How To Sound Like Sonic Youth Using Effects and Tunings | Reverb Potent Pairings
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
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Treat yourself or find the perfect gift for your favorite music maker. Sonic Youth's sound helped define a generation, and jams like "Teen Age Riot," "Wish Fulfillment," "100%," "Diamond Sea," "Bull in the Heather," "Cross the Breeze" and "Karen Revisited" immediately came to mind when we heard you wanted us to give the work of Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon and Lee Ranaldo the #PotentPairings treatment. Watch as guitarist Joe Darnaby joins the Daydream Nation in this installment.
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Joe's Setup:
Guitars: Fender Custom Shop 1962 Jazzmaster
Fender American Pro Telecaster Deluxe
Travis Bean TB1000A
Supro Huntington III Bass
Amp: Magnatone Panoramic Stereo
Their main effect was their tunings.
I love your video too!
I agree, and thank you for your awesome videos.
And the drum sticks lol.
do more ween covers
slackerVK
I can trust you better than this video!!
from japanese young man who loves 80/90s alternative guitar rock musics and your videos.
You can tell a real sonic youth fan worked hard on this
Those tunings are a massive "Fuck You" to my guitar string budget.
The phaser on Diamond Sea needs to be much more yoyoyoyoyo
I believe SY used a Ludwig Phase II. The Blue Dinosaur Interstellar Watermelon is inspired by the Ludwig. EHX's Talking Machine and the EQD Interstellar Orbiter (unrelated to the Watermelon) also do the yoy-yoy-yoy sound. Some other wahs and phasers do this, but those are probably the 3 best, if someone was wanting to nail a cover down.
The EQD Interstellar Orbiter is also pretty decent for Diamond Sea. Check it out: czcams.com/video/L8yGmL2s7Ys/video.htmlm32s
I'm sure you're convinced of that, because a $600 yoy-yoy has to be better than a $300 or $200 yoy-yoy.
"An obscure pedal you can't buy..." Why can't it be bought? They've been on Reverb for years. How is the GG Rendezvous better at yoy-yoy? Let's see you explain how its yoy-yoy is the best yoy-yoy.
Yep, I was going to say Interstellar Orbiter as well.
This is part 1/20, correct?
No...
@@vandacastro1585 yes! Part 2 coming next week.
@@vandacastro1585 bruh
@@number11even41 worth mentioning that i commented this using my mother's phone so... (i might be late but idfc) (and i was a dumb kid)
Badass man. Sonic Youth have all their tunings to most of their songs on their webpage too. Even though they split up or whatever. Great job figuring all of this out.
Can I just say, loving all the request for shoegaze bands in this comment thread ♥
Bull in the heather was 👌👌👌 very nice
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Kim Gordon, Steve Shelley, Lee Ranaldo, and Thurston Moore for making this world bearable, and interpreting it in a way that makes sense to my soul.
Life is better with more GABDEG.
Hey, CME, how about selling some more strings, and sharing what the best gauges are for some of these tunings.
Sonic Youth website gear page on specific guitars notes exactly what string gages they used for specific tunings... be prepared to buy them in bulk! ;)
Tell that to my buddy who lost an eye to a broken string when trying to cover schizophrenia
@@Bruin_ffsbull shit😭
We need a Slowdive one, man.
You might find this useful: czcams.com/video/bI2w9GOOPBU/video.html
Step 1) Buy Yamaha FX500, Step 2) Set to "Soft Focus" (patch no.40).
Check out the pedal partners youtube
Outstanding job guys! You especially nailed Bull In The Heather.
We need My Bloody Valentine next
i thought that said Bullet For My Valentine for a second
now i am upset :(
William Allison no way in hell
The Jesus and Mary Chain !!!!!!
BEHEDETY too
Mary Chain is easy (at least the classic "Psychocandy" sound). Shin-Ei Fuzz/Wah pedal into a cranked spring reverb. Step on the wah into toe-down position when needed for extra noise. Use semi-hollow guitars.
as someone not familiar with the band, im interested as to how their live shows would go. either five minutes between each song just to tune or like 10+ guitars on deck
They have a million guitars in different tunings already prepares
Imagine being their guitar tech...
Thurston Moore and Lee Ronaldo have put out amazing stuff since they broke up. Steve Shelly, too. He's an amazing drummer and has played with both.
They used to have a rack with guitars tuned to a lot of songs. I have seen them 7 times. Lee and Thurston always had a big rack with like 20 guitars pre-tuned. Alot of songs share the same tunings.
Early on, 5 minutes between songs. Later when they had more guitars, the latter.
karen revisited is one of my favorites
Ahh Diamond sea and Skip tracer are some of the best. I remember having the Washing machine t-shirt way back in the day
No back in the day necessary. You can still find tees on their website! The long-sleeve Dirty is great for PJs.
Plz, let me feel old
@@nikphilip :D
Sonic Youth is a cool band but I've always wondered how the hell they get those weird tunings without breaking a string?
Andrew Pappas probably just reallllly heavy guages. Like 14s at least
Andrew Pappas they used different gauges of strings probably
you won't EVER break a string if you know how to string you guitar correctly. you only break'em if you string it wrong.
