If you want these tones - for Pod Go it's "JCLonLead" - for Fractal FM9 (buymeacoffee) it's "Lonestar Gig" - and for Neural DSP Plini it's "JCLeadThinner" (again buymeacoffee for Neural DSP archetype presets)
@nedludd3641
Жыл бұрын
That was glorious. I help out as a volunteer at a place for people with advanced dementia, folk clinging on to torn fragments of their reality. If I noodle whilst using your Line 6 settings I may spark a synapse, jolt a memory. Bless you for that, dude. Peace on Earth, good will to all [wo]men.
@nedludd3641
Жыл бұрын
Please try to do a chorus/choral preset :)
@Wadey1960CS
Жыл бұрын
Not sure exactly how you're doing it...but these videos keep getting better and better. Great discussion, and points to getting some usable tones from our devices. Thanks John!
@johnnathancordy
Жыл бұрын
Cheers Wadey thanks for putting up with me!!
@slicksalmon6948
11 ай бұрын
Goal -- Smooth lead tone with a lot of gain without fizz and not thin.
@DrProgNerd
Жыл бұрын
Great video. I've realized over the last few years how crucial a hi-pass - or shaving 8k - 16k - is to tame the fizz...not to mention to protect your hearing. A few years ago, I visited a new doctor. She looked in my ears and said "you're a musician aren't you?" She could see the effects of years of gigging. She told me that hearing loss affects the higher frequencies first. I've got tinnitus from years of standing near bright amps, punishing snare drums and crash cymbals. All the old farts used to tell me to protect my hearing - but I was young and invincible and couldn't be bothered. Constant ringing in your ears is not cool. Now I'm the old fart saying "protect your hearing". I digress. Another well done video, John.
@Stringprodigy
Жыл бұрын
Tinnitus is psychological. Nothing to do with being exposed to loud sounds.
@jakollee
Жыл бұрын
@@Stringprodigy Perhaps, but hearing loss is real.
@Stringprodigy
Жыл бұрын
@@jakollee not perhaps, it’s a fact. and where did i say hearing loss wasn’t real?
@jakollee
Жыл бұрын
@@Stringprodigy I'm not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV. I understand there can be a psychological component to chronic tinnitus, and that it can be treated by cognitive behavioral therapy. But I check 3 websites: Cleveland Clinic, WebMD, and Wikipedia, and the first two state that tinnitus can be caused by exposure to loud noise/music, and wikipedia says teh most common cause is hearing loss. So maybe the original post is not so wrong? I didn't mean to be argumentative in my post, just to give a little support to the original poster.
@Stringprodigy
Жыл бұрын
@@jakollee there’s no way to make that kind of claim logically since tinnitus cannot be measured or studied in any way beyond someone’s personal experience.
@nedludd3641
Жыл бұрын
That was glorious. I help out as a volunteer at a place for people with advanced dementia, folk clinging on to torn fragments of their reality. If I noodle whilst using your Line 6 settings I may spark a synapse, jolt a memory. Bless you for that, dude.
@wolfgangcordsen3430
Жыл бұрын
Finally a video about TONE. Your tone! That’s very much appreciated and very well explained. Always wanted to know more about how you dial in your tone. Thanks!
@jimamsden
Жыл бұрын
Great advice John. I use high cuts, and reduce amp presence for higher gain tones, and use scenes to get the treble back for cleaner tones. I also find stacking overdrive pedals into a clean amp works well because the tone controls are often simple high cuts and are out of the circuit when the pedal is off, retaining treble for clean tones.
@johanndaart7326
Жыл бұрын
Great tips John. I'm a noob and I don't have experience with real amps/effects. So I always feel very unsure with the amount of Low and High Cuts. I find it very helpful when you talk about LC/HC that you've applied in your different tones for lead and cruch and your reasoning behind it.
@david71991
Жыл бұрын
For anyone watching with a Boss Katana, I’d highly recommend also using a liberal hi cut, makes it usable at higher gain settings.
@johnnathancordy
Жыл бұрын
100% - in my Katana Air video I used the High Cut for my lead!
@daverichardson6490
Жыл бұрын
Great insightful video! Cheers, Jon
@johnnathancordy
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Dave!!
@joemiller9856
Жыл бұрын
Great advice. Thanks John!
@bleigh6562
Жыл бұрын
Sound advice, backed up by great tones and playing to match. Thank You
@kaskas55
Жыл бұрын
Just got Boss GT1K modeller & started applying the low & high cuts in my patches. I learned this when I was mixing songs before. I realised that modellers tend to have some fizziness & properly using EQ is one of the keys in using amp sims.
@zaporoshti3392
3 ай бұрын
exactly just cut anything below 80 hz and you are good to go!
@DavidTaylor-cv1sp
Жыл бұрын
"...shield yourself from the sound". Joe Bonamassa demonstrates this concept quite well, in a live context. His wall of sound is almost always sitting behind amp cabinet shields.
@Elassar72
Жыл бұрын
I can just agree 100% on all the line. I love chocolate Petrucci'esq tones and, on top of your suggestions and as far as it can help, even if using hot passive humbuckers (even if kept far away from the strings :) ) on the Helix, I found good results boosting a Cali IV Lead by a TS808 in any case (very low gain, no more than 1.3, and quite high level, as usual) and reducing the gain/drive and the mids on the amp. it cuts-off "unwanted" low frequencies while enhancing the "right mids", and every single note sounds well defined while liquid, even with power chords
@picksalot1
Жыл бұрын
Good advice, and interesting information about the difference in dB cut per octave. People often talk about using a Compressor to increase sustain on Lead tones, but I've never liked the way they sound.
@jakollee
Жыл бұрын
Agree about compressors for lead tones, not a fan. Chicken-pickin' yes, hi-gain lead sounds, no!
