SRV - Interview - Stevie's Setup 1/2

[reaperpro]

0:48 those may well be Majors on the right in the pic, but that's a JCM on the left.

[MrMonteCarloRacing]

DUMBLES ARE PRICELESS !!

[MrPlainsteel]

over phone? xD

[PeterCRissKISSgod]

The marshall major was the 200 watt version plexi.

[FriggnDiggn]

Youve got the tube screamer marked as TS-9. I believe SRV used an 808.

[milodaman2]

@FriggnDiggn He used an 808 in the beginning. He switched to a TS9 and even a TS10 in his career. He was always trying new things. The one pictured is in fact a TS9. A TS808 has a small square pedal, the TS9 has a large rectangular pedal that takes about half of the whole effect pedal up.

[FriggnDiggn]

@milodaman2 Good, Now I feel better about buying the TS 9 a couple years ago ! :)

[mazsenior]

A Dumble Steele String Singer costs about $100,000 today..LOL

[dnnysrock]

thats not a jcm800 marshall major was an amp i think john frusciante uses those

[Guitar1hero23]

does anybody else really want to give the interviewer a really nice kick in the nuts

[cambruoso]

@Guitar1hero23 Yes! Like wake the fuck up! You are talking to the Fender master SRV asshole!

[Guitar1hero23]

@cambruoso exactly



[JOHNNYG99X]

less is more, tone is in the fingers guys !!

[PIlotrcm]

Whats with Sweds and guitar...I guess if you are from Sweden then you must have to learn guitar or something hah ha ha

[sk8erfighter44]

@cm0220ster he used 13s his whole career on Number One and 11s on Lenny and if im not mistaken he used 10s on Charley

[FriggnDiggn]

Interesting that he says he still uses the tube screamer because he hasnt found anything better, but is looking. Would have been nice if he would have elaborated on maybe what he was searching for

[MatBkNYC]

Douchebag is a great word to describe this A**hole,, sounds like he's not really interested. Douchebag... i hope he has nothing to do with music anymore. or even talking to musicians. .. probally got beat up a few times by now. ha!

[filterswitch11]

could they have found a bigger douche to interview him? god bless you srv not only did yoy have the tone but you had the patience god bless!

[cm0220ster]

I'm sorry , Stevie was a phenomenal player and his tone was the blues Holy Grail, but I never liked tube screamers. THere are so many good overdrive pedals out there right now that make tubescreamers sound like toys. In Stevie's hands though, wow. Stevie used extremely heavy gauge strings,. like .13s. He lightened up a little bit when those who knew him were concerned he eventually would ruin his hands trying to bend those things. And his attack was a large part of his sound. And he was SRV.

[JuniorHiding]

Kuloniemi perkele!

[edbigtruck]

It just goes to show how Great SRV was and is. He didn't need a ton of effects to sound amazing. Simple pure talent makes SRV the greatest guitar player ever.

[heretherenothing]

crazy that his set up for pedals was so minumal for the longest time. Makes me happy I've kept my rig very small.

[TheMadMusicMan]

Same here. I like just a few pedals, a POD is pretty nice too. I just think that using a ton of effects robs your tone and causes everyone to sound the same.

[merrilltim]

Ok SRV did use Tube screames plural 2 but not ts9's he had old 808's.

[gamedojo]

He used each tubescreamer that came out new...808 -- ts9 -- Ts10 . Even this video shows him using a TS9.

[merrilltim]

Not sure since you can't see SRV actually with the board pictured. I saw him live several times from above and backstage. He used two 808's everytime but this may have changed later. On Austin City Limits he had a fuzz face as well as 808's.

[gamedojo]

That photo is from a japanese magazine from 1985. The photo of his amps (where they labeled them backwards on this video) are from the same article.

Also, there are a few photos of him where you can clearly see its a ts10 he's using. Now...this is all silly since all three tubescreamers are pretty much the same. Only slight differences.

[merrilltim]

Agreeed, I have vintage and new Ts,9s and they have slight differences as well, in any case his sound is more drived by the amps and his technique.

