| Description: In this video, Nate Comp, Optek's Director of Music Education, unlocks the secrets of creating a great guitar tone. No matter what your skill level or favorite style of music, Gear And Tone with the Fretlight has something for you. You'll learn how to adjust the controls on your guitar to create many different tonal variations, how to adjust the settings on your amplifier to drastically change the sound of the guitar, the tonal differences between classic tube amplifiers and modern solid state amplifiers, and how to incorporate different effects to create an entire palette of sonic possibilities. This fast paced video is full of detailed explanations, demonstrations, and on screen graphics that will help you to easily understand how each new sound is being created, and how to apply those sounds to your own playing.
This DVD features:
- A thorough explanation of how to adjust the controls on the guitar using the FG-421 Standard, the FG-405 Acoustic/Electric, and the FG-451 Pro
- Several demonstrations of a wide range of guitar amplifiers with a focus on the differences between them, including tube versus solid state amps, amplifier wattage and output power, speaker size and quantity, built-in effects such as reverb and tremolo, and more
- The evolution of guitar amplifiers, the history of amplifier overdrive, and the development of master volume amplifiers
- Explanation and demonstration of several common guitar effects such as distortion, chorus, flanger, delay, octave, and wah effects, along with the concept of signal chain
- How to create wild "over the top" guitar sounds by using multiple guitar effects in series
And much more!
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