how to get slash sound
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gargamelesp
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lol u gota be kidding with that sort of gear. of course tone is all in the fingers as they say but gear plays a major part too. Be prepared to spend about 4 k on gear to get close
Rossie
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Slash uses Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro pick-ups for the neck and bridge.
The guitar doesn't really matters, it's the pick-ups. Slash has a Signature Slash BC Rich Mockingbird (Mockingbird SL) guitar loaded with Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro pick-ups, it sounds the same. Slash's new Signature guitar from Gibson is his second, the great thing about this is it has a piezo pick up!
In the early years, Slash uses a Marshall Silver Jubilee 2555 head. It was discountinued later, and Marshall reissued it as Marshall JCM SLASH. For clean sounds, slash modified his amp with KT88 output tubes; as for his overdrive sound, Slash uses E34Ls output tubes and GT12AX7 (ECC83) for pre-amp. For speakers, Slash uses 70 watt Marshall/Celestion Vintage 30 speakers. Slash uses a JCM800 with 6550 output tubes also.
Slash uses Jim Dunlop Rackmount Wah System. Expensive as hell, for a wah wah.
I could still go on with Slash's effects...
The guitar doesn't really matters, it's the pick-ups. Slash has a Signature Slash BC Rich Mockingbird (Mockingbird SL) guitar loaded with Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro pick-ups, it sounds the same. Slash's new Signature guitar from Gibson is his second, the great thing about this is it has a piezo pick up!
In the early years, Slash uses a Marshall Silver Jubilee 2555 head. It was discountinued later, and Marshall reissued it as Marshall JCM SLASH. For clean sounds, slash modified his amp with KT88 output tubes; as for his overdrive sound, Slash uses E34Ls output tubes and GT12AX7 (ECC83) for pre-amp. For speakers, Slash uses 70 watt Marshall/Celestion Vintage 30 speakers. Slash uses a JCM800 with 6550 output tubes also.
Slash uses Jim Dunlop Rackmount Wah System. Expensive as hell, for a wah wah.
I could still go on with Slash's effects...
marshall_law
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vespa said:
The one in Appetite for destruction? He didn't use a real gibson les paul. It's just some les paul copy plug in to a marshall.
Why mimic other's sound? Try to get your own sound. Music will be boring if everyone sounds the same.
Rossie
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Too get one's own tone, you need to try copying others first, then you'll work on your tone from there.
When I first started playing the guitar, I too just loved the tone of Slash, as I played, I'm beginning to like other guitarist's tone. John Petrucci's neck D'Marzio PAF pick-up tone, Kirk Hammett's Bridge EMG-81 (for rhythm only, too hot of a pickup!), Brian May's special Burn's Single Coil and so on.
I incoporated most, if not all, of the speciallity tonal qualities of each guitarist above to make my own tone. Which is somewhere in the middle of Slash meets Petrucci.
When I first started playing the guitar, I too just loved the tone of Slash, as I played, I'm beginning to like other guitarist's tone. John Petrucci's neck D'Marzio PAF pick-up tone, Kirk Hammett's Bridge EMG-81 (for rhythm only, too hot of a pickup!), Brian May's special Burn's Single Coil and so on.
I incoporated most, if not all, of the speciallity tonal qualities of each guitarist above to make my own tone. Which is somewhere in the middle of Slash meets Petrucci.
gargamelesp
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and the amp.. at least get a dsl 401. but i think its pointless changing the pickups on your guitar, it will probably cost more than the guitar itself
gargamelesp
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the dsl401 is a brand of marshall amp. costs 900 new in davis but has slight reliability issues. a pickup will approximately cost between 150-200.
vespa , are you gonna change both pickups?
Coz if u do then u need to spend ard 200 or so depending if you gonna fix it yourself.Why dont you get an effect pedal instead..?
Ur guitar tone will definately varies from home to studio..
Its better if you learn to control the effect...esp Wah pedah since ur seeking to imitate Slash tone..
Coz if u do then u need to spend ard 200 or so depending if you gonna fix it yourself.Why dont you get an effect pedal instead..?
Ur guitar tone will definately varies from home to studio..
