Saw him playing live with Billy Idol a few years ago. I hadn't listened to that much of his stuff closely before, but he totally blew me away that gig. He played an acoustic solo spot that outgunned any players that use distortion.
Steve Stevens is a riff machine, and has had a spectacular career and for all you people who are being disrespectful, well you are all showing what little guitar knowledge you have!
My SS is on the way! It is going to be signed by Mr. Stevens on 4-21-14 and then shipped to me. I am like a kid waiting for Christmas. I wish that I wasn't going to sound like myself (as Mark and Steve report). I wish I was going to sound like Steve. In fact, if Brad King can guarantee that I sound like Steve, I will pay double!! I love SS and MD. What a class act. I don't know if you guys recall, but Steve was one of the few guitarists to record with Michael Jackson. He is a Grammy winner to boot. He is far too under rated and deserves more fame.
Recording with Jackson isn't something to be excited about unless you are into little boys! It sounds very Dangerous to me. Dirty Dian was just a cover for his interest in boys! MJ was a Smooth Criminal!
One of my favorite guitarists. Always has great tone that compliments the song as a whole. He doesn't "overpower" a song, where all you here is him noodling and playing as fast as he can, like a lot of his contemporaries. Love his style.
The #1 Most Underrated Guitarist In Rock & Roll is Steve Stevens. Consistently stellar tone, all the right notes, no drama, never over plays, always adds to to the song - and that thing he does at 3:38... It took me months to get that down. He's one of my favorites.
Steve kills he writes Amazing creative guitar parts and his playing and tone absolutely kill!! oh yeah and he can deliver live 100% of the time! that is all...
Saw a recent clinic with Steve and Friedman here in Detroit the SS100 has an incredible punch and so full sounding also got to talk to Steve a bit about his work with Michael Jackson I asked him about his huge hair in the Dirty Diana video he said MJ made the other musicians go out and get matching wigs lol good stuff.
....but anything Steve Stevens has ever played sounds amazing! Whether it be his old Hammer guitars, Washburn signature models, Les Pauls etc the guy's always had a killer tone
i play gigs. i got rid of it though LOL. i liked the sound of it but then after a few days i broke out my Orange Rockerverb 50 MKii and A/B'd them and to my surprise i liked my tried and true Orange way better. go figure. i don't know if i got a bad SS, but mine sounded nowhere near as good as the video, and i don't play crap guitars either. studio trickery? don't get me wrong it sounded great, but not as good as in this video, or my Orange.
Yeah, studio trickery I say. He says, just a Boss EQ, BAE preamp & compression from the amp. But look at the 3 rack enclosures behind him. Plus you can hear a digital delay every time he stops playing. I think I hear a Harmonizer in there too.
this is the best amp in the market right now i had mesa mar v, dual, carvin,evh,marshall 800,900, jvm, and this amp is best sounding in coparation with the otrers amp. thank you for make this amp.
Tuned to Eflat here... I had 74 metal pane stockl 100watt marshall and got close but took a hotplate..a full drive in boost mode and a variac. I think I will be buying this. I played the BE-100 and it's nice but this...expensive but fantastic
Steves tone is unbelievable i love the thick crunchy overdrive tone he gets so crisp and clean and you can really hear all the notes like he says. Does he get this by running the preamp tubes with less gain and more volume at the power amp stage?
I'm sure its a lot of preamp gain as friedmans are known to sound great any volume. Heard something like there was only little bass in the preamp but a lot in the power section. This and I guess a lot of other reasons ( very well selected parts; cricuits) must be the reason for the great note seperation and tone.That and Steve Stevens playing :D
I agree with you. I don't known what effects he use but i know its not a Les Paul + Friedman At 3:13, in this right, you can see bargraph and his left a peak led above. Despite the effects, hats off Mr Stevens ! I play guitar since 30 years and i'm in a position to do 10% of what he do...
Hey Mark congrats on this new job. I've been thru the whole immigration thing myself. My wife is canadian. It takes a while but u will get what u want. Good luck I'm sure it will work out. :)
Steve Stevens is one of many guitarists who separate the men from the boys. There is no comparison between a guitarist who gigs at the highest level all the time and the fools who think they are their equal just by practicing at home.
this is just freaking fantastic, but man I wish we could get a full run down on how the amp was setup with effects and such. Such stereo definition. Is it wet/dry or effects in the loop? How was it micd and what speakers???
