How To THICKEN Your Guitar Tone | Master Your Tone #4 | Thomann

How to fix a "flat" or thin sounding guitar tone? Today Kris shows you a few awesome ways of making your guitar tone a bit more exciting or thick. Or both. :)
Enjoy the video and leave a comment below!

Interesting bits and pieces:
0:00 Introduction
0:52 1. The midrange
1:57 2. Modulation trick
3:01 3. Time based trick
4:04 Most important +1 ever...
5:27 Everything ON - Outro playing

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[bdlosson]

Poor-man’s and/or simplified approach = mid tone knob on amp. Not as good as these ideas, but might be a consideration when buying a new amp. Making sure it has a mid knob

[scoresandflames]

Also for EQ: always use it first to take away what you have lots of and only then try to use it to add the tone qualities that you're still missing.

[ChrisM]

Excellent video. Totally agree about the shockingly underused (not by pros) 'simple' EQ pedal. Combine with a compressor for the ultimate in tone shaping/thickening.

[jnh]

A multi-band compressor with a blend knob works wonders for me. Example: TC Electronic HyperGravity. Helps tighten up the lows and boost highs without squishing everything overall.

[Emlizardo]

For recording, I like to set aside a track with just the guitar's direct sound, and mix that in underneath the main, amplified track. The DI guitar is naturally midrange-y, with a thumping attack. It's like adding a bit of butter to the recipe.

[giorgosk]

To be fair with this kind of amp all you actually ever need is a tubescreamer!
Plexis are awsome but they need volume and boost

[PooNinja]

I normally use cornstarch for a silky thickness but in this case I’d go with the Klon style mid boost. My lil nux horsemen is always on for that lil something that really polishes the tone, clean or saturated. I also sometimes add a lil slapback 60-90Ms to biggen up my sound. And yes I keep an eq at the end of my chain to get to 11 if needed 🤘🏽

[joermnyc]

Compressor pedal (preferably one with a clean blend)and EQ pedal (6 or 7 band are usually enough for guitar.)
Best to put the compressor after any auto wah or octave pedals that need your unvarnished guitar input. Some schools say EQ before drive, some say after. Mine works for me after.

Chorous pedals are also a good way to sound bigger, if set subtly. Same for reverb.

[kostischaveles]

Most of the times a play with my Amp’s eq section and most of the times it’s the mids.

[DavidGodfren]

What i prefer to do to thicken a cleanish tone is, (what you did with the klon) put an od3. If I'm using a "british-style-chimey-amp", I'll probably keep the tone at 12 o clock, and the drive probably at around 9. Now if it's an "American-style-clean-amp", it'll be pretty much the same for the tone (maybe a notch or two down) and the drive would be around 11 or even between 11 n 12. Level matched with the amp's volume. Also, for the ge7, that's a very valuable pedal (specially "Valuable" after the recent price changes *pun fully intended).

But dude!!! +1 for that intro 👌🏻, that was a long awaited roll!

[matzer]

Hm ...
1 gain some weight and but the Tele close to your beer belly
2 play near a black hole for heavy tones
3 visit a solar protuberance for hot tones
I would love to make use of 2. and 3. but money is dire and spaceships are expansive on me wallet
I tried No 1. but i did something wrong ... thus ended up with clumsy tones
So i use stacked drive pedals and a compressor ...

[greenslider]

And the eq pedal tweaks most half obvious and sometimes half imagined pickup swop issues put of existence. Just have to note the settings for each guitar

[adhaskym.a]

Use powder over the strings while playing. Preferably a sweet baby talcum powder. Next, mix it with some lemongrass extract. You will definitely have a naturally thick tone.

[stefanfyhn]

Using a D-Seed pedal on the modulation setting with the same settings described here; lower delay time, lower mix and lower feedback. Works great for fattening up via the delay, via the chorus-y modulation, and makes any clean passage or solo stand out

[mleon]

Strymon Deco DoubleTracker, or a Voodoo Lab Analog Chourus does the trick for me.

[kunkmiceter]

I use an EHX Nano POG. A tab bit of +1 and -1 octive, blended with my dry signal really thickens the sound too.

[DieterWelzel]

Thank you for your TOP 5 to thicken a guitar tone. With the profiles in my Kemper Stage I use for clean sound a compressor and just a little more gain and for distortion sounds and especially solos I use the single delay.

[curtevans]

Andy Summers taught the world the power of a chorus pedal. His use of modulation taught me how to fill a lot of sonic space when needed.

[arzarkel]

Harmonic Trem has a similar effect as a phaser, love my Strymon Flint!

[MassimoSchiavetta]

I use my old Boss Super Chorus, especially on clean and solos