Guitar Tone Interview with Mick Thomson (Slipknot)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Let's talk about Guitar Gear, and let's do that with no other than #Slipknot guitarist #MickThomson
Today German producer Kristian Kohle is backstage at the Slipknot show in Stuttgart. Let's talk about Mick's live rig and his signature gear.
➡️Mick's Guitar Speaker:
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The EMINENCE DV-77 IR pack:
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Mick's Guitar Amps:
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Mick's Signature Pickups:
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Who wants to see a more detailed live rig rundown?
Of course we all want
Yeah man, for sure.
Yes!
Yes please!
Im waiting
Love how you got Mick to relax a bit during an interview. He can be so intense, but he seems so genuine in this video.
I've fallen out of love with slipknot a long time ago, but I still get excited and watch Mick's gear interviews. Pls drop that rig rundown! Looking forward to it >:3
Noted! 🤘
This is the most amazing interview! Full blown NERD TIME! Love it!! Love Mick Thomson's search for great tone and fantastic playing!
Kristian I remember the 81...from much closer to 1981 than 2005!
Haha!
This is what I always loved about Mick, his enthusiasm and nerding out about music gear. I love it🤘
Huge score man...not many people get Mick on their shows. Thanks to both of you for doing this!
I’m so glad you had this interview with Mick!!! You’re the death metal guy!!! I’m sorry but andertons and other TH-camrs just ask the extreme metal players the wrong questions and it’s not a very interesting interview either!!! Thank you Kristian!!!!
Did you also interview Jim Root? Slipknot with Mick and Jim are still my absolute heroes and favourite band ever. Great chemistry with you and Mick here, as well. He is so down to earth.
Now that's what i call chemistry, great interview, it feels like you've been friends for over 20 years.
Great to see Entombed getting great props from both of these gentlemen
I can't get enough of that putrid guitar tone. So filthy. The only thing that may be better is the Bloodbath Like Fire tone.
The interview we needed. Hail Mick
Love seeing mick doing more interviews like this.
Such a killer interview. Can't wait for the rig rundown. 👊🏻🤟🏻
Mick is such a dude. A former band mate was actually one of his students back in his early days teaching.
OMG joe jordison🥁
Great interview. Mick is a beast. Well done man!!! Cheers!!!
Mick's the man, great interview!
This was an amazing interview! Great job Kristian.
Danke danke für das Video. Mick ist einfach genial . Jim ebenso. Und der Herr Kohlekeller ist einfach Kult ! Grüße aus dem Ruhrpott 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
That's awesome! Mick is a great guitarist! His speaker is really great! All his signature guitars are cool! It's nice to see he knows so much about gear in general! Awesome interview!
Making moves my man!!! I love it. Great interview.
I do not tolerate any Boss GX700 slander. Killer unit, and way ahead of its time.
Man I wish this video was long format! It seems like Mick was comfortable and having a good time talking that gear! I see so many awkward and weird vibe rig rundowns/interviews this one is not that
Cool interview, guys! I still have my BOSS GX-700 (bought to sound like Bolt Thrower, kept for some effects... that old unit just works; like my beloved ART DST4). Cheers! 🤘
I love my Mick Thomson Blackouts.
Guess the trick to getting a Mick Thompson interview is to get him to talk about gear!!!. Not really a Slipknot fan but remember back in the no guitar solo days reading an interview with him in guitar world or something where he spent pretty much the full interview talking about shred and how much he loved it. Recon he has had a big impact on modern shred being where it is
Fun conversation! I agree with pretty much everything said within. Great talk fellas
I want this guy to make a death metal album so badly, his chops are monstrous
subscribed for the upcoming Mick's rig rundown
Welcome!
What a great interview! He nerds out. Love it!! I've been using one of the IRs of the DV-77 mixed with a IR of the Transatlantic Thickness and they sound wonderful together. Well done!
Good combo!
So cool to listen, about so much 🤘
Cool talk !
Would like to see more like this !
🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
When he talks about the peculiarities of sound, Mike becomes a little crazy and funny)) but this is not bad, it only proves how much he himself is still interested in all this.
Great interview!
That’s the most I e ever heard mick speak. So cool
Something is wrong with my screen. His shirt looks green. Man I love Mr. T.
Micks the man! Awesome talk..Always wanted to try his Riviera KR head..
same here!
Die besten Interviews schaut man nach Mitternacht! Danke! Bitte mehr davon! ✌️🫶
Great video. Mick is a goat, no pun intended. Anyone else notice that awkward handshake and then Mick scoots further over and karate chops the air the cleanse the vibe? Hilarious.
