Worship Guitar 101 - Gear

[@JacobH93]

It's really nice to see a more... realistic rig. A lot of these types of videos feature huge boards covered with strymons and such. While that's all well and good for those who have the money lying around, its nice to see a rig more like something you'd actually see in your everyday church. It's also nice to see that you can get a really good tone out of a simple set up with some good but not overpriced gear.

[@theworshipbunker]

So much this comment. I'm over strymon and JHS. I know they make good stuff, but dang, my church can't pay me enough to justify any of that. My board is very similar to this one. My overdrives are different and I'm missing the Echo Park, but I think I need one now to pair with my DD-20.

[@onevoiceinc]

After playing 13 years in churches (and double that in clubs), I'm still convinced that modeling amps (or basic amp setups) and practice (ie technique) are the way to go. A lot of guys (not all, but a LOT) I see flaunting their ridiculously overpriced pedalboards are far too reliant on cute noises than actual skill. Those people seem to think they can buy their talent, and it doesn't work that way. The basic I - IV - V - vi structure in nearly every song may cater to their egos ('I am a 4 chord master! Woot! Look at me go!'), but take away their capo or have them play in a progression outside of the before-mentioned staple progression variations, and they're lost. (And I won't even get into more exotic scales and modes.) Nothing wrong with having a good sound, but it never works as a substitute for talent... and people will always recognize the talent. It's sad that church music tends to be so lifeless and lacking when it seems like it would be the exact opposite. Just my opinion, but a valid one.

[@theworshipbunker]

You're not wrong man. I would love to, and need to, start setting more time aside to grow as a musician. I think we are cheating ourselves, our congregations, and God to not give it our best and do it with excellence.

[@onevoiceinc]

Joshua Muehlbauer - the beauty is we don't have to be THE best, just *our* best. Only the individual can know what that looks like, but when we do our best, it comes with rewards I believe. :)

[@matthewpollard2843]

Completely agree.

[@jasonreitz6049]

Thanks so much brother for the tour.. I’m just getting started in P & W and been trying to learn how to get the good effects. This gives a good foundation where to start. God bless you brother!!

[@brianmarker]

The lip smacking.. driving me nuts. Nice realistic setup tho man.

[@mq4702]

BMJ I thought I was the only one that heard it and thought the same thing! It kills me...! But I set up my board kind of based off of his. But it drives me nuts as well. Lol

[@manroirumnong7802]

That got me too.

[@timothyjoseph6586]

I just watched the entire video thinking about the annoying sounds he makes.....The water is right next to him if his mouth is so dry. Annoying!!!!!

[@kennewton5877]

I’m sure that you mean that as a constructive suggestion. My aunt made me eat in the other room because I Drug my fork with my teeth when I ate. I’ve never been the same since. I really need y’all’s prayers. Am I the only one that’s bothered when he hits the switches

[@idealassets]

Glad that you showed this. I have many of the same pedals, but thought I got all the wrong pedals after seeing what the super praise players use (Hillsong, etc.) I hope to stay with what I have, and am not disappointed.

[@SwayisGod]

'I pretty much always leave it on'. I'm detecting a theme here

[@luxfair]

jesus loves guitar effects! lol

[@trevorpettway]

rEVOLVEr me too

[@MatthaeusEbonah]

Jesus said "these rocks will cry out". Now look at us.

[@mikeroadblock]

So does satan.

[@calebmills2003]

It's eerie how similar your pedal board is to mine. Even the guitar and amp. Just a few differences here and there, but mostly the same idea all across the board.

[@adammichaelchannel]

Thanks for this video. Do you run the compressor into the boost into the overdrive for more gain, or does it make the sound bloated?

[@TheMenyDude]

I like the sound of your guitar... what Gretsch model is it? Would you recommend a telecaster thinline instead? Thanks for the pedal review, greatly appreciated

[@trevorpettway]

Thanks man, it's just an electromatic. Teles are cool. Sure!

[@MrMiguelhtp]

Hey Trevor at 3:25 it sounded a bit "Zeppelin-esque" or am I just imagining it?