Its better if you learn to control the effect...esp Wah pedah since ur seeking to imitate Slash tone..
Rossie
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It depends on you, your budget and the way at you look at playing the guitar. An fx pedal won't work, at all. It's only an effects pedal, and most of the cheaper ones sounds terrible (eg. Zoom 505/707). If you want, get an amp modular, like the Behringer V-amp/A-amp 2 or the PODxt. These are essential for getting tones from vintage gear but don't have the money to buy Mesa Boogie/Marshall/Vox stacks.
The guitar really doesn'e matter. What matters are the pick-ups and the amp you use. Get a cheap Sqiuer and put some boutique pick-ups on it, and you'll get the sweetest sound, even more sweeter then a vintage 1970 American Strat.
Great guitar + Crappy amp = Crappy tone
Crappy guitar + Great amp = Good tone
Great guitar + Great amp = Great tone
Get the idea?
*Great guitar, as in guitar with great set of pick-ups*
In the end, a GIO with a great set of pick-ups will last you a life time, if you can put up with the crappy workmanship of the GIO, that is.
Why change your guitar if you like the feel of it?
The guitar really doesn'e matter. What matters are the pick-ups and the amp you use. Get a cheap Sqiuer and put some boutique pick-ups on it, and you'll get the sweetest sound, even more sweeter then a vintage 1970 American Strat.
Great guitar + Crappy amp = Crappy tone
Crappy guitar + Great amp = Good tone
Great guitar + Great amp = Great tone
Get the idea?
*Great guitar, as in guitar with great set of pick-ups*
In the end, a GIO with a great set of pick-ups will last you a life time, if you can put up with the crappy workmanship of the GIO, that is.
Why change your guitar if you like the feel of it?
seekz
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Okie its pretty straightforeward.
If you are talking about Slash's tone as in the guitar intro shred in Sweet child o mine...
Okie... Its pretty straight forward....
If you want to even be "THERE" in slash's tone... You will at least need a TUBE something.... either tube preamp, tube amp, tube power amp, tube pedal tube whatever.
Next you'll need humbuckers and Les Paul. You'll never make it with a single coil strat.
And for the settings part. The EQ!! you have to use your Ears!! To figure out, all amps and speakers and Pauls are different, I cant fix it for you every single time. you have to use your own ears to tweak. Thats for the EQ.. Be it post EQ or pre EQ, its up to your ears.
The trick that slash uses is the tone pot roll off. You set your paul to Neck humbucker, and roll off the tone knob. (meaning you set it to 0) It'll sound goddamn friggin warm.
And you'll set the tone from there, be it your AMP, pedal, eq, whatever, you tweak your dist tone from there.
Slashes sound is definitely tube man... So its friggin hard to imitate unless you really got a friggin tube. or a super cali fucking good ear.
When you need to get to the friggin steaming WAH solo part of Sweet child, just give your pickup switch a slap and bring it to the neck mode. You'll be shredding like slash in no time.... (provided you can shred in the first place) 8)
If you are talking about Slash's tone as in the guitar intro shred in Sweet child o mine...
Okie... Its pretty straight forward....
If you want to even be "THERE" in slash's tone... You will at least need a TUBE something.... either tube preamp, tube amp, tube power amp, tube pedal tube whatever.
Next you'll need humbuckers and Les Paul. You'll never make it with a single coil strat.
And for the settings part. The EQ!! you have to use your Ears!! To figure out, all amps and speakers and Pauls are different, I cant fix it for you every single time. you have to use your own ears to tweak. Thats for the EQ.. Be it post EQ or pre EQ, its up to your ears.
The trick that slash uses is the tone pot roll off. You set your paul to Neck humbucker, and roll off the tone knob. (meaning you set it to 0) It'll sound goddamn friggin warm.
And you'll set the tone from there, be it your AMP, pedal, eq, whatever, you tweak your dist tone from there.
Slashes sound is definitely tube man... So its friggin hard to imitate unless you really got a friggin tube. or a super cali fucking good ear.
When you need to get to the friggin steaming WAH solo part of Sweet child, just give your pickup switch a slap and bring it to the neck mode. You'll be shredding like slash in no time.... (provided you can shred in the first place) 8)
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