Viewer Comments & Questions 20 Jan 2025 - Mick Only, Dan's In The US

[@briannacery9939]

Welcome Dan to my little quilt patch of the world! Mick is always welcome when he's in mood. Thanks Uncle Larry for being who you are! Protection, Guidance, Healing and Blessings to all!

[@tomlundholm]

Thanks for doing this solo Mick! Great discussions, thoughts and topics as always! 👍

[@Kevin-the-Just]

We all get a bit down with our playing from time to time. I played a lot through the 80s 90s and basically quit at the end of 2000. I even sold off some gear that I now desperately miss. I got back into it when I retired in 2016, discovered TPS and I'm now back into it with gusto! When I get a bit down about my playing now I try to learn a song (usually from YT). I don't go to the 'technique' vids. That's just more deflation and not what I need in that moment. Playing guitar is certainly a roller coaster.

[@ThatPedalShow]

That’s great advice Kevin! I hope everyone reads this. :0)

[@mikedr1549]

I think some people confuse the idea of seeking out new gear as an effort to "sound better" - when in fact some of us (many who watch TPS I presume) do it for the enjoyment of playing with new/different gear. If you want to play with a tube amp or try the latest modelling technology or whatever - then do it just to do it - no need to rationalize it or have a reason.

[@LewWelchThePoet]

👍🏿🤘 Already listened on Patreon so just here to push the algorithm to do better.

[@ThatPedalShow]

Thank you!

[@TerryLevitt]

Thanks!

[@ThatPedalShow]

Wow, thank you Terry!

[@TerryLevitt]

@ I doubt I’ve missed one of your shows in years, but this one was so interesting to hear about your ‘journey’ with Guitar. You’re very welcome!

[@ryangunwitch-black]

55:36 Oh, how I do love my Fuzz Face. Especially with those vintage style degaussed pups in my American Vintage II ‘61 Strat. The Tex-Mexes in my Road Worn are a bit too hot to do the thing but the AVII cleans up so nicely with the FF, the circuit imparting a wonderful sort of thickness at low volume on the guitar and then it just screams when I turn it up! ❤

[@lanceleslie5165]

The vintage D'Angelico, and D'Aquisto, archtops are phenomenal works of luthier art. They sound like nothing else. Good choice of your "genie wish," Mick!

[@JasonClute]

My local shop gave me a heads up about the Mythos pedal as he is a Mythos dealer. I’ll be buying from him and hopefully I’m supporting local & TPS! Also, in Emaj, I think it’s a G#. Because there is an A in Emaj, and you can’t have two A’s. I think that’s how it goes

[@Youtubemademeaddahandle]

Music is an expression of communication within a relationship - whether with you as primary listener or others as co-listeners.

[@jacktaylorguitarist]

Hey Mick, loved this episode. That bit in ‘Natural Woman’ is still mainly major scale harmony. The chords are B - F# - A - E. But what makes it work nicely is that descending bass line. These are the 1st inversions of the 2nd and 3rd chords, giving some nice inversions and voice leading. So, now the chord progression is B - F#/A# - A - E/G#. If you’re thinking about in chord numbers, you could think of it in the key of B as a whole and it would go - 1 5 b7 3. So it’s in B major overall, but the A is borrowed from another key. Hope that helps! Jack

[@ThatPedalShow]

Thanks Jack!

[@MrGuitarDad]

The old winter blues are not discussed enough. I do not enjoy the winter especially December. Be kind to yourself and it will pass. Everything does indeed pass. Thanks for the taking the time do this solo, much appreciated to get some lovely schedule and stability to the old Jan. Yesterday (time of show) was indeed Blue Day (google). It up from here! Haha all the best!

[@ThatPedalShow]

Everything will pass - this too will pass - is perhaps the most powerful statement of all along with ‘it is what it is’. The more you truly understand this (I’m not there but working on it), the more peace life will give you. Cheers.

[@MrGuitarDad]

@ your a good egg Mick. Life is a hard old bugger but you are appreciated by thousands. I struggle like everyone else but “this too shall pass” has helped me overcome life changing events also. All the best!

[@ridesingletrack]

Listening to this today and the bass talk reminded be that in one of the recent shows you mentioned doing something along the lines of "bass for guitar players". I would love that as a show! Would love to hear your approach to tone, what to play, what to listen for, etc.

[@TerryLevitt]

How interesting to hear about your experiences with many things Guitar. Thanks for sharing all this!

[@UncannyAdam]

get well soon Mick!

[@freitopolis]

Always wondered if skipping ads impacted the revenue. Count me in to not skip them anymore.

[@ThatPedalShow]

Thank you!

[@TraneFrancks]

It's my understanding that YT Premium earns creators more $ per view minute vs ads. As such, I'm happy that I've been a Premium subscriber for years.

[@ThatPedalShow]

Thank you Trane, we appreciate it!

[@mikeroadblock]

I’ll buy one of those pedals !

