 Hello everyone and welcome to Blackstar Potential. My name is Lee Fuge and I'm here today with MGRmusic.com and today we're going to be looking at the Silverline amp series and the built-in effects and looking at how you can use the built-in effects to dial in your own tone. So the amp I'm using today is the Silverline Deluxe but all of these principles apply to the entire Silverline range. All of the effects we talked about in this video are built into every model of the Silverline series. Each of the Silverline amps has a range of different effects built in. You've got four different modulations, four different reverbs and four different delays. Each of these can be combined in a bunch of different ways to create your own unique tones. So we're going to start off by going through each of the effect types and then we'll break it down and look at how you can use each one for different tones. So we're going to start with the modulation section. So the first thing you want to do is turn on the modulation by pressing the modulation button. On the effect star here we have four different LED light positions. The first is phaser, the second is flanger, the third is chorus and the fourth is tremolo. The level control next to this is the depth control that controls how intense the modulation effect is. You can also control how much of the effect you're hearing by increasing the effect style to the closest point to the LED. The closer you get to that LED light the more you're going to hear of that effect and if you want to change the timing of the effect you can use the tap tempo switch. Each of these modulation effects can be time synced so you can tap tempo them to your song. So let's take a look at how these effects sound. So this is a phaser. This is the flanger effect. Here's the chorus effect on the silver line amp and finally here's the tremolo effect. You also have four different types of delay built into the silver line to enable the delay. You just press the delay button that then lights up orange. The four position selector now controls the type of delay that you're hearing. So the first light signifies a linear delay which is a digital delay. The second light is an analog delay. The third light is a tape style delay and the fourth is a multi-delay. Once again the effect control controls how much of this you hear. The level controls the feedback so this is the amount of time the delay goes on for and the tap tempo switch determines the speed of the delay. So this is the linear delay. This is the digital style so you'll expect to hear very clean delay repeats. This is the analog delay so you should hear a slightly warmer repeat. The repeats won't be as clean sounding. Next up is a tape delay. This simulates an old tape echo. So you can hear all of the repeats on the tape echo then modulate as they move along and finally we've got the multi-delay. So the multi-delay is two different delays cascading into each other so obviously the more you go into that one the crazier it gets. To activate the reverb you simply just turn the reverb on then you have four different reverbs to choose from. So you've got a room reverb in the first position, a hall reverb in the second, a spring reverb in the third and a plate in the fourth. The effects knob controls how much of the reverb you hear and the level knob controls the size of the reverb. So the more this is turned up the bigger the reverb sound. So first up is the room reverb. This simulates the reverb in a room. The room reverb is very tight even though there's a lot of reverb there you can hear the closeness of it. It doesn't sound like a big expanse of space. The whole reverb on the other hand is based on a big hall. The spring reverb is based off a spring reverb tank you typically hear in an amp. And finally the plate reverb is based off a studio style reverb plate. So that's a quick rundown on all the effect types available in the Silverline series. Now that you know what they are you can start to dial them in. So if you want to mix them up you can select your first one so let's say I want a chorus so I'm going to select my chorus effect I'm going to dial that in the way I want it. Now I want to add a reverb to that. So once the chorus is selected the button is orange. If I now press the reverb button that turns white. That means the effect is on but I'm not editing that effect. So what I do here affects the reverb channel. If I want to edit my modulation again I press this button again and that one turns orange. So because I've set both a reverb and a modulation both lights are on. If I wanted to add a delay to the mix I could do that too. So let's take what we've just learned now and dial in some tonal templates. With these templates you guys can take these away and start to incorporate this knowledge into your own tone shaping. So I have a clean tone right now I'm going to dial in a shimmery clean tone. So I've got the clean bright voice with the 6L6 response and the ISF is in the American side. My EQ is fairly flat here you can obviously tweak this to your own taste. So the first thing I'm going to do is add a reverb. So I want to add a whole reverb. So I'm going to have this about halfway so about halfway between the LEDs and the level of the reverb is set to about halfway as well. So that gives me quite a nice big space to play with. Now I want to add some modulation so I actually want to add chorus. So again I'm going to leave that on about halfway and I'm going to push this up to about there. The combination now of that reverb and that chorus effect will give me a really pristine clean tone perfect for picked chord arpeggios. So now I'm going to dial in a big rock tone this is a sort of 80s rock inspired tone also could be used for 80s metal. So I've got super crunch voice now I've got the gain three quarters of the way up. My EQ is fairly flat I've got a little bit of a mid bump there I've got the ISF all the way to the British side and I'm on the KT88. I want to add a subtle chorusing effect as well as a slapback delay. So I've actually pre-tacked my time here to get a short slapback I've got the delay level set pretty low so there's not much feedback just a quick repeat and there's not much of the delay audible. The chorus I've got set about halfway there and about halfway here just below halfway. The chorus is going to act just as a thickener to the tone. So that sort of tone works great for 80s rock if you want to get that into a little bit more of an 80s metal kind of vibe crank the gain a bit more maybe try the OD1 channel and bring the chorus back a touch there just to add less of that modulated feel but that modulated thing with the chorus and the sort of heavy-ish overdrive that works really well for 80s style rock as you just hear that I love those kind of sort of over-processed tones but there are a lot of fun to play with. Next up I'm going to dial in a modulated lead tone so I'm actually going to go to the OD1 channel here I'm going to keep everything pretty much the same but I'm going to change my modulation effect to a phaser my delay I'm going to leave alone I want that slapback but I'm going to put the whole reverb back in so I've got a phaser effect which I'm going to set fairly prominently a analog delay which is acting as a slapback and a whole reverb for space. The final tone we'll look at is sort of like a fake rotary sound now the silver line does not have a rotary emulator built in but we can kind of create one using the tremolo feature so I've gone back to the clean bright channel everything else is still the same I've still got my whole reverb on but I'm going to turn the modulation back on I've got the tremolo set pretty low here in terms of where it is in the quarter it's set as close to the bottom as I can get it and I've got the depth here at about two o'clock I can adjust the speed of this with the tap switch so if I want a faster rotary kind of vibe I can turn the speed up by tapping it faster speed in and if I want to slow it down I tap a slower speed in so this is going to sound a little like a rotary speaker it's not going to sound exactly like it but if you want to get that rotary vibe in the mix this is a great way to do it using the tremolo effect so there you go guys there are the built-in effects in your silver line amp and how you can use them to start dialing in some different tones now obviously the possibilities of what you can do here are unlimited there's just a couple of little tonal blueprints to get you started but you can really go anywhere you want with this you don't have to just use the effects as effects you can use them to thicken the tone a little bit like I showed you there with the chorus and with the slapback delay they can make very very interesting textures in your guitar playing so try that out try and bring the effects in as part of your core tone and I think you'll find some really interesting choices available thank you all so much for watching I hope you've enjoyed this video if you did let us know down below in the comments what you thought and what kind of tones you're dialing in using your effects we'd love to hear what you guys are doing don't forget to go check out the black star amplification youtube channel for more videos just like this and if you're looking for a guitar teacher in your local area please check out mgrmusic.com there's a network of great teachers all over the country waiting to help you guys out thanks so much for watching and we'll see you soon