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Tone questions

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  • This topic has 1 reply, 2 voices, and was last updated 18 years ago by giantsofthebiblebelt.
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  • January 31, 2008 at 1:38 am #50680
    Matthoney
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      Hey, I have a few questions about J’s tone and, more specifically, how he got it.

      How he did he get that sound for the solo in Kracked? I’m guessing a cranked flanger and wah?

      On Freakscene, during the part with the flanger, how does he get it to make that sound? Is it that his amp’s getting feedback, so when he turns it on the feedback becomes flanged? I was watching the performance of it at the reading Festival and noticed that he just stepped on the pedal and didn’t play anything.

      During the "bridge" of Gargoyle, where it’s just the muted strumming, how did he get that sound? Flanger?

      Thanks.

      January 31, 2008 at 7:42 pm #132980
      giantsofthebiblebelt
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        With J’s tone it seems when in doubt, assume he is using gobs of flanger. Listening to the first two records, I think his tone pallet was a lot more limited than people suspect since nowadays he has seventeen million effects at his disposal live and even more in a studio. I think he just knew how to get the most out of a few pedals in those early days. He probably just had a muff, electric mistress, clone theory(I hear that all over his tone too), phaser of some sort, and then a wah.

        I had a clone theory for about a year and despite it being so noisy it hurt my ears(broken down model)it was easy to nail some of his sounds. I know they reissued it as a small pedal, haven’t tried it though.

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