The guitars of Voivod: Denis "Piggy" D'Amour era - Nothingface, Angel Rat, Dimention Hatross.
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- We discuss the Piggy's pedals, effects, guitars and amps of classic Voivod.
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On NF, Piggy used most of the time his Gibson Les Paul black beauty 1971, sometime he also used his not yet Liberatore guitar, the black one with the floyd rose, I'm saying this cause Piggy used to have his dad sending him bodies of designs that we both work on, the one that look a like BC Rich Warlock/bitch (shark fins), the red one on the Musique Plus video, I have one of those body here, it is the experimental one that Mauro Liberatore give to me for the 25th anniversary of Metal in Quebec, anyway to make a story short Piggy was a freak of modification, me a little less..., he used to take apart everything he own, but sometime with great result, and sometime not, I was saying almost a Liberatore just because, Piggy did not go for the one piece type of guitar until after Nothing Face, prior to that he would simply switch neck constantly on all his guitars, except of course his Les Paul, so for NF, he used that black sharp fins guitar but not with a Liberatore neck yet. Not sure of the brand of the neck, but he bought a bunch at Steve's music store in the 86-87, maybe Warmoth or something else, but it was always the Jackson style..., that I remember. On that Black one he had a white Dimarzio Super Distortion on the bridge position with a black Seymour Duncan quarter pound but set in the middle position not the neck, nothing for the neck position. I remember asking why and he just say it sounded better that way and didn't need a pickup for the neck position. I will send you a photo of the black body that I have here, you will see what happen when you do experimentation, he was so intuitive that guy, miss him for that. That is something we had in common for sure.
We had 6 Marshall back then, we used two each live and two for spare. Piggy probably used one of the JCM 800 2203 (with active fx loop mod) pretty much all the way, using 1960 cab with 75 I think. We re-wired them all to get them to 16 ohms instead of 8 ohms, they sounded much better, also we put a bigger wire gauge! As for the mics, it was pretty normal, Glen used 57 and 906 at close mic for the guitar blend them together, he used the Neve pre-amp 1081 and some Focusrite Forte Blue ISA 110 pre-amp as well. For FX it was his regular setup SPX 90 II for harmonizer and Ibanez DM1000 (dark gray) or perhaps the 1100 (white gray), I do have his 1000 here, he also had a 500 earlier. He love those DM so much, he used them all the time, we had fun with those too, making crazy tapes. Live he used to split his two amps setup with one DM, using the inverse mix, always pushing the phase inversion so much that drove our soundman Mike Amstadt crazy each time, but is sounded very good too, so big! I think he stick with that way after I left the band in 92.
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Piggy is the greatest and most innovative rock guitarist that this world had the privilege to witness. Rock on forever, Denis!
Agreed. He was criminally underated.
No one ever talks about him and I'm just looking around seeing if people are seeing what I'm seeing
RIP Piggy, I saw you in the 80s/90s at Stone SF, The Justice League, Berkeley Square & other venues I forgot the name of cause I was drinking alcohol at the time, I loved the way you used that outerspace kids toy gun with the lights & sparkling sparks, as a special effects on your guitar, sick, I miss you, good times CRY!😭⸸⁶⁶⁶⛧🤘
Piggy is everything to me. He's taught me everything I know about guitar, made me abandon everything I knew before I knew him, and he does so every couple years, I'm just so thankful to the universe that I've found him. Every single riff from War And Pain to Infini (and even beyond, because Chewy is like the second coming of Piggy, nobody else could do that style better) is like a handbook to me and it will probably stay that way for the rest of my life.
Thank you Owen and mad, mad props for recreating that legendary tone we all know and love.
Yep Piggy is a one off. Taken way too soon.
A REVOLUTIONARY......NO ONE was doing what he did before him..🤘🤘👊👊...
And Dan Mongrain....Just Master Class..❤❤
Same here, man, Destruction and Kreator taught me to hit it, Piggy taught me to make it sing.
I bought Angel Rat casssette from the bargain bin in HMV in 91/92 that tape didnt come out of my walkman. I love that album. I still listen to it now.
You can tell it's a piggy riff after 5 seconds, that what makes great guitarist. He really has his signature.
Jean-Yves is so cool and approachable. Check out his new band, Coeur Atomique, 2 basses, full on awesomeness. Great Video, I'm extremely proud to be from Montreal, because it's Voivod's second home town. In canada, metal heads have a saying that screaming Voiiiiiiiiiiivod is the Canadian equivalent of yelling Slaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyer.
Very good taste on this channel here! I Love Voivod - Nothingface is without a doubt one of my top 5 albums ever. Rip Piggy.
Cheers John. It was a huge loss.
Outer Limits remains the best Voivod album IMO. Killing Technology is the one I go for when I want some thrash. Class band.
Great video dude, piggy was the architect of the unique voivod's sounding, mixing the rawness of punk and the complexity of prog rock
The VoiVod guitar sound was so inspiring to me when we had a band in the late 80s and early 90s (Vomit / Norway)
Playing notes that really don't fit together, and still making it fit was so cool. A new dimension 🍻
Agreed. So original.
Outstanding! Thanks, Owen. And thanks, Blacky!
Cheers!
Great job man. It's fortuitous that I just freed up a FastPiggy sized spot on my pedalboard, and I really dug what I was hearing out of it. Plus, a purchase supports Blacky.
Awesome video man, broke out my angel rat CD and man I can’t believe that I forgot how great that album is. One of my favorite albums of that whole time period, not just the band.