TheAmazingMeagher 14s? Wow, and I thought Stevie Ray Vaughan used heavy strings.. The heaviest gauge I have are 11s
so that probably won't work
Andrew Pappas use differnet instruments strings you can go as heavy as youd like. Ever seen jack white talk about it in that deleted scene from it might get loud? He talk about just finding a guage so heavy you basically cant play it. Really fun too gets a cook sound
I can’t tell you how long I’ve been waiting for this. One of my all time favorites!! Please do My Bloody Valentine!
i thought that said Bullet For My Valentine for a second
now i am sad :(
I don't believe in alternate tunings before marriage
Apparently, an incredibly creative spouse, lovely child, and the world as your oyster are still not enough to keep the earth turning. Stick with the alternate tunings, man, they won’t let you down.
Hehee!!
Yesterday I was thinking "it would be cool if reverb do a video about sonic youth" x) my dream came true
Great job, well done sir. Cross the Breeze intro was spot on.
this video is so gear accurate too! Lee Ranaldo loves his Tele Deluxe and his Travis Bean! Good job man!
0:01 Teen age riot
0:57 Wish fulfillment
1:28 100%
2:07 Diamond sea
2:42 Bull in the heather
3:25 Cross the breeze
3:45 Karen revisited
less chorus.
more drumsticks.
And, occasionally, baseball bats
I know what you mean. Hats off, however, to Steve Shelley, who’s been massively underrated as a percussionist. He’s awesome.
@@amandacatherine793 not sure if that is what they meant, but hats off to Steve, he's a good drummer.
Really cool and really accurate! Please do The Killers, Dirty Projectors, MBV, King Crimson, and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.
yes they need to do kglwwww that would be sick
Nailed Bull In The Heather
sounds great! that Travis Bean, tho. dream guitar.
Interstellar Orbiter.....yoyyoyyoyyoy
dayum, reverb is like the only gear channel that do cool stuff like this!
sonic youth guitar tunings are always mystery to me
Yes Sonic Youth, this will be fun.
This is 10000X better than the other sound like episodes
Man, I never comment CZcams videos. But you really nailed everything. That's awesome.
You are an amazing guitarist. Exceptional playing, and you nailed all those effects. Thank you so much for doing this!
Wild Tunings
it's finally here, now we need the one i always misread, that beith My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields, i always misread it as Bullet For My Valentine
Teen Age Riot: you oughta change the pickup selector to the middle or neck, first verse still needed to be on the neck or middle but the tone was quite close so it'll have to be a 7/10 for me
Wish Fulfillment: needed to be on the neck pickup this time and less twangy for the first guitar but the 2nd one was perfect so that's definately a 9/10
100%: The intro was very good while not being exactly alike as it's impossible to get it perfect but i'd say the guitar and bass was good but it should've been a bit more broken and fuzzy so i'll give it a 8/10
Diamond Sea: the clean guitar was super close though the phase guitar should have been probably a different phaser cos the original sounded more like an "eyeyeye" noise, though it was quite close so 9/10
Bull In The Heather: the intro harmonics and precussion sounds were perfect and the lead guitar part was spot on so 10/10
Cross The Breeze: needed to be a bit less twangy but the tone is close again so that's 9/10 for me
Karen Revisited: clean guitar needed to be less bitey and more smooth, the backing guitar was good, the bass was good though, it all blended well so 9/10
William Allison i give your comment a 2/10
-.-
lmao
Lol my bloody Valentine would be awesome
Man I thought I was the only one that always missreads that
I wish you guys would make more of these! Bring this series back
The biggest aspect of their tunings is unison strings. Produces that chorus effect. A simple tuning that is easy to start with is go to drop D and tune the 2nd and 3rd strings both to 'A'. This D-A-D A-A-D. SY doesn't use this but it is an easy way to get the unison sounds
Wicked! I’m also gonna jump on the MBV wagon and say do ol Kevin next
Great job! Covered so many great songs/ tones!
I FUCKING SEARCHED FOR THIS THREE TIMES THIS WEEK BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT ALREADY EXISTED
THANK YOU REVERB
Potent pairings: Placebo please!!!
Wow! Best one yet! So cool that you managed to nail all the tunings!
Liked before I even listened. Cool that you're doing it, even if it's not 100% accurate!
...but the tones were pretty great too! Awesome job. And sorry you had to go through all those crazy tune-ups (or tune-downs?).
It's not about the petals they did have, it's about the petals they didn't have (tuner)
it wasn't just pedals, it was tuning and modifications
I don't even own a guitar neither know how to play, but this video gave me a lot of satisfaction.
I'd like to see one of these type of vids for Swervedriver!
Awesome. You could do a whole series just on Sonic Youth.
probably the coolest video on youtube
They were such creative guitar players
MY BLOODY VALENTINE!!!!
This is awesome!!! Thanks so much for making this video. I’m sure it was no small feat to unpack all of those layers.
That jazzy is fuckin gorgeous
FINALLY!!!
Do Fugazi?
guy used maybe a boost pedal and wah. Ian is just straight into a Marshall, no mids or something
Sarcasm.
lol
These tunings are insane
Karen revisited hot boi
Nailed it
Perfect. Awesome. Kids have it so good today.
