Jazz Guitar Gear Recommendations + Amp Sound Settings

hello

jazz

nerds around the world sander ceremony greetings from austria you guys keep asking me what

jazz

gear

i use and recommend. Well, today I'm going to show you what equipment I use and recommend some jazz

guitar

s and teach you how to play them. get a great jazz

guitar

tone, okay let's dig in, okay let's start with this beauty, this is my main jazz guitar and it's not a '175 Gibson as many of you seem to believe, it's actually a fusion of Gibson Howard Roberts, the first. They have three different models, so this is the first.

I bought it in 1996, when Gibson used to make quality guitars at an affordable price. I paid around 1,300 Eurostat, which is equivalent to about 1,500 dollars. I love it because it is the perfect size. For me it's only about 15 and a half or 16 inches in radius, the body is slimmer than the 175 but it's thicker and wider than those little 335s that I don't really like that much, so it's the perfect size for me. I love it, it's also of course its soft supa dupa

sound

, so I guess you guys already know that

sound

from my other videos. My amplifier doesn't have to do much here anymore.

These guitars are no longer produced, Howard Roberts continued. in 1, 2 and 3, I think 3 was the last one they had, so if you find a used fusion, three or two, maybe they are salty, sometimes grab them because they are very cheap even if they are old. I mean this guitar is now like 22 years old and works great. I never have to do anything, a little adjustment now and then, but that's it, so feel free to buy one of these, and here's another jazz guitar. which I use sometimes this is a really beautiful guitar, it has an arched top, it's my Eastman 905 and I think it's a really beautiful guitar, but first of all it's a little difficult to play, it doesn't have access to the real high frets and to the fingerboard. thicker, the scale length is a little longer, it's 25, while the Gibson is 24 point 75, which my little fingers know.

I can't feel that the sound is amazing when playing acoustically when I play with an amplifier. I like the other one. better it is a little harder to play and it is fatter and has a 17 inch body if you want to hear the two in comparison you can listen to my other video where I explain the difference between art stop guitars this is the bow top and semi-acoustic guitars , okay, that's it for my jazz guitars and jazz drinks, a lot of people keep asking me what jazz strings I use. I use them to putty felt drinks exclusively because I think the best ones always used them.

I had other strings on my guitar. Only accidentally when my luthier re-strung my guitar with different strings and I didn't like them at all so I choose Tomas Deacons which is on Austrian strings but you can get them in Georg bands all over the world and many great players play them in my usual jazz. guitar the semi-acoustic they keep someone I play I play the Tomas D Bebop, which are round strings one, here you go and I play the gate 12, so they are normal round strings, but made specifically for jazz musicians, so they have that smoothness and soft tone, I just love it and for my Eastman guitar, which is an archtop guitar, I play the swing series, which are flat wound strings also from Tomas Dick and here I also play the 12 gauge and I actually don't like the strings flat wound.

I have them. on this guitar because I want a different sound, okay, flat wounds tend to have a lack of sustain because their swing, I mean, the strings are called swing series, they're meant to be played for swing stuff where you change the chords very, very often, as always. Quarter note like this, let's see, so you don't need much sustain because I mean, the next chord is on its way a couple of milliseconds later, so um and the advantage of flat wounds is that they don't have, they don't make a lot of noise. okay, because there are flat wounds, okay, so they're not as rough as normal wounds, okay, so you win, you change from one chord to another, then you don't hear all these harsh noises, okay, butt, that's it if you don't touch swing those quarter notes all the time, but if you play regular jazz and your tones ring longer, I would recommend playing regular gest rings with round wound strings, whatever brand you choose, but round wound is fine, so what guitars chasse I would recommend at an affordable price for beginner to intermediate well, the Epiphone Sheridan to professional, I think it's called, a couple of students have it and it sounds great, it's actually a guitar, it's been like Gibson es-335 and you know, I'm not a fan of that stuff. harder, but the Sheraton sounds really amazing.

I'm not exactly sure how to model this because my students have the first model, but I think it should be improved a little and that's it. This guitar is also very versatile. It has coil splitting, so the humbuckers. It can be split into single coils, so if you don't play exclusively jazz, you can also have a pop, funky and blues sound. With those single coils you slim down the thick humbucker a little bit, that's nice from time to time and has a really good jazz to it. very, very buttery tone, so I don't know if that's a word, but I call it buttery, it sounds like, but very smooth, it's a really good guitar, I think it's an affordable price, I think it's around $700, yeah, believe. it's something like this.