Mick is the fking best!
I’d love to see an unedited version of this!
I lived in Stuttgart back in 197 - 1992. Hung out at the Rockfabrik. Best venue period.
When is Mick starting a podcast?!
Wow! Mick is the Master Blaster
Who runs BarterTown?
Awesome Interview!
even myself was pumped. what a moment ❤🤣
Good one!
Cheers from Greece!
This is great. Well done mate! 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks buddy! 🤘❤️
Khole ... when is your speaker review coming ?
Cannot wait !
We’re doing the final tweaks on the Karnivore right now. Then it will go into production.
Release late spring / early summer
@KohleAudioKult
Seems like this is not an easy process, right?
Can you say more about this process, tweaks , in one of your videos ? Please !
Some really wise words towards the end of the interview regarding how low end from the guitar affects the feel of a distorted tone. My reverend has a bass contour knob and I find myself missing it when I switch to other guitars, just for that reason
Kohle is chomping at the bit to talk and express his ideas but you cant unterrupt Mick
Npw I'm bit jealous... Great show! Saw Skipknot in Waken and that was an outstading show!
Always remember me and my friend back in the 90’s trying to get that Entombed guitar tone we loved it but with no internet and shared info back then we didn’t have a clue lol.
The "Super Distortion' was Di Marzio take on the Aria Pro II "Protomatic III's", designed originally for George Lynch and Yngwee !
Take care !
ps btw, a friend of mine, who has a Rivera head, just tried the Amp1 and was blown away !
Mick is more energetic during interviews these days, seeing him joking, having a great time is awesome.. But still, his stage presence is scary
Isn’t that what stage presence should be like? This is METAL! 🤘😱
@KohleAudioKult yep! What i mean was, his stage presence didnt change at all, just during interviews 😊
Got it! 🤘
Holy crap this is awesome!!! My favourite guitarist of all time and the reason I started playing!! I also think he basically invented the deathcore breakdown when he's doing soundcheck on the distarpieces dvd haha.
Also fun fact for a lot of people that probably don't know, all the slam bands out now like Peelingflesh and Snuffed on Sight, etcetera use Mick's Omega Obsidian tone settings as the base guitar tone. It's even in the Neural DSP version (Gramophyre), you just turn off the OD pedal section and scoop the mids more.
Like literally the Mick Thomson preset with the stock cab IRs and the mids scooped almost to nothing is the Peelingflesh guitar tone lol
Some of my most gnarly tones I've ever recorded back in the day were little Behringer shit pedals (a stacked TO800 and UM300 with the gain on both set at 9 o'clock) into an overdriven tube mic pre into a rack solid state power amp, run in parallel with the same take reamped through another mic pre that had a line/instrument output impedance switch, into a cheap little Zoom multi FX running boosted plexi amp sims with the cabs turned off, through different mic setups on the same cheap 4x12. I think both used the e609, and the plexi sim used an off axis 57, while the stomp box tone used what was basically the fredman technique, but using shitty Behringer XM8500 mics; all through a Xenyx 802. Lost the 57 in a move, and my UM300 broke while lent to a friend.
Kinda almost wanna get an actual metal zone and recreate that with my newer gear, except I remember I have a bunch of newer pedals that I like more. I have NAM captures of most of my gear, and home made IR's of my favorite mics through a mixer on that same cab. Cheap shitty stomp boxes and cheap solid state or digital distortions sometimes have this magical quality, the right level of shitty to somehow be amazing, especially through decent speakers and cabs. Run the shittiest gear you have through the highest quality guitar amps and speaker cabs, and you'll be shocked what comes out, sometimes.
🔥 Another good one
Great chat
Great interview! Your logo is starting to look like mine lol
Mick has been an Idol for so long
haha the GX-700, wow I still have mine :) cool unit
Hell yeah 🤘🏼
I have the dv-77's. Amazing!!! F**k celestion and vintage 30's, eminence is where it's at!
Make sure to check out the Karnivore once it’s out!
@KohleAudioKult I'm looking forward to your demo of it!!! Make sure to compare it to the dv77. When will you get one?
I would like to try the X pattern with the DV77 and the Karnivore!
Sure!
Hi Kristian, ever tried the 'Amp1', by Bluguitar? There are several versions and one more taylored for Metalheads (Iridium).
