What's up everyone? I'm Ola Englund and welcome to my new video!
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Hello guys, I'm Ola Englund and today I'm trying to ...
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What's up everyone? I'm Ola Englund and today we're taking a look at the rig of 'Machin' Head
Machine head
Machin
What ... ?
Why did I say 'machin'? Machine Head of course!
Machine Head was one of my favorite bands during the 90s
The first time I heard Davidian I was completely blown away with how brutal it was
and it's still one of my favorite tracks of theirs and even though songwise I love Burn My Eyes the best
the album after, The More Things Change, has a totally crushing guitar tone
Today I'm looking back on those albums and trying to see if I can get the same type of sound or tone
Both albums produced and mixed by Colin Richardson
and The More Things Change even has Andy Sneap helping out on it
and being an avid follower of the Andy Sneap forum back in the day
I learned what exact gear was used on that album
Burn My Eyes is a little bit more hard to find info about
but it was said that Rob used an Ibanez RG with EMG 81 pickup, into a Boss SD1 pedal
Into a modded Peavey 5150
F***
For The More Things Change album, they used a tube screamer
That modded 5150 into a Marshall with V30 speakers
and also, like so many other 90's albums, there's a chorus going on on the rhythm guitars
F***in hell.
Stop that shit. Shut the f*ck up already!
Turn everything off, idiot.
Okay, we're back, awesome.
Now, I personally always had a problem with Peavey 5150 and EMG pickups
because I always thought they sound like shit when I play through them
And whenever I hear someone else playing them, I love the tone
but the minute I plug it in they sound like shit
It's the curse of my picking technique and my finger tone I guess
So, this video is not only about achieving the Machin Head ... Machine Head's guitar tone
But also to face my biggest enemies when it comes to gear: the 5150 and the EMG 81.
So, in this demo I'm using a Solar A1.6 Artist loaded with an EMG 81 pickup
Into an Ibanez TS9 tube screamer, into a regular Peavey 5150, into my Hesu 2x12 cabinet with Demon Speakers
and i'm micing it all up with a Beyerdynamic M160
So, obviously I do not have a modded 5150, but let's just see how close I can get anyway
Also, I'm just hoping that this won't sound like shit like I usually do with this amp and pickup combo, so let's go.
So, the settings I have right now are the same settings I used for my Davidian cover video
If you haven't seen it already, link up here, okay?
and something I recognized when I compared the album sound to the sound I was getting
Is that the overall album sounds have so much less mids going on
You know, that honking "Ngruhngruh" sound around 800 to 1000 Hz
Usually that appears when you add a classic overdrive like this one, and you dime the tone knob.
I don't know what they did, but maybe they modded the amps so the mids wouldn't respond the same.
I don't know.
The way I set it up for the Davidian cover
was basically trying to dial in the tone, the tone knob of the tube screamer
And respond with scooping the mids on the amplifier
And that's how I kind of came to the conclusion to use this sound
So, the resulting sound is this.
I think it sounds pretty close and I actually think it sounds pretty awesome
and my finger tone does not totally suck.
If you try to play together with the songs on Burn My Eyes with your guitar
it seems like it's always slightly out of tune with the official tuning of the song
You know, it seems like it's always slightly off to the standard tuning
they probably tuned to something else, you know, rather than 440 hertz as a reference
just like Pantera tuned using 445 hertz as a reference
Anyway, Davidian is tuned somewhere in between drop C and drop B, not sure why.
But this guitar is in that range, so ...
I like this sound a lot, it's awesome.
Okay, let me see. Can I play another Machine Head song?
Okay, I'm gonna shit a little bit ...
Okay, what song? Oh, yeah, I know one. I want some more gain to help me out, okay?
Okay, I got it
Yeah, i think it sounds really good actually
Okay, so here it is without the tube screamer.
Still chunky and you know ... saturated.
And the tube screamer
Just gives it a extra little push, that's just so small.
Such a small little push that goes, you know, just like this to the sound
Oh, if you're wondering why the amp is really quiet
it's because I have a Fortin ZUUL noise gate back here with a really short patch cable
So it's ... Oh, there it is.
Look, it's very short, so ... hanging in there, okay?
Okay.
There you have it.
I must say this sounds pretty f***ing good to be honest
This particular EMG 81 is an old one and yeah
I think it sounds a lot better than, you know, a lot of the newer ones I've tried as of late
And yeah, maybe that's the reason why I think it sounds good this time, I'm not sure.
Anyway, I hope you liked this video.
If you haven't already, check out my Davidian cover. I'll link it up here again.
Okay?
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Thank you so much for watching, see you next time.
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