i disliked ist because its to harsch and trebly(i dont know if thats a word but my english sucks because im from germany and 14) i think olas tone was actually better than dimes because it was a bit more mid focused and punchier. just my opinion
too much bass and not enough mids. Mids are the body of the guitar sound (that's why mid's name in my amp is "body") and cutting too much mids you are kind of "stealing" from basses and kick drum's "area".
Tbh I hate Dime´s Tone, even when I tried to play with it I couldn´t stand it. But the funny thing is that this is one of the reasons why I think Dime is an amazing player, somehow he turns that shitty tone into something amazing
I used to dislike dimebags tone, as well as several black metal bands tone. But I understand now that the tone is part of the music and maybe it wouldn't have sounded so original without that tone.
I knew Dime when he was 16 or 17 (met him in Arnold and Morgan music Garland TX; sat next to him and said who the f$%@ is this little skinny guy making monstrous tone with his fingers flying across the fretboard) and watched him play in clubs from the beginning of Pantera. I would talk to him frequently about his tone to the point he called me the "tone guy". I was not "friends" with him but playing in clubs and recording around the same time and we talked some. Before he played Randall's (he bought at Spear Music in Mesquite TX) he played a Yamaha solid state. I bought the same amp to mimic his tone and I/It sounded like sh#$. Yes, so much is in the fingers. I did incorporate a Randall RG100ES into my rig paired with a 50w JCM 800 (his advice on two amps one cleanish and one nasty; the Randall was my nasty one). It sounded wonderful; very different from his but his advice worked. Dime was always so nice at sharing whatever he could to help other musicians. He really lived for the music. I also saw Randy Rhoads live (my guitar hero) about month before his death. So many good ones go way to early.
That's an awesome story, thank you for sharing. I think that's the main reason people have the connection with Dime that they do..he was just a guy..just a normal guy...I've never heard a bad thing about him. and i think even more so than his music, the reputation he left behind as a human being will last, and mean more, than he was as a musician...which was huge. sorry if that phrasing is a little off...i'm a tad buzzed.
Peter Gordon lol theres a difference between having your own opinion and being snobby about it (for example, ignoring the fact that dimebag had the best tone for the music they made and just calling it bad)
The actual answer to that is get a metal distortion pedal (Boss MetalZone or Behringer Ultra Metal) with a mid sweep, then find a mid freq. that is similar to the one boosted by Fortin Grind's and 33's (Around 2 or 3K, quite high on the mid sweep knob, close to or pretty much at max) boost highs, cut bass, palm mute above the pickup, use a good, bright, tight humbucker, and that's it. Ola's tone for 30 bucks (Provided you get a generic but good Aliexpress PU and the Ultra Metal...)
bakerXderek CHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH DANG THAT WAS A LONG ROPE
There's a video of him playing through one of these shitty mini marshall amps that usually sound like a frying pan. Sure enough he makes the damn thing sound epic.
I read all his guitar magazine interviews. He was pretty open about what he used. Ola is very close, but don't forget a tweaked Crybaby, a Whammy pedal set to pitch up with the rocker, and his secret, that he didn't completely reveal, some sort of rackmount flanger set to a very minimal amount of depth and speed. He said it was a "very tight" flange on "almost all the time" and "the one secret he wanted to keep". Also, some of those riffs are supposed to be in drop-D and the "harmonics" on 'Mouth for War' was actually done by pressing the strings against the neck pickup, as least in the studio.
Sounds weird but thanks to Ola I started listening to Pantera and I can't believe that so many years have passed and I didn't realize how amazing Dimebag is ... now every day I try to play his solos and I hope to upload one of them
I’ve had a little PRS SE 24 for about 10 years that I put a Seymour Duncan Pegasus/Sentient set in years ago and just recently installed a Graphtech Ghost piezo system into the saddles and man, that little guitar does metal so well! Quarantine happened and decided to install a piezo system after years of wanting one. I ordered a new bridge and drilled some holes to make room for the piezo saddles, upgraded the tuners to SE locking tuners and had it wired so there’s a master electric volume with a push/pull coil split and the tone knob is now a piezo acoustic volume. Its set up to C# standard +40cents dimebag style and honestly ive never had so much fun playing guitar. Using bias fx for the dimebag tone and have the acoustic going through an interface and being able to play all the acoustic parts then switch immediate to electric in Pantera’s songs is awesome! Had to share because my only amp Is a fender as well haha happy playing
To me, Dime was very unique. His approach to playing was very unusual. His choice of solid state, I think, played a huge role in his absolutely supreme metal sound. To my ears, nothing is heavier than Dime. NOTHING.
