I may be alone, but I honestly don't care if the DSL40C keeps getting used for all the Marshall artist tones. If it's a good amp, it's a good amp. Why compromise?
That's a tall order, brother! They're using Axe FX units live. I know Claudio typically used a Bogner Uberschall and Travis used Mesa Stilettos for time.
Hey Matt why not do a full band "Sound Like" this would include drums bass guitar and microphones (for vocals obviously) (lead and rhythm) guitars should have the same budget. Drums and Bass can be determined by y'all. You could use the different departments in Andertons for this video series. This could go both ways on a budget or not on a budget. I feel like this video series idea could help cover bands and the general public! Tell me what you think!
I was waiting for them to do this for so long, but frankly, I am really disappointed with this one. I love Green Day and have a Marshall half stack, Les Paul Junior, and a Strat with the angled SH4 and have gotten closer than this. That being said, the junior was $600, the Strat was about $350 with a $65 SH4 and the Marshall was about $400. All without busting the bank. For the money, the Marshall MG100HDFX blows the Blackstar amp they are using out of the water. I dont think any of this really sounded like Green Day at all. It was more of an ad for the guitar than anything else. Disappointed but i will live.
i have to agree, going with blackstar was a really bad choice.. however i think if you chucked a golden plexi from tonecity in you could get a bit closer
beatletrainfan129 Yeah, the amp they chose is easily one of the worst choices possible. They could have even grabbed a fender amp and they could have done Kerplunk/39 Smooth tone xD
It's interesting because it seemed like they didn't play many songs where you could even hear the rig's tone. They played the intro to Boulevard, which doesn't give us much information about the tone. Then they played Longview which gave us zero of the guitar tone. I love Green Day and I love Sounds Like but I think they missed the mark on this one
If you want to cover 90s Green Day & 2000s-present Green Day with only 1 guitar, I'd recommend getting a guitar with Seymour Duncan P Rails. Those pups are a single coil combined with a P90, so you can use both together for 90s humbucker stuff or just use the P90 for 2000s-present stuff
For Gojira: Charvel Joe duplantier signature (with lace dissonant agressor in bridge), carbon copy, noise suppressor, octaver and a 5150 ;) And bust your bank, because the sound is worth it ;D
PhiI93 The problem with that is that the Beatles had so many different eras. You'd have to make at least 4 videos to cover the different types of music they did.
Alex Creed I agree it would be difficult to chose an era, but those tones are so classic it would be a shame not to attempt them. Plus it would be a real challenge I think, cause the gear was so vintage. I'm talking about those clean/slightly break up rhythm tones like in Taxman, Yer Blues, The Word, One After 909, Savoy Truffle, I've Got A Feeling, chorus of I Me Mine.
Actually I take back what I said because I got to try my cousin's bass and I learned Longview correctly without any trouble so if he plays guitar he should be able to learn it the actual way pretty easily.
T Salty Yes dude! I was about to comment this. Something with a nice boutique clean with tight metal distortion as well. And any guitar with a Seymour Duncan Invader.
yeah! I just think it would be a good one because it's a sick hard rock/metal tone where they use passive pickups and EL34 amps! So unique in their tone!
***** not for metal they don't...I'm not retarded. It's not unheard of, but very rare for someone of their genre. I just want to see it done. Thanks for taking the time to grace us with your comments.
Please do Green Day by busting! You could also include their second touring guitarist so you can have 2 super expensive by busting rigs, it's more fun & you'd nail their sound
Billie actually now has a new signature les paul by gibson and it's around £1100 for it so it's gotta get used he uses Marshall JTM45 Heads and Marshall Cabinets so obviously get them and for FX he has the BD2 Blues Driver, the GE7 EQ and a tremolo pedal, as well as a Tube Screamer 9 for Jason he uses Les Pauls, ES335's and a weird silvertone guitar so i think get the ES335 and perhaps another Marshall JTM or a JCM depending, along with an MXR Phase 90, Boss PS6 and a Dunlop Wah and Mike is just his signature Precision Bass into a Fender Bassman head and cab
The newest BJ sig from Gibson won't get his sound at all since the pickup's totally wrong. He's used P90s for almost 20 years now, so even though it's a humbucker it's way too low output to get the 90s tones. Idk what they'd do for his amp since Pete & Meat are both modded Marshalls. You got everything right though. They should do a "sound like the band" series where they include the bass rigs with the guitar stuff, then you could really sound close. They could do Mike's rig plus BJ's & Jason's, and that would be epic. Everyone would love that if they did a whole band thing, we've been asking for that for ages
Why bother?? Billie Joe's rig, and Jason White's rig, are basically the same, except Jason has a 335 with Piezo's in it, line 6 rack delays, and a JD wah! That's the only differences
Just use the gear you want, fuck people who are impossible to impress. Speaking of which, you should definately do a video about YOUR FAVORITE UNDER 1.5K RIG using all of your favorite pieces of equipment for what is essentially an "Best of the best". Would be cool, since clearly you have some favorite items like you mention with the Marshall.
