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Simple, Powerful Tone Shaping

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Build the CORE: Gain, EQ, Compression

  • Navigating the tone spectrum with Gain, EQ & Compression

  • Tone Terms: Defining the most important tone terms to know

Pick the Right Amp Modeler

  • Amps: Using Fender, Vox, Marshall in modelers

  • Pairing IR cabinets with amps

  • Finding Edge of Breakup with Gain, EQ & Comp

  • Demonstrations with: Strymon Iridium, Headrush, HX Stomp, Quad Cortex

Align Pedals with Purpose

  • Compression Pedal: Demystify compression settings

  • EQ Pedal: the ultimate tone-shaper

  • Boosts: “pushing” your amp the right way

  • Transparent Drive: “Always-on” pedals

  • Overdrive: Coloring your tone without burying it

  • Gain-Staging: How to order and layer pedals for maximum impact


    (Includes pedal demos for: JHS MorningGlory, JHS Kilt X, Schnobel Daily Driver, Greer Lightspeed and more!)

Harness Your Pickup’s Power

  • Neck/Middle/Bridge: Getting the most out your pickups

  • Tone-Shaping for Single Coil / P-90’s / Humbuckers

Match Tone to Your Chord Types

  • Open Chords, Triads, Dyads, Melodies:
    Shaping ideal tone for various chord types

  • Wet Effects: Survey the role delay and reverb have on gain and core tone

    (Reverb, Delay & Modulation will be covered in depth in Part II of this course. Release date TBD)

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