Recreating The Adam Jones TOOL Guitar Tone!
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- Let's take a look at Adam Jones' Tool guitar tone on the album Aenima and see if we can get close to the guitar sound he got on that album!
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Lateralus Would be a cool guitar tone to re-create.
I second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh that.
tbh, Lateralus, 10,000 Days and Fear Inoculum would be good.
I do agree but i still feel like 10000 days is like the best guitar sound i have ever heard
That was a dual rectifier album for sure.
I, second, third, fifth, and eighth that
"Hey adam which of these expensive amps do you want to use?" ..Adam: "yes"
Adam Jones has to be one of the most underrated guitar players of our time. For legit Tool fans, we all know his skill level and attention to detail, but for the rest of the world, super underrated.
Great job also dude. Your knowledge of the tech is awesome.
So pretentious
adam had so many unique techniques and his tone is just so raw and golden
Things you like. Overrated.
Things I like. Underrated.
he pretty overrated, look how easily he sells overpriced gibsons. mayer of prog.
I havent heard him play other than tool songs witch are all very easy so cant tell is he really that good.
The only thing that i give him Credit is hes unique palm muting technique that he uses alot
The lateralus tone is easily his best and in my opinion is the heaviest guitar tone ever
Yes
Yes. So why Take aenima???
Uhhh, Jambi on 10,000 days anyone? ;-)
@@minimalistvagabonds1597That’s what I was thinking.
Quit saying “best” you sound lame
deftones' around the fur tone would bee coolo
Completely agree
True, he's already got the Duncan JB, he just needs the Marshall JMP-1
Around the fur has my favorite deftones guitar tones
Yes please!!
yes
I've never really gotten into Tool but that song sounded killer. I think I'm gonna give them another shot.
Try stinkfist
The Pot, Sober and Eulogy are good to start with.
@@amremorse dude lateralus though, probabky one of the greatest albums ever written.
I remember being completely illiterate about this band and Schism and this very song clicked for me right away. Especially Ænima because of the lyrics. 😌
46 and 2, friend. Welcome to the rest of your life.
Dirt from AIC would be sick, since Jerry's tone is impeccable
Marshall into an open'12' cab, 2x SM 57, one in front one in back, 180 degrees out of phase. Dave Jerden special.
There is a Rig Rundown with his tech.... good vid. His signal chain isnt all that involved, and aside from the Friedman amps most of us can afford it. But you know what they say, tone is in the hands of the player. I really think that Jerry could play a Series 10 guitar into a Peavey Bandit and sound the same. 😉
Yes it is, Entombed used a Bandit with an HM-2🤣
Ik all that, it would just be cool to see fluff try to replicate it
@@3badthebad gotcha. Yea, it would make a good vid.
Tool is the perfect band for this segment all across their discography. Imo their career as musicians is as unique as it gets. Awesome video!
You saw Tool during the Aenema tour? So lucky.
Chese 311 me too. I saw them in Cincinnati in November of 96. Changed my life too. They’ve been my favorite band (by far) since.
You didn't miss out on anything since they only had a couple albums at the time. Now you get to enjoy 2 hours of work at a live show
Marco CB the shows in ‘96 were also a couple hours long. The 96 show was the best show (by any band) I’ve ever seen. I’ve seen Tool 11 times with the 96 show being my first-and it was by far the best. Maynard up front going crazy, plenty of songs off of Ænima, Undertow, and a couple from Opiate.
Finding tone for Songs for the deaf by queens of the Stone Age would be a cool video
Step 1: throw a really old ampeg off the roof
Step 2: codeine
Aenima is the pinnicle for both tone and overall production. I love the shades of that evil sounding chorus-type flavor, the chirpy break up of the distortion, the razor sounding crunch of the rhythm tone, even the big delay of the pick scrapes. The ambiance of the album is just artistically spot on, like the whole album was recorded on Halloween under a full moon.
Kirk Windsteins tone from Sonic Excess in its Purest Form would be incredible. There is not a single video on his tone on TH-cam!
I LOVE Crowbar! Pretty sure he was using Randall RG100ES solid state amps with a Boss MT-2 Metal Zone used as a boost....distortion all the way to 0...Volume all the way up and the EQ knobs at noon... With a LTD Viper (possibly baritone) with EMG 81 (b) and 85 (n)...
Yes man crowbar freaking rules man I’m a huge crowbar fan best band to come out of the sludge/doom metal scene.
Kirk's pickup was Duncan Distortion
I love his tone on the song Pushit. Its got an intangible quality to it i can't describe so well. Good stuff
Excellent breakdown. The interweb needs more fluff, Uncle Ben, and Axe in the same videos!
