Excellent execution !!!! No effects needed !!! Your fingers matter so much more !!!!!!! They give an excellent expression !!!! I bet you would play the song well even with a simple Squier !!!! Congratulations again !!!!
Hi, awesome! One that I can learn from, both left hand and right hand. Thank you very much for sharing with us, you are very kind. Please add more covers from Dire straits
Very good. I have watched many covers, no one can rest the pinky and the ring finger on the guitar and use the other three fingers. That’s why he’s the best
Hi, what amp and pedal would you use to get sound for this version of Tunnel of Love ruclips.net/video/fuH8LA_cBkc/видео.html I notice playing goes very loud to quiet which I'm assuming in just altering the volume control on guitar. Thanks
Good question! Short answer, I don't know! I'm guessing he's using a volume pedal to get the volume swells. Maybe mk-guitar.com has the answer you are after. Cheers
I even remember your tone chase from 2008 and back then it was very inspiring for me :) Since the overall sound and video quality is way better than it was back then, it would be interesting to hear how much diffrence an Aphex Exciter would make today. Great to see you back and hopefully there's more to come.
Thank you so much. Glad to hear you found it useful. I've learnt a lot since then. I'm thinking of doing some videos about guitars, amps, pedals, techniques etc to get Knopfler sounds. My thoughts about Orange Squeezer and Aphex exciters have changed since then. I don't think they are really necessary, especially the Aphex. I now aim to get the sound from just the guitar and amp and maybe an overdrive pedal depending on the amp. The Orange Squeezer adds a slight "flavour" to the sound. Thanks again
@@stratnut Interesting point with the overdrive pedal: Sultans is said to have one of the cleanest Strat sounds but I can clearly hear some slight saturation on the original recording. That might be due to the mixing desk or some other reasons that we don't know. In fact, Mark tends to go for a slightly crunchy sound most of the time, it's rarerly completely clean as most people claim. The Orange Squeezer is a nice tool for the early Dire Straits sound, it adds a bit of compression but not too much and I also like the color it adds :) I also think that the Aphex is not really necessary, still it would be very interesting to hear what it adds to the sound, since there are rumours that he used one back then.
@@TheWizzard29 I agree with what you say. When you listen to the isolated Sultans lead guitar, it is far from clean. It doesn't have a glassy clean sound that lots of people try to copy. I agree the Orange Squeezer adds a flavour but not the amount of compression you hear on the record. I found that trying to make the recorded lead sit well in the mix, a lot of compression is needed. I have come to realise the importance of having a resonant Strat. There is an airy top end to Marks sound that I couldn't get with either the 63 Strat or the John English master built. Adding the exciter was an experiment to see if it could add back in what was missing. It's only been the last roughly 6 years that I "stumbled" across a very resonant Strat. That made such a difference, I've replaced all my electrics with carefully chosen resonant guitars. That and choosing an appropriate string gauge (9s maybe even 8s) has got me so much closer.
@@stratnut Good point! Resonant guitars are quite hard to find, I made very good experiences with lightweight guitars in this regard though. It seems to me that they respond much faster and more 'pulsating' to my playing than heavier guitars plus they are better for my back ;) If they are too light, I experienced, the lower/mid frequencies might get lost and it can easily sound a bit scooped, so a good balance is quite important. Also, you can call me a snob, I have the feeling that nitro lacquered guitars give a way more detailed picture of the high frequencies than anything else, I tested this on many guitars in the past and it always came down to this. At the end of the day it's all a matter of taste and feel and also of one's playing abilities. I can tell you that you've got the skills and you very likely would also sound great on a cheap, stock Squier :)
Thanks for the kind words. Knopfler makes it look deceptively easy, but it's not! There are phrases I struggle with that don't sound as confident as they could be
@@stratnut this is a friggin difficult song, i have been playing it everyday for the last 8 years, and if i go on holidays, then i need a good fortnight to get back to the routine to not completely suck... my God, Mark is a genius to have ever created this song.
