That Pedal Show | LIVE Viewer Comments & Questions - 17 July 2023 - That Pedal Show @ThatPedalShow | Uploaded July 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Salutations, people of tone!
This is VCQ Live. We do this most Mondays and we're glad to welcome you to the TPS Family.
We're all here to hang out, ask better questions and be among friends.
You can buy TPS merch to support our efforts thatpedalshowstore.com
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Salutations, people of tone!
This is VCQ Live. We do this most Mondays and we're glad to welcome you to the TPS Family.
We're all here to hang out, ask better questions and be among friends.
You can buy TPS merch to support our efforts thatpedalshowstore.com
You can buy guitar pedals and gear in the USA from That Pedal Shop: thatpedalshop.com
We are on Patreon – crowdfunding for creatives. Active Patrons can also access this as a podcast.
patreon.com/ThatPedalShow
Please visit our preferred retailers!
UK & Europe: Andertons Music bit.ly/2cRvIvt
Australia: Pedal Empire bit.ly/2mWmJQf
![Robben Ford At TPS! [New Pedalboard, Little Walter Amp, Playing Tips & More]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/D0HIUT8J3I8/hqdefault.jpg "Robben Ford At TPS! [New Pedalboard, Little Walter Amp, Playing Tips & More]
A true guitar legend joins us to talk playing, tone and much more!
Welcome to the show. It is indeed a big day for Dan and I as we welcome one of our all-time playing heroes to Schwangri-La, Mr Robben Ford.
Dan has been working with Robben for a little while now, helping him to get a new pedalboard together for new tones and inspiration.
In this video we talk about his recent playing life, taking in a few choice guitars along the way. Please note there is/will be a separate video in which Robben shows us his fabled Dumble Overdrive Special amplifier and tells its amazing story. In more recent times, his Little Walter 50-watt ’59 model has been taking care of business, as it is in this video!
Massive thanks to Robben for being here, enjoy the episode!
Quick signal path explanation…
Robben’s signal chain goes in the order that you see it on the QMX6 switcher from right to left.
The volume pedal is placed AFTER the QMX switcher and BEFORE the delay and reverb which are not in QMX loops. Reverb is last in the chain.
Guitar plugs into the input of the QMX.
Please check out…
• Robben Ford’s Guitar Dojo - https://www.robbenfordguitardojo.com/
• Tour dates, general info, merch etc - https://www.robbenford.com/
• That Pedal Show Store - how we fund this show - https://www.thatpedalshowstore.com/
Pedals & stuff in this show
• Lehle Mono Volume S
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3JqTKgY
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/andY1Q
• TC Electronic Polytune Mini Noir
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/348bMOY
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/ZQWJdW
• Hermida Audio Zendrive
No longer available new
• Mythos Argo
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3qt3Y4s
• Fairfield Circuitry Randy’s Revenge
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3yogY24
• Electro Harmonix Micro POG
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/oqdPeY
• Jam Pedals Harmonious Monk MkII
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/414fg2h
• Jam Pedals Boomster Mk2
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3JqU2o4
• Mad Professor Silver Spring Reverb
https://www.mpamp.com/eu/silver-spring-reverb
• Strymon TimeLine
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/2pSEFKm
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/WqoJDn
• Hotone Ampero Control Midi switcher
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3UlUl9Z
• The GigRig QMX6
UK & Europe: https://www.thegigrig.com/quartermaster
Australia: https://bit.ly/34rwaKG
Interesting bits & go-to sections
0:00 Intro playing and hello!
2:12 Pure, Robben’s latest studio album
5:57 All about the guitar again
7:52 New reverbs and delays
11:07 ‘Mint’ reverb example - TimeLine preset
13:25 Robben’s new pedalboard
15:40 The only way to move forward
16:11 Zendrive still rules
16:57 PRS Robben Ford Ltd McCarty
19:00 Zendrive sounds
20:36 Dynamics and melody
27:28 Approach to altered scales
30:55 Q from Simon Jarrett, diminished I to IV
37:50 Robbenfordguitardojo.com
40:50 Little Walter ’59 amp
44:13 Dumble sound at lower volume?
47:00 Robben’s other PRS
49:45 The tailpiece is so important
50:39 Dan’s LP Junior?
