Fender Blues Junior Demo - Lenny
Gear Demos | Bookmark or Share This demo was recorded on Dec. 19th 2007. I found a very rough backing track for the song 'Lenny' by Stevie Ray Vaughan, so I sat down and recorded myself playing along. I was quite surprised by how well it went with fairly little preparation.
Settings
Amp Settings
The amp is a Fender Blues Junior Tweed NOS edition. The settings on the amp were as follows:
Reverb: 3/12 | Master: 12/12 | Mids: 6.5/12 | Bass: 12/12 | Treble: 9/12 | Volume: 5/12
Pedal 1: Boss PQ-4 - Parametric EQ Pedal
Boss PQ-4 SettingsI use this pedal to give a clean boost with no change in the EQ settings. On some amps, I dial in a little low end with the boost, but for the Blues Junior, I just set the Level knob to about 1:30. I turn on this pedal at 2:34 in the demo video.
Pedal 2: Nobels ODR-S Overdrive
Nobels ODR-S SettingsI love this overdrive pedal. The distortion is fat and natural sounding. It’s one of the few pedals I’ve used that actually can add distortion nicely to an already slightly overdriven amp. I turn this pedal on at 3:31 in the demo video. The settings are as follows:
Drive: 5/10 | Low: 5.5/10 | Mid: 6/10 | Level: 2/10
Don Grosh Retro ClassicGuitar: Don Grosh - Retro-S
I bought this guitar used in Austin Texas a few years ago and it opened my eyes to what a well built guitar can do for your playing. The guitar feels so much more 'solid' than most factory built guitars. The swamp ash body gives it a very light feel, and a midrange dip in the tone. The brazilian rosewood fretboard is much brighter than indian rosewood. And the Lindy Fralin pickups just scream.
- Body: Swamp Ash
- Neck: Brazilian Rosewood over maple
- Pickups: Lindy Fralin Blues Special
- Strings: GHS Boomers ( 12 - 52 )
- Tuning: E-flat
Recording method.
Recording SetupI recorded this demo with a Shure SM-57 microphone about 18 inches away from the front of the amp, about 45 degrees off center and pointed at a spot close to the rim of the speaker. This gives me a little warmer tone than being pointed directly at the center. The distance from the amp gives the sound a little more space.
The sound from the mic was recorded through a Motu 896HD firewire interface into GarageBand running on my MacPro. The guitar was mixed with no EQ, and the only effect added was the built in AUMatrix Reverb plugin that comes with OSX. The reverb preset was "Large Room". The backing track was from an mp3 I found on the web at this page:
Stevie Ray Vaughan Backing tracks.
I used the Waves L3 Multimaximizer limiter plugin on the master channel in GarageBand to level out the volume and fatten up the sound a bit. This plugin can work magic on recordings that sound weak. The mixdown was exported to a 192Kb/s AAC audio file.