You missed it i saw ozzfest 2000 and thays when i saw pantera the 1st time ever it blew my mind when they came on as ozzys opening act on my opinion they were better somehow amd thays fuckin ozzy but them squeals that tone them bends amd such brutal yet beautiful sounds that just ripped yoir eardrums out then blew them mfs it was amazing its on youtbe you have to go search it up i do from time to time cuz its just unforgettable to me i hada tape of it aswell it was lot to time thank god someone uploaded the paperview of the concert whoever did it is a genious
Never thought I’d hear another person nail that tone. So many people claim to get his tone but can’t quite get it. You practically nailed his tone from everything but CFH
you got it ola.... I got the rocktron gate and work pretty well. Get dimebag tone is a search of life loll...palm muting was his style. hard to comprehend and replicate. Dean made the Dime amp to replicate de Rg100s and it sounds great really. Nice vids ola. We all love Dimebag forvever and ever!!!! RIP
the editing at 6:15 made me laugh hahahaha. I heard the first artificial harmonic and thought "hmmm note quite. But close." and was given a buzzer sound with a red X to back me up lol. You nailed it the second time though. Love the tone. \m/
Loved Dimes playing! His use of Texas Swing was insane. It was like taking a portion of Stevi Ray Vaughan's style and turning it to 11 then putting overdrive on top of that.
Basically, it should be cutting off the pickup signal. The pickup + grind signal is giving the Decimator a higher signal, which makes the Decimator stay open longer.
Anyone who doesn't like Dimes tone should listen to something more in tune to idiots who don't know what true dedication and greatness is.Thank you Ola for keeping it real and his legacy alive. You are the best at recreating the metal masters tone and style.Your guitar collection is sick and I'm sure he would be humbled and proud of your tributes. 👍🎸🔊 ✝️ RIP SAINT DIME GETCHA PULL BROTHER
Ola this is some sort of Gods will: I'm about to leave to the studio to try and get some dime tones with my Randall RG100es I picked up a few weeks ago, and you just uploaded this video today!
Ola Englund, your videos are some of the best. Your dry sense of humor with your serious riffing ability make for some of the most enjoyable shit on TH-cam. Happy Holidays Brotha!
the thing I like the most about dime was the fact that he was a simple player but a complex player at the same time. very simple but way crazy complex. that is all
Well for me it was still not close. Dime's drive had amazing overtones (almost like octaver before drive) when played squeals or higher notes. I remember when I tried Boss MT-2 (I know what you are thinking about it) it had amazing overtones and reminded Dime's tone. Knowing that MT-2 have pre-distortion EQ built in with bass & hi-mid peaks give me idea that Dime used those EQ with boosting Highs and maybe bass too (or cutting mids). So there's some food for thought.
NeZversTutorials Nope, he always boosted the mids the most on the mxr eq and the PQ units, I've researched the exact settings. His rg 100 settings were bass 7, mid 4, high 5. Where some scooping possibly happened was an aphex exciter in the effect loop
I have that pile of shit pedal too, and I modded it. I find it best do use it as a boost, to make sure the mids are higher than the rest, and then tweak the amp. Sounds punchy af. Usually my bass ends up slightly above 12 oclock, and my ever so slightly below 12, or if it's off, then i increase the a bit. But then I have a SD Dimebucker, and that's one hell of a great high-gain passive pickup.
Ola did you flip the Bill Lawrence pickup upside down? Dime always flipped his Bill Lawrence upside down to put the hot rail further away from the bridge..I did it on my Dean From Hell and it had a noticeable change in tone and made it "growl" more.
Thing is, the coils are the same. Each has a pair of identical magnets and the same amount of winding, there is no "hot" coil, as confirmed by Bill himself. And the same goes for majority of humbuckers (except those which have different coils, like DiMarzio Crunch Lab). It's a placebo more than anything. The only way I see it could make a difference is because of poor quality control (cuz both B&B and BLUSA have never been major manufacturers) resulting in slightly more winding on one coil.
Yep, I have 500XLs in two of my guitars, I tried flipping them around for shits and giggles and it did absolutely nothing. They sound like shit thru a tube amp anyway, most of my guitars have Duncan distortions and they reign supreme! With the exception of an old Jackson J80 p'up that's been in and out of some of my guitars over the years and that p'up sounds great.
Another thing about Dime's tone was he didn't scoop the mids like most metal players do. He didn't exactly boost his mids but definitely didn't scoop them. It's funny how most metal players avoid mids like it's the plague. Like if it has any mids then it's not metal. Haha silly! Dime's tone was brutal.
DOMINATE!! Good video Ola! I have a Boss GT-1 multieffects processer, with the boss tone studio software. Trying to come as close to Dimebag's tone as possible!
(for those interested) Interview with Dime's tech done by Seymour Duncan: www.seymourduncan.com/blog/backstage-pass/talking-tone-with-dimebag-darrells-tech-grady-champion
I've always thought competing mid scoop vs boosts sound the best. My favorite being mid scooped pickups and speakers, and cranked mids on the amp. A scooped amp with middy pickups and v30s sounds good too.
LMFAO!! My father had been chasing Stevie Ray Vaughan’s tone since he was still alive... my dad’s got one of the first 5 Fender SRV Signature Stratocaster which Fender made, the serial number on the neck is from 1981, & it’s fretboard isn’t Pau Ferro like they are now, the neck on his SRV has a rosewood board & now he has specially modified TS9 Tube Screamers, a Vox King Wah, Boss Blues Driver, and one of the Cesar Modded Fender ‘64 Vibroverbs...he finally got SRV’s tone...
