Academy Of Tone #156: Authentic Hendrix Tones

foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] but wonder why the Bible [Music] just as the axes [Music] [Music] very young all the emotions [Music] just ask for the axes [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] everything [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] yeah welcome to Academy of tone 156. this is about authentic Hendrix tones and um I have already done a couple of episodes on that topic Jimi Hendrix as we all know Jimmy is probably the most influential electrical guitar player of all times um being the one that had a lot of influences combined like blues and rock and singer songwriter and you know great songs great lyrics this song axis bold is love just check out the lyrics There's this very intense and Arty stuff um besides that he's of course that big Guitar Hero with you know it's stage presence and things like that so Jimi Hendrix um I mean we all know from you know the icon Jimi Hendrix um things like that and by the way thanks for one of our Jimmy faces here Jimmy well maybe there's one here you want to get this here Jimmy 3D 3D printed Jimmy this oh okay he he couldn't see the 3D prints anymore but um today is again a bit more about his tone um here's Jimmy and um again about his tone it's not about the effects so much it's more about the authentic basic tone and I came across the idea for this episode since I had access to this beautiful Paul with Smith hdrx 20. all tube head that claims to be like a son of a marshall super leads that Jimi Hendrix was playing at the Woodstock Festival well this amp let's see this looks maybe a little bit better in the camera yeah yeah um so this amp is kind of a mini head it's a bit heavier than some of the smaller mini heads I think 11.5 kilograms um and it's using two unusual tubes in the output stage which is the 5881 tubes these tubes have a bit more Headroom so compared to the classic mini head Power Amp tubes like el-84s this amp yeah it's more solid and I kind of like that 20 watt version there is also a 50 watt version and 100 watt version of Paul Rich Smith Ms um my question is do you really need that 100 Watts um because I think those are rather solid with that can kind of power amp in probably a little bit stiff in that 20 watt version I think Paul red Smith has found kind of a sweet spot it's a compact amp it sounds great it does the trick of the Plexi and it's um it is I would say pretty authentic we dive into this in a couple of minutes so this is the amped gave me the idea for today's episode and of course we can compare it to some other M's here in the room and [Music] um quite interestingly also too my amp1 Mercury Edition and I let you know how to set that up to sound authentic Hendrix um it's a thing that some people know but it's a thing that I realized 10 times even the last even with one week 10 times when I give some guys the hints like oh man now the M1 is totally my you know blah blah blah um but talking about that a little bit later before we dive into the sounds let me talk about the birthday people there's link Ray and um that his song Rumble uh was a big big inspiration for rock music in general because it was so mean and when I was flying to The NAMM Show a couple of weeks ago two three weeks ago um I was watching that movie Rumble which explains the well the history of American rock music and the backgrounds you know with who inspired who and how the whole thing came together to what we now know as the rock music a little bit more from that I would say American background and this guy and his I mean it's it's so simple and it's so mean it's it's killer I mean maybe you know it um I know that Jimmy Page is also a big fan of that but it's like [Music] foreign [Music] you know AC DC isn't that far of that thing but just imagine like 20 years earlier uh link Ray was doing that we have a little clip for you [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] it's such a minimalistic song and it's a yeah it just gives you an example that you can make great music without big technique this was the minor pentatonic and four chords e d a and B7 um okay the other guy his birthday is tomorrow is Dick Dale he is probably the master of that surf guitar um yeah anyway it's um it's also interesting to listen to those old influences again just um for the flavor there's there's a real attitude in that music that we sometimes forget about when we do all of our you know brilliant tech technical exercises and stuff and whatnot so sometimes it's about the vibe well check out that dick Day clip we have for you [Applause] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] that Reverb tank hit and beats the spring reverb um yeah I think that's uh the music that requires a real spring roll anyway these were our birthday boys um before I do the nerdy stuff one more thing [Music] um um well nerdy stuff last Friday I went to Switzerland to see maybe some of you guys have seen that um post of oyger with his bad boy so the bad boy is not here anymore tonight we see the Hendrick my Hendrix board in the Shelf between the marshals and the bad boy is back with oyega and he's so happy and we have you know the MX and yeah here it is now the bad boy is in the MX um we actually have two airbags I have to and you have none um yeah working on it um okay that was an experience again okay all the driving and then sound design it's intense but the good thing is I know that MX is capable of doing that thing with no compromise and that we have the authentic identical tone controls to the original amps something that camper just released for their profiling process I think they call it liquid or something liquid profiling so they they go next level which is something I think it's necessary um for their technology to move on but when we release MX we will be there anyhow and we are all analog and we have no latency we have no eliasing we have no artifacts so yeah you will see okay and finally the last thing for the housekeeping is I have a guitar seminar in about two weeks in here in Germany in Kentucky which is kind of um for the international standard it would be not too far from Ramstein Air Base that