Getting John Frusciante's Tone Using A Fender Amp - Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- I feel this is as close as I can get to John's tone using a fender but I feel its just not the right amp for that tone.
I definitely recommend following the pedal route as its easier and less painful. :)
I really hope this video is ok. : )
I love how serious Dave takes his john tones. I cant help but think this video was started on Monday and youve edited 36 hours down 😂😂
Some people appreciate fine wines and bourbons, Dave appreciates all the nuances and subtleties of a fine John tone 😁
Well worth every moment spent!
How has nobody mentioned that the secret to Frusciante tone is a FREAKING RHCP LOGO on the inside of the speaker baffle?!?! haha
Was about to say the same thing.
What about Fleas amps on the other side are in the game of the sound
That part almost seemed like some sort of April fools prank or something
Thanks for this! The Ds2 volume jump was what i couldnt figure out noone else really ever explained that and i always wondered why it sounded so harsh when it was all maxed like John has it set. Also your intro jams are always so awesome to listen to!
*See's Dave Simpson posts video 31 seconds ago* Me: CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK
Lmao Same
Everybody loves John frusciante, and I’d say you mastered the tone for the guy
Hey Luke, have you seen John's live playing (ie. Slane castle and la cigale) and his solo albums like inside of emptiness and the empyrean ?
@Luke i respect your opinion, and i dont wanna be rude, but i think you have to much to learn and listen from John
@Luke I thought like that too when I was younger. Then I realised complex stuff (BSSM) isnt always better. Leaving notes out and letting the ones in that really matter can be so good. I like his tone on BSSM a lot, I'm actually obsessed with it in a way, especially the clean-esque chord parts and funky lines. But calling the tone and lines from scar tissue or even around the world amateuristic shows your ears aren't that far yet
Those beautiful jams at the start of these videos are absolutely amazing. Love ya Dave!
ive recently decided to start the process of recording music covers and you opened a frusciante door that i am not going to close any time soon, thank you so much for the work you do.
I never get bored with your videos
I was just sitting here enjoying your opening jam but once you turned on that way pedal so masterfully my thumb clicked like before I had any say in the matter. Now that I’ve come to my senses I wish I could press it twice!
Wow, this sounds more like John Frusciante than John Frusciante... class... hes my favourite guitarist of all time and I wish I could sound even remotely as good, you have it nailed. Great channel and loved your Andertons interview 🙏☘️☘️☘️
Hi Dave, I just started to learn how to play, and I’ve recently discovered your channel. So inspiring to watch. Thanks for the great videos!
Simply GREAT Dave! Making times like these so much better and easier.
Hey Dave, you should definitely experiment with the Kemper Profiler in a video and try to get a Frusci tone. I'm not sure if you're into amp modelers but that thing is something else
grande funky e dave unidos
grande josnei
The clean-ish tone with just the stage is spot on 👌
That initial intro that he played before "i could have lied".... love it mate!
Your videos are great Dave! I don't even own a fender amp (have a katana), but I learn something new everytime I watch one of your new videos or re-watch an old one. I'm amazed at how much I've learnt about tone in the past few months watching your channel. Keep inspiring mate!
So I messaged a few videos back saying you got me back in to guitar after 3 year. I bought a blackstar core I'd 150 watt amp. And a vintage V6 signature guitar. Been playing some old favourite tracks. John fruschante Wayne and some other lead guitar stuff. Daing it my fingers are not as fast as they where but my pinky finger is getting some muscle memory back. So glad you inspired me to play again. Hopefully this time I stick with it and practice more. Great videos keep em coming my dude
Just get to the point when fingers won't hurt while pressing string and it will go smooth.
Another amazing performance and 2 nimrods thumbed this great exhibit of a professional guitarist down..Mortal sin.Great job Mr.Simpson...You deserve all praises.
Awesome dave. This is the earliest i’ve been on a vid ❗️
I cried for the whole first 3 minutes of this video. Well done friend.
The 2nd hand sales of the JH-1 must have totally gone up since Dave has been doing this tutorials! I mean that’s the key ingredient, other than a particular style of playing, playing all the strings but muting those you don’t want to hear.
Genuinely think Dave could play a couple gigs with RHCP if John was to ever fall foul again!
Yep! He got me to buy one. And like dave says it has made me a ”happy bunny”:)
I really dig that intro jam when you kicked on the loop
Perfect video Dave, you always explain everything very well, you know how to communicate and all the videos about john have helped everyone, thank you for being here and being this guy who even though I never talked, I consider you a great friend.