Goodnight... That sounds like so much time and effort. From a historian and production perspective, that's super cool. From a practical musician standpoint, yikes.
I am learning guitar right now one day I will get a electric guitar and I am dying for the exact cowboys from hell tone thats My favourite guitar tone I prefer it over the later albums guitar tone their good but the cowboys from hell tone just has something special about it
I love the old RG100. I have a fuzzy carpet onel and used it for my band's last album. It's just a killer and still gives up the goods for current metal.
I had that same amp but sold it. The distortion was nothing like pantera, more like the sound of a rusty tin can blowing down the road, so disappointing.
to whom it may concern: I personaly own an ISP Decimator for a long period of time now and I can highly recommend it to every guitarist who is willing to play live and loud tube amps without any noise within your breaks or stops. Cheers
I tried the overdrive technique, but I felt using an actual MXR EQ like Dime did was much more accurate. Gave the tone that buzzsaw sound he's known for, while the OD pedal made it a bit too smooth.
Actually I think it's because of the opposite. You can dial in the MXR to be EXTREMELY mid crunchy. Like, much more than a Tubescreamer or SD-1. When I tested it out, doing a 6-band with the mids in an extreme frowny face nailed it. The attack and buzzsaw was there. When I tried the TS or SD-1, there was still lots of mud and the precise attack wasnt there. It sounded more "tubey" while the 6-band gave it that extremely artificial attack that Dimebag had.
I agree. I don't have a 10 band EQ, but some of the others might work nearly as well. I use an older Danelectro Fish N Chips (7 band + output level), and it works well for a Dimebag rhythm tone. I also use it for old school Slayer tones and whatever else.
After the noise gate was introduced there was also a very weird metallic fizz at the end of sound when the gate closes. Would be nice to hear a workaround for that. Other than that, wow! You got a really ballsy sound. Ballsier than Dimebag's tone was on record (I think you had more punch and low end than he used) and I preferred your tone for those riffs. Maybe I'm thinking too much of the first records though. Well done Ola. The gain structure was definitely right but I think Dime's tone was a lot thinner on the first albums. That's probably why I prefer your approach to his sound. Good video.
Amp EQ changed a little bit between albums from what I understand. Scooped mids in early work and a bit more mids later on. Regarding strings, here's a quote from him. "“I’m using two different custom-gauged sets of DR strings which will soon be released as signature sets. One set is .009-.046 set and the other is .009-.050. I use the heavier strings on the lower tunings.“ Btw, those strings are now made by DR Strings.
TheKumara No the scoop tone is in the recording because the tone is thin and gainy and the bass made the sound scooped. It is actually no bass high mids high highs tone.
I heard an interview he did in which he was insistent that solid state overdrive tone sounded better than tube based overdrive, and I agree with him on that. There were some rumors I'd read that he was trialing out a Wizard tube amp in some of his work. By the way, "A New Level" sounded great.
I absolutely love the tone of a high gain tube amp but historically I have always been fascinated with the solid state sounds of Randall and have bought more Randall products than anything...I guess for me I just want a unique tone and these amps definitely have their own voice!
It took a very long time, before Audio Engineers had learned the totally different terrain of solid state circuitry music tone amplification design (vs. tube/valve circuitry), well enough, to be able to offer the music making community a broad selection of different types of good-sounding, very usable tonalities. Long after I had been deeply involved with the band scene, I began hearing, inserted into different TV shows, bits and pieces of excellent rock guitar playing, with this distinctive, massive-sounding, grinding-distorted guitar tone, that was instantly recognizable! Having heard it here and there, I wondered, "Who the heck is that?". Eventually, I discovered Pantera & Dimebag Darrell Abbott, and realized that I had been either hearing excerpts from Dimebag's playing, or hearing someone playing with Dimebag's style & sound. I understand that, for most of his career, he had an exclusively solid-state signal chain for his distinctive sound! Dimebag's style not only was right for the times, it's still exciting to listen to. His contribution was huge!
i forgot that you are Randall artist and have signature series amp ^_^ ..but how come you never review all Randall amp .. such as Kirk H, EOD and other bunch of signature series artist amps??
It isn't really tone but a different sound like a different key sounds different for those that can recognize relative pitch. When Ed and Dime time Down a 1/4 step and no one else does, some people notice. Plus it must be harder to copy of you never can match a note.
I know tone is subjective, but I don't understand how anyone could dislike Dime's tone.
i disliked ist because its to harsch and trebly(i dont know if thats a word but my english sucks because im from germany and 14) i think olas tone was actually better than dimes because it was a bit more mid focused and punchier. just my opinion
too much bass and not enough mids. Mids are the body of the guitar sound (that's why mid's name in my amp is "body") and cutting too much mids you are kind of "stealing" from basses and kick drum's "area".
Tbh I hate Dime´s Tone, even when I tried to play with it I couldn´t stand it. But the funny thing is that this is one of the reasons why I think Dime is an amazing player, somehow he turns that shitty tone into something amazing
Fuck your opinion NERD!
