Capturing Randy Rhoads - Blizzard of Ozz Guitar Tone (Marshall DSL20H) 

Marshall should give you an endorsement deal. All the tones you've gotten out of this amp are just amazing

I was just shopping around for a Rhoads with a Floyd on it, listening to his songs all weekend, and then the Gandalf of Tone posts this... surely a sign from the universe!! Rock on Lamb!! :)

I use to walk around in recess (grade school) and listen to those Ozzy cassettes, and just drool over the guitar tones. Spot on! 🎸🔊🤘

Thank you for the Video! I was lucky enough to see him twice before he died. He died 6 days before I would have seen him again. He did so many fills live that are not on the album!

This man is a genious

Another banger of a video my goodness. I have the white Marshall dsl40c I hunted for the white one why?? Because of Randy! And I’ve chased his tone ever since. I’ve seen forums of people saying “ Randy wasn’t known for his tone” etc I simply say go listen to it for real and come back to me. He has a chunky bottom almost that has a chugg to it before a chugg was a thing you can pump that Low E all day and his mids are fat full and aggressive. Then his top is so smooth not screechy or whiny but as stated just bright enough. I love Randy’s tone so much I needed this video! Now a need a ten band😂. LONG LIVE RANDY RHOADS! His music will forever stand the test of time and he is cemented as one of the greatest to ever do it. Even if you don’t listen to his music your favorite guitar player does and was inspired by him

80’s metal tone is overlooked for modern chug tones.

You do Randy the legend proud. Awesome. Respect..

I could feel your happiness at the end of this video and it infected me too. Your videos and joy are why I ended with a Marshall DSL20HR last week. Thank you for promoting a great metal amp and for being a sincere dude. We appreciate ya.

Randy's tone - not just his incredible music lives on through great work like yours. And no doubt Lamb you get a million tone requests!, I'm still in awe of the Aussie thrash band Addictive supercrunch they achieved on 'Pity of Man'. Please consider!!

Oh what a fantastic notification

I have waited for this video for a very long time. And it was just as perfect as I hoped. If not better

Oh man! I've been waiting for this since you started the series. It's a shame we only had Randy for 2 Ozzy albums, but such little material and he still became one of the most iconic players of all time!

Randy's live tone is honestly where it's at. The album tone is just okay in my humble opinion. I had a really fucking difficult time getting as close as possible to his live tone though. It requires a Marshall amp or a close to Marshall amp with 6ca7's...NOT EL34's. He didn't use EL34s. A Les Paul...doesn't really matter if it's Gibson or Epiphone. MXR Distortion Plus....a lot of people swear by vintage models...usually script versions. It doesn't matter honestly. I've tried both lol. An MXR 10 Band EQ. The speaker must be an Altec Lansing 417-8H. That's one of the biggest problems. I paid a lot of money to find a good working one. I ended up going for a Marshall DSL40CR with that Altec Speaker and I changed the tubes to 6ca7s. With all of those components you can get it very very close to his live tone....especially the tone found on his After Hours performance, which I think is the best representation of his live sound without the Chorus. That's one of the issues with Rhoads. Every single live show he played besides After Hours has this astonishingly blaring Chorus that is always on. They actually mixed that sound out of the Tribute album and even the 40th Anniversary Blizzard/Diary live discs. It is still present in Tribute but it's been muted a bit. Even with all of those components, I still had an enormous amount of trouble figuring out his sound. Until I realized that the gain he had on his amps was very very minimal. All of his gain comes from the Distortion Plus and 10 band. He bumped the mid frequencies 250k-500k quite a bit. 1k is bumped up but not much. Lastly the gain and volume on the Distortion Plus are maxed but on the amp I used Green OD Channel and the gain is turned to around 1-2 or 8 o clock. Almost no gain on the amp. It's really bizarre honestly....he really found this niche tone that is incredibly hard to achieve in modern times. You'd think with Technology that has become so advanced that it would be easy. It just isn't. Oh and his wah was at the end of the chain. His signal went from the guitar to a volume pedal. After that you can really play around but the Wah must be at the end and the Distortion plus is before the EQ pedal. So it's Volume pedal>Dist+>10-band>Wah. You can fit the Chorus and Flanger in there anywhere you want as long as it's after the Volume and before the Wah. I have my Chorus before the Dist Plus. I would say the sound I got is about 98% there with After hours performance as a guide. The only way to get 100% is all the same gear. I couldn't afford a Marshall 1959 and those are entirely too loud lol. The DSL series from Marshall are honestly astonishingly great and you can get a lot out of those anyway. Last thing I will say is good luck getting that live tone with modern Speakers. I tried 6 different Celestions and all failed miserably. You have to have a speaker that is clean and bright. Anything from 100 watt speakers onward usually are very clean. The one that got somewhat close was a Celestion G12T-75 but even that was a failure in my opinion. The closest modern speaker that you could probably use is one of those Electro voice speakers but I'm skeptical of those. Love your videos man and keep em going 🤘

Looking forward to you doing DOAM, the tone on flying high still gets me, so metal.

