Huge KISS and Marshall freak myself, and been following your videos for a long time. Always a pleasure. Thank you for making such great videos and validating my otherwise useless but most important interests!
EDDIE KRAMER will always be the Old School Studio recording GENIUS 😁 Let's face it, technology is great, but this was all accomplished without ridiculous over production studio productions of today Thank you as always JOHAN.. Amazing Production and keeping it Real🤩🤟
Very impressive! Love your enthusiasm on the subject and it sounded just great. Amazing that we can now recreate classic tones for our own music. Cheers!
Let's Go! Yes, I was pretty lucky to have attended the Kiss Alive concert at Cobo Arena mid 70's Detroit Michigan Rory Gallegher open the show against the grain tour glad you have the fire for Ace's tone and gear! Keep chasing that tone brother!
@@JohanSegeborn yea, it was pretty exciting, the girl I was with decided to go down to the stage and try to catch Paul Stanley's guitar when he breaks it and throws it in the audience, he actually through it to her and she said everyone pulled out of her hands she was so excited, later in life she became a school teacher and one of her students brought a "Kiss Doll" to school in class and they asked the teacher if they ever heard of this band, guess we didn't know at the time how many lives this band would reach, the teacher by the way acknowledged saying " Yes, I think I've heard of them" love seeing the videos of these historic shows and watching your videos, keep the dream alive my brother!
Hejsan Johan. My initial answer got lost, seemingly and Yes, they used the old theatre, 20 mins drive from Ace's house. A "Record Plant" truck was parked outside. My only correction is Peters drums were in the Barth room, probably because of ambience. Even though Ace did retire his tobacco burst Les Paul with the shaved heal and it was used as "the smoker"; it still had the hand wound Dimarzio in the bridge. He haven't purchased the cherry sunburst '74 custom yet. It was done prior to touring. There is a gab in the information regarding this and we're close to the purchase of his 1959, though I don't think he had it yet. But a that time he had juniors and Specials. I remember a picture of Ace from "Ace in the Hole studio" with his old tobacco burst as double cut and black finish. I tried to play some licks with a setup of: Les Paul Special with P90, Boss GT-8 processor (with compression, cutting the mid @ 850 Hz and +3 db @ 1150 Hz; a Marshall Haze head with 6V6 tubes and a 4X12" with G12H R/C cone in the top and G12H '71 greenbacks in the bottom. Amazing option you get to actually "read" frequencies. I believe I can get pretty close with the Boss GT-8 guitar processor, but not as close as you, off cause (I am using my ears
love Rock n Roll Over, I waited at the record store for delivery when it so I would have it the day it came out! You do a great job capturing those tones, thanks Johan for all you do!
Sounds killer Johan!! I’m a fan of the tones on those classic Kiss records, and you’ve successfully reproduced them!! Next time breath fire and spit blood!! Cheers
That's really cool! I'm gonna see if I can find a function/plugin that does that on my DAW. It starts with the drums on a hard rock mix with a lot of middy guitars and bass. Those scooped sounds make room for the guitars and bass. I read an interview with Butch Vig where he was talking about how he mixed his drums before he was famous, when he was recording demos and punk rock bands and such. He said he had his own kit set up in the studio, and he scooped 7db at around 350hz and then he always had room for bass and thick guitars. This is a more subtle version of the same thing. The bass is also scooped slightly around the guitar mids, with some upper mids added for attack, which I've been trying to do as a bass player with varying degrees of success. Switching from guitar to bass is pretty humbling when it comes to live sound.
Hi Johan Great watching any ace vids you do ,best around Ace also used some of his Gibson loaded pickup lesters and teles on a lot of the record as he still does. I Heared years ago in an interview or somewhere that Ace would sometimes replace his g string with a really thick one nearly as thick as his d string for better sound . I recently saw a picture of ace in tuning room with what looked like a thicker string maybe he did this for King of the night time world big bend who knows .Paul would also do this for bottom strings before we had hybrd sets.
Great video! RnRO is my fav Kiss album! I also think Ace's DiMarzio Super Distortion bridge pickup played a role in how they got those fat and creamy tones. Very interesting how they EQd the guitars. Could you share the EQ setup? Which frequeincies were boosted or cut? Thanks!
