Great video as always, each tone had it's particular quality to it. All tones sounded different but all sounded great. I just got a Tube Screamer a few weeks ago, trying to work it with my Vibrochamp, it's a bit tricky with such a low gain amp to find a solid punky tone but I'm working on it.
Totally. The Tubescreamer gets you very close to vintage punk tones. But you may need a distortion pedal dialed back to get enough the higher gain tones.
@@ScottGuitar Good point, I like the Boss pedal's sound in this video, something like that or a Ratt would do nicely, (and maybe a fuzz too for a getting that proto-punk sound) cheers!
Luckily we live as what a lot of people call the golden age of guitar gear. You can get decent quality guitars from brands like Firefly, Harley Benton, GFS, LTD, the list goes on and on. And theres so many great cheap amps like the boss katana, orange crush, etc. Not to mention if you're willing to shop used gear you can get great gear for not a lot of money. I got a Marshall 1960 cab for 300 bucks, a 70 watt EMC solid state amp for 100, and a 35 dollar yardsale strat i modded with wilkinson parts from amazon. Just shop around, learn to diy stuff, and be patient. You can do so much with very little money that way.
Okay so I heard you can do this thing called “bi-amping” and I have no clue how to do that. Tried looking it up and nothing showed me anything about guitar equipment. But one of my influences had a marshal and “bi-amped” it with a twin reverb. How would one do that? I have a Marshall half stack and would like to try this. Edit: also I was thinking about a rat pedal, awhile ago I got my first pedal ever which was a boss heavy metal 2 pedal but I don’t really like it through my amp. The amp distortion and setting seems to give more power than the pedal when I use it so I just stick with the amp head settings since I don’t know why the pedal doesn’t have as much power. I also should note I only use my distortion pedal on the clean channel since I figured it’d break the amp on the distortion channel.
@@Crash.7434 As far as bi-amping is concerned. I believe that means running two separate guitar amps with a single input signal. My band used to have a guitar tech guy who did this for me with two separate Fender Bassman amps. I believe he just plugged my guitar into the first input in my main amp and then ran a second cable from the second input of the main amp into the first input of the second amp. The main reason we did this was to create a bigger sound when we played larger venues with only one guitarist. I also prefer to use the gain channel on a tube amp instead of a pedal. I agree that the amp distortion feels different or more powerful than a pedal. I mainly use pedals if I can't crank an amp like a fender Twin or Bassman to get the natural overdrive. My gigging Bassman is modified to have tube driven overdrive at any volume and no longer is clean at all. You should have no problem running the distortion pedal into the gain channel on your amp, but you will probably have a ton of noise and feedback.
@@ScottGuitar thank you. I’ll have to give this stuff a try. I’m fairly new to guitar equipment as I only played what I was able to get but now I ended up getting a Marshall avt50h half stack and I was actually surprised by the power it had and been wanting to experiment with extra stuff to give even more power and different tones. For practice I never turn my volume nob past 5 and my drummer and bassist complained I was still too loud. From videos I seen they wanted me to wire both heads/amp to one cabinet and I didn’t see how that worked so I’ve been asking people for advice on it and this seems to be more simplistic than the other videos I’ve seen. Edit: I’m gonna try that later today with the gain channel and my pedal. The clean channel it just never seemed to have a good tone or any power behind it and I was always worried about trying it on the gain channel but if the most it’ll do is feedback then I ain’t worry about it since I actually like feedback(when done correctly) most songs I start I let the feedback ring out anyways to give an “ominous” vibe to it. Just wanting to ask about this stuff though as I don’t want to ruin my amp.
I play serviceable bass for my own music, but I really don't know enough about it or have the equipment to make any recommendations for bass tone. Sorry!
Appreciate the video and all the stuff you're putting out on your channel! One thing worth noting is the EQ or tonestack differences in amps and that many are passive subtractive as opposed to active which can boost also. That along with unity gain for each can vary among same model amps and pedals conveniently haha! Looking forward to future content 🤘🏼
Thanks! Yep. There are so many variations even among the same model amp/pedal. You really just have to experiment on your own. Hoping this video provides a good starting point.
