Re-Creating the Take Off Your Pants and Jacket Guitar Tone 

Best blink 182 tone recreation on youtube. The amps of choice are also bang on (i’ve talked to the assistant engineer for TOYPAJ).

Me watching this video thinking it was 10 years old… realizing we’re all here in 2024 still chasing TOYPAJ tone. I will never buy profiles faster.

OMG I'm blown away. my jaw literarily dropped. I'm not kidding. I think you have to be a guitar player and a fan of Tom's to truly appreciate what you guys accomplished here. It sounds on point. I'm honestly shocked. Congrats, kudos, and all of the accolades.

Ever since I was a kid, I always held those palm mutes in the highest regard. This tone recreation is spot on! Without a doubt, the best I've seen/heard on RU-vid. I will say, I think a huge part of the guitar sound on this record, aside from the gear used, is the absolute razor-tight performances from Tom. On Enema, when you listen closely, you can hear a lot of dynamic and rhythmic variation in the performances, especially between the left and right channels. Enema sounds like a really well-engineered record made to tape (I'm fairly certain it was, correct me if I'm wrong). However, TOYPAJ to my ears has always sounded like a perfectly mechanical performance, and I mean that in the most positive, complimentary way. A performance so tight it just sounds like one huge guitar rather than two panned left and right. It's always been such a mesmerizing sound to me. I love it and I always wondered how they nailed those performances. Was the budget just so big they had the time to perfect every single detail? Or was it all just Pro Tools? I'll never know! Always wish there was more video footage of them recording this album. With all that said, I am very much looking forward to seeing you take on some of the tones from Self Titled!!

This sounds so good! The palm muting on this record has always been the standout tone IMO.

You guys have the best guitar tone recreation videos on RU-vid. The TOYPAJ palm mutes are a gold standard in pop punk. You guys nailed it. I’ll watch this video 10,000 times myself to get this profile!

I just can't believe the whole video it was playing the result of your work on background!!! INSANELY GOOD

WOW DUDE! hahaha if you tell me these are the real First Dates stems, I would have TOTALLY believed you! AMAZING!

Thank you so much for making this video! I’ve needed this for over two decades now. Tom’s palm mutes on this album are next level. I’ve had to reckon with the fact that aside from the gear, a big part of the sound is from his technique. Probably the thin pick, the string gauge, all downstrokes, on just one string. And he must angle the pick a bit funny to get that thwack sound. I honestly had no idea that others obsessed over these tones as much as I have. I’m glad to know that there’s a community of people out there as crazy as me.

Amazing work! Keep it up! Please create a deep dive on 2003's "untitled" record!

If someone played me your recording and just told me it was an instrumental mix of the original, I’d have believed them! Excellent work guys

Man, that sounds 🔥

Liked and subscribed! I feel like Jerry would have provided some invaluable information on RU-vid if he were still with us. The research for this was thorough and everything sounded incredible. Would love to see a recreation of AFI’s Sing the Sorrow. Another Jerry Finn album (they had a tribute to him at the STS 20th anniversary show last year) Butch Vig provided a bunch of info about the recording on gearslutz years ago, but the thread disappeared when they redid the site

Wow. This is it!!! Absolutely closest what I have ever heard. Sounds awesome, you guys nailed it. Thanks!

The palm mutes have always been why I loved it, there’s like a squelch noise (how I describe it) to it that I love so much

Those palm mutes are joy to my ears 😩 I’m 25 and I’ve been chasing this tone for a while. I’m playing out of a fender evil twin and I was able to come up with something similar but you guys freaking nailed it. Cheers 🥂 to you guys

I've always thought that the palm mutes sounded so buttery, for lack of a better word. I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one that's always loved them!

Awesome video! Could you try and recreate the tone from the Box Car Racer album?

I didn't know Finn produced TEPM, lol.. Literal first album I ever bought... As a blink superfan, and sound nerd, I love this 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Yep...you guys nailed it. Well done! So stoked about this.

Good stuff, love the way you drive your reach with generousity.

