How Guitarists Got Distortion in the 1950s

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  • Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
  • #guitar #music #guitarist #shorts
    yessir. taking a look at the bizarre tone techniques of the legendary Link Wray. dig it.

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  • @Vanessa-ru8xw
    @Vanessa-ru8xw Год назад +36731

    «Back in my days, no one was safe from getting stabbed. Not even amps»

    • @barbodx9957
      @barbodx9957 Год назад +261

      Normal day in London

    • @Super.AmmarI0
      @Super.AmmarI0 Год назад +79

      Blues players playing a live show in London hoping it doesn't turn into a cannibal corpse concert fr...

    • @zeldaaudio2476
      @zeldaaudio2476 Год назад +13

      That guitar action is mad high tf

    • @lonewolfking4274
      @lonewolfking4274 Год назад +5

      @@Eduardo_3334 how did you know

    • @bigsmeggoesgaga
      @bigsmeggoesgaga Год назад

      ~👴🇬🇧

  • @SigGuy320
    @SigGuy320 Год назад +14442

    I had an amp in the 90s that had almost no distortion. One day, the cheap speaker got damaged, and suddenly I had distortion. 14 year old me was thrilled. LOL

    • @Lord_Rhoads
      @Lord_Rhoads Год назад +120

      @Walter B wellll. Your not entirely wrong. Just not right either

    • @therandomdj124
      @therandomdj124 Год назад +70

      😂 epic, I though distortion was when the amp’s speaker had to be removed and put a tiny speaker in its place but then my dad showed me what to do. 9 year old me was dumb😂😂😂😂

    • @green_day3901
      @green_day3901 Год назад +25

      Hey that reminds me of when I used some old broken headphones with my first amp and was so happy to have distortion at the time!

    • @jeffybezos9517
      @jeffybezos9517 Год назад +3

      That's hilarious 😂

    • @florkgagga
      @florkgagga Год назад +2

      Exactly,, he could have used any damaged cone from a junkyard and donated the good one to some who can't afford it.

  • @MrJoeBreezy
    @MrJoeBreezy Год назад +8739

    If you wanted to be in a 50s tribute band, this is the most authentic way for sure. Actually sounds cool

    • @theofthe2299
      @theofthe2299 Год назад +61

      who would want to be in a (non-jazz) 50s tribute band tho lol

    • @Quacktivate
      @Quacktivate Год назад +64

      ​@@theofthe2299 that would be me

    • @kindauncool
      @kindauncool Год назад +102

      +​@@theofthe2299 wait are you telling me that some people have opinions and preferences that differ from RUclips channel “the of the” ?!?!?! That’s crazy!!!

    • @leroysanchino
      @leroysanchino Год назад +6

      @@kindauncool 😂

    • @slicksnewonenow
      @slicksnewonenow Год назад +3

      Just look at it like you now have options with that little amp ... you can easily and cheaply get a replacement speaker for it.
      Another great experiment would be to buy a similar sized speaker with a bigger magnet on it... as long as the amp has the wattage to drive the new speaker... you could surprise yourself.

  • @Ty1350
    @Ty1350 Год назад +3403

    “Telestrat isn’t real, it can’t hurt you”
    Telestrat:

    • @ItsMe-th5rd
      @ItsMe-th5rd Год назад +26

      lmao telestrat😂

    • @gregorramsundar
      @gregorramsundar Год назад +21

      If u think that's hunting just wait when u see a mustang or a jaguar that is right handed but the pick gaurd and the head stock is flipped up side down too look left handed but its right handed now that's haunting

    • @DarkPlaysThings
      @DarkPlaysThings Год назад +25

      Honestly, I think the name “Stratocaster” sounds better……… wait

    • @ozmobozo
      @ozmobozo Год назад +1

      Bigsby bridge Telestrat HH and glued neck would be the final boss of crimes against Fender

    • @andersons470
      @andersons470 8 месяцев назад +7

      Omg it is a telestrat 😂😂

  • @justinc7512
    @justinc7512 Год назад +227

    We used to cut our speakers back in high school to get distortion out of them.

