Adam Jones VH4 Channel 3 settings

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Techdeth said:
You can close with just the vh4 . But if you buy a cheap DSL and run it UNDERNEATH the vh4 time you will nail it. Don’t need an old Marshall like he has . Lately he adds a third amp
Mainly riviera Slipknot amp
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i agree for the stuff from 10000 days and on. you cannot unhear the VH4. old stuff is more marshall. Laterus i don't know, maybe mesa added.
that's what my ears tell me.
His sound was leaner and more scooped pre 10000 days.
 
valve said:
i agree for the stuff from 10000 days and on. you cannot unhear the VH4. old stuff is more marshall. Laterus i don't know, maybe mesa added.
that's what my ears tell me.
His sound was leaner and more scooped pre 10000 days.
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It was nasty af times on anima
 
valve said:
i like to listen to tool from time to time. but the sounds bothers me a lot of times, because there are things in his sound which i had in my sound too and managed to dial out.

Also i almost never like the tone when the volume or tone are dialled back on the guitar. it's ok live, but in the studio? He uses it a lot!
At least get the man a treble bleed or something
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I use a Volume pedal after a buffer to get lower gain tones. Nothing gets lost this way.
 
Vin Diezel said:
I like it and I think it fits well. That does not mean I'd like to copy his sound, but the album sounds great.
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I cannot even be sure what you mean by "nasty". Because lots of words can mean the opposite in a certain context.
But I suppose in this context you wanted to say that it was not so good, in the sense of obnoxious.
 
listen to 10.000 days and Fear Inoculum almost the whole day!
tool is definitely something else👍
pretty tight, AJ is almost like a machine!
 
I do not like these albums a lot. I like Undertow, Aenima and Lateralus. Then it gets a bit tedious for me. To much self-quoting for my taste and not real songs anymore. No masterpieces like Pushit where you are close to tears when you hear them. That's just my personal experience.
 


Undertow, Aenima is my preference. It is this era that is my preference live also. They were so much more raw then.
 
Yeah. The new albums are not bad, but I've heard it all before and they cannot write Stinkfist, Pushit and Schism all the time. You're lucky if one song like that comes together in a lifetime.
 
the first album i checked out was 10000 days (late to the game) so that might explain a lot....
 
Yes, indeed. I gave another listen to the album whose name I can never remember, fear inoculum,
As impressive as some may find it, I hear recycled riffage, laboured songwriting, endless meandering, laboured transitions from riff to riff, no new harmonic information - basically 3-power-chord harmony everywhere. And don't get me started on Adam's solo playing. It's really nothing special not to say boring in comparison to what Robert Fripp did back in 1970..
Of course, there's the drums, some good hooklines and Maynard's unique voice, but it has not been a proper band for a along time.
I see why Paul D'Amour left. This writing process of writing a song without getting a song must be tedious.

The fact that Portnoy did not understand Pneuma's drum groove, does not automatically make the song some kind of masterpiece.
Is Giant Steps a masterpiece because I am to stupid and lazy to solo over the changes?
Maybe it is one because Coltrane can solo over such an etude in a way that it sounds like a song.
 
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Sounds like you just don't like Tool. All of the above kinda comes with the territory. Personally I think Fear Inoculum is their best album since Aenema.
 
Fear Inoculum was my first album, I remember I got it on iTunes because at the time Tool was not available on music streaming. It is for me the best Tool album, I feel like musically its the top of their career.

Last year I saw them live, it was probably the best concert i've seen in my life.
 
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