Took me a while to realize you guys were the ones playing. That’s how spot on the tone was. “Take Off” is probably my favorite Blink album and definitely my favorite sound they made. Probably my favorite tone in all of guitar. I stopped chasing it a few years ago because I couldn’t even get close. But I really want that palm mute sound because it’s so good. I still remember when that album first came out. I begged my dad to take me to Best Buy after I got out of driver’s ed the day it released. I had to take driver’s ed that summer and that album was the only thing that made me not completely miserable about it.

This is such an amazing video. I've been trying to recreate this tone for ages using the Josh Middleton STL Tonality plugin with Bias FX2 for the Marshall. Love this content! EDIT: NAM profiles! For the love of god, yes

really enjoying this type of video. you are right about the palm muting in Blink 182's album. There's something about it and you nailed it, sounded so sweet in the demo.

Awesome work! Been getting back into guitar after a many year hiatus and have been working on a few Blink covers as one of my first endeavors so this couldn't have been a more perfect find! Cool to hear that you guys are located in Omaha! I played a lot of shows here back in my teens/twenties so it's nice to see the music scene is alive and well!

Damn, that is pretty much spot on. I got a TOYPAJ tone with a 5150 amp sim, crunch channel with the gain and master volume cranked, and a 4x12 Mesa IR. Probably not this close, but still in the ball park. Great job, even the drums and bass sound similar!

The sacred art.. I bet Trav picked up a lot working with Jerry...

Great video! Keep it up! Loving these tone analysis videos. Never was a big Blink fan but they always had s killer guitar sound on their records.

Super punchy 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 I always figured it waa post production that made it punch...

Excellent work, it is a fairly accomplished job, I was very sure that dual rectifier and marshall were used for TOYPAJ, since I saw a publication from TO THE STARS when they sold the Mesa Mark IV that said the card had been used for TOYPAJ and UNTITLED ALBUM

Would love to see a rundown for Billie Joe's LP Jr. P90 tone, this vid was phenomenal! :)

The chugs/palm muting were way too good with this setup!

This was an amazing video! It was fun to watch detailed and sounded amazing

Thanks so much. Im still figuring out amp mods with tonehub so hopefully I figure out how to use them.

Damn dude great job that album is one of the best engineered rock albums i have ever heard!

Jesus Christ, that's absolutely perfect.

Awesome info here Christian Slater!!

ahhhhh that tone is just 👌👌👌👌👌 thank you so much for this!!!

At last someone that nailed and with real thinks and not cheap plugins!

Thank you for making these, you are a legend. I'm not trying to sound ungrateful, but I believe boxcar is next chronologically? :)

Im pretty sure Tom used a Boss Metal Zone straight into the console for the Rectifier tone and a Marshall MG10 micdd with SM57. Any clean tones were the Squier Tom Delonge strats guitars recorded with a tape recorder, yes it was done acoustically. Jerry Finn approved 👍🏼

Your First Date palm mute tone sounds dialed!!! That was always one of my favorite tones too

Liked and subscribed. I hope you'll reach 10.000 views soon. The tone sounds amazing!

Again the tone is spot on, great work! Im loving this series, if you do other bands or albums in the future I'd like to here Weezer's make believe album since there isnt a lot of info on that one, Jimmy eat worlds Bleed American, or just insights on Green Day's American idiot.

This is sooooo close. But there’s a squishy “sweet” attack note/characteristic that is missing. It could have come from many sources, but a hypothesis of mine is that it was at least in part the use of an Empirical Labs Distressor. I’ve worked extensively with a stereo matched pair, and they really do live up to the hype. Amazing compressors, they’ve been the “secret sauce” on many an iconic recording. Thanks for this video!

I’ve been listening to Enema of the State and TOYPAJ the last few months, and like you say, the guitar tone and ESPECIALLY the palm mutes just rip your head off. I was able to recreate it pretty authentically with a Marshall IR in the Boss IR200 and a Timmy. I build my own cabinets these days (Nick’s Shred Shoppe on reverb) and I always use a V30 with a Creamback, it makes heavenly tone. There’s a lot of nuance and pleasant “chunk” to be had when driving a clean Marshall preamp hard, you retain a lot of the body and dimension if you avoid burying everything in too much gain.

