Ive been studying Stephs tone for months now. I mean straight up buying his signature guitars, buying an AxeFx 3 so I could tone match his guitars with what isolated recordings I can find, reading articles, looking at images, watching all of his playthroughs, reading everything on Equipboard, and of course watching RUclips. He's got a secret he's not telling us about because I cant tell you how many weeks I've sat at my computer dialing in tones on my AxeFx. I can get 70% there but theres still something very important I'm missing. And no, it's not double tracking, that's elementary. I know he uses the JCM800, JMP-1, Marshalo 1960 cabs but there is something he's doing that sounds different with his effects chain and I can't figure it out and he won't share.
The player him/herself has a lot to do with it too. The rigs can be identical, but each person will approach playing the guitar differently. In one of my last bands, we had 2 guitarists -- me being one of them. We were double tracking the rhythm parts for a song, me on the left, Dennis on the right. There's 1 spot in 1 song where my guitar track is actually the other guy playing 2 quick "chug chug" notes...because the way his hand hit the strings was the sound we were looking for. Identical signal chains, same guitar, same pick, same everything...but our hands were shaped differently so the performance sounded different. Stef has given away his presets in the past for that same reason: nobody has his hands. The presets and signal paths are only part of the equation. :)
You forget something If you want the sound of the album. Because record producer and audio engineer do 80% of the finale tone... You should look how Terry Date Mix deftones And hpow he get this tones
You are missing the bass and "studio magic", Chi era is pretty hollow without bass and Sergio while he played more closer to Stephs because both are playing the same notes the whole song sounds heavier and fuller
i think these videos would be better/gain more traction if you give examples of him using these effects whether in studio recordings or live!
Ive been studying Stephs tone for months now. I mean straight up buying his signature guitars, buying an AxeFx 3 so I could tone match his guitars with what isolated recordings I can find, reading articles, looking at images, watching all of his playthroughs, reading everything on Equipboard, and of course watching RUclips. He's got a secret he's not telling us about because I cant tell you how many weeks I've sat at my computer dialing in tones on my AxeFx. I can get 70% there but theres still something very important I'm missing. And no, it's not double tracking, that's elementary. I know he uses the JCM800, JMP-1, Marshalo 1960 cabs but there is something he's doing that sounds different with his effects chain and I can't figure it out and he won't share.
The player him/herself has a lot to do with it too. The rigs can be identical, but each person will approach playing the guitar differently.
In one of my last bands, we had 2 guitarists -- me being one of them. We were double tracking the rhythm parts for a song, me on the left, Dennis on the right. There's 1 spot in 1 song where my guitar track is actually the other guy playing 2 quick "chug chug" notes...because the way his hand hit the strings was the sound we were looking for.
Identical signal chains, same guitar, same pick, same everything...but our hands were shaped differently so the performance sounded different.
Stef has given away his presets in the past for that same reason: nobody has his hands. The presets and signal paths are only part of the equation. :)
You forget something If you want the sound of the album. Because record producer and audio engineer do 80% of the finale tone... You should look how Terry Date Mix deftones And hpow he get this tones
You are missing the bass and "studio magic", Chi era is pretty hollow without bass and Sergio while he played more closer to Stephs because both are playing the same notes the whole song sounds heavier and fuller
He’s such a badass guitar player. Love getting peeks at what these guys use!
Ive needed this thank you!! I have a combo amp i edit sounds with alot of pedals downloaded....def a learning experience but yhis helps
can you do mogwai
omg.
Wow some cool ofdballs. Z vex Machine is UGly, still have mine but rarely use it, and the MXR blue box tracks horribly … I love it