[@Youtubemademeaddahandle]

I routinely (once a month?) reduce to "all clean" (to reset my ears) and start with "EQ"ing the guitar (with amp set flat), then amp EQ, then reverb , then delay, modulation, OD/Dist, until I've added in all I want (generally) and test that all remains clear and articulate with any one effect on and then any combination of them. This may take several days as I have found my hearing can change daily (even in the same playing space). After that process I can relax and play with little self-imposed distraction.

[@Isaac-Draper]

On the beating yourself up thing, my best remedies are go to see live music, go to a jam session, learn some new songs. It's such a pain when you go through that feeling though!

[@ThatPedalShow]

Love it!

[@stanislavmigra]

Leonardo Giuliani, that asked arround 1:12:20 is next level Bluesman. Full package, great voice, great chops on guitar, awesome live tone. Check him up.

[@grahamlong5969]

Good show Mick

[@thewrongbike7709]

Everything you just said about bass players! Completely invisible. I once stepped off the stage and a guy asked me what I thought of the band. Thought he was being ironic! No one looks, no one cares, but that's what they are dancing to!

[@danielthrasher9928]

Right. Like Victor Wooten, he should be up there with Eddie Van Halen

[@IIImobiusIII]

Reminds me of once when I saw Roger Waters. I was watching him all through the show. At the end, he thanked his guitarist Eric Clapton. I was shocked. I didn't even notice him once. Then he was gone. Pro and Cons of Hitchhiking Tour. There are times that you are just into bass.

[@cleftturnip7774]

They are still making the hot cake

[@elliotttimms3576]

All good !

[@spencerfreed6947]

Used dr z market is and can be a great shout for purchasing a great rig. Per some of the discussion during the live, had to wait unfortunately. Love the VCQ live or otherwise!

[@hoboroadie4623]

The used market is depending on someone willing to give up a perfectly good Dr. Z for mere money. Sometimes you have to wait for that.

[@mikebaxter4922]

Morning Mick, Mick B here, Eastern Australia. Hope to catch a QnA live, just working out what time you do it. Love the show, spreading the good TPS word amongst local GTists and musos. keep going brother

[@ThatPedalShow]

Hey Mike, it’s at 5pm GMT every Monday. Not sure how that works out for Oz, but Google will know. Cheers!

[@mikebaxter4922]

@ ok cool We are GMT+11 atm so 4am for us I believe.

[@Jinballify]

In regards of a custom no budget instrument. I'd go for a fender scale offset or offset semi-hollow guitar with a PAF-style pickup in bridge, and Hum-sized P90 in the neck (for moddability), 4-knob arrangement with 50's wiring and push/pull for series/paralel on bridge pickup and out-of-phase on another push/pull. Propably would go to Vuorensaku Guitars or Ruokangas Guitars here in Finland as my local luthiers and make killer personal stuff.

[@goodbyepolarbears172]

Regarding directionality/beaming. I don't know if anyone has already mentioned this but I can highly recommend you Google 'Mitchell Donut'...and then make one. For the price of a 14" (or less) circle of foam your problem may be fixed. I had this exact problem with a Katana amp. At rehearsals with it, whatever tone and volume I set to suit me was infuriating my keyboard bandmate. If I set it for him then it was unbearable for me. I began to wonder whether his ears were knackered...or his taste. Or maybe mine were?! So I set my looper on with a riff and wandered across to where he was sitting. He was RIGHT, it WAS unbearable. 😄 I had finally experienced and understood beaming. And a homemade Mitchell Donut fixed it. I can now walk VERY off axis and the tone of my amp remains pretty consistent throughout. Do look 'em up, see if you can get one behind your grille (or even experiment with it in FRONT of the grille if you can find a way to fix it) and try it for yourself. Cost me less than a fiver. 👍

[@PerpetuallyTiredMusician]

First off a fun episode as always. As for the question of blank check for a custom guitar. I would spend it on a lefty crestwood deluxe replica at dauget guitars. A original vintage epiphone lefty is Unobtainum so thats what I would do. Peace

[@cleftturnip7774]

J mascis has tone bender mk1 going into his big muff for solo tones. Sounds awesome!

[@williamengler321]

Uncle Larry is awesome.

[@Burgschall]

If looking for a really well crafted Archtop check out Schwarz-Custom's Cardinal ! and on the Hoofi Deeflector: worth every penny and you only break them , when you drive backwards over them (don't ask why I know that 🙄)

[@VERBANDTREM]

I've found that elixirs make way less string noise. So much so that it's hard to do a good Angus style pick scrape.

[@Kalamazoom]

❤❤❤

[@ncurri]

34:30 - beginner’s mind

[@Youtubemademeaddahandle]

Well, I'm not interested in being busy. I'd been thinking about adding a bass guitar but wasn't sure I'd use it enough. Musical instruments are valuable to me only if they help fuel the creative spark.

