fuzzy.pinetree
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I've gotten somewhat close to EJ's legendary Violin tone, it's not really that complex of a signal chain. BUT!! I cannot for the life of me get that round high end? His lead tone always sounds like the cab has a thick quilt between the speaker and the mic, cause the high end is liquid smooth and rounded but it doesn't sound like a high cut. I've tried with a high cut, but it cuts the wrong frequencies. So I'm starting to think it's something else. It's hard to explain, yall know what I'm talking about but it's hard to put in words.
It never feels like frequencies are "missing" in his tone, but it definitely doesn't sound like a Marshall and Tube Driver ONLY. There's some sort of EQ trickery being done, but what the heck could it even be?? I've been in a room with EJ playing his rig on three different occasions, and it sounds just like the Live In Europe tone. But I can't understand HOW. Marshalls are pretty bright in the high end. If you turn the treble down it gets muddy, if you turn down the guitar tone knob it doesn't roll off the right frequencies and the signal gets weaker, so what am I missing? I've been trying to achieve this for YEARS, and been working on it on the Axe FX for a while now.
Anyone been able to figure out that specific piece of the puzzle?? I don't want any "tone is in the fingers" comments, I'm talking strictly about the frequencies that lend themselves to the "muffled" aspect of his sound. Andy Timmons also achieves this to a point.
It never feels like frequencies are "missing" in his tone, but it definitely doesn't sound like a Marshall and Tube Driver ONLY. There's some sort of EQ trickery being done, but what the heck could it even be?? I've been in a room with EJ playing his rig on three different occasions, and it sounds just like the Live In Europe tone. But I can't understand HOW. Marshalls are pretty bright in the high end. If you turn the treble down it gets muddy, if you turn down the guitar tone knob it doesn't roll off the right frequencies and the signal gets weaker, so what am I missing? I've been trying to achieve this for YEARS, and been working on it on the Axe FX for a while now.
Anyone been able to figure out that specific piece of the puzzle?? I don't want any "tone is in the fingers" comments, I'm talking strictly about the frequencies that lend themselves to the "muffled" aspect of his sound. Andy Timmons also achieves this to a point.