Stevie Ray Vaughan Tone Recreation | Gear Thursday 

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Me: *finally buys first tube screamer* Marty: ya but 2 tube screamers

SRV didn't always have the same set up, yet he always had that trademark SRV sound. The real "secret" is a combination of three factors: Turning the amp WAY up, THICK strings, and your pick hand and attack have to be incredibly precise and STRONG.

Marty: makes a video about SRV Also Marty: plays a Jimi Hendrix song

I just had a ad saying that learning guitar on RU-vid doesn't work lmao

For those that don’t want to buy two OD pedals, just dial a little gain and extra brightness onto your channel and use the pickup volume to clean it up when needed, and the OD pedal for the dirt when needed.

You played that intro to Little Wing beautifully and the tone was on point.

Not enough tube screamers, i want 5

Marty your videos are always top notch. Just a thought, I'd love to see a smaller window showing the pedals so we can actually see you playing the tasty licks. Awesome vid, appreciate all you do and I know I wouldn't be as good on guitar without your videos. Thanks mate, 🤘🤙

Srv didn’t use Texas specials he used original 59-62 strat pick ups. The Texas specials came out after he passed

SRV never ever used Texas special pickups. He had a 62 strat with 59 pickups in it and he commonly referred to his #1 as a 59 because of that. So in reality he used low output pickups. His sound came from heavy strings, amps cranked to the moon, and his hands. Texas specials where created by fender to try an emulate that tone. They came out many years after his death.

Can you please start showing the amp setting on all your videos when you do videos like this it helps a lot thank you 🙏🏽

Marty, I’ve been watching you channel since last year when I started playing guitar. You’ve helped me so so much and I can thank you enough. It’s so cool to see you and your channel grow.

Marty...dude ..that was great playing. Good job 👍

The pickups srv used were the original 1959 fender pickups. Stevies number 1 Strat was actually a partscaster, made up of a 1963 body, a 1962 neck, a 70s black pick guard and 1959 pickups

8:21 sounds so good

I was literally thinking how to do this this morning! Wtf?!! Marty’s a psychic!

So sick dude, I appreciate you showing the settings. I had to guess till now. Cheers!!

Hey Marty, thank you for the demo on using 2 tube screamers to get that Texas blues sound!!

Marty, "SRV used Texas Specials?" I know you know better!

Yeah, FUCKIN' correct, Marty.

You missed perhaps the most important thing about Stevie Ray's rig: the pickup switch in the 2nd position...

Thanks so much for showing the eq and tube screamer settings!!!

Love that riffing on the Purple Haze chords. I'm getting faster with my lead, but I'm going to have to improve my accuracy. :)

7:25 srv tone

that tones was spot on!!

Excellent , As has been proven for what seems to be the ages -Kudos great Job. Have a few old timers tunes been curious about and can not find decent tutorials on . Maybe you can be the torch bearer :) Blackfoot - Ricky Medlock and the boys. Another Jax Fl great along with Skynerd,Hatchet etc . Highway Song and/or Gotta Line On you - Can some what play/play at each but need the real deal and with your knowledge of Rock -N Roll that spans the decades and golden years of rock you are the got to guy. Thanks Marty for all you provide here and on Marty Music etc . You are highly valued !

Only person who shows you the eq settings

Great tone & playing Marty. Iommi/Sabbath tone sometime, please. Maybe a lesson on dark, gothic, eerie sounding chords.

Awesome! Got that jam stuck in my head! Pretty groovy!

Marty have you done a video of how to get a great tone but without getting evicted from your apartment??😁😁

The same thing for Eric Clapton

Jokes on you, Stevie just had the power of the Schwartz

Always killing Marty, KEEP THESE VIDEOS COMING. Do Clapton’s sound next !

This lesson helped me a lot - thanks Martin

I need new shorts after that. Unreal tone. Sounds like magic.

I think SRV never use texas special pickups

Great vid Marty. SRV was my favorite. Thanks for going granular with his sound. Most excellent!!!

I've been to so many guitar stores in my lifetime but my area never had a Tube Screamer in all two stores where I live.

I need to hear all the albums you been on Marty.

Thank you Marty, for all the good info,great lesson.

Been trying to nail his tone for so long. Thank Marti! Always quality videos. Maybe try Duane Allman's tone next?

I obviously love all your stuff, and I think these gear videos are awesome, now if I could only afford said gear! I do have enough saved up for the Marty looper once its available!!