everybody on this planet knows where all the Russian nuclear bombs are targeting too um so yeah there's my dear colleague Thomas Langer who is actually a camper demonstrator [Music] and myself will have like a three-day seminar with tons of things and there's uh most places are already um occupied so there's three places left for those who are interested there is a website you can see here and maybe you can contact them because I'm not doing that many master classes or clinics [Music] and people usually ask me and then it's like okay too late because every maybe I do one every year or not even so okay so that's the the master class option um reading comments here agree technically versus Joy I'm not a professional guitarist from it recently acquired a newbie base yeah playing along simple tunes and backing tricks you know sometimes it is you know I'm a nerd and probably some of the guys watching tonight are also the total nerds they will go you know you can't play Hendrix on a headstock that is not you know like this and put the strings this way and the bridge pickup should be that way because of course it affects um the overtones of the strings um if it's angled like that it's different from if it's angled like that um because the closer you get to the bridge the more treble or the more overtones you get and if that's not exactly how Jimmy was doing it you will never get there so just from the starting point this guitar looks like it but it's wrong because the bridge pickup is not as on Jimmy's the thing that I've done on this guitar is I used his string sets so the whole guitar is tuned down to E flat like half step down and then I have a special mix of strings that I found in the internet that he should have been using uh yeah for for a while which is weird it's tense 13. um for the B string 16 for the G string 26 for the D string 32 a and 42 for the low E string um it's whatever it's it's slightly different I heard also that he even played lighter strings and we heard Jimmy being Out Of Tune quiet a lot of times um but anyway these are the strings that I put on this guitar and it feels different from what I play usually but it feels good it makes sense so there's nothing wrong about this kind of string set okay then when we look at the tones in Jimi Hendrix world when when we listen to the records we can hear a lot of different amps there are Fender amps of course there are he used anything available and any effect available because he was a very creative person with a lot of visions and every tone was inspiring to him and like the Leslie on little wing and you know tricks here and there and the stereo mixing done in the studio not with the good times but one example that I love the most is from the electric ladyland album that Voodoo Child um version not the one with the Wawa that we all know the one that is the blues version with the organ I think um what's the organ player uh also great singer and guitar player somebody knows put in the comments had some hits in the 80s too tell about it higher love with Chaka Khan on backing wolves what's his name anyone knows nobody knows um this was the young playing the organ on that track but anyway um let's [Music] in that track he had that super dark Steve Winwood thank you Stefan bear Stefan Mario yes Mario's back [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign so this is what I when you maybe you know the original one and the sound is for me the biggest Electric guitar blue sound I've ever heard and it's partially also the room what I'm doing right now is I'm using the Mercury Edition with the built-in Reverb so it's the triple simulation that's not a room you know this guitar amp is that dry and just uses the built-in Reverb and not that beautiful dark sounding room but um I used my stack 1970 and that's something which is using green bags and those green bags have 55 Hertz and that's again something darker than other cabinets [Music] for change I go to the 67th [Music] foreign [Music] back to the 70. [Music] I think that cabinet has that big wide open low end uh because it's actually the 55 Hertz were made for bass and when I listened to the interview of Paul Reid Smith who had a very deep slightly American Marketing fueled propaganda speech on his amp he was raving about yeah Jimmy wanted that extra low end and blah blah blah I always had a favor of that low end to myself but [Music] um from what he heard in from his sources um and even investigating that original Woodstock amp uh he said that a lot of things were into creating a bit more bass than the usual super lead voicings of the marshals [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign so this was just to get me uh into the vibe of Jimmy and you know talking about the the Hendrix amp that is probably not the Super lead that was used on Woodstock um which is probably the one that is used earlier um might be the amp used on Hey Joe it is a GTM 100s which is like a GTM 45 but with that double output stage and that amp has a lot of compression and not so much gain and Jimmy was using you know big sounding big and warm sounding amps and then having you know his fast and wide pedals and the warmer pedal and Octavia um you know his his pedals but the foundation was always especially on live situations if available those big 100 watt Marshall heads and of course he played different M's on different festivals but he played loud we all know that no prisoners and he controlled everything with the guitar and so one thing on those classic Marshalls is and that's what I love about those amps as well they have a very solid huge big tone that moves a lot of air um I can show you my GTM jtm PA amp ypa the PA compared to Super lead has inputs that have more bass and I was not modifying um two of the channels on that PA amp because I wanted to have that extra full low end no shelf no low cut um so that's the thing when we look at plexis like this one or this you know vintage Marshalls we can see they do have several inputs they do have a low input they have a high input you can Bridge them like here on my my face um and then you can blend both channels together and get a nice balance between the low end and the high end and if I can't