Guitar Player - Eric Johnson's "Cliffs of Dover"

This video was shot to accompany the article I wrote on getting Eric Johnson's "Cliffs of Dover" tone for the May 2008 issue of Guitar Player magazine.

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Music

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• Cliffs of Dover
• Eric Johnson
• Guitar Player
• Magazine
• Echoplex
• Chandler
• Butler
• Tube Driver
• Marshall
• Plexi
• James
• Santiago
• Voodoo Lab

[madatown]

this guy is the real deal and all, amazing tone, but all this gear and holy grail tone searching takes the fun out of the music if you ask me.

[voodoolabvid]

@madatown Thanks and I agree. That's why when I'm not 'working", I just play acoustically or through a tiny tweed deluxe so I can just enjoy the beautiful raw tone of a guitar.

[fend14]

Hi James,

i'd love to know which marshall that is ? Super lead plexi or JTM45 ? something else ?

thanks !

[voodoolabvid]

@fend14 That one should be a 1966 JTM50. I also had a 1970 Super Tremolo in that recording rig that also sounds amazing. Loud as jet, but great tone!  :)

[Jpalmieri4]

sounds amazing, i does james santiago have a website or email i could contact?

[voodoolabvid]

@Jpalmieri4 Best thing to do is send me a PM here. I'm not on all the time, but I will get it! Thanks, JS.

[cgb1050]

That guy has some Serious GEAR!!! ;-)

[voodoolabvid]

@IClowen Copyright issues.  Thanks.

[wfbrophy]

@voodoolabvid So is the signal path strat>tube driver>echoplex>marshall (or giggity)? or are you running the echoplex into the tube driver?

[fretburns]

where did you have the tone control on the strat?

[leftyfusion88]

Nice video. I'd like to hear all of the heads w/ pedal setups going at once.

[timmy47]

@madatown well if you ask me, if i dont like the tone, music isnt fun for me. but thats just me.

[bushibayushi]

the tone with Fender is better than with the cranked Marshall ;)

[pietromestu]

great tone and serious gear! but i think that what makes 80% of Eric's tone is the way you pick the strings ( cassical EJ way of plucking ) and the phrasing which is very >EJ-like! that is the most important piece of gear in this video!

[madatown]

@Funkyryno I guess to a point it could be fun, and I could never discount what you get out of it. But when you're taking winds out of pickups, or using 100 feet of patch cord, extremes like that, it can get a bit overwhelming.

[Funkyryno]

@madatown "holy grail tone searching" is an amazing and fun quest. It's one of the only things my Dad and I have in common. We go to guitar shows and look for the newest and best gear. It does not take the "fun" out of music by any means.