Digital Jams
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Had to learn this tune and never really listened to it before, damn Weezer has some good damn tone.
Had to learn this tune and never really listened to it before, damn Weezer has some good damn tone.
glassjaw7
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I've always liked their tone.
threadkiller
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I've always liked their tone. I think they have been through a bunch of different amps including Orange and even POD's on one of their tours where they went around playing mall parking lots and skating rinks as kind of a joke. I'd like to hear them cover Just What I Needed by the Cars. I'm betting they could do a sick version.
tonmazz
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Who would have thought! Great tone.
Gainzilla
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Like the tone but it doesnt scream out Marshall to me( at least not what I usually associate with Marshalls)
Kage
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marshallstack
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Pulled this off Harmony, sounds like you might be right. Whatever it is sounds good.
"Sounds like you need a Weezer geek in here.
Blue album rhythm was primarily Les Paul DC w/ P90s into a Rare Mesa MK I (pre 'Boogie') amp. Amp @ low volume, mic'ed up close w/ condenser(s).
Some clean stuff was done on a Jaguar (e.g. Surfwax intro, I believe) and another Fender guitar.
The Big Muff (and other indeterminate pedals) + Marshalls setup was used for Pinkerton. Rivers was still using a Les Paul (not sure if it was a P-90 or Humbucker guitar, though).
Green was (again) Les Paul + Marshalls, no big Muff (that I'm aware of), though -- just amp distortion.
Maladroit was Marshalls 'cranked to 11,' this time I think Rivers was using a Gibson Explorer most of the time.
Make Believe, I'm not sure what they recorded with.
Warmoth double-fat Strats and Marshalls HAVE been used for touring ever since Blue, but these weren't used to record. During some of the 2002 Maladroit-era touring, they used PODs, but have since gone away from that. Rivers is now playing an SG through a Diezel."
"Sounds like you need a Weezer geek in here.
Blue album rhythm was primarily Les Paul DC w/ P90s into a Rare Mesa MK I (pre 'Boogie') amp. Amp @ low volume, mic'ed up close w/ condenser(s).
Some clean stuff was done on a Jaguar (e.g. Surfwax intro, I believe) and another Fender guitar.
The Big Muff (and other indeterminate pedals) + Marshalls setup was used for Pinkerton. Rivers was still using a Les Paul (not sure if it was a P-90 or Humbucker guitar, though).
Green was (again) Les Paul + Marshalls, no big Muff (that I'm aware of), though -- just amp distortion.
Maladroit was Marshalls 'cranked to 11,' this time I think Rivers was using a Gibson Explorer most of the time.
Make Believe, I'm not sure what they recorded with.
Warmoth double-fat Strats and Marshalls HAVE been used for touring ever since Blue, but these weren't used to record. During some of the 2002 Maladroit-era touring, they used PODs, but have since gone away from that. Rivers is now playing an SG through a Diezel."
reverymike
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Weezer is a funny band. You'd never know that Rivers Cuomo has yngwie-like chops. . .seriously.
He was a GIT grad, who decided to go in the opposite direction musically than the other guys he graduated with, and found success playing nerd-rock. He's a shredder at heart.
He was a GIT grad, who decided to go in the opposite direction musically than the other guys he graduated with, and found success playing nerd-rock. He's a shredder at heart.
rupe
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I remember reading that as well. He was asked in an interview back in the mid 90's who some of his favorite guitarists were and he said Warren Dimartinireverymike":3hh4xvxq said:
guitarslinger
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I thought that was a Mesa MK.
Digital Jams
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So what album is this song from?marshallstack":1txd4zdq said:
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....you could be right Kage, maybe too smooth for marshall and I could buy Mesa.
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marshallstack
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Looks like the Green album, Les Pauls and Marshalls if this is right.
glassjaw7
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Always liked Green Day's Marshall tones too. Not the music so much though.
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londaxe
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marshallstack":2fv5um77 said:
Yeah, that's from the green album. It's probably the Marshall 6100LM...certainly sounds like it to me.
I've always liked the first album tone most. Apparently it was a mesa mark 1 with an added master volume.
BSRIAudio
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Rivers has been using a VH4 for quite a while now. Most of the 2000s at least. Im sure he uses other stuff in the studio as well.
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CaseyCor
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Yup, MK 1 on their first album. I used to have one, and could get those sounds really easy on it. Great amp, I miss it.londaxe":14d1qdre said:
RockStarNick
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The Guitar World interview with Weezer was kind of a bummer.
It revealed that not only does River's extensively use co-writers, but their recording process seems really strange. Rivers goes in and records a butt-ton of guitar stuff. Then Patrick Wilson, the drummer, records a bunch of guitar parts. Finally Brian Bell gets to record some guitar parts. And no one really knows what's going to make it onto the final cut.
And lately on stage, Weezer has been using Josh Freese to drum for them, which frees up Patrick Wilson (Weezer's drummer) to play his Green Charvel superstrat, so that Rivers can just run around and be a 'lead singer'.
Not the same band that they used to be.
It revealed that not only does River's extensively use co-writers, but their recording process seems really strange. Rivers goes in and records a butt-ton of guitar stuff. Then Patrick Wilson, the drummer, records a bunch of guitar parts. Finally Brian Bell gets to record some guitar parts. And no one really knows what's going to make it onto the final cut.
And lately on stage, Weezer has been using Josh Freese to drum for them, which frees up Patrick Wilson (Weezer's drummer) to play his Green Charvel superstrat, so that Rivers can just run around and be a 'lead singer'.
Not the same band that they used to be.
mightywarlock
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can anyone with Axe-Fx knowledge dial in a patch with this type of guitar sound?
I bought it a couple weeks ago, and am trying to figure out a patch to use for a 23 song album I am starting this week, but haven't been able to dial a useable tone yet.
something like this would work out great, if i can dial it into the Axe-FX
Hey Mark, where are ye!
I bought it a couple weeks ago, and am trying to figure out a patch to use for a 23 song album I am starting this week, but haven't been able to dial a useable tone yet.
something like this would work out great, if i can dial it into the Axe-FX
Hey Mark, where are ye!
Digital Jams
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mightywarlock":24qsj7wj said:
Your DSL or KK should get you pretty close no?
MisterBulbous
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RockStarNick":21qblma6 said:
Not to go too far off topic, but my wife happened to buy me that GW magazine (I normally don't). That entire issue sucked...very few interviews, most of it was just filler crap about the "history of the '90's". What few interviews they had were incredibly short and pointless and not guitar-related. Anyways, it sounds like more and more bands are doing that "phone it in" approach where everyone submits music at different times and it all gets pasted together. Opeth is starting to sound like that to me.
mightywarlock
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Digital Jams":339814iv said:
Of course, I could use any number of amps.
However, we started recording with the VH4 and Mark V together, and after 3 or 4 songs I scrapped the idea and decided change things up and maybe do the Marshall KK, since it records so well. Then I decided to screw all that and to try the Axe-FX.
Since there are so many songs, I am striving for consistency, and ease of use...
basically, my recording situation isn't that great of a room, so I decided rather than have these loud amps echoing and making it hard to hear the click track and all that, and people exclaiming how well the Axe records, I would give it a shot.
Got it hooked up this weekend and was dialing it in, so far, i'm not that impressed with it.
dunno if my Profire 2626 is messing with the tone, or it just doesn't sound that good with the stock IR's, or what, but it just still doesn't sound like normal "real" amps to me yet. It does sound ok...and pretty good for direct recording, (as you will see...I'll post a video or clips later, from a pickup shootout I did last night), direct into the Axefx.
I'm still trying though...