@greenNroses Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier, most of the time with the marshall 1960 cab. He also has the gibson tom delonge signature that has only a gibson dirty fingers at the bridge.
@fdxx00 Yea i know all that stuff, i want to see his current effects like delays and flanges he uses! I just got his old sig strat and running it through a Triple Rec and a JMC 900 sounds just like old blink!
the little green screens at the bottom are the receivers for the wireless transmitters on the guitars. from there it goes to the Marshall heads and to the cabs
Would you mind explaining how the whole rig works? Like, maybe sort of a chain diagram (where do they plug in the guitars? What else plugs into what?) That's not explained very well in the video, do you think you could clear it up for me?
@ROBandTHEfuzz you see the yellow wire covers? all the cables are hidden inside and under it. the pre-amp that runs from the marshall heads are all connected then run to the cabs.
@HaydenAottg The clean and mid sounds are coming from the 3+SE preamp, which is switched in using the RG-16 audio switcher. If I recall correctly, the Boss Blues Driver is also switched in for mid-gain sounds (like the first few chords of American Idiot).
@ROBandTHEfuzz No. A tube amp turned on with out a load will burn itself up. And a speaker cab kinda needs the power and signal from the head to be useful. There is no system that allows heads and cabs to operate wireless from one another... at least not without other power amps and nonsense that would be rediculously expensive and would make their tone sound like shit.
What is all this shit ... loops? Pre amp outs? Power amp ins? Can anyone explain it to me in laymans terms? I plug my guitar straight into my JCM800, sounds fucking great...why would I want more?? Someone enlighten me...
@sundayuneedlove producers crave the sales, and they are touchy about shit to.. they may be recording live or simply being picky about each and every song. look up those terms on google and your bound to get your questions answered.
Why is everyone bashing Green Day. They clearly aren't the most elaborate band, or the most talented; but they do what they do for their fans and they put on really great shows. They aren't assholes like many other bands, and they care for their audience. He doesn't have to use fantastic guitars or anything... He plays power chords through a string of distortion pedals. Why would he need anything more than just a Tele or a LP Jr? Green Day has character. That's something some of you should get.
Hey! I saw a video like a year or two ago where billie joe himself was showing us some stuff like blue and i cant find the video anywhere. do you guys have it? or maybe know where it is? Thanks! :D
@FerSalem117 I read in Guitar Legends (I think that's what that magazine was called), Billie said that what they did was that they recorded it with just the distortion effect, strumming at each count. After recording only they used the tremolo effect from the recording program. He said they did it that way so there won't be any inconsistencies.
I manage to get it on my POD XT Live. I set the tempo to the song, tremolo effect set to 16 beats (forgot what's that note called XD)
so, does Billie use the Dookie modded Marshall for their pre-American Idiot songs, while the Lead modded amp is for American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown? i wonder which amps he uses for which songs.
@guy6666657 Billie's stage sound is BOTH heads at the SAME time. It's the different guitars and Billie's playing style that dictate what comes out of the cabs.
Ok everyone, there's 2 marshalls. The dookie gain is at 10:00 and the SELead is at 11:00. output for both is at 11:00. Billie's tone does not come from the amp settings. It comes from his hands. Does Brain Stew sound like slayer? I keep suggesting to people that they turn the gain down to give their sound more dynamics. The BD2 is simply an overdrive to add drama at certain cues. and to t0psecretshit, it takes 7 loops to facilitate the Clean, Mid and Big switching.
@hansblooey is it true that Billie's bridge pickup on blue is the Seymour Duncan Jeff Beck Jr? several different websites say that so I was wondering if its accurate.
@hansblooey could you please tell something about the black les paul jr like which year it is from. And also can we use an eq pedal instead of a preamp. And when you say billie's tone comes from his hand, do you mean where he hits the strings, and how hard he hits it?
@t0psecretshit They also use it to switch between the Marshalls and CAE preamp, and I think they use it to control the channel switching on the CAE as well (not 100% sure on that last part).
It allows the few effects they have to be completely cut from the signal chain, bypassing those circuits completely. The less circuits the signal passes through, the less noise.
