Guitar Lessons - Kings of Tone - Keith Richards 1

[Philby62]

I read that you set the amp with the neck pickup then when you switch to bridge pickup you roll off the tone if it's too shrill. I don't do that, but it might work for others

[cgravier]

this is good advice in general-not just for Keef. Good tone=Keef tone are interchangable

[DanH1970]

okay, isn't that thing at six volume knocking your walls down and neighbors calling police?

[brandonlace]

I`ve gotten a good keef tone out of both fender amps and an AC30

[surfstrat59]

need to go Tweed to get to Keef-territory.......

[UKToneKing]

That was a very very good demo my man, really good example of using the bass on fender amps, for people that are new to guitar and amps, it was essential. I use a silverface vibrochamp in the home at the moment, but am buying a blackface vintage deluxe or princeton reverb after xmas, may get a drip edge if any are around, but in the UK amps like that do not come up, as I want a UK model, may have to get a blackface as I will only want one if I get a sf

[mikestrat56]

Never hooked it to a 2x12, just the 4x12. I'm and "old guy", lol, I suppose, and I used this rig in my early R&R days hooked to a single Marshall 4x12 for the tiny clubs to reproduce the Marshall sound before I got to the bigger clubs where I could use my (2) 50w plexis and a pair of 4x12's. The deluxe and the 4x12 were a magnificent sound.

For those young guys out there.. we kept the extra head in case the first one blew up because it was always on 10. That happened alot back then.

[markadiculous]

I just picked up a Tweed Blues Deluxe and the first thing I played was Honky tonk woman with a les paul on the drive channel and it sounded fantastic!

I used to have a Hot Rod deluxe but I felt like the drive channel was really abrasive. But the Blues Deluxe's drive channel is so much more smooth and ear pleasing. And it cuts through the mix way better than my marshall jcm 2000 dsl. The other guitarist in my band plays through a Hot Rod Deville and now that I have the BD I can hear myself

[RETARDIRANY]

fuck it... it doesn't go to eleven

[C14sh3rs]

That's a sick ass amp!!!!

[ih8tbush]

no reverb? sounds like it's there



[Philby62]

You get a nice tone, but that's way too gritty for a "clean" channel. How can you gig with an amp that overdrives in the clean channel when volume is that low. There's no headroom, and Keith has a (mostly) pretty clean tone. I had this problem with 15watt Blues Junior and I've upgraded to a 40watt Hot Rod Deluxe for gigs. Even 40watts struggles to stay clean with a heavy hitting drummer, specially if you are using a humbucker (I have a telecaster deluxe 72)

[rolodexroulette]

@Philby62 well now you're boiling things down.

1. Keith Richards played the high-watt big box twin (meaning the speakers are not staggered)

2. The only people who make this type of twin would be Victoria and it comes in only 80 watts

3. Most tweed amps can get you really damn close to Keith's tone.

[coldironhands1]

what kinda mic did you use to record it? If i turned my amp up that loud i'd blow my house up

[spicecrop]

gee thanks for clearing that up for us, I thought it was because the amp was hand made by coal miners hence "black face"

[MaloneyGuitars]

@spicecrop The first couple of prototypes were but then they sold the design to Leo.

[mikestrat56]

Having used my '65 deluxe (no reverb) for, well, alot of years (my parents bought it for me when I was 13 for 50 bucks) There is really only one way to play it. Volume 10, treble 10, bass 0. Gibson, Fender, whatever. Oh, also.. sounds great when you unplug the speaker and run it thru a 4x12. There you have it.

[markadiculous]

@mikestrat56 agreed about the 4x12! it sounds great through a 2x12 also.



[kantuflas]

ew, keep that treble dwn for sure

[mikestrat56]

@kantuflas When you dime it, any bass you put on it makes the sound muddy. When you let the tubes get really hot, everything smooths out beautifully and the amp truly sings. Gibson or Fender. Letting the amp heat up well, no bass, full treble, brings out a very creamy warmth w/ volume on 10. On low volume, yes.. bringing up the bottom end gives it some nice depth. Although mine is the no reverb version. Just my ears and opinion. Whatever sounds good to you is what IS good! ;-)

[aleksandersucharski]

unlike Marshalls, where the first thing would be to turn the bass up to 10 - that line is priceless :D

[karl198]

@aleksandersucharski

The bass should always be up to 10

^_^

[howtoplaybassgood]

Thanks for sharing this!

[EzrinJem2]

Blah Blah Blah! Too much boring talk. Zzzzzzz....

[Frontierblues]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[AceOfHeart2012]

Nice subliminal sigil there at :04

[funguy29]

love jeff!

[andresboulton]

He's used all kinds of tube amps over the years. Fenders, Vox, Supros, even Boogies in the 80's. Now used a couple of Bassmans on stage. And used a lot of different guitars as well, but mostly Les Pauls in Stones' first 10 years.

To sound like Keef you gotta PLAY like him.

[tom4415]

I thought Richards used a Mesa Boogie MK111

[DisasterBlaster500]

Doesn't Keef usually use a Vox?

[MrCeej9999]

He uses a twin amp, with alternate settings.

[hassledguy]

That had almost nothing to do with Keith Richards. The entire bit of useful advice is to use the natural tube sound of a low watt fender amp?...that is 15 seconds not 3 and half minutes. This is really just a very limited amp demo.

[HackerGuitarist]

@hassledguy this is not the whole course.... einstein

[Lasarus4]

He actually uses a twin fender amp with two sets of diffrent settings.

[JonasSweden1]

Yep, sounds good :) - what guitar was used for this clip?

[JDALIVETUBE]

@JonasSweden1 If its about keith it can only be one guitar.

[JonasSweden1]

@JDALIVETUBE Hi, yeah, actually posted this question way back, so now - well, a Telecaster then of course :-)

Cheers Jonas

[downhill240]

Thanks for the tips. My wife won't let me have an electric (yet)! LOL

[dwmcm1]

@downhill240 Buy her a dishwasher in exchange

[tonyvoxu2]

@downhill240

Grow a pair!