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Greetings Fellow GG Members; Please note that If you wish to post a You Tube Video for the benefit of the members, I have created a NEW TOPIC; IN Guitar Playing & Technique FOR THIS PURPOSE. So, please post APPROPRIATE videos there! It's hard to believe, but this site is now over 3 years young. It was and is a labor of love for guitar learning. It has grown tremendously in size and content since Feb 2018, with many many thousands of posts in that time. So, time permitting, I'll be doing some house cleaning. Please don't be offended if you see one of your old posts deleted... we just have to make some room here and keep things somewhat tidy. Cheers; Neil @NeilES335

are appropriately named. These are Top Backing Tracks! To be clear, these are backing tracks, not jam tracks. Learning a song and want comping for your playing? These may be just what you need. Which is exactly how I came across them. I was looking for backing for Santana's "I Love You Too Much" and I don't know how I could find a better one. Nor do I know how they produce these. It is almost as if they have the original tracks to the song and just muted the lead guitar. They are that good. Santana, Hendrix, Clapton, BB King, Aerosmith, Prince, GNR, Zeppelin, they have them. This is the Santana "I Love You Too Much" I found. Go here on YouTube and then go to his channel to find his list of tracks. Enjoy!!!

I will venture the compression pedal is one of the least understood pedals on our pedal boards. It is probably not fair to say this just based on my ignorance of the workings of the compression pedal, but if I am at all representative it may be true. I'm sure many, as I did, dialed in settings until it "sounded good" and left it there. This is the best explanation/tutorial video I have seen on how to use a compression pedal. There are many more videos on YouTube and also on places like Sweetwater, on their website, that have explanations. But most of them, the Sweetwater ones as perfect examples, are little more than suggested settings. (I highlighted "video" above because this is the best video I've seen. I also have a link at the end of this post for a good print article.) This video goes into all the different settings, demonstrating the knobs on different compression pedals may have different terms for the same settings, demonstrates with graphs how the settings effect tone (the geek in me loves the graphs), and even uses Jimmy upstairs, mom on the main floor and dad in the basement for example🤔 JHS pedals is a pedal manufacturer so one would logically expect lots of selling of his product. But, in all of his pedal videos, he goes to great lengths to describe lots of his favorite pedals from other manufacturers. He also always includes humor ("start your own music genre, spaghetti western"!) and he always ends every video with a record that demonstrates remarkable use of the effect he is discussing. Finally, he is a very good guitar player and demonstrates the settings he uses. If you are the type that prefers a written explanation this, perhaps somewhat self-aggrandizing, article calls itself the Ultimate Guide to Guitar Compressor Pedals. Ultimate or not it is very comprehensive.

This is my rendition of "Lewis & Clark," my favorite Tommy Emmanuel song. It's got elements from both the original recording from 2006 and the updated version from last year, plus a few of my own ideas. There are a few instances in the recording that sound like clipping or static of some kind, but I can't get rid of it. I had the levels low enough where clipping shouldn't have been an issue, and it wasn't apparent on the waveform, so I'm not sure what the problem is. I experimented with different settings, and also recorded some tests with mics instead of plugging in, and it was still there to different degrees. Maybe I have a problem with my interface. At any rate, thanks for listening.