Love the comments. Learning a lot from your videos. I am so impressed that you are not arrogant or afraid to use and show other makers pedals to demonstrate a sound you like. It blows me away. I love your pedals and watch all your videos. Thank you.
G E N T L E W O L F so many people knock his playing and the songs. I kinda get that. But his tone is as great of any rock guitar tone as I’ve ever heard
When I was in high school the bass player in my band threw a huge fit when I told him I wasn't going to play any Green Day songs. I called them posers. Didn't realize how much of a purist jerk I was being. He probably hadn't been playing even a year at that point and those songs were easy. He just wanted to have fun.
Just stumbled upon this video. Nice job by the way. I’m intrigued by how many people I see who say the 5150 sounds nothing like a modded plexi, yet here you are getting very close to the sound of a guy who used a modded plexi with the 5150. Good job 👍🏻
That's exactly what it is. He uses a lot of downpicking and he uses his elbow and shoulder, almost like he's punching towards the ground, to achieve a sound that is capable of filling an entire stadium
Billie Joe’s Marshall tone is one of the most underrated tones ever in rock music. Classic Marshall tone on Dookie especially. The fact that he’s used modded Plexi’s his entire career isn’t really talked about when we guitar players think about classic Marshall users, but we should. The whole Dookie record is catchy, and sonically sounds great.
as a Billie Joe tribute artist basically, i can tell you now, the main thing to know about the tone that you said the opposite of, is PUSH THE MIDS in the 400 range.
A gate is/can be an effect all onto itself... please expand on this... In days gone bye (70's) I had a MXR "noise gate line driver" (wish I still had) that made my none gated fuzz pedal do wonderful things... Thank you for reminding me! The noise clamp is much more precise and a different effect in context.. (may have to get one). I've asked a few other channels to expand on this to no affect.. I have a Devi Ever pedal that comes close but way to unrefind for real use.. not every one has the same skill set, or knows studio tricks but we all have a sound we are looking for and we buy your (and others) products on our hunt!
I thought this was great! I have the 5150 overdrive pedal, but don’t seem to get that tone. Just bought the V1 Dookie pedal, but it hasn’t shipped yet. Thanks, for this video; I learned a lot!
Dude, that is so frickin awesome, what program did you use to break down the song? I've been trying to get The Manges "I hate rats" tone for the longest time!
Pretty close but I think the gate is too much. It sounds like the gate from the console and not a pedal on his pedal board. Swapping out that MXR gate with one that has an adjustable release time would get you there
You have that clamp set way too high. There is no defined beggining or end of the note. It sounds more like a vomlume swell. Best sound you had was with the built in gate.
I'm not at all a Punk Rock fan, however, I do know he used a great sounding 1971 Marshall 1959 Super Lead "metal face" 100 watt head on Dookie, but he blew the output transformer on it during the first tour. He of course had to use other amps after that, and his tone was never the same.
With this video I can confirm that you are a Tele guy. The "ringing" that you talk about on 6:48 came from the vibration of vibrato springs. You can avoid that with a foam on the springs. Nice video Brian btw
Some of the noise you were getting, was from the trem springs ringing out. I'm thinking that he was using a fixed bridge Gibson on this song. Either that, or he muted the springs with foam, or some other damping material.
To me the built in gate was the closest... Attack with the clamp was almost like the fretless compressor zoom used to have on bass fx in late 90s early 2000s
I always thought the harmonics came from ghost fretting the same chord shape, then going from the high to low strings while keeping your hand still rather than moving harmonics...not that either is wrong it just seems more in line with a "punk" technique...in addition to down strokes only and always having your palm super close to manually gate the chord rather than a pedal. Not hating at all by the way I just always had the impression it was more technique than effects. Awesome video thanks for sharing!
Brian I'm trying tooget a Fuzztration Tshirt Since I own the pedal, Jerry Best said he's trying to get me one but he's having a hard time with his supplier. HELP. 2xx Please. Thanks. Been asking since April 26th.