I used to dislike dimebags tone, as well as several black metal bands tone. But I understand now that the tone is part of the music and maybe it wouldn't have sounded so original without that tone.
Dude, that tone in the intro is fuckin great!
hey josh
sup josh
Hey Josh! Are u having fun on tour Josh?! Ohhhhhhh waaaaait a hell of a minute.................... wrong Josh, my bad
I don't like sludgy downtuned tones.
@@eamonahern7495 no one asked tho.
If Dime was alive he would be Ola's biggest fan...you would bet your ass Dime would spend a lot of time playing with you my friend
Never realized how in depth these musicians have to go to obtain their own signature tones, especially growing up listening to a variety of metal
I knew Dime when he was 16 or 17 (met him in Arnold and Morgan music Garland TX; sat next to him and said who the f$%@ is this little skinny guy making monstrous tone with his fingers flying across the fretboard) and watched him play in clubs from the beginning of Pantera. I would talk to him frequently about his tone to the point he called me the "tone guy". I was not "friends" with him but playing in clubs and recording around the same time and we talked some. Before he played Randall's (he bought at Spear Music in Mesquite TX) he played a Yamaha solid state. I bought the same amp to mimic his tone and I/It sounded like sh#$. Yes, so much is in the fingers. I did incorporate a Randall RG100ES into my rig paired with a 50w JCM 800 (his advice on two amps one cleanish and one nasty; the Randall was my nasty one). It sounded wonderful; very different from his but his advice worked. Dime was always so nice at sharing whatever he could to help other musicians. He really lived for the music. I also saw Randy Rhoads live (my guitar hero) about month before his death. So many good ones go way to early.
That's an awesome story, thank you for sharing. I think that's the main reason people have the connection with Dime that they do..he was just a guy..just a normal guy...I've never heard a bad thing about him. and i think even more so than his music, the reputation he left behind as a human being will last, and mean more, than he was as a musician...which was huge. sorry if that phrasing is a little off...i'm a tad buzzed.
6slayer6sam6 The only thing that would be considered "bad" was his alcoholic addiction
That's personal opinion to. If it doesn't hurt him or the ones around him, then it's not really a bad thing.
Chris Derange lmao the fuck his drinking habits weren’t hurting him?
Anders Bjørnsen
Well, that's what got his brother in the end.
You had my thumbs up at "to me they are unbeatable."
Totally agree. Metalhead tone snobs are silly creatures.
true. anyone who says dime's tone was bad doesnt understand making music.
Peter Gordon lol theres a difference between having your own opinion and being snobby about it (for example, ignoring the fact that dimebag had the best tone for the music they made and just calling it bad)
Anyone who understands making music wouldn't intentionally go for the sound of TV static noise.
TFIFH yes but what does that have to do with dimebag?
I guess you haven't listened to Pantera loud through something other than headphones.
Miss this guy and this sound man, just imagine the kind of music he'd make nowadays. Rip 🐐🐐🐐
‘Specially with panteras “reunion” (tribute)
@@masonkertson9774
Dude, I really wanna see him reacting to Yngwie latest album. Will he shat on him? Or will they finally reconcile?
next: How to nail Ola's tone without going bankrupt!
Metallix good luck with that lol XD
Steal his fingers
The actual answer to that is get a metal distortion pedal (Boss MetalZone or Behringer Ultra Metal) with a mid sweep, then find a mid freq. that is similar to the one boosted by Fortin Grind's and 33's (Around 2 or 3K, quite high on the mid sweep knob, close to or pretty much at max) boost highs, cut bass, palm mute above the pickup, use a good, bright, tight humbucker, and that's it. Ola's tone for 30 bucks (Provided you get a generic but good Aliexpress PU and the Ultra Metal...)
Love that Randall
bakerXderek bakerXderek??!!?!? you subscribe to Ola? That's fucking awesome! Cheah!!!
xD xD haha you're like the guy whom James Hetfield gave his guitar
CHEAHH
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DANG THAT WAS A LONG ROPE
My heart literally dropped into my gootyhole when I saw your comment! Been a subscriber to both channels for a long time! CHEAH!
Dime would have sounded like Dime on a 3/4 scale Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guitar.
There's a video of him playing through one of these shitty mini marshall amps that usually sound like a frying pan.
Sure enough he makes the damn thing sound epic.
War Zone fr, I want to play grindcore on it
Pretty much
Soldano999 indeed i believe he also had his pedals plugged into it aswell
Gamer Guy I don’t think he did cause he had it strapped to his belt and was waking around in the street playing it
Ooooaaaaahhhhh DOMINATION!
*Insert solo here*
the breakdown in that song is the heaviest shit i have ever exploded into my pants!
Damn this sounds awesome, Dunno how ppl dont like Dimes tone! I think its BRUTAL
it sounds like a BRUTAL fart.
@@rampage222555 You sound like a brutal fart!
It's the tone man....
@@rampage222555 Let's see you make a memorable and unique sound then. Go on, you're "the dude". Show us the power of "the dude".