    • @-TheZilvers-7812
      @-TheZilvers-7812 Год назад +6

      Thats dopeee even seems I saw this video I haven’t stoped poking all my guitar amps loll

    • @-jank-willson
      @-jank-willson 5 месяцев назад +1

      the best way to do it is to make 500 - 1,000 teeny-tiny little '+' plus marks in the cone, with the majority of them concentrated at the center of the cone

  • @leifrasmussen1306
    @leifrasmussen1306 Год назад +10379

    Bro, that has the perfect amount of drive for a clean tone.

    • @less2worryabout
      @less2worryabout Год назад +61

      Roland amplifiers are TOUGH

    • @wizzfizz6800
      @wizzfizz6800 Год назад +242

      @@less2worryabout it’s a shitty Randall beginnner amp what are you talking about

    • @leifrasmussen1306
      @leifrasmussen1306 Год назад +28

      @@less2worryabout I KNOW THEY ARE SO GOOD. My dad has a JC-120, AND IT SOUNDS HEAVENLY.

    • @less2worryabout
      @less2worryabout Год назад +8

      @@leifrasmussen1306 Those Combos are the reason I use one still today. Yes super amplification

    • @erronblack6763
      @erronblack6763 Год назад +60

      @@wizzfizz6800seems like nobody seen the huge “randall” sign on it lol

  • @mirkusmr3304
    @mirkusmr3304 Год назад +1729

    "What did you get?"
    *Distortion*
    "What did it cost?"
    *My amp*

  • @0ut1aw
    @0ut1aw Год назад +13021

    I'm pretty sure this is how they achieved the guitar tone for "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks

    • @batt5606
      @batt5606 Год назад +1037

      Yeah but they slashed the speaker cone with a razor blade instead of stabbing it

    • @nathax8174
      @nathax8174 Год назад +110

      that explains so much

    • @georgeprice4212
      @georgeprice4212 Год назад +284

      @@batt5606 depends on if you ask Ray or Dave! Ray says slashed, Dave says knitting needles.

    • @rm2kking
      @rm2kking Год назад +18

      It is

    • @parkedcar3411
      @parkedcar3411 Год назад +35

      He got it from slashing the speaker not stabbing it

  • @chong671
    @chong671 Год назад +60

    An even earlier example of distortion is on Ike Turner's "Rocket 88" from 1951. Someone dropped Turner's amp and it cracked the cone. They plugged it in anyway and Ike liked the sound so they used it on the record.

  • @mailonvakra4904
    @mailonvakra4904 Год назад +13

    This sounds really unique since it IS "natural" distortion and Not caused by an effect pedal. I think it sounds very authentic😊

  • @azragul5449
    @azragul5449 Год назад +1453

    Its surprisingly pretty good

  • @_panko
    @_panko Год назад +1509

    and then 50 years later death grips sampled it

    • @smuglef
      @smuglef Год назад +1

      I FUCK THE MUSIC

    • @_panko
      @_panko Год назад +61

      @@smuglef HIT HIT HIT

    • @smuglef
      @smuglef Год назад +33

      @@_panko IM ON THAT SHIT

    • @alex11v3
      @alex11v3 Год назад +43

      SPREAD EAGLE CROSS THE BLOCK
      (good omori pfp)

    • @memphiskash
      @memphiskash Год назад +33

      WHAT IS IT WHERE IS IT HOW WILL IT AFFECT ME

  • @vids_of_nothing
    @vids_of_nothing Год назад +20

    Leaving the pencil in there for ✨ style ✨

  • @SCP-FoundationMember
    @SCP-FoundationMember Год назад +19

    "Can we get distortion?"
    "We have it at home"
    Distortion at home:

  • @harvey1954
    @harvey1954 Год назад +3293

    Ike Turner and Jackie Brenston had an amp that fell out their car. It dislodged a tube in the amp which gave them a fuzz tone.