52:10 Supernatural Tele story
59:12 The magic right hand
1:00:12 MIDI control for Strymon Timeline
1:03:07 1966 Gibson 335 12-string conversion
1:07:10 The beauty of volume
1:09:05 Fav sax players
1:13:00 EH POG for bebop
1:15:25 Mythos Argo
1:16:40 Fairfield Ring Mod
1:17:50 Harmonious Monk
1:19:20 Jam Boomster
Guitars used in today’s show
• 1966 Epiphone Riviera
• PRS Robben Ford Limited Edition McCarty x 2
• 1966 Gibson ES-335-12 (converted to a six-string)
• 1960 Fender Telecaster
Amps in today’s show
• Little Walter 50-watt ’59 & 212 cab with ToneSpeak Austin 1250 and Manchester 1290 speakers
We hope you enjoy this episode. Please subscribe to our channel.
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Please visit our preferred retailers!
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![Greg Koch - Not So Slight Return! [JAM Koch Ness Monster, New S-Shaped Reverend & More]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DqGqps2AeN4/hqdefault.jpg "Greg Koch - Not So Slight Return! [JAM Koch Ness Monster, New S-Shaped Reverend & More]
The one and only Gristlemeister returns to TPS for fun and tones!
Welcome to the show. We are delighted to welcome the incomparable Gregory S. Koch esq. back to Schwangri-La. Today we shoot the shingle about new music projects, a brand-new multi-effects device from JAM Pedals and a Reverend S-type in the works.
The man is veritable force for tonal, musical and spiritual good, and hanging with him is a simply a colossal gift from the universe.
Revel in it, and enjoy the show!
And be sure to visit https://www.gregkoch.com/
Interesting bits and go to sections…
0:00 Molten Gristle
0:43 Hi Pedal Show friends
3:05 Touring with your son
5:37 Latest music projects?
10:35 Show us the turnaround
13:20 The Greg Koch Potrtals
15:32 Stage volume these days?
18:18 Amp & speaker baffles?
19:04 Volume is not the problem, crap tone is the problem
20:25 Birth of the Koch Ness Monster Supreme
23:00 Amp or pedal gain?
26:15 Chorus as a Leslie sim
28:15 Harmonious Monk
28:40 Monk & Llama jam
29:45 Delay Llama Supreme
30:35 Tonus Diabolicous
36:05 RetroVibe
36:35 Signal order of KNM?
36:55 Gristle King OD
38:15 Eureka Fuzz
39:25 Lucy Dreamer
40:35 Boomster Boost
42:00 No reverb?
43:13 Why not a digital multi effect?
46:54 Reverend Gristle 90. P90s
48:40 Reverend Gristle ST
50:00 Clapton Strat?
51:45 Gristle ST sounds
58:20 How do you get and stay so good?
1:05:55 Greg plays us out
Pedals & Stuff used in this show
If you use these links to buy stuff - any stuff – we receive a (very) small cut.
- UK & Europe: Andertons Music - https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
- USA: Sweetwater - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/5g6ALN
- Australia: Pedal Empire - http://bit.ly/2mWmJQf
• JAM Pedals Koch Ness Monster Supreme
• JAM Pedals Koch Ness Monster
Guitars in today’s show
• Reverend Greg Koch Signature Gristlemaster
• Reverend Greg Koch Signature Gristle 90
• Reverend Greg Koch Signature Gristle ST
Amp used in today’s show
• Tone King Royalist MkIII Combo
You can buy TPS merch to support our efforts https://www.thatpedalshowstore.com
We are on Patreon – crowdfunding for creatives
https://www.patreon.com/ThatPedalShow
Please visit our preferred retailers!
UK & Europe: Andertons Music https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: Pedal Empire http://bit.ly/2mWmJQf")
![Hearing Protection, Loss & Damage For Musicians [A Conversation With Tom Trones Of Minuendo]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/E8deZNwDBao/hqdefault.jpg "Hearing Protection, Loss & Damage For Musicians [A Conversation With Tom Trones Of Minuendo]
Love playing loud? So do we… But you might need to think about this too…
Welcome to the show! Regular viewers might be a little bit confused by this. Dan and I will die on the hill defending the right of musicians (and guitar players – ha!) to be able to play loud. If there’s no loud, there’s no rock’n’roll – it’s as simple as that.
However, nothing that’s actually worth anything in life is free (except maybe love, but that’s a whole other story). Those volume-created endorphins that make live music such a blissful experience have a cost, and it can be your hearing. Many are the tales of musicians famous and less so, whose hearing has suffered irreparable damage as a result of exposure to extended loud noise.