[bluesderek]

I think the differences between the Tube Screamer versions are anything but "slight". The old 808 was the richest, roundest and sweetest sounding of them all, that's why they became collector's items and that's why every boutique pedal maker tries to nail that particular sound or at least start from there. The TS-9 had a bit more gain and harsher, more aggresive midrange. Why that became the first pedal Ibanez reissued in the 90ies, I don't know, maybe due to availabilty of parts at the time

[bluesderek]

The TS-10 and TS-versions were cheap pieces of crap in shitty plastic housings. They sound thin and harsh and wouldn't hold the notes together. They sounded as if half of the sound information was missing, which was probably true of the parts inside. When the TS-9 reissue came out in 95 or so, it was a GREAT relief for me and my sound, even if the pedal was stiffly priced.

But in the hands of SRV anything would sound amazing ...

[KOONKILL]

did he use the tube screamers both at the same time or did he use 1 at a time each with different settings just wondering thanks

[garbeaj]

I wonder who did the interview...he sounds Italian...

[Obelisk2290]

the Hamiltone is FAT

[PIlotrcm]

Dumble Amps are big BIG bucks....for a Steel String Singer I hear you pay around $20,000 if you can find one...

[12string]

Im told the new TS-808 is just a TS-9 in a 808 box. Im lucky, I got a 1979 first edition narrow for $50

[garbeaj]

This is true-the re-issue doesn't sound the same.I have an original TS-808 that I have been using since 1987...

[toyoubecritic1]

Sweet video. I would like to see an interview and demo.

[chooseyourblues]

'Seen Advertisments' ?????

Alexander Dumble never had to advertise. In fact he only made an amp for you if he liked you.

[EdMardell]

The interviewer is pants.

[weirdotis]

Just wondering, how did you get this recording?

[SoloBen247]

did he use a ts-9 or ts-808 at el mocambo???!?

[jodyv]

The 808 is all they made back then. I think his might of had a mod to it. Some research on this would be interesting.

[grga888]

He used them both.

[jhachey222]

he used which ever one was out by then. whenever they came out with the TS9, he switched.

[Fenderbluesman17]

At 2:05 what is that two button switch there? Amp controls? And what about the little black pedal with a single button right next to the Vox?

[jodyv]

the 2 boutton switch should be amp control and the other should be for the Leslie

[tazzboy77]

actually it controls the speed of the Leslie. one is a fast and other is slow.

[EdMardell]

PS It's a dumble not a vox my friend, just so you know :)

[tazzboy77]

That controls the Fender Vibratone which is the Leslie cabinet. It sets the speed to fast or slow. You can hear it on the song Cold Shot

[hiro8002096]

tanks

[Eighteen2008]

what kind of guitar is the one with his name in the fretboard

[bluessmith]

It is a custom Hamilton that was given to him in '84 or '85 by Billy Gibbons.

[vasilissrv4]

@bluessmith do they make these now? because i saw a video of a guy named chris duarte playing that guitar

[bstrasen]

@bluessmith your wrong that is a fender strat,if you are talking about the one he use's in the couldnt stand the weather you would be correct.Bob

[bstrasen]

@bluessmith your wrong it is a fender strat,but in the couldnt stand the weather video you would be correct.BOB

[rokkerdude8]

@bluessmith hamiltone*

[timoconnor6]

This interviewer has seen Dumbels advertised?

Don't Think so Dogs.

Crazy stuff on the net.

[Lucasherrero]

Just a question:

anyone knows how to set-up a Marshall 8040 to get that SRV tone? (yea, i got that crap amplfier)

if somebody does, Thanks a lot!!!

[bluessmith]

Not sure what to tell you. I'm more of a Fender guy when it comes to amps. Not real familiar with Marshall. I could tell you what Stevie would say. "Tune low, play hard, and floor it, floor it."