Stay safe mate, greetings from Brasil!
And yes, your intros are the best I've heard in my life! :)
Yes please show me because I cannot dial in good tone on this amp to save five fenders from a burning building
become a big fan of yours Dave over the last couple of months that I've followed your channel, your playing is a pleasure to listen too. respect to u sir
Great to see you again my friend. Really nailed it. Beautiful 🤙👍👍👍
Soon it’s going to be John learning his tone from you Dave😂 Dave keep it up ! You really understand Johns tone
Dave rules !!!! thanks for being the interesting, quirky human that you are .. you can just see and feel the passion you have for all things guitar
If anyone asked me about great guitars or beautiful music I always tell them to go to this channel, Dave your so pure and artistically talented and that has what made you so great. And anyways doing this for 8-9 years or even more and you are only just hitting 100k blows me away, you should have at least 1-2mil subs and be on the main stage at reading. I also hope you have had a great day and I am looking forward to tomorrow’s video ❤️🤘🏼
So clear, clean and crisp! Very awesome tone when it get a little heavier:)
Masterd John's tone once again, making every note count. Brilliant job Dave !!
Dude! You have amazing tone IN GENERAL!!! Love from Boston!!
Dave, your a freeking genius. I tried the duck tape baffle on my amp. Wow what a difference it makes. 🤘🏼
Congrats on 70k dave, 100 soon mate
Thanks Dave! I don't own a Fender amp. and I'm not chasing Johns' tone...but you just taught me so much about how amps and pedals work. I also learned how to figure out what to try to get the sound I might want.
What a band that would be....John F and Dave S that would be the dream team!
Can you imagine a jam between the two of them?! The universe might collapse into some great cosmic singularity 🤣
Kidding
You have a way of really nailing these notes and make it sound amazing...!
Ok, for context I bought a Boss katana 50 because of Dave and the Anderton's demo video.
So I'm watching this, and it occurs to me that Dave's probably done a "john frusciante's tone on a boss katana" video... yep... This is how people get lost down rabbit holes Dave! Now you'll excuse me while I dial that in and finish watching this video.
The little strips of gaffa tape on John's cabs were to mark the position for the microphone :)
Thank You Dave! For showing me that some Fender grills are just Velcro'd on. I had attempted to remove the grill before, so I could clean it, but when I heard the Velcro, I thought I was pulling apart glue or something. So I stopped, afraid I was ruining it. This video made me try again and low and behold, It was Velcro'd on. I now plan on cleaning it and trying the Stevie Ray Vaughan mod! Thanks again!
A video where you share something can never be garbage Dave
This intro jam gave me the feels. He could get John's tone out of a toaster. If I could play just a tiny bit like Dave Frusciante one day, I'd be so happy.
It's been over a year that I watch dave's videos, go to the marketplace and other websites and try to find a WH10 here in Brazil... never found one for sale....
So fun watching you you do your thing, man! Rock on!
Thank you!!! I really thank you Dave. I appreciate it because you take the time to explain in depth. I have a Fender amp and I love the clean sound to play chili peppers and Frusciante stuff as a fan I am . Greetings from Argentina
That's some great playing. You're killing it bro.
Awsome intro daveThat was instresing today i get It how John tone Works thanks Dave 👊🏽✌🏽💪🏾✌🏽
Lovepedal Jubilee is the pedal that I run through my fender for John's sound
I got the boss ds2, mxr micro amp, ibanez wh10, mxr dyna comp to help!
But i have a jcm2000, so...
I was just watching your Fender Champion video!
Great video, Dave!
After every intro I think "ah an album of this word be so good"... BUT I just remembered Bandcamp is a thing! Low and behold you have loads of stuff on there! Roll on payday!
I love what you do. Has been following you since the fall. I wish you all the best because you are a good person and a fantastic guitarist. The guitar I play is a Gibson nighthawk sp3, which I love. Would be great if you ever get to try playing a nighthawk and make a video about it. Best of luck to you from Sweden 🤗 and everyone who follows this channel.
So not a Fender am lover. Though, I did pick up a Fender "something" 92w 2 channel 1 x 12. Had a great tone for cutting through the mix of the band! Loud drummer, loud bass player.... Worked a treat!
An alternative to the grill cloth 'mask' would be a lil' passive tone control box (literally a pot and a cap with a few jacks) in your FX loop, or even just a patch cable with a cap wired-in. I've done this a few times to smooth out spiky solidstate amps, makes a huge difference!
