r/WorshipGuitar

I keep finding common songs that worship online hasn't covered... the solo rehearsal bundle is a pretty bare bones offering but it is cheap. This week the songs I didn't find on worship online were Jesus we're here for you with Jeremy Riddle and abide from worship initiative.

Hey all. Old Guy here, very recently started playing EG2/EG1/bass on the worship team at church. Previous playing experience was in the very early '00s and the P&W guitar landscape was much simpler. I'm thrilled about all the new stuff, just learning to manage it live.

My question is how is everyone managing delay tempos live when using traditional pedalboards?

I'm using a Strymon Timeline for delay, and I know I could make new presets for every single song, but my desire is to initially keep it simple with just a few presets - eigth, a couple dotted with options, and a dual preset that gives me both. My plan has been to just tap the new tempo into my Timeline when the click starts for each new song, and then roll. In practice, that's been less than awesome, especially if I'm supposed to be a prominent part of the intro. While I'm taking four beats to tap the new click in, the rest of the band starts, more often than not.

How is everyone approaching this issue? I know I could make individual presets for each song, and maybe that's the right answer, but it's not my preference. I could get a full-on midi controller to run tempo (I'm told the HX Stomp can do this) or as a variation, I could get something like the Walrus Audio Canvas Clock, and just build a weekly set list of tempos into that.

Are there other options I'm missing? I'm not particularly price sensitive, though I'm deliberately trying to keep things simpler for now, and I'd not prefer to chuck my whole pedalboard in favor of a QC or a Helix Floor.

Currently leaning Canvas clock+midi cables, but would love any advice or input.

Hello, I just joined my churches worship team and play acoustic. I have a cheap, but nice sounding, acoustic that I have added a fishman pickup to. It works well except it gets lost in the mix. If I play a full F chord, it blends with the bass. If I cheat and only play the higher notes, it is lost with the lead guitarist. As he plays a tele and for lack of better words loves the jangle.

For acoustics I prefer to have a lot of bass coming through. I used to have a Epiphone Hummingbird that I loved, but sadly sold. But from what I am being told I should look into higher treble such as a Taylor. I have played Taylors several times. And while I appreciate the craftsmanship, I am not a fan of that sound while playing solo. I have a budget of around $1000, this will be my first higher end acoustic. Well higher end for me.

So should I go with what I like, more bass. Or go with a Taylor to shine a little more in the mix. I am buying this guitar to perform at church, but I want a guitar that I will also want to pick up at home. I mainly strum but throw in some flat picking when appropriate.

Thank you.

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Some research suggests that generally speaking if you're trying to do electric guitar parts and keep them somewhat distinct from frequencies your keyboard player is covering you want to stay above the 7th or 8th fret in the 500 to 900 HZ frequency range ....that won't always be possible.... There's probably less of a risk of being masked when you're doing an intro riff because there wouldn't be singing then quite often and any keys player with half a brain should realize I don't want to blast away here while the electric guitar is playing a signature introduction riff.

The next step would be having a conversation with the worship leader and the keyboards player about how the two of you can avoid stepping on each other ..

the more common discussion is about how you keep the keyboard from stepping on the bass guitar and the kick drum but I'm not talking about that here.

I'm assuming a high pass filter on the mixer can largely deal with that even if the keyboard player doesn't want to change their habits .

something we discussed in another post here was that a keyboard player might be confused into playing too broadly or too much when there are weeks with no electric guitar player at all, then when there is one they're still on autopilot ..

Copy and paste of this information wasn't entirely clean:

The 500–900 Hz range in standard piano notation:

500 Hz ≈ B4 (the B just above middle C)

587 Hz ≈ D5

659 Hz ≈ E5

784 Hz ≈ G5

880 Hz ≈ A5

900 Hz ≈ just below A#5/Bb5

So the range runs roughly B4 to A5 — that's just under an octave, sitting one full octave above middle C (C4).

For guitar context, those notes land like this on your G and B strings:

Fret

String

Note

Freq

7th

G

D5

~587 Hz

7th

B

E5

~659 Hz

9th

G

E5

~659 Hz

9th

B

F#5

~740 Hz

12th

G

G5

~784 Hz

12th

B

B5

~988 Hz

So your 7th-to-12th fret dyad zone on G and B strings maps almost perfectly onto that B4–B5 octave — which is above where a keyboardist's right hand typically hangs during chord voicings, and well above where his left hand lives. That's your cleaner air.