Great to see you again, Sir! Do you still have you 63' red stratocaster? I actually think the guitar tone in your previous video was a little bit closer to the recording. Loved the tone and the playing in this one too ...
Great performance, really crisp execution and some nice alternate approaches to licks, thanks for sharing. What settings did you use on the Microtubes pedal? It's not really distorting at all but might be colouring a little? Intriguing.
Thanks Benjamin. The Microtubes was set to just add a hair of distortion, barely noticeable as distortion in the track. A lot of folks play it dead clean, but a touch of distortion sounds better to me :-)
Great video and tone and playing! and by the way WOW I also have a Blue Yeti, didn´t know it was capable of such quality. I will try it when the dogs in the neighbourhood decide to F.... SHUT UP for a while.
@@stratnut I come here again, how did you set up the blue yeti, I still cannot set it up correctly, it takes too much ambience noise. Also my computer does some bubbly sound when I use the headphones. (I do not have a dedicated sound interface)
@@Guitarraeficaztutorialesytabs I set it on the stereo mic setting with the gain very low. I had to keep the amp volume quite low or it would overload the mic. The USB was plugged directly into my laptop. I tried different mic positions to see how much room ambient sound it would pickup. Good luck!
Is that on the treble pickup or the middle? Some of them seem too bright or too much distortion but this one sounds as close as I've heard. He probably has a a too bad but full volume.
@@Gjuby are they live performances of the actual recording? No. Listen to the record. It's clearly middle. Has none of the nasal phased sound of middle and bridge. Its a piercing mid-tone sound. That's the middle pickup.
@@Hello_there_obi is there such thing like right pickup and wrong pickup? for me middle and bridge sounds better and this is not a mistake to play like this. And on live Mark use that because probably in that particular situation sounds better for him. Even if i play it on the neck pickup, people would love it until u fu** up :D
@@martgryfny of course! But lots of people talk about the tone he got on the record. And Ive seen videos trying to explain the tone where they get it wrong. Every video I have seen covering this has never had it on the middle pickup. But in the record its clearly the middle with a little compression or a booster. When people cover snow for example, everyone puts it on the neck which is correct. So everytime I see sultans played on the incorrect pickup and it just gets annoying because everyone keeps insisting that its the bridge and middle when thats his live sound. So when I finally see someone doing it right, it deserves a shout out and some applause haha
You're spot on! It was probably played on a Strat with a 3-way switch. They used to wedge it in position 2 with a matchstick. Sometimes it would fall out. I think that's what happened here, but the track was left as it was. As others say, he plays it in bridge/middle position when performing live - well, all the versions I've seen. You disbelievers, try it in position 3 with a band. That's the studio version tone!
Volume around 3.5, treble 5, bass just under 5, reverb to suit. I use the guitar's tone control and find the sweet spot with the amp's treble control. Sometimes it might require turning the guitar tone down to say 7 and upping the amp treble to 6
What pickups are in that Strat? I currently have Texas Specials in mine but I'm not digging them. I'm thinking I might get the Fat 50's or the Custom Shop '54s.
This Strat has got Custom Shop 65's that came with the guitar. They are quite mid scooped which suits the Dire Straits sound. I've also got a Strat with Custom Shop Fat 50s, they sound slightly more mid rangy, a good all round pickup
You can use Texas specials - they're what are on the signature Strat, which is what Mark uses 'live'. Back off the volume and tone pots to reduce the power of the pickups. That's what Mark does. Hope this shelps. Don't change your pickups without trying this first! : )
Is it the compressor settings or the princeton amplifier that gives that trademark knopfler clean tone? Do you have to use a Bi Compressor to get that Knopfler clean tone?