@89ji76
Жыл бұрын
I half agree. I can’t get anywhere near a passable high gain lead tone out of a dynacomp style compressor. Aaaand it just so happens like half of pedal compressors are based on the dynacomp and perform in a very similar way. But more transparent compressor types I think can get along with a high gain lead tone quite well. I use a model of the Boss CP-1X in front of the amp block and I’m very happy with those results.
@Adventuresingearland
Жыл бұрын
0:53 - Loves a bit of Jessie J I does!
@vherguitarista1080
Жыл бұрын
Love this..i have so much to learn
@kendevries3212
Жыл бұрын
This was a really great video. I have been doing what you recommended for a while, with regard to the low pass filter. I do need to try boosting the mids as you suggest. I am using an AXE-FX III and I run it direct. Great video!!!
@rock4ever812
2 ай бұрын
On a quad cortex do you find it best to hi cut in the global eq (where you can't control the dB/Oct slope)? Or to use an eq block? If you're using an eq block do you do it at the end of the chain, after the cab, or between the amp and cab?
@SonnetGomes
Жыл бұрын
Great video, but it would have really been helpful give some examples of the buzz/fizz noise and how to use filters to work arournd these. I actually struggled with this digital fizz in the early days of digital modelers. Things have come a long way since then using cab modeling, but it can be better with the techniqres you have mentioned. I think I also noticed in one of your early patches where you used a Tube Screamer with a high gain amp such as Soldano. What was the reasoning behind it?
@GaryNorthants
Жыл бұрын
Great advice and well explained
@dutelatte2154
Жыл бұрын
the problem for me was always the fizz, especially on rythm medium/high gain tones, also how to keep the sound when goes from clean to distortion to be consistent.
@bluwng
6 ай бұрын
This was petfect.
@kyran4238
Жыл бұрын
1:14 …ready, aim, fire!
@tammelin_guitar
Жыл бұрын
I have a question you might be able to address in a video. I have found that in the Helix lead tones that are dialed in and sounds good in the bridge position tend to sound a bit muddy in the neck position. The examples you play in this video with the other modelers doesn’t do that. But the Helix examples does that to some extent. Is that a matter of dialing it in differently or is the Helix lacking something in this regard? The examples with the other modelers sound more present or clear when you use the neck position. But I do understand that it is a matter of taste and I have seen from many of your other videos that you have a that kind of tone. But I am wondering how you can dial that presence in using the neck position without it being to harsh in the bridge position. Cheers!
@RedSpyderX
17 сағат бұрын
That First FM9 tone is my goal! I have a ToneX Lonestar model how can I get there :(
@chrisdaviesguitar
6 ай бұрын
Fractal FM9 for AX FX? Do I forego all my pedals and invest in one of these two? While I do have Mooer GE300, fully updated, I cannot achieve the tones demonstrated here, even though the Mooer uses the same sharc processors.
@jwright8838
Жыл бұрын
Even low gain settings benefit from a high cut. I have a global hard cut at 10KHz on my Kemper and depending on the profile I will start cutting at 7KHz.
@av8tordonny398
Жыл бұрын
John, you’ve become my favorite follow for guitar modelers, and ideas. Really appreciate your content. Besides the price difference, FM3 vs HX Stomp?
@zaporoshti3392
3 ай бұрын
ampero 2
@hammerniko
Жыл бұрын
Hey John, your Sound and video is really great. I tried to copy it immediatly, and it sounds great on my pod too. But with your described Plugins and Settings the Sound of my podgo crashes everytime. I can play for about 5 to 10 minutes before the pod go crahses an creates an ultra loud noise. I have this problem with no other sound. This is curious. Does anyone have an Idea. I use an IR of an soldano.
@lchown1813
Жыл бұрын
I Have noticed that chorus effects seem to have a dampening affect on the sustain in the Helix....and can affect the tone as well.
@jelliss2017
Жыл бұрын
Hi how would you create these sounds with actual analog pedals and you might not have the luxury of using the same amp every night on a live gig
@OMH-wh9xn
Жыл бұрын
What's this style of lead called and what resource for learning it would you recommend? It's so lush!
@LloydMajor
7 ай бұрын
Real cool!
@bluwng
6 ай бұрын
I like to rest my palm on the bridge and I cant get past the volume knob interfering. Anyone have advice.
@texrex4580
Жыл бұрын
Let's have a video on modeler tones using Humbuckers.
@iloveitall
10 ай бұрын
Where in my signal chain do I put my EQ-Filters best?
@tonygonzalez958
Жыл бұрын
What would you suggest with emg 81s powered hum buckers. Im looking to change them but for now any insight would be awesome
@wadehickam2458
Жыл бұрын
Are you still still using the LP/HC with the new cabs in Helix 3.5?
@tonygonzalez958
Жыл бұрын
sorry I just heard the end of it. Thanks Ill try it
@Stringprodigy
Жыл бұрын
Try using an expression pedal to dial in your high/low cuts
@StratsRUs
Жыл бұрын
Thanks I'm finding with the Helix that it's worth being very first principles.Adding things block by block.To explore everything yourself.That way, your advice and guidance really resonates and is directly relatable. Thank you, as always.
@Warrnan52
Жыл бұрын
Silly question: why not just roll off the guitar tone knob?
@kyran4238
Жыл бұрын
Haha yeah. Put an AC15 on your desk where your monitors sit and then tell me modellers are harsh and fizzy.
@alexandermonahan6446
3 ай бұрын
Take me down like Im a domino 😩😩
@winstonsmith8240
Жыл бұрын
If Paul Gilbert is a bit 'mutton Jeff' he could always turn it up a bit. (Sorry, couldn't resist).
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