Jon Levasseur of Cryptopsy on His Setup and Drop Tuning
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- Опубликовано: 15 ноя 2011
- Jon Levasseur of Cryptopsy on His Setup and Drop Tuning
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Next to Lord Worm, this man is the genius that made that band so unique, and amazing.
dont forget the man who makes up half of Cryptopsys sound, aka Flo Mounier
Okay I guess fuck flo right?
@Vitun Pelle and Randy Viger. Drummers don't write songs and music, especially in this style of music, very few exceptions, in general, guitarists and bassists do! Jon Levasseur was the true soul of Cryptopsy, both albums he's not on are not Cryptopsy albums. Not to mention, he took what was left of a ruined band after TUK and brought them back to respectable form in the space of one album and now they're still going! Gotta give it up for this guy! Flo's a great drummer but that's all, I personally wasn't impressed by his letter bashing fans who didn't like TUK, very unprofessional.
Realise I'm dipping into an ancient comment thread here, but Steve Thibault is greatly overlooked here. Despite only being with the band through to the first album, he crafted the signature Cryptopsy sound and taught Levasseur what Cryptopsy was supposed to sound like in terms of riffing.
@@herpyderpy4366 I'd need to have Jon Lev himself come out and admit this to believe it. I know Martin Fergusson's side of the story (bassist on 1st album) and Steve Thibault was a poser who couldn't tune his own guitar or change a guitar string, Martin had to do it for him all the time. Like mentioned above and like most people know in the MTL metal scene, Jon was the real inspiration and talent behind Cryptopsy. He also remains the writer of their last full album and what a comeback it was!
A little harsh but I think Levaseur himself would agree with u. I remember reading in interviews that he never considered himself much of a lead guitarist concentrating more on riffs, drum beats and songwriting. However, I think that solos like Serial Messiah, Phobophile, Dead and Dripping, Cold Hate Warm Blood, We Bleed and more recently Red Skinned Scapegoat are totally original and amazing. No one sounds like him and I've never seen anyone being able to duplicate his solos with much accuracy.
Man, to this day I feel like he's a really great and original guitarist, both with rhythm and lead. really creative style that still stands apart as *his* style
Nope nobody sounds like this guy my favorite guitar player when he left cryptopsy they just are not the same at all Chris donaldson is good and all but this man just has such a unique style of writing and playing witch to this day have not heard anyone else do
Yea and he played none so vile on that strat live too that was absolutely insane
Agree with you, Faceless Unknown have a sick solo too..(the best 10 seconds solo i already hear) and Slit your Guts
My favorite solo from him is open face surgery
He's a great guitar player.
And seems like such a nice guy also
I miss when Jon was in Cryptopsy, all the good songs came when he was in the band.
HOLY SHIT!!! I've been waiting for something like this from Jon to hit RUclips since it started. He's probably had the biggest influence on my lead playing, period.
Guitar God.
Finally saw Jon on the back stage!!! The best metal composer/guitarist ever!
Great guitarrist *.*
DAMMIT JON, WHY DID YOU HAVE TO LEAVE AGAIN :(
Cool video! I too use D'Addario as they're the best for what I need.
this sound with a strato? awesome
Finally I can see how he plays insanely so close view!!!
Why does the title say drop tuned instead of down tuned?
That's what I was wondering.
oh we did enjoy the next sound the gaved us...thanks again
dat sweeping..
@TheObolus I think it's all about how it plays at the end of the day. I've used all sorts of "metal" guitars in the past, ESP, Ibanez, Jackson, Schecter etc but I have to say my two favourite guitars to record and gig with were distinctly less "metal" than any of those. The first was an old Les Paul, and the second was a PRS Custom. Sadly I no longer own either, but both of them were a dream to play :)
@Mirrorrim Les Pauls are great for metal as long as it Gibson made before they outsourced a few years back. PRS can be awesome too as long as you have the right one.
The next album it´s gonna be brutal brutal brutal fucking brutal!.
Por ahí leí que Jon tenía trabajos tocando con una banda de Free jazz alguien sabe cómo se llama o donde puedo escucharlos?
Ten four, My mistake. Thanks for clearing that up \m/
yeah your correct, a lot of people refer to anything below standard as drop, but youd at least expect a string company to know the difference.