I've tried many combinations of compressor, boost etc. I don't use the Analogman Bi Comp anymore. I prefer a non compressed sound, so I use a slight boost from a pedal just to give a touch of breakup, e.g. Mxr micro amp or an eq pedal. I recon the amp is 95% of the sound which you can then tweak with pedals. A compressor does help even out volume differences in playing which helps, but I'd rather concentrate on technique to even it out. Hope this helps
Folks, after requests from viewers, I've uploaded a new version with an AURAL EXCITER used in the mix. Enjoy! ruclips.net/video/OwH1E0qk6r8/видео.html
On of the best cover I have seen congrats! 👏👏👏
Many thanks
There are many covers of this tune on RUclips and I’ve watched many of them. Your cover is by far one of the very best. Your touch is spot on.
Thank you kindly
This tune beams with the most liltingly lyrical, ravishingly rhapsodic, exquisitely euphonious guitar work in the history of the known Universe.
Wonderful playing and spot on tone. Would love to see a video on how you used the effects.
Thank you kindly. I'm thinking of doing a few videos including amps, pedals etc
@@stratnut that would be awesome
Excellent execution !!!!
No effects needed !!!
Your fingers matter so much more !!!!!!!
They give an excellent expression !!!!
I bet you would play the song well even with a simple Squier !!!!
Congratulations again !!!!
Many thanks
He is back what a legend!👍🏼💪🏼
You play it better than Mark does these days. Amazing
You are too kind, but I don't think anyone can match Mark on his own songs!
So glad I found you again, somehow youtube unsubscribed me. Took me ages to find you again, absolutely love your pure tones and playing.
Thank you so much
I've watched this over and over
Thanks, glad you found it useful
Hi, awesome! One that I can learn from, both left hand and right hand. Thank you very much for sharing with us, you are very kind. Please add more covers from Dire straits
Glad you found it useful. Many thanks
Very good. I have watched many covers, no one can rest the pinky and the ring finger on the guitar and use the other three fingers. That’s why he’s the best
Thank you. Yes, he's very unique in how he anchors his right hand
VERY VERY GOOD !!!!!!!!!!! FROM JAPAN
Thank you kindly
Please make a tutorial on how you use your blue yeti and record everything! It sounds so clean!
Sounds amazing! Impressive
Many thanks
Nice playing! Lovely tone.
Many thanks
What a tone! Thanks for sharing...
Thank you kindly
One of the best!
Many thanks!
Hi, what amp and pedal would you use to get sound for this version of Tunnel of Love ruclips.net/video/fuH8LA_cBkc/видео.html I notice playing goes very loud to quiet which I'm assuming in just altering the volume control on guitar. Thanks
Good question! Short answer, I don't know! I'm guessing he's using a volume pedal to get the volume swells. Maybe mk-guitar.com has the answer you are after. Cheers
Mark's known to use a volume pedal for swells.
I even remember your tone chase from 2008 and back then it was very inspiring for me :) Since the overall sound and video quality is way better than it was back then, it would be interesting to hear how much diffrence an Aphex Exciter would make today. Great to see you back and hopefully there's more to come.
Thank you so much. Glad to hear you found it useful. I've learnt a lot since then. I'm thinking of doing some videos about guitars, amps, pedals, techniques etc to get Knopfler sounds. My thoughts about Orange Squeezer and Aphex exciters have changed since then. I don't think they are really necessary, especially the Aphex. I now aim to get the sound from just the guitar and amp and maybe an overdrive pedal depending on the amp. The Orange Squeezer adds a slight "flavour" to the sound. Thanks again
@@stratnut Interesting point with the overdrive pedal: Sultans is said to have one of the cleanest Strat sounds but I can clearly hear some slight saturation on the original recording. That might be due to the mixing desk or some other reasons that we don't know. In fact, Mark tends to go for a slightly crunchy sound most of the time, it's rarerly completely clean as most people claim. The Orange Squeezer is a nice tool for the early Dire Straits sound, it adds a bit of compression but not too much and I also like the color it adds :) I also think that the Aphex is not really necessary, still it would be very interesting to hear what it adds to the sound, since there are rumours that he used one back then.