There is a video of Billie Joe doing this video but he's showing us Blue and a picture of him as a child on it and I was wondering if you guys might know where it is on youtube?
@rschilch i have no idea but i can take a random guess. looks like 2 mics on each cab and the black one looks like a shure sm7 B that ive seen videos of mick jagger and james hetfield recording with in the studio. as for the silver one idk. maybe a neumann? im sure greenday can afford those.
@Billiewhat13 The mod that's done to the amp is called the Dookie mod, because they did the mod at the time they were recording Dookie. They still use the same mod today - no changes that I'm aware of.
Another question, sorry :). In a rig photo that I saw there were 2 poweramps, a Marshall 9200 and a Samson S700. Why do they use 2 and what are they driven by? Thanks again.
@bluepingu345 That's an input selector, built by Bob Bradshaw. Now replaced with one I built for them. :) It switches between all of Billie Joe's wireless units (he has one per guitar) and selects which one is currently on.
i have a 100W vox vt100 combo amp. It has a general "UK 90's" preamp option and a tube phase that lets me get a decent dookie sound. However, i would really appreciate any advice y'all have to offer (i'm going to be playing live soon and really need to get this tone ironed out.)
In my amp, the guitar signal first passes through the "Gain" stage. Next it is filtered through the preamp that i have selected. It then goes into a "Volume" stage. Next, the EQ's then Master and finally the tube stage.
@HandsomeMrMoe I would greatly appreciate any advice on what the Gain, EQ, Master, etc. should be set on. Any advice on how to simulate the modded preamp stage used by Billie? The tone i'm going for is going to be used for "Welcome to Paradise." I need that kind of pulsing, crunch sound, if that describes it :p I'm not sure if I want to get all over-driven or not.
P.S. I think that my "UK 90's" preamp is much more gain-y than the standard Marshall super lead head.
@HandsomeMrMoe Wow, triple post. (sorry, but im obsessed)
My current settings are: Gain, Volume, and Treble all a little less than 3 o'clock, Mid at 1 o'clock, and Bass and Master at 12 o'clock. (The amp has a variable Wattage, so i can make it louder w/out cranking the master and getting extra distortion.)
@rjmmusic Hey Ron, do you have any pictures of the amps or contact with Hans. I've been desperately searching for the settings of these amps and all I've gotten are blurring pictures and very vague answers. I've spent a lot of time, money and patience in getting this exact rig together. I sent Hans some messages through YouTube, but seeing that he hasn't logged on in 2 months, I don't see him answering any time soon. Any tips on the settings? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, David.
@hansblooey - Hey Hans, can you please help an avid Green Day fan. I own every single piece of equipment in this video and have invested a lot of my time, energy, money and patience into putting this rig together. The only thing I haven't been able to get are the settings for Dookie and American Idiot songs, even though I have been doing research for 7 months (that's how long I've been waiting for Dave and Martin to mod my Marshalls and send them back). Any info would be great. Thank you, David.
@yutuubfreak can you send me those pics of the rig you were talking about earlier. i've been dying to find something related to the eq settings because i own the same exact rig BJA has in this video. it would be greatly appreciated.
@greendayrokr actually the CAE is a preamp, not a marshall. its called the CAE +3 preamp. its the white 2 space unit with 3 channels, sounds awesome. the marshall mods were done by Golub.
@yutuubfreak bigger how? i'd like to see which era of BJA rig you saw. there are 4 of these rigs in existence at the moment. these 2 stage rigs and 2 in the st. James' basement where the american idiot broadway musical is playing. anyone know how to attach pics onto a video response?
@hansblooey i can send you a link. i found out the big one is older because of the shure wirelesses are the older model. porb form the american idiot stadium tour.
@conkerjb09 2x12. a ten inch cone will never sound like a 12 inch. another characteristic of combo amps is the open back cabinet. you could try a mic in front and another in the back. might be too much phasing and cancellation to make it worth while though.