YOUR recording sounds BETTER! Digital is always more transparent than magnetic tape! GOOD call putting the sidewinder/mudbucker at the bridge! That is WHERE it should have been put in the 1st place! I thought Gene's bass tone was terrible on this album, all middy and grungy! I remixed those tracks, to make them sound more modern! I think I succeeded! I made Gene's bass sound more punchy by adding in more sub 100hz eq back into it! GOOD recreation of that era KISS! You WANT a challenge? TRY the KISS ALIVE! sound! Match THAT!! Kramer worked on THAT too! \m/
Hi Johan. Man, I've been watching u for years now and I been dying to know.... How do u have access to so much vintage equipment? Do u own most of it? If so, I'm guessing u have a really great day job that has supported ur vintage gear addiction? I hope it isn't too personal to ask but again, I been dying to know for years. Cheers my friend 🍻
@@JohanSegeborn Cool, Thanks! And yeah, that's a great community indead. Btw, Thank u for all the years of great videos and all the work u put into it. God Bless Johan!
@@JohanSegeborn i know they had only the h 55hz but the h 55hz that lack in the top and int the upper midrange they to dark for hard rock they more for blues rock and stoner rock
Har faktiskt tagit bort alla rumsmickar eftersom rumsljudet krockar med andra instrument. Eddie har packat mixen perfekt. Körde snabbt delay istället. Tror Ace brukade köra snabbt Roland tape echo en del.
@@JohanSegeborn tack för svar! Coolt. Måste testa. Vet du vad de vanligaste var? Bara delar med 1 mic eller ofta med rum? Mycket låter dubbat med va? Tycker själv dub låter mest Ace men snabbt Delay skall testas. Håller på med en "Låta som Kiss" EP. Har låtar men ingen som kan sjunga 🤔
Överdrivigt.Its all a big lie.Far over regular music.Hard-Metal.For psycics.Had to rent 1.floor at Stockholm Bryggan as Bar-owner and played always.MUCH oriantation amongst nothing,rocknroll.Fatal-accident ahead.Nobody out there says spirits wich know everything,only dream of their consequences.All from VH,Kiss,etc are literally died,all fans,gone in the youth.Dangerous figures.
I would gladly confirm that you nailed it . Well done Mr. Johan Kramer ! Now you need a drum riser .
Hahaha! Cheers Gary! ;-)
we can always count on johan to make things interesting.. .. he is the musical scientist of youtube..
Thanks! ;-)
Huge KISS and Marshall freak myself, and been following your videos for a long time. Always a pleasure. Thank you for making such great videos and validating my otherwise useless but most important interests!
EDDIE KRAMER will always be the Old School Studio recording GENIUS 😁
Let's face it, technology is great, but this was all accomplished without ridiculous over production studio productions of today
Thank you as always JOHAN.. Amazing Production and keeping it Real🤩🤟
Thanks! Yeah Eddie is the benchmark
Johan, you’re amazing! A true wizard.
Glad that you are my friend! 🙏
Thanks my friend! ❤️
Very impressive! Love your enthusiasm on the subject and it sounded just great. Amazing that we can now recreate classic tones for our own music. Cheers!
Thanks Vic! Glad to hear it! Cheers
That Eq matching is incredible!
Thanks Alan
That is so insanely impressive. Very nailed it! I absolutely love this❤💪🏼
Let's Go!
Yes, I was pretty lucky to have attended the Kiss Alive concert at Cobo Arena mid 70's Detroit Michigan Rory Gallegher open the show against the grain tour glad you have the fire for Ace's tone and gear! Keep chasing that tone brother!
Wow! Perhaps the most interesting concert of all time in my book! Cheers brother!
@@JohanSegeborn yea, it was pretty exciting, the girl I was with decided to go down to the stage and try to catch Paul Stanley's guitar when he breaks it and throws it in the audience,
he actually through it to her and she said everyone pulled out of her hands she was so excited, later in life she became a school teacher and one of her students brought a "Kiss Doll" to school in class and they asked the teacher if they ever heard of this band, guess we didn't know at the time how many lives this band would reach, the teacher by the way acknowledged saying " Yes, I think I've heard of them" love seeing the videos of these historic shows and watching your videos, keep the dream alive my brother!
