Good job bro!!! Nearly one month of practicing Johnny's style I'm barely able to cover some songs as such as Blitzkrieg Bop, Rock N' Roll High School, Mama's Boy, Beat On The Brat, I Wanna Be Sedated and Born To Die In Berlin without get tired in the middle of the song lmao it's tough to make it.
Sounds great! You really nailed the Leave Home, Road to Ruin and Rocket to Russia tone. People get hung up on the pickups for JR's sound but really it was more the amp I think. The Marshall JCM 800 2203 with the 1960A cabinets just cranked up. Which is funny because people mostly associate those with metal bands but it works for both with different EQ settings. For punk, you are cranking the gain and the treble until you get that buzzsaw sound. Both times when I saw Marky's solo band or CJ's solo band the guitarists were using Gibson SG's or Les Paul's. The one thing in common was the Amp choice and the playing with only down strokes of course. Here is CJ with Daniel Rey on guitar for some proof. ua-cam.com/video/bsjXb4pOtk0/v-deo.html&ab_channel=WDRRockpalast
Thanks! Made the strap myself by linking two belts (like belts for pants) together and cutting out holes to loop the guitar into and cutting the strap to length. Works well because I can still fine tune the length of the strap in the back where the belt buckle is.
I think I might be partial to the Mosrite style pickup. Which figures since I bought a FS-1 for my build. Then again, I love the sound from the 1980 France show. Or are we being too technical? Haha Didn't JR himself say all guitars sound the same cranked up all the way? Great playing as always. Are you hooked directly into your computer? What program and hardware do you use to do that? I recorded myself recently, and even with my amp up, string noise was an issue.
I prefer the Mosrite sound as well, though I do enjoy the FS-1 tone in a different sort of way. The late '79 shows and early '80 shows are my favorites with that sound, probably because Johnny was still using that original rapid strumming style. In that France 1980 show the guitar is mixed at a good volume, and it's absolutely screaming with the style plus the tone all at once. Sounds really cool. For videos on the channel I'm just running right into my computer with the Behringer U-Phoria UMC1820, which is essentially the same thing as all their UMC interfaces, but it's an 8 track version. I only have that for the sake of recording drums. I plug in as a Line input, and set the input volume to about as high as it will go without ever clipping. I then record the guitar into Logic X, and I generally use plugin types in the following order: - EQ (to tweak or alter the clean pickup sound, and increase or decrease it's output with the gain function) - Softube Marshall amp sim (I just use the plugin for whichever model Johnny was likely using in what I'm covering, typically the Super Lead 1959 or Master Volume 2203) - EQ (to mix down the sound of the post-amp tone. A surprising amount of tone mimicry comes from this EQ and the first one, more so than the amp settings) - Reverb (I always try to mimic the sound of the room or space the original guitar was recorded in, it adds character. HUGE part of the Rocket To Russia tone) - EQ (Sometimes the guitar needs more EQ after the room sound, because the original recording also had EQ added after the room sound was baked into the tone) - Compression (I try to mimic the sound of whatever tape compression and/or mixing/mastering compression was original used) There are rare exceptions to this, but for the most part that is my tone-shaping tool set. Also, string noise used to be an issue for me but it just seems to have disappeared the longer I've played. Also note that sometimes a pickup is too bright and will make the guitar sound twangy and noisy even with tons of gain. The Hallmark '67 pickup I use with the 500K volume pot I have is very bright and strat-like on the top end, so I always dull it with EQ for Johnny style tones. Johnny's Mosrite didn't have a very bright and clear sound, all the prominent treble was from his chords and his amps. You can can get that effect if needed with an EQ plugin or EQ pedal like this Boss GE-7, which is a pedal I use for my strat when playing through actual amps.
That'S sound awesome !!! Perfectly played, like Johnny
Brilliant mate..first Ramones song I learnt on the guitar . Love it! Well done and great to see you back .. MORE 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍
Chewin' out a rhythm on my bubblegum
Sounds great dude!
