How about 2 TS-808 Tubescreamer cascading and a simple fender voiced tube amp? Hot strat pickups, big nickel strings and hard picks, like dunlop jazz.
"boost the squashed sound"?? "beat the junk out of your strings"?? "not sure what amp SRV used, but i can look it up"?? LMAO .. how bout throwing all those pedals away, get a Super Reverb and a Strat with 13 Gauge strings tuned a half step down , thats budget friendly.. oh and learn Pride and Joy
I spent $60 on a used TS9 and $100 on used Texas Special pups set for my MIM Strat. I get something, I believe, close to SRV. The only thing missing now are the white sox. (joking)
SRV blues tone on a budget in 500 characters or less. Strat ($500 used) fender blues jr ($300 used) ts 9 tube screamer ($75 used) SRV style (learn it)
To TheShower82: "hot" is a guitar term that refers to the strenth of a signal, so the hotter the signal the stronger it is. If you knew anything about guitars, effects, or electronics... ANYTHING AT ALL... you might know this, but you chose to open your ignorant mouth and make a dumbass comment. Abe Lincoln said it best: Better to remain sitting there silently and be assumed the fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Your sound started fine, The first lick you played was fine, but when you started playing all that other stuff, it just wasn't Stevie you were playing, I think your biggest problem is, you don't really know his style.
WOW!!!! I can get a better sound using a Crate amp GX-15, with a Esteban electric midnight legacy guitar all by it's self than all that crap. Sorry dude, I might not have the best guitar and amp, but I know how to find the right tone lol :D!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU DIDN'T EVEN GET CLOSE TO ANY TONE THAT STEVIE EVER PRODUCED - BUT YOU 'BZZZZZZZZZZ' WAS FUCKING FANTASTIC!
HEY, SOCK FOOT, NEXT TIME YOU WANT TO SHOW OFF YOUR STOMP BOXES, JUST MAKE ANOTHER VIDEO, BUT JUST OUTTA RESPECT, LEAVE STEVIE RAY'S NAME OUT OF IT, THANKS!
WOW,,,Your Getting ribbed here pretty bad,,But I get it,,,the Noise i didn't like BUT,,When you started Playing ,,,with the Pic attack you described ,,It Really sounds Just like it,,,& Budget Friendly,,,I'll give you magor Props ,,,For holding your own here,,,I liked it Man...Good Job
hey, i could get better srv tones with my line 6(which i really dont like)than alot of people can with their fender tubes, their boosts, or their ts808s. i like pedals, but, instead of buying pedals, get better hands. im 14 and i think i have pretty small hands but their perfect for guitar . u just need hands, fuck all these people who honestly beleive pedals will make them sound like a genius. in music, when it comes to a certain level, you cant fake things.
I own 5 SD-1's!!!!!! picked up all cheap in various conditions and ive modded them all! nice pedals but there is still something about the gold old tubescreamer that has the edge :)
Boost the squash, squash the boost, blah blah blah... Throw ur whole rig out, buy a decent fender tube amp and a maybe a tube screamer. Thats all u need.
Am I the only one that can realizes the "buzzyness" or "scratchy" tone on the video everyone complains about is from the mic on the camera overloading from volume??
Way over thought. All you need is a good clean tube amp such as a Fender or Vox, a Ibanez tube screamer to push the front end of the amp, and a Fender Stratocaster with decent single coil pickups on the neck/middle position.
I think the amp has to be at playing volume so that it doesn't overdrive so quickly...just my opinion. Tough to do and not get the video to distort, I know.
@jaybird2284 well... the super overdrive is basically a ts808 circuit with asymmetrical clipping that makes it have a little more gain. so... yup SRV. the noise comes from dirty power in my house (playing in a room with a TV, wireless internet router, etc...) everywhere else that I play... and I have played in a lot of places... my set-up is virtually NOISE FREE.
@jaybird2284 I don't get all the guff about you showing a "budget" way to create an SRV tone. It all sounded pretty convincing to me. Im listening on very good monitors and I like what I hear. Not everyone can afford a TS-808 and not everyone is playing professional. Lighten up already!
i got a perfect SRV tone for about 300 dollars (not including guitar) using my B-52 LS-100 amp, on the clean channel with bass, mid, and treble each all the way up, and using a mxr gt-od overdrive, with tone at 1:00 and drive all the way up, it sounds great with my gibson sg classic (p90 pups)
to start of with not even coming close to srv tone and later you hear the compressor release alot of static sound now this is good for playing in your room but no where close to get that fender amp miced unto another output
@MegaJearBear I guess this was more suited for voodoo chile than for pride and joy... I had the overdrive's gain up too hot. and I have used this setup live in front of crowds of 1000+ and it's never sounded that buzzy. It was def. b/c of dirty power in my house.