    • @lewisnash9820
      @lewisnash9820 Год назад +75

      Yep! Stuffed the amp with news paper… Rocket 88 is the song

    • @TheUltimateDoorsMod
      @TheUltimateDoorsMod Год назад +25

      @@lewisnash9820 yes! It happened in the early fifties. I want to say ‘51. Link would have done this way after Jackie Brenston and the Bear Cats

    • @thatmillionthman582
      @thatmillionthman582 Год назад +6

      Someone else recognized it! 😁

    • @5roundsrapid263
      @5roundsrapid263 Год назад +11

      I think it actually fell out on Highway 61, the legendary Blues Highway.

    • @TheUltimateDoorsMod
      @TheUltimateDoorsMod Год назад +7

      @@5roundsrapid263 I believe so as well. I know that Ike laughed about the incident years later and expressed it was just a huge mess up. It was said that Sam Phillips offered a working amp but after hearing theirs, he said to give it a try. I don’t know for a fact if that convo took place but I am sure glad they went with their amp anyhow

  • @gamergolum
    @gamergolum Год назад +2811

    Wasn't rumble banned from some radio stations for "ensuing bar fights" because of the aggressive tone of the Amp?

    • @mokodo813
      @mokodo813 Год назад +74

      Yep.

    • @knockoutguitarist087
      @knockoutguitarist087 Год назад +179

      Yes sir😂 the fear of widespread aggression it would cause teenagers to have… THE HORROR! Yet rock around caused a literal battle royal at a concert in the 50s as soon as the song started… CHAOS

    • @RedDed228
      @RedDed228 Год назад +68

      That's just fantastic. If only they heard some of the stuff used with distortion now.

    • @yeppieyay8906
      @yeppieyay8906 Год назад +57

      Not necessarily the tone of the guitar, but because of the title and message of the song itself which is literally "Rumble." And it was gang fights, not bar fights.

    • @agreenr6915
      @agreenr6915 Год назад +25

      Link himself has said the song was inspired by a bar fight it was banned cause they thought it'd insight gang violence

  • @A_real_Wizard
    @A_real_Wizard Год назад +407

    That distortion is gnarly, man, definitely keep that amp around for good!

    • @-jank-willson
      @-jank-willson 5 месяцев назад +4

      the best way to do it is to make 500 - 1,000 teeny-tiny little '+' plus marks in the cone, with the majority of them concentrated at the center of the cone

  • @smellthel
    @smellthel Год назад +29

    I never made the connection that amps with distortion weren’t a thing back then so they had to improvise. Awesome!

    • @Acemechanicalservices
      @Acemechanicalservices 8 месяцев назад +2

      They were tube amps, they had just as much distortion. They just didn’t turn them up enough.

  • @Pinstriped5120
    @Pinstriped5120 Год назад +37

    You didn’t destroy your amp, just the speaker.

    • @Mordecai_275
      @Mordecai_275 8 месяцев назад +1

      Technically the amp is the speaker, the case or housing box is what he didn’t destroy

    • @evmanbutts
      @evmanbutts 7 месяцев назад

      Technically, the speaker is exactly that. The speaker. The amp is the amplifier circuit that drives said speaker@@Mordecai_275

    • @adams2203
      @adams2203 6 месяцев назад +7

      @@Mordecai_275The amplifier is what actually amplified the signal, hence why guitar amplifiers and speaker cabinets are separate things.

  • @TakNishi
    @TakNishi Год назад +284

    In 70s Japan, I heard rumors that Eric Clapton played "Sunshine Of Your Love" this way.

    • @aidancarlisle6237
      @aidancarlisle6237 Год назад +10

      he definitely didnt

    • @TakNishi
      @TakNishi Год назад +11

      ​@@aidancarlisle6237 Exactly!! In the 70's, information was scarce.

    • @BRoyce69
      @BRoyce69 Год назад +3

      Something somewhere here tells me you've got some stories and I should get you some beers

    • @zackmano
      @zackmano Год назад +1

      It would take a hell of a lot of pokes to get that fuzz! 🤣🤘🏼

    • @narc440
      @narc440 Год назад +1

      A lot of guitarists were using distortion so i doubt that would have been necessary back then lol

  • @sandequation2653
    @sandequation2653 Год назад +22

    Sometimes we do this with razor blades. Old studio trick. Narrower perforations = more "distortion." Basically turns the amp into a kazoo.

