That Pedal Show – Big Tones From Small Amps? Yes You Can!

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Welcome to That Pedal Show and thank you for watching – please subscribe to our channel and visit our store https://www.thatpedalshowstore.com/ We are also members of Patreon, should you wish to support us with That Pedal Show https://www.patreon.com/thatpedalshow In this video Daniel and Mick are discussing the practicalities and benefits of using lower power guitar amps to get great tones at real-world volumes. We’re also responding to a question we asked regularly: ‘Can you use some normal/smaller amps to get good sounds, instead of the really powerful/expensive/boutique stuff?’ Yes we can! So we’re taking a Fender Blues Junior – probably the most widely used 15-watt valve amp in the world – and a 5-watt Marshall Class 5 as the basis for our tones, on the end of a bunch of common effect types. The pedals we’re using today: • Origin Effects Cali76 Compact Deluxe • Lovepedal Vibronaut • Wampler Tumnus • Fire Custom Shop Carpe Diem • Analog Man King Of Tone • Chase Bliss Audio Warped Vinyl • Electro-Harmonix Memory Man 1100-TT • MXR M300 All pedals are going into both amps (yes, wet/dry would sound fantastic too). Interesting bits and go-to sections… • What amps are we using today and why? 1:43 • Lovepedal Vibronaut brief intro and sounds: 3:23 • Origin Effects Cali76 Compact Deluxe discussion and sounds: 4:13 • Amps played on their own and together: 7.39 • Amps in and out of phase with one another: 8:21 • Can you use small amps live? 11:10 • Tumnus discussion and examples: 13:54 • Compressor into Tumnus: 15:15 • Overdrive pedal considerations for small amps: 18:00 • Modulation / Warped Vinyl discussion and examples: 22:05 • Reverbs and delays: 26:06 • Rock rhythms with distortion: 29:30 • Dan making awesome noises with the Gretsch: 34:20 Mick is playing a Fender American Vintage ’62 Stratocaster. Dan is playing a Gibson Custom 1958 Les Paul Standard and Gretsch Players Edition 6118T Anniversary. As mentioned above, amps are a Fender Blues Junior III and a Marshall Class 5 (original version, without the low-power mode). As always, all pedal and amp switching and routing is handled by TheGigRig G2. For more on TheGigRig see www.thegigrig.com