Stop playing poser licks. No kids lining up today care about 70's punk rock. It's good music, but we must move on and stay relevant. Go find the youth on their level and what they like, even if it isn't what you're into. -A punk in Portland Oregon
Either this is hilarious sarcasm or with a name like punxoioi you must be the punkest punk and just crush posers in the pit all day long. If that's the case what bands are you into? I almost bought a guitar off a kid (late teens) the other day and to my surprise not only was he into punk and not some Green Day bs but most of his favorite bands were the ones referenced in the video. I didn't get the guitar but I gave him some bands to check out and showed him how you setup and care for a guitar so he could get his punk band started. Sounds like you would have headbutted the guy and broken his guitar since your so damn hardcore and came out the womb with liberty spikes, tattoos, and epic collection of Punk-o-rama *cough* I mean rare cuts that were self released by the bands that you could have only gotten had you seen them live. Looking forward to hearing what albums you're into 👍🏼
Hi Scott, someday could you make videos about suicidal tendencies? (mostly the first album) perdón si mi inglés esta mal
I'll add that to my list!
Excellent Info, Thank You for sharing this. 👍
Excellent, I've been hoping you would do a video on this! Thanks!
Right on!
Seriously nailed the Pistols sound.
Thanks! Yep. That setup with a Les Paul can really get close to the Pistols tone.
Thanks man
Haha nice shirt! I have a “Johnny thunders for president” sticker on my car bumper 🤣
Also cool guitar! Reminds me of Walter Lures Les Pauk
Nice! He'd FIX this country for sure.
Thanks. Probably my favorite that I own.
great tutorial, my wishes were granted, thanks
Thanks!
Great video as always, each tone had it's particular quality to it. All tones sounded different but all sounded great. I just got a Tube Screamer a few weeks ago, trying to work it with my Vibrochamp, it's a bit tricky with such a low gain amp to find a solid punky tone but I'm working on it.
Totally. The Tubescreamer gets you very close to vintage punk tones. But you may need a distortion pedal dialed back to get enough the higher gain tones.
@@ScottGuitar Good point, I like the Boss pedal's sound in this video, something like that or a Ratt would do nicely, (and maybe a fuzz too for a getting that proto-punk sound) cheers!
Luckily we live as what a lot of people call the golden age of guitar gear. You can get decent quality guitars from brands like Firefly, Harley Benton, GFS, LTD, the list goes on and on. And theres so many great cheap amps like the boss katana, orange crush, etc. Not to mention if you're willing to shop used gear you can get great gear for not a lot of money. I got a Marshall 1960 cab for 300 bucks, a 70 watt EMC solid state amp for 100, and a 35 dollar yardsale strat i modded with wilkinson parts from amazon. Just shop around, learn to diy stuff, and be patient. You can do so much with very little money that way.
Absolutely. Even the budget guitars these days are miles beyond what was available at a similar price point 30 years ago.
I have to start playing more.
I play a les paul deluxe into a digitech screamin blues into a Marshall origin 20 212
Nice!
I play an SG through a Fender Twin. My secret weapon is my vintage Pro Co RAT pedal.
Nice. Yep. I have one of those Proco RAT pedals. They are great too. I'll have to dig mine out for some of these videos.
Okay so I heard you can do this thing called “bi-amping” and I have no clue how to do that. Tried looking it up and nothing showed me anything about guitar equipment. But one of my influences had a marshal and “bi-amped” it with a twin reverb. How would one do that? I have a Marshall half stack and would like to try this.
Edit: also I was thinking about a rat pedal, awhile ago I got my first pedal ever which was a boss heavy metal 2 pedal but I don’t really like it through my amp. The amp distortion and setting seems to give more power than the pedal when I use it so I just stick with the amp head settings since I don’t know why the pedal doesn’t have as much power. I also should note I only use my distortion pedal on the clean channel since I figured it’d break the amp on the distortion channel.
