Chris Buck Visits TPS [Thorpy Electric Lightning, Fender Amps, HX Stomp & Much More]

A much overdue catch up with Chris and a listen to his latest rig

Welcome to the show. It’s our great pleasure to welcome back our good mate Chris Buck to the show. When we first met many years back, Chris was cutting his pro-guitar-life teeth on the way up through the obligatory mix of originals and cover gigs to make ends meet. With sustained effort via YouTube and of course his fantastic band, Cardinal Black, Mr Buck is now enjoying a much bigger profile in the guitar world as CB album #2 is poised for release in Autumn 2024.
In this video we catch up on the realities of band life, check out Chris’s new-old amps and, of course, have a whip through his latest pedalboard… complete with new signature valve overdrive from Thorpy FX, the Electric Lightning.
Enjoy the episode!

Interesting bits and go to sections…
0:00 Intro & playing
2:43 The Cardinal Black story
8:00 Breaking new ground?
13:00 The Wall Of Brown
15:28 Brown panel Super Reverb?
17:00 1961 Fender Concert
17:29 10- and 12-inch speakers
19:00 Fender harmonic tremolo
20:15 Harmonic trem wet/dry
22:55 Chris’s pedalboard handywork
24:45 Thorpy Electric Lightning
29:33 Electric Lightning Boost
32:00 Live Vs Recording tones?
38:00 Recording at Abbey Road
40:50 Four delay pedals. Maybe five…
42:30 Catlinbread Echorec
45:40 YouTube nerves
46:50 Gurus Echosex
48:30 Boss RE-202
50:50 UA Starlight
54:00 Line 6 HX Stomp XL
57:30 Music first
1:00:40 29 Pedals Euna & Golden Fleece
1:02:20 Mythos Mjolnir stacking – Tell Us How It Feels!
1:05:25 Guitars and getting into Revstar
1:16:30 Playing in tune
1:18:35 Vibrato emulating singers


Pedals on Chris’s board (I think they’re in signal chain order - Mick here)
• 29 Pedals Euna (before G3)
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/4aYozEV

• Mythos Pedals Golden Fleece
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3c1LZxk

• Thorpy Electric Lightning
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/4bZwVxk

• Snouse Electric Company BlackBox Overdrive
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z

• Great Eastern Effects Small Speaker Overdrive
Australia: https://bit.ly/3Ru3Hyx

• Mythos Mjolnir
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/4aXa3NS

• Analog Man King Of Tone
https://www.analogman.com/kingtone.htm

• Origin Effects Cali76 Compact Deluxe (links to latest FET version)
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3z2W77P
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/0Z4Pr3

• Mythos / Novo Airlane Drive
No longer made, the 210 Double Drive Deluxe was the same thing

• Keeley Katana Clean Boost
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/R5ebx7

• Mooer Trelicopter
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z

• Catalinbread Echorec
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/2BWjXTM
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/NkjbdO

• Gurus Echosex3
No longer made in this form
Check out Cicognani pedals

• Boss RE-202 Space Echo
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3OGUdgq
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/y2VkDD

• UA Starlight Echo Station
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3u8AKtm
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/m5QG6D

• UA Golden Reverberator
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3nWH71J
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/DK435q

• Line 6 HX Stomp XL
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/4cjUPU3
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/rQ5XVB

• TheGigRig G3
https://www.thegigrig.com/g3-s

Guitars used in today’s show
• Yamaha Revstar Prototype

Amps used in today’s show
• 1966-ish Fender Super Reverb
• 1961 Fender Concert

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