 Hello everyone and welcome to Blackstar Potential. My name is Lee Fuge and I'm here with MGMusic.com and today we're going to dial in some Stevie Ray Vaughan-style Texas blues tones on the HT-20 Mark II. For this video today I'm using my early 80s Taukai Strat, plugged straight into the HT-20 and all the overdrive and reverb you hear comes directly from the amp. The amp is mic'd with an Aston Origin condenser mic. That opening riff you heard was from the song Pride and Joy. That is a great example of a typical overdrive and Stevie Ray tone. But first of all let's explore his clean tone. Stevie Ray used a very scooped American voiced clean sound. So we're going to use the clean channel on the amp on the first voice. Stevie Ray Vaughan got a lot of variation in his clean tone just by changing the pickup selector on his Strat. So we're going to do two different riffs here to show the range of clean tones you can get just by changing the Strat pickup selector. The clean channel volume is set to 8 and the tone is set to 7. The first riff we're going to do is from the song Couldn't Stand the Weather. This riff is using the neck pickup of the Strat and the tone is rolled back on the guitar to about 8 just to take the edge off. If we flip to position 2 on the Strat, which is the bridge and the middle on together, we get a clean tone similar to the track Lenny. Alright so let's flip over now to the overdrive channel and dial in some classic overdriven Stevie Ray style tones. We're using the first voice of the overdrive channel. The channel volume is on 10 and the drive is set to just above 2. You don't want too much gain here, you want just a nice breakup. The bass is set to 7, the mid is set to 9 and the treble is set to 10. Stevie Ray had a very mid humped sound so while the amps he was using were very scooped in American sounding, he would use a mid humped overdrive to push those mids back into the signal. We've also got the ISF set to 2 so it's more on the American side. It's just up at 9 o'clock so it's got a touch of Britishness but it's still very much firmly in that US style. Once again, we're going to demonstrate the differences between pickup selectors. So here is a track called Tight Rope and we're using the neck pickup of the Strat for this riff. So again you get this nice tight mid humped drive sound but there's not a huge amount of gain there, there's still a lot of clarity in those notes. We flip the Strat into position 4 with the same amp settings, we're straight into that early Stevie Ray tone for tracks like Texas Flood. So there you go, there are some Stevie Ray Vaughn style Texas blues tones using the HT20 Mark II. Thank you all so much for watching, I hope you've enjoyed this video. Please let us know in the comments below what you thought of these Stevie Ray style tones and if there's any other artists you want us to cover the tones of, let us know. Don't forget to check out MGMusic.com if you're looking for a guitar teacher in your local area and please check out Blackstar Potential on YouTube for more great lesson videos just like this one. We've covered a bunch of other tones already so please go and check that out. Thank you all so much for watching and we will see you soon.