How to make your guitar sound better ... with Paul Gilbert.
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Paul Gilbert talks about installing a DiMarzio The Tone Zone and Air Zone in the 1978 Ibanez Iceman guitar that he bought on Reverb.
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How to make your guitar sound better with Paul Gilbert?! 1. Have Paul Gilbert play it. There is no number 2. 😁
Alternately (1a?):
Q: “How do you make any guitar sound better?”
A: BE Paul Gilbert !
I came to say the same thing. My guitar always sounds like me. Not good not bad just....ME.
I love the look of double cream pickups. Especially in a cream bound guitar. Great choice Paul!
Looks awesome!!!
Sounds awesome!!
😉👍🏻
PLeeaasse!!!! DON"T GO THERE!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Back in the 90s who ever thought Paul Gilbert could look so nerdy he'd make it look cool.
For me, there are few guitarists who rival the joy and plethora of stank faces than Paul Gilbert. Not only is he a master, he is a hoot to watch! Love this video.
You can't help but smile when you hear him play. It also makes you realize how good he is, period. DiMardio pickups, each pickup has it's own solar system of sound.
Nice try LarryDiMarzio
, but we know this is really Elvis Costello.
When he did the whole run on clean tone. Unreal.
TONE ZONE my FAVORITE pickup. Man I LOVE ALL DIMARZIO
👍 It is a great p'u! I prefer using it with only a 1 meg volume pot and no tone knobs.
There is a guy here on YT that demo's old Marshalls and does amp mods named Michael RT
and he turned me onto using the 1 meg in place of the standard 500K pot.
The Iceman is a cool guitar. The Japanese companies were copying in the 70's and I respect the fact that they decided to make a bold design of their own. It was a success!!! Anyone like Racer X?
Love Racer X even though I was never a huge fan of the Drummers singing voice but having said that I grew accustomed to it.
I love this guy since I discovered him with Mr Big in 1992.
Paul Gilbert is sort of the Jeff Goldblum of the guitar world.
Paul is a gift to the guitar community. 🤘🙇🏼♀️
As are you Fair Lady. 🎸
How to make your guitar sound better; hand it to Paul Gilbert!!
He's a great guitar player obvs but that is horrible guitar tone - was the amp mic'd wrong? Sounds like a fuzzed out solid state practice amp. Total mush and fizz.
I agree that the Tone Zone/Air Zone is the wrong pickup set for that guitar, although I like it in very bright bolt-on strats. The reason it doesn't work here is because he's got a 24-scale mahogany ax and so it sounds very muddy and woofy. Also, the out of phase demo, although cool, is not useful for most players who just want to hear what these pickups sound like. For this ax I would have just popped in a Norton/Air Norton set, or Super Distortion/PAF 36.
Paul Gilbert is the Jeff Goldblum of shred.
This should be top comment!
OMG ! This is great, if you could do the same with all Dimarzio pickups it would be awesome, won't have to be all famous players either. I think people will really appreciate having a database of Dimarzio sounds by Dimarzio.
I agree! 👍 as a Dimarzio user/fan would love to see that happen!
That would be extremely expensive and kind of pointless
@@ilmisxx2 Yeah, cause no advertising ever improves sales.
@@castleanthrax1833 I think DiMarzio advertises themselves quite nicely with players like Steve Morse, John Petrucci , Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Billy Sheehan, etc.. :)
I’ve never understood why they don’t have a sound sample library for their pickups
Mr PG sound tone getting nice and the speed still never fades
To this day i am still a Paul fan, he is the best guitarist on the planet
.. always good to hear Paul.
Love my Tone Zones & Air Nortons!! Thanks again Paul for turning me onto these pickups!! 🤘🤘🤘
What surprised me here is that PG uses the air zone in the neck and not the air norton?
I prefer the Air norton in the neck of the two.
I've got an RG7420 coming back in a few days with a TZ + AN + half-out-of-phase switch, and I'm so stoked. Really happy to find this video to get a preview!
Best pickup combo of all time. I've been using it for decades. I love it.