Hejsan Johan. My initial answer got lost, seemingly and Yes, they used the old theatre, 20 mins drive from Ace's house. A "Record Plant" truck was parked outside. My only correction is Peters drums were in the Barth room, probably because of ambience. Even though Ace did retire his tobacco burst Les Paul with the shaved heal and it was used as "the smoker"; it still had the hand wound Dimarzio in the bridge.
He haven't purchased the cherry sunburst '74 custom yet. It was done prior to touring. There is a gab in the information regarding this and we're close to the purchase of his 1959, though I don't think he had it yet.
But a that time he had juniors and Specials. I remember a picture of Ace from "Ace in the Hole studio" with his old tobacco burst as double cut and black finish.
I tried to play some licks with a setup of: Les Paul Special with P90, Boss GT-8 processor (with compression, cutting the mid @ 850 Hz and +3 db @ 1150 Hz; a Marshall Haze head with 6V6 tubes and a 4X12" with G12H R/C cone in the top and G12H '71 greenbacks in the bottom.
Amazing option you get to actually "read" frequencies. I believe I can get pretty close with the Boss GT-8 guitar processor, but not as close as you, off cause (I am using my ears
love Rock n Roll Over, I waited at the record store for delivery when it so I would have it the day it came out! You do a great job capturing those tones, thanks Johan for all you do!
Thanks Mark! Yeah record releases were a event back in the day! Cheers!
Great video as always! You nailed that sound as well as I have ever heard. Thanks Johan! Cheers!!!
Thanks Darrell! Cheers!
Wow wow wow
What a cornerstone EQ is
Tack Mr Segerborn
great job,you nailed it
I read on the book BLACK DIAMOND, Peter says that some tracks were recorded inside a bathroom to get a natural reverb.
Good to see the bass player _finally_ showed up!
That guy is such a slacker.
Hahaha! I’m gonna keep him on a short leash
Amazing job Johan! Always enjoy your videos-keep up the good work!
Thanks man, great to hear that!
Sounds killer Johan!! I’m a fan of the tones on those classic Kiss records, and you’ve successfully reproduced them!! Next time breath fire and spit blood!! Cheers
Hahaha! Thanks man 😉
Looks like you had fun with this one! Awesome job!!
Ace ♠️🤘🤘
Thanks!
Nice production - presentation Johan!
Thanks man, glad to hear it!
Amazing work! thanks fo share this!
Thanks, great to hear that!
That's really cool! I'm gonna see if I can find a function/plugin that does that on my DAW.
It starts with the drums on a hard rock mix with a lot of middy guitars and bass. Those scooped sounds make room for the guitars and bass. I read an interview with Butch Vig where he was talking about how he mixed his drums before he was famous, when he was recording demos and punk rock bands and such. He said he had his own kit set up in the studio, and he scooped 7db at around 350hz and then he always had room for bass and thick guitars. This is a more subtle version of the same thing.
The bass is also scooped slightly around the guitar mids, with some upper mids added for attack, which I've been trying to do as a bass player with varying degrees of success. Switching from guitar to bass is pretty humbling when it comes to live sound.
Thanks Josh!
Awesome, as usual. Thank you.
I have seen photos of Ace with an Ovation Breadwinner guitar. What's his history with this guitar?
Hell yeah, Johan!
Cheers!
Hi Johan Great watching any ace vids you do ,best around Ace also used some of his Gibson loaded pickup lesters and teles on a lot of the record as he still does. I Heared years ago in an interview or somewhere that Ace would sometimes replace his g string with a really thick one nearly as thick as his d string for better sound . I recently saw a picture of ace in tuning room with what looked like a thicker string maybe he did this for King of the night time world big bend who knows .Paul would also do this for bottom strings before we had hybrd sets.
Sounds great!
Thanks man!
I got a 50s standard Les Paul and through my Sheriff 22 it sounds pretty close to rock n roll over.
My fav. Studioalbum with Kiss. I thin your compair sounds super!!!
Thanks Rickard! Glad to hear that
Sounds so vintage Johan 🤘🤘🤘!!
