I had an amp in the 90s that had almost no distortion. One day, the cheap speaker got damaged, and suddenly I had distortion. 14 year old me was thrilled. LOL
😂 epic, I though distortion was when the amp’s speaker had to be removed and put a tiny speaker in its place but then my dad showed me what to do. 9 year old me was dumb😂😂😂😂
+@@theofthe2299 wait are you telling me that some people have opinions and preferences that differ from RU-vid channel “the of the” ?!?!?! That’s crazy!!!
Just look at it like you now have options with that little amp ... you can easily and cheaply get a replacement speaker for it. Another great experiment would be to buy a similar sized speaker with a bigger magnet on it... as long as the amp has the wattage to drive the new speaker... you could surprise yourself.
If u think that's hunting just wait when u see a mustang or a jaguar that is right handed but the pick gaurd and the head stock is flipped up side down too look left handed but its right handed now that's haunting
the best way to do it is to make 500 - 1,000 teeny-tiny little '+' plus marks in the cone, with the majority of them concentrated at the center of the cone
An even earlier example of distortion is on Ike Turner's "Rocket 88" from 1951. Someone dropped Turner's amp and it cracked the cone. They plugged it in anyway and Ike liked the sound so they used it on the record.
@@5roundsrapid263 I believe so as well. I know that Ike laughed about the incident years later and expressed it was just a huge mess up. It was said that Sam Phillips offered a working amp but after hearing theirs, he said to give it a try. I don’t know for a fact if that convo took place but I am sure glad they went with their amp anyhow
Yes sir😂 the fear of widespread aggression it would cause teenagers to have… THE HORROR! Yet rock around caused a literal battle royal at a concert in the 50s as soon as the song started… CHAOS
Not necessarily the tone of the guitar, but because of the title and message of the song itself which is literally "Rumble." And it was gang fights, not bar fights.
the best way to do it is to make 500 - 1,000 teeny-tiny little '+' plus marks in the cone, with the majority of them concentrated at the center of the cone
Awesome! I remember hearing about some band putting holes in their amp speaker cones to get an early distorted sound in a music history class, but I hadn't seen it put into practice until now. Really cool stuff!
So does a blown speaker! My old Hohner amps speaker blew and sounded like a kazoo( great description by the way). It had EXACTLY the rasp of a kazoo, but couldn't handle the power anymore, so it was just audible with the volume and gain@ 10! That was just to HEAR the guitar!!! I played it like that until saving enough to buy a new speaker. The amp was a twin speaker,so I unplugged the good speaker as not to ruin it too! I used to call it welfare distortion! After replacing the speaker I got a used distortion pedal by Electro Harmonics, and it gave me the faw ( fat/ raw) distortion sound I just couldn't get out of my amp naturally! I was ready to emulate my hero from the 80s Eddie Van Halen!! Still can't play anywhere near as good, but still fun!!❤
No need to go all hairy carry on the family, slice from the center cone to the outer rim of the speaker like a pizza and the material whether it's paper plastic or composite will reverberate against itself creating that Brown distortion like cream, Jimi Hendrix, the who et cetera
@@JudeTheDude44 • Rocket 88 is more considered the first Rock & Roll song but not the first to use a distortion effect, there were other musicians trying to break their amps on purpose (before Kizart’s broke his amp) to get the distortion effect and on the first recording of Rocket 88 by Willie Kisart his amp was just broken but he liked the sound so he kept it. It was a happy accident one could say.
Well, from what i heard from, actually first example of rock song with distortion is Johnny Burnette's cover of Train Kept a Rollin. Later better known by Yardbirds rendition, and I think even more from alternated version called "Stroll On" feutured in movie "Blow Up", which is one of the first examples of hard rock.
I always thought it was "Rocket 88" with Ike Turner on guitar in 1951 but you must be right... As for "stroll on" yeah... It's epic... It's definitely hard rock with Page and Beck trading riffs and solos...And Beck destroying his unruly amp with his guitar which ends up in pieces and thrown into the audience...
^^^ DING DING DING correct it’s rocket 88, the video and this initial comment are not quite true, rocket 88 tone came in 1951 (5 years before Johnny Burnette) from throwing an illegal U turn outside of SUN records, where the amp was damaged as it fell off the roof of the car, once that was established people started trying all sorted of crazy ideas to reverse engineer / improve on / be inspired by this original tone, the few examples that pre date this song are all from experimentation with humbucker pickups, rocket 88 is the first example of amp manipulation despite it being totally unintentional
I've definitely done this before. I found that if you cause tiny tears when you puncture the cone it will distort much better. So perfect holes are less effective than sloppy holes. Also the louder you play it, the more distortion is introduced. This was part of the whole trick. Also back then they would push the amps so hard thebpower section of the amp would distort. In other words you could still get distorted tones without destroying your speaker. Poping holes or slashing the speaker just makes the effect more dramatic.
It actually sounds better than I expected! It was also tried on the internet before, Circle Of Tone recreated "You Really Got Me" tone including cutting the guitar speaker, he got really close.
the kinks also used a tiny radio speaker that was waaaay too small for the amp, so that poor speaker was getting way more energy than it was designed for... (it was probably blown-out as all heck)
I smashed my guitar into the cone of my amp in concert and since that i have no more working amp, but I believe a few second later the amp was still working and had an amazing tone.
In 1979, I had a LP copy. Added a DiMarzio SD at the bridge. Amp was a 1950s Webster-Chicago phono amp conversion. 6V6 x2 and a 10" fender speaker. The SD had that thing wailing...✌️
The holes weren't the only component Rumble was also incredibly loud cause Link cranked the amp (and is probably strumming pretty hard) you can really hear it in the live recording
@Jude Foster they told us that Johnny Cash's guitar player didn't strap his amp down and it fell off the roof of his car and he had to fix it with tape and newspaper. I have a pic of it.
Those amps were like the traveling pants of my friend groups… someone gave one to me and then i bought my own and gave it to someone else just starting.
Guys whats the best cheap versatile amp that I can buy? I have a line 6 lv spider but I don't like the digital sound of it. I have a SSH partcaster strat. CALLING THE LEGION OF ALL BEDROOMS GUITARISTS TO ANSWER THIS
I don’t know how you are with logistics and exchange rates, but as for me, the best amplifier is VOX PATH 10. You won’t find a better one for its price. Well, of course, it is for the home, but its volume is enough to play under the backing track. the vox has the best clean tone and good overdrive. as for effects, I use pedals. sss stratocaster
I’ve tried both. Both happened to be by accident lol. My first amp was a ion block rocker speaker and I turned it up to learn some AC/DC. It sounded good until the the speaker started smoking out my garage. The ripped speaker was a 1978 fender champ that has a ripped cone. I had better distortion with the ion speaker tbh.
@@skukeness6201 yes he does, the speaker is part of the amp and if you ruined your speaker you still ruined the amp because now the amp won't work without a new speaker. You just wanna be too technical but technically he did ruin it but also, technically, he improved it because it sounds good.
the best way to do it is to make 500 - 1,000 teeny-tiny little '+' plus marks in the cone, with the majority of them concentrated at the center of the cone
the best way to do it is to make 500 - 1,000 teeny-tiny little '+' plus marks in the cone, with the majority of them concentrated at the center of the cone
I noticed this when my old Fender Frontman212 took a tumble off a stand and got punctured. It’s a pretty cool sound and also my excuse for not replacing the cones. Lol
