This past weekend I had the privilege to lead worship at North Phoenix Baptist Church. Because I would be both playing lead guitar AND singing, I decided to keep the main rig on the floor.
Below is the a video excerpt from the service. My amazing wife is leading this tune out, and about halfway through is a monster guitar solo.
http://vidego.multicastmedia.com/player.php?v=jm4uy285&catid=15532
People have asked me how to get that huge soaring lead solo tone. The formula is fairly simple: A compressor pedal into a gassed up overdrive pedal stacked into a second overdrive pedal that has much lower gain, then into a chorus pedal (slow speed setting) and then finally a delay pedal at about 680 milliseconds.
This particular solo was a Analogman CompROSSor, into a Pete Cornish G2 (sustain at 2 oclock), into a BK Butler Tube Driver (gain almost off), into an Analogman Chorus, finally into a Lexicon MXP-1 for the Delay.
So:
Compressor>Overdrive 1>Overdrive 2>Chorus>Delay
Key here is the volume of each of the pedals. If your pedal volume is too high at any stage of the chain, then you’ll have what I call “Gain Hiss.” Its fairly apparent when you have breaks or rests in the solos, so lower the volume of each pedal, and increase the volume at the amp.