[@ButOneThingIsNeedful]

+Mike Swann Does sound a bit like "Misty Mountain Hop".

[@pilarcortez3707]

Nice gear bro are you on the clean channel or overdrive channel

[@michaeliii6250]

That Gretsch is taking gain like a champ.

[@angiem.j0217]

Thx very helpful. I've been playing guitar for a long time, but I'm know getting into playing the electric more.

[@royrytkonen5939]

Good on you mate, finally a realistic effects rig for us!! God bless

[@parsabbaluca21]

Old hillsong, more gain, less delay, mid reverb. they used mainly gretsch, strats, standard tele, and les paul.... now, worship sound is, less gain, dotted eights and mod reverbs and shimmers. they use gretsch, deusenburgs, veritas.

[@fabiogt.10]

i really love old Hillsong.

[@WorshiptheKingMusic]

Hey, love this video... sharing it with my social media... your links are broken... are you on instagram or twitter still... you still playing?

[@ericlynch9560]

Thanks for sharing your rig with us, son. Keep praising the only one and true Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus.

[@boalston2484]

Have you ever experienced a bad crackle in your vpjr? MIne just recently started and Im trying to find out how to fix it

[@trevorpettway]

Yeah dude! I've heard that it's the pot, or something like that. Dan Burgesss at T1M will fix it.

[@stevosmusic]

+Bo Alston its the pot bro they put tiny little cheap ones it in it

[@Finkster2320]

Bo Alston just spray some contact cleaner (electric) on the pot and move it around a bit. I had the some problem with mine but it's good as new now!

[@dwainmcbain5263]

Amp compression and overdrive are far better than a pedal. The only pedals I like for an ambient tone are modulation pedals, stacking delay with harmonizers and pitch shifters will get you exactly that tone.

[@mike1967sam]

What crap pedals I mean these are the worst choice of pedals anyone can buy.....Just joking, in fact I really dig all those pedals and I have a few of them, the only one I've never tried is the Line 6 and the Giga Delay all the others are really good...especially the Dyna Comp which a lot of people dislike but David Gilmour and a lot of other guitarists have used the Dyna Comp for years. Nice vid Trevor.

[@mcren6781]

What kind of amp is that?

[@NeilDjents]

Thanks for the amazing video! I am about to get the Laney IRT studio amp with the IRT 2*12 cabinet. I use a 7 string guitar in my church’s worship band because I can play a lot of interesting fat chord soundings. I want to just to hook up the foot switch for my amp, a tuner pedal and a noise gate for my set up because there is a digital reverb on my amp. Do you think the set up works good? I also play in a metal band though so I need to have the same pedal board work for both. Do you think this is a good set up or I need an overdrive?

[@rurugby]

How much did that whole set cost? Looks like some fun effects.

[@laxplyer71]

Gretsch G5120 2011 Black $435 Fender Hot Rod Deluxe 112 Enclosure 1x12” Guitar Speaker Cabinet $300 MXR M-102 Dyna Comp Pedal $80 Fulltone Fulldrive2 MOSFET Overdrive/Clean Boost Guitar Effects Pedal $120 Emerson Em drive $160 Ibanez Ts 808 $180 Boss TU3 Chromatic Tuner $100 Ernie Ball VP Jr $70 Boss DD-20 Giga Delay $240 Line 6 Echo Park $80 Boss Rv5 digital reverb $150 Pedaltrain PT2 $120 Perfektion Pack of six different colors, 1 foot Guitar - instrument Patch Cables (Right Angle) $10 Cable to the amp and cable to guitar probably like 20 bucks

[@laxplyer71]

Colin Price Total $2065

[@rurugby]

Wow, that gets pricey fast.

[@trevorpettway]

Yeah, it gets pricey fast. However, it's worth noting that some were received as gifts and the rest were bought used. Same tone, lower price tag. And sure. Gear is awesome and cool to look at and geek out over, but at the end of the day, the type of overdrive you use has so little to do with your actual tone. Tone is in talented fingers and creative minds. You are an instrument, and a priceless one at that.

