Faith No More: The Real Thing

[ixoye777]

Is it possible to get a similar tone out of the Roadster? I can't even seem to come close. Songs in particular I am thinking of are Falling to Pieces, The Real Thing & Zombie Eaters.

 

[R_ADKINS80]

Well that guy, Jim Martin, used 800's, I believe. Not sure you could pull off believable 800 tones out of a Rectifier. The closest you'd probably get is on the clean channel pushed mode, if the Roadster has it like the dual and triple recs do.

 

[pokerrules47]

The roadster has a "brit" mode on channel two, at higher volumes it can sound a lot like an old 800

 

[R_ADKINS80]

Crank the gain on it and kick it with an overdrive and see how close you get.

 

[lyman]

He must have used Mesa at some point, because they list him on their website as a Mesa Boogie user:

http://www.mesaboogie.com/US/Artists/artist_roster.htm

Could have been later than The Real Thing or course. I had heard he used Mark III's at some point. Maybe on Angel Dust? Man, that album kicks ass! :twisted:

 

[CoG]

He used III's on The Real Thing, and AFAIK some of the recorded tones on Angel Dust (apparently a lot of the guitar on there isn't actually him) are also III. He switched to using MkIVs live in '93 because of the better switching options.

On a Roadster try EL34s, ch3 with the gain around noon, a little less bass than you'd think, and crank the output master as much as you can. The Roadster will create all the bass you need as you crank up the output and dialing the bass control down a little will tighten it up.

 

[halfdriven]

I saw them on the real thing tour and he was using a Marshall with a yellow boss pedal, I'm guessin one of the overdrives sd-1, os-2, od-3. It squealed real bad so he musta had that pedal cranked.