Sounds good! I grew up with Randy as my neighbor . Eventually I took lessons from him,he was a great guy an of course teacher. I was actually shocked when he brought back the first album! And of course the second album was even better! He was great and would have been even better and he was just getting started! Antway ,keep his name alive and always let the younger generation know who Randy Rhoads was!!
Really wish I got to see Randy . Definitely would have been a dream come true. I did get to see Steve Vai live when he was with David Lee Roth. And also Joe Satriani too
Not braggin but seen randy with ozz plus early Van Halen, black sabbath, judas priest, iron maiden, Steve vie with Dave, great white, skid row, G n R, Alice Cooper, styx, Ted nugent metallica, megadeth and pantera with dime. Yha I'm old but I'm still rockin and it WAS a fukn CRAZY time to grow up..God Bless
@@mikehunt576 The secret sauce was those Altec's. I'd argue that speakers will shape your sound more than what brand amp you have, at least one you're pumping that much distortion through.
@@EyeShotFirst no, they used altecs cause the stage group from the union in the UK sharon hired insisted they would match the altec house and stage monitors, the tone ws all due to a 1959 plexi boosted by 3 channel asymmetrical diode pedals, the vol-the mxr eq and a mxr distortion plus, the cbs where loaded with marshall v30s and one altec in series for the house mix, the cabs where also set up in series instead of parallel which explains why some delay too place when turned up.. Randys tone then is no way different today if you use plexis, they are loud and hard to boost with out more then one pedal, cause they are one channel., so symmetrical clipping pedals alike the amp is the key, a tube screamer would boost too much low end so the mxr or a boss sd-1 gives that boost.
From a acoustically trained fan, by teachers of Randy's, I'm a Diary of a Madman song nut, "Oh my 👍 your Arpeggio scales, taps, trills and bends are spot on." The effects are almost as Randy himself we're playing them. Could you imagine what Randy would've accomplished today? Can you please pick up on his legacy? That would be amazing 🤩 to hear!
Randy was the original inspiration of me playing guitar. When I was 10, for Christmas, my parents bought my brother and I "stereo systems" - tape deck, receiver and record player on top. I got two cassettes that year - Blizzard of Ozz and Moving Pictures. Both are still on heavy rotation on my playlists. Randy was such an amazing talent and I haven't been able mimic his tone like you did. Great job!!
Would’ve loved to have heard that setup through a 4X12 with Altecs which were Randy’s choice of speakers. Then you’d get that high mid scratchy sound Randy had. Not my choice for a sound but what Randy did was absolutely stunning!
It's amazing when you think about iconic guitarists and their choices of equipment. You'll try the same exact setup, and it just doesn't always work for you. It's like Dimebag's Randalls weren't amps a lot of metal guys were using until he came along, and even then...they got kind of knocked aside by your Mesa Boogies and the like. I've heard that Randy had a little Fender Champ that he thought was the best amp on the planet. Loved it more than the Marshalls Ozzy's people were pushing him to use. But yeah, the altecs are really a good 50% of his tone. That's why his EQ configuration just sounds so muddy on any other cabinet. You'd probably want to raise the high's a bit with a different cabinet.
That particular model of Altec is pretty hard to find. i acquired one. They are extremely harsh... but with a jumpered Plexi and some patience playing with EQ, you find Randy's tone. It just works for his live sound. But many people wouldn't choose that speaker.
Sounds great! Gotta say though, the old brownish MXR distortion plus is key. I can get Rhoads-ish tone from most amps when I use that. I’m actually very surprised how close you got without it. Nice work.
Very good guitar playing, Randy was definitely one of my all-time favorites in the genre. as a guitar player, I can’t imagine putting my rendition out for all the other guitar players critique. I guess mainly nobody can do, but make it your own. I’ve been trying for years 30 of them but that’s his fingerprint. Nobody else has it but you have yours buddy. Good job
You pretty much got it spot on. A big problem I had with finding Rhoads' sound with one of my amps was treble and presence or lack thereof. His sound is incredibly trebly and presence-y. You can get near his sound with most tube amps but it takes a shit ton of patience and tinkering to figure it out honestly. I did not realize that one of the problems I was having was because the treble and presence were set too low. The amp was darker than what I had thought but it was one of those situations where you couldn't really tell. Great job with your iteration of his sound for sure!