believe paulred Smith with his story and his imp um there is the foundation um of the tone also in the mix of the two volumes here they have kind of a low volume and a high volume and the British ring is inside and then you have the two volume controls to to kind of blend I I'll show this a bit later um just for a change I will go and see if my Thomas Marshall is uh wait a minute on this channel and it's plugged in that's good so we don't fire it up and kill it all right here what's going on I'm not sure [Music] no this should be working but it isn't okay anyway let's start with the Portland Smith then first I hope I don't up all my M's here I actually didn't check them before I came to let's make sure there is a speaker connected here there's a speaker lip connect foreign [Music] jtm not working give me a second because I will follow the cable into my switching system and the switching system says maybe maybe not where is the input side is here and it's okay I know this is okay wait a minute uh that's weird where's this going to this going to three uh-huh yeah okay and that's definitely not which cable is this I just don't want to kill anything aha [Music] ah it's the blue one okay suck so horrid Smith's working and okay it's noisy but where's my input that means somewhere the cable is open just a sec sorry guys and this is here uh that's as well no two is correct this was one goes into nowhere I think we have another amp hmm no come on okay I need a long cable for that one I just followed a cable I know what to do okay sorry guys table here goes into here goes into there goes here and where is it here should I strike all right I got it it's it was moving here it is okay plug it in one two three one two three that's the one one two three and now [Music] okay sorry um so that's now a 100 watt Plexi [Music] wow for me that's Magic listen to that [Music] thank you [Music] and that's real tube Distortion as you can hear it farts out a little bit but you can hear how big and warm that amp sounds okay and this is the unmodified side of um let's compare that to the porridge Smith all right foreign [Music] foreign [Music] so the first one is your low volume [Music] but that's natural we will find this same character on any Marshalls on the low input and this is the treble input a bright capacitor the lower you set the the volume on this channel [Music] the more you can enhance the highs with that switch intense by the version [Music] so and just for fun switch off the Reverb on the AMP one and [Music] foreign [Music] yeah there's that big tone aha but what I didn't show you is I'm cheating this is a remote one and I'm on low gain mode in the Vintage Channel so that's the thing the magic about low gain let me show you I put the gain of the Vintage channel on 10. and then I the low gain mode and this control now is my new gain control [Music] clean it up [Music] thank you back to the portraits Miss [Music] the Marshall to me is the King in this room because it's 100 Watts real Plexi this is the thing why people pay 10 000 for that that warmth [Music] okay [Music] back for the poor it's missed [Music] it's not bad but [Music] of course it starts to break up a bit earlier because it's not that Headroom of 100 watt ear 34 tube amp it's the 50 a 58 81 tubes which give you 20 plus Watts [Music] and then my M1 [Music] so you can hear that the M1 has more Headroom um maybe I should be a little bit more fair and don't have that real Plexi as the reference because it's well it's 100 watts and we can't really compare 100 watt tube amp to a 20 watt tube amp so let's try and dial the best tone in with a Paul Reed Smith using all that is available to do that and then see where we are okay I keep the Mexican out of the way and switch to the [Music] now we are on the Pirates mess okay let's see what I can [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] so as you can hear anything post five will Overdrive the output stage because that's the end of 20 watts of course it can be nice so no complaints about that just to mention that um I want to show you a little bit What's Happening Here in the amp there is a master volume which means you can [Music] have a kind of nice overdrive sound at lower volumes actually controllable so that function is I think very important for most guys that want to Gig to have a master volume because to tame a Plexi is a big challenge but for the Ultimate Sound I like to have the power amp more or less at the edge of breakup so you know where the the power amp is breathing style back the preamps a touch [Music] I use the what is it the middle around six and [Music] for the base there is a like a mid Focus switch here for the tone controls [Music] if it's down it's like darker foreign [Music] I believe that's more authentic Hendricks and if it's up it's kind of a really like more in your face [Music] more modern version of that but anyway [Music] [Music] presence [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] just for you guys to compare there is a voodoo wipe Roger Maya [Music] sounds a lot more open one reason for that is I took out one transistor that did some weird kind of buffering effects that is not needed and it was clearing up compared to the deja Vibe it's open but I was also on the dark mode of the digital Vibe if you go for the bright mode foreign [Music] dark one [Music] thing about Hendrix is um it is great to have that low end and it's great to have that Rich Darkness okay um that's why I kind of like that dark position on that good old Deja vibe unfortunately that company went bankrupt full tone um yep I have a few of those pedals from Fulton and I did great stuff it's old but gold [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] and I always was looking for that with the docks which uh it's it's more obvious like [Music] this the treble kind of more important they get more important and then it's kind of getting Shifting the balance and you know coming from below and then kind of molding the tones from that world big fat Souls is what I kind of liked and maybe Jimmy did too in a way but he also had all these aggressive you know uh foreign [Music] yeah so that's the Paul with Smith HD rx20 um do we