Crazy fact about Jerry Garcia is he used to regularly change his pickups because he thought the magnets got worn out lol. Imagine how many genuine PAF’s he tossed

All those live shows informed jerry about what the electronics shortcomings were, and he had the genius technical team to solve those problems. Jerry knew what he needed, and his genius experts solved it.

Best demonstration/explanation I've seen. Concise and clear. The onboard effects control addresses an issue that even amateur bedroom players have maintaining a specific sound at family friendly volumes. Take care.

Hey Gabriel, I recently discovered your channel. You have a drool worthy rig & guitar collection. Great chops too! You’ve got my sub. Rock on! 🤟🏼

Nailed it bro!

Great video. 🙏🏼

Alright! Very interesting. Thanks!

Great video, great instructional and even better chops! You’ve got those licks down pat:)

Your videos are great. Thanks!

I never understood that… Now I do. That’s incredible, Jerry could mix himself in real time…

Thank you! As a irregular fan of the Grateful Dead and far less of their guitar tone I’ve never tried to figure out Jerry’s sound but was always curious about why someone would want a effects loop IN their guitar, now I know. It makes such sense that in the era he was playing , the size of the venues, the clean tone he used and the need to shine through so many other exceptional musicians, that he would want absolute control of his volume, smart, what a legend. Thanks again.

Man this sounded killer, awesome stuff

Such a great, refined, simplistic explanation of the Obel in application. Thanks Gabe. Greg D is building me a Wolf and I wanted to understand the concept. Thank you 👍🏻

Very helpful…thank you

I am admiring your guitar. wow!

So cool!

Don’t know why these videos don’t have more views!

This is great, just got my first OBEL guitar!

Thanks for the demonstration Im an old timer attended many Dead and JGB shows in my younger days. As a musician myself seeing Jerry live cannot be put into words. Ive seen most other top rock guitarists thouhout the years. There is NO equał not even close . I can never understand why Jerry is not rated higher in top guitarist lists . Who csres wht the “ experts say Jerry is in a class by himself.

great video. def jelly of that guitar. gotta get me one

That is the coolest guitar!

He actually used everything

WOW

Is that a Phred guitar? Would love to pick up a Jerry guitar but only know of a handful of brands that make them. Yours looks a little more high end than a Phred so I was curious. Cool stuff man! I find it quite difficult to dial in that Mu-Tron sound sometimes because of how incredibly sensitive it is to any change in things like volume knobs on the guitar, adding gain to the signal with an overdrive pedal, even tweaking small eq settings on an amp can get you away from that full envelope sound and just shoot you straight up to the high end of the envelope without any of that touch sensitivity you get when you’ve got one dialed in. I figure the OBEL system must level all that out so that you can maintain that full range of an envelope filter once you’ve got it dialed in regardless of any change in guitar or amp settings? Seems pretty useful for that. Then again, I am constantly using my guitar volume knobs to dial in my gain level, whether I turn it down a bit for rhythm or crank it up for lead stuff, so losing that functionality would be a negative for my personal playing style. Then again, again (lol, sorry, I’m just kinda thinking out loud here), I guess you could just run some pedals into the OBEL and others in the normal signal chain as well. Much more complex than my single channel guitar-> pedal board-> amp setup, but hey, Jerry and the boys had to “get everything just exactly perfect,” so it makes a ton of sense that he used it, especially considering how they were all using lots of high-end custom gear throughout most of their career. Thanks for the vid, man!

Very Nice De Luis , not quite an Alembic ..like the satin finish

Very cool! Thanks for the great explanation of the OBEL. Is the hub bub necessary - what is do exactly and can you use the OBEL without it?

Damn this video is the add king ..

That is a beautiful guitar. It looks like piece of art.The sound is awesome. Where can I get one ?

I wish we could see the neck of the guitar as your playing. Instead of a copy of Jerry's guitar, but thanks for your time. Aloha

dude got jerry's guitar

😮That's a sexy guitar

I've always been a little baffled as to what about his envelope filter tone was different than most people's. Specifically getting the "studio" sound live.

Hey man great stuff I’ve been watching your vids for years. Just curious what the riff was from at 4:40 . It’s on the tip of my brain it’s driving my crazy lol.

i personally like having the volume knob alter the characteristics of effects (especially drive)) ps - how heavy is that guitar??

So cool. In a similar way you can dial back tone, can you lower the magnitude of the effects with a knob on the guitar?

That solid body tiger type guitar is drop dead gorgeous. What is the wood used and who made it?!?

Great guitar, great playing and great sound! Do you have your qtron before or after the dirt?

With Jerry it's all in the fingers.

What are your thoughts on using this vs a volume pedal at the end of the effects chain? I'm building a guitar and will be trying out the OBEL but I've been using a volume pedal after my drive/envelope filter stages which I think works pretty well

Thx! Got it. Amzing. Never knew. How would it be different if i put a volume pedal at the end of my fx chain? Clean amp of course.

Hi Gabriel, Is there some way to get the unity gain/full-effect-at-any-volume benefits of OBEL without having a guitar with an OBEL, i.e. with a normal electric guitar? For example, could you use some combination of an amp's effects loop, the Hub Bub box (or something like it), different routing options, etc.? Thanks!

so is it possible to use the qtron to get that Fire on the Mountain envelope without OBEL?

Drop those tubescreamer settings!

Would have loved an A/B of OBEL vs No OBEL and see how big the tone difference is

transparent overdrive

Can you imagine all the sweat and Dirt grime the copper coils probably rusty and they and then they start dying

Each of his guitars that had the effects loop, from the Travis Bean through Rosebud, had different buffers from the next. Each had a different gain setting.

Who made your guitar?

Would you get the same effect by leaving your guitar volume on full, and putting a volume pedal at the end of your pedals?

Peak

Where did you get that guitar

This setup is sweet but it is possible to replicate the sound with just a decent pedal board

Does any guitar with a piezo connection work with the Hub Bub?

5/8/1977

Might be a noob question, but is your TRS cable a separate cable from the regular TS cable? I am seeing Phred Guitars use a dual cable combined together, but wondering if I can just buy them separately for cheaper.

How did he get his bottom tone? Unique to my ear. Fat, yet deep, clean and articulate with a hint of grit all in one tone. Never heard that kind of bottom end tone from anyone else. How did he get that? Elsewhere someone emphasized his use of an envelope filter pedal.

drop those qtron settings brother

Right?

Where did you get your tiger guitar?? That's totally sweet !!

Add a volume pedal to the end of your chain. This is creating a problem where there’s already a solution.

Go listen too a BOSTON album....nuff said

I don't really get it. I never thought that lowering the volume on my guitar decreased the intensity of my effects pedals (except for distortion, which is a function of the tube amp itself ). ???

I see no advantage in this. My setup is the opposite. By using only the guitar volume and tone, I can access from clean bright acoustic-like tones to mellow jazzy tones to crunch to full on fuzz *without* affecting my overall volume. With Garcia's setup, yes, your sound will go unchanged regardless of how much you turn down your guitar, but in a live situation, why would you want to turn your guitar way down? If you go to a super low volume you will just get buried by the rest of the band. If the goal is not to be able to retain your effected sound when you turn down, but rather to be able to retain the same sound when you turn *up* for a solo, the same thing can be achieved much more simply by just adding a volume boost, via a volume pedal, a boost, or a boosted EQ pedal at the end of the chain after all your effects, or ideally, in the effects loop.

I’m looking for a new envelope filter

A junction box is not needed. Waste of money.