    • @gvgv3515
      @gvgv3515 Год назад +1

      So does a blown speaker! My old Hohner amps speaker blew and sounded like a kazoo( great description by the way). It had EXACTLY the rasp of a kazoo, but couldn't handle the power anymore, so it was just audible with the volume and gain@ 10! That was just to HEAR the guitar!!! I played it like that until saving enough to buy a new speaker. The amp was a twin speaker,so I unplugged the good speaker as not to ruin it too! I used to call it welfare distortion! After replacing the speaker I got a used distortion pedal by Electro Harmonics, and it gave me the faw ( fat/ raw) distortion sound I just couldn't get out of my amp naturally! I was ready to emulate my hero from the 80s Eddie Van Halen!! Still can't play anywhere near as good, but still fun!!❤

  • @smeemusic
    @smeemusic Год назад +12

    I've definitely done this before. I found that if you cause tiny tears when you puncture the cone it will distort much better. So perfect holes are less effective than sloppy holes. Also the louder you play it, the more distortion is introduced. This was part of the whole trick. Also back then they would push the amps so hard thebpower section of the amp would distort. In other words you could still get distorted tones without destroying your speaker. Poping holes or slashing the speaker just makes the effect more dramatic.

    • @therespectedlex9794
      @therespectedlex9794 Год назад

      So have they made them with flappy bits? The flappy holiness increases as you turn up the distortion dial. Tbh that was not a very distorted sound.

  • @user-ce4uz7vm9w
    @user-ce4uz7vm9w 9 месяцев назад +2

    It sounds great!

  • @davestafford7301
    @davestafford7301 Год назад +3637

    If you want good natural distortion take a razor blade and cut the cone material so that it reverberates against itself

    • @polofnbryt4khdfbmcpebutido968
      @polofnbryt4khdfbmcpebutido968 Год назад +612

      instructions unclear, killed family

    • @davestafford7301
      @davestafford7301 Год назад +219

      No need to go all hairy carry on the family, slice from the center cone to the outer rim of the speaker like a pizza and the material whether it's paper plastic or composite will reverberate against itself creating that Brown distortion like cream, Jimi Hendrix, the who et cetera

    • @polofnbryt4khdfbmcpebutido968
      @polofnbryt4khdfbmcpebutido968 Год назад +242

      @@davestafford7301 instructions unclear, cut a pizza

    • @301Jayden
      @301Jayden Год назад +100

      @@davestafford7301 instructions very clear, thank you man

    • @bad_azz_punk
      @bad_azz_punk Год назад +57

      Instructions unclear, now I work as a butcher

  • @foot2theballs
    @foot2theballs Год назад +2

    Awesome! I remember hearing about some band putting holes in their amp speaker cones to get an early distorted sound in a music history class, but I hadn't seen it put into practice until now. Really cool stuff!

  • @gsharpenmydjencil
    @gsharpenmydjencil Год назад +81

    Try keeping volume limits on each track so they come out the same. The second example is way louder (which isn’t distortion)

    • @deadshot4245
      @deadshot4245 Год назад +6

      Yep that is so easy to do and no one does it

    • @shotty2164
      @shotty2164 Год назад +3

      Yeah and he’s strumming harder

    • @thestumblingchef3146
      @thestumblingchef3146 Год назад +3

      Yeah that’s just overdrive which is probably how they really got the distorted effect. A broken speaker just sounds like trash

  • @DavBotsArcade
    @DavBotsArcade Год назад +430

    Legend has it the first tremelo was achieved by filling an amp with farts.

  • @jajcasz6648
    @jajcasz6648 Год назад +200

    Well, from what i heard from, actually first example of rock song with distortion is Johnny Burnette's cover of Train Kept a Rollin. Later better known by Yardbirds rendition, and I think even more from alternated version called "Stroll On" feutured in movie "Blow Up", which is one of the first examples of hard rock.

