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 · 2 blocksLive values · IK TONEX
Guitar
Gretsch G6134TFM-NH Signature Penguin
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge+neck
Strings
standard
Search ToneNET for 'Vox AC30 Top Boost' or 'AC30 edge of breakup'
Search ToneNET for 'Vox AC30 Top Boost' or 'AC30 edge of breakup'
← Vox AC30 Top Boost
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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