So I just picked up an hd500x (didn’t realize that I can’t do a whole lot with it) lol. Looking at the pod go for helix floor. Or are there any other good ones outside of the line6 family? Any feedback is appreciated as I’m newer to the electric side of things!
I play on a small gig a lot. I would like to be able to manage my guitar volume while playing, i have the stompbox volume pedal but it is hard to get the exact volume i want. I would love to have a volume pedal that has 2 button where i can press/step on the button to increase/decrease (eg: 50,51,52,53,54,55- 54,53,52,51,50) my volume to get the precise volume i want instead of keep coming back to my amps to adjust. Things is, drummer plays a different volume during practice, and different volume during live because empty audience is not as noisy as crowded audience. We all basically need to readjust volume during live.
Any suggestions?
When I look up the same song in the Multitracks Solo Rehearsal Bundle it shows just "electric guitar group" with simpler parts.
See the left guitar ( 02:40 ) ( on top of screen) playing a riff up the neck:
https://youtu.be/1ESaZ8NmeOQ?list=RD1ESaZ8NmeOQ&t=160
I may play the Bethel part at half speed with dotted 8th delay picking up the slack.
Before pursuing this I'll be checking with my worship leader, but I've "endured" so many months of unpredictable livestream mixes I want to offer some help. In defense of our volunteers, there's only one person handling the mixer and the livestream mix on a given Sunday. Naturally the house mix is their priority.
To the extent there is an opportunity to adjust the livestream mix ( for example if the house was pretty well dialed in at rehearsal earlier) I get the impression they just don't hear what I hear. One plays bass. The others, to my knowledge aren't musicians. One is in training and another has been doing it for years, but still may not hear where the issues are.
I participated on the sound team here for years before joining the band on EG. Anyway I included a few observations from yesterday just as an example of what I may share with the WL.
I'm not going to accuse anybody with a mixer Ipad of making unofficial changes but the keys player is an assistant pastor and keeps such an Ipad on his instrument. :-)
Hey so basically exactly what it says what modulation do you all use for services. I tend to stick with a tremolo on rare occasions and octave/shimmer reverb some times. What do you all use and if you use separate pedals rather than an all in one unit what pedals do you use for the specific tone.
Hi all, I’m a church guitarist, a luthier and a web developer (all for 30+ years).
I’m also dyslexic, and one of the things that has always helped me is being able to see chord shapes instead of only reading chord names. When I’m practicing, I like to search for different voicings and inversions so I can find a part that fits better without cluttering up the arrangement.
So I built an app with a chord library (it also has gear inventory and a tuner).
I’m trying to get the Android version through Google Play’s closed testing requirement before it can launch.
But, Google requires that I have 14 Android users test for two weeks and I don't know enough "Android guitarists".
I'm not trying to sell anything - if you want the app, I'll give it to anyone. I just need some new Android friends that might be willing to help out.
If you’re up for it, comment or send me a message and I’ll get you set up.
Thanks so much, I really appreciate it.
Be brutal. I mostly play bouncing off the band but this is pretty I dicative of what I might play. I come froma bluegrass and dingerstyle backround actually so.... Yeah using my pedalboard I posted recently.
Playimg to Worthy of it all.
I've been wondering why we see, in particular electric guitar parts , so often beneath the vocals ...I mean it's a time honored tradition to play some fills between vocal phrases in many different styles of music but does it serve the song and improve congregational singing more than simply playing volume swells or diamond chords for example?
is it just something the original developer like elevation included because the guitarist needed something to do ? are those parts heard when they play it live ? are they even heard on the original recording that goes out for sale ? (Well we know the answer is ,
quite often).
when I say included I mean included and audible..... I'm not trying to make a big deal out of this but as the only electric guitarist on our team I have to decide what I'm going to cover and what I'm not...... although we are beginning to see the introduction of tracks to a certain extent so some of these things can be covered whether I choose to play them or not.
. At about 2 minutes 38 seconds into this instructional video during what I believe is the chorus you can hear a typical example
I got home from service and my wife said on the live stream I was on the phone during the whole worship service....Apparently as I was putting earbuds in just prior to second worship service the video camera froze and stayed that way for the whole worship time ... It looked like I was on my phone..the audio was okay at least as good as it normally gets on the live stream. 🤣
Hi all, am looking for a budget mini amp/cab sim pedal for my church board. I looked at the Sonicake Sonic IR, but not sure if I’d need a preamp or another pedal to get legit amp sounds? Also considered a Boss IR-2, but would love a mini pedal format if possible. Any suggestions for other options?
I have the Seymour Duncan Everything axe set in my strat ( Warmoth maple neck) . Lil'59 neck, Duckbucker middle and JbJr bridge. I can't get the JbJr to work well with edge of breakup type music ( modern worship, Tom Petty, John Mayer, early Jesus Culture etc). I can get single note lines ok with the tone control rolled down a bit, but then it's too dark for power chords. I'm thinking it wasn't a great choice for the music I play. I'd definitely like to find a direct drop-in.
These two have been suggested: Seymour duncan Vintage Rail for Strat / SSL-5 (Custom Staggered)
The way I play for the church band involves a lot of Helix snapshot changes plus occasional pickup changes. If I add tone knob changes on top of that I feel it's going to make transitions ( e.g. verse to bridge) take too long.
Hey everyone!
I just wanted to ask for some advice from fellow worship lead guitarists.