    • @willoverdoseonmusic
      @willoverdoseonmusic Год назад +2

      been wanting to watch that movie for a hot minute

    • @jeromewagschal9485
      @jeromewagschal9485 Год назад +1

      I always thought it was "Rocket 88" with Ike Turner on guitar in 1951 but you must be right...
      As for "stroll on" yeah... It's epic... It's definitely hard rock with Page and Beck trading riffs and solos...And Beck destroying his unruly amp with his guitar which ends up in pieces and thrown into the audience...

    • @tanssi2145
      @tanssi2145 Год назад +1

      ^^^ DING DING DING correct it’s rocket 88, the video and this initial comment are not quite true, rocket 88 tone came in 1951 (5 years before Johnny Burnette) from throwing an illegal U turn outside of SUN records, where the amp was damaged as it fell off the roof of the car, once that was established people started trying all sorted of crazy ideas to reverse engineer / improve on / be inspired by this original tone, the few examples that pre date this song are all from experimentation with humbucker pickups, rocket 88 is the first example of amp manipulation despite it being totally unintentional

    • @ata5855
      @ata5855 Год назад +1

      @@tanssi2145 Sun records, I think

    • @-jank-willson
      @-jank-willson 5 месяцев назад +1

      yeah, that song has a doom-metal type fuzz on the guitar at the 1:05 mark of the song...
      and it's in 1956!!!! i always wondered how he got it.

  • @iggyRS3
    @iggyRS3 Год назад

    Man I fucking love Link Wray, thank you for posting this at all. A god of musical art truly lost by time

  • @Emo.mp3
    @Emo.mp3 24 дня назад

    love the tone, def works well

  • @sethsmusic2326
    @sethsmusic2326 Год назад +106

    With enough skill you can make anything sound good and this guy is a golden case of that

  • @ChronicMetamorphosis
    @ChronicMetamorphosis Год назад +65

    I think Electro Harmonix makes a pedal that emulates a ripped speaker.
    Just in case anyone out there doesnt want to kill a speaker.

  • @slowpoke9364
    @slowpoke9364 Год назад +45

    I think you’ve blended a few different tales from rock history into one here.

    • @Chicky_Lumps
      @Chicky_Lumps Год назад +7

      Yeah I'm pretty sure that song was absolutely not the first to have a distorted tone.

    • @SongWhisperer
      @SongWhisperer Год назад +6

      @@Chicky_Lumps • Bob Wills used a distortion effect on the song “Bob Wills Boogie” in 1946, 12 years before the release of “Rumble”.

    • @JudeTheDude44
      @JudeTheDude44 Год назад +1

      What abt rocket 88

    • @SongWhisperer
      @SongWhisperer Год назад +1

      @@JudeTheDude44 • Rocket 88 is more considered the first Rock & Roll song but not the first to use a distortion effect, there were other musicians trying to break their amps on purpose (before Kizart’s broke his amp) to get the distortion effect and on the first recording of Rocket 88 by Willie Kisart his amp was just broken but he liked the sound so he kept it. It was a happy accident one could say.

    • @-jank-willson
      @-jank-willson 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@SongWhisperer how did he do it?

  • @-jank-willson
    @-jank-willson 5 месяцев назад +1

    the best way to do it is to make 500 - 1,000 teeny-tiny little '+' plus marks in the cone, with the majority of them concentrated at the center of the cone

  • @zakkarystory2352
    @zakkarystory2352 Год назад

    I'm so glad someone else knows about link wray

  • @JTanoalegre
    @JTanoalegre Год назад +96

    I did the same to my 10w Anderson first amp, it sounded pretty damn good

  • @willprince643
    @willprince643 Год назад +6

    It actually sounds better than I expected! It was also tried on the internet before, Circle Of Tone recreated "You Really Got Me" tone including cutting the guitar speaker, he got really close.