Yeah Dave you made perfect sense. I'm not trying to get johns sound but you have show me a lot about how to set up amps for pedals I'm using a pod 2.0 running a wet dry rig with a katana 50 and Marshall mg 15 and a pedal board. Thanks for the help on how to get a guide line to run those amps. I use the line 6 pod on the Marshall Jcm 800 setting with a tube screamer set like SRV and behringer hm 300 like you run your ds2 before the wah. Instead of wah. First that really gets a hairy tone. Thank you Dave for your help.
21:47 eq pedal
Sound 24:40 🤩🤩🤩🎼🎼🎼
Dave sold his soul to play so well! Everything he plays could be on a historic record. Why is Dave not in a band like Coldplay (but better)
Ya mean like Nickleback dont you?
Go on...SPILL IT !!!
Ngubu Scotchbonnet which metaphor do you choose NS?
In some traditions, the hippogriff is said to be the symbol of love, as its parents, the mare and griffin, are natural enemies. In other traditions, the hippogriff represents Christ's dual nature as both human and divine...
How could this thread be so off topic that we’re talking about hippogryphs and Jesus within 2 replies? Lmao
If Dave was in Coldplay, 30 secs into one of their songs and he would be fast asleep on his feet.
BambaPlays it’s because there is something so pure and un polluted about Dave that it inspires metaphor!
Also I think Jesus would be trying to get that Frustrate tone with cheap pedals and gaffer tape..
That intro man 🔥🔥
You make me want to get a jackhammer again, I had one and thought it was shite
Hi Dave,
I've got a request for you ;) . I really like your sound. Its warmness and overdrive remind me of the Californication era shows. However, John sometimes played much cleaner, for example live at Slane Castle. His sound there was really clean. Maybe you could do a test one day where you try the minimum of gain from the Jackhammer which still tames the DS-2 and WH-10. That would be awesome! Thanks for your videos, I've learned a lot from you over the years.
I love this vid Dave! Definitely will try the Stevie Ray Vaughan mod. Thanks!! Awesome video brother
I only play Fender amps, I love them. So nice and bright. But I completely agree with your assessment here. The one sound that's difficult to get out of a Fender is a Marshall. Besides the 2 "marshall boxes" and modding the amp, could you get there using a compressor pedal with a 7 or 10 band eq pedal at the beginning of the chain?
Not really no. Compressors don't do it. Unless your going for the blood sugar sex magic tone.
My fender frontman 100 212 combo sounds like a magical Marshall on three drive channel with out the mid contour and I use Celestion speakers in it and it's got a great Mesa tone with mids contour switched on ! Its great for a solid state amp ! Im actually using it for bass guitar now with another 212 ampeg cabinet under it and then run the line out to a powered 412 cabinet for a total of 8 speakers 12 inch speakers for the bass and then I use a peavey valve king 100 head with matching 412 peavey cabinet and run a Marshall jcm600 head with matching 412 Marshall cabinet and run them in stereo with my Headrush pedal board as the brain fur effects amp's and microphone ir abs speaker cabinet ir.
you kinda hit his tone a year ago when you demo'd the Fender Champion 50XL it was spot on (his "clean" tone at least )
One of my favorite videos of yours! I personally use a Vox ac30 cab amp simulator pedal into a fender deluxe reverb emulator setting on my Vox VT20X amp. For some reason i cant get close to Johns tone with the marshall modelling on this amp. Thank you for this!
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man you are the wikipedia of johns tone, crazy!!!
Could be wrong but I thought a square on the outer grill cloth was there to help a venues road crew/techies find the sweet spot on a particular speaker cab.
Is there a pedal to Simpsonize my tone?
Outstanding.
You can actually get beam blockers for speakers that fit in front of your speakers when you install them. Bit more precise and consistent that the SRV mod and you don’t have to get the grille off so they’ll work in anything! I use em in all my amps, even if they’re not too trebley it makes them less beamy in front and just sound more even in the room
I was just watching your videos of Johns tone earlier today wholyy shittt
It doesn’t sound like you’re playing out of a Fender... amazing job mate.
That baffle grill is great...never thought to do that to an amp..like a kick drum baffle
Thanks Dave this video is perfect for me! Been playing the acoustic for months now, had a shit past few months and haven’t been feeling the guitar much, especially the electric for some reason. This vid will help me get back into it tho!
Great information and advice.
Thanks SO MUCH for the time you've invested and then time taken to share. So generous. 👍😎❤
Personally been using the Xotic SL Drive set to Super Bass with Fender TMDR. Katana is much easier!