Thomas would be a great interview for you to make. + bonus, he should be not far from you and is changing the amp world, one guitarist at the time !
His Amp1 is a great solution for a lot of situations !
Thomas sent me one and I kinda liked it but never really ended up using it much compared to my “real” tube heads.
My kind of discussion - two nerdy gear guys passionate about tones and their stuff!
That’s exactly what it was 🤘
Finally!!!!
love my homemade oversized 212 cab with dv-77, most brutal sound existed on earth
Great speaker!
You should check out the Karnivore one it’s out. Pretty sure your gonna love it too
@@KohleAudioKult just got my lcfr 150 , i will absolutly try the karnvore
Cool
jeez that flew by
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Dass der Typ so gesprächig sein kann ;-)
I wonder how he himself compares the fluence pickups to his own Seymour Duncan signatures.
Mick Thomson: biggest tone chaser in metal!
He is so knowledgable of tone and gear!
Build the speaker from 0 instead of taking a speaker and changing it a bit. Same with the pickups.
Dude is amazingly underrated player!
Holy shit!
Great interview. I can tell he wasn't going to let you speak. Looks like it made you uncomfortable a little. lol 😂
Totally fine for me! I’m just always excited to talk gear and tones
I feel like I've been in suspended animation for the last few years, but explain to me why Mick has lost so much weight and shrunk in the shoulders? Why is he wearing glasses indoors, is he okay?
Mike is cool, willing to communicate, which I think was relatively rare to see, besides the topic is really interesting. But regarding guitarists, we have one important disease no matter how much money we have, we always buy new equipment. We either exchange or resell the purchases. We do something with all this to try something new. Of course, it is much easier for professional musicians in this regard. I have changed guitars and approach to sound so many times. I assembled a pedalboard, then switched to processors, then returned and so on ad infinitum. Now I have settled on the simplest solution - the Boss GT1 processor and VST plugins. This made me stop buying this endlessly. But now I have about 8 guitars, although I am sure there will be people who will say that this is very little.
He seems very hard to interview.
Ozempic is wild😂
New diet and he runs
I hear it all the time "I'm looking for so-and-so's tone".. .I've always loved searching for something new and finding the charm in being unique. I hate chasing tone...
It's all about being unique these days!
a lot of the time when chasing a tone and failing you come up with something original that you wouldn't have otherwise thought
#level up
Highly Turdy? Me hearing is twisted.
Mick is the metal Ariana Grande.
I love Mick and his personality and gear nerding. I’m just so sick of Slipknot and the style he plays with Slipknot. I’m ready for something new from him. A new higher tuning, a new sound.
Things we learned today: Mick Tompson is not a pleasure to talk to.
Omg, I can just tell how bad you want to interrupt Mick when hes speaking by you twisting your whole body hahahah. Remember, you are interviewing him. you audience tune in to hear him speak.
Heard of URM Academy/Riff hard podcast? That dude Levi lost nearly all of his audience because of him ALWAYS interrupting his guest just to tell a story when HE was in the studio, or when HE was recording a band or when HE were on a tour. Dont be Levi
Dude, I love your channel. But when you’re interviewing somebody, you need to shut your yap. We all know what you think. We’re not here to hear what you think. We want to hear what your guest thinks. You interrupt constantly!
I know what you mean, but that’s my style. I’m not a journalist, I do conversations.
And in most cases that leads to way more interesting content 😎
Assmitigation
Mick has definitely gotten more mellow through the years. Back in 1999-2002 he hardly did interviews. Was pretty confrontational with the ones he did.. I met him when I was 16 outside the roy wilkins in St Paul MN on slayers h82k2 tour in 2002. I was nervous and I asked him a question.. he lost his SHIT on me (it was a stupid question but I was nervous.. I asked him if slipknot was really breaking up.. tons of rumors at that time). Glad to see him more mellow. Hes a great guitar player. Hes got a good ear.
Thé bass control thing on his signature FF pickups really piqued my interest ! It would be absolutely awesome when handling different guitars and using one specific « amp rig » without having to adjust the bass on the amp / modeler or whatever being used, especially with low tunings.
Mick seems like a badass dude and very passionate about his craft but it does seem like it was hard to get a word in edgewise lol. Very cool interview though!
Anyone that knows Mick personally will tell you that it's not common for Mick to be this talkative. He really needs out about guitar gear and stuff though. Basically if you want Mick Thomson to talk to you at all, bring up his gear or bring up the Raiders from the 1970's and you may never get him to stop lol
Great interview!