Glad to hear that! 🤘
My first kiss album. When Dr. Love was on KC Casem top 40? It turned me onto electric.
Cool video, thanks!!
Thanks, glad to hear it
With the half stacks, an SG and the EB-3, you could likely do some rather convincing Cream material as well!
Thanks!
Great video! RnRO is my fav Kiss album! I also think Ace's DiMarzio Super Distortion bridge pickup played a role in how they got those fat and creamy tones. Very interesting how they EQd the guitars. Could you share the EQ setup? Which frequeincies were boosted or cut? Thanks!
Thanks! I’ll see if I can post it, remind me if I miss it
@@JohanSegeborn Thanks!
Hi Johan!
I think, you made it better, than the original! Good work and very interesting! See you! Have a nice weekend!
S.
Thanks man! Have a nice weekend you too!
All your song needs is lead vocals by Johan! Nice work.
Is that the super distortion pickup? That's part of the magic
The SG currently has a BB3 in the bridge. Super Distortion is indeed the way to go
@@JohanSegeborn excellent job regardless
Maybe the 10ft distance bass mic is how they achieved the delay you’re hearing. Assuming they also went direct
Good point, but the left and right hard panned bass channels are identical but for the delay
YOUR recording sounds BETTER! Digital is always more transparent than magnetic tape! GOOD call putting the sidewinder/mudbucker at the bridge! That is WHERE it should have been put in the 1st place!
I thought Gene's bass tone was terrible on this album, all middy and grungy!
I remixed those tracks, to make them sound more modern! I think I succeeded! I made Gene's bass sound more punchy by adding in more sub 100hz eq back into it!
GOOD recreation of that era KISS!
You WANT a challenge? TRY the KISS ALIVE! sound! Match THAT!! Kramer worked on THAT too!
\m/
Thanks man! Yeah Alive is indeed the Pinnacle. Cheers!
@@JohanSegeborn Yep!
EQ matched tones sound great. Very interesting principle. Do Kemper amps implement a similar approach?
Thanks! I think Kemper is baser on modeling and impulse responses
Johan could produce any rock act!!! Amazing science
the best g12m greenback riff is blitzkrieg bob from the ramones
Hi Johan. Man, I've been watching u for years now and I been dying to know.... How do u have access to so much vintage equipment?
Do u own most of it? If so, I'm guessing u have a really great day job that has supported ur vintage gear addiction?
I hope it isn't too personal to ask but again, I been dying to know for years. Cheers my friend 🍻
Hi! We actually have a great community in Sweden with collectors, studios and vendors that I borrow much of the stuff from. Cheers
@@JohanSegeborn Cool, Thanks! And yeah, that's a great community indead.
Btw, Thank u for all the years of great videos and all the work u put into it. God Bless Johan!
i like for Kiss the tone the g12h 75hz more than the g12m 75hz because the g12h had more cuting edge for heavy rock
Those sound great too, but Marshall actually never had the H75 in their cabs
@@JohanSegeborn i know they had only the h 55hz but the h 55hz that lack in the top and int the upper midrange they to dark for hard rock they more for blues rock and stoner rock
Hur ä solo partiet mixat? Lite närmickat och mer rum?
Har faktiskt tagit bort alla rumsmickar eftersom rumsljudet krockar med andra instrument. Eddie har packat mixen perfekt. Körde snabbt delay istället. Tror Ace brukade köra snabbt Roland tape echo en del.
@@JohanSegeborn tack för svar! Coolt. Måste testa. Vet du vad de vanligaste var? Bara delar med 1 mic eller ofta med rum? Mycket låter dubbat med va? Tycker själv dub låter mest Ace men snabbt Delay skall testas. Håller på med en "Låta som Kiss" EP. Har låtar men ingen som kan sjunga 🤔
Överdrivigt.Its all a big lie.Far over regular music.Hard-Metal.For psycics.Had to rent 1.floor at Stockholm Bryggan as Bar-owner and played always.MUCH oriantation amongst nothing,rocknroll.Fatal-accident ahead.Nobody out there says spirits wich know everything,only dream of their consequences.All from VH,Kiss,etc are literally died,all fans,gone in the youth.Dangerous figures.