What are your four ‘must-have’ pedals? That is what we ask our guests to share with you in our Four On the Floor podcast segment.
JP makes a great sounding amp, but his pedal choices send his amp tones into
1. Analog Man – Prince Of Tone Overdrive
“It’s one half of the revered King of tone, and it just works so well with almost any guitar and amp, but I use it with. So if I’m playing a gig and I don’t know what the back line is going to be, if I can’t bring one of my own amps, it just does what I need it to do for everything from rhythm type of overdrive to like a full on lead sustain. I guess that’s why so many people like the King Of Tone so they could set each one a little different. But for my purposes, the Prince Of Tone and having a couple other choice things before and after it kind of cover all that ground.“
Check out the Analog Man – Prince Of Tone Overdrive
2. Analog Man – Sun Face Fuzz
“I would say the Sun Face is pretty much always with me. I guess mine’s a medium to higher gain. I don’t remember the exact transistor that’s in it offhand, but it’s just a cool fuzz that worked particularly well with my strat. If you turned down the gain a bit, It’s more humbucker friendly, otherwise, it gets a little out of control pretty fast so lowering the gain helps a lot with humbuckers. It works great together with the Sun Face too. The Sundial is a bias control for one of the transistor stages. You could kind of do like that gated fuzz, kind of under bias, choked out sounds. It almost sounds like the pedals dying a little bit, like a dead battery effect. And then the other direction kind of smooths it out and almost sounds more like an overdrive when you go in that direction with it.“
Check out the Analog Man – Sun Face Fuzz
3. Xotic Effects – RC Booster
“I use that either with my clean sound or after either of the pedals I mentioned above. So if I’m using the Prince of Tone, if I have a good rhythm sound on that, the RC Booster will take it over the top for leads. Uh, same with the Sun Face. The RC Booster just gives it that extra bit of something to push the signal through the mix. I keep everything straight up the middle on mine and the gain will vary depending on how loud my amp is in which guitar I’m playing.”
Check out the Xotic Effects – RC Booster
4. Strymon – Flint Tremolo and Reverb
“If I know I’m going to play through an amp that has reverb and tremolo on it already, I might not bring that, but if I don’t know what I’m going to be plugging into, it’s got to be on my board because it’s like a safety net. It’s the spring reverbs— its fantastic. The harmonic trem is super cool, especially because not many amps out of them and the other trends, and I don’t really use the other verbs on it that much just because it’s not my style, but all three tremolos are really useful on there. They’re really good pedals and they just sound phenomenal.“
Check out the Strymon – Flint Tremolo and Reverb
Huge thanks to JP Henry for being a guest on our show and please check out Henry Amps. We wish him continued success!