have any questions on on this M for now um well if we talk about like a Lunchbox amp for that traditional Plexi tone I think that's an option so I want to be fair here on the other hand AMP one is an option too hey um and it's the AMP one and it has the Reverb thank you but anyway um any questions or other guys talking about MX later later later um what's going on here I managed to have more mess with less gear what's going on there over for uh I don't find this discussion here Thomas it's my first time for your live stream I hope you can share what's up King promise for your brand I is I am assuming that a major of us watching this Gearheads uh create by playing by the way okay piotra Jan Nikki so this is where I start on my screen because I um I hope you can share what is upcoming product wise of course what's upcoming is ampx everybody waiting for MX MX I have been has been in the making for several years I showed a study in 2020 and we've been through a few prototypes you could watch more episodes on that but this is a I would say game changing products because it's all analog like AMP one but having the options of modern digital technology like features that we only know from modeling amplifiers but with my puristic Approach of making no compromises and this is why it takes forever we get something that will hopefully stand the test of time that's coming product wise besides that you should be aware of the the product range of blue guitar which is the M1 Mercury Edition the one that I'm having here which I used for the intro song and to compare those classic tones I have seen a little comment from somebody can I do the Hendrix stuff also on the Iridium Edition and not really I tell you why because the Iridium Edition is not so authentic because it's lacking that low end muddiness that vintage quality um it is you know it's voiced to be tighter it's voice to be not as dirty in a way it's sturdy in the modern way so that's what's different is um I see the last comment here from Nico's politis Hey Thomas is this PRS more a super Elite or a Super Bass sound this is a super lead sound um the super lead also features the two inputs like that treble input and that base input and um I was kind of blending the two input volumes to find that perfect what I thought was perfect um balance between the two inputs to make it sounds rich with that guitar okay let's switch for the forward Smith again uh no that's the Marshall that's the power Smith but hey what is the difference in a super lead and a Super Bass it's actually one capacitor that rolls off that um low end and that's why if you want to change a Super Bass into Super lead it's I have to double check but I think it's one or two capacitors only there's not much much difference and the PA Marshalls like my Plexi here they um have again another thing the good thing about the PA Marshalls they have more knobs and more inputs because they have like four um controls so I modded my Thomas jtm to be all Originals on these two inputs and then have an 800 jcm 800 circuit in that original Plexi platform because it's so warm you know last week when I was at Oregon Valley veterans place he was all about in your face Hard Rock not different story I'm all about warmth and that's coming from that jtm and the final [Music] so this is how that sounds [Music] oh [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah that's why people love plexus because they sound warm and Rich and of course they do break up but this is another quality that huge fed nice great clean sound okay now let me show you how I can get to that quality on my amp one switch on F1 I could do the clean Channel but I rather use that vintage channel on low gain and this is foreign [Music] okay to get there I make I make a brutal thing I just put the tone control in the middle base in the middle middle in the middle treble in the middle okay and the amp1 is shipping like this this would be your vintage Channel let's turn down the volume a little bit so you hear only preamp [Music] so to me that's a great Channel that's my personal favorite Channel and I'm using it exactly like it said now it's as it ships it's on standard and I cranked again and I even used the Boost and I have all you know that you know gain on tap and I can use it with the guitar and that's the way I play live but to be authentic what I do now I just um use the low gain mode um there is a setting inside every M1 Mercury Edition which you can access easily I show you let's get rid of the remote so we just have the AMP one as as it ships and this is the amount of gain you get [Music] from that vintage Channel and what happens now when you reduce the gain on that vintage Channel it increases the treble because there is kind of a bright cap connected to that gain [Music] foreign [Music] foreign it has its own quality but it's a different tone this is kind of more like a Vox tone when I go you know and have the gain at that low setting super nice shimmering High ends but this has nothing to do with Jimi Hendrix and that darkness and that low end and that fullness um a different quality [Music] how to get less treble you switch off the AMP one you press and hold the Boost switch while you hold it while switching it on and then we should have less gain [Music] now I can increase the gain a bit more [Music] sound okay the value that is put into the low gain settings that you get from that standard factory setting that I've done here is just reducing a tiny bit it's meant to make my kind of hot um Plexi sound cranked into a woodier version of that same sound but not changing all the character what I'm doing right now is I'm using the remote it could be done by midi as well in case you don't have a remote because we are sold out on remotes so now the remote is plugged in and it takes over and what happens now is I can do all the switching from here and I can dial in the gain and I'm on the Vintage Channel now the game is full [Music] okay this is how it sounds let's put it on 10 exit out if I press and hold the Boost switch and it blinks that dial becomes a second game and cleans up that vintage shadow [Music] foreign [Music] [Laughter] yeah and there is your Plexi on the edge of