Tone Tuesday

In this Tone Tuesday video, I’ll show you how I got the tone heard in the Mini-Course called “Heavy Swing Blues Rhythms - Volume 1”.

In this video I’ll demo the D’Angelico EX-SS. This model is the smallest of their Semi-Hollow guitars. It’s comfortable to play, is well built, and looks stunning. In this demo I’ll use it for two different styles of music and describe some things I like about the guitar.

The Super Six (Stevie Mod) from Lovepedal is an “amp-in-a-box” pedal designed to capture the sound of a Blackface Fender Super Reverb. Under the right conditions, it is the closest thing to SRV in a box that I’ve ever played (so far). As you’ll hear in the video, those conditions are:

An amp that’s fairly balanced, not to trebly.

Run at medium gain.

Pushed with a boost pedal for leads.

While your own playing and technique has more to do with sounding like SRV than anything else, this pedal does a great job of capturing that sparkle that the Super Reverb was known for.

Capo has been my goto slow-down software for years, but the new isolation feature is pretty remarkable. In this video I’m going to dissect a track off of a Hendrix bootleg (Live at the Scene Club) and show you how Capo can isolate either of the two guitarists, even though they’re panned to different parts of the stereo spectrum.

Capo is available for Mac and for iOS. Find out more at Capoapp.com.