The Evolution of Distortion (1940-2023)
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- Опубликовано: 29 мар 2023
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yessir. distortion is a vital addition to any guitarists' pedalboard. so today I took a deep dive into the origin of grit, and how it developed over 80 years time. dig it.
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good to know this dude ACTUALLY knows other guitarists other than hendrix or SRV or Cobain
You have to be. As a musician I think you have to have some mileage on you. You have to know the culture,the sleeziness, dive deep into each genre and discover who the true greats were. I'm telling you there's nothing like being 18 going to play your first real gig and there's passed out high and drunk ppl,your tuning in a puked in bathroom,while the entire venue is clouded with smoke. You ever been black out drunk but but conscious enough to play guitar. Looking down seeing three frets but you're doing it because of the music. Music is far deeper then most known. I'm glad I listened to my dad and dove down the rabbit hole. Never got into hard drugs but was all around me,did go for the booze a little bit that's not what it's about that's just part of the culture. So grateful I spent hours on end watching every single documentary on every great band out there. You truly learn how fucked up of a scene the music life can be. I've seen a grown dude cry his eyes out as he rained tears down the guitar neck while he played the most amazing heartfelt stuff,then stood up and said this is all I need then passed out while smoking a butt. I absolutely love the filthy grimy side to music culture.
He did play some Territorial Pissings tho
RIGHT???
Kind of sad to see how people are forgetting about Santana
@@lowgpu1687 no one forgot about him atleast i didnt
Crazy idea, do all of them at the same time!
Holy fuck yes
At that point you’d just have doom or black metal tone lmao, bands like Witch and Gnome have been using multiple distortions and or even fuzz pedals in their signal chain for ages, highly recommend checking them out if your curios!
@@lakfit.b8347if you enjoy l
That style of metal you should try the band Lavabourne
that's how you get shoegaze
@@alfonzo_ that is NOT how you get shoegaze 😭
I feel like overtime distortion has gained a sense of clarity in its tone.
When it comes to modern heavy metal 🎸 you gotta have distortion u can never have enough distraction 😌
so true nothing can beat those raw distorted hendrix tones tho
I see what you did there
nothing ever beats nirvanas nevermind tone.
@@JeremiahDaniel1995adding too much will raise the noise floor. Get a tube screamer. Turn up the Volume and Tone, Gain all the way down. Then adjust the gain on your amp until your guitar just barely starts chugging with medium strokes.
I love that you playing the territorial pissing from Nirvana when you talking about 90's. Thats freaking cool man, keep doin' more stuff like this!
that was nirvana? sounded like slower green day
@FelixFTW I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure Greenday copied this riff. I think it's identical to the main riff of Bang Bang on Revolution Radio
@@tiernandarcy1413 which nirvana song is it? i'm a little drunk rn and don't feel like learning anything new
@@felixftw4702 op said it in the comment, "territorial pissings" probably one of my favourites from nevermind.
@@tiernandarcy1413 its funny, i was thinking the same thing until i realised it was nirvana.
im sure the riff being similar was pure coincidence though
the virgin pedalboard owner
vs
the chad amp stabber
😂😂😂
The Kinks were the first band I knew about that would slash their amps open, to get that distortion tone on songs like You Really Got Me.
I had no idea people had done that in the 1940s and 50s.
They were the first to slash the speaker cones, other people had done it earlier by messing with the valves in their amps
@@SoFarSoGoodSoWhat14 Link Wray was slashing speakers in the 1950s.
Dave Davies slashed the speaker cone of a small practice amp at first, and then attempted to amplify it further by running the speaker output into a larger amp - so he was probably just overdriving the second amp. Nothing to do with slashed speakers.
There are probably lots of arguments about who didn't first but the first time the damaged speaker distortion appeared on a record was in 1951on the song Rocket 88. The story is that before a recording session the guitarist accidentally dropped his Amp off the roof of a car and when he hear what it sounded like they decided to use it.
I just know i did it to my smaill keyboard piano when i was 4.
(and my grandma threw it away a few days later 😢)
Fantastic Young guitar player! Keep going man, you'll be a monster. Excellent informational video on the distortion evolution as well
The tone of 1950s rock will always be one of the best!
they didn't use distortion back then, so your comment is irrelevant
@@mattvdh They did. Johnny Burnette, Link Wray, Pat Hare, Howlin' Wolf and others
@@mattvdh 🤓
@@markmmv fella acts like he’s never heard “The Train Kept A Rollin”
Boomer
Great explaination of the history of distortion! I love that sonic blue 60s style strat strat those are my favorites.
(edit: I've checked out some of your other videos and I just hav to ask what model sonic blue strat is that and how much did it cost you?)
Another banger of a video! Keep making awesome videos! I love every single one of them.
This was a really cool video, what was crazy to me is that the first destroyed amp actually sounded good... this guy is the tone master!
Always enjoy ur demos.
