Brent Mason - Official podcast video 4

[guitarsalert]

is that a holand amp next to him?

[krispatel1]

I've just uploaded a few new songs. I'd be really grateful if you can check them out. Much appreciated, and I've got to say, I love your videos

[wonekawa]

great info..thanks for posting!

[BucksStudent]

That drives me wild that he uses the delay instead of Chorus. I always thought he was using thick chorus on Alan's early stuff.

[mindovermatter1979]

Wow I never associated Brent M. with a distorted Eric Johnson Esque tone. Its actually pretty cool to hear him do - I bet he still maintains his clean chicken pickin chops too......

[GuillermoSmyser]

I just got Brent's Smokin' Section and other than the little clip off of the end of this video, it's not that country. It's pretty jazzy up until that point. Really nice but I would also like to have an album that is more like "hot wired".

[fender51503]

Such a country great! His tone and playing are great!

[clewi1091]

does he use a boss cs3 compressor?

[alanQ119]

i believe he uses a keeley comp

[SuperGuitarman69]

@alanQ119 Nope it's mainly a old Boss Ce that blue thing with a low end mod!

[alanQ119]

@SuperGuitarman69 dont know anything bout that pedal but when ive seen his rig in person twice!! in the studio he has had a keeley compressor

[SuperGuitarman69]

@alanQ119 Not sure. I work with him. He has been a good friend for years. I knew he had a keeley on his studio board. But neither him nor I particularly like them. I use a saffron squeeze I got years ago

[alanQ119]

@SuperGuitarman69 thats cool ive never heard of those!! i just have a stock boss and been lookin into getn a keeley but i'll have to check into those

[SuperGuitarman69]

@alanQ119 Saffron is tough to get. I don't think the Way Huge guy is making them. But it was one of the smoothest I've ever played through. I personally like the Keeley. Very nice pedal

[gree17]

hahahahahahahahahahahahaah

[6gpower]

Trucks is great, Brent is great. We are not talking about Mick mars and Ce Ce deville. Both of these Musicians are a strong part to shaping the music world.

IMHO..

[chooseyourblues]

@6gpower

LOL, loved the CC Deville and Mick Mars comment, laughed my ass off...

[zodiacbluesbaby]

2:09 Brent Mason does AC/DC!

[harrybalofski]

i dont care who derek trucks is if i see a guitarist who impresses me i will say so brent mason doesnt impress me much if you new who i was you wouldnt be insulting my musical intellegence or playing, if you want a musical knowledge contest fire away

[Echoplex9]

lets hear your clips.

[birdiejoehoaks]

and its not like Brent Mason is indisputably one of the best guitarists alive, as in, its not like hes the top studio guitarist around nowadays or anything.

and its not like derek trucks got handed the torch by Warren Haynes himself or anything.

youre right, YOU know better, because you know how to strum basic chords.

[polishcomedy]

yo, brent mason is not spelled s-l-i-p-k-n-o-t, so you must have gotten sent to the wrong video.

[notbendable]

watch?v=bOCq6lh9DMc

[DTrucksEnthusiast]

Harryballswhatever,... When You've been recorded more than any other guitarist in the History of the fricken world, please... I want to be the first to know. You get real.

[harrybalofski]

you keep playing with youre trucks mate ive removed the comment seing it upset you so much

[DTrucksEnthusiast]

Ha good one. If only you had any idea who "Derek Trucks" was... And I'm somewhat impressed you recognized the general key he was playing in, just maybe do a little research before criticizing the best players in the world next time. :/

[rouschno1]

Well done man! If Brent Mason doesn't impress you, you are dead or completely stupid. I have a bunch of instructional videos, and his is among the scariest. If you knew who I was..........what an inbred.

[hebijebi03]

not being an asshole but you said "if you knew who i was," which peaked my interest...so who are you?

[BobiusBrown]

What ever happened to just plugging straight in to a cranked up Twin or Bassman???

[charmister]

haha Jimi Hendrix and creativity happened.

[crazychigga]

Sounds good, don't it?

[jashobbsie]

Brian, should this hot wired pedal sound good in a tsl 100 marshall. 4 power tubes and 4 preamp tube setup? in the clean channel. Thats what i have now. i just bought the hotwired, well my gal, she bought it for me for xmas. Dyin to hear it on xmas day?

thanks

[jashobbsie]

hey brian, is that a marshall tsl 100 behind brent?

, if so does he use it in his setup?

Thanks jason hobbs

[32251]

There was a time when the the only effect the guitar players in Nashville used between the guitar and the amp was a cord....

[wampcat]

yep - unfortunately the music industry has changed so much that that's not even a possiblity anymore. In the 80's guys were going direct in - no amp!

[crobins333]

@wampcat care to elaoborate? why is it not possible? im sure your right... but i have no idea why?

[wampcat]

@crobins333 Because the producers/artists are so insistant on a type of sound (and it really could be any sound), the session musicians have to be prepared for any request and be able to get the sounds the producers/artists require. It is all about versatility these days, any sound at any time...