Another great guitar that I can recommend is the Ivan SGS m10, which is one of Caulfield's signature guitars. It's super easy to play. It's a thin guitar again like 3:35 style. It has super 58 humbuckers. They sound. really good, it's also very versatile and I think it's around 1,100, maybe you'll find one cheaper, $1,100 as for art, I can recommend the Epiphone Emperor to go for the Pass model. I wasn't actually a fan of the first model, but they improved the pickups a lot. They are better now and it went down from a size 17 body to a 16 inch body which makes it much easier to deal with the improved sound and it's a super good price I think it's 600.

I always have to think in dollars I think . it was a 660 SLS, $660, so this guitar is really good in the second version, as for the first version mmm, I can't really recommend that one. The second archtop that I can recommend is the ibonus LGP 30 George Benson Signature. I have a couple of students. who have this guitar and it's amazing, it's around $1,100 and it's super playable for an art guitar. Bow tops are usually very difficult to play, but this one is great. I think it has a 16 inch body, but I'm not sure it's similar to me. Gibson Howard drop their fusion is a little bit wider and has a super smooth George band sound so if you like that it has two custom super fifty eight humbuckers that's where that great sound comes from along with the woods and the size and Everything is such a good guitar for that money.

One last thing, make sure your jazz guitar is not a rockabilly guitar with a Bigsby tremolo. Oh no, we don't want that if you already have it, okay, not that those aren't bad guitars, they are. They're actually pretty good guitars for rockabilly, country, rock and roll, whatever, not particularly jazz. I mean, they look like jazz guitars, but they have completely different pickups, sometimes thick p90 single coils or those Gretch pickups, they have a unique sound, a kind of hollow sound. It's kind of a lack of myths about the 500 hearts and something, but the thing is the tremolo doesn't get guitars, jazz guitars with Tremeloes, okay, the Bigsby thing, the tremolo hit bar, like on guitars electric, these guitars go out of tune all the time. and you don't use a tremolo on jazz guitars anyway, so if you have it, keep it, maybe you'll have some money and get a new one someday, but don't buy a new Gretsch guitar.

Duesenberg guitars are a big hit. They are rockabilly guitars. I use two different types of amps for my jazz guitar sounds, one is a tube amp and the other is an acoustic amp. I'll tell you about that in a minute, the tube amp is a fender blues junior three in a beautiful candy. apple red and I modified it so it doesn't distort so early because that blues Junior is just a 15 watt single channel amp and it distorts very early so we don't want that in jazz so I modified it. I have that's the Bill M mod, you can buy kits and build them or build them yourself, so the bias is reduced, it doesn't distort as early and I have different tubes and that gives me more headroom etc. so what is this ? about tube amps, why does everyone love tube amps so much?

They have that warm, fantastic sound thanks to the tubes. The thing about tubes is that they sound warm and cool only when you turn them up, when you give them a little heat and they start working. they shine and then again they get hot and the sound gets too hot, but if you turn on a tube amp you would start to distort it, we don't want that in jazz so there are only one or two ways to avoid it, one is to modify a low level. power amplifier and the other is to buy a high power amplifier, so you can buy a 60 watt or 100 watt 2m tube amplifier, which means they have a lot of headroom and they don't distort as soon, there are actually two Fender amplifiers. by George Benson and those are jazz guitar and jazz guitar amplifiers and they're also modified.

I think one is the twin fenders which is really big, I think a hundred watts and the other one is smaller, I'm not sure about that. one blues two looks or deluxe reverb or something like that and they both have in common that they start to distort later, so those gray temps, check it out. The other thing that a lot of jazz guitarists do is we use acoustic amplifiers. Acoustic amplifiers are not tubes. amplifiers, they are actually transistor amplifiers and I use an AE r6 compact 60 which is a German company that is also sold all over the world and they are the acoustic people and this is kind of insider advice, you know, because Acoustic ms tend not to change the sound you need. a good guitar forever to play a jazz guitar on an acoustic amp because what goes in comes out, you know, I had a gig once and I noted that my whole EQ section was on, you know, completely different, I forgot to set it correctly, like this was.

There's no difference because it's very subtle, you know the EQ section, so what goes in comes out if your guitar sucks or who you play sucks, because a lot of tone is in your fingers. You can have the best equipment if you simply do your research. On very hard it won't sound smooth and smooth, so if you have a great guitar, then an acoustic amp might be right for you. It lacks a little of that warmth that tube amps have, but it is very clear and does not distort. That's why we usually prefer it very clear, but sometimes, you know, recently it became too light for me, you know, like in a hospital, everything is super clean recently.