How to make your guitar sound better:
Step 1: be Paul Gilbert
Step 2: repeat Step 1
If you mounted decent pickups and strings to a canoe paddle, Paul could still melt faces by soloing on it.
Paul is amazing teacher.
God that's a delightful tone. The Air Zone especially is just killer.
The Air Zone is also a great bridge pup. That's what I would have put in the bridge of that Iceman, although I do love the Tone Zone. I just think the TZ works better in 25 scale strats, which is sort of what it was made for, to beef up thin sounding guitars, make them bigger and warmer. You can put an Air Zone in anything and it will sound great. I would also have put an Air Norton in the neck which is my favorite neck pickup of all time.
I had no idea Elvis Costello can shred. It's a joke, Mr. Racer X himself.
those cream covers make the guitar look so much better too!
Something about cream pickups in a guitar with cream binding is just super appealing visually.
Damn can you imagine selling your guitar and have THIS GUY come to your place to pick it up ,... oh man best day ever!! ;)
Paul Gilbert is just ridiculously good.
Paul playing my favorite Iceman instead of his Fireman
Is this the same Paul Gilbert who played on the Mr Big Song, to be with you?
Yes, the man himself.
@jsullivan2112 wow, true genius
Yes, he says so in the video
Elimine el tono y le puse el swich para cambiar a fuera de fase y quedo muy bien mejor que el singleo, el sonido fuera de fase es muy particular, gracias por la info, el diagrama esquematico me motivo para hacer el cambio
Hey, did you guys notice how that Kahler killed all his tone and sustain?
Me neither.
Most probably are not aware of this but the TONE ZONE was one of the last two remaining pu's
left when Eddie Van halen was having Dimarzio pu's made for his EBMM sig guitar.
He got down to what is now in the EBMM AXIS bridge spot and the TONE ZONE and could not decide so Steve lukather
said pick that one pointing to the guitar that has the Custom wound EVH/AXIS p'u in it.
Larry dimarzio really liked the p'u that did not get picked that day and later released it as "The Tone zone".
The one that did get picked is only available on the EBMM guitar.
I've always loved the Tone Zone. I think I got my first Tone Zone at a Sam Ash in Hollywood, in blue. I had it popped into my single bucker Charvel and a couple weeks later rocked The Roxy with it. But I would not put a Tone Zone in a 24 scale like an Iceman or Les Paul. It really excels at beefing up strats. Great pickup. Paul's a terrific player. I saw him with Racer X many times in the late 80s.
And I love them. Dimarzios best pickup set...
Tone Zone is great but I prefer the Steve's Special/Air Norton combo :D
His office suits has always caught my eyes. I don't know since when he started wearing like an office guy in all his shows lol
Paul Gilbert you are my second favorite guitarist next to your former student Buckethead.
I like how Paul Doesn't use a crazy amount of gain. His playing is clean enough so he doesn't need a crazy amount of gain to cover things up.
Is Paul's face wired with the pickup also?
Half that has to be an act... its a Dimarzio advertisement, and there are more closeups of his face making, then there are of the product being sold. :D
i wonder if he ever thought he’d be wearing this hat back in the 80s 😂
I wish Paul would do a podcast, he's a great talker and I'm sure he's got a lot of stories
Hell, I'd never leave this chair if he did!
But until then.....Play this vid on 75% speed and Paul sounds like Christopher Walken lol
The first time I seen the ice man were concert photos of Kiss from the early summer of 1977. I was 8 years old and thought, that's a really cool looking guitar. Have been very familiar with it since.
How to make a guitar sound better? Give it to Paul Gilbert to play it :)
Awesome demo. Thanks man. I've got an itch to get these into some of my guitars.
Nothing against Paul’s choices, but I’d have put a super distortion in the bridge. Just my preference. Killer Musician!!!
8 - 38 standard on 24.75 scale
Paul is simply the absolute best. Amazing player and what a personality... His enthusiasm is always inspiring.
Out of phase sound is sick
Never understand why Ibanez love Tone Zone so much, but I love the AIR ZONE in bridge pos on my strat!
