "4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals" by Oliver Burkeman. It is transformative, especially if you're over 50...

[@noisecode5867]

Nordvang has a ts klon dual overdrive. It’s a bit pricy though lol.

[@noisecode5867]

Oh, they got there in the end haha.

[@nortog269]

Perhaps music “is” when the player/musician acts on “inspiration” (message sent from the gods; let’s be honest about it ;), and translates that message through their chosen instrument, guitar or otherwise, into a cohesive string of tones that the receiving party deems melodic. The rest is marketing. When The Saints Go Marching In, all the hymns, What Is Life (George Harrison), a few examples that in rudimentary form may conjure a symphony in the imagination of the next player (more messages from the gods) and as Matt Johnson of The The once said in song “and the whole god damn thing starts all over again”… I don’t know, I’m a photographer man, but one night not long ago I listened to Ramblin’ Man (Hank Williams) for the first time and when those four notes of the pedal steel come in near the top I was struck and had to pick up the tele and work it out. And then I took it further and completed a passage. I can play it for friends now or just think about it, but it’s there. Music. ;) Thoroughly enjoy the program. Thank you. Two water bottles (orange and stainless) and a lapel pin/badge from the shop are in my collection and always in use. Packaging always beautiful. Thank you, thank you for the inspiration!

[@ThatPedalShow]

Thank you kindly for the thoughts and for buying merch. It genuinely keeps us going.