[crobins333]

@wampcat ok thanks i thought you might say something similar actually. curse of modern music i suppose. personally i think those big rigs are the perfect way to strip the soul from someone's playing!

[Fishies125]

@wampcat But going straight into your amp has a certain kind of sound; some like it, some don't. It's not better, just different. If you love the sound of delay, or a good overdrive pedal then who the hell can tell you you're wrong? Personally, I hate the sound of most amp overdrives; just way too dirty. But plug a good transparent overdrive into a good clean and you're talkin. It's about doing what sounds great to you, what inspires you, not following some elitist rule that "simple is better".

[fiddlefolk]

you know more than us brian but i know several years ago that was the case. a twin in a showman case! nashville lends to more raw amps sounds now more than ever.i suspect the rack hardly ever gets used.

[fiddlefolk]

he had a twin amp put in a showman head. alot of those heads are loaded down to thd hotplates and and run through his effects rack. nashville has changed to straight amp sonds now. the rack stuff is almost taboo. just a phase. it will come back around to rack shit. just watch and see!

[wampcat]

actually no... I put that system together for him. The hotplates aren't even hooked up (removed since then). Some guys use racks still (even brent - he does have a preamp, delay, and chorus rack mount available in case he ever needs that sound) but the music and producer depict what equipment is needed by the desired sound. That's an authentic showman head too, I promise you. :)

[prsfrank]

@wampcat Thats a hell of a system to put together, I just play in a bar band and some stadium gigs with a tribute band, but I use a switching system with axess electronics as the buffers, how do you get all those amps to run safely

[3patm]

Fender made made a Twin reverb II in the 80's in head version under Paul Rivera when he ran the place

[guitardavid79]

That Fender head is the best sounding thing he's got behind him.

[mkyoder7]

That twin sounds amazing. I didn't know they came in heads... and what is that other amp he's plugged into?

[indagdnm]

The first amp he was playing is a Genz Benz Black Pearl.

[doc7string]

Its from an English manufacturer called Cornford - not sure which model.

[ajfx]

its not English. amps there are Genz Benz, Matchless, Marshall, and the Fender all head. Then he has a few different speaker cabs.

[MOSKII58]

Ever since i heard Alan Jacksons "I'm in love w/ ya baby, but I don't even know your name" or whatever, I was blown away by the lead work, only to come to know it is Brent Mason in all his glory...wow..smokin stuff..

[subinbar]

The second delay setting you use is not a triplet, its a dotted eighth note. It sounds like a triplet, but over 4/4 time its not technically.

[tubedriven13]

It's actually a quarter note triplet. Three notes for two beats.

[karinalee01]

Hey Brent you drive!!

How's the best in the West!?!!

[nevertoofast2]

Got the chance to see Brent play recently and meet and talk to him afterwards. I'm very happy to say that besides being one of the finest guitar players on the planet, he's also one of the most down to earth and humble guys you could ever meet.

[sanders4617]

where can i find the other videos? brent mason is one of the best.

[NKAccVJ]

I posted a tab at Countrytabs of the solo you hear at the very end. It's from 'I'm Bringin Home Good News' on his latest cd.

[budweiser12]

Hey jazzguitar33, are you some kind of idiot or something? Brent Mason overrated? I'd love to see you try to keep up with him. How about you come back and tell how bad Brent Mason is once you've played on a few top-selling albums. Mason is one of the msot versatile out there. The guy plays every style imagineable. Can you?

[wampcat]

I removed jazzguitar's comment because it was a bit rude.

[paulizdabest]

Its his rig, he gets people to haul his stuff around for him. And if ur a session guitarist u need to be able to do more than one kind of tone!

[frostnet]

he's a session guitarist, its his job

[prosportal]

He's probably a little more famous, and a little more paid than you. He does what works.

[patguitarman]

he is a multi-millionare.

[ajfx]

how do u know that ?? I think hes well off not a millionare

[SepaXP]

If you think he's overrated , then you propably havent heart much of his stuff. This guy is top level.

[telerocker5150]

i love the podcast videos.i use the vids to base my tones off of sometimes.and yea what kinda delay is he using there?

[TelecasterKid]

two questions... what kind of delay is he using... and how tall is brent?

-D

[wampcat]

Line 6 DL-4 here. Height: about 5-9 or so.

[TelecasterKid]

ah okay great... I would have figured him to be taller than that... haha thanks man!

-D

[telerocker5150]

hey brian. whats up man. i signed up for the podcast here awhile back. im a big fan of brent and brents tone{who isnt LOL) i play alot on broadway in nashville whenever im not at school.we just got home from there actually. are you based out of nashville?

[wampcat]

I'm actually from Indiana, I just travel back and forth quite a bit.

bw

[Danneau]

Perhaps one of the most versatile, with chops to spare. Best? What day is it? Who's judging? Now if he would just get more of his stuff out in public. Skip the front men, just play. I don't want to listen so much to Alan Jackson or any of that crowd, just Brent and his crew...

[Aleksswz]

Brent Mason!!! Best guitarist ever!