@rjmmusic Does Billie Joe only use the blues drive for effects and then all the distortion is from the amps? Also does he use the same dookie mod for all his other songs or are there other mods because when he plays american idiot it sounds different and then when he plays dookie stuffs it sounds different and then when he plays 21st century breakdown it sounds different
@ZDALI14 The sound stays the same. It's the different guitars. The black junior for Idiot. "Blue" for the old stuff (Eflat). 21CBD is a double cut Special similar the BJA Junior WITH the same humbucking pickup that everyone bitches about.
@Winkler96 No, it's a 1959 SLP (the non-handwired version of the 1959 they made in the 90s and 2000s). A handwired could be modified in the same way though.
i dun think that the front speakers r just for esthetic...im sure they have some other function for like welcome to paradise, when he needs to use feedback on the amps, along wit the end of brain stew/intro of jaded when jason white uses feedback as well...explain?
thank you very much, but can i only get that distorsion with this specifically preamp? or can i get (a similar distorsion) with other type of preamp/pedal?
@pedrosaura I think you'd be able to get that sound with a pedal - a more classic sounding overdrive or distortion pedal should be able to do it. Try a few at your local music store - it shouldn't be hard to accomplish.
Well 2 of the cabs pointing forward are plugged in. The guys wanted to feel some of the cabinet "thump". All of the cabs on stage are loaded. We consider them to be "spares" not decoration :) ill try and post a pic of the dookie settings.
@greenNroses Tom delonge use EVH Flanger and T.C Electronics G-Force Multi Fx Unit for delay
Briat763 3 days ago
I basically have no clue what they said, but it all sounded fancy shmancy...
delgado4652 1 week ago
anyone know the settings for the blues driver???
17Breakdown 2 weeks ago
can you give me the settings ?
Love his tone, I have a Plexi 1959 Reissue with the cascade mod, I think that is like the dookie mod!
NicoGreenDay95 1 month ago
know anything about tom delonge and blink 182???
greenNroses 2 months ago
@greenNroses Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier, most of the time with the marshall 1960 cab. He also has the gibson tom delonge signature that has only a gibson dirty fingers at the bridge.
He now uses AC30's with AVA.
fdxx00 5 days ago
@fdxx00 Yea i know all that stuff, i want to see his current effects like delays and flanges he uses! I just got his old sig strat and running it through a Triple Rec and a JMC 900 sounds just like old blink!
greenNroses 4 days ago
@fdxx00 ..and he used the Fender Tom DeLonge Strat until blink-182's first tour in 2003.
KurtTheGuitarPlayer 17 hours ago
@greenNroses Yeah!
KurtTheGuitarPlayer 17 hours ago
What strings and string gauge bille Joe use for his guitars
101guitarest 3 months ago
@101guitarest Ernie Ball Super Slinky
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potatosalad711 3 months ago
the little green screens at the bottom are the receivers for the wireless transmitters on the guitars. from there it goes to the Marshall heads and to the cabs
kylelc17 3 months ago
Would you mind explaining how the whole rig works? Like, maybe sort of a chain diagram (where do they plug in the guitars? What else plugs into what?) That's not explained very well in the video, do you think you could clear it up for me?
slysendice 3 months ago
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slysendice 3 months ago
@2cooldoyle53 They both use marshall superlead 100s
LostPilgram 4 months ago
How are the guitar amplifier mics positioned
2cooldoyle53 5 months ago
what marshall cabs and heads do they mainly use
ROBandTHEfuzz 5 months ago
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I hate it when they don't show you the guitars
alxdd2 5 months ago
I hate it when they don't show you the guitars
alxdd2 5 months ago
I hate it when they don't show you the guitars
alxdd2 5 months ago
Do ya know what the settings of the blues driver are?
gitaard 5 months ago
@ROBandTHEfuzz you see the yellow wire covers? all the cables are hidden inside and under it. the pre-amp that runs from the marshall heads are all connected then run to the cabs.
kylelc17 5 months ago
wheres the clean and mid sound coming from and how are they wired up?
HaydenAottg 5 months ago
@HaydenAottg The clean and mid sounds are coming from the 3+SE preamp, which is switched in using the RG-16 audio switcher. If I recall correctly, the Boss Blues Driver is also switched in for mid-gain sounds (like the first few chords of American Idiot).
rjmmusic 5 months ago
How are the two marshalls connected to eachother?