Please do the Mastodon's Crack The Skye guitar tone
Fuckin' right! First time I really had an appreciation for them and had the pleasure of seeing them with BTBAM, and Baroness on that tour.
Ohh that's a great suggestion. I love that and probably The Hunter even more
those leads on The Last Baron are simply incredible!!!!
The czar is probably my favorite song from them
Their new album is fucking dope. I had to mention of seeing this comment.
I had the honor of visiting Peter Diezel in Germany before the pandemic. He had been meeting with Adam to do some service to his VH-4. Peter showed me a schematic of the amp that he had been sketching on a napkin. Priceless.
Mastodons blood mountain tone recreation!
eddiefender100 ^this! Or leviathan- that extra grittiness is so cool
Yeaaaa
Yes yes
Gibson and marshall jvm.
@@sebastienruesch6350ye but they would have definitely used a pedal into its input, and lord knows what pedal - a tubescreamer - or that one signature mastortion - or a boss cs-3 - or all 3 at once? or something entirely different. Take a look at the picture in this headline www.metalsucks.net/2017/01/03/mastodons-brent-hinds-uses-old-taken-out-of-context-chestnut-to-explain-away-his-quote-about-hating-metal/, he is holding a pedalboard, taken back in the old days (stupid article - for some reason it was the only place i could find that pic, a pic you could easily find everywhere back in 2014 before they did official rig rundowns)
The Jerry Cantrell legacy, especially on Dirt, is remarkable! But, can you recreate it?
Modded jcm800 and a duncan jb. Id probably have a boost pedal on hand for the ability to saturate if needed
I thought Adam was slapping the fretboard with his left hand and only using one pick attack on the intro riff. I certainly could be wrong.
No, you are totally right. It's mostly hammer
You’re correct. He mentions a video that Ben Eller made showing how Adam plays that riff.
I'm constantly wondering if people play stuff wrong all the time, of if I just hear it wrong.
My ears aren't that great tbh, so I'm always surprised when I hear solo tracks of riffs that are completely different from the way I've been playing them for years.
But yeah... that being said, every section in this video was played differently than the way I hear it. 🤣
I really like the tones on the newest album.
Aenima is my favorite rock/metal production ever. The drums (and the room they were recorded in which is clearly present), the glorious bass, and that amazing guitar tone. What a perfect sounding album in my opinion.
I love Adams rythems mixed into the riffs, it's not super technical stuff but getting it right by including the dead/pick scraped sticatto rythem notes can be tricky but just makes it sound so alive. Love his playing style, big influence for lots of us.
Man, you really nail the subtleties in a player’s tone. 😎
I saw Tool a couple months ago when they came to Houston. I wasn't expecting much because I saw APC a few months before that and they were a huge letdown. I know totally different band. It ended up being the best show I've ever seen! AJ's tone was so sick. It sounded amazing. The visual show was so cool too and went perfectly with the music.
Rooster 7six I was there and it was an amazing show, even with Adams guitar cutting out during Jambi. Glad they fixed it before the talkbox solo
Tantojutsuninpo I was just to the side of Adam in Houston and he didn’t use the talk box...it was all done with pedals. I was at the San Antonio show too but on Justin’s side. I was looking forward to seeing the solo. Oh, and they were having problems with his guitar in SA too, but not nearly as bad.
Stephen Norris cool I was in the top row of the lower bowl just left of center. Too far to see well
Type O Negative Bloody Kisses album next, please. My fav tone.
Such a great album. October Rust is good too, but my favorite is Bloody Kisses.
Kyle Thomas: Amen brother!
October Rust
Bloody Kisses: ADA MP-1
October Rust: ADA MP-2
Marshall 9005?
I don't know how you do it Fluff. Adjusting little increments of different settings over a number of plugins and sound tools, just to hear the microscopic nuances that _actually_ adds more authenticity to the original tone.😳 I would pull my hair out at that stage...
But this was absolutely immaculate. Looking super forward to seeing your recreations of Lateralus and 10,000 Days!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘
ZZTop Afterburner tone, Bathory first album tone and maybe the first Deicide album tone. Cool.
Damn dude. Your suggestions have to be the best ive ever seen. As if you grabbed the cassettes out of my car in the 90's and listed them off.
Hey Ryan, it would be awesome if you could try and re-create Josh Homme's tone on Kyuss' Welcome to Sky Valley, I can ship you a TubeWorks RT-2100 amp to help you out if you'd like.