I've been experimenting with SIR mods #34, 36 etc... Essentially, the amp is modded using treble peakers between gain stages. The treble peaker consist of a 470pf capacitor in parallel with a 470ohm resistor. The cap allows highs to bypass the resistor. The resistor attenuates the rest of the signal. Slash had the same thing. Highs over the top.
@@qua7771 I definitely agree...High's are just ridiculous in their sounds compared to what a normal rig can achieve. You have to have everything just right. Which leads me to believe that this is why so many people hate Randy's sound.
@@AvnerRosenstein-ULTRA-LXV His tone sounded good in the mix, but the isolated tracks sound like a bee in a beer can. It sounded good in the car stereos of the day if you were smoking weed I guess. I wouldn't know. Anyway, I had an amp modded like that, but I undid it. It would feed back in a bad way, and was generally hard to control. The attack was like ninja throwing stars coming at you. I'd stick with using the treble, and presence controls, or possibly an eq pedal.
You hope i enjoy it . Man I love randy rhodes as much as you do. Of course i enjoyed it. Thanks so much for this video. Awesome playing and sound. Great job
Bad Playin? Sounds great to me. I can play most of it but never got around to learning those higher tapped notes so now you've motivated me to learn those parts. Nuthin' to be ashamed of dude, you sound REALLY good and for what you're using with pedals you really have that tone dialed in. Great job...
Dude, I thought that was freaking fantastic playing! I don't know what you're talking about. Sheesh! And the tone was great too. You kinda got there another way but you got there. The two things that Randy used without fail was this beat up old Distortion plus with a Germanium Diode in it that was just one of those pedals that happened to kick ass. And he would push the mids on the MXR EQ at around 3K I think it was. But whatever. You sound great, bro. Thanks for sharing that.
@@davesaenz3732 For Randy's tone yes. The 75 is going to have more highs and be inherently brighter and compressed. The Alnico cream is very complex/open and more mid heavy with a "crispy" distortion . Both are excellent speakers. The 75 will be more versatile.
Get the walrus emissary pedal. Will blow your mind for that sound.its like a parametric eq boost for mid and highs. Very transparent. Gets Boston" live kicking sound too! I've tried many over the years searching for that authentic tone.
Love it. The key is that Marshall opened up and then pushed with some dirt. You could probably have notched the mids a bit more with an eq pedal and the TS9 ditching the OD-3 but still a totally inspiring tone and close enough!
@@FEAROWNAGE But still, he captures that live tone you hear in the bootlegs quite nicely. Much better than what ended up on the mixed version of Tribute. The plexi is key though, get it almost exploding and then hitting it. I would have gone OD-3 for gain and then just shaping with an EQ pedal but I'd still rock the hell out of his tone here.
That's pretty close. just need to do a wet-dry-wet setup with 3 tracks! Why can't Marshall make a current Plexi that sounds as good as these old ones for a reasonable price?
Sounds expensive! just the marshall alone! lol add all of it up it's probably over 10k easy! sounds killer! edit: not to mention some Gibson's are over or at 10k lol too rich for me. I'm a Kramer floyd rose guy myself.
Could you use a super od from boss to get the same effect as a tubescreamer? They sound almost the same but i'd rather ask and another question on what settings was the od3 on?
Hey Drex, how can a person get one of those Randy Rhoads Marshall amp, Just askin. Pretty sure it would be out of my price range. What about the Gibson Les Paul. I’d like to have that for my son . Huge Randy fan here . 🎸💜🎸💜🎸💜🎸💜
Randy did not use a plexi. He used a JMP which was a master volume amp with the preamp tubes cascaded one into the other for more distortion from the tubes. A jumpered plexi is running the preamp tubes in parallel (not as much distortion). Also, Randy used an MXR Distortion + not a tube screamer.
