There's a good bit of discussion here on vintage bob guitars, effects, tone, etc. but very little talk about his newer sounds, which to me sound night-and-day different from his older stuff. While his GD tones tended to be very thin and trebly, his modern sound sounds, to me, very full throughout the spectrum, with perhaps some small cuts in the low-mids and/or boosts in the high treble freqs to accentuate the overtones. There's a very rich complexity to the base tone that I can't quite figure out, though.
Then there's the really clear, screaming, distortion tones. Not sure if this is from his amps or from some distortion unit, but it's not present unless he really digs in, but when it does, it absolutely screams.
You can hear this really well on the Tennessee Jed here and a little bit as well on Terrapin, particularly the 2nd time around in the Lady with a Fan solo break (about 3-3.5 minutes in).
http://www.archive.org/details/further2 ... .mk5_16bit
And another example of some phenomenal modern bobby tone, last year with the dead. It's all great but check out his solo on Rider and also his playing on Into the Mystic for some of that great screaming distortion.
http://www.archive.org/details/thedead2 ... eluso.flac
On a side note the Slipknot jam from this show will change your life!
I'm just really curious what kind of things have to be in place to get that kind of sound. Not that I want to emulate it, I'm just more interested in the principles behind it!
Then there's the really clear, screaming, distortion tones. Not sure if this is from his amps or from some distortion unit, but it's not present unless he really digs in, but when it does, it absolutely screams.
You can hear this really well on the Tennessee Jed here and a little bit as well on Terrapin, particularly the 2nd time around in the Lady with a Fan solo break (about 3-3.5 minutes in).
http://www.archive.org/details/further2 ... .mk5_16bit
And another example of some phenomenal modern bobby tone, last year with the dead. It's all great but check out his solo on Rider and also his playing on Into the Mystic for some of that great screaming distortion.
http://www.archive.org/details/thedead2 ... eluso.flac
On a side note the Slipknot jam from this show will change your life!
I'm just really curious what kind of things have to be in place to get that kind of sound. Not that I want to emulate it, I'm just more interested in the principles behind it!