    • @timothy4664
      @timothy4664 Год назад +1

      Lol. I just wrote that same thing. They used knitting needles

    • @-jank-willson
      @-jank-willson 5 месяцев назад +1

      the kinks also used a tiny radio speaker that was waaaay too small for the amp, so that poor speaker was getting way more energy than it was designed for... (it was probably blown-out as all heck)

  • @callumcreatesriffs
    @callumcreatesriffs Год назад +22

    “No one else on the internet has tried this” famous last words

    • @stefanoartuso001
      @stefanoartuso001 Год назад +3

      Lmao basically everything has already been done

    • @ploopy8780
      @ploopy8780 Год назад

      he said "as far as I know"

  • @bk3720
    @bk3720 11 месяцев назад

    Paper cones can always be glued back with Elmer’s glue thinned with water applied using a fine tip brush or toothpick, then dried with a hair dryer and the process can be completed till the cone is strong again, albeit functional not pretty. If glue is applied judiciously,

  • @thedangersofoxygen135
    @thedangersofoxygen135 Год назад +6

    Back in my day, we all used line 6

  • @Syddyparrot
    @Syddyparrot Год назад +6

    I smashed my guitar into the cone of my amp in concert and since that i have no more working amp, but I believe a few second later the amp was still working and had an amazing tone.

  • @agreenr6915
    @agreenr6915 Год назад +21

    The holes weren't the only component Rumble was also incredibly loud cause Link cranked the amp (and is probably strumming pretty hard) you can really hear it in the live recording

  • @jesse29barton
    @jesse29barton Год назад +10

    I visited Sun Studios in Memphis where we learned that distortion was created when a guitar player put waded news paper inside the speaker.

    • @JudeTheDude44
      @JudeTheDude44 Год назад

      Whaaaat they told us someone’s amp was shot

    • @jesse29barton
      @jesse29barton Год назад

      @Jude Foster they told us that Johnny Cash's guitar player didn't strap his amp down and it fell off the roof of his car and he had to fix it with tape and newspaper. I have a pic of it.

    • @-jank-willson
      @-jank-willson 5 месяцев назад +1

      ...or was forgoten to be removed after being placed in it to cushion it during a car ride....

    • @-jank-willson
      @-jank-willson 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@JudeTheDude44
      Whaaaat they told us someone’s amp's vacuum tube got cracked...

    • @JudeTheDude44
      @JudeTheDude44 5 месяцев назад

      @@-jank-willsonI think you’re right because I remember now that my teacher told me in history of rock and roll class. I always get things mixed up

  • @cooldude6537
    @cooldude6537 8 месяцев назад

    I thought the kinks were the first to use it for you really got me, I guess you learn something new everyday

  • @TheWhale45
    @TheWhale45 7 дней назад

    Wow this is the first time I have ever seen anyone talk about Link Wray on the internet. very cool.

  • @randallpinkfloyd
    @randallpinkfloyd Год назад +12

    that is amazing

  • @ianchesney9639
    @ianchesney9639 Год назад +6

    Basically the pioneer of psychedelic sounds that later formed in the 60s.

  • @philinegro
    @philinegro Год назад +7

    That sounds pretty good! You should keep it

  • @Azazeliblis
    @Azazeliblis 8 месяцев назад

    That sounds so sick!!

  • @stonecolddaddyo
    @stonecolddaddyo 4 месяца назад

    love link wray, love this

  • @bikibaws
    @bikibaws Год назад +8

    Ben Askren's son is a tone nerd. Respect.

  • @StuPedassol
    @StuPedassol Год назад +29

    You can just replace the speaker. It's worth the science!

  • @bigchonk6915
    @bigchonk6915 Год назад +27

    And that little amount of distortion got that song banned from air I believe

  • @nathanburns6421
    @nathanburns6421 8 месяцев назад

    My God, it's beautiful 🥺

  • @jay_21_jay
    @jay_21_jay 7 месяцев назад

    I am a late 80's born.
    And as a young player,in the late 90's and early 2000's we used to do this,back where I'm from,one of the place that is less blessed.

  • @youztuber5000
    @youztuber5000 Год назад +5

    Hendrix slashed all his speakers

  • @jordanewright2354
    @jordanewright2354 Год назад +4

    Anyone can bore holes in an Amp, but not everybody knows how to and where to bore it properly to get that right sound

  • @kattdemko7259
    @kattdemko7259 Год назад +6

    Desperately trying to convince myself not to do this

    • @TacoSupremo
      @TacoSupremo Год назад +1

      Do it

    • @kyleschneider3147
      @kyleschneider3147 Год назад

      I mean. Why. This is dumb. Besides. You could probably get the same tone out of a $50 pedal but better. Or just buy an old reverb amp.

