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 · 8 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Gibson SG Standard
Pickups
HH
Tuning
neck
Strings
standard
Volume Pedal
Deluxe Comp
Scream 808
US Deluxe Vib
4x10 Tweed P10R
Spring
Tilt
Volume Pedal
← Volume pedal
Pedal
100%
Deluxe Comp
← Studio compressor
Threshold
-34dB
Ratio
2:1
Knee
6dB
Attack
38s
Release
200s
Mix
50
Level
0dB
Scream 808
← Ibanez Tube Screamer (solo boost)
Drive
4
Tone
5.5
Level
7
US Deluxe Vib
← Fender Vibro-King
Drive
5.5
Bass
5
Mid
6
Treble
5.5
Presence
5
ChVol
6.5
Master
10
Bias
5.5
BiasX
5
Sag
5.5
Hum
5
Ripple
5
4x10 Tweed P10R
← Fender Vibro-King 3x10
LowCut19.9Hz
HighCut20100Hz
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Spring
← Vibro-King spring tank
LowCut200Hz
HighCut6500Hz
Mix
22
Decay
0.8s
Predelay
20ms
Tilt
← Tilt EQ (global brightness)
Tilt
0.5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
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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