Green Day tone

Rex

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I'm trying to get the tone of Green Day's song Basket Case. Could anyone suggest some amp settings that will get me a tone that close? Thanks.
 
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A Squier guitar with a Fender Frontman 15G amp (and my Squier has a JB in it).
 
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Strat, JB in the bridge, and a marshall.

I get some good tones for basketcase with my TSL and my strat with a C-5 in the bridge, but it's not the same. My tone is more bass heavy and the mids are different sounding.
 
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he used a stratocaster with ajb in the bridge.For amps he used a marshall plexi, probably modded with lead controls. its pretty basic, but you will need a tube amp i think. In case your interested, green day's new sound mainly comes from marshalls and gibson les paul juniors with p90's.
 
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Dookie was a 100 watter superlead plexi modified by Bob Bradshaw of CAE. Apparently, that amp was also used by Rancid on "And Out Come The Wolves."
 
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Yes , I Think I saw an Orange amp also in the documentary. I would say Marshall Plexi with P90 pickups and what a beautifull tone I would say. They definitly are getting some great comments off of this new cd as far as guitar tone. They must have had some expensive counseling.
 
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mrid said:
Dookie was a 100 watter superlead plexi modified by Bob Bradshaw of CAE. Apparently, that amp was also used by Rancid on "And Out Come The Wolves."

Right on. Actually, I believe at that time John Suhr was the one responsible for the mods to the superlead plexi, but he was working with CAE closely at that point with other projects, like the CAE preamps. Bradshaw did the designs and Suhr did the electronics from what I've gathered (could be wrong though).

I love that tone myself. John Rzeznik uses a CAE/Suhr modded Marshall and OD-100 live and his tone sounds amazing as well. If I were a touring professional, I'd definitely go that route.
 
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the_Chris said:
Right on. Actually, I believe at that time John Suhr was the one responsible for the mods to the superlead plexi, but he was working with CAE closely at that point with other projects, like the CAE preamps. Bradshaw did the designs and Suhr did the electronics from what I've gathered (could be wrong though).

I had a feeling Suhr was involved somehow... :13:
 
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