Thank You Sir!
MY BLOODY VALENTINE
do i even have to say it?
William Allison no William you don’t
good, cos you've seen the Bullet For My Valentine joke mountains of times
This video was awesome, totally made my day👌🏼
who wants to tell them that the pick scrapes on Bull In The Heather were done on bass?
You managed to go above and beyond on the Cross The Breeze intro, sounds even more beautiful than the studio version
Don't forget to get a fender style amp, completely max the controls, then pick as LIGHTLY as possible for that super tactile sound.
So awesome!
I fucking love Sonic Youth!
Well done, Joe. No easy task.
Really cool video, great job sorting out the tunings!
Brilliant. Also impressed with the Tele
the next ones should be "how to change tunings like sonic youth" and actually "how to play like sonic youth", please
I'd also still love to see a How to Sound Like The Black Keys at some point, I've always wanted to see what kind of pedals Dan Auerbach uses
if you watch the rig tour video with Daniel Johnson who works for him, you can see his pedals and guitars and amps
i know he uses:
EHX Big Muff
Boss OC3
Boss PH3
Boss PS5
Boss TR2
MXR Ten Band EQ
a fuzz wah i think that's called the Nu-Wa fuzz
EHX Q Tron
Earthquaker Devices Gloven hoof
Earthquaker Devices Tone Job
Earthquaker Devices Terminal
and there's some other pedals too but i don't remember what they were
William Allison I know that, I'm at least wondering which ones I should buy since my friends and I are doing a Black Keys song in our band
Watch the Rig Rundowns for the Black keys. There's two of them. It's everything you could ever want to know. Guitars, pedals, amps.
@Frank Howe unlesss youre a cover band
AWESOME job, Reverb!!!! PLEASE do Grinderman, METZ, My Bloody Valentine, and King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard!!!!
i thought that said Bullet For My Valentine for a second
now i'm upset :(
Excelente!!! Andaba buscando esto hace tiempo.
we need anna calvi potent pairings, she's sounds so good, thanks reverb.
You guys should do a king gizzard and the lizard wizard potent pairing
We need Flying Saucer Attack next
Really great. Really great! Thanks for putting this together.
HUGE!
Awesome. Some mad tunage!
So good.
I'm still waiting on an episode for Interpol
Now do a how to sound like Dead Kennedy’s. That’d be awesome 😎
Sonic Youth é mais importante e melhor que o Nirvana. Aliás, os Pixies e o Sonic Youth moldaram o rock alternativo dos anos 80/90
i can't comprehend these tunings at all.
omg, I now can't hear 100% the same ever again. My memory of the riff was completely wrong lol.
Sonic youth reminds me of the first hylics game. And the other weird games like that
Bull in the Heather intro was behind the bridge not the 12th fret harmonics. Other than that nailed it!
YES! FINALLY! Now you HAVE to My Bloody Valentine (Kevin Shields).
i thought that said Bullet For my Valentine for a second
now i'm sad :(
but if Kevin did play for BFMV he'd be pretty lost
@@KeeperOfPoops could be the other way, though I know nothing about bullet for my valentine
So many tunings
I love this this is awesome!
I always hoped that Bloc Party have his own video of "How To Sound" is a powerfull and very interesting band about the effects
DAMNNNNN I JUST JIZZED. OK this is too fucking amazing
Sonic youth Again please 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Liked for all the punctured thumbs from those alternate timings, miffed b/c no Silver Rocket :(
So on Karen (Revisited) the personnel would be Guitar: Thurston, Lee and Kim and Bass: Jim O'Rourke?
I'm into twinkly emo so I'm used to weird tunings but some of these are out there
Not a bad attempt... However I think on Daydream Nation I think maybe only Lee may have used a dedicated chorus effect pedal. Thurston's guitar sounds like a post-mix chorus effect, probably something Nick Sansano added as live Thurston never was known to use a chorus (until very recently when I noticed he was using a tc electronics mini chorus pedal with his "solo" band). The band's website is where to go to find all of their tunings, and gear. Its no secret what they were using gear-wise from 1994/5-ish thru to 2009-ish. Alot of their pedals are not exactly rare, with a few exceptions (Ludwig Synthesizer used to get that phasing wah wah sound on The Diamond Sea and both Lee and Thurston using Mutron effects: wah/vol and the bi-phaser). I think the Reverb folks could've used a few of the more exact pedals used as noted on the SY website...
PLEASE DO JOY DIVISION!!!!! :)
I'm late, I know: but most of Joy Division's most iconic sounds were done in post, not with pedals, and against the wishes of the band members themselves. Though, if you'd like a lead, the strange guitar sound on Atrocity Exhibition (which Peter Hook described as sounding like a dying cat), was produced using a Marshall Time Modulator, and the synth drums you hear all over UP (including the snare in She's Lost Control) are courtesy the Synare 3.
Edit: don't get me wrong, I absolutely adore the production, just some context I suppose
Well done
Wicked job man👍
They yo yo yo yo yo part was
the best 😎
This is awesome. Thanks!