True, but Plexi is kind of a catch all umbrella term for 4 hole Marshalls these days. edit: Also, Randy's 1959 Super Lead JMP was a non master volume amp. Channel i is stock 1980 non mv. But the cascade mod allows the volumes to work in tandem on channel ii to increase preamp gain. The 2203 and 2204 JMPs are master volume amps.
Really awesome sound!! Being trying to replicate Randy's tone and this is the closest I've heard so far. 🎸. Do you think I can use Daddario 46-9 and get the same tone?
Check out the Kemper top Jimi ozzy pack!! He has a video of himself demonstrating the tones he created and he said Randy's were the hardest to nail.but he did use the altecs and that make a huge difference. I have the profile,a white 74 les paul custom and a karl Sandoval polka dot v and I personally sound nothing like randy...It truly is all in the fingers,lol
Hey man did you double up when you recorded? I just got my sv20 today and having trouble getting it to saturate like you have. Using a wampler plexi drive to boost and the mxr distortion plus with the chorus 10 band eq in the loop and it doesn’t sound as good as this lol
Sounds good! I grew up with Randy as my neighbor . Eventually I took lessons from him,he was a great guy an of course teacher. I was actually shocked when he brought back the first album! And of course the second album was even better! He was great and would have been even better and he was just getting started! Antway ,keep his name alive and always let the younger generation know who Randy Rhoads was!!
It would be amazing if you could do a guitar lesson with what he taught you. Pass that knowledge on. What a treasure.
Got to see Randy and Eddie Van Halen in the 80’s. Boy did we get spoiled
Let's not forget the amazing Michael Schenker who is not only still with us, but also an influence of Randy's :)
Really wish I got to see Randy . Definitely would have been a dream come true. I did get to see Steve Vai live when he was with David Lee Roth. And also Joe Satriani too
Lucky
Not braggin but seen randy with ozz plus early Van Halen, black sabbath, judas priest, iron maiden, Steve vie with Dave, great white, skid row, G n R, Alice Cooper, styx, Ted nugent metallica, megadeth and pantera with dime. Yha I'm old but I'm still rockin and it WAS a fukn CRAZY time to grow up..God Bless
Randy will always be my favorite guitarist. Many great players, he’s my favorite.
Randy is a phenomenal legend!! 😎👍💪🏆🎸🤘
Wow! This is the closest I’ve heard to Rhoads’ tone. Love it!
seriously? he used a stock 59 plexi driven by two boosts (volume pedal to kick in sweet spots, MXR distortion + and the MXR 10 band EQ
@@mikehunt576 The secret sauce was those Altec's. I'd argue that speakers will shape your sound more than what brand amp you have, at least one you're pumping that much distortion through.
@@EyeShotFirst no, they used altecs cause the stage group from the union in the UK sharon hired insisted they would match the altec house and stage monitors, the tone ws all due to a 1959 plexi boosted by 3 channel asymmetrical diode pedals, the vol-the mxr eq and a mxr distortion plus, the cbs where loaded with marshall v30s and one altec in series for the house mix, the cabs where also set up in series instead of parallel which explains why some delay too place when turned up..
Randys tone then is no way different today if you use plexis, they are loud and hard to boost with out more then one pedal, cause they are one channel., so symmetrical clipping pedals alike the amp is the key, a tube screamer would boost too much low end so the mxr or a boss sd-1 gives that boost.
From a acoustically trained fan, by teachers of Randy's, I'm a Diary of a Madman song nut, "Oh my 👍 your Arpeggio scales, taps, trills and bends are spot on." The effects are almost as Randy himself we're playing them. Could you imagine what Randy would've accomplished today? Can you please pick up on his legacy? That would be amazing 🤩 to hear!
Randy was the original inspiration of me playing guitar. When I was 10, for Christmas, my parents bought my brother and I "stereo systems" - tape deck, receiver and record player on top. I got two cassettes that year - Blizzard of Ozz and Moving Pictures. Both are still on heavy rotation on my playlists. Randy was such an amazing talent and I haven't been able mimic his tone like you did. Great job!!