breakup okay the gain control here full but the gain reduced here I could actually store that value to the Vintage Channel disconnect the remote one and you have that sound with you if you just take the M1 with you okay this was kind of my back end to modify amp once to my liking or for my friends you can find all this how it's done on our blogypedia.com under low gain mode step by step in instructions how to do that [Music] um here I just want to show you the Sonic differences in the settings and [Music] I think that's the tone that you get from a Plexi clean no the the Vintage channel is a vintage I like it as a Plexi um just don't have it as much gained here if I would reduce the gain on the on this style here on the AMP one there's the treble bleed and then it's getting too bright for that Jimmy tone okay I hope you got that [Music] so again this is my um M1 [Music] that's the part with Miss [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] if it's still too bright let's gain here [Music] [Applause] [Music] pirate Smith [Music] foreign [Music] as you can see I can get very close and it's just reduced gain EQ flat that's it so anyway and back to the JDM [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] yeah killer [Music] back to M1 [Music] [Applause] okay and back to the part with Smith [Music] yeah they're all nice there's a bit more Headroom on the 100 watt amps compared to the 20 watt amps but hey you need to have a big stage to be able to enjoy that so the settings again on the AMP one fairly simple gain Max Master kind of Max uh put it there every tone control in the middle position maybe a touch less treble put it to four and there we go foreign [Music] [Music] basically six is a good number here so the first dial is on six the second one is on six kind of let's put it on six and the master on six as well so it breaks up a bit and here what is this is this the base it's treble mids and bass everything thing on on six besides more presence that's kind of three o'clock so [Music] yeah that's that's that tone and the jtm is actually also well the base is similar to Smith which means there's more bass eight mids kind of six treble is less is 5.5 and the volume is uh on the edge of breakup it doesn't get any louder but it's that sweet spot um [Music] foreign [Music] yeah there's my M1 in that Headroom or if I want more bass I still have a little bit more bass on the M1 but simple recipe so please show us how to get the same sound with clean on the AMP one okay um let's probably get to a more standard volume um step by step I simply press the channel switch I'm only AMP one and there's my clean Channel so if I put the volume on 10 I have no treble make sure that I get a little bit of treble from the custom control so I put that all the way up [Music] and to get such a rich tone it's kind of a hot driven Plexi you know we were always on the edge of breakup I would simply use the Boost switch on the Boost maybe I start with the crank boost cranked let's see okay [Music] okay it's probably a little bit too bright to go back to what what we have just heard I just press this [Music] it's the Vintage Channel [Music] zero gain [Music] and now I switch for clean engage to boost [Music] I would reduce the gain here as well a touch [Music] to Middle position here and we get there okay that's the puristic approach with Master very high because that's now let's be a little bit more realistic friendly stage volume for a normal band would be four to five I play from five to six but let's put it there so now we [Music] with this kind of setting I can have more so this is something that would be kind of neutral with the master volume I just simply put the clean volume all the way up to 10. I have the custom control all the way up to get some high-end but to get to the edge of breakup I would use the boosts with the strap probably a little bit too hard put it in the middle and this should be it [Music] foreign [Music] control kind of in the middle so [Music] okay anyway that's the kind of setting if it's too bright we could use clean tone here on the custom control and then [Music] it's all the way out up so it's kind of a bit it's brighter but yeah it's some kind of in between [Music] [Laughter] [Music] okay I read a few comments here um Hendrix wood and Hendrix wood and ac30 Vox just joking okay ac30 is a kilo amp but Hendrix I think he didn't use use it um which amp would hand fix take if he would live today of course MX because it's done by a nerd for a nerd and I I'm sure he would enjoy effects like that but he would probably go crazy with a lot of gear that is around he he will you know Octavia and all that stuff he would have a a whammy pedal you know he would he would be modern with this kind of stuff amp wise I think he would like he would like the X and in his age if he would be still alive he would even like the AMP one because it's easy to carry you know he would be an old man so that's Jimmy's choice and maybe you know our little advertising Jimmy's little secret that uh we've done as a joke because you know I love those plexis that Jimmy played so much myself that there's a lot of the um DNA of plexus in my M1 so in blue guitar amps in general um yeah Jimmy's little secret but let me yeah um let me show you again the beauty of that vintage channel on low gain mode because it's like you know we just had that kind of sound in our ears from the clean Channel and that tone you get at any volume okay master independent um just crank it give it a boost and yeah have some tone here now back for the Vintage Channel without a boost and the low gain setting here this is what we can foreign that's an outstanding Rich authentic Hendrick Stone to me [Music] oh [Laughter] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you yeah this is the Octavia or dramea Hendrix technician yeah it's that octaphas and I'm using the treble of the neck pickup all the way down to get that sweet sounds [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so this was the sound of the Vintage Channel and the wipe kind of a uni vibe in front of that on the dark mode again back to the beginning dark is King because that if the low end starts to overdrive it