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.
Let There Be LightSignal path · input → output · 8 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
Gretsch G6134TFM-NH Signature Penguin
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge+neck
Strings
standard
CMATMODS Deluxe Signa Comp
Jackson Audio Prism (always-on boost)
Vox AC30 Top Boost
Vox 2x12 (Celestion Blue Alnico)
Shure SM57
Strymon Timeline
Strymon BigSky (NH ambient hall)
CMATMODS Deluxe Signa Comp
compressor
Volume
5
Compression
4
Jackson Audio Prism (always-on boost)
boost
Volume
6
Bass
5
Treble
6
Boost
5
Vox AC30 Top Boost
preamp
Volume
7
Treble
7
Bass
4
Cut
4
Strymon Timeline
delay
Time
1ms
Repeats
4
Mix
30
Strymon BigSky (NH ambient hall)
reverb
Decay
6s
Mix
35
Pre-delay
20
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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