RevolutionRock101 6 months ago
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RevolutionRock101 6 months ago
@RevolutionRock101 @rjmmusic I'm pretty sure it's just a splitter like a y-cable.
rjmmusic 6 months ago
are those marshall heads and whatever else heads they use wirelessly connected to the amp cabinets, which i am guessing are marshall cabinets
ROBandTHEfuzz 6 months ago
@ROBandTHEfuzz No. A tube amp turned on with out a load will burn itself up. And a speaker cab kinda needs the power and signal from the head to be useful. There is no system that allows heads and cabs to operate wireless from one another... at least not without other power amps and nonsense that would be rediculously expensive and would make their tone sound like shit.
tbirdpunk 6 months ago
@ROBandTHEfuzz No, the amps are connected to the cabs in the normal way.
rjmmusic 6 months ago
this was 2009 and i've never seen this. thank you GDA.
darenmay 6 months ago
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I have such a big boner from this.
crazyguy2260 6 months ago
You never think about the back crew lol
Zallomallo0 6 months ago
Is that a PLEXI?
seeker909 6 months ago
@seeker909 Yes, they use 1959SLP Plexi reissues modified by LA Sound Design.
rjmmusic 6 months ago
NO WAY! Now those three chords they play over and over will sound crystal clear
pegasuslover97 7 months ago
@pegasuslover97 lmao.
JEUXolim 6 months ago
I Want Guitars!!! DO THE GUITARS !!
Eroos94 7 months ago
It's a modification done to Marshall Plexis and JCM800s that is part of Green Day's sound. LA Sound Design does the mod.
rjmmusic 7 months ago
What is all this shit ... loops? Pre amp outs? Power amp ins? Can anyone explain it to me in laymans terms? I plug my guitar straight into my JCM800, sounds fucking great...why would I want more?? Someone enlighten me...
sundayuneedlove 7 months ago
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@sundayuneedlove producers crave the sales, and they are touchy about shit to.. they may be recording live or simply being picky about each and every song. look up those terms on google and your bound to get your questions answered.
BrownSkyBlueDirtBAND 6 months ago
Why is everyone bashing Green Day. They clearly aren't the most elaborate band, or the most talented; but they do what they do for their fans and they put on really great shows. They aren't assholes like many other bands, and they care for their audience. He doesn't have to use fantastic guitars or anything... He plays power chords through a string of distortion pedals. Why would he need anything more than just a Tele or a LP Jr? Green Day has character. That's something some of you should get.
TheSpearsProductions 8 months ago
all of this top of the range equipment. thousands of dollars worth, and Billy uses a les paul junior. The worst guitar in the world.
theinck 10 months ago
@theinck ya and somehow with that guitar and his "Blue" guitar he makes the best music in the world. the guys a fcuking magician
RyanHoffmanMusic 9 months ago 4
@theinck The les paul junior is the worst guitar in the world? I'd love one...
jebus150 8 months ago 8
it would be great if they wold show billies guitars!
STEMOSbruder 10 months ago
Does anyone have a Good Charlotte vid I want to know what they use too :I
MindstormRecs 10 months ago
Who the fuck would want to emulate Green Day's guitar sound let alone give two shits about them in the first place lol?
MindstormRecs 10 months ago
@MindstormRecs Who the fuck would watch a video about Green Day just to comment on why would anyone like them? Oh wait...
jebus150 8 months ago
In my opinion a bit too much gear for a rhythm guitar player
arielista 10 months ago
sellouts fuckin sellouts
TheHogan2009 10 months ago
Hey! I saw a video like a year or two ago where billie joe himself was showing us some stuff like blue and i cant find the video anywhere. do you guys have it? or maybe know where it is? Thanks! :D
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@rjmmusic could you get a picture of the amps also the blues driver settings to this would be greatly appreciated
09FOBFAN 1 year ago
@rjmmusic could you get a picture of the amps also the blues driver settings to this would be greatly appreciated
09FOBFAN 1 year ago
Hey guys!
an SM7, a Sennheiser 421 and two Neumann 103s are used for each of Billie’s two Marshall heads (going into the two 4x12s).
