Guitar and Amp, How to sound like anyone (the basics) - Part 1
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2024
- A crash course in getting the sound of a guitarist you love. Not in depth and not for the advanced guitarist. This covers how to get most of the way there with gain, pickup and guitar choice.
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Great vid. And I dig your style. Subbed! Looking forward to some more content from you. Rock on, and all the best!
Awesome, thanks Jimmy great to hear. If you have any video requests let me know
This is great, thanks. Covering the bascis for me and how they work together, apprecaited!
I'm jamming a bugera V5 with a couple modifications. This tiny awesome amp makes any other guitar sound just like mine. Hint hint. Look up the 2 simple modifications. Simple stuff
That’s really interesting mate. And you’re becoming good at this youtubing thing.
Cheers big M
Great video.
Nice vid. I guess the only other thing I would add is that the speaker cabinet and choice of speaker can make a huge difference in your tone.
Massive difference. That's one reason I love Impulse Responses. You can drastically alter the sound at mix time.
Great video Rizla 🎸
could have been a seminar
You want to sound like another guitarist simple. Learn their licks and learn them phrase by phrase, every little accent of that guitarists language. A lot of people say they play cover songs note for note and... They don't. Being close isn't enough. Once you have that part down dialing in a tone is easy...
Great advice...
oh yeah, the mighty Neil
You're right that most of the musicians don't use as much distortion as many people believe. Having a good clean sound is important and color that with edge of breakup is how it's done. Metal not included.
Spot on. I've found that a lot of the time, people reach gain knob when it's their fingers that need to be harder
1 thing most ppl dont think about is the sound board eq makes, or whether the signal went through any outboard gear like compressors or preamps etc, not to mention the sound layering adds as well as the sound the tape machine adds, the eqing during mixing and mastering etc. Ppl waste so much time and money on buying crap chasing a tone that they couldve gotten years ago, they just dont know or realize how the tone is shaped not to mention to anyone whos never recorded, an amp tone that sounds amazing in the room to you may sound like shit or not fit in with the band or recording. Its all a piece of the puzzle, get close with using the right guitar/pickups and amp and the most important part CAB/IR. In my experience, which is high gain, cabs make the most drastic differences.
Yep, you're spot on. Even live the sound guy will EQ it, and then you have the room shape etc. The artist themselves don't entirely ever sound the same as the record. I think what most people are thinking of when they want the basic sound is gain and pickup choice.
All I can says is this:
I have a Marshal 50w Super Lead which is I think earlier than 1978 'cos I bought it in Jan 1980 and it was pretty beat up then, lol, but it has only two jack inputs, one marked "high" and one marked "low". I have also lost only one of the knob covers over the years, not three like yours has. Other than that it's identical. The thing sounds incredible but I haven't heard it for maybe 10 years. To get it to sound right it's just too bloody loud. I got a Kemper around then, later an Axe-fx III which is much better and knocks the spots off the Kemper. Cubase and my monitors love my Axe-fx. One day my daughter will maybe sell my super lead for a small fortune after I get round to getting it properly ship shape and Bristol fashion before I croak. As if 🙃.
Yeah, I get folk playing old covers want to chase original tones but to me there only three rules:
1. The only thing that really matters in rock 'n roll is the singer and the song.
2. The tone minutiae of the guitars (or any other instruments) in any song is close to irrelevant. All that matters is how well and sympathetically the parts are played and most importantly how well the song is sung.
3. If you think you've got the right amount of gain (or delay, reverb, chorus etc) you've got at least twice as much as you need. Every single guitar part of every classic rock record you've ever heard outside outright metal stuff and overblown leads is actually somewhere between virtually clean and edge of breakup even if if it doesn't sound like that on the record. Halve everything answering to the description of "gain" and "effect" FTW.
yep, you're right. Personally I'm not a chaser of other peoples tones. If I was doing a cover gig I would just have a good clean and a good drive and yep, the singer matters sooo much more. There are those out there though who love to try and get as close as they can and good luck to em.