How do you recognize it's onset? What's a safe period of time to dial in tones? 30 minutes, 60 minutes? Then a 30 minute break?
Time flies when I'm perfecting a preset ( Helix in my case) so I can easily be two hours in and then wonder why it sounded better an hour ago.

I play guitar at my church and was wondering if anyone had any ideas to get a reverb sound that is very similar to the cloud reverb on the Strymon Bigsky but on the helix?

Tl;dr: Can anyone tell me what and how to adjust on my ToneX Ones such that I can bump the volume of my Aspen higher without a huge output level increase (to stay at unity gain with the Aspen engaged)?

This may seem like a dumb question, but I'm stumped.

I recently bought a Case Study Effects Aspen overdrive, and I love it! However, it has so much headroom that going into my ToneX Ones, I have to keep the volume very low (nearly zero) to avoid adding too much level to my output. I try to keep my drives at unity gain all around, but this one has stumped me. If tried adjusting the input trim up and down, increasing the amp volumes of the captures I'm using to max while bringing the input trim down and vice versa, but no matter what I do, I'm unable to increase the volume of my Aspen much higher than around 9 o'clock without a huge output volume increase. I've been using my new custom built Tele with Lambertones Cremas (low output humbuckers may be the culprit here, though I haven't used my custom strat much recently to compare).

Any thoughts here?

Hey guys! So I'll be 37 in a couple months and have very very limited knowledge of guitar. I played for a short while in high school and only learned a few riffs from some Metal songs and never learned to play a full song. I found myself recently wanting to pick it up again and got an Ibanez RGA42FM and a Valeton GP200 to go with it. Can y'all point me in the right direction to some good resources to learn to play? I really need a comprehensive/progressive course where I can learn from the ground up. I signed up for Worship Artistry and while is decent I'm just kinda stuck cherry picking songs I wanna play and then seeing if I can figure it out. Thanks in advance and God Bless!

Not sure if this is the best place to ask about this, but long story short, I’m really tired of lugging around my Taylor Acoustic guitar around. Do any of you recommend a smaller acoustic guitar that still sounds decent and is easier to travel around with when I lead worship at different places?

Been using my helix for our bass/acoustic so Im working on a physical board built around the Iridium, but having some difficulty getting a second gain stage Im satisfied with. What are yall using for your later stages and are yall stacking or toggling?

I believe the first release of this song was January of 2025 so I took a look at worship online and didn't find it ..

you will find other songs with the word one in the name but not this one... another tutorial site called EG source didn't have it and I haven't yet found it on worship tutorials ....not sure about worship artistry.... There was a little coverage by churches or individuals that don't seem to have very much of a following ....perhaps it's because from what I can see the electric guitar parts are pretty basic and the only signature thing I hear is that intro riff .

I'm not thrilled with the last section of the chart from song select ...it has a number of little tag and repeat indicators that aren't super clear-cut to me..

of course the song was added to this week's list 3 hours before yesterday's rehearsal which doesn't help although I had played it once before a couple months ago.

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In my highly modified Stratocaster the other two pickups the middle and the neck are working fine but with my Helix preset using the litigator amplifier model I'm still struggling to get the bridge Seymour Duncan JB Jr at the right pickup height, the right tone control setting along with the correct EQ and amplifier parameters in the preset ...one recommendation was to set the pickup at about 5 mm which is a little bit farther away from the strings then you would normally see and then work in the preset possibly lowering The amp Drive, the amp presence and maybe emphasizing Master gain with less channel volume.... they also mentioned a parametric EQ cut at a specific frequency range with a narrow q

I'm not ruling out replacing the pickup entirely but we're not there yet.

this was installed with a 250k tone pot and 022 capacitor by the professionals at 920D

at one point in all these adjustments raising the tone control to 10 got me into semi useful territory but I'm definitely not satisfied yet ..these things have ceramic magnets but like any pickup you don't want it so close to the string that it's doing weird things.