    • @heelsurfer2668
      @heelsurfer2668 Год назад

      GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS!

  • @Harley831
    @Harley831 Год назад

    Pretty cool!! Fascinating how much tech has come along in these times

  • @capsloccc4606
    @capsloccc4606 7 месяцев назад

    Actually sounds incredible. Raw and organic, absolutely love it.

  • @2005LOLZ
    @2005LOLZ Год назад +6

    Guys whats the best cheap versatile amp that I can buy? I have a line 6 lv spider but I don't like the digital sound of it. I have a SSH partcaster strat. CALLING THE LEGION OF ALL BEDROOMS GUITARISTS TO ANSWER THIS

    • @AshenHollow7
      @AshenHollow7 Год назад +3

      Honestly fender lt25s kick ass for the money and throw a boost/OD pedal in front of it and sounds even better

    • @Ottophil
      @Ottophil Год назад +2

      Line 6 spider 4 or all tube full stack there is nothing inbetween

    • @2005LOLZ
      @2005LOLZ Год назад

      @Otto Phil I've a line 6 spider 4 already but kinda hate the digital sound of the distortion and I can't really plug no pedals to it, thank u tho'

    • @lukewragg8061
      @lukewragg8061 Год назад +2

      Boss Katana?

    • @wakaihana900
      @wakaihana900 Год назад

      I don’t know how you are with logistics and exchange rates, but as for me, the best amplifier is VOX PATH 10. You won’t find a better one for its price. Well, of course, it is for the home, but its volume is enough to play under the backing track. the vox has the best clean tone and good overdrive. as for effects, I use pedals. sss stratocaster

  • @CHEABUDDY42
    @CHEABUDDY42 Год назад +13

    I guess no one here has cranked an amp from the 50s

  • @RockinTones
    @RockinTones Год назад +6

    How they really got distortion in the 50’s was much simpler than wrecking a speaker, they plugged into a low watt tube amp and turned it up.

    • @michaelmireles7411
      @michaelmireles7411 Год назад

      True, but the original overdrive circuit for pedals and stuff came from damaged speakers, or damaged recording circuits

    • @josh661
      @josh661 Год назад

      I’ve tried both. Both happened to be by accident lol. My first amp was a ion block rocker speaker and I turned it up to learn some AC/DC. It sounded good until the the speaker started smoking out my garage. The ripped speaker was a 1978 fender champ that has a ripped cone. I had better distortion with the ion speaker tbh.

  • @user-li8xu4pu2t
    @user-li8xu4pu2t Год назад +1

    Gooooooooood sound!!😎

  • @KickstandOptional
    @KickstandOptional Год назад +1

    I always dug this sound.
    It gets fuzzy if you slash the cone with a razor. That's a fun one too.

  • @skukeness6201
    @skukeness6201 Год назад +5

    It doesn't destroy the amp, it just destroys the speaker

    • @enzyme181
      @enzyme181 Год назад +1

      We know

    • @skukeness6201
      @skukeness6201 Год назад

      @@enzyme181 apparently not the guy in the video

    • @enzyme181
      @enzyme181 Год назад

      @@skukeness6201 yes he does, the speaker is part of the amp and if you ruined your speaker you still ruined the amp because now the amp won't work without a new speaker. You just wanna be too technical but technically he did ruin it but also, technically, he improved it because it sounds good.

    • @-jank-willson
      @-jank-willson 5 месяцев назад +1

      the best way to do it is to make 500 - 1,000 teeny-tiny little '+' plus marks in the cone, with the majority of them concentrated at the center of the cone

  • @Uggabugga07
    @Uggabugga07 Год назад

    THAT SOUNDS SICK

  • @benmannion4381
    @benmannion4381 4 месяца назад

    That actually sounds amazing

  • @Metal_Szlachetny
    @Metal_Szlachetny Месяц назад

    You didnt just kill the amp, you also killed me dude

  • @BLAzinStRipePiPes10
    @BLAzinStRipePiPes10 10 месяцев назад

    It really gives it that dirty, vintage distortion sound! Sounds like you are playing on an old record. Love it!