I read all his guitar magazine interviews. He was pretty open about what he used. Ola is very close, but don't forget a tweaked Crybaby, a Whammy pedal set to pitch up with the rocker, and his secret, that he didn't completely reveal, some sort of rackmount flanger set to a very minimal amount of depth and speed. He said it was a "very tight" flange on "almost all the time" and "the one secret he wanted to keep". Also, some of those riffs are supposed to be in drop-D and the "harmonics" on 'Mouth for War' was actually done by pressing the strings against the neck pickup, as least in the studio.
Sounds weird but thanks to Ola I started listening to Pantera and I can't believe that so many years have passed and I didn't realize how amazing Dimebag is ... now every day I try to play his solos and I hope to upload one of them
Me with a prs and fender amp: eh, close enough
I’ve had a little PRS SE 24 for about 10 years that I put a Seymour Duncan Pegasus/Sentient set in years ago and just recently installed a Graphtech Ghost piezo system into the saddles and man, that little guitar does metal so well! Quarantine happened and decided to install a piezo system after years of wanting one. I ordered a new bridge and drilled some holes to make room for the piezo saddles, upgraded the tuners to SE locking tuners and had it wired so there’s a master electric volume with a push/pull coil split and the tone knob is now a piezo acoustic volume. Its set up to C# standard +40cents dimebag style and honestly ive never had so much fun playing guitar. Using bias fx for the dimebag tone and have the acoustic going through an interface and being able to play all the acoustic parts then switch immediate to electric in Pantera’s songs is awesome! Had to share because my only amp
Is a fender as well haha happy playing
Luis Gonzalez that’s neat! Thanks for sharing
seeing youre profile pic not to start anything but i feel like you and Dime wouldnt have seen eye to eye on some things
@@fr0gm0th25 I know. I have friends and family that do disagree. Just don’t need to bring it up
@@joeyvitale3241 absolutely!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
To me, Dime was very unique. His approach to playing was very unusual. His choice of solid state, I think, played a huge role in his absolutely supreme metal sound. To my ears, nothing is heavier than Dime. NOTHING.
Ola has one f'd up sense of humor. Great job and keep them coming.
Dimebag is my Idol of Metal. I don´t have the chance to see Pantera Live :(
RIP DIME !!!!
You missed it i saw ozzfest 2000 and thays when i saw pantera the 1st time ever it blew my mind when they came on as ozzys opening act on my opinion they were better somehow amd thays fuckin ozzy but them squeals that tone them bends amd such brutal yet beautiful sounds that just ripped yoir eardrums out then blew them mfs it was amazing its on youtbe you have to go search it up i do from time to time cuz its just unforgettable to me i hada tape of it aswell it was lot to time thank god someone uploaded the paperview of the concert whoever did it is a genious
Dime's tone was one of the best I've ever heard. It stood out so much, that I couldn't imagine Pantera without that sound of Dime's rhythm guitar.
Never thought I’d hear another person nail that tone. So many people claim to get his tone but can’t quite get it. You practically nailed his tone from everything but CFH
Besides all the time and work you put into your production, I really appreciate the humor. Always picks me up :)
you got it ola.... I got the rocktron gate and work pretty well. Get dimebag tone is a search of life loll...palm muting was his style. hard to comprehend and replicate. Dean made the Dime amp to replicate de Rg100s and it sounds great really. Nice vids ola. We all love Dimebag forvever and ever!!!! RIP
the editing at 6:15 made me laugh hahahaha. I heard the first artificial harmonic and thought "hmmm note quite. But close." and was given a buzzer sound with a red X to back me up lol. You nailed it the second time though. Love the tone. \m/
Loved Dimes playing! His use of Texas Swing was insane. It was like taking a portion of Stevi Ray Vaughan's style and turning it to 11 then putting overdrive on top of that.
2:26 "this is not a commercial for Randall"
Now has a fucking signature amp.
Anyway good video
Thanks Ola for resurrecting Dime for a couple of minutes, this was pretty refreshing !
I can hear how ISP Decimator cuts noise, leaving a "tail" that sounds like reverb.
It´s because the Decimator is in the wrong spot. The overdrive is confusing the Decimator. The Decimator should be before the overdrive.
kordax mint That is room early reflection.
Basically, it should be cutting off the pickup signal. The pickup + grind signal is giving the Decimator a higher signal, which makes the Decimator stay open longer.
monstercadaver indeed. From what I've experienced with noise gates, they're best used first in the signal chain.
kordax mint totally
I grew up not enjoying dimes tone really at all but as I got older I started to really appreciate it. Getcha pull!
Anyone who doesn't like Dimes tone should listen to something more in tune to idiots who don't know what true dedication and greatness is.Thank you Ola for keeping it real and his legacy alive. You are the best at recreating the metal masters tone and style.Your guitar collection is sick and I'm sure he would be humbled and proud of your tributes. 👍🎸🔊 ✝️ RIP SAINT DIME GETCHA PULL BROTHER
What
People can acknowledge Dimes work, and still think that his tone fucking sucked. Those are not mutually exclusive things
Ola this is some sort of Gods will: I'm about to leave to the studio to try and get some dime tones with my Randall RG100es I picked up a few weeks ago, and you just uploaded this video today!
