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 · 4 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
Gibson SG Standard
Pickups
HH
Tuning
neck
Strings
standard
Ibanez Tube Screamer (or similar OD)
Fender Vibro-King
Fender 3x10 (Vibro-King built-in)
Ibanez Tube Screamer (or similar OD)
overdrive
Drive
4
Tone
5
Level
7
Fender Vibro-King
preamp
Volume
6
Treble
5
Bass
5
Mid
6
Reverb
3
Speed
0Hz
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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