Randy is to this day one of my biggest inspirations too, truly an awesome musician and human being
Learning Randy's songs ... Enhances , ones Appreciation of Randy's Supernatural Greatness ... No ❔
🌟🔥
Would’ve loved to have heard that setup through a 4X12 with Altecs which were Randy’s choice of speakers. Then you’d get that high mid scratchy sound Randy had. Not my choice for a sound but what Randy did was absolutely stunning!
It's amazing when you think about iconic guitarists and their choices of equipment. You'll try the same exact setup, and it just doesn't always work for you. It's like Dimebag's Randalls weren't amps a lot of metal guys were using until he came along, and even then...they got kind of knocked aside by your Mesa Boogies and the like. I've heard that Randy had a little Fender Champ that he thought was the best amp on the planet. Loved it more than the Marshalls Ozzy's people were pushing him to use. But yeah, the altecs are really a good 50% of his tone. That's why his EQ configuration just sounds so muddy on any other cabinet. You'd probably want to raise the high's a bit with a different cabinet.
Altecs got less breakup
That particular model of Altec is pretty hard to find. i acquired one. They are extremely harsh... but with a jumpered Plexi and some patience playing with EQ, you find Randy's tone. It just works for his live sound. But many people wouldn't choose that speaker.
It's so gritty and Beautiful at the same time!!! You created MAGIK!!!!! Thank you.
The massively underated boss od-3 and spot on playing was the key.
Yeah for me the OD-3 is one of the best overdrives ever, it makes everything sound so fluid and with body
Seriously need to get the 1978 MXR Distortion +.
I bought one recently and it's 100% Randy's tone. All I'm missing is the plexi.
Sounds great!
Gotta say though, the old brownish MXR distortion plus is key.
I can get Rhoads-ish tone from most amps when I use that.
I’m actually very surprised how close you got without it. Nice work.
That crazy train intro was awesome
dude i listend to that in my last semester when i felt unmotivated :D you playing is amazing :D
Very good guitar playing, Randy was definitely one of my all-time favorites in the genre. as a guitar player, I can’t imagine putting my rendition out for all the other guitar players critique. I guess mainly nobody can do, but make it your own. I’ve been trying for years 30 of them but that’s his fingerprint. Nobody else has it but you have yours buddy. Good job
Equal or better than the "Brown sound"...i was always a fan of Randy!
What a great sound you have. You nailed his sound😊.
The tone sounds like it was pulled straight from the Tribute album!
Kudos!
You pretty much got it spot on. A big problem I had with finding Rhoads' sound with one of my amps was treble and presence or lack thereof. His sound is incredibly trebly and presence-y. You can get near his sound with most tube amps but it takes a shit ton of patience and tinkering to figure it out honestly. I did not realize that one of the problems I was having was because the treble and presence were set too low. The amp was darker than what I had thought but it was one of those situations where you couldn't really tell. Great job with your iteration of his sound for sure!
I've been experimenting with SIR mods #34, 36 etc... Essentially, the amp is modded using treble peakers between gain stages. The treble peaker consist of a 470pf capacitor in parallel with a 470ohm resistor. The cap allows highs to bypass the resistor. The resistor attenuates the rest of the signal. Slash had the same thing. Highs over the top.
@@qua7771 I definitely agree...High's are just ridiculous in their sounds compared to what a normal rig can achieve. You have to have everything just right. Which leads me to believe that this is why so many people hate Randy's sound.
@@AvnerRosenstein-ULTRA-LXV His tone sounded good in the mix, but the isolated tracks sound like a bee in a beer can.
It sounded good in the car stereos of the day if you were smoking weed I guess. I wouldn't know.
Anyway, I had an amp modded like that, but I undid it. It would feed back in a bad way, and was generally hard to control. The attack was like ninja throwing stars coming at you. I'd stick with using the treble, and presence controls, or possibly an eq pedal.
@@qua7771 Exacly! His tone's perfect for the mix, but if you listen to an isolated guitar track, oof, it's hard to listen to.