[taterboobs]

its mostly in the hands man, he could play on a shitty peavy and sound like srv. lol its in the hands

[hugleberthumperdink]

very very true, the person whose playin has a massive part in the sound production. the touch is the key

[emblazed]

Never played a 8040 but I have a JCM 900 half stack. For any marshall lower your presence and treble. I have mine pretty low depending on the playing situation. Boost mids and bass. Mids @ 12 o clock, and bass all the way up. Dont expect to sound anythign close to the blues guys though till you have at least 4+ years under your belt. Its all feeling and in the hands, and thats gota be built up. Takes 10 years to be fluent in a language, same with guitar. I'm at 10 now and still learning :)

[DetroitDRight]

Just don't use the amp distortion. Just use the clean channel and spend $150 on a SparkleDrive. Turn the low, mid, and high all the way up. And a strat.

[walterwood1]

@Lucasherrero

Call Kendrick Amps in Plugerville Texas and they will help you. I use a 1978 50 Watt Marshall head converted to EL-34 power tubes with a hot bias setting which will shorten the life of the tubes with a 4/12 cab cranked hard. Also use heavy gauge strings tuned to E flat/D sharp. The biggest part of Stevie's sound was his style of playing. He played extremely hard. His guitar tech once stated that he had to work on that old #1 after every show. Good luck.

[walterwood1]

@Lucasherrero

PS - Check out my "It's A Texas Thing" video and you can hear the Marshall with no effects.

[SiCF1ST]

@Lucasherrero Volume at 10, 4.5 bass, 7 treble, and around 3 on mid.

[18SRP]

Thanks for posting this. This is awesome!

RIP Stevie

[bluessmith]

your welcome and thank you for pointing that out.

[18SRP]

one of the marshall heads that are labeled Majors is a JCM 800

[bluessmith]

Yeah, I wasn't sure which was which based on this picture(which is kind of fuzy). I took a guess and found out later I had a couple things labeled wrong. Its kind of hard to fix the labels using the program that I did, so I just let it be. Good eye, thanks for watchin.

[gregory49]

the amps that are labelled super reverb and vibroverb are wrong. the one labeled super reverb is actually the vibratone(leslie) and the ones marked vibro verb is actually the super reverbs the vibroverbs have a black grill cloth and they are further to the right.

[bluessmith]

Good eye. I noticed that right after I posted it, and by then it was too late. You're the first to noticed it though. Congrats. I did the labeling in paint so it would a pain in the ass to change. Haha. Thanks for tuning in.

[gregory49]

no thank you for uploading this . great info! cheers.

[ih8thishit]

SRV used a lot of different TS pedals, at various times. The KEY to his tone was HIM. If you play like he did - hard, deep, big strings with big frets, you can get close. The Digitech Bad Monkey does a great job for cheap. I have daisy-chained TS9 & TS10 and at the same settings, blindfolded, you can not tell them apart. The TS808 is probably the same way.

[JulyGotMorTone]

Thanks for sharin the vid. How humbble Stevie Ray was...one hell of an ass kicker guitarist...the best.

[JimmyGuitarist]

He used a TS-808, and then through the rest of his career he used a TS-9 and briefly a TS-10 but he moved back to the TS-9. They all basically the same sound.

[bluessmith]

good insite. I agree

[stratocaster1959]

wow I was just at a gig and we sounded great but we didnt have his tone lol

[BluesTS808]

FUCK FUCK I THOUGHT HE HAD A TS-808 FUCK FUCK

thats why i bought the ts-808 to get the srv tone god dammit hahaha

[onefastmodK1]

he first used a TS808, then moved to a TS9, then eventually a TS10 classic

[1957fenderstrat]

Im glad you put this on here.

[bluessmith]

I know that we could find out what he used by reading it, but I like it more when you can hear it in his own words. Thanks. stay tuned

[1957fenderstrat]

you know its true.

[Tatsuijin]

I wish someone other than this Saudi-sounding fuck would have interviewed him. That way it'd be easier for everyone to understand 'em.

[totosmeels]

this is well cool cheers!