How to Get Great Guitar Tone - Jeff McErlain

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Are you getting the tones you want from your guitar?

Before you start laying out cash for pedals and pricey amps, be sure you know all the tonal variations available using just your hands and your guitar's onboard electronics. In this video tutorial, I'll show you how you can start to get an idea of how broadly you can vary your sound depending on how you set your pickups, tone pots, and volume.

For example, you can change between a gainy sound a clean sound just by using your volume knob. You may also notice that the volume on 10 is a lot brighter than the volume on 6 -- so, in the volume pot alone you've got the potential for some significant treble/bass variation. For me, the volume knob is a lot more usable and flexible than dealing with master/gain controls or dual-channel amps.

Watch the video below to learn how pickup selectors, volume, tone and picking technique can open up the tonal possibilities on your guitar. Just these few controls give way to so many tonal variations.

These ideas are demoed here using my Strat, but the same approaches can be used to similar effect on any electric guitar. The video goes by pretty fast but I hope you'll get a lot out of it. For more details and explanations about tonal magic, check my latest set of guitar lessons in Kings Of Tone.

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[megaboxxx]

4:32 thats what she said!

[MrBigNose144]

Jeff, great advise, great video. You are one of the few that knows guitar tone is an important aspect of playing, not just tapping,sweep picking & shredding with tons of distortion. The other part of tone, I have found out, is in your hands. I have played with several great players that have great tone no matter which guitar they pick up because most of their tone is in the way they use their hands.

[hypodive]

Yo! Very nice video, I'm JV guitar player for HYPODIVE and I really enjoyed your tone! Thanks for taking the time to record this video

[gibsonDaddy]

Not to be negative, but if a player can't experiment with their rig and learn how to "tune" the amp, guitar vol/tone, pick attack, etc, a demo is just that a demo for entertainment.

[DRGK9]

@Funkyryno i know they should... but not all dont.... whatevs there loss.

[Funkyryno]

@DRGK9 They should...

[blueseffect]

tone is one thing but excessive volume has ruined my hearing and it sounds like you play too loud, or was the mic placed in front of the amp? Either way the guitar is way to loud for the spoken instruction, just like the vocal is drowned out in most bands

[sniperfxxx]

sorry bout the buzz!!!!!!! noisegate perhaps for the 60 cycle hum...

[RODE2112]

'Strats do have their own tone but the basic techniques being taught (I thought) were accurate. I think it's a great lesson for those that haven't learned these things yet and will add to their skills. The presentation was accurate, he covered all the rudiments and his tone and playing was good. But it needs a noise gate.