I've had the tone zone in an alder Washburn Nuno and it sounded, well, let's just say not good. Too bassy, scratchy and fuzzy. How different is the air zone to your experience? Is it worth the try?
If you put Paul’s fingers end to end with Buckethead’s, they will circle the earth twice.
haha ...
Paul Gilbert is slowly morphing into Reinhold Bogner.
Ha Ha! That's golden! I know what you mean!
I have an Ibanez 420 that has the tone zone/ air norton combo. I have 15 other guitars but when I want go nuts I play that Ibanez.
It's a great combo that I've been using for decades now. I got my first Tone Zone right about the time they first came out, when they had the DiMarzio ads in Guitar Player with Paul playing a blue RG. I then went and bought a Tone Zone at Guitar Center in Hollywood, had it installed in my single bucker Charvel just a week before a big gig I had at The Roxy. The Tone Zone just made that guitar sound like heaven. I played great at the gig and got a lot of compliments on my tone and my playing through my Boogie 50 Cal combo. I was just amazed at how much better it sounded than the Duncan Distortion I'd previously used in that ax. This was back in 1991. A million years ago, but I still use Tone Zones.
I want Paul to get into jazz chords instead of dressing like a cool English teacher
Hands so damn big fingers almost wrap around the fretboard twice!
U know what they say about guys with long fingers? They probably say, "Wow! He's got long fingers."
It's like Ace Frehley and Paul Stanley in one guitar.
Paul Gilbert is as good as anyone and more gifted than most.
He is a great teacher and a pleasant person and cool dude.
I hope Ibanez always keeps the modern iceman 420 in their lineup. It is a steal of a value.
That does not sound good!
Paul Gilbert is the best
Larry DiMarzio is the best.
How to make your guitar sound better… let Paul play it
Paul Gilbert is a gift to anyone with a heart and soul.
Living legend.
Kudos to Paul Gilbert for making a Tone Zone sound good. TZ is way too boomy for me, sadly they were stock in ALL my Ibanez Prestige/J-Customs. I find the Satchur8 and Steve's Special, or even those in the PAF Pro vein to be much cleaner and more articulate. DiMarzio has some fantastic pickups, but Tone Zone was never one of them, for me at least, they only work with an unusually thin sounding guitars. Odds are if you think you want a Tone Zone, you probably should just go with a Norton, which is literally like a direct mix of a FRED and Tone Zone, get the clarity and the low end without going into that extreme, boomy/muddy place that the Tone Zone lives in.
With a Kahler🤘Awesome.
Lovely video
Wow. Impressive! BUT, for the demo sake, can you just play a chord and hold it for a bit so we can actually HEAR the pickip?
You can HEAR the pickups fine in this demo.
Can you run the half phase switch and a push pull pot to split the coils as well?
No way in hell anybody's gonna convince me Paul Gilbert's not a fire-breathing dragon disguised as a human.
I’m really into the half out of phase sound. I want to do this to my P90 SG now
damn! PG sounds old. time does fly, doesn't it?
Tone Zone and Air Norton are one of the best pickup combos !!!
I have a Norton (bridge) and Air Zone (neck) and the sound of my basswood body guitar is wonderful.
@@mafiashpagety Nortons are awesome! I have four of them.
Love dimarzio, love PG... but man this sounds like mad poop
Ive just watched Paul use the whammy bar more in 2 minutes than all of his concerts and instructional videos. Rock on Paul. Branch out. Paul is the man.
Could you all get potentially get Phil Collen to do a demo with these pickups so that we can get another perspective? Paul is one of the best guitar players of all time. . . but the lower strings sound muddy as hell when distorted and the clean tones sound weak and I can't tell if he's running pedals vs. plugging the guitar straight into the amp (and not setting said amp up).
Phil plays these pickups ruclips.net/video/DhH-psagiDQ/видео.html
@@LarryDiMarzio I actually bought a Super Distortion based on that video (along with learning that Randy R used it) and I love it, transformed my Agile AD-2000. What I meant generally is that I've never seen PC play with a tone that didn't sound great, and it'd be cool to see these pickups plugged into a similar rig to what Collen uses (with similar settings) to see how it sounds.
its his jhs pedal that sounds like fart on the low end lol.
