Paul Gilbert's clean tone

[cayle_6]

saw this video. this is the clean sound that i want! :friday:
i remember this PGM800 to have Tone Zones in it. is this somehow close to the Tonezone's clean tone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVFa2iuKmFw&feature=channel_page

 

[ErikH]

Re: Paul Gilbert's clean tone

Not even close. That guitar there I believe has dual PAF Pro's in it. In that video, you're hearing it split in the notch position with the middle single-coil. Pretty obvious.

Paul achieves his clean tones today with his Detox EQ out front to choke back the volume and reEQ the tone and he also rolls back the guitar volume. He's old school in that regard.

 

[cayle_6]

Re: Paul Gilbert's clean tone

Not even close. That guitar there I believe has dual PAF Pro's in it. In that video, you're hearing it split in the notch position with the middle single-coil. Pretty obvious.

Paul achieves his clean tones today with his Detox EQ out front to choke back the volume and reEQ the tone and he also rolls back the guitar volume. He's old school in that regard.

says here tone zones. http://www.ibanez.co.jp/PGM20/PGM800.html

so the cleans on the PAF Pros are really good?

 

[ErikH]

Re: Paul Gilbert's clean tone

Ahh, so that one does have dual TZ's. Even so, it's a notch position tone in that video and the humbucker is split. That's how all of his HSH guitars are wired.

The PAF Pro does split well. I like it better than the TZ. Much lower output, more open, cleaner.

 

[St_Genesius]

Re: Paul Gilbert's clean tone

Am I the only one who hears distortion in that tone? Something somewhere is being overdriven a little.

 

[ErikH]

Re: Paul Gilbert's clean tone

Am I the only one who hears distortion in that tone? Something somewhere is being overdriven a little.

There is. Paul is old school. He rolls back the guitar volume to get cleans. When that video was done, he probably was using a GE-7 or something like that to re-EQ the sound a bit but these days he uses his HBE Detox EQ for that.

 

[St_Genesius]

Re: Paul Gilbert's clean tone

It just seems to me that it's more an example of a cool lightly overdriven tone than a cool clean tone -- the soft bits are chimey and the louder bits are nicely honky. Maybe it's just semantics, though and anything less than OMG gain is clean enough to be called clean.

 

[ErikH]

Re: Paul Gilbert's clean tone

Yeah, you can look at it that way too. I get my cleans with my Marshall the same way, though I don't have a Detox EQ, yet. I want one because that is exactly what I have been looking for to get a good "clean-ish" tone.

 

[JustWendell]

Re: Paul Gilbert's clean tone

http://www.racerxband.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=9679&start=0

This site also says dual TZ. Lots of good info there on the PGM models.


That cover is great.

 

[cayle_6]

Re: Paul Gilbert's clean tone

hmm.. slightly overdriven. i like that. still, how would a tone zone, or better an air zone, sound in a mahogany bodied super strat?