Blink 182 tone.. Voice your opinion's..

[dual rec king]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5hyB7IUBQo tell me what you guys think of that tone.. Maybe a little to much gain?

 

[dual rec king]

or dont thats cool too..

 

[mrd]

Patience, lad. You're here to ask people for their time to a) listen to something they possibly care nothing about and b) put enough thought and attention into it to offer constructive criticism to you. Sometimes these two criteria do not align as often as you'd like. That being said, I would wager a guess that most people who own boogies don't give a you-know-what about Blink 182, which would further hamper your efforts.

At any rate, I checked out the clip. From what I can hear, the actual song is mixed too loud in comparison with your tone to be able to tell what's really going on. I don't know the song so I can't really differentiate between the "album tone" and your tone. My suggestion is to try and find (or make) a drum/bass track of the song, then record your guitar over top of it, so that when we listen to it, the only guitar sound we can hear is yours. It would make for a much better opportunity to offer critique. From what I could hear though, it sounded fine. Is that an Ibanez guitar?

 

[YellowJacket]

What I don't get is why anyone would want to play Blink 182. There are plenty of other 'better' bands who play that same style with more finesse. I never thought this would happen to me, but music school is turning me into a bit of a 'snob' of a player and I'm more interested in musicianship than anything these days. Well some punk groups have some incredible songwriting **cough**badreligion**cough** the arrangements are a little lacking and I don't feel I learn anything from that style. I've been more into prog lately, but that will change in time, I'm sure.

The tone is fine. I really like the rounder mid heavy 'punk' tone myself and I really variate my style based on technique these days. I find if I lay into the strings harder and rub a bit of the flesh from my thumb over the strings, I can really emphasize the harmonic content over the fundamental(s) which results in a much heavier sound. For a really heavy palm mute, I use a lot of hand weight while picking. If I want punk or a faster and lighter style, I use a much quicker and lighter pick attack, gripping out more on the pick and really letting it flex. I find if I really back off on the hand weight, the distortion cleans up a lot which is good for more pop or light rock, the stuff that flies well in religious institutions.

I think the technique thing really became obvious to me when I heard a friend play. This guy is a really great player, especially for someone in early twenties. While he is inexperienced and has trouble leaving 'room' for another guitar player, I noticed his tone and sound is fantastic and this was playing a stomp box through a tube Traynor 2 x 12 combo. Incidentally, he could not get a sound he liked out of my Dual. I have a feeling he'd be more at home with a heartbreaker or Lonestar Special.

I digress. I guess I am trying to say that tone is really in the fingers. You really need a guitar and an amp that gets you in the ballpark but once you dial it in, a lot of the vibe comes from the approach to playing.

 

[mrd]

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hahaha.. Good post, mate. Perhaps a bit tangential... I think we scared this guy away :wink:

 

[LTE]

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hahaha.. Good post, mate. Perhaps a bit tangential... I think we scared this guy away :wink:

Good... haha, poor JEM got stuck playing power chords :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[eschoendorff]

Not trying to be an *** or anything (it does come natural to me though), but I am still stuck on why anyone would spend the money on a JEM and then play Blink 182 songs???? What a waste...

 

[LTE]

Not trying to be an *** or anything (it does come natural to me though), but I am still stuck on why anyone would spend the money on a JEM and then play Blink 182 songs???? What a waste...

Totally agree.

On second thought, why would anyone play Blink 182 songs? :mrgreen:

 

[Aart]

Why ***** about the guy playing powerchords? If he wants to and enjoys it what is the problem? Not everybody wants to be the next shred-king.

I play skatepunk and enjoy it. I play metal and blues, but enjoy skatepunk too (bad religion/pennywise/etc). Music doesn't have to be difficult/complex for people to enjoy listening or playing it.

Your comments are slightly immature imo.

 

[dual rec king]

Jeez you guys are tough. I played that 1 song of blink 182 because a buddy asked me to do a video of it and he doesn't believe me that they use dual rectos live. Anyways.. if you guys are going to complain about me buying a jem and playing those songs.. check out other videos.. some canon rock vids ETC... some " hard songs" even though all the cover songs I put up on youtube are EASY as hell.. I can play Steve vai songs- my favorite to play is for the love of god... and I will be putting a video of that up fallowed by Blink 182 all the small things JUST KIDDING... haha

 

[kingdomheights777]

i checked out your other videos, nice playing , good technique as well.

Yeah some of you guys were pretty harsh on him, before even checking out his other videos :?

 

[dual rec king]

Thanks alot.. And they are kind of right, :lol: If I saw some one that had some of the gear I had and can only power cords I'd be a little confused as well.. But if its fun and you want to buy gear to keep you into it/motivate you I'm not judging...

 

[LTE]

i checked out your other videos, nice playing , good technique as well.

Yeah some of you guys were pretty harsh on him, before even checking out his other videos :?

Yes, I did check his out his other videos. I wasn't serious with those comments, just joking around. Thats the hard thing about typing online, you can't tell sarcasm.

 

[dual rec king]

Yeah I hear you, the internet is hard to be sarcastic on. no worries.

 

[moodyedge]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5hyB7IUBQo tell me what you guys think of that tone.. Maybe a little to much gain?

to me when i think of blinks tone i think of Dysentery Gary

its quite clean and bright, but live the tone always seems to be lacking in balls. double tracking guitars etc makes them sound way bigger than they do live i guess

 

[dual rec king]

Yeah I noticed that. I went to the concert the day after DJ AM died. Friend got me some sweet seats and I decided to tag along, but their tone seems to have WAAY to much treble live and lacks a lot of balls.

 

[YellowJacket]

In my opinion, punk tone needs speaker breakup to thicken it up. The point of the sound is to be lighter, more open, and less bassy than heavier music. The 'physique' of punk as a musical style is short and thin, like a skateboarder, not bulky like a football player or a bodybuilder. The loose speakers are like the baggy pants that go with the style!!

 

[kingster911]

Ok, time for me to talk: The Blink tone sounded pretty good, I wasn't expecting it to considering it was a Jem, I'd consider that guitar more for lead work. On the subject of Blink tones to whoever mentioned "Dysentery Gary": very true. That's like the all-encompassing Blink tone. For me when I play Blink songs I usually dial back the gain. I DO own a Tom Delonge Strat, yeah that's right everybody. And the thing is, I bought it more for hardcore punk than Blink-182 stuff. I'll try to record a clip of some Blink riffs using the Strat through my RKII combo. And for the record dual rec king, Tom does not use Rectos on stage anymore, he uses Vox and Fender combos. He got all soft after AvA, how that means Angels and Airwaves, I still don't know. He used to use Triple Rec 2ch heads with two 2x12 horizontals and 2 4x12s I'm pretty sure which was a beastly setup for a one-guitar band as needed. I saw them back in September and his tone was very weak, not loud enough at all.