[@tonyvardy2399]

Don't worry about hearing string noise as you can hear it on parts of the Joshua Tree by U2 and is part of the song's character

[@anthonyalfredyorke1621]

Thanks for holding the fort on your own Mick , those deflectors look straight out of the classic 70s series BLAKE'S 7 or most sci-fi from Golden era certainly pre INDUSTRIAL LIGHT AND MAGIC stuff and none of us are falling for the MISSING DAN story he doing the Music for " TRUMP " . If you're looking for an Archtop then you'll have to see ZEE GERMANS they make superb instruments. Thanks again and have a wonderful Week and PEACE AND LOVE TO EVERYONE ❤❤.

[@nealpike6611]

I’ve started using two reverbs as standard sometimes even three

[@Merraldooo]

Hope the hand heals up quick. That’s awesome your man enough to try out other instruments. Bass hits different. I want the fender Meteroa for some reason. Lastly, you don’t need Dan and his almost good ole boy club tan, hahaha.

[@Amish_Trivedi]

Missed today due to the inauguration in the US- but back with it next week! And not teaching on Mondays this Spring! More TPS time will be good for me :)

[@hoboroadie4623]

Even with the AVD, that Barefaced cab is pretty small for most uses. Exactly what I visualized it being useful for was as a third cabinet, running some kill-dry modulation* so it could sit sideways behind the other cabinets but not have phase issues. *e.g. I'm running a Hammond Scanner into one of my Z-80s. It could sit out of line.

[@ThatPedalShow]

My brain is going there. It sounds great tho - needless to say, THANK YOU!

[@philmus1]

Neil Young never bothered about string noise. It's about releasing pressure as you move between chords. Fast Fret reduces it a bit, and look after your calluses as rough dead skin increases noise

[@6stringsandapick]

Blank check guitar for me would be a Fylde like John Smith plays with a dual output pickup. If it was an electric guitar, I would go with a Collings JL 470.

[@Youtubemademeaddahandle]

Pronunciation being a hobby of mine, I've discovered that most get it wrong while swearing only they are correct.

[@Kruser_75]

Arch tops… anyone have good stories on Duesenberg Fullerton? There’s a 2017 for sale locally and it looks ace.

[@Job_On_At_NASA]

Inspired by today’s show, I have a new name. 🎸

[@ThatPedalShow]

Hahahahah!

[@Richardgeohar]

Dear TPS, thanks so much for all you do. I have a Mesa Studio .22 with one 8 ohm and one 4 ohm output. If the internal (8 ohm) speaker is connected to the 8 ohm output, can I safely connect an 8 ohm extension speaker to the 4 ohm output?

[@ryangunwitch-black]

I am so sick of the “Lowered stage volume” trend. First of all, are you gonna tell the drummer to turn down?😂 He’s on stage hitting acoustic drums with big sticks. And if you’ve got a really smackin’ drummer, like I do, I don’t trust whomever is running monitors to get me over that on stage. And no one wants to hear guitars coming out of monitor speakers as the soul source of that audio. The speakers in my amps are designed for that and do a great job. When a bunch of people are jammed up against the front of the stage, the PA is often parallel to them or just behind them. On a quiet stage, all the front row hears is the drums and whatever is bouncing off of the back wall. I play blues, rock n roll, doom county and metal. I’ll go ahead and turn these amps UP. THANKS. ❤

[@stanislavmigra]

Agreed on all points. No bigger letdown, than cramming yourself to the front row to admire your favourite band, only to hear just drumms 🤦🤦🤦

[@doubled5383]

From a middle-aged guy: take care of your hand, bro, you are not 20 anymore. You want to be able to play guitar, right? Don’t risk it.

[@jeffrywhite6008]

Feeling good today from hope of change. Nothing but love to the TPS community and our UK brothers and sisters !

[@Youtubemademeaddahandle]

Having the option to adjust the position and width of the "Q" is a rarity.

[@mickl2793]

Are you going to be reviewing the new Orange baby range of amps?

[@ThatPedalShow]

Unlikely. Just did a quick Google and looks like they’re solid state? Certainly happy to give em a listen but Dan and I have always infinitely preferred tube amps as a personal preference, cheers!

[@mickl2793]

@ no problem, thanks for the reply 🙏

[@michaelschneider7590]

Mick, for a carved arch top, what about a Nik Huber Orca?

[@ThatPedalShow]

I mean an actual jazz guitar….

[@mpelgudmir]

This would have been really funny if you would have sat in your normal spot, with no adjustments to the camera. Just Dan's empty stool over there.

[@stanislavmigra]

I really dont like, when bass is tuned bellow kick drum. Speaking from a perspective of a guy in audience. In most venues, it transforms Bass into just a Woof, instead of percussive rythmic instrument present in the mix. Also, there are soooo many people I know, who are angry, when bass is not present in the mix in a live setting. And always praise great performance of a bass player. Worry not 👍

[@jammergreg]

I know how you feel with a sore back and a sore hand. I’ve had spinal cord damage for 26 years and of have been playing out with a trigger finger on my middle finger fret hand. Welcome to the club & get well soon, buddy. Happy inauguration day, USA… Time to drain the swamp!⚖️🇺🇸🙏

[@robertritchie2860]

I've trigger finger in both hands and a touch of arthritis - am 60. I've changed to 9s string guage so not to potentially strain my left hand. Rock on👍