What happened to Nick? Why are you not working together?

Nick took a different job in Washington: Big changes are happening at Worship Tutorials kzfaq.info/get/bejne/edlnfcmW3MjWY4E.html

Thanks! And that’s a pretty great quote

Still have gas though....

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Stanley, there is a great 'That Pedal Show' featuring Dan and Darlene if you want to check it out. I tried to share the link but I think the link might have been removed. Maybe WT thought it was perhaps a rogue link, apologies Brian.

@@bernie_smith Thanks!

Thanks!

Brother don't give up on being heard! I really feel your pain. I've played in church for 16 years, and about 10 years of it nobody heard a note I played. After years of resenting all sound people, I stumbled upon a video by @Csguitars on "how not to dial in a metal tone" and even though I don't play metal, I applied the guy's principles. The very first Sunday morning after reworking my amp, all these people came up to me after service and raved because they'd heard me for the first time. It's all about finding your sonic space. If your bands mix is dark and heavy on the delay and reverb, switch to your bridge pickup, dial back the reverb and delay a little and you will instantly seem louder. I say "seem" because knowing how to find a sonic space will distinguish you from the other instruments or even the vocals. Louder does not mean easier to hear. Easier to hear means clearer and more distinct from the other instruments. Don't be discouraged man! At my home church the mix is bass-heavy and dark, and I've struggled to get through the mix with my mahogany body guitar, but the other day I swapped to my strat with bright pickups and alder tonewood and instantly I was so much easier to hear at the same volume. In my last church band my strat disappeared in the mix and my mahogany guitar jumped out. The key is to listen to your band, find an open sonic space, and go there. Don't try to crowd into the bass or the kick's space by cranking the lows up on your amp, don't fight with vocals that are filling in the upper mids by overdoing the reverb. Find the spot where there's room. A bunch of instruments playing the same thing in and especially the same octave just end up in a muddy mess and then everybody is mad and everybody is deaf and still nobody can hear anything even though you're breaking 130Db. If another guitar is playing open chords, play barre chords; if they're using the neck pickup, switch to the bridge; if the piano is playing big chords, play lead lines or swells; just find a way to get away from the other musicians so you can be distinct. The worst of it is when we try to emulate these modern worship bands that can get away with huge reverb and heavy delays because they have pro sound guys, elite sound systems, and huge venues. Church musicians, in smaller buildings, with volunteer sound engineers and atrocious acoustics are not going to experience anything but frustration if they fail to adapt their tone and playing style to their own band, their own building, and their own congregation. Don't give up! It's just a matter of tuning into what your band/congregation really needs from you, and then adapting. At any rate Jesus can hear you, Bro. 😂

That’s a fact Jack!!!!

Ha check this video out: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jdx6faiSsb64mps.htmlsi=QAoBCC5nWxjT3pIG

Yeah I think that’s true for sure

Wait who’s getting old? 😅

​@@worshiptutorialsthis channel.

The guy on it is, too

Tell your friend that it depends on what their definition of ‘reasonable’ is…

Don’t be scared, you need the 180W Herbert from Diezel.

@@ejw3006 I knew it! I mean…I’ll tell my friend.

Did you watch the video? And if so, is that what you got out of it? At Worship Tutorials our main source of revenue is presets that we build for all these modeling platforms, as well as amp captures. I use amps all the time…

Haha for real! Hope you guys are doing well.

I was planning to use it to build a new demo board with it

@@worshiptutorials Ah ok. Classy. Thanks for hitting me back. 🤘

Gear doesn’t matter… but I had to get a ton of it to realize it? And here it is! 💪

Did you watch the video?

@@worshiptutorials not the last 5 mins maybe I missed the point.

@bueller8278 gear comes and goes. But the relationships you build around using it are way more important But the last 3-5 minutes is literally labeled ‘what is the point of this video’ 😅

@@worshiptutorials agreed!

I understand where you’re coming from. The channel has changed over the years, and the kind of content you liked in the beginning isn’t on the channel as much - I get that it could make you upset. But to accuse me and say that I have ‘no love for God, but much love for material things’, and that this channel is about ‘how to worship gear and tone’ is both cruel and untrue. My KZfaq channel is not my relationship with God, nor does it act as my profession of faith in Christ. Do you really assume to judge my heart like that? Also, you are incorrect in your assessment of the content we make. Of the past 20 published videos, roughly half of them are covers of worship songs. Sure, maybe it’s not all me on acoustic guitar singing them (although I still do that), but we try hard to keep it evenly split between worship and other content.

@@worshiptutorials I truly hope this defensive posture means you feel a sense of conviction. You cannot deny the lack of God in this video. While this channel may not be your platform for professing your faith, I feel that is a wasted opportunity. It is worship, after all. Besides, the presence of worship videos does not make it Christ-centered. I see them as springboards for all your great gear and tone patches. They are playthroughs, not actual tutorials. I get it...the patches and everything...it pays the bills. Most Christians make a living with a secular job (myself included). But none of that equips worship guitarists with what they need to effectively worship from the platform. I used to look forward to your Worship Leader Wednesdays...I found them so enriching and encouraging. But I find no enrichment from this video. God has blessed you with a ridiculous amount of reach, the kind of reach most pastors pray for. While I recognize this isn't a channel for apologetics or evangelism, I feel like you're just slightly missing the mark.

@jakehelix we post multiple videos every week. Many of them contain the content you’re talking about here. You seem to be judging the whole of my life’s work on this channel based on the fact that this particular video doesn’t have the content you want it to have?

We’ve done a handful of videos in that general topic arena and no one watched. People watch this stuff 😂