Brother, I think it sounds fucking mean! Once you say it sounds like someone elses tone, people are gonna give you shit. The bottem line is that your tone is better than 99.9% of the demos on youtube, and i'd love to hear it live. Stevie or not, you made it very clear how to get a really warm, straty, honky, squeaky, kick ass blues tone. Nice job brother and thank you for posting this.
Hey man, you're preaching to the choir. There's nothing I love more than searching for inexpensive pedals that sound great. I just got an ibanez ue300 for $130; it comes with the original ts9, CS9 chorus and CT9 compressor. I also bought the boss sd2 dual overdrive for $40. In other words, I'm the king of budget friendly! Be nice and I'll make you my squier.
i don't think this is anywhere near the srv sound. You should sell some of those pedals and buy a fulltone fulldrive mosfet or an ibanez ue300 or ue 400.
@rmerc79 Then it wouldn't be the "budget friendly" way, would it? my whole thing is to try to show people who don't have a lot of money and have pretty crappy stuff how to make it sound half way decent.
@jimamsden nope. had the bass at like 7-8, mid at like 9, and the treble at like 6.5-7. the camera's mic seems to always add some treble to the sound for some reason. it sounded a lot fuller when I played this than it sounds on here.
How about 2 TS-808 Tubescreamer cascading and a simple fender voiced tube amp? Hot strat pickups, big nickel strings and hard picks, like dunlop jazz.
SuperGuitarSlut 6 days ago
no.
aggravati0n 1 week ago
"boost the squashed sound"?? "beat the junk out of your strings"?? "not sure what amp SRV used, but i can look it up"?? LMAO .. how bout throwing all those pedals away, get a Super Reverb and a Strat with 13 Gauge strings tuned a half step down , thats budget friendly.. oh and learn Pride and Joy
vincemorenomusic 1 week ago
or use what i use 1x 68 strat,1x fender twin 100 and 1 x ts9 ... in the bag ! :)
thepeoplesuncle 2 weeks ago
he starts playing at 5m23s
sirvidia 2 weeks ago
That poor old guy is spinnin in his grave laughin his balls off listening to this
06Tommyg 2 weeks ago
squash the boosted pre compressed signal and then run it through a holy grail LOLOL
06Tommyg 2 weeks ago
Epic Fail
sebastianlubini 2 weeks ago
The problem with certain pedals is way too much added buzz...the Strat buzz's anyway being single coil but pedals make it worse.
stratocasterrelic 3 weeks ago
u got, alot of expensive shit, but a cheap guitar-> amp. cable. WOAW -.-
GuitarLessonsLegends 3 weeks ago
I spent $60 on a used TS9 and $100 on used Texas Special pups set for my MIM Strat. I get something, I believe, close to SRV. The only thing missing now are the white sox. (joking)
gintonic003 3 weeks ago
wtf is he going on about
spredthefunk 3 weeks ago
nice peal
playerfangitman 4 weeks ago
SRV blues tone on a budget in 500 characters or less. Strat ($500 used) fender blues jr ($300 used) ts 9 tube screamer ($75 used) SRV style (learn it)
8thEastTexasBlues 4 weeks ago
This is terrible. Would it hurt to put some shoes on dickhead?
wurlitzer78 4 weeks ago
i use 13s on my strat with texas pups, a fender amp and a hardwire tubescreamer, sounds good enough to me
richsabre 1 month ago
Strat, ts9, and a silverface bassman ten is all I use for a sweet blues tone. Good video though.
73jsimon 1 month ago
To TheShower82: "hot" is a guitar term that refers to the strenth of a signal, so the hotter the signal the stronger it is. If you knew anything about guitars, effects, or electronics... ANYTHING AT ALL... you might know this, but you chose to open your ignorant mouth and make a dumbass comment. Abe Lincoln said it best: Better to remain sitting there silently and be assumed the fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
misterlaff 1 month ago
omg too funny...all you need is the guitar and that amp. all the other stuff is killing your tone especially the comp.
fail
cgravier 1 month ago
Stevie's sound?? Where?
