Looks like Adam Jones is using a new amp and cab...

[Motorpud]

I saw them a short while back and was back stage.
He had a Diezel VH4, Dual Recto, and a Marshall.
He has always used a recto.

I have not seen him use the Mesa in years. You saw it when you were there ?

Does anyone have a picture or other wise the setting of how he set up the Mesa amp ?

Some of you may find this interesting ....

"Postby John Ziegler » Sat Apr 30, 2005 12:23 pm
fwiw, adam jones' '75 marshall super bass is stock(friedman just services it)....and it was the sole amp used on tool stuff up through aemina.
and it's still his main amp to this day. the boogie and diezel are just to add to the frey.
adam does NO channel switching whatsoever on any amps.
(a perfect circle)billy howerdel's marshalls were modded by friedman...basically with what dave calls the "naked" mod.
also no channel switching is done i do believe.
if you have the "right" sounding amp, all that you need is a volume knob, end of story!"

I remember reading a while back that he runs all 3 amps at the same time through seperate cabs because he said they each offer something that the other doesn't have. He was also saying the most of the recording they do in the studio is the same exact rig he uses live, reason being that he wants to sounds as close to the record when he's playing live. Same interview he said he uses a JB in the bridge and 59' in the neck and he never uses a clean channel, only rolls off the volume for cleans. He also said the same thing about Opiate and Undertow were all Marshall Superbass. That's all I can really remember besides some other random info

I would say after some time of reviewing the sounds I believe there is nothing but Marshall on any of the recordings Ænima and everything before it. I trust John's word on this subject as much or more than Adams at this point.
But I would also say this subject is very much like discussing how the Great Pyramid was built.

I am sure several people that have posted on this thread have spent a fair amount of time with this whole "gear question" and Tool. It is a interesting puzzle.

Yeah it's tough to figure out what the facts are since they purposely lie about themselves all the time, I was just quoting what I read. I used to be a Tool fanboy, I still like them but I'm not obsessed with them (and his rig) like I used to be IMO the guitar tone on Aenima and the two previous albums couldn't be more different. The guitar tone on the first 2 are pretty thin IMO. I know on 10,000 days they did use a bunch of different amps though. The article I'm talking about was from like 5 or 6 years ago.

 

[stephen sawall]

I saw them a short while back and was back stage.
He had a Diezel VH4, Dual Recto, and a Marshall.
He has always used a recto.

I have not seen him use the Mesa in years. You saw it when you were there ?

Does anyone have a picture or other wise the setting of how he set up the Mesa amp ?

Some of you may find this interesting ....

"Postby John Ziegler » Sat Apr 30, 2005 12:23 pm
fwiw, adam jones' '75 marshall super bass is stock(friedman just services it)....and it was the sole amp used on tool stuff up through aemina.
and it's still his main amp to this day. the boogie and diezel are just to add to the frey.
adam does NO channel switching whatsoever on any amps.
(a perfect circle)billy howerdel's marshalls were modded by friedman...basically with what dave calls the "naked" mod.
also no channel switching is done i do believe.
if you have the "right" sounding amp, all that you need is a volume knob, end of story!"

I remember reading a while back that he runs all 3 amps at the same time through seperate cabs because he said they each offer something that the other doesn't have. He was also saying the most of the recording they do in the studio is the same exact rig he uses live, reason being that he wants to sounds as close to the record when he's playing live. Same interview he said he uses a JB in the bridge and 59' in the neck and he never uses a clean channel, only rolls off the volume for cleans. He also said the same thing about Opiate and Undertow were all Marshall Superbass. That's all I can really remember besides some other random info

I would say after some time of reviewing the sounds I believe there is nothing but Marshall on any of the recordings Ænima and everything before it. I trust John's word on this subject as much or more than Adams at this point.
But I would also say this subject is very much like discussing how the Great Pyramid was built.

I am sure several people that have posted on this thread have spent a fair amount of time with this whole "gear question" and Tool. It is a interesting puzzle.

Yeah it's tough to figure out what the facts are since they purposely lie about themselves all the time, I was just quoting what I read. I used to be a Tool fanboy, I still like them but I'm not obsessed with them (and his rig) like I used to be IMO the guitar tone on Aenima and the two previous albums couldn't be more different. The guitar tone on the first 2 are pretty thin IMO. I know on 10,000 days they did use a bunch of different amps though. The article I'm talking about was from like 5 or 6 years ago.

I agree the sounds are very different .... but that does not mean he was using different gear. There are a lot of variables in a recorded sound. Are you talking about the Guitar World interview ?

 

[FourT6and2]

It seems like a thread such as this pops up every month or so. Nothing has changed.

Opiate and Undertow were all Superbass.
Aenima was Superbass and Mesa (VH4 was brought on mid-tour)
Lateralus was Superbass and VH4 (maybe some Recto, not sure) and a Sunn Beta of some sort for some random track.
10,000 Days was a cluster-fuck of amps - Superbass, VH4, Recto, Uberschall, Peavy and Rivera.

For YEARS, live, it's been Superbass and VH4. I've seen them live a bunch of times throughout ever Lateralus and 10,000 Days tour. It's always been Superbass and VH4. The second Silverface VH4 is merely a backup incase the Blueface goes down. That hasn't changed.

And, his Superbass is modified. Nothing major, but it's not stock. This is straight from the mouth of the guy who's been inside it.

 

[EXPcustom]

I modded my late 74 superbass to Adam specs using Friedman's post.

 

[FourT6and2]

I modded my late 74 superbass to Adam specs using Friedman's post.

Do you have a link to his comments on it? I can't find it anymore.

 

[stephen sawall]

Dave said the modification was very small and it is pretty much like a stock one like you said.

