GuitarGuyNick

In this clip I am playing some of Led Zeppelin’s “The Rover”. The signal chain is as follows: Guitar -> Boss SD1 Super Overdrive -> MXR Super Badass Distortion (as cleanish boost) -> EHX Small Stone Phaser. The Drive pedals give the guitar its grind, and the slower phaser gives it a swirl that demands to be noticed without turning the guitar into an all-out phased nightmare.

In the clip, I am playing some of Hendrix’s own “Hey Joe”. How better to show off the Hendrix Fuzz Face than with a Hendrix tune? I believe I had my guitar volume somewhere between 3 and 6 for this clip, showing how the Fuzz Face interacts with your guitar, accentuating certain frequencies even when it isn’t all out fuzz.

In this clip I am playing part of the solo from Pink Floyd’s “Time”. You can hear me roll up the volume on my guitar, increasing the gain as I go into the solo. About halfway through the clip you hear me add the BOSS RV-3 for some delay, giving the sound more depth!

In this clip, I am playing the main riff from Led Zeppelin’s “No Quarter”. The signal chain is as follows: Guitar -> Fuzz Face -> Boss SD1 Super Overdrive -> MXR Super Badass Distortion (as cleanish boost). This results in a super compressed, dark, kick-ass rock tone. Following the riff, you get an idea of the INSANE amount of sustain you can get from this kind of stacking of gain pedals!

My belief is that you can never have too much fuzz. This clip shows my Dunlop Jimi Hendrix Fuzz Face Mini (a silicon fuzz) running into my Keeley Fuzz Head (in germanium mode). In it, I play the main riff from Blue Oyster Cult’s “Godzilla”. There is quite a bit of background noise with both of these pedals on, making them a little difficult to tame, but that’s the beauty of the sound! It is pure, untamed, monstrous, fuzz madness!

For this clip I played the main riff from Pink Floyd’s “Interstellar Overdrive”. I usually keep it in Germanium mode with the fuzz all the way up and the volume usually somewhere between noon and 3 o’clock. This produces a loud fuzz tone which is actually more like a fuzzy overdrive. It’s perfect for vintage drive sounds!

I am playing the chord progression of The Animals’ “House of the Rising Sun”. This clip is in the Vibe mode, which puts out only the pitch-shifted signal (as opposed to the chorus mode, which blends a pitch-shifted signal with the dry signal). Setting the rate and depth high produces a warbling, wobbling tone similar to that of an organ through a Leslie speaker, perfect for old classic rock tunes!

Guitar -> Vick Audio 73 Ram’s Head -> MXR Super Badass Distortion (as cleanish boost) -> Neo Clone (shallow setting) -> Boss RV-3 (hall reverb and delay) -> stereo to Vox AC15 and Orange Crush 35RT.

I am playing the main riff from Pink Floyd’s “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun”. I play it dry first, then add the RV-3. I apologize for the video being upside down, I don’t really know why or how that happened. Enjoy!