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The guitar track for "I'm The One" is amazing!Also cool are the Eddie VH isolated tracks.
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The guitar track for "I'm The One" is amazing!Also cool are the Eddie VH isolated tracks.
I could be wrong, but it seems like he used a wah in his sound. He probably had the pedal pressed around halfway and when he hit solos, he put it forward all the way? One thing about Randy's tone that everyone could agree on, is that it sounded like crap. Its not a tone many actually want because it was just heavily distorted. I know he did use an MXR 10 band EQ as well as an MXR Plus distortion pedal. I've often seen guys incorporate a wah into it but their wah "leaks" from what is heard. He also used a chorus pedal. One guy used 2 chorus pedals to add depth which sounded pretty good with no wah. But his tone is not extemely hard to obtain. Not like trying to get Jimmy page, Peter Green or some type of tone where the "fingers" produce the tone as well.
Now with that said, his musicality is by far one of the best out there. To incorporate classical music into his playing is just phenominal.
He truly is/was one of the best out there and its sad his life so trageically ended young. But if he was still here today, I'd think by the 90s, hed have left playing live and focused on teaching because thats where his heart really was...
I was thinking of this while listening to some of the links. I can mimic his tone on even a strat by cranking the distortion and overdrive and throwing in a little chorus. Of course I'm not rhoads but you get the idea. It later became a little more compressed and polished and IMO became the guitar sound of glam rock/metal. Classic 80s really.
But if you really wanna talk about terrible tone from a great player, you have to look at Jeff Beck. If he were not so amazing you'd think he sucked!
A coworker of mine has an old friend that was a guitar tech for Jeff Beck in the early '70's.He said Beck was the easiest guitarist to work for because he never wanted his strings tuned! His guitars would be out of tune for whole shows sometimes...he would quickly adjust and bend the notes up to where they needed to be.
I could be wrong, but it seems like he used a wah in his sound. He probably had the pedal pressed around halfway and when he hit solos, he put it forward all the way? One thing about Randy's tone that everyone could agree on, is that it sounded like crap. Its not a tone many actually want because it was just heavily distorted. I know he did use an MXR 10 band EQ as well as an MXR Plus distortion pedal. I've often seen guys incorporate a wah into it but their wah "leaks" from what is heard. He also used a chorus pedal. One guy used 2 chorus pedals to add depth which sounded pretty good with no wah. But his tone is not extemely hard to obtain. Not like trying to get Jimmy page, Peter Green or some type of tone where the "fingers" produce the tone as well.
Now with that said, his musicality is by far one of the best out there. To incorporate classical music into his playing is just phenominal.
He truly is/was one of the best out there and its sad his life so trageically ended young. But if he was still here today, I'd think by the 90s, hed have left playing live and focused on teaching because thats where his heart really was...
awesome, i'd never heard those before. listening to it, i have to say i never realized how much flanger he used. it sounds awesome the way he has it all orchestrated & layered into his stuff, which is really cool, because to me the flange is normally something you can easily overdo.
at any rate, he was an amazing rock guitarist who left way too soon. RIP
They say he wasn't using a wah pedal at that time with QR and he was disgruntled with his tone. It was when he got with Ozzy he could afford better equipment. Him and the bassist from QR was such an awesome duo they really put the Ozzman on the map.
some of those guys seem to be talking about what he used live, but fair enough.According to this RR fan website he used a flanger, a chorus,and a phaser.
Ultimate Rhoads
MXR Stereo Chorus and MXR Flanger specifically.
Well while we may not be able to play like Rhoads, we can quite easily get THAT sound. Now you go to late 60s early 70s? THAT sound is very difficult and expensive to obtain. And that's THE sound I'd love to have but I'd have to sell half or more than half my equipment to obtain and I haven't played enough with it to see of I enjoy the sound I'm getting. Guitars get you a qrtr of the way, the amp is what gets you at minimum 50%. I want to get a fender tweed or super deluxe vintage amp. May have to sell my 87 JMC 800 and 4x12 scumback equipped cab to get it. I'll never part with my 3 LPs. Though I'd love to get a 2013 LP 59. My 2008 RI 59 is pretty good but I'd like to hear the diff between them to see how much better a 2013 is. I'm sure if I just played with what I have I could get some decent tones with my equip. Thing is a 100w head and 4x12 is just so LOUD, not many places you can play it dimed. And that's where the Marshall shines...
Lol I used to have one! I sold it ages ago! def a good amp! But I hear a vintage Tweed, twin reverb or deluxe is THE amp to have.A Fender Blues Jr was the best guitar equipment I ever acquired. It makes everything sound awesome, even my 'saints' cigar box guitar. Needless to say it makes my Strat Plus sound like it deserves someone who can play better.
Well while we may not be able to play like Rhoads, we can quite easily get THAT sound. Now you go to late 60s early 70s? THAT sound is very difficult and expensive to obtain. And that's THE sound I'd love to have but I'd have to sell half or more than half my equipment to obtain and I haven't played enough with it to see of I enjoy the sound I'm getting. Guitars get you a qrtr of the way, the amp is what gets you at minimum 50%. I want to get a fender tweed or super deluxe vintage amp. May have to sell my 87 JMC 800 and 4x12 scumback equipped cab to get it. I'll never part with my 3 LPs. Though I'd love to get a 2013 LP 59. My 2008 RI 59 is pretty good but I'd like to hear the diff between them to see how much better a 2013 is. I'm sure if I just played with what I have I could get some decent tones with my equip. Thing is a 100w head and 4x12 is just so LOUD, not many places you can play it dimed. And that's where the Marshall shines...
Lol I used to have one! I sold it ages ago! def a good amp! But I hear a vintage Tweed, twin reverb or deluxe is THE amp to have.
Very true, it seems now a days, you gotta play coffeeshop low because ppl dont care to see "original" live music where youre jamming and LOUD. I know there are places that play loud, but Marhsal stack loud? Not many at all!I have the vintage tweed version with the Jenson speaker. I haven't compared it to a regular model. I'd love to have any of the traditional great amps. Ultimately they are all way too loud!