You didn't tell us how he used the MXR Flanger/Doubler.
Ola Englund, your videos are some of the best. Your dry sense of humor with your serious riffing ability make for some of the most enjoyable shit on TH-cam. Happy Holidays Brotha!
Great job man! I know its extremely HARD to get that dime tone and you did an awesome job bro! Big thumbs up!
I started watching your videos after you went on Lee Anderons channel. I love your music and your channel. Keep up the amazing content!
When I first heard Dimebag play, I asked..."is he even using a cab?" It was like specks of signal were flying off everywhere in all directions.
Nicky Fingers I don't get it, what does that imply? Is that a complimenting or ridiculing comment?
This video cracks me.up so much with the edits, I miss this early Ola style!
T-shirt 10/10. Also editing 10/10.
Rohann van Rensburg put it in the CHAIN
man, one of the best dime tone vids I've heard on youtube...gonna look into that head!
This sounds more like Dime's live tone than the recordings.
Recordings go through post processing and almost every guitar tone ends up being slightly different at the end than from the beginning.
the thing I like the most about dime was the fact that he was a simple player but a complex player at the same time. very simple but way crazy complex. that is all
Nothing simple about anything he did bro.. Includibg achieving his tone on the albums… This guy has it pretty close
Well done mate! You just blowed my mind. Thanks a lot!
I agree ola love all of dimes tones, been at it for a wile now trying to nail it, I love the overtones he get on his leads man
6:48 is just awesome, show how to play it!!!
the best massive distortion I've ever heard! No one can overcome it :D good tuto man.
DIMEBAG FOREVER
I love Amp's Randall!
Well for me it was still not close. Dime's drive had amazing overtones (almost like octaver before drive) when played squeals or higher notes. I remember when I tried Boss MT-2 (I know what you are thinking about it) it had amazing overtones and reminded Dime's tone. Knowing that MT-2 have pre-distortion EQ built in with bass & hi-mid peaks give me idea that Dime used those EQ with boosting Highs and maybe bass too (or cutting mids).
So there's some food for thought.
NeZversTutorials Nope, he always boosted the mids the most on the mxr eq and the PQ units, I've researched the exact settings. His rg 100 settings were bass 7, mid 4, high 5. Where some scooping possibly happened was an aphex exciter in the effect loop
I have that pile of shit pedal too, and I modded it. I find it best do use it as a boost, to make sure the mids are higher than the rest, and then tweak the amp. Sounds punchy af. Usually my bass ends up slightly above 12 oclock, and my ever so slightly below 12, or if it's off, then i increase the a bit. But then I have a SD Dimebucker, and that's one hell of a great high-gain passive pickup.
NeZversTutorials Kirk Windstein from Crowbar uses a Randall RG100es with an MT-2 as a boost.
The overtones are from modulation like a chorus
OLA.....you never cease to amaze me.... another great vid.....happy holidays from Wisconsin man!!!!!!
Ola did you flip the Bill Lawrence pickup upside down? Dime always flipped his Bill Lawrence upside down to put the hot rail further away from the bridge..I did it on my Dean From Hell and it had a noticeable change in tone and made it "growl" more.
Chris Answeeney Flipping a pickup with rails does nothing. Dime thought it did but it doesn't.
Oh because Dime didnt know what he was doing and you do? HAHAHAH. Have you ever done it? I did and it absolutely changes the sound.
This guy's a riot. If one rail is hotter than the other, flipping it regardless of the pole pieces will have an effect on the tone.
Thing is, the coils are the same. Each has a pair of identical magnets and the same amount of winding, there is no "hot" coil, as confirmed by Bill himself. And the same goes for majority of humbuckers (except those which have different coils, like DiMarzio Crunch Lab). It's a placebo more than anything. The only way I see it could make a difference is because of poor quality control (cuz both B&B and BLUSA have never been major manufacturers) resulting in slightly more winding on one coil.
Yep, I have 500XLs in two of my guitars, I tried flipping them around for shits and giggles and it did absolutely nothing. They sound like shit thru a tube amp anyway, most of my guitars have Duncan distortions and they reign supreme! With the exception of an old Jackson J80 p'up that's been in and out of some of my guitars over the years and that p'up sounds great.
Mannnn this is absolutely dime tone ..looks like there's still a lot of work for me to do..thanks dude
Another thing about Dime's tone was he didn't scoop the mids like most metal players do. He didn't exactly boost his mids but definitely didn't scoop them. It's funny how most metal players avoid mids like it's the plague. Like if it has any mids then it's not metal. Haha silly!
Dime's tone was brutal.
th-cam.com/video/p3BB1HmQcKs/w-d-xo.html sounds pretty damn scoopy ta me.