Thanks so much👍😎❤🖖
Great video Dave. Do you think it’s possible to use a RAT in the way you used the Jackhammer?
I couldn't get one to work but its worth a try.
What about a Joyo JF-16 British Sound? Those are supposed to be marshals in a stomp box, and you can find them for $20 - $40.
Also, gonna try some of these tips on my Fender Frontman.
I've got the fender frontman and the American sound joyo pedal that sounds amazing for American ampeg, fender twins and fender tweed amp's its got all those tones so I'd say the Marshall joyo should really work great !
I must also tell you the way I get a great Marshall tone using the fender frontman drive channel turn uber gain down and try the mids contour switch to get the natural Marshall tone and also get Mesa gain by using three mid contour switch on for Mesa off for Marshall and you should be able to get Marshall tones ! I know I get the Marshall and Mesa tones out of my fender frontman 100 with celestion speakers it works great !
5:18 That transition tho...
Dave it'd be awesome to see and hear a cover of Wayne from youu
LOVE this Man!!!!!
Dave, have you tried a Fender Bassbreaker? They seem to distort better than most Fender amps. It might be easier to get those John tones.
Sadly i haven't no.
The bassbreaker uses EL34 valve like a marshall so hence are more Marshall like. There a great all round amp.
Is your gaff just amps everywhere? As in heaven
Yeps. :)
I love your performance! Just Beautiful! ;)
My option is to use my Katana Artist and tweet until I get close. Could you have a go at getting John’s tone out of the Katana and make a vid. Cheers. 🙏🏻👍🇦🇺
your wish has already been granted, check out Dave's older vids. I don't think he's done it specifically for his Artist model yet but there's definitely a few for the original Kat 50 and 100 which should get you in the ballpark :)
400billionsuns Thanks Buddy, I will check it out when the wife lets me free from gardening. 🙏🏻👍🇦🇺
I once saw a grille cloth with a plus sign on the outside and an X on the inside, an effective asterisk.
Great tips - I actually prefered the sound through the distortion channel. I can't believe you didn't mention that the SRV hack is the Chili Peppers symbol! 😁
Damn too good man! When can I see you live? :D
Great video Dave
Hi, Dave! Greetings from Brazil! What would be the best pedal chain order to sound like john with these pedals: Big muff, cry baby, boss ce5, jackhammer, triangulo lab ce1 crunch, DS2, SD1, DL4? Love your work ❤
Fenders dont sound like Marshall's, *cough, Bassman??👍
Well, there is *that* one, lol ;)
He even relic's his walls!!!! True guitarist right there. Frusciante is my fav guitar player btw.
Dave you are the best! I have a question in this video, do you use the wah in the effects chain before or after the DS-2?
Guitar - ds2 - wah. :)
Hey, Dave. Do you think that replacing the Jackhammer for a Klon style pedal would also work? Cheers!
No idea. Not a fan of what those pedals do.
That SRV mod ?
I did that to my cassette player, back in the days when we were all in black and white, with a sock!
Hi,can't figure it out. I did exactly what you did..but the ds2 kills me. :/ please help
Hello Dave,congratulations on your work and your music, you can see that you do all this with passion and dedication. I've followed pretty much all of your videos on how to get the Frusciante sound and I'm almost there. in a video you said that you rely on your pedals to recreate the sound because obviously you can't always have your favorite amp available. In my case I have this amp: DV Mark Jazz 12 can you give me some advice on how to set it up? if I put the volume of the ds 2 to 10 there is a jump in volume too large but if I keep it more I lose the characteristic sound of the ds 2 (as you teach ^^). Thanks for your time and keep it up! 😊
Federico
So cool!
Great video, Dave have you ever thought about trying the JHS Morning Glory pedal? I think it has that Marshall/Frusciante sound in a box. Worth checking out. I think Josh of JHS pedals has just released a video about the Morning Glory so go have a gander see what you think 👍🏼
Dave I am new to your channel and dude this is amazing. You are really gifted and you need have more confidence in yourself and your ear. You spend way to much time in this video anyway apologizing. These mods you are offering aren't in the vernacular of most of us. Also you don't have some 'The Pedal Show" production crew. I joined your Patreon on the spot man!! Now I will spend a good many hours catching up with a bit of your output!
Should i just use my friedman irx rather than my deluxe reverb? I love the thickness and warmth of the deluxe. But maybe a losing battle.
Got My Good Gravy shirt today.. Awesome .. Thanks Dave