John Mayer - In Repair Recording Session part 1

[MrJaapKooiman]

Hahaha, Steve Jordans groove is just DISGUSTIN' MAN!

[CMSpida]

ebay come to life? ebay dosent even have that many pedals

[brucekirk89]

what I always found good wile writing is play something get something going record it then listen to it the next day,if you can that is sometimes you gotta go back and hear what you did

[MaTtmAn11276]

DL4!!!!!!ftw

[MattCapulet]

I love how he just drops the word extemporaneous into conversation.

[cowboycliche022]

This is just amazing.

This really makes it obvious why they deserve to be famous musicians.

Keep it up guys.

[ak231510]

@cowboycliche022 yeah exactly. I'd love for people to see a video like this of Rhianna or Katey Perry, you'd probably lose all respect for them. There is no question that these guy are real musicians who know their stuff, Mayer, Steve Jordan, and Charlie Hunter's musical knowledge is just on another level compared to anything you'll hear on popular radio.

[crosswick]

That groove at 5:15 is *sick*. Love it!!!

[FreaquedeMusique]

lol ebay come to life!

[ILSAIDL]

Holy shit hes got soooo many tube screamers!!

[v0odoochild001]

Holy crap...it's the swap meet of guitar pedals!

[masteroftheobvious86]

There are some great changes in this song...seriously good songwriting

[flippinparty]

pretty cool

[cgrabeman]

haha anybody know what kind of pedal he is using at 2:01?

[CBCCLTBNOSNOH29]

Wow, its hard to believe he wrote this song 5 years ago. John Mayer at his best right here.

[EJ1202]

hahaha, look at all the Tube Screamers!

[RattleAndHum1988]

wow never noticed that before, pretty cool.

[rentapec]

lol........ surely i could have one of those....... thats just takin the piss really.

[29Chaskelly]

@EJ1202 the tube screamers..omg...hes got 1000 dollars worth of TUBBBBEE SCREAMERS@!!!!

[masteroftheobvious86]

@EJ1202

I laughed out loud at the fact he finds it necessary to own 7 or 8 tube screamers...

[Guitarfreak8495]

anyone know what the orange pedal is at 1:19? thanks

[neimakmar]

I guess it´s a "big cheese fuzz" by lovetone.

[omarfusion]

1:18 HI - JO - DE - PU - TA !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mavvvvvv]

Jesus theres like 9 tubescreamers @ 1:29

[adelgade30]

where is this video from? a dvd? please help me!

[Boss44221]

It's from fuse

[adelgade30]

@Boss44221

once again i must ask.. what's that?

[Boss44221]

Its a tv channel but just type in on google fuse John Mayer and look for the tile one song one day

[adelgade30]

@Boss44221

Thanx dude

[Boss44221]

@adelgade30  No Prob

[DeathZeroTolerance]

charlie hunter sounds like the most ideal person to have on board.

extremely talented, creative, and completely humble

[niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick]

SO MANY LOVETONE PEDALS

[KitchenMarshall]

At 2:48 is a Korg G4 Leslie rotating speaker simulator. Pretty rare now. Charlie Hunter inspired John Mayer and Joe Bonamassa to use one... and even me! :-) Downside is it uses a seperate adapter. The reason to buy it is it's the closest thing to a real Leslie 16/Fender Vibratone. I'm so lucky to have both!

[theblakeisme]

I thought he wrote this in memphis, guess I was wrong, but still one of my fav songs.

[julieail]

What was the "worst sounding pedal of all"?

[ak231510]

Sounded like a basic distortion pedal, dont konw exactly the one they are referring to though.

[julieail]

Now that i think about it it sounds like a big muff or a boss ds-1. I know i will get shot down but i hate the big muff and most distortion pedals due to this overtone that i hear.

[julieail]

I like overdrive though.

[mcmacanerni]

Of course you know you'll get shot down because you've clearly never used a big muff. It's nothing remotely similar to a ds-1.

[julieail]

@mcmacanerni I have most certainly used a big muff. It sounded awful. I have no idea if it was my guitar or the amp i was using at the time, but it sounded like crap.

[mcmacanerni]

It's a fuzz pedal dude. And one of the gnarliest. It's meant to totally annihilate your tone. It loads the pickups. I understand you don't dig it, but it's nothing like a ds-1.

[copilottheband]

which version? they're not all good...

