No. 1062016·worship·7 blocks
What a Beautiful Name
The blueprint for modern worship guitar. Nigel Hendroff builds this from a clean Gretsch into a chiming Vox AC30 held on the edge of breakup by an always-on boost — not a wall of gain, but an amp working just hard enough to bloom. A Strymon Timeline lays a dotted-eighth pulse under the verses while a BigSky hall washes everything wide, then the bridge swells into a big, reverb-soaked lead. The secret is the always-on boost and the ambient delay/reverb, not a distortion pedal. Key of D, 136 BPM.
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Guitar
Gretsch G6134TFM-NH Signature Penguin
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge+neck
Strings
standard
Compressor
Search Rig Exchange for 'Vox AC30 Top Boost'
Delay
Hall Reverb
Compressor
← CMATMODS Deluxe Signa Comp
Intensity
3.5
Attack
0.0s
Volume
0
Search Rig Exchange for 'Vox AC30 Top Boost'
← Vox AC30 Top Boost
Gain
4
Bass
4
Middle
5.5
Treble
7
Presence
6
Delay
← Strymon Timeline (dotted-eighth)
Time
331ms
Feedback
38
Mix
30
Hall Reverb
← Strymon BigSky (NH ambient hall)
Decay
7s
Predelay
20ms
Mix
35
Engineer's note
File 106
The blueprint for modern worship guitar. Nigel Hendroff builds this from a clean Gretsch into a chiming Vox AC30 held on the edge of breakup by an always-on boost — not a wall of gain, but an amp working just hard enough to bloom. A Strymon Timeline lays a dotted-eighth pulse under the verses while a BigSky hall washes everything wide, then the bridge swells into a big, reverb-soaked lead. The secret is the always-on boost and the ambient delay/reverb, not a distortion pedal. Key of D, 136 BPM.
— Nigel Hendroff
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