Recreating Mastodon's Blood & Thunder Guitar Tone! (Feat. Ben Eller)
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- čas přidán 9. 01. 2022
- I am joined at the lovely Sweetwater Studios with my good buddy Ben Eller to recreate the main guitar tone of Mastodon's song Blood & Thunder!
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We make tones that are nice!
I always get excited and then you make a stepdad joke, and I get sad, as I AM the step dad…then I find myself questioning did my wife lower her standards?… lol thanks uncle Ben for the unending step dad jokes
You two need to collab more. Here’s an idea…
Fluff can recreate tones and Ben can do the how to play lessons, just like your respective channels both started. But do it variety show style ala TPS.
I think it will work for a series. It would be entertaining.
I like things that are nice.
How can I recreate this tone in boss katana
Yeeeee
So glad these two got married and doing videos as a couple now
We are very happy together thank you
Can’t put a guitar in D without playing this riff. Almost 20 years is insane to think.
This one and Albatross
I’m not used to hearing that tone without the fuzzy bass behind it but it sounds cool.
Yeah I feel like the bass distortion contributes a lot to the guitar sound and makes it seem fuzzier than it is. Bass always influences guitar sounds but with Mastodon the difference is bigger than with most other bands.
Facts
@@clemensmoeller4549 The secret to a huge ass guitar tone is a huge ass bass tone.
“I’m Ben! And I’m Ryan! And this is Tone Resculpting on Riffs Beards and Gear!”
Its very Andertons esque.
In all seriousness, please let Ben on this channel more, hed get a kick out of Rate or Roast/Ridiculous Reverb Listings.
Loved the video men, tone was awesome! 🤘🏻
ALL THE AMPS IN THE BACKGROUND!!!❤️❤️
I bought that Marshall JCM800 2210 from Bill used at that time. I can't believe I own it. It is a great sounding amp.
That's so cool. I bought a signed copy of the Leviathan album and a signed record player slip mat with the Remission album art that Bill shipped directly from his house.
So much amp noise it sounds like a phaser is on - I love it
Blood and Thunder and Flying Whales by Gojira are required to be played when you tune to D.
5:42 - cannot resist the the urge to start air drumming that amazing drum fill.
2 of my favorite guitar tubers doing my favorite band ever? More please
Mastodon is absolutely one of my favorite bands. Blood Mountain is a masterpiece in my mind. Thanks for the great video.
Fr, Blood Mountain really is a masterpiece (in my mind) as well
Aye! Blood mountain is peak mastodon.
Blood mountain and the hunter are my favorites, but mastodon can do no wrong either.
Yet when I listen to this band I just say all their albums are masterpieces LOL
@@ATthemusician yes yes.
Somehow there’s a great comic book or even better a cartoon here …”The New Guitar Adventures of Fluff and Uncle Ben “ I can see the cover already …thanks for all y’all do love when u kids get together 🤘🏾👈🏽
Loving the collab between you guys hope you continue to make more of them
You guys have great camera chemistry. Awesome to see this duo.
Cool video! Love Mastodon! And you guys are awesome!!
Nice seeing you with Ben making a video about my favorite song.
I linked this video in the description of my mastodon cover thanks a lot for the resource to get the tone it was really fun
Definitely one of the best riffs ever, and that tone sounds so great
Fluff & Ben, just an FYI, Brann Dailor the drummer was apparently the person who wrote the riff, not Bill Kelliher
Really?!
@@BenEller This is correct. I have a link somewhere that show's quite a few of the songs Brann hasn't written parts for. He also did the vocals for "battle at sea" on the "call of the mastodon" album, because nobody showed up.
Pretty sure he only “wrote” the riff by humming the rhythmic pattern. Doesn’t actually play guitar and has said that he’s hummed riffs into his phone / specifically for crystal skull, called his house phone and left a message while watching King Kong - and then one of the guys will figure out the what it’s supposed to sound like matching it with notes
@@Onamorata I think so too. Bill came up with the chords and Brann came up with the rhythm
@@BenEllerI been a massive fan and never even heard this
im gonna need aa whole bunch more episodes of this released twice a week for the next year to hit all the various great metal tones goin forward thanks. great work
I enjoyed the team-up videos with Ben Eller this past week. You guys should do more videos together in the future!