StratoTarkus 1 month ago
nice try.
RaphaelMPinto 1 month ago
Your sound started fine, The first lick you played was fine, but when you started playing all that other stuff, it just wasn't Stevie you were playing, I think your biggest problem is, you don't really know his style.
razzamanaz79 2 months ago
Leslie Speakers Or At Least An Emulator Pedal...
goldwing91 2 months ago
nice gear but there is too much effects on for srv tone!! I have a fender MIM with texas special and a fender mustang II and I can do better lol
Samprayer2 2 months ago
Too many pedals. Too much buzz. Misses the mark.
Philby62 2 months ago
He used a Vibroverb and Super Reverbs early on, some Marshall's later in his career too.
voodoochild137 2 months ago
Where's the Ibanez ts808. You don't wanna forget that.
EHXGUY 2 months ago
stop saying hot!!!! u sound like paris hilton
TheShower82 2 months ago
WOW!!!! I can get a better sound using a Crate amp GX-15, with a Esteban electric midnight legacy guitar all by it's self than all that crap. Sorry dude, I might not have the best guitar and amp, but I know how to find the right tone lol :D!!!!!!!!!!!!
AVLISICE01 2 months ago 2
you should've added "(budget way)" or something to the title to counter the stupid haters
your sound is good!
wish you well
DerEchteBold 3 months ago
YOU DIDN'T EVEN GET CLOSE TO ANY TONE THAT STEVIE EVER PRODUCED - BUT YOU 'BZZZZZZZZZZ' WAS FUCKING FANTASTIC!
HEY, SOCK FOOT, NEXT TIME YOU WANT TO SHOW OFF YOUR STOMP BOXES, JUST MAKE ANOTHER VIDEO, BUT JUST OUTTA RESPECT, LEAVE STEVIE RAY'S NAME OUT OF IT, THANKS!
PS - BUY SOME SHOES!
jehovahuponyou 3 months ago
WOW,,,Your Getting ribbed here pretty bad,,But I get it,,,the Noise i didn't like BUT,,When you started Playing ,,,with the Pic attack you described ,,It Really sounds Just like it,,,& Budget Friendly,,,I'll give you magor Props ,,,For holding your own here,,,I liked it Man...Good Job
CAF1productions 3 months ago
hey, i could get better srv tones with my line 6(which i really dont like)than alot of people can with their fender tubes, their boosts, or their ts808s. i like pedals, but, instead of buying pedals, get better hands. im 14 and i think i have pretty small hands but their perfect for guitar . u just need hands, fuck all these people who honestly beleive pedals will make them sound like a genius. in music, when it comes to a certain level, you cant fake things.
Plimsoul97 4 months ago
Maybe the camera mic but it sounde3d like hot garbage.
bbnatedogg 4 months ago
I've come to use the Peavey Delta Blues amp with it's built in overdrive channel. Very sweet El Mocambo SRV sound. Nice job, however!
TheTxgerman 4 months ago
I own 5 SD-1's!!!!!! picked up all cheap in various conditions and ive modded them all! nice pedals but there is still something about the gold old tubescreamer that has the edge :)
Fender1976uk 4 months ago
you only need: tube screamer, ge-7, neck pickup, boss frv-1 ;)
JohanBakker1995 5 months ago
Boost the squash, squash the boost, blah blah blah... Throw ur whole rig out, buy a decent fender tube amp and a maybe a tube screamer. Thats all u need.
TheAffinitom 6 months ago 12
@TheAffinitom well said lol
tonyyuille 6 months ago
@TheAffinitom I think boosting the squash would sound better than squashing the boost. :P
MaloneyGuitars 5 months ago
You know they have a video of SRVs rig on youtube. Just saying.
ryancoleman3 7 months ago
ALL THAT BABBLING NONSENSE FOR THAT DOOKIE SOUNDING TONE.......NOTHING BUT KAKA.........TERRIBLE.....
MrChris617 7 months ago
The one thing that i noticed that gets that SRV tone is using the neck and middle pickups, and here you just used the neck pickup.
TheNightrain97 7 months ago
Omg.. Are you playing the guitar or are you launching the shuttle?...
