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I built a pedal that I'm pretty certain that would achieve that response!
Edit: I know that Dan talks about playing with Max Sharam
Brett Kingman is always good but Jack from Peach and our parish has been putting out some fine demos over the last couple of years, particularly when reviewing guitars and is my current fave.
Michael Thompson, Allen Hinds and Paul Jackson were always good on the Xotic stuff but any of them could fart on a bucket and it would sound fabulous.
As Jeztone says, if you find a guitarist/demoer you identify with in terms of style and sound expectancy, it helps, however, it didn't work for me when I bought products (Mesa, JHS etc) used and endorsed by Andy Timmons. Despite using his settings, I never even got close and so you have to factor in the player and Chris Buck is a case in point
Only in the last few months have I broken this cycle of gear watching and buying and started to just sit and practice the instrument again. I’m trying to only watch YouTube videos with some sort of value to them (like a lesson).
Case in point with Mick Here's video, myself and two close friends have owned Klons since 2008 and none of us have sounded like him.
I personally view TPS as information/entertainment. I've learnt things about gear I own. The volume pedal one was interesting. If someone wants to spend an hour on volume pedals I'll have it on when I'm working at home.
Where gear demos or reviews work for me, is when a new expensive pedal that Coda don't stock comes out, I can hear it.
When the black hole and nightsky came out I listened to the available demos. I look at who has a demo. My usual picks are Andy, Pete Thorn, Mike Hermans and Brett Kingham.
There are a couple more that I'll have a go at but they talk too much or try to be funny (you're not) and in one case uncontrollably excited about every pedal. Actually I like the fact that pedals excite him that much but keep it off camera.
I still haven't bought a reverb but I do have a shortlist without leaving my house.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
Old Mick 2 licks always tends to play the same old thing.
He does have moments where he starts to play outside himself and he can do it but he always tends to default back to the same pentatonic licks and John mayer stuff
I don't bother with any of this gear stuff crazyness because it's not the thing that appeals to me. I'd much rather be practising to be a better guitarist than 'wasting' time on messing with gear. Other people take the exact opposite view.
The fact is that any approach is equally valid and as long as you're having fun then that's all that matters.
Si
Oh, sure. I wasn't knocking him - I've seen TPS a few times, but I genuinely forget that there's names out there who aren't touring, recording artists who have a following. A change in trend over the last decade.