Notice that Steve talks about how amps with the super saturated front end hide the player's character and don't record well. I like a Marshally crunch tone (like a JCM 800, Jubilee, or 900 when operated the right way), and then I hit it with an overdrive. Gain off, level cranked. Tightens it up. Gives it bite.
I'm sure that it, being a Friedman, is a top shelf amp, but I would like to hear what a lowly JVM 410HJS tweaked by the Steve man(his settings) sounded next to it. The internet makes everything sound different. Having a base point would be cool.
Yeah - but mostly because we were doing it live in the middle of a Billy Idol medley and I had to guess what tempo we would jump in to it at each night...
I own a BE100 mk 1 w/ SS mod by Friedman himself and with the right single coil it sounds amazing, the sat switch really gives the single coil some more girth and other switches compliment any instrument; dialing in a lot of great tones.
I expected a great overdrive channel, but the clean channel was unexpected, and it sounds great. Stevens gave those Idol records identity imo. I bought them mainly to hear the guitar work.
If you ever record yourself, I urge you to listen to your guitar's tone on your recordings right after listening to Steve Steven's tone on this. That's why he's so in demand. Tone: There is no substitute!
Holy fuck I've watched your videos for a while and didn't even realize you did any interviews or anything (mostly just watched your axe-fx videos). Watched this and was digging the playing not knowing what channel it was on. Saw you and went "O_O" hahaha. Awesome interview and sweet amp dude.
Steve is hands down my favorite player from the '80's, awesome interview.
Steve is my kind of player. Great chops and sensibility.
Saw him playing live with Billy Idol a few years ago. I hadn't listened to that much of his stuff closely before, but he totally blew me away that gig. He played an acoustic solo spot that outgunned any players that use distortion.
My 2nd favorite guitar player behind EVH. He seems pretty down to earth.
Mark you look like a happy kid on a candy store. Although this is a 2013 video Steve's sound is amazing and full of detail.
Steve Stevens is a riff machine, and has had a spectacular career and for all you people who are being disrespectful, well you are all showing what little guitar knowledge you have!
My SS is on the way! It is going to be signed by Mr. Stevens on 4-21-14 and then shipped to me. I am like a kid waiting for Christmas. I wish that I wasn't going to sound like myself (as Mark and Steve report). I wish I was going to sound like Steve. In fact, if Brad King can guarantee that I sound like Steve, I will pay double!! I love SS and MD. What a class act. I don't know if you guys recall, but Steve was one of the few guitarists to record with Michael Jackson. He is a Grammy winner to boot. He is far too under rated and deserves more fame.
What was the cost of this killer head?
Recording with Jackson isn't something to be excited about unless you are into little boys! It sounds very Dangerous to me. Dirty Dian was just a cover for his interest in boys! MJ was a Smooth Criminal!
The Strat sounds beautiful but that Les Paul from beginning to 1:27 is orgasmic! Holy shit that is incredible tone!
Les Paul @ 0.08 you mean? and @ 2:55
I've never heard of nor heard anyone bother to praise Friedman's clean tone but my God, it's great!
+Josh Brown HELL YESSS!!!!!
Might also be Steve's signature Bare-knickles pick-ups... they sound gooood.
WDeeGee1 So far he is just playing single coils in this video for clean tones ..As far as i know steve only has sig humbuckers
Great quote - "the Marshall we wanted the Marshall to sound like". No truer statement.
Watching Steve play is like having a lovely buffet in front of you.
Jeremy Cubs, oh yeah? How so?
What a massive sound. I'm very happy to see an under appreciated player like Steve get some good thrown his way.
One of my favorite guitarists. Always has great tone that compliments the song as a whole. He doesn't "overpower" a song, where all you here is him noodling and playing as fast as he can, like a lot of his contemporaries. Love his style.
Steve is a killer player !!!! always great sound and playing
Man I forgot how good of a player Steve is. You the real MVP.
The #1 Most Underrated Guitarist In Rock & Roll is Steve Stevens. Consistently stellar tone, all the right notes, no drama, never over plays, always adds to to the song - and that thing he does at 3:38... It took me months to get that down. He's one of my favorites.
Steve kills he writes Amazing creative guitar parts and his playing and tone absolutely kill!! oh yeah and he can deliver live 100% of the time! that is all...
Great tone, great licks, great hair.