gives you that huge massive masculine thank you foreign I have it slightly higher than for the puristics tone because now it's cranking the amp you know it's kind of this would actually be the the Marshall on my PA like clean [Music] and it farts out a little bit just a touch and that's an M1 and this is using all that dirty magic that I learned from Marshall M's [Applause] crank Marshall tone and bring in that Vibe and then we are there [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yeah it is that crank Marshall tone I love so much anyway and that Royal Albert Hall I would call that the Royal orbit Hall a lousy version of that okay uh any questions okay somebody saying bought four seven one two he thinks that the the the boundary of or the the future of sound design is to ex you know exceed the the limits of tube amps and to step into another level somehow I agree but not really let me try to explain why um the the tube amps we have seen in the past they made a long history from being clean to Roundtree like what we just heard like cranked Power Amp saturation then clipping in everything input blah blah blah and then there came the next level of more gain and controlled and different uh characters and harder sounds and Tighter sounds and whatnot um the thing about tube amps is you find in tubes almost anything you need to create great sounds I mean you think you find soft clip because that's the thing that tube magic is all about but you also find hard clip if you change the way the tubes work you get a nice hard clip and you can combine those and with anything you do on those circuitries I think you can cook any imaginable sound my Creed is I don't need those good old standard tubes I can replace some of those standard tubes with different circuit trees that do the same thing like this those tubes but I don't see limitations in that kind of technology in that analog technology or in that uh Tube Technology or call it solid state technology in that analog technology there are things in the digital side that cannot be done on the analog side or with crazy crazy um efforts which don't make any sense so there's a good thing about digital technology and when we look at guitar tones we see more and more digital stuff coming into play not only for usability but also for effects like that Whammy you know there is no tube whammy pedal because that effect is digital so that's my how to say that's my respect for digital technology there's nothing wrong about digital technology you just have to use the right technology for what it's doing best so there's things that digital technology is superior and there is there are things that analog technology is superior and I'm trying to combine best out of both worlds and create something there so I I can see kind of the marriage of both Technologies getting to the next level to the next Frontier and this is what we are doing with MX um the question is what are your expectations do you want the weirdest and up and and most distorted sounds ever or do you want that rich and warm natural organic tone and of course you can strive towards different directions so that's a matter of taste this is that's an art to make sound design on amplifiers or pedals or for your guitar in general um yeah um I'm interested in getting my sounds all in that format because having my sounds at hand like in an M1 or in an MX makes me use them more easily you know back in the old days I had one of those amps with me in the studio and then another amp but not the whole collection and with MX I will be able to have my whole collection with me and no compromise that compromise thing is not my thing so for me that will free me up to do things and here comes the thing for me once I have all these DNA's in my amp X I can tweak them and I can tweak them without opening a circuitry with a soldering iron I can use a laptop to do that and that gives me some options that I'm curious what comes out of that in a few years okay um more questions here sounds killer playing my amp one right now love it okay why not doing the same yes it's all done in the future is to overcome the weaknesses yeah the future in general is to overcome the weaknesses why do we analyze well analyze is to understand what's good and what's bad and once you understand what is bad you can improve and I still have my tube Ms as references because tonally they are still my reference because they are so good um I had to keep them um my job now is to get the DNA and put it into my amps and create new tones having that DNA and mixing it with my taste and my DNA for you guys so that's my job um somebody says profile Productions yeah M1 is a great fly rig also sure I mean this is why I designed M1 and one is it's designed because I was suffering so much in my early days with my two perms when I went to a studio where I had to fly I was flying to London and had only overdrive pedal with me that made me design the using cabinet treatment in 1991 because if you come to a studio and there's only a rolling Jazz chorus 120 I'm not getting my sound so today we are much much better situation and with the AMP one I can dig anywhere in the world because 1.2 kilogram fits in my luggage fly rig and by the way this is what many of my colleagues are doing ah just got a [Music] message from Andy um I would meet somebody tomorrow not talking too much you will see probably next week or after uh touring with M1 the M1 is one step but there are still things that you that don't work with digital technology the way they do with analog technology ollip says yeah I think by Nature there are some things that are easier for analog technology in why not using that Advantage That's My Philosophy some other people are bringing digital engineers and they create brilliant stuff with digital software but they don't have the the options to go analog because that's not their strength and here I'm surrounded with top analog and digital Engineers that's my team it's not me alone it's a team and I have been doing this for decades and I know what I get from which side of the technology the digital side and the analog side um and I suffered in both worlds having heavy tube amps is one thing that makes me suffer