I preferred my tube amp to the ER for my YouTube guitar tutorials. Using an amp, it would be too complicated to put a mic in front of the cabinet every time, so I use a computer software plugin and it's called scoff em amps. Ask it to emulate amps, amps are like Fender Marshall etc. I'll show you with one of those emulations how to get great amp sound and great jazz tone. OK, let's do it. I loaded up the custom 57 emulation now from the scuff mmm and this looks exactly or almost exactly like a 57 fender tweed. scaled up a very simple tube amp very simple very minimalist ok let's see what I did with the EQ.

I rewrote the bright frequency, but only a little, and increased the bass a little, ok, let's hear how it sounds, that's my standard. jazzy sound when this is what you hear when you listen or watch my tutorial videos this is my preferred sound if I back off too much the bright frequencies are too dark for me I like it a little brighter don't do it that common mistake beginners make of backing off totally tone down your guitar if you want to back off because you feel it's too bright, first of all we sound into the amp, back off the high frequencies of your amp and then if it's still too bright for you, so back off a little bit, but we actually want to turn all the knobs on our guitar so that the amp gets the full signal, a good, great signal, and then if you made sure I'm healthy, you still can. back off, you might want to back off those high frequencies a little bit, but don't turn them all the way down because that just sounds there, there's no presence anymore, okay, so, um, the bass, I turned those pants up on the amp, although the bass , it's okay if doing it too much can be a bit fat if I take it all off, there is no bass anymore, that's like pop sound, so just a little bit goes a long way here now, one very important thing, that level doesn't matter right now because that's in a plugin that doesn't really do much, it's just the general level, but that volume is very, very important and that's the most common mistake, besides pushing back the tone of the guitar, whichI encounter beginners, even advanced players, sometimes can't handle the amperage correctly. volume or in some amplifiers it's called gain, in many amplifiers actually this is a single channel amplifier and that's why it's called volume, a lot of people turn that volume down and try to get a clean sound to get a clean sound, well yeah. you get a clean sound, but what you get is a very sterile sound, it's too clean, so we want to turn this volume up or increase it as much as possible until it starts to generate distortion, so play those when you do a sound check or adjust your tone, play really loud, hit those strings, and as long as it doesn't distort, turn the volume up even more.

Look, there's still a way to go. I'm going to turn the level back a little bit otherwise we'll have digital distortion which isn't good and now you hear the overdrive kick in so that's the breakpoint, it's around five and we don't want that. that's it. too much, but we need to turn up the volume to get that warm tube sound, that's what I told you before, so let's back up a little bit, yeah, that's pretty good, that's what I would choose, well, between three and four it I pushed back. Much more, although that's because for my video lessons I want to make sure I don't have the slightest distortion because then the video would be ruined, so this is an extra margin for me, but normally I would increase it to between three and four.

This is just before the breaking point and man, YouTube handles it very well, they overdrive, they warm up, you get that warm tube sound and also the treble section works better than fine, it's more effective, so that's my way of achieve brilliant sound. a little back a little up I don't have a middle point here if you have a middle raise it a little because the myths is what is happening jazz is a series is what is happening jazz raise it a little like this between 0 and 10 Maybe it I would go up to 7, but that depends of course on your amp, but don't turn them down, the mids are very important in jazz, so if you have gloves, turn them up around 7, maybe even higher, but sometimes the bass is affected then you might want to turn the bass down a little bit, sometimes even the girlfriend or some amps have a pre sense of that presence which I love it presents because it gives you that sound that really cuts through the mix so you can hear.

There are many jazz guitarists that I still can't find the right word for in English. It has that kind of word that I called in German, okay, muddy sound, you know, it's not clear and it's a little girlfriend, but it's all dark and it's okay. I don't want to hate that, actually, so presence is a good thing, but if you turn it up too much it gets a little harsh, so you have to be careful with those upper mid frequencies called presence, okay, but the most important thing for me . It's not the treble, it's that gain or increase in volume until it breaks and until it breaks and I'm backing off a little bit, so to have a little bit of headroom and not back off that tone pot, please, okay, I hope this was helpful if you have any questions feel free to put them in the comments section below.

I try to answer them all and please let me know what equipment to use. Well, see you next time I arriveerci ciao ciao choose