The high treble and presence on the amp give the tone more grit and heaviness
You hope i enjoy it . Man I love randy rhodes as much as you do. Of course i enjoyed it. Thanks so much for this video. Awesome playing and sound. Great job
Bad Playin? Sounds great to me. I can play most of it but never got around to learning those higher tapped notes so now you've motivated me to learn those parts. Nuthin' to be ashamed of dude, you sound REALLY good and for what you're using with pedals you really have that tone dialed in. Great job...
Dude, I thought that was freaking fantastic playing! I don't know what you're talking about. Sheesh! And the tone was great too. You kinda got there another way but you got there. The two things that Randy used without fail was this beat up old Distortion plus with a Germanium Diode in it that was just one of those pedals that happened to kick ass. And he would push the mids on the MXR EQ at around 3K I think it was. But whatever. You sound great, bro. Thanks for sharing that.
Hey man. That was def badass. Kudos to your tone and playing. Hope you're still rockin'! 🤘🏽
So funny I had both of those amps in the pic as well. I loved my triple Rectifier but not much can beat the tone of a Plexi:)
Great playing in my books bud !!!!!!!!!! Great tone !!!!
This FUCKING SOUDS GREAT!!! OUTSTANDING JOB and Great playing too!!!
brilliant
...and nice playing
Randy used a MXR+ Distorion and a MXR 10-Band Graphic EQ after that plus a few other pedals then into his Marshalls. He also used EV speakers.
No Randy favored Altec speakers no EV’s. Gary Moore and a few other’s used EV’s but Randy was constantly using Altecs.
@@theirritatedirishman5440 You are totally correct on the speakers. My mistake. I knew that don’t know what i was thinking.
@@matsandersson8857 : You had it all correct except the speakers which a lot of guys get wrong. I love all those speakers.
What are your settings on the mxr+? Just bought one along with a Plexi hoping to achieve some of Randy's tone
@@theirritatedirishman5440 Yeah, and those speakers are everything. It's the most key ingredient after your fingers.
All I can really say is damn!!! Its definitely a randy-ish tone for sure. Well done ❤
That was pretty bad ass! 👏 🎉
Really really cool. You must be pushing tons of air with that set up!!! Absolutely legendary playing btw
Great tone and playing
Randy,Marshall White.Special Randy.
Yeah man .... love your tone!!
Sounds great man
WOW! Impressive. Channeling Randy! 🤘
Holy ,you can play bro ❤
Dude you’re playing rules! I love your tone! Now I’m tempted to get this amp 😂
Really Very Nicely, Very Nicely Done!! Thank You!!
Very well done 😉😊👍
I just put a Celestion Alnico Cream in my DSL40CR because the Altec Alnicos he used are too hard to find. Gets me a great Randy tone.
Would you recommend that speaker over the Celestion GH-75, i believe the first few letters are incorrect. ?
@@davesaenz3732 For Randy's tone yes. The 75 is going to have more highs and be inherently brighter and compressed. The Alnico cream is very complex/open and more mid heavy with a "crispy" distortion . Both are excellent speakers. The 75 will be more versatile.
You know what you're doing.
Sounds perfect.
Clean playing man, very nice🤘🍻
I have to comment again, because that is so good!
Get the walrus emissary pedal. Will blow your mind for that sound.its like a parametric eq boost for mid and highs. Very transparent. Gets Boston" live kicking sound too! I've tried many over the years searching for that authentic tone.
Love it. The key is that Marshall opened up and then pushed with some dirt. You could probably have notched the mids a bit more with an eq pedal and the TS9 ditching the OD-3 but still a totally inspiring tone and close enough!
Yeah, two overdrives is just a bit much. A mid-spiked eq pedal would probably work better.
@@FEAROWNAGE But still, he captures that live tone you hear in the bootlegs quite nicely. Much better than what ended up on the mixed version of Tribute. The plexi is key though, get it almost exploding and then hitting it. I would have gone OD-3 for gain and then just shaping with an EQ pedal but I'd still rock the hell out of his tone here.
God bless Andy and Eddie.
Sounds awesome!
