 Hello everyone and welcome to Blackstar Potential. My name is Lee Fuge and I'm here today with musicteacher.com and in this video we're going to be dialing in three classic Bruce Springsteen style tones. All the tones you're hearing in this video are coming from the Blackstar St James 6R6. We're running straight out of the cab rig output on the rear of the unit, straight into my audio interface. I'm going to be using a couple of pedals along the way just to emphasize and add some stuff to the sound that the amp can't do itself. All of the speaker simulations you're hearing are coming from cab rig and also we're going to break down each of those sounds as we go through the video. You can also download the patches and use this in your own cab rig setup as well. Those are going to be linked down below in the description. EQ-wise the amp is set up with one default sound all the way through. So we are using the second channel here with the second voice activated. The gain is set very, very low. The amp is set pretty loud. I'm actually really pushing those power tubes quite hard for this as well. Guitar-wise Springsteen was a pretty big telecaster player so I'm using this LT guitar's custom tee today. This is a very kind of vintage style tele guitar so this will give me all of that telecaster twang I need to recreate some of these classic sounds. So the first tone we're going to check out is from the track Born to Run and it sounds like this. So for this tone I'm using the bridge pickup of the guitar. This gives a nice bite with a lot of twang there. I am supplementing this tone with two other pedals. I've got the Analogman King of Tone acting just as a clean boost. Just to give the amp a little bit more kick you can use any low gain overdrive or clean boost pedal for the same purpose. And I've also got a tremolo effect on from the IK Multimedia X vibe. Now again any fast tremolo effect will get you the same kind of tone. Now we're going to jump into cab rig and see what I've got going on. So in the St. James series cab rig can be run in stereo but for this we're just using one cab. The cab I'm using is a 410 vintage USA open back cab. This is mic'd up with a 67 condenser mic and EQ-wise it's fairly flat with a slight scoop in the low mids there and a very very slight high roll off. This is quite a big rock tone so we don't want to do too much crazy EQ sculpting here we want a very fat sound. Now I have gone for a large room running in stereo and there's quite a lot of room it's just above zero dB so there's quite a lot of space in there as well coupled with the reverb that's coming from the amp and on the master output I've also shaved off some of the high end and bumped up some of the lows just to balance it a bit more and fatten it out a little bit so this does have a nice kind of fat low end to it with a nice sparkle on the top. I have rolled off the high cut to just below 9k as well so while this is a bright tone it's not super bright. We are using the bridge pickup single coil or the telly so we don't want it to be too ice-picky. That is really all there is to that tone because we're only running one cab sim for this we don't really need to worry about what's going on in the stereo field. Very simple tone which is supplemented by a clean boost hitting the front a little bit harder and a tremolo pedal now obviously the other component to the spring scene tone is playing hard. If you play this riff soft it's not going to have the same bite. You should also pick quite close to the bridge pickup or even behind it sometimes very close to the bridge saddles on his telly so when you're playing these songs you want to get in that region to get that snap from the notes. The second riff we're going to break down is the clean guitar intro for the track I'm on fire and it sounds like this. So for this tone I'm using the middle position of the telly pickup switch which is the bridge and the neck pickup on at the same time and I'm just supplementing this with one pedal which is the boss dm2 delay now you can use any delay for this the whole idea is just to get a nice warm vintagey slapback delay just to pad out those notes a little bit more there is a lot of reverb still coming from the amp the amp settings remain unchanged now if we head over to cab rig we're still only using a mono cab so with a cab we're using is still the 4x10 vintage USA open back this is spring amp and cab setup choice likewise we're still using a 67 condenser and EQ wise we have changed this up a little bit now so for this tone we've actually dropped everything by about 2 dB except for the highs which are boosted by 2.7 dB this is quite a sparkly clean tone so I have actually set the high cut quite further up so this is actually set now at 13k and the low cut is just shaving off just the extreme lows under 180 there then on the master bus we've got a very similar thing going on we've got 2.7 dB boost in the highs everything else is scooped out I've actually brought the low mids down by nearly 4 dB there just to kind of give it a bit more scoop and kind of definition and the high cut on the master is set to just below 11k then we're also using a large room with the wide setting and again quite a lot of room blended in here 3.5 dB over 0 coupled with the cab setup there's quite a lot of space in this sound the purpose of the delay in this really is just to add to that ambient space and just pan out the notes a little bit more like a vintage tape echo we don't want a really obvious delay repeat we just want that ambient movement going on in the background the third and final tone we're going to check out it's from the track glory days and it sounds like this so this tone leans a little bit more into those big stadium rock kind of guitar tones we're once again pushing the amp with the clean side of the analog banking of tone you can actually use a slap back delay in this if you want to thicken it out slightly but for the purpose of this video I'm not but you can still get quite close with that sound now if we head over to cab rig for this one we've got once again a single cab which is again the 4x10 vintage USA open back once again that springsteen's amp of choice likewise we're still using a 67 condenser but this time I've taken it off axis just because the intro of this track has a slightly spacey guitar sound it's not really that direct sounding there's a lot of space having this off axis just allows that to sort of translate in the track that I play in the video now for this one actually got the main amp makes quite lower actually nearly 5 dB below zero there and the large room and stereo is actually 4 dB above so really we're really focusing on the space here the space of the guitar sound is the most important factor in this now on the amp the EQ is quite extreme here so we've got the mids or the high mids and the highs boosted by over 6 dB and the low mids and the lows cut I've even pushed the low cut there up to 255 Hertz and the high cut is set at 11.88 so there's some quite extreme sculpting going on there we're really pushing those highs taking the lows away but also we're taking the amp out of the kind of direct sound and really leaning on the room sound for this one then over to the master EQ we've got some more extreme sculpting going on here the lows are cut by 3 dB actually brought the high mids down a little bit more so minus 4.4 just to balance it and kind of give it a little bit of cut before it hits the the overall track and then the highs are even further boosted by another five and a half dB so really we want the cut of those highs to be quite a prominent thing here we don't want too many lows in this one this is a big stadium rock sound so really you want those guitars to ring and be quite crisp this was also recorded on the bridge pickup position of this guitar so there you go there are three springsteen style tones from cab rig showing you how you can supplement cab rig with a few other pedals to dial in some classic sounds if there are any other artists you'd like to see us make these videos about please throw their names down below in the description so we can check those out as well if you're a user of the st. james series and you have access to cab rig you can download the patches that I've shown you in this video and use them in your own setup as well don't forget to check out all the other videos on the blackstar youtube channel for more content just like this and if you're looking for a guitar teacher in your local area please check out musicteacher.com it's a great network of teachers all around the country waiting to help you guys out thanks so much for watching as always and I'll see you very soon