I've always identified that song's tone as a classic Rectifier tone - the signature near-abrasive Presence, for example, reminiscent of a lot of famous uses of that amp around that time (e.g., in Limp Biscuit). Having had some version of a Recto in the stable for 13 years now, I know it can definitely nail to a "T" that particular tone.
Side note: the best Adam Jones guitar tone for me is on the track Jambi. Truly one of the greatest modern tones to date and I think the product of a uniquely inspired spark of creative chemistry between Jones and Baresi... Cheers!
I dont think he changed that much to get 10k days and newer sound. Theres a bit more vh4 but he switched to a dd6 pickup or some affectation of it. Before he used a jb.
Merry Christmas, FLUFF!!!!
I tried this with Amplitube and got really close. One thing that made a HUGE difference was the pick, since I was playing with a 0.88 Tortex, then switched to a 0.73 and got even closer. I will try a nylon 0.5 mm next.
Jerry Cantrell would be wicked! 🙌🏻
There is a full Rig Rundown vid with his guitar tech. It's not all that involved honestly.... basically a Freidman head, TS9(?), and some MXR pedals. Good vid, you should check it out.
@@daddyosink4413 Friedmans are only the last couple of albums. All the 90s stuff was mostly Bogner. Dirt was a mix of a Bogner Fish, Dual Rec and a Rockman... supposedly anyway.
yesss
@@daddyosink4413thats his current stage rig. People want to know how to get his ballsy dirt tone. Which is modded jcm800 and possibly Bogner altho i think that was a later live thing. He used a Shiva and Uberschall a bit
Should've gone with some pre EQ that boosts the high mid and high. The song intro sounds ALMOST like it's been recorded with single coils. I think the Boss EQ does that. Your tone has too much modern tightness and too much mid presence instead of a bit more contour. Also, the Marshall is 100% stock, per his tech (check the dunlop video). This was a tricky one though ;)
The Marshall is a super bass that has been modded to super lead specs. So it has a shared cathode instead of a split cathode and the super bass tonestack. This is per information from Friedman who modded it.
^This. The video in which his tech says "100% stock" was either him being sarcastic or not wanting to spill the beans. Friedman hot-rodded it to essentially super lead specs, as mentioned above.
@@rprides1007 sounds about right. I'm pretty sure Adam used to tell interviewers that he kept the Superbass in a freezer. Lmao.
Commenting "Do Korn's Self Titled guitar tone" until Fluff does a video on it
Adams guitar sound is based on the Marshall Base head, or vintage Marshall tube amp can get close to recreating that sound. Listen to their 1992 album live which he plays through one amp, and you will see his tone has not changed much, just been added to. The Vh4 blue stereo amp is the perfect add to his sound. And he has hardly changed his live set up from the aenima tour. He switch out the messa for another Vh4 standard. The key with his sound is the stereo setup, playing 3 amps at once. Lastly his Silver burst les Paul has a special sound that he says keeps him playing them. The tone you have created is very dry. And JCM Marshall apps do go very dry. His base head is very hard to get and modify, but trying the vintage tube amps like the Marshall 1974x hardwired 18W tube amp turned right up to vol 10 will get you close with that wet vintage Marshall sound. Then get a Vh4 amp with a quad and play them in stereo you will see what i mean.
thanks for all the info, to me the Adam Jones sound was always about how he plays, he likes to mute and play some staccato style riffs, he is precise and very clean and clear and aggressive or very soft, is a unique style and to me is the signature of the sound more than his actual tones.
I have not watched the guy that plays bass on this but Ben Eller is AweSome...his insights on how to break down hard riffs GREAT!
Jason Sapp well thanks! Check out my channel later today for the real way to play these riffs :)
Enema is my favorite stool song
Nice
Enemas are my favorite weekend activity
Do a HELMET guitar tone please i love that band
Christmas present for the viewers! THANKS FLUFF!
Merry Christmas!!
10,000 days has one of the best tones ever.
I owned a mid 90's Epiphone SG and played it with a BOSS metal Zone 2 through an old Canadian made Garnet Amp from the 80s. And I found I could match Adam's Tone, not even knowing what gear he used. I was only 13 when Undertow was released and was still learning how to play. Thanks to Tool and Helmet, I discovered drop D tuning.
Thanks so much for making this mate! Just referenced this video in my 15min Adam Jones Tone challenge. You're a legend. Cheers!
Do Alice In Chains and Queens of the Stone Age too!
I would love to see you recreate Mastodon: Crack the Skye guitar tones. Just amazing sounds from that record.
Friedman was inside....had his hands on Adams Superbass. He says it’s bone stock...no mods. Maybe changed to “Lead Specs”? but stock none the less.
