No. 0442012·blues·3 blocks
Bright Lights
Gary Clark Jr.'s tone on Bright Lights is a modern take on classic blues guitar. An SG through a Fender Vibro-King produces a warm, fat clean tone that breaks up beautifully when he digs in. The tone has more midrange warmth than a typical Fender clean, thanks to the SG's humbuckers. Clark uses a Tube Screamer-style overdrive for solo boosts, pushing the amp into rich, singing sustain.
Blak and BluSignal path · input → output · 5 blocksLive values · Kemper Profiler
Guitar
Gibson SG Standard
Pickups
HH
Tuning
neck
Strings
standard
Compressor
Green Scream
Search Rig Exchange for 'Vibro-King'
Spring Reverb
Compressor
← Studio compressor
Intensity
3
Attack
0.0s
Volume
0
Green Scream
← Ibanez Tube Screamer (solo boost)
Drive
4
Tone
5
Volume
7
Search Rig Exchange for 'Vibro-King'
← Fender Vibro-King
Gain
5
Bass
5
Middle
6
Treble
5
Spring Reverb
← Vibro-King spring tank
Decay
0.8s
Predelay
20ms
Mix
22
Engineer's note
File 044
Gary Clark Jr.'s tone on Bright Lights is a modern take on classic blues guitar. An SG through a Fender Vibro-King produces a warm, fat clean tone that breaks up beautifully when he digs in. The tone has more midrange warmth than a typical Fender clean, thanks to the SG's humbuckers. Clark uses a Tube Screamer-style overdrive for solo boosts, pushing the amp into rich, singing sustain.
— Gary Clark Jr.
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