Sound Like Hozier / Steel Panther / Cancer Bats Also you guys could do a "Sound Like *GENRE* for under: X amount of pounds" so for example one week you could do a Sound like Blues for under 750/1000/1500/2000 I think a show like that would really appeal to beginners who've been at it a while who want to start to find their own sound aswell as people who have been at it a few years looking to upgrade their products to really fine tune what theyve got at the minute.
I love these series and I know that this may sound stupid, but I think that it would be awesome if you did a "sound like without busting the bank" with like 2 bands or more. This will be even harder and awesome! I mean, there aren't many people that want to sound exactly like one band... I know that you can play other types of music with the same setup, but still... For example, I would really like a video "sound like guns n roses and metallica without busting the bank"!! This is very hard and almost impossible, but you can do something between these bands, a setup that can handle easily both! What do you guys think?
Junior into a decent Marshall is all you need, the guitar was a horrible choice. It's so obvious that Lee and co. are trying to push the Reverend stuff into the mainstream, just like Chappers used Andertons to promote his own brand of average guitars. Was really looking forward to this video, Green Day are my favourite band but the choices for guitars and amp could've been a tonne better, hell, I would've taken an Epiphone this time.
A real Junior, and a good sounding Marshall might cost to much. The Reverend guitars are really nice. I suggest you plug-in to a few of them. I tried a bunch of them and was impressed.
***** I just love the presentation of the videos, them talking about classic sounds, and Bea playing some GD riffs, he didn't have the right sound at all but hey ho Yes, Chapmans are average. They have this way of tying in entertainment (which I love), with the whole "you should really buy this because I made it" philosophy in the Anderton's vids. Looks like it's going the same with Reverend. I apologise if you were blinded by the Chapman craze that's suddenly seemed to disappear now they've made a name for themselves, funny that.
Those Reverends are awesome though, with the bass roll off you can make the p-90s sound like a strat single coil, I just think they picked the wrong one. A Jetstream 390 would have been perfect, in seafoam green, no less. Best of both eras for guitar.
Hey guys, that sounded really good! Two ideas of who would be good to do next. One is Johnny Marr, just because he has a really different tone from some of the more rocky Sounds Likes you've done recently, and he's great. Another is the Velvet Underground, again just because they're something a bit weird and different, and they're a classic. Keep on doing the vids, they're awesome!
I was really into Green Day when I was younger, so the second guitar I ever got was a Gibson Melody Maker - which I think achieved the tone of Billie Joe's LP junior a lot better than the guitar chosen here, even though it is equipped with a single coil pickup and not a p90 and costs quite a bit less.
There's too much treble in there. Green Day has more Bass and Mids in their music with some distortion and a little gain. Close, but not quite Green Day.
The Star Wars Craft actually they run the master vol and gain at 3 and also you can't use those setting with this gear because it isn't the same amp. Even if they could use the same amp those setting would still need to be tweaked because the amp that Billie uses has the dookie mod.
Bass and Drums part: ·Mike Dirnt -Fender Standard Precision Bass with rosewood or maple fretboard. Mike Dirnt uses both, maple for the old songs and rosewood for news -Fender Rumble 100. A regular Fender bass amp, flat configuration in vintage mode ·Tre Cool -He plays on mahogany sets. Pearl Export are made of mahogany, but they are so expensive. You need 22 size bass drum and 12x8 single rack tom. Two floor toms if you can, for that configuratio DDrum Journeyman Rambler is a perfect kit -Tre uses a wooden snare, the 14x6'5 one from the Journeyman Rambler is perfect -Zildjian cymbals. ZBT series is very good, you also should get a china, it's better the ZBT 16 china cymbal
SOUND LIKE MOTORHEAD ( yes i know lemmy was a bassist !) SOUND LIKE PRINCE ! it would be a great tribute to two extremely influential artist, prince i believe would be your undoing , no way for under 1500 squid. i'm interested what people we think princes rig was as i only know he played a tele , but he played so many other guitars that i have no idea what they started out as before being modified to his symbol. what pedals did he use ? i love this series and loved this episode especially as it wasn't just a ephy or squire etc
Well, the Schaffer Vega Tower by SoloDallas he uses is 1300$ alone, look at the Rig Rundown. Custom Shop SG is around 2500 and a Plexi, which in comparison isnt that expensive.
You guys are absolute goofballs!! (no disrespect) Do you still do sounds like videos? They're always entertaining and fun packed! Cheers for the awesome content.
Jason White is their current touring guitarist, he was promoted to a regular member of the lineup and remained until he demoted himself back to a touring guitarist in 2016.
Perfect. I always have to roll down on the volume knob to get the Green Day tone. But bit less treble and you're set. I did it with a Behringer GTX60 and a Modern Player Tele Thinline. It was SUPER close for me.
Ian Prieto Well depends really. They aren't super rare but aren't easy to find either. The 2015 line were around $900 and if you're talking anything older than the 21st century they are going to be $10,000 to $40,000 depending on how old.