Thanks for the Videos! Guitars forever!
Lookin' Good - Magic Sam. Nice!
The 90’s distortion didn’t have a name for the song example but for me it’s sounds like Territorial Pissings by Nirvana
sounds like bang bang by green day
which also has the same progression haha
Sounds like Bang Bang from Green Day, yeah.
It’s terrritorial pissings
GOTTA FIND A WAY, A BETTER WAY, WHEN IM THEEEEEERE
The development of distortion pedals for guitar also paved the way for modern electronic music which relies on heavy and customized distortion(by use of vsts).
Whether you like dubstep or not (I personally don’t care for it), you can’t deny Skrillex is easily the most influential EDM producer of the 2000s so far. It’s no surprise he has roots in guitar and heavy metal.
@@W4TSKY
Skillrex is also non binary and gay
Old school power distortion and modern preamp distortion from tube amps has been walking along with solid state and digital distortion too. Would be great some content about this.
The chainsaw distortion of the 90s death metal scene was swaggin
Yea it is heavy and even a little bit unnerving sometimes lol
Yea but he won’t play that, he only plays blues/ old old school rock and in this case Nirvana but only cause it fit the video.
@@Sc4r1_ and he only knows 3 guitarist - Hendrix, SRV and Kurt
All about Entombed taking the worst rated pedal at the time and using it to make one of the best death metal tones ever
good job, id even say this deserves long form content
Nice video. You play GREAT
Distortion and overdrive are the most used effects, the most popular and the ones that are almost never missing in a pedalboard
I hand over reverb and delay ....... needed for clean tones too also compression and boost ... tbf I have ds1 too everyone got got ds1 or tubescreamer tho right
Really depends on your amp
@@OFFICIALLYBENPEARCE My 1st pedal was just the ds1, and the second was the sd1 overdrive
I've never been a tone chaser or a copycat of tones. I've always been obsessed with crafting my own.
cheeky bit of magic sam there i see 🤘
This is so cool
Informative
Very nice good job
Good video 👍
I feel the next step is inputting a whole bunch of sound settings in the guitar itself.
The RAT was my go to pedal back in the day before high gain amps.
Ah, to be young and rich, it’s a lifestyle that produces a certain glow in a person. By the time I was his age I was already 40, and all I had was a lawsuit strat and some first wave behringer pedals that everyone told you were worthless trash but which would be raved about as the secret weapon of the lower class guitarist 20 years later…the glow that lifestyle produces is actually just yellowed nicotine taint from playing in smoke filled bars and the vague afterglow of brother H
Man I really appreciate the vertical filming, great for phone watching!
One thing that hoping for is the harmonic exciter style effect that we have for mixing right now
Anos 80 e 90 os melhores , Boss ds1 , pedal muito fera
Young Jeremy Clarkson
I like the smiths but love shoegaze, it’s either REALLY clean almost acoustic or sludge fuzz
This video felt like a random TV show you find on a relative's TV
Nice add to my ❤🎸peddle collection 😂
Such a cool video thanks!
That magic sam riff!
magic sam babyyyyy
Yup.. guitarist of the 40s & 50s used to poke their cheap Randall RA15G speaker cone for distortion.
yo can you still clean up the tone with your volume knob if your speaker has holes in it?? genuine question, i think i wanna try this out sometime
no
@@lonelittlejerry917 thanks!
@@dapperduckquack do not put holes in ur speaker even if u hate the amp 😂
@@jyejye1077 bUt mY toNe hAs tO b OriGiNaL
Not really. Unlike clipping distortion, speaker distortion tends to be present regardless of volume level.
What was that last pedal you used?
Who makes your guitar strap ? So beautiful...
genuinely an extremely fire video
I JUST GOTA BOSS DS-1!!! WOoo!!🎉
Bro knows like every guitar player that ever lived
Never pronounce Maestro like that again
Why does his face in the thumbnail look so devious
What was the last amp?
I need to know the "21st century" digital stomp box you had.
I’ve used all kinds of pedals and nothing beats a true tube head and Mesa Boogie was king until the EVH head came out.
Are you trolling ? That danelctro pedal did not come out in the 60s.The ds-1 came out in the 70s.and players did not come up with the fuzz pedal an engineer invented it .
MXR was the distortion fuzz everyone I remember used late 70s early 80s. Ugly army green with two black turning knobs, with stomper for on and off. Primative small pedal. I could be wrong, but i think MXR was first distortion pedal .Before that it was fuzz? The guy who made MXR pedal, is the same guy who made the company(Alesis music. He made MXR pedal late 60s or early 70s from his garage if I'm not mistake. The 60s fuzz pedals usually looked like flying saucers. Although I'm not 100% sure. I used to work for Alesis early 90s Culver city. That guy the founder of Alesis was trip. He didn't say much, in his own world. Reminded me of a guy who took enough acid (60's) became intelligent .Lmao!
