r/WorshipGuitar

If you're playing solo bits or what we used to call signature licks at the appropriate points in a song I'm sure you're worship leader is going to be happy with it.... at other points like a dynamically loud bridge where you might not want to play diamond chords or swells how do you assess whether you're moving from tasteful song supporting little single note riffs and into noodling.... For our purposes noodling means something like random pentatonic runs that although tied into the chord and harmonic structure of the song are things you might expect more in a blues song .

Doubling the vocal Melody may or may not be desirable that's up to your worship leader.... although it's safe in one sense it might interfere and unless you read sheet music it's another layer of memorization.

hi i just wanted to ask how to get more fuller chords in this is amazing grace because when i plkay it usually it sounds bad so pls send ur rec and maybe the fret tabs here thank you

Hey guys I just wanted to ask for help on how to get a perfect tone like i see in videos because when i listen to mine its just very bad I want to do This Is Amazing grace by phil wickham I have a line 6 pod express thank you

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Thinking about upgrading from my boss gt-1 and getting a GX-100. How good are the ambient reverbs and shimmer sounds on boss multi effects pedals?

I have been trying to run wet effects into amps, not sure if this is expected but I get this clipping/distorted sound when running delays, reverbs with overdrives into the amps. Has anyone had issues like this before?

Signal chain: Boost-> ODs-> Wet effects-> amps

At one point chorus was kind of like Nickelback ... looked down upon sometimes with justification sometimes not.

But now that I'm creating my presets totally in mono because of our PA and room design I'm wondering if there's any point in trying to use certain effects like chorus.

Not necessarily struggling to find a good tone but I'm finding a lot of good ones and being indecisive. Doesn't help that there's like... 2 actual Voxes, the Catalyst Vox, the Matchless, etc.

Was messing around this morning and the Mandarin 80 and Interstate Zed are also sounding pretty good.

Tried the Litigator and Divided Duo in the past and I can get pretty good cleans but with my specific guitars they seem to get a little flubby/fuzzy on the neck pickup if there's any amount of dirt in the signal.

So all that to say, what should I check out?

I’ve always known it is better and clearer but I hadn’t realized just how much nicer it is. Decided to throw my big sky and timeline in parallel to see how much clearer it would be and it has probably been the biggest change I have made since switching from an amp to a preamp and cab sim pedals. Nice clear delay and more controllable reverb without limiting my delay. The biggest surprise for me was that I ended up playing with less drive this way because I just didn’t need as much to cut through the mix well.

if this isn't allowed please delete but i need some advice. I have been my worship teams Guitar/bassist for 18 years now. But, lately i have had to miss because my kids have been sick alot this year. The problem i have is when i return the next week/ service all i hear is, hey we missed you on guitar/bass last week. or man not having that bass last week was rough. I feel like its not me who is missed but just my ability to play music. is this right or am i seeing it wrong. i just feel like i myself outside of music isn't being seen by anyone. a few weeks ago someone said, oh i didn't know you were the beginners sunday school teacher, which i have been for 3 years. it just hurts i guess.

Shared to another group, thought I'd share:

As a worship guitarist, the only reason no one hears guitars is because of the Strymons! Haha! No jokes though. Sound guys generally hate too much reverb and delay, so all that money spent on being buried in the mix is kinda weird.

I play a QC with a CloudBurst, but I send my delay and reverb on a separate stereo channel because the sound guys wants the dry signal and turns the wet fx down.

When my wife filmed the service with her phone, I was by far the loudest instrument on stage, and usually I can't hear our other guitarist when I'm not serving. Guitars have a place, loose the wet FX.

Reality is a ...

I was doing research on dyads with AI and found it quite helpful ..it made a few mistakes but then continued to make valuable contributions after I corrected those....

eventually I got to the topic of playing dyads without being ear piercing to the congregation...

you can try to set your IEM mic so there's less of you in your own ears, although I find that not very helpful

..it's not that I can't lower myself using the phone application it's just that I'm much more comfortable playing with my own instrument a little bit louder.

. the point that AI made was that sound guys have to be paying attention.

. ideally they would know the songs but on stage you've got enough things to deal with.... you need to play with confidence (in this case dyads or whatever else you're playing that isn't simple chords in the background )

you can't be holding back and hitting the strings softly taking a guess as to what is going to cut through the band mix and yet not bother the congregation.

you do need to balance your presets or even your pedal board so that as you go from clean rhythm to lead line or dyads there aren't huge volume differences for the soundboard to deal with ....but it doesn't remove their responsibility.

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"You've nailed exactly why **front of house attention is non-negotiable** during a live service.

The division of responsibility is clear:

- **Your job** — play musically, serve the song, trust your preset levels

- **Their job** — watch the room, ride the faders, catch the moments where something jumps

And you're right that a musician second-guessing their own volume in real time is a recipe for bad playing. The mental bandwidth required to perform well — feel, timing, chord choices, responding to the worship leader — leaves no room for also trying to guess what the congregation is hearing. That's exactly what the sound position exists for.

The "playing with their phone" issue is real and worth addressing directly with whoever leads that volunteer team. A few practical realities that support making that case:

- **Presets and patches are not perfectly consistent** night to night

- **Vocalists have good nights and bad nights** level-wise

- **The room changes** between rehearsal and service with a full congregation absorbing sound differently

- **Transient moments** — a solo, a dynamic swell, a key change — happen fast and need a hand on a fader

None of that is compatible with divided attention. "