It's so so good. Great headphone material.
Waking up to see a new Circle Of Tone is a great way to start the day. Much love for VOIVOD, much love for Circle Of Tone. Going to rewatch this a few times now. Thank you and Blackie for making this happen!
Cheers Blake.
Congratulations daddio 👍😉
Thanks John.
BACK WHEN MUSIC WAS TRUE ART.
One of my favorite guitarist of all time.
Brilliant job m8. I couldn't hope for a better choice. Piggy has been one of the most innovative and creative guitarists ever.
Nothingface is one of the most important albums not just in metal but MUSIC
Agreed.
YEEEEES. Underrated guitarist and band
Congrats man, and thanks for this! Love Voivod, these guys were always so underrated... Rrröööaaarrr!!!!!!!!!! =D
20:45 Sepultura :) Very great job on the tones. I love Voivod since their first LP.
Hi, thank you for this video and the other in the series, they are very helpful, especially for those who want to search a different sound from the modern style (not meaning to copy one of these great bands, but to learn a few tricks and experiment and mix them).
I would love to see episodes about some more underground bands, they are very rare on youtube while everybody seems to know how to reproduce the ride the lightening tone, I would love to know how Malevolent creation made the ten commandments tone, or the setup of modern Inquisition.
Aside from this, it's not a request, more like a wish, but there are two albums/bands tones that I obsessed over even before starting to play the guitar, Artillery's By Inheritance and Mekong Delta's Dances of death / Kaleidoscope era. They both sound unique and distinguishable and for sure some of it it's thanks to the song composition and technique, but some it's in the guitar tone.
I've searched around but never found enough information to reproduce these albums tone, so if you (or anybody) knows what they were using and which settings, I would be extra grateful.
Glad you like the vids man. I kinda have to sell out a bit so covering smaller bands is on the back burner for a while. Great suggestions though.
Great video.
Love Voivod.
I saw them many times and even got to speak with Piggy. Super nice guy yet super soft spoken.
That's awesome. Wish I could just met him.
At that show it was late 90s and he used his green Ibanez 7string.
Like this
iheartguitarblog.com/2016/01/rare-green-ibanez-universe-on-ebay.html
Not quite there, but damned close, sir! I think if you could figure out his tuning, you'd probably be right there. Thank you for this amazing video! Piggy is one of the most criminally underrated guitarists in music, full stop.
RIP, Denis "Piggy" D'Amour! May you continue to inspire new players throughout the ages! TO THE DEATH! !m!
Good to see you back. I had my first child at the end of Feb. What a shitfight the world has become since then... and now shes teething lol.
Hope youre doing well old boy.
Hehe. Yeah it's been a strange year but well worth it.
Dennis Supreme paicodelic guitar science fiction guitarrist Legendary Unique..!!
Nice Raketkanon shirt, man! Such a great band, shame they recently called it quits.
Great video, as always too.
Thanks man. I did a vid on Raketkanon ua-cam.com/video/Sa2LKZsk4po/v-deo.html
@@CIRCLEOFTONE Oh I didn't know! I'll check it out, thanks. Always loved their atypical sound.
Now that's what I'd call thorough research! Nice one👍
Cheers Don
On the Eric Forrest era, Piggy used a Recitfier distortion.
So rad!
It's really awesome that you got the experimental model Piggy Guitar Body. How cool is that?
Blacky owns it but it's really cool either way. Hehe
@@CIRCLEOFTONE call me crazy, but I just bought 2 Ibanez DM1100's, a Digitech Smartshift ISP33 and a 2 Yamaha SPX90 II Digital Multi-Effects Processors along with and a Boss SDM. I heard you mention something about I 95, I live in the Tampa area, if you ever needed to borrow anything let me know. I don't quite have the marshalls but I should get it pretty close.
@@tommyhahn4525 I used to live on West Waters Ave. Hehe. Brass mug is amazing.
Proud to be a Sausage.
I like all their stuff but Rrrroooaaarrr through Nothingface is my favorite period.
My bass distortion pedal is based on the Blower tone. Only thing to dethrone the Rat from my bass rig.
What pedal is?
@@borisbecker6433 Idiotbox Blower Box.
@@riffsnoleads Thanks man! I'm looking for a Idiot box now, but here in Argentina are very rare and expensive :/ So I will go for a pre amp for my bass and a compressor for the same price
Piggy's great. Most shredders are a dime a dozen, but piggy did something different.
How do you top the video on Iron Maiden? Do one on Voi Vod! This was about the era when I first started listening and getting into Voi Vod. I never heard anything like them and haven't since. They are one of my favorite "abstract" sounding bands. Different and strange but in an awesome and interesting way. Thanks for your time and research you do and sharing the info on these videos. Looking forward to many more!
Thanks Greg. Piggy was amazing because he did have an original style but still had an ear for a memorable hook.
what a great video! subscribed!
Thanks man. Glad you liked it.
Hell yeah
Great video, top research!
Voivod will play Nothingface in its entirety on May 30 2021. Check it out here:
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Epic
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the yamaha spx90.. the infamous my bloody valentine delay/ reverb
Good to know!
Panorama!
The Blower Bass pedal sounds better lol
Peggy sound like Alex Lifeson. I can hear some influence for sure
Yep definitely hear that
dude! this is too much for me in one day
26th.
Please do The Prow!
@@brian13451 amazing song
hey, you wanna be in a voivod uk BAND?
Piggy was genius