Ian Prieto Gibson haven't sold a standard junior since 2013. They had one in the catalogue in 2015 but it was waay more expensive and had a wider neck, gforce tuner & brass nut.
Also, a shame you couldn't get a gibby lp junior. I don't know about that side of the pond, but they go for 600 new with case here in us. But that's the 2015 models.
Speak for yourself. I've been gigging mine for a year. I love the wide neck, frets are perfect, action is low, and the P90st is the best pickup they offer. My 2015 blows away my 2011 junior. I tossed the robot tuners, those did suck. Everything else makes it my number one for playing dirty clubs and smokey bars. I can't wait to snatch up more 2015 models that everyone hates.
Max Scardanelli I guess they forgot to tell my gibsons that. They're great guitars. Have fun living in ignorance thinking you have to own vintage gear to make music.
you guys should start using the DSL40C again. atleast for the artists that use marshall amps. i for real bought a DSL40C purely for the fact that you guys said in so many videos that is was so good and now you stopped using them in videos so i cant dial in the tones you guys are getting. #BringBackTheDSL
Hey dudes, I really appreciate you taking a crack at Green Day, the band that first inspired me to pick up a guitar. As a guitarist, I know that once one "graduates" from power chords and aspires to become a "great" guitarist, listening back to Green Day can be pretty funny. Love the "Time of Your Life" nostalgia bit! What always draws me back to Green Day after all these years is their iconic tones. You guys did a great job, particularly with Holiday. That was absolutely spot on. If you ever cared to revisit the band on a more serious note, simply as a guitarist listening for some new tonal ideas, I would recommend their forgotten album, Warning - particularly the tracks Misery and Deadbeat Holiday. The album is dusted with some of the crispest crunch tones I've ever heard, and the simplicity of the song structures allow the tones to be fully realized. On top of that, the songs are more mature, which makes it easier to appreciate. As the guitar geeks that I've come to love you two as, please give that album a listen. Keep up the good work, Caleb from NYC
Sound like the Ramones : - Any guitar - Any amp - Distortion -> 11 - Eq -> flat - Play fast - Downstroke only - Major third everywhere - Wear a perfecto (optional)
For bass Mike actually uses Fender P-Basses in studio and for live performances, you should use a Squier P-Bass or the Mike Dirnt's Squier Signature. Also, you play a simplified version of Longview
Of course you would like the BD-2 better, P-90s are very mid heavy, and they don't need that nice mid boost that the TS-9 gives. TS-9s are more for Fenders, IMO.
(+Alexandros Kimi) I think that it's actually a very heavily distorted sound. P90s give a very raw, aggressive distorted tone. I think there's some power amp distortion going on too. Combined with that fast tremolo with full depth, it should get really close. I would test it out, but I can't afford all that stuff right now. It still should get that sound, though. The problem will be cranking an amp loud enough to get power amp grit.
Good call on the guitar (if you're going for their 2000s-present sound rather than earlier 90s stuff), but imo the amp & pedals weren't set right. They need more mids. The ISF on the Blackstar is a good Marshall compromise, but he only uses the Blues Driver as a boost for solos, he never uses it otherwise
I think you guys did a great job. That guitar was a huge, surprising curveball! I have the HT Stage 60, which I absolutely love, and with the two modes for each of the 3 channels, you could have easily done without the BD-2 and/or TS-9 and still get the OD sounds you were looking for.
I want a reverend so bad they're are perfect guitars for the price I think so anyway.. I own a ht 40 so it's refreshing when you guys you something from the ht series too great video!
Why do you guys ever use more cheaper pedals like tonecity or mooer? If the idea is getting all the necessary gear under 1500; why not make it as economical as possible rather than getting close to the final budget? As for the guitars and amps; more often than not you guys are dead on, but when you go to pedals I've questioned some of the choices because there have been better options for some of your choices like your constant obsession with boss pedals. For example the boss tremolo pedal you two chose; there is a tonecity tremolo pedal for cheaper and more compact. Anyways; love your show; I suppose my constructive criticism would be to more thorough with the pedal selection.
Hey guys. Wicked job! It's kind of a shame you didn't do the whole strat with seymour Duncan pickup combo but, still an awesome job. Nice to see a different guitar :) How about.... Sound like the Offspring???? Keep up the good work.
I'd love to see a Sound Like Smashing Pumpkins, either with or without a budget. It would be interesting to see how the guys could replicate Billy Corgan's and James Iha's different approaches to their sound. Old School era for me, Gish or Siamese Dream please. Billy Corgan has a signature Reverend guitar which the Green Day Sounds Like reminded me of.
Billie joe uses his old fender, Blue, still. It's been in every green Day show since thy started and he can play old and new songs with it. Wish they had knowing that. Other than that. Great video.
Another good thing about that Reverend for Green Day is that Reverends have really shallow necks, great for playing something (like Green Day) that's all barre chords.