[@rurugby]

I got a little $40 Vox Classic Rock 2 headphones amp with effects and a nice well rated $40 studio headphones/cans. Also a Fender branded cable for $12 and sample sets of both light/medium and medium/heavy Dunlop picks of various sizes and types including the premium one $4 for each set of $12

[@jonatanrigvald7720]

Great video😊👍🏻 is that a pedaltrain 2?

[@walmal17]

What eq settings do you use on your Hot Rod?? (I've got one and just curious) -Very nice, smooth tone

[@jagpdc1644]

You got the mark 3 or mark 4 Hot Rod Deluxe?

[@walmal17]

@@jagpdc1644 Mk 3

[@jagpdc1644]

@@walmal17 and for church, is it perfect?

[@walmal17]

@@jagpdc1644 honestly, a newer blues junior should give you plenty of output if you are miced up. Great amp if you like fender

[@jagpdc1644]

@@walmal17 I want to run the amp at the edge of breakup, not too dirty or clean. I don't think a blues jr has enough headroom. I play next to the bass, singers, piano, and the drumer is less than 4 feet away me

[@dustindiebold1748]

Would you use these same pedals to run through the board without an amp?

[@metronomeforchristmas1018]

Never had much luck with the Dyna Comp. Always felt like such a noisy pedal. Switching it out for a Whitey Tighty from JHS.

[@MrMiguelhtp]

He looks at his Pedal board and says it's a really simple set up...my pedal board is a simple set up, I could just no longer stand the size or the weight so I bought me a junior and a mini pedalbay from Palmer but hey my hat's off to all you guys who lug around those big massive pedal boards I just got tired of it. Need a roadie.

[@thesteelstrummer2307]

What pedal power do u use???

[@marcosa3784]

@michael Boggs what are the amp settings?

[@henikof]

Nice walkthrough... Simple but nice..

[@xanarieseraphim]

keeping your tuner all the time other pedals still function whats the trick for that thanks

[@mcdude0192]

Some tuners like Boss tuners have two outputs. One will mute the signal when engaged the other will let the signal straight thru even when its on. Hope this helps! :)

[@fender9390]

Is your dyna comp have a mod or is it stock

[@jga817]

What kind of pedal board are you using?

[@theworshipbunker]

jga817, I’m just guessing here, but I think it’s just a Pedaltrain PT-1 or PT-2.

[@daniel-kullmann]

The Website is down...

[@haloford]

Hello, is it best to use a lowgain boost pedal or a boss cs-3 as a boost pedal when playing lead lines? im about to get those 2, but im confused which one i have to use as a clean boost and which one act as a lead boost, and whats the best position in the signal chain for both of them? my current plan is to get a lowgain boost pedal as a clean boost (and leave it on all the time) and place a boss cs-3 after my main distortion as a lead boost (to get more articulation, sustain, and volume boost) im new to using pedals, can someone give their advice? thank you very much :)

[@nikkitan6267]

Those are really sick pedals

[@JDL0111]

those are filtertrons in your guitar right?

[@thesteelstrummer2307]

No they are gretsch's humbuckers (GretschBuckers) reverb.com/item/547829-gretsch-gretsch-buckers

[@xman8157]

Awesome man, thank you for sharing!

[@wavman5699]

What size is your actual board?

[@trevorpettway]

The board I used for this video is a pedaltrain 2.

[@euanchan1491]

how do you not get any hum from ur echo park?

[@trevorpettway]

Euan Chan I've never had any issues with it.

[@leonardodharmaputra840]

lots and lots of mid range ;) very smooth

[@soccerlive0]

what guitar is that

[@aarondo2093]

a gretsch, dunno the model

[@Tracebebo]

That's a Gretsch Electromatic single cut in a black finish

[@rubengarcia1149]

What amp is that?