@@TheWizzard29 I agree with what you say. When you listen to the isolated Sultans lead guitar, it is far from clean. It doesn't have a glassy clean sound that lots of people try to copy. I agree the Orange Squeezer adds a flavour but not the amount of compression you hear on the record. I found that trying to make the recorded lead sit well in the mix, a lot of compression is needed. I have come to realise the importance of having a resonant Strat. There is an airy top end to Marks sound that I couldn't get with either the 63 Strat or the John English master built. Adding the exciter was an experiment to see if it could add back in what was missing. It's only been the last roughly 6 years that I "stumbled" across a very resonant Strat. That made such a difference, I've replaced all my electrics with carefully chosen resonant guitars. That and choosing an appropriate string gauge (9s maybe even 8s) has got me so much closer.
Unfortunately the Aphex has gone
@@stratnut Good point! Resonant guitars are quite hard to find, I made very good experiences with lightweight guitars in this regard though. It seems to me that they respond much faster and more 'pulsating' to my playing than heavier guitars plus they are better for my back ;) If they are too light, I experienced, the lower/mid frequencies might get lost and it can easily sound a bit scooped, so a good balance is quite important. Also, you can call me a snob, I have the feeling that nitro lacquered guitars give a way more detailed picture of the high frequencies than anything else, I tested this on many guitars in the past and it always came down to this. At the end of the day it's all a matter of taste and feel and also of one's playing abilities. I can tell you that you've got the skills and you very likely would also sound great on a cheap, stock Squier :)
Great tone, great playing :D
Many thanks!
Hell fucking yeah!
You nailed it, i'm still screwed...
Perfect😍
Thank you!
Matou a pau!!!!!!
Very good mate. I play this nearly exactly the same as you, which is pretty rare as everybody possesses their own idiosyncrasies!
Thanks for the kind words. Knopfler makes it look deceptively easy, but it's not! There are phrases I struggle with that don't sound as confident as they could be
@@stratnut this is a friggin difficult song, i have been playing it everyday for the last 8 years, and if i go on holidays, then i need a good fortnight to get back to the routine to not completely suck... my God, Mark is a genius to have ever created this song.
@@Gjuby yep, totally agree!
Great to see you again, Sir! Do you still have you 63' red stratocaster? I actually think the guitar tone in your previous video was a little bit closer to the recording. Loved the tone and the playing in this one too ...
Thanks for the kind comments. I replaced all my guitars, the 63 Strat and the John English master built about 5 or 6 years ago
muy buena tecnica y excelente ejecucion! congrats
nailed it
te felicito! muy buena ejecucion y la tecnica impecable
Wuaw. A clone of Knofler.... Just amazing. 👍
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it
Awesome!
Great performance, really crisp execution and some nice alternate approaches to licks, thanks for sharing. What settings did you use on the Microtubes pedal? It's not really distorting at all but might be colouring a little? Intriguing.
Thanks Benjamin. The Microtubes was set to just add a hair of distortion, barely noticeable as distortion in the track. A lot of folks play it dead clean, but a touch of distortion sounds better to me :-)
@@stratnut Thanks very much!
Great video and tone and playing! and by the way WOW I also have a Blue Yeti, didn´t know it was capable of such quality. I will try it when the dogs in the neighbourhood decide to F.... SHUT UP for a while.
Many thanks. I too was surprised by how good the Yeti can sound. Good luck recording, dogs permitting!
@@stratnut I come here again, how did you set up the blue yeti, I still cannot set it up correctly, it takes too much ambience noise. Also my computer does some bubbly sound when I use the headphones. (I do not have a dedicated sound interface)
@@Guitarraeficaztutorialesytabs I set it on the stereo mic setting with the gain very low. I had to keep the amp volume quite low or it would overload the mic. The USB was plugged directly into my laptop. I tried different mic positions to see how much room ambient sound it would pickup. Good luck!
@@stratnut Thank you very much for your pointers! I truly apreciate it!
Is that on the treble pickup or the middle? Some of them seem too bright or too much distortion but this one sounds as close as I've heard. He probably has a a too bad but full volume.