and it's something I will never ever do again because I've been there and it I've I've designed two amps with 20 and more kilograms and I have nanotube doing the same thing no compromise but lightweight super efficient I should get a green award for this because we are super efficient too um okay more questions can I control other midi stuff with the amp X the MX has a midi out so it will be able to send some midi out commands program change commands and probably other stuff as well to control external devices Miracle D is it possible to get a nasal AC 30 Rock sound on the AMP one it's a very special sound thanks if you think about the nasal what's the ac30 sound I recommend a treble booster this is the original rangemaster travel booster used by people Brian May Rory Gallagher Richard Blackmore blah blah blah that is that pedal that makes everything nasal let me explain you why because that pedal is having a very low input impedance and that kind of brings the whole pickup Peak with the extra high end it flattens that and pushes that to the mids and since it's a treble booster there is no Sparkle highs anymore and it's boosting the treble so it cuts off the base and there is your mids magic and that box is actually magic I can also recommend like band miser's BSM uh travel booster he's one of those that have that trouble booster his his website is I think travelbooster.net or band Miser BSM he's Mr travel booster and uh I've been there too with my very old treble booster the range 2. K and B K is causal and B is blue and this just goes back to last century another treble booster so it doesn't need to be that super big super expensive original range Master although it's really good I'm I'm still happy um to have that um the Vox ac30 by Nature it's not that nasal um it is mid focused because it's an open it's a two by twelve combo um and it's not like having that much uh 100 Hertz Rock Chuck so it has like a combo sound because it is a combo myvox ac30 is hidden behind the Marshalls today um and by the way I have done a few episodes on the Vox sound already um is it possible to get a nasal ac30 sound with M1 um to make a nasal sound with M1 simply get as much mids as you can bam 10. [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] just for fun I put it back to Middle position what I call normal or more Marshall [Music] okay we are losing a lot of volume here but it's it's I give you more volume it's way bigger [Music] together [Music] the tone controls on the M1 they are very effective and um especially the mid control but I wouldn't use the mids lower than four or four or three because then it's kind of a non-existing guitar sound it's like [Music] important for a guitar tone and here the other thing is if everything is on zero the amp has no sound people think it's kaput well because there's no sound it's trouble so yeah it's super super efficient [Music] um I use 555 middle position as a starting point as it sounds pretty good um and then the rest fine tuning maybe a number or two if you want to go into extreme like nasal sound give it all away all the myths okay what model are the clock Mount pickups in the Vintage stretch um this is a Frankenstein leftover vintage meets the blue guitar neck meets a um a set of Clubman pickups that that are not perfect actually that it is it's leftovers um my favorite Club on pickup sets is the blue set 2 which is in that stretch okay now we go back for the um regular tuning [Music] foreign but yeah it's a great guitar um and that's the block set too anyway uh is there a good clone from the range master uh yeah there are tons of good clones of the range master go for band Miser because BSM he has I think he has done all the variations of treble boosters and Range Masters um yeah he has killer pedals in that direction it I I think I have like 10 of his pedals because they're all great and they all go towards that range master Style and I built my own range Master pedals myself because they are so simple it's just a transistor and it's five components that's all there is and um but that does a brilliant job on that and they are clean they are not noisy he knows what to do more questions is the nanotube closer to a preamp tube or is more powerful Like It Is 34. Well it's definitely not a power amp tube it's a tube that uses a high plate voltage but doesn't give you the the current of a power amp tube it's sound shaping so in that respect uh Rob Lucas it would be closer to a preamp tube but it's actually working in the power amp stage to do stuff that is happening in power amps um you know if we think traditionally it's like we have a 32 or 606 or 5881 tube and that's the tube used in power amps and they make that sound actually they make that sound in combination with the transformer in combination with the components in that circuitry so the tube by itself is not really doing all that sound it it just is part of a circuitry that gives you that sound what I'm doing is I analyzed that sound and that original tube circuitry and what's happening in that tube sacred circuitry with different tubes understanding that and then transfer it into a new design that I call nanotube design that reproduces that sound and that feel and that behavior but using totally different components so my my sounds are not created by components they are created by voicing of circuitries maybe that helps to explain it [Music] um Hank Marvin sound yes ac30 my guitar screen my house is green [Music] um Hank Marlin sound um Hank Marvin sound is is box ac30 I've done an episode on that uh but it would be worth uh Hank Marvin is is a killer guy I mean first of all I like his music second of all I met him at Defender Awards and he was such a nice I spent some time with this guy great humor okay um I think we have enough question for today well let's see the bot with the F1 you approve that there's no need for these heavy Transformers yes I mean if you heard the Holy Grail Plexi this thing here the jtm Plexi real Plexi with the original Mala tubes mallard expensive or here in my jtm 45 which I show you all the time these are General Electric clear bottles the best tubes for that kind of amp the original Transformers all this amp