Dimebag has NO MIDS BRO
Dime used two different eq’s one was set for the scooped setting and the other eq was boosted mids. So he had both running to get his tone
He had multiple eqs scooping the mids
i literally watched a video the other day where he himself says he scoops his mids
DOMINATE!! Good video Ola! I have a Boss GT-1 multieffects processer, with the boss tone studio software. Trying to come as close to Dimebag's tone as possible!
(for those interested)
Interview with Dime's tech done by Seymour Duncan:
www.seymourduncan.com/blog/backstage-pass/talking-tone-with-dimebag-darrells-tech-grady-champion
I just got an isp decimator g string for my boss for Christmas. He loves it. It puts the hush on his soldano 100 tube head and doesn't suck tone.
7:15
4:19 God damn right.
Domination was spot on man, great video!
I wonder how many times Ola will say mid scoop :D
And I have not heared mid scoop not even once... :(
Mateusz Nakonieczny dime didn't use a mid scoop. if he did he pushed them back up with the eq pedal
Exactly. Mid boost in the PQ3/4, mid cut in the amp, mid boost in the graphic eq in the loop. Wich works wonder btw.
Pietro Alexandre I don't think he had the eq in the effects loop
I've always thought competing mid scoop vs boosts sound the best. My favorite being mid scooped pickups and speakers, and cranked mids on the amp. A scooped amp with middy pickups and v30s sounds good too.
Total metal tone. Love this ola! Great recreation.
LMFAO!! My father had been chasing Stevie Ray Vaughan’s tone since he was still alive... my dad’s got one of the first 5 Fender SRV Signature Stratocaster which Fender made, the serial number on the neck is from 1981, & it’s fretboard isn’t Pau Ferro like they are now, the neck on his SRV has a rosewood board & now he has specially modified TS9 Tube Screamers, a Vox King Wah, Boss Blues Driver, and one of the Cesar Modded Fender ‘64 Vibroverbs...he finally got SRV’s tone...
Goodnight... That sounds like so much time and effort. From a historian and production perspective, that's super cool. From a practical musician standpoint, yikes.
LOVE the love to Gorguts! Again... Outstanding video!
I am learning guitar right now one day I will get a electric guitar and I am dying for the exact cowboys from hell tone thats My favourite guitar tone I prefer it over the later albums guitar tone their good but the cowboys from hell tone just has something special about it
I loved the tone on Vulgar Display of Power, i just LOVE IT
Do the solo from The Sleep! PLEASE!!!
Darrell’s tone was GODLIKE!
Picked up the combo version used for $350. It was beat to hell but runs fine.
I love the old RG100. I have a fuzzy carpet onel and used it for my band's last album. It's just a killer and still gives up the goods for current metal.
I had that same amp but sold it. The distortion was nothing like pantera, more like the sound of a rusty tin can blowing down the road, so disappointing.
and i have my girlfriends tone in my fingers
Bro penises don't talk
Be quite.
lets hit 1000 subs without any videos it’s quiet not quite dumb bass
Jacob Aranda it’s dumbass not dumb bass...
This comment thread is a fucking wreck holy hell.
Hey, Ola. EVEN DIME worked relentlessly for YEARS to get his tone. Anselmo said this in an interview.
A lot of ppl don’t realize that dimes tone wasn’t in his fingers or amp, it was in his balls
lmao
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to whom it may concern: I personaly own an ISP Decimator for a long period of time now and I can highly recommend it to every guitarist who is willing to play live and loud tube amps without any noise within your breaks or stops. Cheers
what amps did he use on the metal magic album?? :]
Hoshi Hearts Guitars - Dean ML79 in White and Dean ML Standard , Amps - Randall RG100ES , Marshall DSL101
Dimebag Jr thanks!
The marshall dsl series wasn't even around back then lol but do i believe the randall part
Sounds just like Dime! Great job Ola! Keep up the good work!
4:32 clap your hands everybody and everybody just clap your hands
this is why his editing is superb compared to a lot of other guys
His tuning to C# is the biggest thing people overlook. That really helps you nail the sound
Dimeize it. Come on and Getcha pull! R.I.P Dimebag and Vinnie Paul Abbott. RE-SPECT 👊
I’ve never heard anyone say Dimes tone was anything but perfect
I tried the overdrive technique, but I felt using an actual MXR EQ like Dime did was much more accurate. Gave the tone that buzzsaw sound he's known for, while the OD pedal made it a bit too smooth.
Tred both a Tubescreamer and SD-1. Much preferred the EQ pedal. When I did a 6-band EQ with an extreme frowny face, it nailed the Dime tone.
Actually I think it's because of the opposite. You can dial in the MXR to be EXTREMELY mid crunchy. Like, much more than a Tubescreamer or SD-1. When I tested it out, doing a 6-band with the mids in an extreme frowny face nailed it. The attack and buzzsaw was there. When I tried the TS or SD-1, there was still lots of mud and the precise attack wasnt there. It sounded more "tubey" while the 6-band gave it that extremely artificial attack that Dimebag had.
I agree. I don't have a 10 band EQ, but some of the others might work nearly as well. I use an older Danelectro Fish N Chips (7 band + output level), and it works well for a Dimebag rhythm tone. I also use it for old school Slayer tones and whatever else.