Damn. This entire video is just absolutely badass but 2:14 to me just sounded insane! Great job!
Thanks :)
Sweet thanks for sharing my hero.
Really great sound!
Show, guitarrista incrível!!!!
Greatest tone
No debate
Love Randy to death he inspired me so much...no hate but he would not want people trying to replicate his sound he would want people to be original 😎
@@None888. i have my very own sound, I play in an indie rock band and in a metalcore band, but randy has always been an inspiration to me
Nice job man. Sounds great
Very close well done on the tone!
Nailed it!
Nice Ride Man.
Sounds great.!
That's pretty close. just need to do a wet-dry-wet setup with 3 tracks! Why can't Marshall make a current Plexi that sounds as good as these old ones for a reasonable price?
But this amp is a Sv20H , a new plexi at a reasonable price!
Sounds expensive! just the marshall alone! lol add all of it up it's probably over 10k easy! sounds killer! edit: not to mention some Gibson's are over or at 10k lol too rich for me. I'm a Kramer floyd rose guy myself.
that is quite righteous 🤘
That is very accurate I would say!
Its the line 6 spider insane tone.
Hey bud, is possible to you to share the settings used in each gear? I'd like to try it in digital space.
Could you use a super od from boss to get the same effect as a tubescreamer? They sound almost the same but i'd rather ask and another question on what settings was the od3 on?
Excellent brotha!
Hey Drex, how can a person get one of those Randy Rhoads Marshall amp, Just askin. Pretty sure it would be out of my price range. What about the Gibson Les Paul. I’d like to have that for my son . Huge Randy fan here .
🎸💜🎸💜🎸💜🎸💜
Yeaaaaaaaayyyyyy
What kind of reverb and how much
Very cool!
Sounds like the Tirbute tone!
Marshall stack Mesa bogy what rockn roll was about
a lot of randy's tone resides on the room mics, but this is pretty good
The goat
great job !!!
Randy did not use a plexi. He used a JMP which was a master volume amp with the preamp tubes cascaded one into the other for more distortion from the tubes. A jumpered plexi is running the preamp tubes in parallel (not as much distortion). Also, Randy used an MXR Distortion + not a tube screamer.
True, but Plexi is kind of a catch all umbrella term for 4 hole Marshalls these days.
edit: Also, Randy's 1959 Super Lead JMP was a non master volume amp. Channel i is stock 1980 non mv. But the cascade mod allows the volumes to work in tandem on channel ii to increase preamp gain. The 2203 and 2204 JMPs are master volume amps.
Really awesome sound!! Being trying to replicate Randy's tone and this is the closest I've heard so far. 🎸. Do you think I can use Daddario 46-9 and get the same tone?
Very very close. The Altecs were key they could handle frown EQ setting Randy used.
By the time you got to the crazy train solo ur fingers were tired eh.
Smokin’ tone though. My friend has the same amp. Good playing btw 😊
Now that was cool!
Ooh nice in used to get a decent styled tone from my peavey winsdor with a joyo ultimate drive
Great video!! What about EV style speakers instead of V30s?
Really good
Crushing!!
Check out the Kemper top Jimi ozzy pack!!
He has a video of himself demonstrating the tones he created and he said Randy's were the hardest to nail.but he did use the altecs and that make a huge difference. I have the profile,a white 74 les paul custom and a karl Sandoval polka dot v and I personally sound nothing like randy...It truly is all in the fingers,lol
Hey man did you double up when you recorded? I just got my sv20 today and having trouble getting it to saturate like you have. Using a wampler plexi drive to boost and the mxr distortion plus with the chorus 10 band eq in the loop and it doesn’t sound as good as this lol
Good job 👍
I got a pretty monster tone out of an origin 50
Hi. Whats the year of your amp? Thanks
Intense !
I believe he also used a 10 band mxr EQ
great!
Sounds bout right
Very cool
Sounds dead on to me!
What settings did you use for the od-3?
🤘😇😇🤘❤️🎸💪🎸🌹RandyRhoads
What you here on the record is all eq in studio.
Bad fucking ass brother 🤘