is mint condition and I I've done tons of a b switching versus my amp one and I'm in the same ballpark if I wasn't there wouldn't be blue guitar that's it's that simple I know what I want and I don't stop before I get it okay um new blue guitar strats we need yes um I want I want more blue guitar straps as well you are right um the good news is I'm working on that and it's a long process like everything I'm doing because I'm not happy at first glance but I have a I'm getting there things come together in a nice way I have just seen a an email with another guitar coming and everybody has a smile on his face because it's one of those and it's like yeah we get a few more and we get I'm not talking about details but I'm I'm working on getting more blue guitars slowly but surely but quality is King foreign an authentic Vibe aladrimi needs a real light bulb you certainly don't have that in MX do you only P okay of course we all know you know the The Vibes and the phases done old school with photo resistors and light bulb are the ones with the magic I do agree but if I would think that there wouldn't be an alternative besides having those not even getting easy to get photo resistors old school things and light bulbs um I think it's not my Approach so what I'm doing is getting the real deal stuff with the light bulbs with the photo resistors with the right sound and analyze it to death what it's doing and then do a way more modern stable design just like my power amp that does the same thing without that Voodoo dust and mystery effects which are actually artifacts and tolerances they are nice they are part of the sounds but I want those in my sound but created with modern components and you will get this from my products including MX one day [Music] what's my favorite love pedal okay love pedal is a company that makes nice Boutique petals I have a Chula here but they have a lot of other pedals that are really nice too um so this is kind of to see what is it CEO c-o-t Church of tone uh and some extra stage in there that's one that I like um the love petals they have a a certain Style most of them because it's designed by a guy with his taste I don't know the guy but I I think some of the love pedals sounds good they sound sweet they sound organic and somehow natural I'm that's why I bought this I think I have like three love petals that comes to mind which is great so that's the answer for the love pedal I'm still going through vintage yes if I don't know if I can really hear and this change all that well if you don't hear it no problem I can if you guys cannot I feel it for me the feel is as as important as what you hear and of course it depends on your speakers whatever speakers you have um and if you don't hear it it's good too makes your life easier it's like you know you don't know you don't need to go crazy and boutique but it's an experiment for you you know I'm I'm just excited about tone because it gives me so much it's like good food it's like hey it's a rich taste and it excites me and that's why I love good tones because good tones inspire me to play music and um yeah here we go that's in the end it goes back to music and if you don't need a boutique whatever anything that makes you happy is fine does this LSD yes uh somebody says yeah okay somebody bought an amp that he didn't like well it's hard you know he says that the the sales guy didn't have a clue about the amp you know it's complex that's why what I've tried to do is inform you guys about my experience and share it with you guys maybe it helps but in the end you are taking the decision and maybe my hands are different than my Approach is different but at least you can compare me one guy different M's and see what it tells you that's kind of somebody says Zen Drive yeah that's um that's a nice pedal to Zen drive it's the drive that um I read it Robin Ford is using it's a transparent overdrive I have a Zen Drive is it here yeah here it is Durham Electronics technically speaking it's it's all Great Taste but no no rocket science anyway but it's a great pedal that's why I bought it um I have not so much time for music that's bad um my advice is use music for relaxation I I get lost in music and that's a therapy actually you know makes make heals your soul it refreshes yourself there's nothing better than enjoying music and if you are able to play the guitars even even nicer to play than to to listen uh foreign okay anyway guys um I think we leave the questions for today I will do another episode um with dedicated questions for you guys in a couple of weeks maybe the week after next week or a week later but in the near future um next week my guest will be Eric De Young from the Netherlands and his love for michelendo michelindo the killer guitar player um he will bring his knowledge to us and he was the inventor of the name zero game he discovered the low gain mode on minimum it's kind of his Foundation with I think so this was a face that he went through so he will explain all of that next week he will bring his pedalboard his guitar and a lot of experience with um ms3 he is the expert on the ms3 in combination with M1 that's super compact they both matches other nicely um okay and yeah I had a great gig I think it was Saturday uh yeah just that Saturday and and we only played one Hendrix tune but uh this is the song that I would like to um play you guys um yeah as the outro little comment here I didn't play that club for four years since covet and you know it was hard to get the geek and people were so happy and I was uh very happy to to see how much the music meant to the audience I mean I go there for fun I have my fun but the audience even sometimes I think has more fun maybe more it's not a competition but as as much fun as we had on stage so enjoy that little Red House clip from My Band rock Anarchy the power Trio um played at the coyote car in Offenbach oftenberg is close to Frankfurt um anyway see you guys next week with my guest Eric De 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Channel: BluGuitar - Tone Innovation For Guitarists

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Id: JWGbFh_k2lc

Length: 135min 20sec (8120 seconds)

Published: Wed May 03 2023