Gooshgooshasdqwe123 7 months ago
Am I the only one that can realizes the "buzzyness" or "scratchy" tone on the video everyone complains about is from the mic on the camera overloading from volume??
joshscus 7 months ago
srv used a marshall stack
deathcabformike 7 months ago
@deathcabformike no way he used a mesa triple rec! duhh
dalstar925 7 months ago
not even close :S
superiansuper 9 months ago
Way over thought. All you need is a good clean tube amp such as a Fender or Vox, a Ibanez tube screamer to push the front end of the amp, and a Fender Stratocaster with decent single coil pickups on the neck/middle position.
CamHawesMusic011 9 months ago
u people are gettin to technical about it..........
ShredderGuitar2 9 months ago
I think the amp has to be at playing volume so that it doesn't overdrive so quickly...just my opinion. Tough to do and not get the video to distort, I know.
gman8thst 10 months ago
A compressor is the opposite of what you want for an SRV tone, they ruin dynamics and despite what you may think SRV tone is all about the dynamics.
StratocasterDude177 1 year ago
super overdrive distortion for blues? Nothing like SRV. Boss wont cut it. Noise compressor please?
jaybird2284 1 year ago 7
@jaybird2284 well... the super overdrive is basically a ts808 circuit with asymmetrical clipping that makes it have a little more gain. so... yup SRV. the noise comes from dirty power in my house (playing in a room with a TV, wireless internet router, etc...) everywhere else that I play... and I have played in a lot of places... my set-up is virtually NOISE FREE.
pedalheadgeardemos 1 year ago 3
@jaybird2284 I don't get all the guff about you showing a "budget" way to create an SRV tone. It all sounded pretty convincing to me. Im listening on very good monitors and I like what I hear. Not everyone can afford a TS-808 and not everyone is playing professional. Lighten up already!
Billrocks10 5 months ago
super overdrive distortion for blues?
jaybird2284 1 year ago
i got a perfect SRV tone for about 300 dollars (not including guitar) using my B-52 LS-100 amp, on the clean channel with bass, mid, and treble each all the way up, and using a mxr gt-od overdrive, with tone at 1:00 and drive all the way up, it sounds great with my gibson sg classic (p90 pups)
flatoutguitarist617 1 year ago
to start of with not even coming close to srv tone and later you hear the compressor release alot of static sound now this is good for playing in your room but no where close to get that fender amp miced unto another output
MegaJearBear 1 year ago
@MegaJearBear I guess this was more suited for voodoo chile than for pride and joy... I had the overdrive's gain up too hot. and I have used this setup live in front of crowds of 1000+ and it's never sounded that buzzy. It was def. b/c of dirty power in my house.
pedalheadgeardemos 1 year ago
Brother, I think it sounds fucking mean! Once you say it sounds like someone elses tone, people are gonna give you shit. The bottem line is that your tone is better than 99.9% of the demos on youtube, and i'd love to hear it live. Stevie or not, you made it very clear how to get a really warm, straty, honky, squeaky, kick ass blues tone. Nice job brother and thank you for posting this.
jrocky1 1 year ago
Hey man, you're preaching to the choir. There's nothing I love more than searching for inexpensive pedals that sound great. I just got an ibanez ue300 for $130; it comes with the original ts9, CS9 chorus and CT9 compressor. I also bought the boss sd2 dual overdrive for $40. In other words, I'm the king of budget friendly! Be nice and I'll make you my squier.
rmerc79 1 year ago
i don't think this is anywhere near the srv sound. You should sell some of those pedals and buy a fulltone fulldrive mosfet or an ibanez ue300 or ue 400.
rmerc79 1 year ago
@rmerc79 Then it wouldn't be the "budget friendly" way, would it? my whole thing is to try to show people who don't have a lot of money and have pretty crappy stuff how to make it sound half way decent.
pedalheadgeardemos 1 year ago
@pedalheadgeardemos what you do... get a fender amp a strat and a tube screamer... instant srv.. this is shit..
FreaquedeMusique 2 weeks ago
How did you have the amp tone controls set? Sounds like a lot of bass roll-off.
jimamsden 1 year ago
@jimamsden nope. had the bass at like 7-8, mid at like 9, and the treble at like 6.5-7. the camera's mic seems to always add some treble to the sound for some reason. it sounded a lot fuller when I played this than it sounds on here.
pedalheadgeardemos 1 year ago
The main factor i think is the fact that he played his amps LOUD. Thick strings, lots of attack, mildly overwound pickups and a loud amp.
shortscalematt 1 year ago