Cheers
rschilch 1 year ago
How does Jason White get the tremolo effect with the Line 6 DL4??
FerSalem117 1 year ago
@FerSalem117 I read in Guitar Legends (I think that's what that magazine was called), Billie said that what they did was that they recorded it with just the distortion effect, strumming at each count. After recording only they used the tremolo effect from the recording program. He said they did it that way so there won't be any inconsistencies.
I manage to get it on my POD XT Live. I set the tempo to the song, tremolo effect set to 16 beats (forgot what's that note called XD)
silentcypher 1 year ago
@silentcypher Thanks ! =)
FerSalem117 1 year ago
so, does Billie use the Dookie modded Marshall for their pre-American Idiot songs, while the Lead modded amp is for American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown? i wonder which amps he uses for which songs.
guy6666657 1 year ago
@guy6666657 Billie's stage sound is BOTH heads at the SAME time. It's the different guitars and Billie's playing style that dictate what comes out of the cabs.
hansblooey 1 year ago
@rjmmusic @hansblooey what mic does green day use on their cabinets
2cooldoyle53 1 year ago
@hansblooey Okay thanks that helped! But whered you get that info?
2cooldoyle53 1 year ago
@2cooldoyle53 @hansblooey is the guy in the video (at least in most of it). I'm the guy hiding behind the camera.
rjmmusic 1 year ago
@rjmmusic Shit dude really sweet! I took his advice on my marshall amp and it actually made it sound better thanks .
2cooldoyle53 1 year ago
i can see blue in the background
nakia4747 1 year ago
this would be better if green day were in the video.
powertotehchord 1 year ago 23
@powertotehchord I agree.
hansblooey 1 year ago
what marshall amp does billie joe uses?
102938475698 1 year ago
@102938475698 marshall 1959 slp
nakia4747 1 year ago
Ok everyone, there's 2 marshalls. The dookie gain is at 10:00 and the SELead is at 11:00. output for both is at 11:00. Billie's tone does not come from the amp settings. It comes from his hands. Does Brain Stew sound like slayer? I keep suggesting to people that they turn the gain down to give their sound more dynamics. The BD2 is simply an overdrive to add drama at certain cues. and to t0psecretshit, it takes 7 loops to facilitate the Clean, Mid and Big switching.
hansblooey 1 year ago 11
@hansblooey Hey, can we get the EQ settings on the amps? Thanks.
itsGoboboy 1 year ago
@hansblooey is it true that Billie's bridge pickup on blue is the Seymour Duncan Jeff Beck Jr? several different websites say that so I was wondering if its accurate.
motor4832 1 year ago
@motor4832 Yes, Seymour Duncan SH-4. It HAS to be angled, perpendicular to the strings won't sound right.
hansblooey 1 year ago
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MsReds79 1 year ago
@hansblooey
could you give the excact amp settings please and blues driver plz
MsReds79 1 year ago
@hansblooey could you please tell something about the black les paul jr like which year it is from. And also can we use an eq pedal instead of a preamp. And when you say billie's tone comes from his hand, do you mean where he hits the strings, and how hard he hits it?
ZDALI14 1 year ago
@hansblooey slayer uses jcm 800's to
armyqpzm 1 year ago
Greenday use ruffly the same amps as AC/DC
61SGman 1 year ago
how does green day get there distortion... is just from there amp or is there a pedal or something
2cooldoyle53 1 year ago
holy fuck its rocket science and i thought punk was simple.
stankler 1 year ago
@stankler this is as simple as racks can get i guess
powertotehchord 1 year ago
what kind of mics are placed in front of the cabs?
clust90 1 year ago
@clust90 The silver ones are Condenser mics
horrorguy16 1 year ago
@clust90 yeah maybe it's true......the silver ones seems like the audio technica at4047 do you think the same?
clust90 1 year ago
dead simple incredible tone, thats really all you need!
guitarsteve6190 1 year ago
isnt it sad to have a rig like that... and waste it all on power chords
Haveada 1 year ago
@Haveada someone has obviously never listened to any green day
nbfan 1 year ago
why use a switcher for just one effect? ridiculous.