Steve Stevens such a phenomenal guitar player what an amazing sound of that Friedman
Love the thick ripping sound of it, like tearing clean shreds out of crisp carpet! ;)
SS is a monster player, I could listen to him play all day
Saw a recent clinic with Steve and Friedman here in Detroit the SS100 has an incredible punch and so full sounding also got to talk to Steve a bit about his work with Michael Jackson I asked him about his huge hair in the Dirty Diana video he said MJ made the other musicians go out and get matching wigs lol good stuff.
Always loved this guys playing. Very original style in my opinion! Amp sounds great as well.
I went to that concert VH & Vince Niel...I think it was around 1993....steve did an awesome acuostic solo at this concert...I will never forget it!!!
....but anything Steve Stevens has ever played sounds amazing! Whether it be his old Hammer guitars, Washburn signature models, Les Pauls etc the guy's always had a killer tone
Steve is a monster player, I don't hold a candle, not even close.
another kick ass FRIEDMAN!
very underrated & underappreeshkiated. also happens to be a real sweetheart of a guy...
Great Marshall tones
Such great riffs on the Billy Idol tunes. Awesome tone too.
Mark looks like he took a muscle relaxer and then interviewed Steve. Cold stone stare down!
Unbelievable! Amazing player with an amazing amp.
i just got one of these yesterday. killer, killer amp.
nigeldaddyo Lucky. : D Dam they do sound incredible. Great choice my friend.
+nigeldaddyo How you liking the Amp ? You play gigs or home use only ?
i play gigs. i got rid of it though LOL. i liked the sound of it but then after a few days i broke out my Orange Rockerverb 50 MKii and A/B'd them and to my surprise i liked my tried and true Orange way better. go figure. i don't know if i got a bad SS, but mine sounded nowhere near as good as the video, and i don't play crap guitars either. studio trickery? don't get me wrong it sounded great, but not as good as in this video, or my Orange.
Yeah, studio trickery I say. He says, just a Boss EQ, BAE preamp & compression from the amp. But look at the 3 rack enclosures behind him. Plus you can hear a digital delay every time he stops playing. I think I hear a Harmonizer in there too.
Two of my favorite guitarists
Unreal tone on that LP with dirty channel!
this is the best amp in the market right now i had mesa mar v, dual, carvin,evh,marshall 800,900, jvm, and this amp is best sounding in coparation with the otrers amp. thank you for make this amp.
Steve is so awesome! Everything he plays sounds great. Thanks very much Sam. don't let your detractors get you down.
If he'd only played the Top Gun soundtrack main theme in his whole career, he would still be one of my heroes :)
That clean channel is a beauty. Sounds like a great all around amp.
I've been a Steve Stevens fan forever. Thanks Mark!
Tuned to Eflat here... I had 74 metal pane stockl 100watt marshall and got close but took a hotplate..a full drive in boost mode and a variac. I think I will be buying this. I played the BE-100 and it's nice but this...expensive but fantastic
Great! Mr. Steve Stevens is such a great player!!!
Steves tone is unbelievable i love the thick crunchy overdrive tone he gets so crisp and clean and you can really hear all the notes like he says. Does he get this by running the preamp tubes with less gain and more volume at the power amp stage?
I'm sure its a lot of preamp gain as friedmans are known to sound great any volume. Heard something like there was only little bass in the preamp but a lot in the power section. This and I guess a lot of other reasons ( very well selected parts; cricuits) must be the reason for the great note seperation and tone.That and Steve Stevens playing :D
I agree with you. I don't known what effects he use but i know its not a Les Paul + Friedman
At 3:13, in this right, you can see bargraph and his left a peak led above.
Despite the effects, hats off Mr Stevens ! I play guitar since 30 years and i'm in a position to do 10% of what he do...
"Eyes Without a Face" for the WIN!
don't sell yourself short Mark...been watching your clips for a while now..and you hold your own with the best out there....:)
I love it! Best sounding amp I've heard on UA-cam!
Hey Mark congrats on this new job. I've been thru the whole immigration thing myself. My wife is canadian. It takes a while but u will get what u want. Good luck I'm sure it will work out. :)
Steve Stevens is God !!!!!!!! Everything in his hands sounds great!
Steve Stevens is one of many guitarists who separate the men from the boys. There is no comparison between a guitarist who gigs at the highest level all the time and the fools who think they are their equal just by practicing at home.
