Khriss Bliss
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Re: Angus Young tone for custom guitar
Great thread. I find the angus tone to be beautiful and very very pro but not entirely elusive.beware tho, I don't believe 75 % of people who say they have an angus tone. Now I'm not an expert but watching him and mal play combos unaccompanied on the backinblack bonus DVD, I'd say some combo amps will satisfy you, there isn't anything that " stack"ular or megawattish to my ears about their essential tone.Absolutely it is tempting to hear that verve and reach for distortion but it is quite clean, almost surfy attack, esp. mal. My point is the right pickup matters more , then learn to drive your tubes juuust right, but don't be surprised if you almost nail what you want with an affordable tube head , tube combo, or tube preamp, (which is tricky to find in stores if they don't let you crank it. ) So yes you need to switch away from yr cube (unless you borrow like an ibanez tubeking with like a 12 au7 tube, but I digress...) try clipping tube amps from pals or instores, mebbe even test out a ts7 or a tubescreamer or badmonkey pedal with the output high to hit a tubeamp hard to hear what folks mean by dry sound cranked. I think mebbe you'll realize a warm tube sound isn't miles down your income stream. Focus on pickups first, awesome suggestions so far incl. The Seth lover especially since it's resonance might , I cd be deadwrong , might give you arena style feedback. Btw, woodytone rules , very keen tone scholar . but generally,watch out lots of kids THINK they sound like angus. Finally I want to add, does anybody else notice angus leads in bonscott era sound gretschish? I love gretsch. Wish I'd been in the room when backinblack lp was recorded... Killer guitar sound, so killer...
Great thread. I find the angus tone to be beautiful and very very pro but not entirely elusive.beware tho, I don't believe 75 % of people who say they have an angus tone. Now I'm not an expert but watching him and mal play combos unaccompanied on the backinblack bonus DVD, I'd say some combo amps will satisfy you, there isn't anything that " stack"ular or megawattish to my ears about their essential tone.Absolutely it is tempting to hear that verve and reach for distortion but it is quite clean, almost surfy attack, esp. mal. My point is the right pickup matters more , then learn to drive your tubes juuust right, but don't be surprised if you almost nail what you want with an affordable tube head , tube combo, or tube preamp, (which is tricky to find in stores if they don't let you crank it. ) So yes you need to switch away from yr cube (unless you borrow like an ibanez tubeking with like a 12 au7 tube, but I digress...) try clipping tube amps from pals or instores, mebbe even test out a ts7 or a tubescreamer or badmonkey pedal with the output high to hit a tubeamp hard to hear what folks mean by dry sound cranked. I think mebbe you'll realize a warm tube sound isn't miles down your income stream. Focus on pickups first, awesome suggestions so far incl. The Seth lover especially since it's resonance might , I cd be deadwrong , might give you arena style feedback. Btw, woodytone rules , very keen tone scholar . but generally,watch out lots of kids THINK they sound like angus. Finally I want to add, does anybody else notice angus leads in bonscott era sound gretschish? I love gretsch. Wish I'd been in the room when backinblack lp was recorded... Killer guitar sound, so killer...