t0psecretshit 1 year ago
@t0psecretshit They also use it to switch between the Marshalls and CAE preamp, and I think they use it to control the channel switching on the CAE as well (not 100% sure on that last part).
rjmmusic 1 year ago 5
@t0psecretshiI
It allows the few effects they have to be completely cut from the signal chain, bypassing those circuits completely. The less circuits the signal passes through, the less noise.
satinhooks 1 year ago
Does any1 know wich venue that is?:D
J3PPISH 1 year ago
There is a video of Billie Joe doing this video but he's showing us Blue and a picture of him as a child on it and I was wondering if you guys might know where it is on youtube?
xXDeadDarknessXx 1 year ago
Hi Ron.
Do you know what microphones do they use for the Marshall caps? Thanks a lot. :-)
rschilch 1 year ago
@rschilch i have no idea but i can take a random guess. looks like 2 mics on each cab and the black one looks like a shure sm7 B that ive seen videos of mick jagger and james hetfield recording with in the studio. as for the silver one idk. maybe a neumann? im sure greenday can afford those.
yutuubfreak 1 year ago
did he say dookie?as green days album or just something else...like he means one amp for american idiot and one for dookie...?
Billiewhat13 1 year ago
@Billiewhat13 The mod that's done to the amp is called the Dookie mod, because they did the mod at the time they were recording Dookie. They still use the same mod today - no changes that I'm aware of.
rjmmusic 1 year ago
@rjmmusic do they use their distotion from the amps or the cae
ZDALI14 1 year ago
@rjmmusic What was the "Dookie Mod?"
slysendice 7 months ago
@Winkler96 shure u4d
09FOBFAN 1 year ago
the secret must be the blues driver pedal
aliengtr 1 year ago
whyy the hell do they have so much gear? All their music sounds the same and consists only of power chords
AngryLlamaz 1 year ago
@AngryLlamaz Yeah, its brilliant.
JeffSnarl 1 year ago
Another question, sorry :). In a rig photo that I saw there were 2 poweramps, a Marshall 9200 and a Samson S700. Why do they use 2 and what are they driven by? Thanks again.
bluepingu345 1 year ago
@bluepingu345 i dont have the answer to your question but just a fwi, thats the oold rig from the american idiot tour
yutuubfreak 1 year ago
@yutuubfreak Thanks :)
bluepingu345 1 year ago
Do you know what the unit near the top, which seems to switch the guitar input (labelled 335, R8 etc.) is called? Thanks :)
bluepingu345 1 year ago
@bluepingu345 That's an input selector, built by Bob Bradshaw. Now replaced with one I built for them. :) It switches between all of Billie Joe's wireless units (he has one per guitar) and selects which one is currently on.
rjmmusic 1 year ago
@rjmmusic Thanks a lot for the super quick response :)
bluepingu345 1 year ago
@rjmmusic is it possible for you to tell us his amp settings
ZDALI14 1 year ago
where ends the patchcable in jasons heads at 2:07? thankyou
gitaard 1 year ago
@gitaard those are the imput cables to the amps.
yutuubfreak 1 year ago
i love how billie joe still goes pretty much straight into the marshall head. very easy and very punk
lilhendrix1106 1 year ago
Green Day has always had a great crunchy Marshall tone.
danyeo 1 year ago
Those guys seemed pretty pissed that they had to do that interview lol.
cordanscedo 1 year ago
@cordanscedo Not at all, they asked us to come down and were very cool to us. Although, they, like me, probably aren't used to being on camera. :)
rjmmusic 1 year ago
@rjmmusic Oh, that's cool then. The first guy just seemed really crabby or something. God, I'd love to have that job! Cool video and cool rigs!
cordanscedo 1 year ago
Some people will say they don't like Green Day. However, Billie Joe has ALWAYS had a great sound.
Vomitore 1 year ago
where do these bands get their racks from.
gibsongod15 1 year ago
i have a 100W vox vt100 combo amp. It has a general "UK 90's" preamp option and a tube phase that lets me get a decent dookie sound. However, i would really appreciate any advice y'all have to offer (i'm going to be playing live soon and really need to get this tone ironed out.)