Hey Bleuh, I know that a year has passed from this post but can you tell me the Mxr Eq settings you were using because mine sound like crap
Bleuh did you use anything other than the MXR EQ in your signal chain? Or was it just guitar-eq-amp?
Wow, amazing! I've been searching for his tone awhile. Thanks a lot!
"Fuckin' A"
Vergil Sparda Fuckin Hostile
I'm just glad that imo your tone is the unbeatable one and I could sound pretty much exactly like you with my setup
The thing is I don’t have the money to buy the stuff
That’s where a job comes in to play
After the noise gate was introduced there was also a very weird metallic fizz at the end of sound when the gate closes. Would be nice to hear a workaround for that. Other than that, wow! You got a really ballsy sound. Ballsier than Dimebag's tone was on record (I think you had more punch and low end than he used) and I preferred your tone for those riffs. Maybe I'm thinking too much of the first records though. Well done Ola. The gain structure was definitely right but I think Dime's tone was a lot thinner on the first albums. That's probably why I prefer your approach to his sound. Good video.
Does anybody know what Dime used on the Far Beyond Driven album ? My favorite Pantera record (both musically and tonaly)
Konstantinos Ernesto Economou He used the Randall Century 200 heads...they are very hard to find.
awesome stuff man. love your videos and have for years dude. hope to hear some more crunchy metal soon brother! \m/
What is the name of this background song ??
at the beginning of the video
This honors Dimebag Darrell. RIP
"My tone in my fingers....BUTT"
(с) Ola 2016
beautiful lead AT THE END OLA!!
does anyone know where on earth to actually find those washburn guitars? I literally cannot find them anywhere
Good luck I've been looking also
Some reverb.com
You canhave dimebucker or 59' . Doesn't matter which guitar you have.
Soham Chakraborty what do you mean
dimes tone can be harsh in earphones but through big speakers backed by a heavy bass and huge drum sound its immense, its an assault.
what about the amp settings?? and string gauge?
amp setting is in the video watch carefully. string gauge depending on the tuning. nothing special.
Amp EQ changed a little bit between albums from what I understand. Scooped mids in early work and a bit more mids later on. Regarding strings, here's a quote from him. "“I’m using two different custom-gauged sets of DR strings which will soon be released as signature sets. One set is .009-.046 set and the other is .009-.050. I use the heavier strings on the lower tunings.“ Btw, those strings are now made by DR Strings.
TheKumara No the scoop tone is in the recording because the tone is thin and gainy and the bass made the sound scooped. It is actually no bass high mids high highs tone.
TheKumara The dimebag tone is soo easy to make.
TheKumara want dimebag tone? add a booster and cut the low that is it.
I heard an interview he did in which he was insistent that solid state overdrive tone sounded better than tube based overdrive, and I agree with him on that. There were some rumors I'd read that he was trialing out a Wizard tube amp in some of his work.
By the way, "A New Level" sounded great.
I absolutely love the tone of a high gain tube amp but historically I have always been fascinated with the solid state sounds of Randall and have bought more Randall products than anything...I guess for me I just want a unique tone and these amps definitely have their own voice!
7:15 I don't know why that's so goddamn funny to me
It took a very long time, before Audio Engineers had learned the totally different terrain of solid state circuitry music tone amplification design (vs. tube/valve circuitry), well enough, to be able to offer the music making community a broad selection of different types of good-sounding, very usable tonalities. Long after I had been deeply involved with the band scene, I began hearing, inserted into different TV shows, bits and pieces of excellent rock guitar playing, with this distinctive, massive-sounding, grinding-distorted guitar tone, that was instantly recognizable! Having heard it here and there, I wondered, "Who the heck is that?". Eventually, I discovered Pantera & Dimebag Darrell Abbott, and realized that I had been either hearing excerpts from Dimebag's playing, or hearing someone playing with Dimebag's style & sound. I understand that, for most of his career, he had an exclusively solid-state signal chain for his distinctive sound! Dimebag's style not only was right for the times, it's still exciting to listen to. His contribution was huge!
i forgot that you are Randall artist and have signature series amp ^_^ ..but how come you never review all Randall amp .. such as Kirk H, EOD and other bunch of signature series artist amps??
Boy Aditya the kirk is tube dime used solid state randalls he used a krank krankenstein which was tube on damage plan
So badass! The intro Domination riff is like the best punch in the face!
You should make a band called pantera man it’s a cool name what do you think 🤔 👍
Dude, you should totally make a video comparison between the Bill Lawrence, Bill & Becky and SD Dumebucker tones with that rig!!! Awesome as always!!!
You just forgot one thing: how he tuned a microtone flat. That is what makes his tone unique and most recognizable.
how does that affect tone
uhhh NO, quit talking out of your ass!
Mike Fu he does dude. Look it up
It isn't really tone but a different sound like a different key sounds different for those that can recognize relative pitch. When Ed and Dime time Down a 1/4 step and no one else does, some people notice. Plus it must be harder to copy of you never can match a note.
Damn, haven't heard better tone reproduction. Good job Ola!