How To Sound Like Sonic Youth Using Effects and Tunings | Reverb Potent Pairings 

Those tunings are a massive "Fuck You" to my guitar string budget.

Their main effect was their tunings.

You can tell a real sonic youth fan worked hard on this

The phaser on Diamond Sea needs to be much more yoyoyoyoyo

This is part 1/20, correct?

Can I just say, loving all the request for shoegaze bands in this comment thread ♥

Badass man. Sonic Youth have all their tunings to most of their songs on their webpage too. Even though they split up or whatever. Great job figuring all of this out.

I don't believe in alternate tunings before marriage

We need a Slowdive one, man.

Bull in the heather was 👌👌👌 very nice

We need My Bloody Valentine next

less chorus. more drumsticks.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Kim Gordon, Steve Shelley, Lee Ranaldo, and Thurston Moore for making this world bearable, and interpreting it in a way that makes sense to my soul. Life is better with more GABDEG. Hey, CME, how about selling some more strings, and sharing what the best gauges are for some of these tunings.

Outstanding job guys! You especially nailed Bull In The Heather.

as someone not familiar with the band, im interested as to how their live shows would go. either five minutes between each song just to tune or like 10+ guitars on deck

Great job, well done sir. Cross the Breeze intro was spot on.

You are an amazing guitarist. Exceptional playing, and you nailed all those effects. Thank you so much for doing this!

karen revisited is one of my favorites

Nailed Bull In The Heather

Wow! Best one yet! So cool that you managed to nail all the tunings!

Yesterday I was thinking "it would be cool if reverb do a video about sonic youth" x) my dream came true

This is awesome!!! Thanks so much for making this video. I’m sure it was no small feat to unpack all of those layers.

Sonic Youth is a cool band but I've always wondered how the hell they get those weird tunings without breaking a string?

dayum, reverb is like the only gear channel that do cool stuff like this! sonic youth guitar tunings are always mystery to me

Really cool and really accurate! Please do The Killers, Dirty Projectors, MBV, King Crimson, and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.

Ahh Diamond sea and Skip tracer are some of the best. I remember having the Washing machine t-shirt way back in the day

I can’t tell you how long I’ve been waiting for this. One of my all time favorites!! Please do My Bloody Valentine!

this video is so gear accurate too! Lee Ranaldo loves his Tele Deluxe and his Travis Bean! Good job man!

Really cool video, great job sorting out the tunings!

Man, I never comment RU-vid videos. But you really nailed everything. That's awesome.

I wish you guys would make more of these! Bring this series back

This video was awesome, totally made my day👌🏼

Really great. Really great! Thanks for putting this together.

it wasn't just pedals, it was tuning and modifications

sounds great! that Travis Bean, tho. dream guitar.

Excelente!!! Andaba buscando esto hace tiempo.

Wicked! I’m also gonna jump on the MBV wagon and say do ol Kevin next

This is 10000X better than the other sound like episodes

Yes Sonic Youth, this will be fun.

Potent pairings: Placebo please!!!

Wild Tunings

It's not about the petals they did have, it's about the petals they didn't have (tuner)

Well done, Joe. No easy task.

Liked before I even listened. Cool that you're doing it, even if it's not 100% accurate!

I love this this is awesome!

probably the coolest video on youtube

So awesome!

Perfect. Awesome. Kids have it so good today.

it's finally here, now we need the one i always misread, that beith My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields, i always misread it as Bullet For My Valentine Teen Age Riot: you oughta change the pickup selector to the middle or neck, first verse still needed to be on the neck or middle but the tone was quite close so it'll have to be a 7/10 for me Wish Fulfillment: needed to be on the neck pickup this time and less twangy for the first guitar but the 2nd one was perfect so that's definately a 9/10 100%: The intro was very good while not being exactly alike as it's impossible to get it perfect but i'd say the guitar and bass was good but it should've been a bit more broken and fuzzy so i'll give it a 8/10 Diamond Sea: the clean guitar was super close though the phase guitar should have been probably a different phaser cos the original sounded more like an "eyeyeye" noise, though it was quite close so 9/10 Bull In The Heather: the intro harmonics and precussion sounds were perfect and the lead guitar part was spot on so 10/10 Cross The Breeze: needed to be a bit less twangy but the tone is close again so that's 9/10 for me Karen Revisited: clean guitar needed to be less bitey and more smooth, the backing guitar was good, the bass was good though, it all blended well so 9/10

Brilliant. Also impressed with the Tele

Awesome. You could do a whole series just on Sonic Youth.

I FUCKING SEARCHED FOR THIS THREE TIMES THIS WEEK BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT ALREADY EXISTED THANK YOU REVERB

You managed to go above and beyond on the Cross The Breeze intro, sounds even more beautiful than the studio version

The biggest aspect of their tunings is unison strings. Produces that chorus effect. A simple tuning that is easy to start with is go to drop D and tune the 2nd and 3rd strings both to 'A'. This D-A-D A-A-D. SY doesn't use this but it is an easy way to get the unison sounds

Great job! Love it.

This is awesome. Thanks!

I don't even own a guitar neither know how to play, but this video gave me a lot of satisfaction.

This is a great video. Thanks for this.

Awesome. Some mad tunage!

These tunings are insane

FINALLY!!!

Wicked job man👍

we need anna calvi potent pairings, she's sounds so good, thanks reverb.

Thank You Sir!

I'd like to see one of these type of vids for Swervedriver!

So good.

Amazing!! Thanks!!!!!

0:01 Teen age riot 0:57 Wish fulfillment 1:28 100% 2:07 Diamond sea 2:42 Bull in the heather 3:25 Cross the breeze 3:45 Karen revisited

They were such creative guitar players

Well done

HUGE!

That was badass.

We need Flying Saucer Attack next

great job!

amazing

I always hoped that Bloc Party have his own video of "How To Sound" is a powerfull and very interesting band about the effects

MY BLOODY VALENTINE

That jazzy is fuckin gorgeous

I'm into twinkly emo so I'm used to weird tunings but some of these are out there

Do Fugazi?

You guys should do a king gizzard and the lizard wizard potent pairing

AWESOME job, Reverb!!!! PLEASE do Grinderman, METZ, My Bloody Valentine, and King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard!!!!

MY BLOODY VALENTINE!!!!

Bull in the Heather intro was behind the bridge not the 12th fret harmonics. Other than that nailed it!

great !

thank you

NICE!

Now do a how to sound like Dead Kennedy’s. That’d be awesome 😎

That's excellent! CHAPEL HILL? Any idea how to get the sound at the start of the song? Please help with this life-long quest :-)

Finally!!

Melhor notificação do dia

I'm still waiting on an episode for Interpol

Liked for all the punctured thumbs from those alternate timings, miffed b/c no Silver Rocket :(

Muito obrigada por partilhar este vídeo 👍👍👍👍👍🎉🎉🎉🎉 Tem músicas que usam várias afinações (vão trocando de guitarra)

Travis Bean for ever :-) ! Nice job

YES

Don't forget to get a fender style amp, completely max the controls, then pick as LIGHTLY as possible for that super tactile sound.

Sonic youth Again please 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!

Karen revisited hot boi Nailed it