@@Crash.7434 As far as bi-amping is concerned. I believe that means running two separate guitar amps with a single input signal. My band used to have a guitar tech guy who did this for me with two separate Fender Bassman amps. I believe he just plugged my guitar into the first input in my main amp and then ran a second cable from the second input of the main amp into the first input of the second amp. The main reason we did this was to create a bigger sound when we played larger venues with only one guitarist.
I also prefer to use the gain channel on a tube amp instead of a pedal. I agree that the amp distortion feels different or more powerful than a pedal. I mainly use pedals if I can't crank an amp like a fender Twin or Bassman to get the natural overdrive. My gigging Bassman is modified to have tube driven overdrive at any volume and no longer is clean at all. You should have no problem running the distortion pedal into the gain channel on your amp, but you will probably have a ton of noise and feedback.
@@ScottGuitar thank you. I’ll have to give this stuff a try. I’m fairly new to guitar equipment as I only played what I was able to get but now I ended up getting a Marshall avt50h half stack and I was actually surprised by the power it had and been wanting to experiment with extra stuff to give even more power and different tones. For practice I never turn my volume nob past 5 and my drummer and bassist complained I was still too loud. From videos I seen they wanted me to wire both heads/amp to one cabinet and I didn’t see how that worked so I’ve been asking people for advice on it and this seems to be more simplistic than the other videos I’ve seen.
Edit: I’m gonna try that later today with the gain channel and my pedal. The clean channel it just never seemed to have a good tone or any power behind it and I was always worried about trying it on the gain channel but if the most it’ll do is feedback then I ain’t worry about it since I actually like feedback(when done correctly) most songs I start I let the feedback ring out anyways to give an “ominous” vibe to it. Just wanting to ask about this stuff though as I don’t want to ruin my amp.
Maybe try and keep the standard Cramps guitar tone pure.. edge of breakup? You can always throw in a Superfuzz
Yep. For sure. The early Cramps tone is way closer to just a cranked Fender amp at the edge of breakup. And then some occasional fuzz sometimes.
Do you play bass? I want to get that punk rock bass tone
I play serviceable bass for my own music, but I really don't know enough about it or have the equipment to make any recommendations for bass tone. Sorry!
Appreciate the video and all the stuff you're putting out on your channel! One thing worth noting is the EQ or tonestack differences in amps and that many are passive subtractive as opposed to active which can boost also. That along with unity gain for each can vary among same model amps and pedals conveniently haha! Looking forward to future content 🤘🏼
Thanks! Yep. There are so many variations even among the same model amp/pedal. You really just have to experiment on your own. Hoping this video provides a good starting point.
Stop playing poser licks. No kids lining up today care about 70's punk rock. It's good music, but we must move on and stay relevant. Go find the youth on their level and what they like, even if it isn't what you're into. -A punk in Portland Oregon
this is punk classic punk, you wanna play skate punk? or hardcore? or pop punk? there are videos with how to get their tone. I care about this tone.
@@joakero94 you got it right, brother! some people like this dude Just got their head so far up their ass it makes you laugh.
fuck all that pop punk bs, I’m tryna sound like poison ivy
Either this is hilarious sarcasm or with a name like punxoioi you must be the punkest punk and just crush posers in the pit all day long. If that's the case what bands are you into? I almost bought a guitar off a kid (late teens) the other day and to my surprise not only was he into punk and not some Green Day bs but most of his favorite bands were the ones referenced in the video. I didn't get the guitar but I gave him some bands to check out and showed him how you setup and care for a guitar so he could get his punk band started. Sounds like you would have headbutted the guy and broken his guitar since your so damn hardcore and came out the womb with liberty spikes, tattoos, and epic collection of Punk-o-rama *cough* I mean rare cuts that were self released by the bands that you could have only gotten had you seen them live. Looking forward to hearing what albums you're into 👍🏼
Lmao at you telling him what to do you silly little sausage