You can also get the tone, with one overdrive pedal, tube screamer whatever you call it, set your pedal with the drive all the way up, tone at 3-4, and volume all the way up, and you got a nice Texas Tone.

Bleed the freak- Alice In Chains Riffs are pretty badass

THIS Marty was one of your best how to videos ever. Thanks from all of us that are going to be dialing in some SRV.

Drop the mic...I mean the guitar. Noooooo don’t drop it..... God bless. Nice job as always

You nailed the tone my man.

I use a Stratocaster, with a tone master twin, Ibanez Tube Screamer and a Boss Blues Driver. Sounds great! Blues driver gives you your highs and the tube screamer helps the low ends

SRV’s pick up were 59s not Texas specials they used the specials on his sig guitars

Marty Ray Vaughan

I think that playing a bit more aggressively with the right hand could improve the tone quite a lot. You'd be surprised how much of his tone comes from his technique.

Hey Marty do you think this would work with tube screamer clone? Specifically, the Behringer vintage tube overdrive? Love your stuff too. Keep it coming. Us old beginners need all the help we can get.

I enjoyed the background music. I understand what people mean by it being distracting but I think you had a great volume for it so for me it wasn’t distracting it was quite pleasant.

Awesome. Buying my second tube screamer now.

Texas special and tex mex pickups were developped with SRV in mind. He never used them. His #1 was a modified 59.

Such a great and helpful video. Thank you so much!

Great video! Amazing playing as usual! Have learned so much from Marty over the years :D Thank you xx

Nice.... But can you do jimmy page's sound?

Diggin those Sanuks

Title : Recreating Stevie Ray Vaughan's signature sound. Marty : So obviously I have to play little wing in the intro. Obviously.

Great video and demo as usual ;-) Just wondering why amps builders don't produce THE blues sound so we don't have to plug a pedal into them... I mean is there any guitar player using a raw amp?

Marty been showing me shit for the last 15-16 years! thanks Marty!

That intro nailed it!

Marty you always hit the right tones! Sounds killer. Thanks for the tips.

Texas flood part2 coming up?

What a fine player you are Marty! I dont think his tone was that hard to get or even his to begin with. You'll always get close with a single coil on the neck, a nice valve amp dialed in either close to break up or with a pedal pushing it there.

You make it look easy!!!!!!

Wow, when that 2nd tube screamer comes on line, suddenly you hear Stevie's tone.

Most of the videos of stacking ODs use the second pedal just as a booster, but this method works a lot better for me

Push those mids up- way past noon- to get that jangly spank. Bring the drives up at least a tic on both TS’s: it chokes out otherwise. One thing that cannot be understated was the volume he played - WAFO. Pre amp can be heard begging for mercy. You should literally hear the filaments rattle. About the only way to sim this tone at the house without going deaf is to dial up the drive and max the mids. Nice work hoss

Omg yes marty thank you so much just the video I've been looking for, I don't mind the background I like it

Marty you played some really fine guitar 🎸 in this clip - nice to listen to! 👏

I have been waiting for this video thank you

Marty, I have great respect for you and think it's great that you share lessons for free. It's my understandng that SRV used the Ts808 more than people thought. We just don't have his hands/touch (Ugh!). I'm not sure if you mentioned it, but for some that don't know, SRV played in the neck position often. Not quite his sound here, But an excellent effort and a good lesson!

I disbelieve that SRV had two tube screamers. I’ve seen his pedal board. I never saw two of them though He might have did it at some time in his career. To me the TS7 is the best tube screamer even though SRV didn’t use a TS7. He never played Texas special pickups. If you had alnico 5 pickups and thick Heavy gauge strings you might have got way closer. Even the fret board on the guitar matters. All the wood on the guitar matters as much a pickups. Marty you’re a great teacher, but this video is misleading. People will go out and spend all that money thinking they’ll nail that tone only to be either disappointed or too tone deaf to hear a difference. SRV tone is a technical thing. He’s a tonal genius dude.

Well, nice play...but to get the SRV tone you need a loud Vibroverb/Super Reverb, and when i mean loud, its LOUD, full blast, and you'll probably have problems with your neighbours...but its the real deal

Tube Screamer and Nobels ODR-1 cuz it’s what I got. Thanks Marty!

Thanks very much for this informative video

Nice Marty! Cause one tuba screema is not enough.

He didn’t use Texas specials tbh, in his number one it was 59 pickups (meanwhile the body was a 63 and the neck was off a 62)

How to get SRV, tone video starts with a Hendrix tune. Very good video.