Makes sense, D'addario's almost never break either compared to a lot of others. I don't know if a strat is the best choice of guitars for metal though.
With him Cryptopsy became a Death Metal gods, when he left Cryptopsy became the most hateful band in the Death Metal community. I still cannot recover from The Unspoken King lol
I'll say this the unspoken king is not as bad as It sounds
Hail JON!!
Awesome :0
Nasum shirt ftw
Rage Nucleaire is awesome!
His middle pickup I'm pretty sure is whatever came with the guitar, and the other two I can't tell because neither of them have any label (from looking at the video of him playing Serial Messiah). They have a cover on them that EMG pickups have, so that might be a clue.
GeorgRavioli I'm very late haha but after a show a few years back we were having a chat with Oli, Cryptopsy's bass player, and my friend mentioned how wicked it was for Jon to play fender and have such a huge sound, and Oli replied "oh yeah it's the EMG man". So yeah, that's the pickup he uses.
Yes, that bridge pickup on his strat is an EMG 81. That neck pickup seems like a new addition...probably an EMG SA. That middle pickup looks unplugged.
And then Jon leaves again, fuck sake -_-
I love these kind of guitarists, true musicians, today every young guitarist urges to get a 7 strings guitar when you want to downtune. He's in 11-56, like Bill Steer of Carcass. No need for extra big gauges.
ive always enjoyed that with jon and bill using super old school guitars with a classic tone and making them sound very beautiful and heavy at the same time
custom nasum shirt?
Does anyone know the exact model strat he plays? Always been really curious as to whether or not it's a baritone, and other facts about it.
Heard it's a fat strat, i'd like to know MORE.
+Lawrence Swingle I believe it is just a HSS strat (Just like the one and only Andreas Kisser used on what are my faviourite Sepultura albums). I'm certain Jon uses an EMG 81 in the bridge and that goes into a Mesa Triple Rectifier. Other than the HSS configuration it is standard 25.5" scale-length and dropped down a tone or one and half (With a beefier set of strings to compensate. A good starting point would be an 11 - 52 but as he points out, For his wants/needs he keeps his 3rd unwound. I have to buy a set and a few singles to get the exact gauge which I like for drop tuned stuff on my regular 25.5" scale 6-strings. I have a 28" baritone 6-string which is brilliant & I have an 080 on the bottom of that, It is brutal, Along with some 7-strings that are 27.5" and an 8-string, The 8 is the Ibanez M80M which is 29.4", It is a beast). Like said though I still get what I need/want from dropping down my regular scale-length 6-strings). I hope that helps Lawerence dude and it makes sense. The only thing I've had to do on a few of my own is drill through the machine heads to accomodate the lower, Very heavy gauge strings plus some minor setup tweaks to intonate...etc.
+Lawrence Swingle I was looking at strats on ebay and the old Japanese fender hss strats have a black nut with a maple fretboard like Jon's.
It's just a regular Strat with an EMG. He probably has all the tremolo springs tightened down using it as a hardtail.
@TheHipsterholocaust perhaps...
emgs i believe.
@ritualdefacto nah he plays in B
@TheHipsterholocaust Back in the early days, flo's drumming was not like any other band's. I could recognize Cryptopsy just by hearing the drums.
The nose
Ha ha ,that's funny ,they may have been the business men of the group. Business men are always taking credit for every idea ,that sees the light of day
What pickups are those?
EMG 81 bridge and probably an EMG SA in the neck position. Middle pickup looks like stock and looks unplugged.
I bet lord worm is gonna come back someday
thank god this was wrong
old cryptopsy > new garbo
@@jonniefast get a life
well, its whatever works best for you, but single coils arent really what comes to my mind when i think death metal, humbuckers will give your tone more balls 9 out of ten times
Seems like he stopped playing for ages.
Absolutely wrong there. Rage Nucléaire is a project of Frozen Shadows (black metal) guitarist Alvater featuring Dan Greening (vocals). Levasseur and Rage Nucléaire are only connected through Cryptopsy, he is not in the band.
go listen to none so vile, whisper supremacy then kindly eat your words bud.
haha, alrighty then
No you're correct. You'd think d'addario would realize the difference.
no
@rekleoa, however today he's replaceable. Sure he was a great drummer, but a composer? I think not. He just took charge and lead the band as if he defined Cryptopsy as a direct contributor to the music, beats n' rhythms aside.