Chords for Chuck Loeb talks about the Blues Cube guitar amplifier #1

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_ _ _ Hi, [E] my name is Chuck Loeb _ and I'm here to talk a little bit [C] today about a very exciting
new amp that is made by Roland.
It's called the Blues Cube, the Roland Blues Cube amplifier. _
And I've been very, very privileged to be able to be involved _ in some of the early developments
of the amplifier.
In fact, I took a trip up to the Roland factory in Japan and tried it
before it looked anything like it does today.
It looked completely different and it sounded
quite a bit different too.
And that was over a year ago.
_ _ And now it's finally done and
it is superb.
I love it.
My approach _ is probably much more concentrated and focused on the
clean guitar sound because that is pretty much a lot of the time what I use when I'm
recording and performing.
And so for me, a very pure, beautiful, clean tone is very important.
And that's what this amp has.
It's got a crystal clear, beautiful sound _ and that's what I'm
always looking for.
And yet there's a lot of variety that I can get out of it. _ _
The piece
that I started [B] playing _ [Gbm] _ _ [E] _
_ [B] _ _ _ [E] _ is a piece that's kind of like a finger style guitar piece.
And for that, _ you can hear that it's got a lot of warmth [B] in the bottom down here _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
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depth, a lot of depth to the sound.
[G] However, it also has a lot of brilliance.
You know,
when _ _ _ _ _ _ up on the high strings you can really hear the fingers and hear the _ _ _ _ _ delicacy of
the sound.
[D] Now I'm using a pretty warm tone for this particular piece and I would also
say that when I do a lot of standard jazz performing too.
So [F] _ _ _ _ my guitar has a little
mid-range boost.
I'm going to put it on and you'll hear what this amp sounds like when
you have a more jazz tone.
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And now with [D] a pick, _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
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_ it sounds like an old jazz guitar.
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with the thumb.
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_ Now, _ [N] if with the same clean sound, I want to have a little more brilliance
because when I play with, for example, when I play with the band 4Play, it's got a little
bit more of a _ pop jazz sound.
So I might want to have, go over here, you have presence and _ _
_ _ basic bass, mid-range and treble.
But there's also a presence knob.
I'm going to boost that
up because sometimes I'm looking for a little bit of bite from the sound and _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _
_ I want to get
_ _ some of that pick sound.
I'll even add a little bit more.
Of course, all of this can be stored
in tone module. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ You can really hear that [G] edge now. _ _
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So there's a lot of variety, even within
the clean sound.
And remember, we're still talking about the clean sound of the amplifier.
Now, let's just talk a little bit about the channel switching. _ _
I love, there's an aspect
of this that I really love.
One is that you can get a straight crunch sound just by changing
the channels.
I'll turn down the presence a little bit for this because I normally leave
it down a little bit lower.
_ And this one is kind of a, _
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_ _ _ _ you can hear the growl that it
has.
It's very warm.
_ _ _ You don't get a lot of false overtones and it's _ _ _
_ [Am] _ very warm and yet
still has a little bit of bite on it. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ Right?
Now that's just going straight to the crunch
channel. _ _
_ This has a feature where you can use the clean and the crunch together.
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this is a sound that I'm using quite a bit now.
_ You get like a nice warm round bottom
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_ [E] _ You can hear the roundness of that.
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_ _ And yet it still has [A] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ that distorted
edge that you're looking for.
_ And then the last thing I'll say is that I'm a big fan
of, I like playing with reverb.
I don't always use a dry sound.
I almost always use reverb.
And there's different kinds of reverbs on the samp.
You can have a kind of a vintage
spring reverb.
_ But I use, there's a plate, a little plate sound that I use quite a bit.
For me that's a little bit more natural.
But you have that option of doing either one.
And then of course like a classic old amplifier, _ tremolo.
I love tremolo.
It _ makes me happy. _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [B] I have a pretty [Em] deep [E] _ _ _ setting right there for the tremolo.
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