I like the music while you're talking😉. Love srv, thanks again. Sounds wicked

I like the background music. Great vid 👍🏽

Awesome tones !!!! Hi from Brasil ✌😎

God damn man! that sounded awesome!

Exactly like Trey Anastasio does in the use of 2 tube screamers.

Man that sounds just like SRV!! I believe you just coined the word "shiggles" and I will go ahead and ask permission to use it! Thanks!

really enjoy your vids !

I will try this tonight, I have the hd500x and I get close to the right tone but its off a little. Thanks Marty

i use screamer and EQ close enough as my ibanez got broken

Awesome jam... I don’t know if quite the SRV tone ...but then Again my iPad speakers , not a good representation of room tone ... this is first I’ve hear SRV using two green monsters at same time .. I like it

Sounds great 👍🏻 🎸

Love it Marty smoking cool 😎 thanks Bro !

Hunter Hayes guitar lesson please :)

I love this video! I love this channel! I did a lot of research and after, I learned that I, after playing with Strats in frustration, can plug in my Flying V and I get the SRV/Hendrix tone nailed, with nothing else, no pedals, no amp playing and I can't get it out. What!? Yeah! Love this channel, but go watch SRV COUCH and you will see SRV plug and play his beloved V into an amp, probably a twin and instant perfect tone. Then his tech shared a secret. What? Gibson countered Fender's Mustang and Jaguar, with, quickly and Explorer, but then asked the greats what they wanted and it became the V. No endorsements! Sorry! We built it, you buy it and SRV, K. Richards, Bonamossa, EVH (Yeah), Hendrix (Most valuable guitar in the Rock Hall of Fame) (Gallery Talk: Jimi Hendrix's Guitar by the Rock Hall of Fame...Jimi was paid to play a strat at woodstock, in return, then burn it, but he must have spend endless hours custom painting his paid for V and had it customized with a trem), Gibbons, Beck..endless. Anyway, also check Nick Beato's You are probably using the wrong strings and WOW! He/they got info, from a recording guru, who also was great friends with SRV's tech. SRV apparently used stupid sized gauge strings, so, he could feel resistance to bending, as his hands got stronger. What? Yes, a lot of us fell for it. What Nick tried. 11s, 10s, 9s, 8s on a LP, Strat owned by another and a nice guitar, with a YTube sensation and they recording with all gauges, pro setups and listened back. So could we. 11s = mud. 10s = mud. 9s = very nice 8s = OMG Wonderful. Nick chose 8s for his LPs and the other 2 agreed on the tone, but finding the strings to slinky, swapped to 9s. What other info was offered? SRV uses 10s or 9s in the studio, because it is a full sound and it tears through the mix. Think about it, because I didn't. Strings move in an elliptical pattern. Pickups pick that up, obvious, but the light the strings the greater the elliptical pattern and fatter, searing tone. O M G! We all fell into the big strings, big sound! Whoops! How did SRV get this tone then. Don't tell, but, a tube screamer, JBLs in a vintage amp, 15" each, to match the Flying V tone, that he plugged and played on COUCH JAM, before he was told to find a Strat for endorsement opportunities. I have tried to many Strats, love them all and I own a Clapton Sig Strat only to find out he would take a bullet for his SG! What! All of Cream recording on it! Auction! F the Strat, but crying loosing the 335, LP and beloved SG. Most valuable guitar in Rock Hall of Fame? Of course the White Hendrix Strat! Nope! Flying V #1, Acoustic used on sessions #2 and a White Strat that he was happy to burn #3 on the Jimi Hendrix exhibit. NOW, I plug in my Flying V into anything and SRV tone, right now. I will never in my wildest dreams play like that, but trying to get on a Strat without custom gear, some don't tells and ...you have got to be kidding me, but true. *** This video rocks! Marty rocks! The info is spectacular! Do support Marty! When my icon world got flipped I kept researching to find that I knew nothing, so I am sharing it kindly, BUT, this video is killer, in a great way! All the best! Be Safe! PS: Watch those other videos, but come right back to Marty!!!!!

Can you make one of these with the signature Green day (Dookie and Nimrod) sound? Gr8 video by the way

So after watching so many videos that rambled on you got it right and to the point of setting the amp then the pedals. The only thing you didn’t advise is the guitar knob settings? Are you just cranking the volume on guitar ? Are you using the tone knobs on guitar ? Please advise Great job you instruct well 👍

Do more of these! (Jimmy Page?)

Marty, please don't have music playing while you're talking...I hate videos that do that...