Social Distortion . Hendrix was a master of distortion , Trower too
Magic Sam's Boogie!
What was the 40 genre I like it what’s the song for the 40s 50s
Is the arena 2000 any good?
We going to gloss over dave davies of the kinks sending a signal from a modified pratice amp onto a larger amp for 'you really got me". He may have not been the exact first but the kinks brought it to the people
The best example of guitar distortions limits is dunkelheit by burzum imo. The eerie, dark, almost chainsaw sounding guitar in that song coupled with the ambience and vargs screeching and haunting vocals just match perfectly. A lot of people say black metal uses too much distortion, but I'd argue it's quite the contrary tbh. It uses a perfect amount of distortion for the aesthetic it goes for. It's meant to be eerie and gutwrenching when you listen to it, and the "chainsaw distortion" as i like to call it fits the eeriness perfectly. I think black metal is the best genre to look at to get an idea of the limits of distortion.
His facial expressions while playing makes me wanna shout "YEEHAW"
Many hate the Metal Zone pedal, I love it!
Gotta include Marty Robbins story!!
Yep
WHEEEEN IIII WAS AN ALIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN
@@felix3385 GODDAFINDAWAAY!! ABEDDAWAAY!! WHENIMTHEEEERREE!!
@@charliecooper5354 GODA FIND A WAY! AH FIND A WAY WHEN IM THEREEREE
@@PixieMeat_444 gotta find a way, a better way! I'd better wait!
@@cosmokane9871 never met a wise man, if so it’s a woman
“May strow fuzz”
Bro straight up jumped 2 decades 😭
This is “the pedal movie” in a nutshell
I believe they slit the paper (the kinks) with a razor, rather than punching holes.
Love Sam's Boogie🎶🎸
The song in 0:56 is Green Day - Bang Bang
No it's Nirvana - Territorial Pissings
cool
I can’t believe you did Nirvana on that video
To name some other great guitarists, Eddie Van Halen (Van Halen), Brian May (Queen), Slash (Guns N' Roses), Kirk Hammett (Metallica), Angus Young (AC/DC), and Jason Hook (Five Finger Death Punch)
Edit: Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Jeff Beck (The Jeff Beck Group)
Man, five finger death punch is one of those bands where every member is very talented but I don't care for a single on of their tunes. Suck to be me I guess
@@willkoestner4159 no offense but yeah man, I like almost all their songs, but it's totally cool that you don't
@@jason_night23 So it goes. Side note: FFDP actually went over seas and visited with my brothers company for the Bad Company music video...while he was on leave. He was pissed lol.
@@willkoestner4159 lol that's awesome
my first fuzz was a Morley power wah fuzz, that I bought in a pawn shop in the 70s. Still have the damn thing, but the wah part stopped working. My favorite fuzz pedal is my m audio neo fuzz cuz it has both silicone and germanium transistors. I like to play it through my ampeg superjet. Just sayin'👍
I love how for the 60’s and 70’s that there was so much talk of Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Motörhead, this guy know so much about the history of distortion he even mentioned Metallica in the 80’s
How will distortion evolve next?
Synthesizer!
fuckin' love territorial pissings
You missed the whole thing on the introduction of master volume amps and pre-amp distortion and just talked about a few pedals…
Bro finally gotta real telly
80 were my favourite
Same.
what song was that 90s style distortion
smells like teen spirit
Do a room tour
👍👍👍
Guys who did distortion like the Kinks - please try to make an impulse response of cabinet.
The way my guy pronounces maestro XD
I Love How He Played Territorial Pissings
To be fair the distortion pedal really started in the 70s with the distortion+ and 250
Jimi used big muff pi
First I thought it was a young John Deacon on tumbnail
The next step it's a guitar with a modeler, a power amp and a cabinet inside fully rechargeable which is also slim and light
I have both a digital distortion one and a ds1 and i honestly prefer the ds1. Whilst the digital distortion is much more versatile, the ds1 sounds much harsher, which I prefer.
I feel like I'll never learn guitar I want to shred so bad but it's hard to learn
0:53
GUYS HE DID IT.
That sounds like Territorial Pissings. Wdym?
Link Wray cut his speakers open with a knife to get the distortion on songs like “Rumble”. Which was, by the way, the first instrumental song ever to be banned from radio in the US. Those local governments that banned it cited worries that it would inspire kids to fight
Didn’t know young Mark Hughes was into guitar
What are your favorite pedals?
My all time favorite has to be the air pedal, very cost effective
Directly Tube/Valve amplifiers sound rule and the best 🤘😎👍. And Nothing else matters! 🎸🔉🎶
I still poke holes in my amps
The next step in the evolution of fuzz control will be using whatever we are told to use.
Me: I’m going to have all these effects pedals, and I’ll take my pedal board with me to play wherever I go.
Also me: I take my multi-effects everywhere, even though I have 50 pedals and a pedalboard set up with all my favorites.