Amazing work, at 2:37 you meant to say Marshall 1960BV though

The tone is spot on! Bravi!!! Now i am really curious about the bass 😂 please do more tone recreation videos like this if you can

Cool stuff bro, literally changed everyone's lives. Thank for the profiles.

You would have nailed the tone if you played on a similar modded strat like the black one Tom had with the humbucker bridge pickup.. the Les Paul sounds a little to warm and full.. the original guitar tone is slightly brighter and crunchier.. in my opinion.. Other wise great job on the amplification end 👍

Absolute best recreation of the TOYPAJ tone! Would you be able to make a profile for the HX Stomp?

Yeah, this is the best recreation ive ever heard. Great job. Also, is it a klon?

Thank you for your job!) great and very interesting information 👍

Holy s*** guys to my ears you absolutely nailed it! Very cool!

Great tone

I'd love to hear more recordings of these tones. it would be cool to hear you a/b toypaj/enema tone. enjoyed the video, thanks for sharing your research.

Sounds soooooooo goooood and spot on, congrats

Great job, Rick!

Sounds incredible. Love Toms toan 🤘

First Date has the best guitar tone of all time, you guys nailed it. 🤘🎸🔥

loving the videos y'all!

The split chord leads are literally dead set like the recording 😳 excellent job!!!!

Awesome! Great job on this!

Bruuuhhhhh this is crazy.. I’m super interested in the Kemper one.. already liked and subscribed

That’s some pretty amazing work!

fuck, the palm mutes are like spot on!

I always run spongey too. If you have a tube option, using diodes is baffling.

Great video, love those tones. I bet that pedal is that Wish Klon.

I don’t have any of the modelers you created the profile for, so I took screenshots of all the settings and am hoping to try it out myself with plugins! The only thing I’m missing: on the Pultec, what did you have the bandwidth and each of the attenuators set to?

Sounds incredible! Well done!

Wow the palm mute its very close, I really want this profile for tonex!

1/5th the way there guys! keep on sharing it! at 10k profiles will be released!

HOLY SHIT THATS THE RECORD. mind blown

Man… I’m so ready for a kemper profile of this! Please let us know when it’s up!

Any chance on getting a link to that off-brand Klon pedal? 🙃

tonehub!??? pleaseeee...this is the tone i have been chasing my whole life!

Incredible ❤

WOW That sounds so close!!

it sounds PERFECT!!!

Watching along now. Can’t wait to see if you nailed the post processing reverb sound! (Like at 1 min 43 seconds on first date… I think that’s the guitar doing that right or was it a synth? I know Jerry loved his synths).

A isolated track for each amp would be cool and helpful! like the enema tone video

7:43 Hey Rick, could you post a link to the exact same KLON pedal you bought?

That’s fricking rad 🤙🤙

I can't believe that I just realized the double entendre a few months ago

Did you double track the Les Paul left and right? Sounds PERFECT! Did Jerry ever double track with a humbucker on one side and a single coil on the other?

Holy shit. Kept waiting for your interpretation to kick in thinking you were playing reference stems…. But nope. That’s the tone.

Great video dude! Definitely the best TOYPAJ tone on RU-vid. Quick question: 2:36 Did you mean to say Marshall 1960BV here? I can't find anything on a Mesa Boogie 1960BV, but I can find a Marshall one.

10K views! Next stop profile town.

sounds FIRE

So accurate! daaamn profiles on the way! 🤘🤘

WTF??!!! I've been looking for that tone all my life

That sounds awesome, thanks for sharing this info! Can you share something about mic placement or your approach?

over half way there! looking forward to these profiles getting released. I asked this on the enema video part 2, but do you also have the cleans available?

This was excellent but we need the guitars.

whoaaaa! solid work!

Sounds great!!! Would love to have those Kemper profiles

This sounds fantastic as well! Where can I find the Quad Cortex captures for this and Enema?!

Pretty solid! Would be cool to hear the “ untitled “ tones from Blink .

Damn you really nailed it. Were you micing at the center and close? Do you think Jerry suggested the single note palm muting to Tom?

No helix 😢