[julieail]

@copilottheband The standard

[copilottheband]

@julieail again, which one? either way, our of the modern reissues, the NYC is too woofy and flabby in the low end. The Black Russian is a bit muddy, unless you replace the crappy components they use.

you want a good big muff, try a good clone. The current stuff isn't that great. I like the stuff by StompUnderfoot, as far as price/quality ratio goes.

[TheCallMeCrazy]

@ak231510 Bet you anything it's a DS-1, lol.

[guitarmasterjvc]

@julieail i think its the RAT distortion pedal(i know its the worst pedal iv played with)

[jingwah]

@julieail sounds like a fuzz?

[herc122]

@julieail Definitely a fuzz pedal of some kind. Thought it actually sounded really cool. A little too rude for Mayers style though.

[RuecianG]

@julieail Old post...but I'm pretty sure he's talking abou the Pete Cornish NG-2

[2800drengen]

@julieail its the roger mayer octavia

[julieail]

@2800drengen i'm pretty sure your right.

[FreaquedeMusique]

@julieail I think it actually is a DOD Buzz Box

[CMSpida]

@julieail im guessing its a behringer

[darkidz24]

wow the longest song on the albumn... done is one day. HE IS AWESOME!

[RomfordFluffy]

the guitar he's using at 1:53 is the same guitar he used at the michael jackson memorial, playing 'Human Nature'

[ak231510]

Thats his black relic strat, his next John Mayer signature series guitar is going to be that one, cant wait.

[TheAndyMan100]

In case anyone needs to know, the pedal he's referring to is the "HARMONIX POG" which is an octave pedal.. you manipulate the different levels, then add some delay, and you've got yourself an organ! The pedal runs about $324.

[pissballs]

Making it happen on the fly how cool can that be! John is such a well spoken open dude and those tow session musicians he has are hardcore seasoned.

[Malosovich]

this is actually a great interveiw.

normally he's too busy being a pretencious twat to actually say anything insightful or personal or even about his music at all.

[dazzelya]

Pretentious? I think you mean whitty, sarcastic and a big load of fun.

[Malosovich]

No.

[twelvemeister]

it's great that they are open about the whole process ,

[jingwah]

i would be the happiest person in the world if i can get like AT LEAST 1/8 of his pedals...gah...

[augfive]

analogman rules

[snouter]

Wow. all that hoopla and all they did was come up with messy version of what seems to be Traffic's "Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave?" Great pedals though.

[jchay55]

daamn.

look how many 808s he has.

[modjias]

1:46 John Mayer playing my telecaster!!!!! :D

[danlapenna]

Steve Jordan is the best drummer in the world.... shuffle groove!

[rhcpmd]

i tought the intro was an organ and is just the EH POG i want one so bad!

[rhcpmd]

wow he has like 6 Tube Screamers 1 Electric Mistress and 2 Line 6 dl4

[conormang]

Maaaaaaaan, I wish they would have made a song out of the jam they started at 5:17. These guys are awesome. Needs more Pino, though. ;)

[xaiesque]

wow. how much of the guitar work on the albums do you guys think that was created by charlie hunter.. it seemed that he played a significant role in the sound, the riffs and the changes... john is great, but i think there may be players like charlie who are creating all this work that no one knows aobut..

[ak231510]

It doesnt seem like a significant part at all. Other than in repair, I dont know which if any of the other songs Charlie worked on, and as you can see JM created the intro and solo for this song, but yeah I like what hunter brought to this song. Ben Harper played on belief, but I dont know what parts he contributed to. I would say Steve Jordan, the producer of Continuum, probably had more to do with the sound than Charlie Hunter

[tuberdude06]

ben harper played the slide guitar you hear in belief. Thats about it.

[EJ1202]

@ak231510 THink Ben Hunter played the slide parts...the majority of the song is John i'm relatively certain

[IhateJohnMayer]

didn't he recorded "stitched up" in this studio also?!

[ak231510]

I dont know, it looks similar, the video of that recording session is also on youtube if you havent already seen it.

[IhateJohnMayer]

haha yeah, it does look similar, that is why i asked in the first place! :D

[ryanjames2007]

what was the word he used at 0:40 seconds?

good word.

[ak231510]

Its extemporaneous; it means impromptu, or happening suddenly, its beause they just got together without a specific goal or knowing what would come of it. It is a good word though.