So what are we to do? What do we need to know and what are some of things we can do?
This conversation includes one intelligent human – Tom Trones of Minuendo – and two others just about hanging in there, discussing all of the above without hubris or shock factor. Consider it a springboard – if you haven’t already jumped – to better awareness of the issues surrounding noise and volume. What we all do after that is, inevitably, up to us as individuals. Food for thought, we hope.
Enjoy the show!
• Minuendo on the web: https://www.minuendo.com/
• Musician’s Union Hearing Health Scheme: https://musiciansunion.org.uk/membership-benefits/musicians-hearing-health-scheme
Interesting bits and go-to sections
0:00 Hello & welcome
1:24 What are we discussing this?
2:25 Why Tom, who is Tom?
3:45 Why we don’t love earplugs
5:42 What is the actual problem?
7:35 First tinnitus experience?
9:18 dB - sound pressure and time
11:45 Genetic & physiological factors?
14:00 Measurement & distance?
16:50 Frequency and damage?
19:00 Early signs
20:49 The playing ‘feel’ problem
24:50 Give yourself time
27:15 Sensitivity and desensitisation?
30:35 The actual physical damage
31:31 It’s not always tinnitus
35:45 The lies we tell ourselves
37:00 How strong for the filters?
38:45 Let’s make some noise
43:55 Dan loves the loud connection
49:45 Finger in the ear: occlusion
51:00 Tom has a play
54:00 Closing thoughts
Guitars used in this show
• Fender Johnny Marr Jaguar
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/q40QRb
• PRS Myles Kennedy Signature
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/B0GNjB
• Amps used in today’s show
Hamstead Artist 20+RT with 1 x 12 Celestion Alnico Cream Speaker
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/2LRf2ae
• Marshall 1962 BluesBreaker Combo with Celestion G12M Greenback speakers
We hope you enjoy this episode. Please subscribe to our channel.
You can buy TPS merch to support our efforts https://www.thatpedalshowstore.com
We are on Patreon – crowdfunding for creatives
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Please visit our preferred retailers!
UK & Europe: Andertons Music https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: Pedal Empire http://bit.ly/2mWmJQf")
![Our Fave Real Spring Reverb Pedal? [Surfy Bear, Echo Fix, White Whale, Headroom & Spring King]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EfEKjU-S_9Q/hqdefault.jpg "Our Fave Real Spring Reverb Pedal? [Surfy Bear, Echo Fix, White Whale, Headroom & Spring King]
If you must have springs – and you MUST – which one would you choose?
Welcome to the show. Yes we’ve done spring reverbs before, but there are a couple of interesting, relatively recent entrants to the market. So it’s time to get springy once again.
Crazy Tube Circuits has updated the White Whale to V2 and Echo Fix has introduced its own surprisingly compact, real spring ’verb. Dan loves the Headroom, I love the Surfy Bear and – judging by the comments in the last video – you all love the Dano Spring King!
You know the deal, we’ll have a blast through all of ’em and see what we think.
Enjoy the show!
- Why no digital spring reverb pedal?
We wouldnt choose one over a real spring. Ever. Digital is of course fantastic for plates, rooms and all the weird-beardy stuff, and we use those all the time.
- Why don’t you have the big Fender tube one?
They’re rare, we couldn’t find one to borrow and we wouldn’t buy one with our own money. Sorta the same for the Victoria Reverberato. Except we probably would.
- Why didn’t you include the Game Changer Light Pedal?
Erm, not entirely sure. Should have been here really. We do have one and we have featured it before: https://youtu.be/DmTJmuWE-r8
Enjoy the episode!
Interesting bits and go to sections…
0:00 Intro
1:30 Dans epiphany
2:00 Our spring reverb line up
3:00 Digital spring emulations
3:48 Today’s amps
5:00 Spring reverb in our amps
7:04 Carl Martin Headroom
10:28 Dan’s loves a short tank
11:28 Surfy Bear
17:40 Danelectro Spring King
22:25 Crazy Tube Circuits White Whale V2
30:00 Surfy Bear as pedalboard?
32:00 Echo Fix Spring Reverb
35:20 Echo Fix direct on/off
35:36 Mythos Herculean Deluxe
40:40 White Whale tremolo
43:15 Deluxe reverb rock
46:27 Different verbs to different amps
50:00 Round up
54:00 Yay spring reverb!