In my amp, the guitar signal first passes through the "Gain" stage. Next it is filtered through the preamp that i have selected. It then goes into a "Volume" stage. Next, the EQ's then Master and finally the tube stage.
HandsomeMrMoe 1 year ago
@HandsomeMrMoe I would greatly appreciate any advice on what the Gain, EQ, Master, etc. should be set on. Any advice on how to simulate the modded preamp stage used by Billie? The tone i'm going for is going to be used for "Welcome to Paradise." I need that kind of pulsing, crunch sound, if that describes it :p I'm not sure if I want to get all over-driven or not.
P.S. I think that my "UK 90's" preamp is much more gain-y than the standard Marshall super lead head.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ANY HELP
HandsomeMrMoe 1 year ago
@HandsomeMrMoe Wow, triple post. (sorry, but im obsessed)
My current settings are: Gain, Volume, and Treble all a little less than 3 o'clock, Mid at 1 o'clock, and Bass and Master at 12 o'clock. (The amp has a variable Wattage, so i can make it louder w/out cranking the master and getting extra distortion.)
HandsomeMrMoe 1 year ago
what city were greenday playing in
PunkCoverFilms 1 year ago
wow, this guy doesnt know anything about these rigs, he didnt even know what that white pedal is in that second rig. looks like a bb preamp.
TheRealErob 1 year ago
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hansblooey 1 year ago
@TheRealErob wow. i guess you don't either. now go jump on some boxes.
hansblooey 1 year ago
@rjmmusic Hey Ron, do you have any pictures of the amps or contact with Hans. I've been desperately searching for the settings of these amps and all I've gotten are blurring pictures and very vague answers. I've spent a lot of time, money and patience in getting this exact rig together. I sent Hans some messages through YouTube, but seeing that he hasn't logged on in 2 months, I don't see him answering any time soon. Any tips on the settings? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, David.
fidalginator 1 year ago
@hansblooey - Hey Hans, can you please help an avid Green Day fan. I own every single piece of equipment in this video and have invested a lot of my time, energy, money and patience into putting this rig together. The only thing I haven't been able to get are the settings for Dookie and American Idiot songs, even though I have been doing research for 7 months (that's how long I've been waiting for Dave and Martin to mod my Marshalls and send them back). Any info would be great. Thank you, David.
fidalginator 1 year ago
@yutuubfreak can you send me those pics of the rig you were talking about earlier. i've been dying to find something related to the eq settings because i own the same exact rig BJA has in this video. it would be greatly appreciated.
fidalginator 1 year ago
do they use the Line 6 rack pod for anything or is it just there in case BJ comes along and says "hey i feel like using a different tone today"
PKNproductions 1 year ago
so is the distortion coming from the cae or the marshal? also is one of the marshalls going into a dummy load and the other marshall powers it?.
yutuubfreak 1 year ago
which amp does the blues driver drive? the cae or the marshalls?
Equestional 1 year ago
@Equestional The Marshalls, I believe
rjmmusic 1 year ago
@Equestional marshall watts 100 and another word in it i forgot
MrGreenday1209 1 year ago
@Equestional
the CAE is a marshall. its a SLP head with the CAE, or custom audio electronics, mod.
greendayrokr 1 year ago
@greendayrokr actually the CAE is a preamp, not a marshall. its called the CAE +3 preamp. its the white 2 space unit with 3 channels, sounds awesome. the marshall mods were done by Golub.
Equestional 1 year ago
thanks for the tip!
TheLespaulmatt 1 year ago
what bridge pick-up does billie joe in his guitar "blue"?
TheLespaulmatt 1 year ago
seymour duncan sh4-jb
billiejoe198920 1 year ago
wow all that is really confuseing
pusalies 1 year ago
i only use an orange tiny terror to get their sound.....
ArthursChannel 1 year ago
so much gear.
whatabout skills?
25jonathan 1 year ago
What are the Amp settings?(Treble,MIds,Bass,etc) and how were they modded?