[@vittoriopasolini3430]

+Ruben Garcia looks like a fender hot rod deluxe

[@matthewpollard2843]

Why is American 'worship' music drowned in delay and 'swells' ??? Don't they listen to anything apart from U2 and Coldplay? It's weird how it's a genre and dominates the 'industry' and 'market' etc. What about Christians that like grunge and so on? This music is like country, great for country fans but useless to grunge fans. Is it because anthemic emo rock is more 'godly' and makes you more Christian because it's so bland and anodyne and therefore leaves no room for the expression of 'darker' themes (like in the Psalms - 22, 32, 116 etc?? I can't relate to most videos like this. I do like this man because he clearly hasn't spent thousands and has a fairly modest functional pedalboard - not too excessive - so I can't ask questions about why money has gone on 5 JHS overdrive pedals instead of feeding the poor (true religion/worship according to Isaiah and James etc) and another cultural (not Christian/religious thing) is why there's a focus on making feel-good for a few hours on Sunday instead of feeding the homeless because I know as a musician playing in church myself that I couldn't live with my conscience if I'd bought a JHS Morning Glory when 50 homeless friends needed a hot meal on Saturdays. I would feel really awful no matter how ambient the music was during "How Great Is Our God". I prefer to speak to those who need a physician rather than preach to the choir. Is it because Americans are so affluent they can run homeless outreach and so on plus spend thousand on overdrive pedals? What about all the poor in ghettos that desperately need to hear the love of Jesus I have heard about that dominates America, all the poorly educated folk led down a path of drugs or crime or just terrible ill-health? Doesn't the plight of a suffering world touch you more than the intro chords to "Be Still"? I am not judging, just sharing what I think, because the Bible says that God weeps for those people, and I am sure from Isaiah he'd not be happy if people were too busy adding another delay pedal instead of helping the elderly neighbour with no family. I am sure many sincere folk do, but for a nation that calls itself 'under God' there seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding between the words worship and praise. Worship is cleaning your neighbour's gutter or bathing your infirm grandmother, not singing nice songs for an hour on Sunday. Praise is good but not at the expense of practically helping the disadvantaged, oppressed and vulnerable. praying is good, and important, but so is cooking food for our homeless friends. I am truly baffled by Hillsong and Jesus Culture and all this stuff, where do you find the time to visit the AIDS/HIV ward at your local hospital and show the grace and love of God to those suffering? I say this not because I do, but because I want to do more. It's not hard to get up and play guitar for an hour, it's harder to get up and spend 7 hours walking the streets with 50 hot meals, tea and coffee.

[@leonmorgan1158]

nice sounds..

[@LucasMobile1]

What are those cables called?

[@trevorpettway]

Hey man. I'm not really sure, I got them in an 8 for $8 pack a few years ago.

[@JDL0111]

***** what is your favorite pedal trevor? (nice playing by the way)

[@JDL0111]

Lucas R Hugdahl kaleb our youth worship leader uses those cables. my guess is boss cables i don"t know

[@trevorpettway]

Jonathan Lewis Hey Jonathan. My favorite pedal in the video is probably the tubescreamer. However, I recently got a Maxon OD820. I liked the Maxon so much I sold the tubescreamer, but sometimes I still miss it. It's a great pedal and you can find them at a good price.

[@JDL0111]

***** oh sweet thanks man

[@serpaultv3290]

Nice Gear Im also in music team thanks for sharing This God bless hope you notice me, praying for having a gear like that

[@JDL0111]

i can tell you really like that bigsby

[@trevorpettway]

Jonathan Lewis It's pretty nice.

[@MHMusic85]

@@trevorpettway Until it is time to restring it.

[@jorgestreet3420]

I can across a good compilation of videos that will help you at Worship Fixer Formula

[@usa12gate]

This is really cool Thanks

[@gahhahhaak]

One suggestion, you would have more audience if you placed Spanish subtitles

[@coachcleats13]

How about learning english

[@michaelcraig9449]

what would be any different than any other guitarists gear? what do you mean by "worship" guitar gear? what is the big deal?

[@Mike-yv9cq]

+Michael Craig No difference...Thats just the gear he is using to produce the style of music he is playing

[@SamGrimes93]

+Michael Craig It would be like someone having a pedalboard for 'Metal'. The style and variety of pedals is going to be different for Worship music than it is for other genres (much more focused on ambience, delays, transparent drives opposed to a variety of fuzz, distortion and modulation pedals, etc).

[@neilkurian]

Awesome...