Lately, I've been wanting to improve my guitar tone and overall effects setup. To be honest, my current approach has mostly been finding presets on YouTube and tweaking them a little, but recently I've felt like my tone isn't really where I want it to be anymore.
So I wanted to ask: what do you consider the essential effects for a praise and worship setup? What effects do you always have on, and what do you only use for certain songs?
I'd also appreciate any advice on playing lead in a worship setting. Specifically:
For some context, I was originally the bassist on our worship team. Due to some internal changes, I had to step up and become the lead guitarist because our rhythm guitarist is still a beginner and isn't ready to take the lead role yet.
Our band is also pretty small—it's just guitar, bass, and drums—so sometimes I feel like I have to fill a lot of space without making everything sound too busy.
As for gear, I'm currently using a Zoom G1Xon. I know it's an older and budget multi-effects unit, but it's what I have right now, so I'm trying to make the most of it instead of buying new gear immediately.
Sorry if I'm asking for a lot in one post. Even if you can only answer one of my questions or share a bit of your own experience, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance, and God bless! 🙏
Just finished rewiring my board after selling off some pedals and rearranging. The empty gap is killing me🤣.
I play for worship and the occasional gig with a country/dad-rock crew.
Currently thinking about the Mood and Chroma Console.
What would you add?
I love the germanium preamp so much that I sold the regular one but I ended up buying the regular one back because the germanium preamp doesn’t do so well playing outside in the heat. It also had a cat on it lol
Signal chain is tuner-tumnus-benson-mason-3 series chorus-dispatch master-lossy-IR2
I’m using the benson as my always on to shape the IR-2 and help it to feel a little more like a real amp the tumnus is pushing the benson for more gain any klon style pedal pushing into the benson sounds incredible and I highly recommend it. The Mason is there mainly for the clean side it’s a really good solo boost.
The dispatch master lossy pretty much cover all my ambient needs
And the 3 series chorus is all the modulation I need.
I'm getting frustrated with online learning in some ways.. I tried worship artistry and they're pretty good and you can't expect any service like that to have every song you're looking for.. the bigger issue with them was that there are so many detailed parts presented as if you were going to memorize them all exactly the way Jason did it ..I mean nobody's forcing you to do that ...anyway right now I have a subscription to worship online and overall I like their format ...they give two electric guitar parts that they consider primary. I don't know if these are the parts they're coming up with or if they're pulling from what was done on the original from multitracks but half the songs I need they don't have in their catalog... Sometimes it can be a stretch to find what you're looking for on YouTube and even if you do it can take a long time ..these parts aren't Beethoven's 5th symphony so I can easily see someone with some experience and pretty good knowledge of things like the pentatonic or hexatonic scales coming up with their own suitable parts ...and my worship leader doesn't really listen to that stuff or expect that....If I'm going to play any specific part he just lets me find what I find and if one of them seems like more riffing than he wants he just tells me play that first part you've got but the second one leave it out which is fine .....I tried the multitracks solo rehearsal bundle and it theoretically has every guitar part for just about any song you might want that the original company used like elevation.
I suppose it shouldn't bother me that many of those parts only seem to play for 10 or 12 seconds out of the whole song so you have to go through maybe as many as 10 or 12 parts to find the ones that are playing for more of the song... of course that reminds me that sitting out is perfectly fine during certain portions.. you don't have to play the whole time ..that in itself is a skill to be learned ...or maybe I can just keep watching CJ's videos and come up with my own parts because I don't expect him to be trying to cover 1500 different worship songs that have been used over the last 5 years.
CJs stuff is here
This is whatnI am running now, I like the tremolo but it has a big volume boost I dont really want in my signal, my.keep it as a lead boost...
The Comp and pure sky are my polite worship tone, if I want to cut through the mix zi use the treble booster and the Dreamcoat pedal is my more gnarly sound that adds a lot of bottom end to my strat so works great with power chords.
I use the Shaky Jimi univibe as a chorus pedal or my vibrato pedal when I want something less extreme.
10 band eq is essential.
My yellow fall is set to a slap back delay and my multi time delay is set to reverse for cool ambient sounds and the mini universe pedal is set th a bloom reverb when I want it.
I DI it feom the built in Redbox on my Tubemeister 18 combo and use a heavily modded Temu Irin strat, but the important part is I have CTS 250k pots so my volume control really works.
Any thoughts? Critiques? I am.pretty easy
My worship leader doubted it. Not a big deal, just a harmonically interesting song, unlike most of what I see in PCO.
In this video Bradford shreds it, but I do have to ask about that much "busyness" right over top of the vocals. Or would his guitar be buried behind the vocals in the real world?
A guy I know plays at this church ...at 22 minutes into the video he starts doing that classic palm mute chunking kind of sound.. I'm wondering how to duplicate that I know it's a combination of technique and particular settings... I'm on Helix.. he's using a quad cortex it's not that hard to get an approximation of it but he seems to really have it nailed
https://www.youtube.com/live/9ltnw\_xkK9o?t=1312&is=sY3-8EU1AGMnpqKd
Decided to try the Solo Rehearsal Bundle again. I found how to create setlists and access Chartbuilder. Also how to play tracks ( up mix, minus mix etc) in a browser tab. Can that track playing feature be accessed from the standalone chartbuilder ( either on mobile or the windows program) ?
(there doesn't seem to be a subreddit dedicated to these programs for worship)