  • @houseofsolomon2440
    @houseofsolomon2440 3 месяца назад

    Destroying that tiny $29 Amp was a major sacrifice sir 🤘🏻

  • @Dino3014
    @Dino3014 Год назад

    I remember everyone doing this around 1978-1979. It's not lost knowledge.

  • @Gatecreeper69
    @Gatecreeper69 Год назад

    'No OnE eLsE hAs TriEd It' 'iN CaSe u DiDnT KnOW'

  • @Town_Country96
    @Town_Country96 Год назад

    That worked really well

  • @Eyedunno
    @Eyedunno 2 дня назад

    "You know these amps don't grow on trees"--L7, "Slide"

  • @magicjoe3933
    @magicjoe3933 Год назад

    You can also put crumpled up newspaper in the back to help solidly the sound

  • @cheese_ham52
    @cheese_ham52 Год назад

    Kind of worth it! Sounds pretty cool

  • @GAB-vq7re
    @GAB-vq7re Год назад

    Seeing someone of a younger generation just even know this surprised me! I was thinking what bs is this guy going to come up with! Proved me wrong! Respect my dude!

  • @sashaherriott5129
    @sashaherriott5129 Год назад

    Far as I can tell, you did that lil thing a justice

  • @austinsellers7489
    @austinsellers7489 Год назад

    Dude it actually sounds really cool

  • @user-gw7bs9up3l
    @user-gw7bs9up3l 2 месяца назад +1

    Link wray also had a tube amp.

  • @ShotzFired88
    @ShotzFired88 Год назад

    That sounds amazing.

  • @veerchasm1
    @veerchasm1 3 месяца назад

    I’ve seen people do slashes with razor blades to their speakers. It seems to create even more “distortion” since the sliced cones resonate more

  • @gabebruneau
    @gabebruneau Год назад

    I love your videos by the way you’re very good at playing electric guitar

  • @Maxtibles
    @Maxtibles Год назад

    I absolutely love this

  • @landen5153
    @landen5153 Год назад

    I love that sound

  • @n8dahman559
    @n8dahman559 5 месяцев назад

    I’m in love with the telestrat

  • @Redneck_productions08
    @Redneck_productions08 8 месяцев назад

    Sounds amazing

  • @Indigoloser
    @Indigoloser 7 месяцев назад

    Heck yeah, my dad and I used to talk about this but I never tried it, interesting to see someone do it!!

  • @nomorejunkiebusiness1286
    @nomorejunkiebusiness1286 Год назад

    It's rad that a young man is talking about link wray I heard about him by watching an iggy pop interview great video

  • @AdamAloha808
    @AdamAloha808 Год назад

    Sounds exactly like Link Wray, good job🤙🏽

  • @TheguyfromDetroit
    @TheguyfromDetroit 9 месяцев назад

    bro loves strats so much his tele is a strat

  • @slimertime9289
    @slimertime9289 Год назад

    That sounds SICK

  • @blade_runna6057
    @blade_runna6057 Год назад

    I love this sound

  • @Cyxodus
    @Cyxodus Год назад

    I remember hearing about this method back in the 80s.

  • @bronsoncamp8987
    @bronsoncamp8987 Год назад

    Almost has a Hendrix type tone after the holes were poked. Particularly that low E string. Sounds awesome!

  • @MrMcTitties
    @MrMcTitties Год назад

    came out a lot better than i expected

  • @MrHippiejoe
    @MrHippiejoe Год назад

    That is amazing!

  • @Cyberpanda-ug1bf
    @Cyberpanda-ug1bf Год назад

    Gives a banjo vibe

  • @Inhumane-official
    @Inhumane-official 6 месяцев назад

    I was watching this and was like “was that a Telestrat? Then spun back around and my eyes were right