He's a badass guitar player and mainly like heavy thrash. His amp sounds badass and so does he.
Maybe because he plays well and is a great guy. He has a bit of history in the music biz as well. That may be why?
this is just freaking fantastic, but man I wish we could get a full run down on how the amp was setup with effects and such. Such stereo definition. Is it wet/dry or effects in the loop? How was it micd and what speakers???
Notice that Steve talks about how amps with the super saturated front end hide the player's character and don't record well. I like a Marshally crunch tone (like a JCM 800, Jubilee, or 900 when operated the right way), and then I hit it with an overdrive. Gain off, level cranked. Tightens it up. Gives it bite.
video starts...*shit eating grin on my face* end of video look at my wallet and begin to cry myself to sleep.
I dont know why everyone likes this guy so much.
Man that was awesome! Great interview and great sounds!
best word i can come up with for the rhythm sound is chewy, it's articulate but full at the same time
Buon far my favourite guitarist
Try Steve's bare knuckle rebel yell pickups, they sound killer in a les paul to my ears. I changed my burstbuckers for it in a heartbeat !
That was brilliant! Steve is one of my fav's (stellar guitar player!!) and that amp sounds amazing. Thanks Mark!
best tone is from 80s era...this amp can emulate it! many modern rectifier type tone can't
Great interview; thanks Mark and Steve!
I'm sure that it, being a Friedman, is a top shelf amp, but I would like to hear what a lowly JVM 410HJS tweaked by the Steve man(his settings) sounded next to it. The internet makes everything sound different. Having a base point would be cool.
steve is a fkn' war machine!
Sweet tone Steve!
Both great players. Nice demo of steve. Btw marks name is not sam. He is in the samhillband.
Excellent Thanks Sam... nice talk, a lot of tips, amazing sound ....
Yeah - but mostly because we were doing it live in the middle of a Billy Idol medley and I had to guess what tempo we would jump in to it at each night...
Prettiest clean sound I ever did hear!
wow, Steve, sounds incredible...sounds like my fav amp....all the best
Damn. That sounds great! Thick and saturated! I would love to hear it with single coils too!
I own a BE100 mk 1 w/ SS mod by Friedman himself and with the right single coil it sounds amazing, the sat switch really gives the single coil some more girth and other switches compliment any instrument; dialing in a lot of great tones.
Killer sound, great playing by a really cool guy!
ok at the end he tells us.. boss eq, i knew i heard some change in sound, though subtle
I expected a great overdrive channel, but the clean channel was unexpected, and it sounds great. Stevens gave those Idol records identity imo.
I bought them mainly to hear the guitar work.
MyworstEnemy Is that his real hair?
Are you asking head hair or chest hair?
Jim McCall
LoL! Clever and Funny Jim!
I met this guy , he is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!
Very enjoyable chat and play session. Relaxed atmosphere helped make it special.
No funny faces on this one though :-).
Great interview thanks Mark and thanks Steve you are Guitar player
Am I the only one who thinks Sir Stevens has one of the sexiest and coolest looking Les Pauls out there?. I mean come one just look at it!
If you ever record yourself, I urge you to listen to your guitar's tone on your recordings right after listening to Steve Steven's tone on this. That's why he's so in demand. Tone: There is no substitute!
Steve Freakin Stevens...love it.
Gotta love the haters that have not a clue.
Thanks for this Mark.
Speechless...
Fantastic interview - playing. - interview
Maybe if it was funny they might have called, which in this case, it wasn't! Killer sounding amp :)
damn that's some great tone.
awesome interview and killer piece. SS is fkn brilliant!!! I need this amp!!!
This sounds amazing. Good work Dave!
Classy guy and a great player.
What a monster player
fuckin great guitarist!!!
This is Great Mark! Such a cool interview :)
Fantastic playing as always. What pups were using in the white stratocaster, if you dont mind my asking?
Killer fucking tone!!!!!
Great job Mark!
Holy fuck I've watched your videos for a while and didn't even realize you did any interviews or anything (mostly just watched your axe-fx videos). Watched this and was digging the playing not knowing what channel it was on. Saw you and went "O_O" hahaha. Awesome interview and sweet amp dude.
Wow Steve is the best👍
man, mirin dat chair too, looks rad!
Les Paul and Steve Stevens.....classy!
Great tones