Chords for Eric Johnson Effects Part 1 of 2

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_ _ I like to use three [Em] different setups.
I use like a really super clean sound _ and then I use like a dirty rhythm
_ [F#] kind of tone and then I use a lead tone and
[G] Yeah, I just go into a couple of AV boxes
I go into a master AV that'll choose between lead or rhythm out of the rhythm
It goes to a second AV box that gives me two choices of rhythm.
So I either have like the the clean [B] rhythm _ _ _
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_ _ [B] _ _ _ And that's [Bm] like, you know just for the and [B] I can put chorus [A] on or whatever _
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_ And also put a memory man on it which has [A] a little extra echo
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I can put
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Compression on it too, which you know if I wanted to jump out and hold a [E] little bit
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_ [A] _ _ _ _ So just hold in a little bit [Bm] longer that way so I kind of can kind of doctor [F] the clean tone a [A] little bit
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_ _ [B] _ _ _ then if I want to choose the second rhythm [Bm] sound which is just more of kind of a
dirty rhythm kind of [B] tone
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_ _ _ Which it kind of I [Bm] like, you know, I try to get it to sound either like Keith Richards
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_ Yeah that right there is the amp distortion, _ _ yeah and [Em] then it also gets Henry's kind of thing
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Or I can put extra fuzz on it with the fuzz face [D] to make it more
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[B] _ _ _ _ _ You And _ _ _ _ _ _ that
[Em] _ _ Well, thanks I spend way too [B] much time working on my gear
Trying to get the town, you know, it's like I don't know what it is
You know electric guitars like hi, you know, cuz you [Bm] listen to like a nice piano or violin
It's like this sound is I you know run in here and try to make the guitar sound decent, you know
_ Well, [B] thank you.
Yeah, and then you know, and then I can go to [G] the lead sound which basically
Is you know, _ _ it's kind [E] of like a old Clapton _
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_ _ _ Just really dig, you know cream tone and stuff like that.
And then I'll use like a tube driver _
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_ To just give it a little [G#] more game _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [F#] _ _ _ [B] And that's pretty much it.
[Bm] I just you know, those
_ Kind of go back to the same tones all the time _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ It is actually I started about a year ago
_ Because I noticed like when I [A] was doing certain like, you know [Bm] rhythm things
_ _ _ You know where I wanted to note [E] to last
_ _ It would just wouldn't hold in enough _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ It's actually not set right.
I have it set [B] real low right now, but you see I have it _ _ _ _ _
_ It's also wanted it to be like for [D] harmonics
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It just kind of holds in there a little bit a little [Em] bit stronger
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[Bm] Like the old MXR ones they don't they seem to like screw the tone up the least
_ _ Yeah, it's kind of a lot of the times when I use it get a pedal
It's it's really kind of whether it passes the direct signal the best is almost _ more critical to me than if it's the best
Sound and what it does, you know, I mean because most pedals they screw the direct tone up and then where are you?
You don't you know, whatever you get you lost something this suit to
_ Valuable to lose
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Yeah, yeah there they're quite a quite a feat keeping those going _ _ _ _ _
Not too often really but uh
They're they're getting harder to find those tapes, too
_ I
Actually went for through a long period of not using them just started using them again because they do this kind of cool thing
Do the sound the preamps do on them?
_ But I kind of go through periods of using them and then I don't I'll do like the echo
Fold back thing where the echo comes _ _
_ _ _ _ _ You [Bm] know, I think mid 70s
_ _ _ Yeah, it's amazing that they're still working _ I don't know if they ever designed them to last forever but _ _ _
Keep patching them up and they'll work _ _ _ _
and that over the yeah, that's just a
Lot of times I'll use like a little bit more of a high-tech, right?
That basically is I'll Mike all the _ instruments.
I mean all the amplifiers, excuse me
And then they go into a why and then they go straight to the house of the direct and then one side of the
_ _ the microphones will go into
effects so that I can have post effects that don't have anything to do with the amp and that's just like a digital delay and
a flanger that
That will go into a little rhythm _ _ so you can hear some [B] echo
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_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] So I don't have to listen to it dry _ _ _ _ _
I'm trying to turn into a real man where I can no no echo, you know _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Well, you know, especially if you're in a dead room, you know, sometimes you get in a live, you know
Like in the when you're playing live in the theaters and stuff.
It's not so bad because you get some kind of [N] back