While people’s feelings about their own device and its effects can often affect the way they play psychologically, that doesn’t mean the device is performing exactly as it should. think. Lill jokes about a friend—whom Lill claims he loves and has learned a lot from playing—who used a Two Rock . Amplifier installed on a digital amplifier to get what he calls “John Mayer stuff”. The problem is that when Lill asked his friend what model of Two-Rock amplifier John Mayer played and which amplifier was in the sampler, he didn’t know.
“It’s funny,” he said. “It was like saying ‘Oh my gosh, I love Dale Earnhardt. That’s why I drive a Chevy, you know, like Dale’s.’”
Perhaps what strikes me most about Lill is that, in a world of influencers actively growing their social media following, he doesn’t aim to turn his videos into his full-time job. Instead, he’s just a musician, sharing what he’s learned with us who don’t have the time or resources to do the same experiments.
When asked why he started making videos, he said: “I have found that knowing the answer without any proof is not always as effective as when you actually record it on video. So I try to make sure to record as much video content as I can.” They have an amazingly high production value, for a man who admits he didn’t actually own a camera at first.
Instead, Lill gave me a free gift—knowing that the cabinet and sound setting were more important than the wood and strings in my hand. This is valuable information, given the amount of time I spent hunting for guitars and Not cluttered with audio controls.
“I have seen a lot of different approaches to how people communicate information on the internet and the one I chose was as unbiased and kind as possible,” he said. “It doesn’t really matter whether someone believes me or not. It’s just a guitar.”
Jim Lill’s Current Signals Sequence
Given his background and testing history, what do Jim Lill really use? This is the audio equipment that you will find in his studio.
Guitar
Lill said, “Anderson Tele has been my number one since high school.” Other guitars and basses are for specific sounds that aren’t used very often.
pickup truck
Tom Anderson Telecaster has a 2018 Seymour Duncan Vintage Stack pick up bridge, 1980 Bill Lawrence Black Label S2 pickup truck in the middle and one 2009 Seymour Duncan Mini Humbucker neck grab. Lill notes that he only uses the bridge receiver in his television set. All other guitars have a pickup.
pedal
Lill uses a Boss 2001 CS-3 compressor pedal to produce different volume of different guitars. That goes into a Xotic RC Booster for solo volume and a Nobles 2020 ODR-1 overdrive (painted black) and 2017 Paul Cochrane Timmy V2 (white tape was added to read “Jimmy”) to create a bit of snarl in his voice. Then the signal hit the 1990s Ernie Ball volume pedal and 2018 Sonic Research ST-300 Turbo Tuner Mini for volume control and tuning. For the last steps in his sequence, he adds a Boss TR-2 Tremolo (painted black) and use 2020 Series 6 HX stomp, mainly for its legacy latency algorithms. “Equalizer, CS-3 and delay are used the most,” he said. “Tremolo is usually for Bass6. Everything else is just in case.
amps
Lill owns a Fender Bassman Head 1966 (original AB165 circuit), a heavily modified version 1965 Fender Bassman head and one 2001 6V . Tilt Vehicle 1×12 combo. “I’m looking into my amp situation right now,” he said. “I imagine one of these three will become my main amplifier.”
Speaker cabinet
Lill combined her own homemade 2022 2×12 with the 2001 Celestion Vintage 30 (with the side-closed rear) and the 1967 Fender Utah (with the side-opening rear). “I mostly use the one I make,” said Lill, “but I also have two cabs that JT Corenflos used during the sessions and a cab that Tom Bukovac used during the sessions.” Impulsive reactions of available Jim cabinets for sale on its website.
Microphone
Lill uses a Shure SM57 (one for each speaker). As for placement, he said, “I was taught at my favorite studio how to place the microphone with two fingers from the baking sheet, straight on the shaft, pointing to the line between the dust cover and the cone. That’s where I come from. begin.”
