8 Ways To Make Your Amp & Pedal Tone Not Suck - Easy Amp & Pedal Mods / Settings To Improve Tone

Dagan shows us 8 ways to make your amp and pedal tone not suck. This guitar amp and pedal modification video will help you improve the sound of your guitar amp tone and your pedals sound better, without spending any money - unless of course you want to!

In this video we find out how a good pedal power supply can make a difference best sweetspot settings for amps and how a buffered pedal can improve your tone easily. This is an amp modifcation video for those who need to improve their tone, fast!

0:45 #1 Go easy on the gain! Overdrive instead of Distortion
4:23 - #3 Get the right tone for the right situation
5:27 - #4 Invest in a good quality power supply - the benefits of a good quality pedal power supply
6:17 - #5 Volume is everything - Amps sound different at different volumes
7:44 - #6 Start the EQ tone at 12 then go from there - find the sweetspot.
11:30 - #8 Mid-range is important!

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[benjaminfowler]

Dagan is cool af, y'all better hold on to the guy. He's genuine

[real_fjcalabrese]

Great advice. This is what happens with scooped mids: The bass guitar, floor tom, kick bass will eat the low end, and the snare and cymbals will take over the high end. The guitar lives at the midrange.

[JulioSerrano]

that little final trick about MIDS is pure gold... THANK YOU, DAGAN!! 😎

[NFMorley]

Couple Fuzz Specific Ones
- Try your fuzz pedal at the start of the pedal chain (and changing their order, particularly either side of buffered pedals). Some fuzz types, particularly Fuzz Faces or Tonebenders (and similar) are impedance sensitive so being directly connected to the guitar can change them a lot, as can what is placed before them. Also, if they're close to the guitar in your chain, you can 'clean up' the fuzz sound using your guitar's volume pot.
- Try a battery on fuzzes/OD pedals - The battery will drop in voltage as its used up which can change the tone (good + bad!), and the current draw is very low so a 9v battery lasts a while. Can also be good for stopping noise/hiss as Fuzz pedals are often VERY sensitive to power supply noise and daisy chained circuits (especially, if you're not at the stage of buying an expensive supply yet)

[beauruutz]

I didn't of Russel Brand until you mentioned it.... Now I can't unsee it!

[wickedgit]

My pedalboard is pretty simple. Joyo vintage phase- boss metalzone-boss superchorus-Electro harmonix powerboost- Digitech digidelay- joyo Classic flanger- harley benton noisegate- Boss GE-7 EQ and last Dunlop Crybaby.
I dont have a tuner on the pedalboard I use a rackmounted korg pitchblack tuner on my Randall RG amphead. Of course i use Fueltank for powering the pedals. I also have my mutepedal(for the korg tuner) and my 3 way footswitch for my Randall. I do turn the mids on 1 or 2 o'clock and boost the bass for heavy stuff, for classic rock i simply turn down the bass and ad a little more mids. I experiment a lot with the EQ. I also use the EQ pedal for solos or a another sound, the EQ pedal is set on a sad face pattern cause i use it for solos or for a more OPEN TONE. I turn down the mids on 0 if i want Bon Jovi, Green Day, Mötley Crew kind of sound and i turn up the mids for Acdc, Van Halen, Billy Idol(almost on full), zz top, Joan Jett, Rush tone :) I play different style of rock...mostly Hard rock, metal :) im turning the mids up amd down a lot...also the treble.... and presence witch i also turn up or down. My amp also has a master volume and yeah the RG has 3 channels...dont really use the 3rd channel though.

[nobuna]

I literally just copied the pedalboard of my favorite guitarists. Makes it so much easier and sounds awesome. For pedals that weren't available I just looked up what they are and what they do and tried to find pedals that do the same and are close to what I was looking for.
Well actually copied my favorite band's rhythm guitarist's pedal board (basically the same with less pedals and different overdrive pedal) and added the pedals I needed of off their lead guitarist's pedal board, Now I have an awesome rhythm and lead tone in one pedal board and it just works perfectly in a band

[TheTwangKings]

A good compressor before OD and another one after filter or autowah really helps. OD always on as a clean boost also helps. Try different OD pedals. EQ at the end helps too. Solid state amp at low volumes will sound better than valve. More BOSS pedals 😊

[AJ.Hernandez]

I never thought about the russell brand thing until you mentioned it. I also don't spend any time in the comments haha... Now I can't unsee it

[ДГ-БойцовДмитроДенисович]

Thanks for these 14 minutes of gorgeous look and useful information🤟

To me it was pretty much useful to know that most amps have a passive eq.
It means that bringing all of the controls to 12 o’clock may not make lows, mids and highs equally loud. Moreover, with a passive eq all of the controls, but “Presence”, are dependent on each other, thus cutting, for example, mids will affect other eq settings.

And one more important thing to keep in mind is that all of the electronic components have their own tolerances, that’s why exact same pedals or amps may sound ar least a bit different even with all of the knobs put in sonically identical positions.

Cheers!

[the_desert_hobo]

Personally I prefer a gain pedal before a wah or something like that. But then again I think the best way to put this is that all opinions are subjective thanks for the great vids man

[bernarddahl]

Well now I'm thinking my cheap power supply might be making that annoying hum. I wish this had come out before I ordered the noisegate... 😂
Thanks for the insight, Dagan, love your energy

[aspinky]

Oh God is like watching Captain Jack Sparrow teaching us guitar stuff... I love him! 💙

[QuincyHatch]

I pretty much only watch his videos! Dagan is incredible

[littlebrother]

Phaser before the gain section is the way to go 👍

[billydenkmusic]

Unlike Camiel Geudens, I'm second. Nice vid with helpful tips.

[vincentjackson]

Absolutely love the vids Dagan. Keep em rolling. Seriously considering getting into some guitar and attempting to learn!

[ro]

Yes, experiment in order, but this style seems to work cool. Yes clash of two guitarist can affect overall abilities of one artist. Hum have wondered about blinds and you gave me some food for thought and of course, experimentation.

[JayRedding_]

Dagan- We all hate this sound don't we? *nasty feedback noise* Me- Sounds like my amp! lol

[philknight]

Cheers dagan. Lots of great tips and advice, keep up the good work.