Fun video Fluff........thanks for sharing👍
It would be nice to see a Josh Homme Kyuss-era tone recreation. Maybe 'Blues for the Red Sun' record would be perfect for this
C-standard, JCM 900, Ampeg 8x10 Bass cab, Ovation Ultra gp, wah pedal, Boss SD-1, done.
Can't help but notice that your rockin' The Bunns shirt! You must be stoked!
Fluff you are a really incredible musician. I love to here people, like yourself, get into the nuts and bolts of creating sounds. You have such an incredible ear and are truly gifted. Thank you for everything you do. Merry Xmas.
Thank you for this. I always watch your channel because you have so much knowledge about the PC stuff, (amongst many other music related and music technology topics). I will continue to watch your channel, even about stuff that doesn't make sense to me. I write those things down in case I need to know about it at a later point in my learning process.
Ah yes. 5am, on a lovely sunny Christmas morning, and we are already grabbing our guitars!
(Ignore the lack of sunlight outside.)
Blasted time zones, always ruining everyone's plans!
@alan wake Considering the fact that we live in the past, everything is still quiet here. Since the East Coast lives in the future, do you have any juicy nuggets of news for our future?
@alan wake NO! I'm calling Glenn Fricker! This cannot be happening!
Would like to see a recreation vid for Jerry Cantrell
Would really love to get a similar video on the 10,000 days tone. Its my personal favorite of all time and I have been forever struggling to get it close. I hope you make a video on it someday!
Nice t-shirt! Shout out to Bunn and the group! :-)
If you said this, I apologize for missing it...
I have a guitar mag interview with Adam from the late ‘90s or early ‘00s where he says that (at least part of) the Marshall mod is jumpering the clean and crunch channels so he can dial a bit of clean into the overall tone. I believe that amp has a separate tone stack for the 2 channels. So that may be “not as much gain as I’m using here” aspect comes in. Just an idea.
Having said all that, your recreation is right on. A tiny bit of a clean channel might have a subtle effect but you nailed it.
I have waited for a video like this! MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Great vid! Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood tone would be awesome dude.
Stinkfist was the first song I ever learned to play on guitar with sheet music and tab. Then I learned a couple deftones and tool songs and now I cannot escape the influence Adam Jones has on my playing. That isn’t a bad thing to me as he’s my favorite guitarist. Simple riffs to learn that sound so much more complex all the way up to super hard to learn complex mind bending parts. I’d say Robert fripp and Adam Jones share my number one spot and I look up to them both.
Soundgarden please!!
yessss
Could you play the whole song on one of these next time? I was actually hoping to see how you would've approached the middle section (the "learn to swim" part) with the slide and flangey guitar.
I got it with an 808, Tri Rec gain low, Bass and Treb half, mid low, Mesa cab with a 441 off center and I added a Phaser on 0. For Fear Inoculum I swapped in a Gold Klon. Thanks Fluff
do SOAD
I didn't understand anything you said but Pinky is chillin' in the back.
Great video! I've been listening to the Aenima album ever since the release. Saw TOOL live on the Aenima tour. And to this day I still listen to like it's my 1st time. Such an amazing album. When I sit down and really listen carefully to this album I can't help but notice that there is much more going on in Adam Jones's guitar tone. I've always known he has used Diezel amps a lot however I'm hearing something else in his tone on this album and it's almost like a broken up low gain Fuzz coming thru rather than an all out high gain crunch amp tone. If I had to suggest something that I feel sounds close I'd say something like a EHX Metal MUFF. UNDERTOW had that real plexi crunch tone and so did opiate. The Albums that followed Aenima all sound different in tone as well.
I'm not claiming your tone was wrong however would love to hear your opinion on this as you know the boys from TOOL love to play with our minds so much it makes me think that maybe there is something none of us know about Adams tone. 🤘👍
Dude, I would be very happy if you talk about the album's tone: "Zeitgeist" especially the tracks: Doomsday Clock and That's the Way (My Love Is).
Ok, I know this is not just the favorite of the crowd but to years do not see a "Fucking heavy tone" as in: "Doomsday Clock" and a crazy solo effects as as: "That's the Way (My Love Is)".
Since already a Merry Christmas Fluff and a great new year bro !
Love how you used the Burny man.... It's my absolute favorite LP ever!
I'm playing in a Tool Tribute band and have a Diezel VH4 thru Mesa 4x12 and a Hughes Kettner Grandmeister Deluxe (great for the midi options and getting several different AJ-souds) thru an Orange 2x12 (gonna get another Boogie for this one - the Orange Closed back is a tad too dark) and this is a dream setup.
Oh, and btw, you seemed to have nailed this quite well when you added the plugins! Seem to have a good ear!
