Mastodon's new guitar sound on 'The Hunter'

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I've seen some short videos of various Marshall amps, Diezel VH4, Ashdown, a Recto in the background, etc. of Mastodon recording their album The Hunter. I've been listening to their song Curl of the Burl recently and amongst trying to identify the chicks that flashed their tits at the end of the video clip :D , I'm wondering what amps did they actually use for the guitar sound?

It's rather fizzy I reckon, fizzy but has a lot of deepness and body. In fact it sounds excessively dirty when you hear just the guitar tracks in isolation.


I don't think it's the Orange Thunderverbs that they promoted with Orange a little while back...

here's the guitar tracks- well I think so, it sounds slower, and transposed down to A....? :confused: Did someone fuck around with the track?



And for reference- the video with the lumberjack caravan bloke getting high of woodchips and those titties ;)
 
The only thing i know was from reading electronic musician, it said "80's JCM 800's and Hi Watts" but that was mentioned about the entire album not that particular track.
 
Gonna see Mastodon this coming Sunday. :rock: Their guitar tones rock. They are not afraid to use different tones either. This is just another example of guitar tones that don't sound maybe all that great alone, but in the band mix and song sound fucking killer. As to what amps they use? Who knows? Marshall, Orange, Diezel ect. Most likely they couldn't even tell you exactly what amp was used since they had several. Plus, even with the iso tracks, aren't we still hearing final production tones or are they the straight raw tracks? Also, is the guitar just downtuned or am I hearing like a sub octave thing?
 
It's probably not transposed. Mastodon have been known to drop their strings down to A, so the tuning is AADGBE. I'm a fan, they have some god awful tones for such impressive gear they use.
 
I am seeing them Sunday too!

And I have all of the stems of that song and there is quite a bit of octave fuzz pedal going on that really saturated everything.
 
petejt":2bpszp4r said:
And for reference- the video with the lumberjack caravan bloke getting high of woodchips and those titties ;)
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That video was CRAZY :scared:
 
fluff191":25b8v2e4 said:
I am seeing them Sunday too!

And I have all of the stems of that song and there is quite a bit of octave fuzz pedal going on that really saturated everything.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's going to be a damn good show. I'm confident their guitars are going to sound killer regardless of the brand of amp. I really like their tones. Heavy as hell and different.
 
Saw them on Letterman last week and the played Curl of the Burl.
They were using 800's and Oranges.
 
Their tone is total ass on the new album. It was pretty good on the last one. I don't know what happened to it.
 
fluff191":4it4jjyh said:
I did a cover of that tune! Love it!

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Dude, that sounds killer. Damn, I just tried tuning my guitar down to AEADF#B! Way too low. Sounds cool and is fun to hear but it feels weird. How do you like the Morpheous drop tune? I normally tune to Drop C. 10-60 strings on my 24.74" guitar and 11-70 on my 24". I might have to check out the drop tune thing.
 
Yeah I am in Drop C all most all of the time. The DropTune is cool for going down about a step and a half. Lower than that, it gets really strange sounding. Otherwise I love it. Make sure to do the firmware upgrade if you do pick one up!
 
JCM800s, Hi-Watts, VH4, and Orange for most of the record.
I love the tones on the new record!
 
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