Swift playing man! Sounds rad

Omg yes finally been trying to get this for so long thank you

Oh and I how dare I not mention his influence in guitar making? The Rhoads V to me is one the most iconic signature shaped ever made and most metal looking guitar. And his style the level of complexity yet simplicity to his riffs and solos, regardless of genre you play or listen to listen to and learn Randys songs they will make you a better guitar player no question.

You da best LambChopper! Love your tone videos. So much fun to see you recreating these classic sounds in your own unique way. Rock on brother

👍👍👍💫💫💫💫💫💥💥💥💥💥 great tone again using that DSL, what a versatile amp this is.

the guitar tones you acheived here also reminded me alot of BOSTON's first 2 albums.

I had the honor of seeing Randy in the early 80's, touring with Ozzy. My ears are still bleeding and I still wish I could play like him 🔥

Another metal hieroglyph unlocked! Seriously though, Anthony, I think you missed your true calling. No, not youtube full-time 😄, but you could run main board for any of the biggest artists in the world because the way you hear, decipher and tune sound is unparalleled! Well done!

Saw him twice. He was the best guitarist I've ever seen..and I've seen just about all of them from that era.

You've got a great tone, distorted but clear and really crisp, punchy. I think it's like Randy's but less scratchy, and I always thought Rhoads sounded like he had a fuzz box.

Man ... !!!! You ALWAYS do suck a great job of capturing guitarists sounds !

Nice explanation, tons of details from you I see. I didn't know Randy used a Plexi, but for sure he was famous for double tracking certain sections, like solos and licks. His tone reeked definitely of the Marshall "buzz", but somehow was heavier than the one you achieved. Hard to believe he did it all with so little gain and with a Plexi. 😁

Nailed it again 🍻🤘 Bonus... Parrot always mean mugging me 🤣

Very nice & As close as it gets from our ears! Good to see you back at it, Again, Very nice!

Great job, super!! I always make time to watch a video on your channel....on Saturday we played against Australia, I think you are from there.....I hope you have a great game! Cheers

Great video ,Randy was a master. Even with a plexi and a distortion + it's hard to get his tone as a big part of his sound was the Altec Lansing speakers he used.

I'd love to see you tackle Iommis tone from the Volume 4 album. His tone had a hugeness on that one that the others didn't quite achieve imo This was a great video. You posted this literally right after my bro and I were talking randy rhoads sound it was awesome.

The Parrot is the most metal thing in this video. Stone Cold fella!

Thanks for this one I love RR you did a fantastic job with the tone! Dude you are the TONE MASTER Rock on🤟🏻

Wow. Congratulations, That sounds perfect, great job!

As someone that chases tone, I so appreciate what you do. While I can't play like Randy Rhoads, it is so much fun to wield his tone and make something new out of it. I feel the same way about Alex Lifeson, Brian May and Tony Iommi.

Most exciting notification I’ve seen in a long time

Bob Daisley plugged his bass into Randy's stack and that's how the bass was done on that album. Not through all of Randy's pedals though.

Love your videos man ! Glad to have you back bro

Thank you sir! This is gold to me.

i’m not sure if you’re into glam/hair metal but ratt’s “dancing undercover” album has such a great tone and i think it’d be cool to see you play some riffs off that record-same goes for the ultimate sin album. also amazing video like always!!

love seeing these videos breaking down the all time great Randy Rhoads, he was amazing.

Just perfect sound

Beautiful Tone.

Sounds good !

Was hoping, and here it is, thx.

Another great video man. Time to transcribe this one to my collection. Hoping you will do some Heathen one day, can't wait for the next video. Enjoy the holidays, cheers.

Killer man! Randy was a treasure, blizzard of oz is a masterpiece. Great video brother 🤘🤘

Well done dude, from what i heard and read the brighter sounding songs were tracked on teh polka dot V and the chunky sounding stuff on his LP. Just today at practice I got to crank my 1959 JCM800 with a Boss GE7 up front and Duncan JB. Totally has that sound. Just costs some hearing loss 🤣🤣

Thanks for the vids man. I’m a bit jealous of the angel of Deth!

I love you your pedal storage solution! did you build that or just repurpose some old furniture? Great studio set up for tone tweaking! Keep up the great work I enjoy your videos!

