A Secret Weapon To Pro Level TONE! ft Tom Bukovac

thank you robert.....you're a doll....editors note...at 10:34 i said "100K"...of course i meant "100Hz"

Damn, that opening bit was killer

I'm an old guy, and it's amazing to have a player of Tom's caliber show you his trade secrets and licks. When I was Roberts age, there was no Youtube or much of anything else in which professionals would actually take the time to answer questions and share tips/lessons several times a week. Young players just don't realize how good they have it now, with instant access of how to play any song, or get really serious about the instrument. Hats off to Robert and Tom for sharing their knowledge and lives with a bunch of folks on the internet! What a great time to learn to play the guitar, or any other instrument!

Tom is such a humble, sincere dude. The opening music was just incredible. Thanks Robert!

The secret to Tom Bukovac’s tone is being incredibly good at guitar

Uncle Larry's opening piece is just smoking on every level. Damn

Tom is a National Treasure

I remember he saying once ‘it just makes your sound better’ when asked about that pedal. I bought one the next day and couldn’t be more thankful.

I gotta learn how to use an EQ better than I use them now. All I do is make a frowny face and act like I’m a tone wizard.

The Respect Robert shows Larry and the Love he gets back from Uncle Larry just shows how great musicians are. NO EGO's!! What we need more of IN LIFE. THANK YOU for this you guys! Much LOVE!

I’ve been playing for nearly 40 years, and an EQ was my first pedal and this whole time I’ve been saying that it’s the most valuable pedal that you can have. Finally someone give the pedal board MVP some love!

Shhh! The first rule of the Ge7 is you do not talk about the Ge7.

So I’ve been playing guitar for waaay too long being 55 years old now. But I have rarely used pedals until recently and now I’m hooked. Such fun! But I saw Tim Pierce talking about the EQ pedal being the pro guitarist secret sauce as it were, and I went out and found myself a used Boss GE7, the pedal tom has there, and I went home,hooked it up to my 68 custom deluxe reverb RI amplifier and I was absolutely shocked,blown away at the difference it makes in your tone! I’m convinced that I can just about use any amp regardless of quality as long as I have my EQ pedal. I cannot stress enough the difference it makes! I will never be without one again.

This is GOLD. Guitarists who haven't mixed records simply can't know this; even some mix artists haven't learned it; the old school way of recording is the ideal, that you throw all the faders up to nominal and the mix id 85-90% there. How the instruments sound when isolated has zero to do with how they'll fit when you jigsaw them together, so leave that solo button alone-EQ your instruments IN CONTEXT. Biggest breakthrough I had was when I learned to dump everything below 50Hz, which is the 'foot' of the kick drum-there's nothing below that that you need or want to hear, so cut it mercilessly and hear the entire rest of the mix open up-headroom for days, so you can track more guitars, lol. BTW, we tune big PA systems with pink noise, not white noise, AND...that's some achingly beautiful playing.

That was an outstanding pedal lesson Uncle, thanks for your time!

What are the settings you use? Tom: There are no settings. The settings are like a steering wheel.

Bout cried during that intro. Ridiculously beautiful

Tom is the only guitarist I follow that shows up to play for the song and not to show us what he knows. Thats a real treat to hear in guitarists these days. The guy has taught me mountains on guitar just by listening to him. 👌 👍 Great video.

Tim Pierce had a video a few years ago about using the EQ to replicate the differences between humbuckers and single coils too. EQ IS the secrets weapon.

Oh Man "Thank you for having me on.......Hopefully this is helpful" he is humble and pro, thank you very Rob and Larry. Cheers.