[@datboi3545]

7:32 Silly Trevor, tricks are for kids. No? ok...

[@zeekmx1970]

You have no DD-20 or RC-30 I'm telling your mother. 👀

[@jebstv4835]

new sub here.. nice video

[@f.i.l.d.e.p.s]

are band memmbers really there for worship or just an excuse to get into a band?

[@aaaaaa8152]

Are you here to learn or just to be judgemental?

[@f.i.l.d.e.p.s]

@@aaaaaa8152 a legit question.was curious what the difference is and what exactly is a worship guitar rig. sorry to hurt your feelings.

[@justincase4925]

You Got to get that shoe to control you knobs😁

[@mikedunkling6840]

What does any of this have to do with worship?

[@mq4702]

mike dunkling please don't do this. Stop it. It has nothing to do with actual worship. We know that worship is not a song or a sound but an action. It is to bow down your entire being to the Lord. But when he says worship pedal board, he is referring to the board that he uses to get him the sound he uses to play worship music at his church. Please don't make it more than what it is.

[@mikedunkling6840]

And what do those things have to do with worship music? Why do you need overdrive and compression in a worship setting? To rip that blazing solo? Do you really not understand the difference between worship and a concert? Why be like the world? Is the Gospel really that weak to you that you feel the need to punch it up with bad pop music?

[@mikedunkling6840]

Of course it has to do with worship. You're putting on a show, glorifying yourself and calling that worship. How can that not have anything to do with worship?

[@mq4702]

mike dunkling I understand completely what you're saying. But you're making this a religious issue when it's not. Let me ask you this. Do you listen to any music when you praise or pray? If you do then you're being a hypocrite because they use all this stuff

[@mikedunkling6840]

Worship isn't a religious issue??? Seriously? No, of course I don't listen to music when I pray. I don't know who "they" is, but I can assure you that there are still plenty of churches who don't believe their purpose is to put on rock concerts to entertain goats.

[@Rifleman-xl9fp]

Get amp stand it will get better! Like for video

[@theycallmejpj]

why do you allow advertisements on your videos?

[@matthewbro7]

+theycallmejpj Why are you going through commenting on all of these vidoes? lol

[@theycallmejpj]

Skee-Breh! to get an answer

[@Gabsfinds]

+theycallmejpj Who cares if they have ads or not... Just because they're Christians they shouldn't be able to make a little money on it?

[@theycallmejpj]

Gabby Creamer well no, because you should have some ethics. have you ever gone to a church with a budweiser advert above the door? by signing up to google ads you have no control over what products or services are advertised next to your content. in this guys case, in my country, it's alcohol. hardly fitting. unfortunately it seems people are quick to sell their integrity these days

[@ericandreeatingachickenwin2140]

+theycallmejpj That makes zero sense.

[@emery1057]

7:09 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽

[@warrenfulpmusic]

nice set up, but the amp sounds pretty dark.

[@RJrules64]

What are you listening on? Sounds great on my studio monitors.

[@farrahetienne7017]

'll mi

[@bruzzgravely3470]

you should let people here it, you wont play anything!!

[@mike1967sam]

I do not understand "worship music". I am a man of faith in The Lord Jesus Christ...remember the parable of the talents...? If you have musical talent and can create music it is a gift from God...and when you do it just make sure you do it for His glory not yours but it doesn't have to be worship music because whatever music you create is for Him.

[@9thDecibel]

Stop using the whammy bar so much. Too much, man. Too much.

[@trevorpettway]

Srry

[@davidlopez1208]

It's his style man

[@dookieeater]

Now that it’s been six years delete this and try it again with but this time without smacking your freaking lips constantly

[@MatthaeusEbonah]

Very informative.....but was anyone else getting annoyed by him tasting himself?

[@jeremyroth9035]

most generic worship board

[@2inchfromtheground]

+Jeremy Roth sure it is, but does that really matter? The great thing about the generic stuff is everyone has it, and you can pick it up in any city when you are on tour. Ever heard of Tim Pierce?

[@crvp9988]

+Jeremy Roth yeah its simple but its quite good. does the job perfectly well

[@trevorpettway]

Whatchu got?