Have you considered doing Artillery's 'Terror Squad' tone? It's an often-overlooked album, but has some of nastiest, crunchiest guitar tone I've ever heard.

The tone of Randy hit me so hard when I first heard it. Unlike any other.

Hell yeah! Always the best bit of my day when you upload. Great tone!. Love that Ollie has his own mic now too haha.

Great video and great playing

Phenomenal playing and tone! I believe that Randy would be proud. Well done, dude. 🤟

Nice selection of parts too.

I always thought Randy Rhoades used a rocktron EQ and rocktron distortion in the studio they had a bunch of rack mount rocktron units back in the early 80s because it sounds like Boston's first album that tone

Another great pedal to throw in is the MXR or Boss BF-2 Flanger for accents on those slides and pick scrapes

The parrot is key for this epic tone. Such a great vid as always man!

Awesome playing

Great video lamb, would you be willing to try recreating the Pleasures Of The Flesh tone by Exodus?? :)

It's unreal to think you live here - so much talent. Keep it up, hopefully I might see you out and about!

awesome video thanks... I've been wanting to buy an MXR Distortion Plus to see if I could get his tone with that... and I agree about the reverb on the DSL, I have a DSL -1 and I was surprised at how good the reverb on it was when I first bought it

Ever considered a Cortax/AxeFx? Like the vids and the coming back 🙏

I have that amp, per your suggestion. It isn’t loud, I bought the dsl100hr too with an av cab. That’s how you bark at the moon. Thx for everything!!!

Love RR, and can still remember the first time hearing Blizzard....it still makes the hair on my neck stand up! I remember coming home one evening, after an evening of sampling the libations, quite worse for wear. I proceeded to make my way to my bedroom, (I was about 18) and waking the entire household up blasting Blizzard out on my stereo! You've done really well capturing the tone on the album. 🤟

Nailed it. As usual! :)

Good vid

Excellent video.

YES!!!

Sounds like you nailed the sound to me! Randy didn't have my favorite tone, but it was very effect for the music he played.

Great tone🤘

Spot on dude

You are obviously a true Randy Rhodes fan. You nailed that tone. Would this method apply to the DSL 4o as well?

I think another cool thing to add would be a TC Mimic double to give the double track effect that Randy used a lot

Awesome bud!

PARROT NO EARMUFFS!!!! COOL DEMO OF RR's TONE

Was hoping you'd do this tone someday, Awesome 🤘

Holy crap, this tone is spot on to what I hear on the record. I've played on the Marshall sv20h (like a mini JMP) trying to get a similar tone and your tone blows it out of the water. I think the extra gain from the DSL along with your EQs helps get closer to Randy's tone, without using all of his gear through his plexi at the time. Amazing video as always lamb, love the content.

Great work Chopper, you're on fire dude! Vids coming out thick n fast 🤘

Randy is my favorite guitarist that ozzys ever had

I love this channel so much, you are doing a great job!

Outstanding! Also, in parrot shots, he has a cool green Dean tail today!

Oi Chopper, how about some Nuclear Assault? You a fan? Great stuff 👍😎

The bottom of that green Washburn looks like the parrots tail feathers haha

Nice AF 👍

This was great! Thank you so much for helping us get all sorts of tones from this amp.

One of the tones that most fans we ever want comming from New metal it either lr the meliora tone or the impera one from the band GHOST its a crunchy tone but very full and round for recordings and it would be gratis if you capture that tone

LOL I just watched your cover of I dont know, not even 45 minutes ago.

Hey Anthony ... How about doing some George Lynch and / or Criss Oliva (Savatage)? Excellent players. Great job man on RR brother🎯

Dude Ive had probably 40-50 different nice guitars over my playing life, and my 05' cream RR5 MIJ has been my true keeper for life. On solo's, great stuff just flys out of my fingers sometimes and it sounds so good, and I dont even know how it happened..lol Its just the perfect neck and combo. Not to mention how bad ass it looks. Now the secret is out! haha Great tone and video and I love your bird! Take care Sir!

The speakers are very important for Randy’s tone. I believe he used Altec 417 8H which have a harsh sound. You won’t get there without them.

Amazing playing and amazing tone… thank you 👋🤟

will be cool to see if the mxr pedal does any justice on a budget

Sounds really close. I can't describe accurately how this tone is different, other than generic words that come to mind. Which are "tinny" and "manufactured". Not that it's bad. It sounds really good and I'd be very happy with that set up for a cover. Randy's tone can never be copied exactly. And especially his Blizzard tone. That was magic. It was as if his guitar tone was a part of his body and soul, like it was breathing.

Thanks man

I liked it😮above my skills ❤

You sound like Randy, but less scratchy. I think it's an improvement.

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