This was using the middle pickup. Thanks for watching
Hellooo....congratulation...this is 100% original sound. which strings you use ... thanks and best regards from Slovenia....near Italy..Trieste :-)
Hello! Thanks for the kind words. I'm using a very light gauge string set, Ernie Ball Slinkies 8 - 38.
Thank you .... your fingers are magical.
Good job man!! What kind of compressor did you use? Hipergravity?
Cheers! The compressor was an Analogman mini bicomp, using the Orange Juicer side (a copy of an Orange Squeezer)
@@stratnut thank’s, great performance
Finally, someone who uses the correct pickup. Everyone thinks it's middle and bridge. But it just isn't. You have some good ears!
it is THE MIDDLE AND BRIDGE! look at the live performances of Mark's
@@Gjuby are they live performances of the actual recording? No. Listen to the record. It's clearly middle. Has none of the nasal phased sound of middle and bridge. Its a piercing mid-tone sound. That's the middle pickup.
@@Hello_there_obi is there such thing like right pickup and wrong pickup? for me middle and bridge sounds better and this is not a mistake to play like this. And on live Mark use that because probably in that particular situation sounds better for him. Even if i play it on the neck pickup, people would love it until u fu** up :D
@@martgryfny of course! But lots of people talk about the tone he got on the record. And Ive seen videos trying to explain the tone where they get it wrong. Every video I have seen covering this has never had it on the middle pickup. But in the record its clearly the middle with a little compression or a booster. When people cover snow for example, everyone puts it on the neck which is correct.
So everytime I see sultans played on the incorrect pickup and it just gets annoying because everyone keeps insisting that its the bridge and middle when thats his live sound.
So when I finally see someone doing it right, it deserves a shout out and some applause haha
You're spot on! It was probably played on a Strat with a 3-way switch. They used to wedge it in position 2 with a matchstick. Sometimes it would fall out. I think that's what happened here, but the track was left as it was. As others say, he plays it in bridge/middle position when performing live - well, all the versions I've seen. You disbelievers, try it in position 3 with a band. That's the studio version tone!
What position pickup are you on??
I'm using the middle pickup. Thanks for watching
Amp settings?
Volume around 3.5, treble 5, bass just under 5, reverb to suit. I use the guitar's tone control and find the sweet spot with the amp's treble control. Sometimes it might require turning the guitar tone down to say 7 and upping the amp treble to 6
What pickups are in that Strat? I currently have Texas Specials in mine but I'm not digging them. I'm thinking I might get the Fat 50's or the Custom Shop '54s.
This Strat has got Custom Shop 65's that came with the guitar. They are quite mid scooped which suits the Dire Straits sound. I've also got a Strat with Custom Shop Fat 50s, they sound slightly more mid rangy, a good all round pickup
You can use Texas specials - they're what are on the signature Strat, which is what Mark uses 'live'. Back off the volume and tone pots to reduce the power of the pickups. That's what Mark does. Hope this shelps. Don't change your pickups without trying this first! : )
@@ianguitar7532 I changed those pickups 9 months ago, haha. I put the custom shop ‘54s in it and I’m thrilled with how they sound.
@@jme92685 I'm glad you're enjoying them : )
Is it the compressor settings or the princeton amplifier that gives that trademark knopfler clean tone? Do you have to use a Bi Compressor to get that Knopfler clean tone?
I've tried many combinations of compressor, boost etc. I don't use the Analogman Bi Comp anymore. I prefer a non compressed sound, so I use a slight boost from a pedal just to give a touch of breakup, e.g. Mxr micro amp or an eq pedal. I recon the amp is 95% of the sound which you can then tweak with pedals. A compressor does help even out volume differences in playing which helps, but I'd rather concentrate on technique to even it out. Hope this helps
So close
Mark has two fingers resting on the guitar.....,you are doing only the easy parts.... Good, but not a cover
Thanks. Yes, he plays rhythm in between the lead lines. I'm doing bits of that but at low volume! His two fingers on the pick guard is very unusual
This is good 👍🇸🇪
Thank you!