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
Studio Comp
Klon
UK 30 TopBoost
2x12 Vox Blue
Digital Delay
Plate Reverb
Studio Comp
← CMATMODS Deluxe Signa Comp
Threshold
-30dB
Ratio
3:1
Attack
12s
Release
200s
Mix
70
Level
0dB
Klon
← Jackson Audio Prism (always-on boost)
Drive
2.5
Tone
6
Level
6.5
UK 30 TopBoost
← Vox AC30 Top Boost
Gain
5.5
Bass
4
Mid
5.5
Treble
7
Presence
6
Master
6
2x12 Vox Blue
← Vox 2x12 Celestion Alnico Blue
LowCut90Hz
HighCut8500Hz
Level
0dB
Digital Delay
← Strymon Timeline (dotted-eighth)
Time
331ms
Feedback
38
Mix
30
Plate Reverb
← Strymon BigSky (NH ambient hall)
Decay
7s
Predelay
20ms
Mix
35
Level
0
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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