Good job bro!!! Nearly one month of practicing Johnny's style I'm barely able to cover some songs as such as Blitzkrieg Bop, Rock N' Roll High School, Mama's Boy, Beat On The Brat, I Wanna Be Sedated and Born To Die In Berlin without get tired in the middle of the song lmao it's tough to make it.
Thanks! That's awesome you're working towards it, I'm sure you'll get the stamina down before long
You've nailed it
Sounds great! You really nailed the Leave Home, Road to Ruin and Rocket to Russia tone. People get hung up on the pickups for JR's sound but really it was more the amp I think. The Marshall JCM 800 2203 with the 1960A cabinets just cranked up. Which is funny because people mostly associate those with metal bands but it works for both with different EQ settings. For punk, you are cranking the gain and the treble until you get that buzzsaw sound. Both times when I saw Marky's solo band or CJ's solo band the guitarists were using Gibson SG's or Les Paul's. The one thing in common was the Amp choice and the playing with only down strokes of course. Here is CJ with Daniel Rey on guitar for some proof. ua-cam.com/video/bsjXb4pOtk0/v-deo.html&ab_channel=WDRRockpalast
duuuuude nice, uncommon question: what strap are you using?
Thanks! Made the strap myself by linking two belts (like belts for pants) together and cutting out holes to loop the guitar into and cutting the strap to length. Works well because I can still fine tune the length of the strap in the back where the belt buckle is.
Yeah, the difference between your album isolated track and this is clear, this has less bass, as you said, and a bit more of gain
I think I might be partial to the Mosrite style pickup. Which figures since I bought a FS-1 for my build. Then again, I love the sound from the 1980 France show. Or are we being too technical? Haha Didn't JR himself say all guitars sound the same cranked up all the way? Great playing as always. Are you hooked directly into your computer? What program and hardware do you use to do that? I recorded myself recently, and even with my amp up, string noise was an issue.
I prefer the Mosrite sound as well, though I do enjoy the FS-1 tone in a different sort of way. The late '79 shows and early '80 shows are my favorites with that sound, probably because Johnny was still using that original rapid strumming style. In that France 1980 show the guitar is mixed at a good volume, and it's absolutely screaming with the style plus the tone all at once. Sounds really cool.
For videos on the channel I'm just running right into my computer with the Behringer U-Phoria UMC1820, which is essentially the same thing as all their UMC interfaces, but it's an 8 track version. I only have that for the sake of recording drums. I plug in as a Line input, and set the input volume to about as high as it will go without ever clipping. I then record the guitar into Logic X, and I generally use plugin types in the following order:
- EQ (to tweak or alter the clean pickup sound, and increase or decrease it's output with the gain function)
- Softube Marshall amp sim (I just use the plugin for whichever model Johnny was likely using in what I'm covering, typically the Super Lead 1959 or Master Volume 2203)
- EQ (to mix down the sound of the post-amp tone. A surprising amount of tone mimicry comes from this EQ and the first one, more so than the amp settings)
- Reverb (I always try to mimic the sound of the room or space the original guitar was recorded in, it adds character. HUGE part of the Rocket To Russia tone)
- EQ (Sometimes the guitar needs more EQ after the room sound, because the original recording also had EQ added after the room sound was baked into the tone)
- Compression (I try to mimic the sound of whatever tape compression and/or mixing/mastering compression was original used)
There are rare exceptions to this, but for the most part that is my tone-shaping tool set. Also, string noise used to be an issue for me but it just seems to have disappeared the longer I've played. Also note that sometimes a pickup is too bright and will make the guitar sound twangy and noisy even with tons of gain. The Hallmark '67 pickup I use with the 500K volume pot I have is very bright and strat-like on the top end, so I always dull it with EQ for Johnny style tones. Johnny's Mosrite didn't have a very bright and clear sound, all the prominent treble was from his chords and his amps. You can can get that effect if needed with an EQ plugin or EQ pedal like this Boss GE-7, which is a pedal I use for my strat when playing through actual amps.