300hotboy 1 year ago
i just saw some pictures of billies rig. its bigger and alittle different. im wondering if this is the new one or if the pics i saw were newer.
yutuubfreak 1 year ago
@yutuubfreak bigger how? i'd like to see which era of BJA rig you saw. there are 4 of these rigs in existence at the moment. these 2 stage rigs and 2 in the st. James' basement where the american idiot broadway musical is playing. anyone know how to attach pics onto a video response?
hansblooey 1 year ago
@hansblooey i can send you a link. i found out the big one is older because of the shure wirelesses are the older model. porb form the american idiot stadium tour.
ill send you the link
yutuubfreak 1 year ago
@yutuubfreak Hey yutuubreak, can you send me the link, too?
MrChrisPid 1 year ago
it wont let me post a link in the comment so ill message it
yutuubfreak 1 year ago
@yutuubfreak Hi, please could you message it to me too? Thanks :)
bluepingu345 1 year ago
@hansblooey the rig can be seen at the cae website under the legend section
09FOBFAN 1 year ago
I wish I knew what size speakers they use for recording. I'm love Billie's tone and am trying to decide between a 4x10 combo or a 2x12 combo.
conkerjb09 1 year ago
@conkerjb09 2x12. a ten inch cone will never sound like a 12 inch. another characteristic of combo amps is the open back cabinet. you could try a mic in front and another in the back. might be too much phasing and cancellation to make it worth while though.
hansblooey 1 year ago
how is the se lead mode modded exactly? What preamp valves are being used ?
trebilliejoe 1 year ago
how is the se lead mode modded exactly? what sort of preamp valves are added ?
trebilliejoe 1 year ago
@Winkler96 Standard Marshall 1960B cabs, I believe.
rjmmusic 1 year ago
@rjmmusic can you tell me in what consist the dookie mod?is been changed something in the circuit?
clust90 1 year ago
@clust90 I don't know exactly what is done, but it's an extensive modification of the amp's preamp for more gain.
rjmmusic 1 year ago
@rjmmusic Does Billie Joe only use the blues drive for effects and then all the distortion is from the amps? Also does he use the same dookie mod for all his other songs or are there other mods because when he plays american idiot it sounds different and then when he plays dookie stuffs it sounds different and then when he plays 21st century breakdown it sounds different
ZDALI14 1 year ago
@ZDALI14 The sound stays the same. It's the different guitars. The black junior for Idiot. "Blue" for the old stuff (Eflat). 21CBD is a double cut Special similar the BJA Junior WITH the same humbucking pickup that everyone bitches about.
hansblooey 1 year ago
@Winkler96 No, it's a 1959 SLP (the non-handwired version of the 1959 they made in the 90s and 2000s). A handwired could be modified in the same way though.
rjmmusic 1 year ago
Jason has a beast rig
xBulletInABible 1 year ago
i dun think that the front speakers r just for esthetic...im sure they have some other function for like welcome to paradise, when he needs to use feedback on the amps, along wit the end of brain stew/intro of jaded when jason white uses feedback as well...explain?
1039SmthdOutSlpyHrs 1 year ago
i think the back ones will be miked quite low, to capture the tone and send it out through the p.a
but dont know about the others. i imagined they were to give the front rowers the on stage sound. not channeled through a speaker to their sides. :S
mefmef21 1 year ago
@1039SmthdOutSlpyHrs
There are pedals for feedback...
gitaard 1 year ago
thanks a lot rjmmusic!
pedrosaura 1 year ago
thank you very much, but can i only get that distorsion with this specifically preamp? or can i get (a similar distorsion) with other type of preamp/pedal?
Thanks!
pedrosaura 1 year ago
@pedrosaura I think you'd be able to get that sound with a pedal - a more classic sounding overdrive or distortion pedal should be able to do it. Try a few at your local music store - it shouldn't be hard to accomplish.
rjmmusic 1 year ago
Well 2 of the cabs pointing forward are plugged in. The guys wanted to feel some of the cabinet "thump". All of the cabs on stage are loaded. We consider them to be "spares" not decoration :) ill try and post a pic of the dookie settings.
hansblooey 1 year ago
@hansblooey Thanks, Hans, you rule. :)
rjmmusic 1 year ago
@hansblooey that would be awesome. thanks for the info man!
IrkonDigital 1 year ago