 Hello everyone and welcome to Blackstar Potential. My name's Lee Fuge and I'm here with MGRMusic.com and in this lesson today we're going to be taking a look at some classic guitar tones from Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden. I'm going to be using the Silverline Deluxe for this and all the patches from this lesson are going to be linked in the description below. They're also available on the Blackstar Insider community. The guitar I'm going to be using is my Jackson Adrian Smith signature guitar. Seeing as we're talking about the tones of Adrian Smith this seems like the most logical choice of guitar for this and the amp you're hearing mic'd up with a Lewitt Audio LCT 440 condenser microphone. So if you listen to various Iron Maiden albums Adrian's tone doesn't tend to change too much song to song. So what I've done in this lesson is I've looked at some generic album specific tones. So while these may not be exact to every song on a record they're a good approximation of the sort of guitar tone he was using at that point in the band's career. The one we're going to start with is the tone from number of the beast. Like I said this is just the sort of a generic tone that covers the entire tonal spectrum of what he used across the entire album. So for this first tone we're using the Super Crunch Voice with the EL34 response. I've got the gain on about eight and the channel volume up on ten. Adrian was using a very mid-humped tone at this point in the band's career so the bass is set to four, the mid is set to eight and treble is set to five. I've got the ISF all the way over to the British side also. So we've got a whole reverb on this one we've also got a tape delay giving us a little slapback and there's also some chorus on the two. The purpose of the slapback and the chorus is not to sort of change the sound at all it's just to thicken up what we've got. So the chorus is very very subtle you're probably not even going to hear it as chorus but if you download this patch and you switch the chorus on and off you'll certainly feel that with the chorus the tone is thicker. So it's not a super high gain tone but it's a great 80s new wave of British heavy metal kind of tone. The gain on the Super Crunch channel isn't as heavy as some of the other channels on the silver line so even with it cranked it's not super distorted but there's enough there to play with. That was a riff from a song called The Prisoner. So we're going to fast forward a couple of years now in the band's career to the Power Slave album. This is going to be the second patch I've got loaded up. This is a general tone of that era. Again this patch is available for you guys to download. On this album you could expect to hear tracks like Two Minutes to Midnight. So for this patch we've gone to the OD1 channel but I've still got those EL34s selected. Because the OD1 channel has a lot more gain the gain's actually been dialed back now to 4. We just needed a little bit of extra saturation from the power amp simulation there but the channel volume is still set to 10. We want that screaming valve amp sound. We've got the bass set to 5, the mid set to 7 and the top ends pushed up to about 8 for this one. We just want a little bit of extra bite in the top end there and the ISF is once again in the British side. So now I've changed the reverb to a spring reverb. The slap back delay is still there from the tape delay but I've just bumped it up just a tiny bit and the chorus is still there but it's honestly so subtle you probably won't even hear it but again it just serves the purpose to thicken things out. This tone is great for getting into that power slave era Iron Maiden sound. This is when the band was starting to go a little bit more into the progressive waters. Their tones were getting a little heavier and the riffs were getting a little more complicated. It's also great for playing songs like Rhyming the Incher Mariner. The next tone we're going to look at is very much an 80s guitar tone. This is based off the tone from the Somewhere in Time album so think of tracks like Stranger in a Strangeland. So this tone has the same power amp settings as the previous tones were on the OD1 channel with the EL34 response. The gain is also still on 4 and the channel volume is still on 10. Now we've changed it up in the EQ section here because Adroom is using a slightly more scooped guitar tone at this point in the band's career. So we've got the bass on 6, the mid on 3 and the treble on 5 and the ISF is still all the way up in the bridge position. So because this is a very 80s tone there's also a lot of additional stuff going on here. The band were using a very processed guitar sound at this point in their career. So we've got a whole reverb now which is set to quite a big sound so there's a lot of reverb here. The take delay is still there but again it's been pushed up a little bit more for the purpose of thickening and now starting to add a few delay repeats and also the chorus has been bumped up a little bit more as well just to give us more of that 80s sound. So this not only works great for riffs but it also works great for lead lines so you could play all your favourite Adrian Smith guitar solos and tracks like Wasted Years. There's a ton of 80s fun to be had with that patch. It works great as a lead patch as well because if you play those sort of big 80s guitar solos it really makes those notes soar. Now we're going to go to the final patch. Now this is from the return of Adrian Smith to the band in the year 2000 with the Brave New World album. This is based off songs like The Wicker Man. This is a drier more kind of raw rock tone so we've pretty much got rid of most of the processing here. We're still using the OD1 voice and we're still using the EL34 response. Pushed the gain up just a slight bit now to five and a half and the channel volume is still on 10 but now we're bringing some of those mids back in and also some more top end. So the bass now is down to four, the mids are on six and the treble is up at nine. The ISF is still over in the British position and now I've gone to a spring reverb but we've gotten rid of the tape delay and rid of the chorus. So this is just like I said a dry raw rock sound very similar to that he was using around about the time he returned to the band for the Brave New World era. So if you want a bit more of a no nonsense Adrian Smith tone you'll love that patch as well. So like I said all four of these patches are available for download on the Blackstar Insider community but they're also linked down below in the description. So download those check them out for yourself install them on your own silver line and let me know in the comments what you guys think. Thank you guys so much for watching hope you've enjoyed this video please let me know down below in the comments what you thought of these Adrian Smith inspired patches and also if there are any other artists you'd like us to recreate the sounds of please throw their names below as well. Don't forget to go check out Blackstar amplification on YouTube for more videos just like this we've already done a bunch of other artists patches and there's plenty more on the way and if anyone out there is looking for a guitar teacher please head over to mgrmusic.com check out the network of great teachers all around the UK waiting to help you guys out. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you soon.