Pedals & Stuff used in this show
• TheGigRig Three2One
https://www.thegigrig.com/three2one
• Sonic Research Turbo Tuner 200
Australia: https://bit.ly/3AIinS5
• Mythos Herculean Deluxe Overdrive
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/4cq96ib
• Crazy Tube Circuits White Whale V2
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
• Carl Martin Headroom
https://www.carlmartin.com/headroom
• Danelectro Spring King
No longer available new
• Surfy Bear Metal Reverb
https://www.surfyindustries.com/surfybearmetal
• Echo Fix EF-P2 Spring Reverb
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3RAhCTD
• TheGigRig G3S
https://www.thegigrig.com/g3-s
Amps used in today’s show
• Benson Bellringer 1x12 combo with Benson Custom Ceramic 12-inch speaker
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/NkM6O1
• Fender ’65 Deluxe Reverb with stock speaker
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/B0JXex
We hope you enjoy this episode. Please subscribe to our channel.
You can buy TPS merch to support our efforts https://www.thatpedalshowstore.com
We are on Patreon – crowdfunding for creatives
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Please visit our preferred retailers!
UK & Europe: Andertons Music https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
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![JAM Pedals Dynassor & ’70s MXR Dyna Comp [Effector Du Jour]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Fb-9ZZpB-oI/hqdefault.jpg "JAM Pedals Dynassor & ’70s MXR Dyna Comp [Effector Du Jour]
Does JAM’s modern comp stand stand up to Dan’s vintage fave?
Welcome to the show and welcome to Effector Du Jour. Short videos, and as to-the-point as That Pedal Show is ever likely to get.
Sooooo, Jam Pedals makes perhaps our favourite modern pedal compressor inspired by the classic MXR Dyna-Comp. Erm, have a guess what this video is about…
Enjoy!
Pedals & stuff in this show:
• Jam Pedals Dyna-ssor
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
• MXR Dyna Comp (links to new version)
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3uIKaSP
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/4PDLG9
• TheGigRig QMX2
https://www.thegigrig.com/quartermaster
Guitars used in today’s show
• Fender Custom Shop ’63 Telecaster - Dan’s video here: https://youtu.be/rnQ4OIJFTgY?si=0mX3gIrLcSHfBVF5
Amps used in today’s show
• Fender ’65 Deluxe Reverb
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/6e9xWV
We hope you enjoy this episode. Please subscribe to our channel.
You can buy TPS merch to support our efforts https://www.thatpedalshowstore.com
We are on Patreon – crowdfunding for creatives
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Please visit our preferred retailers!
UK & Europe: Andertons Music https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: Pedal Empire http://bit.ly/2mWmJQf")
![Wampler Tumnus Germanium & J Rockett The Jeff [Effector Du Jour]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FwR6T76KMTE/hqdefault.jpg "Wampler Tumnus Germanium & J Rockett The Jeff [Effector Du Jour]
Two more Klon-style drives… but with with NOS germanium diodes
Welcome to the show and welcome to Effector Du Jour. Short videos, and as to-the-point as That Pedal Show is ever likely to get.
Yes yes yes, we know! They’re probably sold out by now. But there’s always Reverb, and heaven forfend, eBay…
Nevertheless, now that the dear old Klon Centaur has secured its unobtanium status for good, we players and pedal makers alike are still //slightly// obsessed with finding its tone at a more, erm, obtainable prices. So here are two of ‘em, side by side.
Enjoy!
Pedals & stuff in this show
• Wampler Germanium Tumnus
https://www.wamplerpedals.com/products/distortion-overdrive/germanium-tumnus/
• J Rockett The Jeff Archer
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3Fuogo7
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/5gQKX9
• TheGigRig QMX2
https://www.thegigrig.com/quartermaster
Guitars used in today’s show
• 1970 Fender Stratocaster - Mick’s video here: https://youtu.be/WOMHUQeHGRQ?si=B3nVzZwT_ubxHZp2
• Gibson Custom True Historic ’57 Les Paul Goldtop, Murphy Aged - no specific video but it’s on the channel a lot!
Amps used in today’s show
• Fender ’65 Deluxe Reverb (just the standard one, with standard speaker)
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/6e9xWV
We hope you enjoy this episode. Please subscribe to our channel.
You can buy TPS merch to support our efforts https://www.thatpedalshowstore.com
We are on Patreon – crowdfunding for creatives
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Please visit our preferred retailers!
UK & Europe: Andertons Music https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: Pedal Empire http://bit.ly/2mWmJQf")
