Worship Guitar Tone Essentials: Core Tone

[@RicCrouch]

When it comes to EQ, one good technique is to turn all of your tone knobs completely down. Play a chord, and turn one of the knobs up until you hear the sound “bloom”, becoming less muffled and just sounding markedly better. Make a note of where that is, then turn that knob back to zero. Repeat with each of your tone knobs-whatever is on your amp, whether bass/mid/treble, high/low, or whatever. When you are done, put each tone knob back to that “bloom” point, and you’ll have a pretty good spot for EQ on the amp. After that, you may want to adjust a bit to sound better in a mix, but you should be close.

[@boydzilla51]

This! This is the way. I also like to roll off the volume a little so you can use that to boost for leads, especially with fuzz though typically fuzz isn't used a ton in P&W.

[@NikosKatsikanis]

but where do you set the selector for each?

[@johnliv3897]

Guitar Volume is very important for good tone. He is just focused on amp volume ?

[@NikosKatsikanis]

got a link for the church?

[@mikeyn3611]

No mention of finding what sounds good to YOUR ears(within reason), and trying to find your own style. Why does “worship guitar,” have to be what’s popular according to what the record industry promotes? Not trying to be negative, but, this cookie cutter approach to guitar is limiting and is based on trends and money revenue to the record company. Find your own style, and flourish at something new and CREATIVE.

[@thehomestudionerd]

Just have to remember the training session here in context. This session is more about finding a good cohesive tone that compliments the worship team and blends well with mix and leaves room for the singers to get their message across. What you are referring to is valid as well but is more for creating your own music in a different setting altogether. What you are mentioning is more for making yourself and individuality shine. This session is more about just being a good supportive part of worship team to help the worship leaders message be most effective. Makes sense?

[@mikeyn3611]

@@thehomestudionerd I agree that making ourselves ,”Shine” is not the goal, Only glorifying God. My comment was more based in finding a guitar tone that is inspiring to the person playing it. If we don’t like what we are hearing, we can’t do our best as if unto God. And in this case, we are trying to do our best for God and to help bring people to God.

[@thehomestudionerd]

@@mikeyn3611 understood. Good Point. We also have to enjoy what we are doing and feel we are being expressive. I get you. :)

[@RickGtr271]

He is just introducing the basics to the group. You can always mess with adjustments on the pedals for customization. You have to start somewhere and I believe this is a great presentation to get people started.

[@shanerose5348]

This is the best comment here..

[@johnosborn1793]

For using the Helix,you’re tone is probably the lousiest Sound I’ve ever heard. You’re not using FrFr speakers. I use sometimes 4 FrFr speakers. You’re just scratching The surface what the Helix can really do. In Jesus name. Amen

[@PocketDelicious]

3:02 Haha? Really? The ol' Jesus juke. You ever want to tell someone what to do without sounding bossy? Easy, just use Jesus as an excuse. Barna research has uncovered some really interesting things about worship and how people in the congregation view it.

[@ookami692]

Sit down at your rig and watch this video. Great job. Really helpful as a resource in those "I've gotta blow everything up and redo" moments lol

[@PocketDelicious]

"Sound techs" from church have ruined live music. Change my mind.

[@marshallcarr]

Maybe the very first thing you should’ve talked about was tuning the guitar. It was killing me the entire time.

[@chrisstout8451]

I just started listening. I hope tuning isn’t going to be a problem as I go through this. I hear Ableton tuning issues. Out of tune guitars makes me cringe.

[@BParker55]

Awesome walkthrough man! I will say tho especially on a les paul, there are a ton of tones to pull out at different guitar volume levels. my go to on my LP is actually around a 6 on volume on the bridge. i usually keep my neck pup tapped. The tele tho which is my go to... yea volume is always 11 lol tone about 8. High gain is the key to great worship tone. especially with the verb and delays for lead tone!. My lead tone is generally really heavy and basically fuzz haha

[@cellobearrrr]

Thank you so much for this valuable lesson. Hard to find elaborate, quality content like this for free. ❤

[@ZzzzzzzxxxzzzYZ4]

" Hard to find elaborate, quality content like this for free." Except, literally, all over youtube.

[@cellobearrrr]

@@ZzzzzzzxxxzzzYZ4 put link please! Lololl

[@only_noma]

Hello! Amazing presentation. Could you clarify, please, where is the helix tutorial?

[@RickGtr271]

Excellent video on basics to get a good foundation for this genre of music. I like the idea presented with comparing bridge and neck pickups and the breakup on the amplifier to get a good baseline for tone.

[@franciscovalenzuela152]

So now it is not only the: "I have all the fake copies of the tones in my digital pedal but I only use 1"... Now is too: "you have to eq like this to sound good, your preferences does not matter".

[@bcalenda2609]

I like the idea of reverb on usually so you can pull it back to focus a guitar in a mix certain points.

[@gregsmith1392]

Nice job Team. Your sound mixer brothers thank you!

[@tjfulton181]

Please consider including modulation as a core tone component. Question: Do you understand solid state technology is fundamental not just a solid state amplifier but also to a large part of amplifying digital emulation technology. Do you agree running into front of house is just newer solid state technology.

[@ForrestWest]

If you adjust the amp to the right point between clear and break up for the two pickups then you use a different knob to control the actual overall volume of the amp for the room or for your listening choice of volume?

[@magicbeav]

Do you not use the boost-side (alone or stacked) of the Fulltone dual overdrive pedal?

[@tmjvtxtmjvtx]

This is so great...thanks Cam!

[@bigdaddyjoblivion]

If you are still using boss type delay and reverb pedals that have effect level instead of mix, how would you set those levels? Because your signal is always underneath its different than using a big sky or timeline.

[@bigdaddyjoblivion]

How would you set amp for single coil bridge? Also, if you have only one drive how would you set it?

[@ilse-mariebriel4913]

This is amazing!!! Thank you so much for sharing this.

[@yurakolesnikov9725]

1. Get a good guitar 2. Get a good amplification - Iridium or ToneX 3. Dial in REALLY GOOD your overdrive section, take 2-6 pedals 4. Place your delays/reverbs after Iridium/ToneX That's it ladies and gentlemen, this will be 100$ for my masterclass.

[@volume9gaming]

Your credentials…? 😁

[@jaredlowry3547]

Agree. But I’ve tried both and I prefer the delay and reverb before the Iridium.

[@midnightwind8067]

The best worship I’ve ever known was in a house meeting. 35 people who loved God singing scripture to a cheap no name 6 string acoustic. I have never seen that experience equaled anywhere else, big or small. The idea of a worship tone is actually a missing of the point. If you need a helix to worship, maybe it isn’t really worship. Maybe it’s the modern religion zeitgeist of the new church club scene. In either case, if it doesn’t focus you on Christ, then what is glorified? Strymon ? Dude my Kemper did not die for my sins. And ego is a deep pit to fall into. Please carefully consider what you are calling worship. None of this stuff is going to heaven with us anyway.

[@astreetcalledstrate]

Amplification? Oh yes...nice tube amp...Boogie anyone 🙂

[@markusostrowski1833]

Thank you so much for this extensive lesson!

[@MRxr400]

ok, first thing mentioned that i feel is very important, is angle of speaker to your ear. i actually use an angled quad box, not for volume, but for angle to ear. then i can play with less stage volume. It not only lets you hear the tone correctly, it helps you hear the amp at lower volumes. best thing i did was to learn how to be a sound engineer. it gave me so many ideas on how to get the best from all instruments, and trained my ear to tone and mixing.

[@DavidNorris-qx7gk]

The blind leading the blind

[@ZameronCimmerman]

Double astigmatism and near sightedness actually