Here’s a tone fluff should recreate: Jason Richardson’s tone from Chelsea Grin’s Evolve EP
Ascendancy, Shogun, In Waves, or Vengeance Falls by Trivium
For anyone asking why Vengeance Falls, it's because the guitar tone from that album has been what they have used ever since. Also, it's not a bad album.
Honestly I would love to see embers tone, I like it so much, it's so raw and unpolished
The Foo Fighters the color and the shape tone recreation please!
Merry christmas!
Josh Homme _Era Vulgara_ tone recreation?
Andrew Pappas Rated R would be better... imo of course ;)
Luc Wilson That’s also a great album, and really any Josh Homme tone vid would be awesome
Josh Homme ftw
@@lucwilson1 Nah welcome to sky valley is where its at
ANY of Josh's tones would be nice
Please recreate Buzz Osbourne's tone from Houdini...I need to know how he gets that crunch
Sunn Beta Lead and 2203 JMP
Good shout out to Greg. Axe of Creation is a fantastic channel, especially for Tool stuff.
I love my UA Audio gear and plug-ins. I love using UA's Studer 800 plug-in to tie everything in a mix together. What tape add-on did you use for this production? It makes sense to use in general but especially for Tool, they still to this day use a Studer 800 for tracking, loves me some UA magic!
never clicked so quickly
When listening to Aenima with headphones it amazed me at how much mono guitars were on that record. They really only stereod the guitars in really epic parts but it sounded huge
Helmet Betty guitar tone?
@Chese 311 they used a modded JCM 800 for that tone on betty, they didnt start using the VHT Pitbull until Aftertaste
On Fear Inoculum, for those who care, Adam Jones often used an Abominable Electronics Hellmouth pedal to tighten and overdrive this amps.
According to Adam Jones, the screw in the silverburts is the tone. He didn’t remove it because he feared it would affect the tone.
Do a doom/stoner type band next, I know you want to, Fluff!
i think you nailed it, and i have listened to that album more than any other album in my life, very very close to the og tone
I know Circle Of Tone tried, and he admitted he failed, to get the Fear Factory tone. I would love to hear a recreation of the tone from Obsolete, especially the track Edge Crusher, which has such a brutal, crushing tone!
I thought i would never see someone like you rock a old Burny, let alone anyone theses days.
Burnys are awesome! My number one is a black mij custom with VH1 pickups. I looove it.
Alice in chains please...
@Chese 311 OK I've got the amp and his signature guitar, now the knobs coordinates??
one of the most underrated bands ever
I was under the impression that Adam was first turned onto Rivera amps by Evil Joe Baressi when they recorded 10,000 Days in 2006. They used Rivera and Wizard again for Fear Inoculum. David Bottrill produced Ænima so I don’t think the Riveras were used on that album.
I have adams entire live rig cloned down to the smallest detail. I know pretty much everything about his rig from every era. Ask any questions you might have.
Which model epilady do you find works best?
Which kemper profile do u use
John Yeo i got all real hardware
What bridge pickup does Adam use?
@@mattthebat41 80s-90s seymour duncan ddj
He didn't use a DIEZEL during that tour which would have been 96-97,some shows in 98,and Coachella in 99. I believe he started using the DIEZEL in 98. You are correct though about the other amps,and during Lateralus he used DIEZEL as well
HI EVERYONE he started using it at the very end of 96 during the ænima tour
It’s very close but in the intro the open D and G strings have a certain harshness to it, I don’t know the proper word for it. Exactly the same as in Stinkfist right after “IT’S NOT ENOUGH” and “I NEED MORE” If I wasn’t a total beginner guitarist I could probably describe it better
In my opinion most of Ænima tones are a blend of VH4 and Dual Rectifier (as well Marshall Super Bass). So trying to blend a Dual Rectifier with your dialed VH4 should be good.
You need a Diezel VH4, Bogner Uberschall, Mesa Dual Rectifier and Marshall Super Bass Amp. At least from what I read online. These are very expensive amps so getting a Kemper or Fractal is least expensive option.
The album is pronounced enema, from what Maynard Keenan said in an interview once
How do you get or recreate the drum track to these songs?
Nice little Ben icon there @ 4:53
It’s a Christmas miracle! Thanks for this.🙏
The guitar tone on Bloody Kisses by Type O Negative
Yes!
Question: what cabinet were you using on the Brainworx VH4 plugin? The one on the back when you flip the GUI around from the amp front panel.
Excellent video, thanks for sharing! 🍻
Love the Tyler Durden-esque flash there
I know this is an older video, but your playing is really great dude
Hey, thanks!