He uses a clean amp and fuzz for distortion.
what is half out of phase?
I LOVE Paul Gilbert AND I'm telling you - get the DiMarzio D Activator instead, because it is the BEST humbucker EVER invented on this planet!!!
(seriously though, get whatever you like, lol)
I got the D Activator-X Bridge in series with Evolution Bridge and that is the "best pickup" for me haha 😁
Getting D Activator installed in my refinished soloist project. Excited to hear it!
I played Dimarzio Super Distortions for decades and the Tone Zone later on (also Duncan JBs, customs, Pegasus and distortions) but I finally tried a pair of 'D Activators' in a guitar that needed an upgrade and I was blown away. It really is a great metal pickup. It will now be my new "go to" DiMarzio.
The D Activator set is great. Lots of clarity with lots of power. @@Darth.Shredder
Pickups are like guitarists.....a dime a dozen.
Great ones play great ones.
Do the math......I can't.
A big THANK YOU to DiMarzio for all the wiring diagrams that posted on the official website.
Paul is a fantastic genius, thank you for existing.
Where's occult classic video bro? Something happened?
Paul Gilbert can play any style of music and make it instantly more fun. I'm so tired of the Uber-serious self-proclaimed guitar gods, especially of the progressive rock genre.
you thinkin steve howe?
Here explained the purpose to have two hambuckers
Mr. Gilbert, I'm 59 yrs old. Many influences to name pre 70s to post 90s. You are the best teacher and player I have come across....all times brother. All times!! That speaks volumes
Paul seems to be enjoying a whammy.
Pual just become Elvis Costello 。。。。。。
And english just became depressed. 😁
🤣
Wow Paul wear Batik 😍❤️🙏🏻
the lick at about 4:28 reminds me of shawn lane (r.i.p.) \m/\m/
Ole Man Gilberto is at it again.
This is easily the coolest iceman ever made. No question.
Met him at GIT back in the day when I went to Hollywood to make it big, he was in a hurry but was nice guy. oddly enough he was in a practise room on the weekend.
Thank god he plays with the right bridge!
I've loved the Air Zone for ages but now maybe drop it in the neck and a DP100 Super D in the bridge is in order! (The DP100 is my all time fav bridge HB) Thanks for the demo Bro! You Rock!
I wish he'd explain the half out of phase vs just out of phase and why etc. For me, the distorted tones sounded slightly woofy on the low end when he was playing the barre chords.
"Excuse me, I'm gonna go play some more" 🥇
I met Paul back in 1987 at a guitar clinic he was demonstrating the ADA MP1.
He was a super nice guy.
I remember when Paul and Bruce were using the ADA. I also met them about that time. I actually jammed with Jeff Martin when Racer X broke up. He was in another band for a while before he ended up replacing Eric Singer in Jake E. Lee's Badlands. Jeff had gone back to drums then, and he's just as great on drums as Scott Travis, who had also left Racer X to join Judas Priest, replacing Dave Holland. Jeff is a really cool guy. All the dudes in Racer X were good people. I just wish that band could have made it. But I think the issue was that for all the attention they got they never got a big label interested in them. Their music, although good, was not that special when it came to songwriting. Most of the songs were about beer, pussy and driving fast, and that wasn't going to set them apart. They also didn't have much of an image, and the music biz is, sadly, very shallow. But Racer did serve as a springboard for Paul getting Mr. Big together with Billy Sheehan who had just left David Lee Roth's band, for Bruce getting into The Scream with John Corabi, and John Alderete eventually forming Mars Volta and Scott joining Priest.
I love the sound of DiMarzio pickups even if it’s not Paul Gilbert playing them.
same! they have saved several guitars for me!
Paul, you're a FUKCING LEGEND!
"How to make your guitar sound better?"
Practice
Just put a Super Distortion in my Les Paul. And man it just screams now.
Paul lookin like he bout to give you a safari tour
Batik 🤩 Indonesia pride 🎉