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what it is everyone welcome to deaf cage and welcome to the mixtapes this is where we
talked about all the things that we did and how we did it and why we did and
today we talking about like a stone
ite so we're gonna talk about how we get the soul power tone right. now if
you don't know what I mean when I say soul power tone then you need to turn
this video off right now all right you'll need to be here seriously
so if you're a real Tom Morello fan you know what I mean when I say soul power
tone this is not a video on how to sound like Tom Morello this is how to sound
like me trying to sound like the Tom Morello
but speaking a Tom Morello's tone the uneducated among us like to believe that
he uses a whole bunch of effects to get his sound but the truth the matter is is
that his pedal board is actually pretty simple he got a wah petal He got the
whammy pedal of course he got a delay pedal and he got like an EQ pedal with
everything set to 11 that he uses as a boost and that's pretty much all he use
people want to believe that you can buy a tone get this effect and you'll sound
like this musician or you buy this amp and you'll sound like that musician the
fact is tone is not in your pedals tone is not in the amp tone is not in your
guitar tone is right here in your "jazz hands" So no one can sound like Tom
Morello but Tom Morello because no one has Tom Murillo's hands at least until
he dies and someone digs up his body and... let's not go there
but anyway this is how I get my tone for "Like a Stone" I so we're using the old
double neck here we're using the strat but any strat style guitar will work and we're
on the four position so the neck and the middle pickup together because it kind
of smooths the tone out If you play it on the bridge
it's not quite the same. It's a little smoother. Now I know what you're gonna say
you're gonna say "K-Bob, in the video you ain't using a strat. You'ze using a
humbucker guitar. Ain't that a cheat?" Well, no. That
particular guitar has a bunch of coil splits and it's got the ability to get
the next single coil and the middle single cual together so you can get a
strat tone out of it. I recorded the song on this here guitar but it's possible to
get that tone out of that guitar so it ain't a cheat to get off my butt Reddit
Ite, so this little camera here is gonna be my eyes so you can see what I'm
seeing right so out of the guitar we come over here and we go into my Alesis
36:30 compressor now this is a two channel compressor now my signal comes
in to the left channel here and this is like my mild compression setting so this
is always on it just tightens up the loose end of my tone without squeezing
all the dynamics. It comes out of the left channel and goes
immediately into the right channel now the right channel is my high compression
setting now normally I have this here channel bypassed but when I need a boost
I turn it on and what it does is is it flattens my tone out squeezes everything
as well as gives it a little bit of extra gain.
From that channel the compressor we come down here into to pedal board and the
first thing we got is this a Ibanez weeping demon wah pedal it's just the
wah pedal I use it in the chorus but it don't really affect the solo. Out of that
would come into the digitech 255 which is modeling a whammy pedal on a setting
that I like to call... that's right. Ite. so what we got here is we got a whammy
pedal set two octaves up with the pedal set to control the pitch now also got a
setting called Morello 2 which is a whammy set two octaves up with the pedal
controlling the mix but you're gonna want this here setting for this hair
solo now one thing that's key for tone this here 255 is a buffered bypass pedal
alright its not true bypass. for whatever reason the buffer is important
to the tone I if I go over here and I use the Whammy on my RP 500 don't work
don't sound right. now this is modeling my amp. right so here is he's in the
X-Edit. We'ze looking at how I got my 500 set up. We'ze using this '69 Hiwatt 100 amp. there my settings and run it into this British 4 / 12 cab we got the old
tube screamer 808 overdrive on the front end of it and then we got a digital
delay. right there all my settings and a little spring reverb. right so that's how
my amp set up. that's all the equipment you gonna need to play this solo but
like I said earlier tone ain't any equipment tones in your hands Ite
so here's how I played a solo that makes my sound unique you probably already
know what it is because you watch the video you see me doing it it's the slides
so you might be saying what's the deal with the slides
why you do that because tom morello don't do that's Tom Morello he just
plays it
what's with the slide well I don't know I think maybe it's my attempt of doing
the Whammy effect without the Whammy like if I didn't have a whammy pedal
when all I had was like a pitch shifter so I'd just
Kinda give you that Whammy effect or if you don't have a pitch shifter at all
you can just go up two octaves. It don't sound as good but that's an option so
that's what the slide came from but it's kind of the signature of my tone in
that solo makes the way I play it sound completely different it's unique to me
and you gotta be unique. If you unique ain't nothing or you'ze everything else and
that ain't you or something... that's some wisdom right there you might want to put
that on a t-shirt you know and then at the bottom put - kbob yeah yeah now of
course the slides give me that unique sound but it makes it harder to
play because you have to slide up quickly and be precise and hit the right
note so it takes a little bit practice
all right and then after the solo we go into the bridge and I keep the Whammy
on and I play a little harmony that I wrote myself go little something like
this
if you want to play that in your version "Like a Stone" so that's how we make our tom
morello soul power "like a stone" tone here in the deaf cage
so I'd like to thank y'all for stopping by checking out the mixtapes as always
have a good one in solidarity