I believed as you do FourT6and2 other than some Mesa on Undertow for a long time. EXPcustom belives the same as you with some Diezel on Ænima. It would be interesting to know.

 

[stephen sawall]

I modded my late 74 superbass to Adam specs using Friedman's post.

How different is the sound from stock ?

 

[EXPcustom]

I modded my late 74 superbass to Adam specs using Friedman's post.

How different is the sound from stock ?

It sounds like a Superlead from that era with more bass/low end but pretty stock if that makes sense.

 

[stephen sawall]

I modded my late 74 superbass to Adam specs using Friedman's post.

How different is the sound from stock ?

It sounds like a Superlead from that era with more bass/low end but pretty stock if that makes sense.

That is what I thought ...... everyone should have a JMP style amp.

 

[EXPcustom]

I modded my late 74 superbass to Adam specs using Friedman's post.

Do you have a link to his comments on it? I can't find it anymore.

Took me a while to find it but here you go:

Its a 1959 late 70s with jj el34s and chinese preamp tubes. It is super lead spec w/ 100k feedback on the 4 ohm tap it has a .68 cap for the presence and a .68 for v2 also the caps out of v1 are both .022s. The amp is biased to 25ma and he jumps the channels with a cable. Dave

*****

 

[ke2]

I really doubt he's ever gonna do anything with peavey,not knocking them
but he's not the type of guitarist that would need to give it up for any reason.
And,he uses the best amps around,why go backwards like Hammett!?!?
"buy a Randall and capture Kirks sound"
buy a Randall and we are gonna capture the Boogie tone?
Don't think so,maybe it's a new Diezel.

Maybe there`s some sort of connection since "Randall" Smith builds Mesas

 

[ericsabbath]

I modded my late 74 superbass to Adam specs using Friedman's post.

Do you have a link to his comments on it? I can't find it anymore.

Took me a while to find it but here you go:

Its a 1959 late 70s with jj el34s and chinese preamp tubes. It is super lead spec w/ 100k feedback on the 4 ohm tap it has a .68 cap for the presence and a .68 for v2 also the caps out of v1 are both .022s. The amp is biased to 25ma and he jumps the channels with a cable. Dave

*****

this

did you turn the v1 into split cathode like a super lead?

 

[locoed]

I really doubt he's ever gonna do anything with peavey,not knocking them
but he's not the type of guitarist that would need to give it up for any reason.
And,he uses the best amps around,why go backwards like Hammett!?!?
"buy a Randall and capture Kirks sound"
buy a Randall and we are gonna capture the Boogie tone?
Don't think so,maybe it's a new Diezel.

Maybe there`s some sort of connection since "Randall" Smith builds Mesas

Hahaha I wouldn't doubt it,Kirk seems to be an air head.

 

[Juggernaut]

Didn't he say he used a couple Peavey amps as well as his normal rig when they recorded 10,000 Days?

 

[jeffro253]

The middle amp is still the Silverface VH4 (it is off, used as backup only). The cab is a 2x15 Mesa bass cabinet. He doesn't use it. I have no clue why it's even on stage he previously just had another Mesa 4x12 there. He's just fucking with people or something might have happened to his other Mesa cab. The only amps running are the Blueface VH4 and Marshall.

I was at the Houston show (6-20-2010). We were on the floor, row twenty and I noticed that it was in fact a Silverface VH4 with a 2X15 mesa cab. I also noticed it was never on just the Marshall on Marshall cab and the Blueface VH4 on a mesa cab.

 

[fearhk213]

Didn't he say he used a couple Peavey amps as well as his normal rig when they recorded 10,000 Days?

Yep. I have a guitar mag floating around somewhere & he mentions this.

 

[D-Rock]

Didn't he say he used a couple Peavey amps as well as his normal rig when they recorded 10,000 Days?

Yep. I have a guitar mag floating around somewhere & he mentions this.

All he says is "and some Peavey amp that Joe brought in"
Is Joe his amp tech? Or the producer/engineer for that album(?)

 

[fearhk213]

Didn't he say he used a couple Peavey amps as well as his normal rig when they recorded 10,000 Days?

Yep. I have a guitar mag floating around somewhere & he mentions this.

All he says is "and some Peavey amp that Joe brought in"
Is Joe his amp tech? Or the producer/engineer for that album(?)

I don't know the name of his tech, but I'm pretty certain he means Joe Baressi the producer/engineer. I tracked down the article from Guitar World online. Here's that section where he mentions the Peavey:

GW Are you still using your Marshall and Diezel amps? Have you made any significant changes to your equipment rig?

JONES I don’t know yet. After hooking up with Joe Barresi, I became really impressed with Bogner amps. I was also impressed with this Rivera amp and a Peavey amp that Joe had. I would never think to play a Peavey amp, but it’s awesome. Joe calls it his “Mississippi Marshall,” but if I was to play live right now I would play my Marshall and two Diezels through my Mesa/Boogie cabinets, which are amazing. There’s nothing like them. They really put out that low end.

 

[FourT6and2]

Didn't he say he used a couple Peavey amps as well as his normal rig when they recorded 10,000 Days?

Yep. I have a guitar mag floating around somewhere & he mentions this.

All he says is "and some Peavey amp that Joe brought in"
Is Joe his amp tech? Or the producer/engineer for that album(?)

The producer.

 

[japetus]

I knew it would only be a matter of time before SOMEONE put out an Adam Jones signature amp. There are simply too many fanboi's that would buy one. I made a thread last year stating Diezel should do an Adam Jones "Bogner Alchemest" type sig and got flamed for saying it. It's probably a lot of Diezel owners not wanting to own anything attached to being made in China.

It'd be a cash machine!!