To be fair, people ask questions like "how to sound like ____ " because they're beginners and need somewhere to start. A lot of answers online are just snobby wankers "tone is in the fingers", "just Marshall into Les Paul", or talk like they crank 100W heads at home on the regular lol. The right way to effectively relay this kind of information is truly to separately discuss preamp/power gain, EQ, delay, reverb characteristics of a certain tone with specific parameters. I'm a very visual person so when I first started, what finally unlocked my understanding of tone shaping is getting a graphic EQ pedal
Yep for sure. Hope the vid helped you a bit
EQ thats interesting
@@jonlewis63 I started with the Boss GE-7 and turned up +15 dB one frequency at a time and got a better reference point to understand what i was hearing. THEN the usual B/M/T EQ knobs also became much more usable to my ears.
I disagree. EQ is the BIGGEST factor IF you use processors. If you use ONLY an amp and no pedals or processors yes you can do a lot more with the gains. Very few people these days use only a tube amp. I use an old crate g 600 head I got in a good will store for $34, a Peavy tx 810 bass cab I rewired after my last gig playing bass before I got hurt at work and a Digitech RP 500. The EQ in that unit alone is the best thing I have ever used and its so easy to recreate anyones sound with any guitar and any pick up.
I also think by experimenting and finding other players tones and signature sounds you have a broader understanding OF SOUND and therefore makes it easy to dial in what you hear as your own sound in your head at any given moment. Finally using a processor you only need step on a switch and you have easily changed your sound perfectly without having to stop playing or fiddle with the amp.
Over all this video is a pretty good example how to use only an amp but it also highlights the setbacks in sound shape. So you have shown both sides of the coin in a good and helpful manor. Well done sir.
Much appreciated, and thanks for your input! Very helpful and hopefully people read it. The video is actually just aimed at tube amps, I probably could have made that clearer. Yeah the processors are a whole other world too.
@@RizHallowes Oh its obvious you were talking just tube amps to me. It is just this day and age specially younger people are not going for the big stacks like us old dudes did back in the 70's and 80's.
I do miss my 100 watt Marshall Plexi with the pre amp mod I had back in 83-86 when I was on board Nimitz. I got in trouble a few times for cranking it up loud enough submarines with our task group could hear it.
@@borgonianevolution haha, yeah I couldn't imagine surviving without my attenuator. Yeah there is definitely a lot to cover out there with the processors. I might have to sell a few of my 20 odd amps to get one 😆
@@RizHallowes Be sure to test them out before making a decision. So many people hype up a lot of stuff for sponsors or because they are trying to get one.
The most important section isnt the modeling or amp / cab sims. Anyone can toss a recorded copy of crap and name it something. Its how well you can manipulate them is what makes a great processor or a polished 💩 with some super star endorsement.
@@borgonianevolution I did have a Kemper and it wasn't rocking my socks, but there are others I would like to definitely try.
good shit for a channel with 77 subscribers.... I'll make It 78
Much appreciated!
"Hey I can teach you how to get any sound you want! 🤓
First step ☝️: go to the nearest store and spend $20K on a Gibson Les Paul and a '78 Marshall Super Lead"
Hi mate, expensive aside this would be one of the hardest amps on the planet to get any sound from. Part 2 has an amp I bought for $400
Also, if you or anyone wanted the rig I have in this vid it cost $4500 all up for guitar and amp. Very attainable for a number of people
@@RizHallowes still too expensive, mate! That's 1.5 months of salary for an average person in the USA. But I get your point. Cheers! 😎
@@JulioSerrano2015 Yep, understood. Honestly though I think amps for a few hundred bucks sound about 90% as good anyways.
A $500 import guitar (or less used) with two humbuckers and a fixed bridge plus a $1,000 used quality tube amp will be just as good.
If I'm wrong... then replace your pickups and change your speakers to different ones that you like.... then you'll find that I'm right.
Oh you want a boost pedal and an overdrive too. BD-2 Blues Driver for a little extra edge on the chords and a SD-1 Super Overdrive for leads if you are on a budget. Got an effects loop? Buy a delay pedal too.
DONE! Go practice!!!