Oooo. That is REALLY close. Good job!
I remember being in awe hearing that riff when the song came out, to this day it remains as one of my go to "thrash-it-out-for-fun" songs.
Now this is some top tier content right here
The unsung hero of this tone is the fact that the amp is fucking screaming. Normally an 800 tops out around volume 4 depending on where the gain is set so these guys running it around 7 is killer. This is how Marshall’s are designed to be played yet so many demos have them with the volume low. Bravo gentlemen for doing it right.
love this
Super cool!
Fluff! I had NO IDEA Mastodon was your favorite, or one of your most favorite, bands! That’s badass!
I love the amp hissing away in the background.
I'm pretty sure that Brann Dailor wrote the riff for blood and thunder.
I seem to remember seeing an interview where he's talking about it.
Time to learn this riff
Probably my favorite album ever❤️🔥
That. That sounds pretty good.
The song is already massive, but that last chunky bit at the end is one of the heaviest things I heard as a kid back in 06. To this day it still rattles my skull. I love those first Mastodon records so much, man.
The song that turned me onto that awesome band! Yall got it right!
Good job
Cool, I’m boosting my JCM 800 with an OCD, also. Sounds righteous.
I LOVE THIS SERIES!!! FLUFF…PLEASE PARTNER WITH BEN ELLER FOR THE BEST CONTENT EVER!!!!
Much much better than certain other youtubers.
The Tube King...I always pictured that one being used by older blues guys. The early version with the silver metallic casing...it looked like it belonged in a club in Chicago in the late 60s.
That hiss is driving me fucking nuts
Thas crazy, I love the hiss from amps. Well love is a bit strong but I prefer it to no hiss because it makes the amp sound alive. Each to there own 🤘
Mastodon used to open for my band 20 years ago. We knew it.
What was your band man?
@@patrickolivier1 Halfway To Gone, Solarized and A Thousand Knives of Fire.
So crunchy.
Yall should recreate the remission tone next!
Scored a Crack the Skye red vinyl only sold on the tour about two weeks ago.
Wooww it’s super nice heading crafting tone of …. !!! Please next time recra recreation tone of bullet for my valentine poison album! Thank’s
I gotta revisit my OCD... it's been collecting dust 😔
I have a Laney VH100R, which is what Mastodon used (EL34 tubes). Inspired by this video, I tried to match the isolated guitar tracks. Finding an IR was hard, but I settled on a York Audio T75, 57 mic, on-axis (II). I did some EQ matching in post, and beside a couple of dips in the low end, the EQ match was basically a tilt filter with a high shelf, which is a good sign.
The results? The tone you dialed in on the JCM800 has a soft low end, and a fuzzy musical kind of mid/high distortion. My Laney has a colder sound. I did A/B/C listening with your JCM800, my Laney, and the reference track. When comparing my Laney with the reference track, the difference is the lack of a JCM800 quality. But when I compare your JCM800 track with the reference track, the difference is a lack of the cold qualities that my I got from my Laney! As a result, I think the album tone is both amps, with JCM800 as the main guitars, and the Laney in the background, turned down a bit lower. Basically confirming Bill Kellehers memory.
I had an Ibanez Tube King that I sold. Good unit!
which version of g12t75 you use the old british one or the new chinese one
I'm just happy there is atleast one video out there that isn't just:
"MASTODON USE THE ORANGE"
I'm so sick of people trying to recreate their old tones with Orange amps when they clearly used Marshalls.
Orange has great tones in the same vein as what mastodon does, but NOTHING beats the JCM800
Have you guys checked out the Janitor pedal from Brent Hinds?
Not that I need the link, because the album pretty much never leaves my rotation. But I still get a kick out of all the people that say "Link below" and then there is absolutely...NO link to what they said they were going to link to. Lol.
your favourite band ever? wow nice
Maybe recreate the guitar tone off of La Gargola?
This album is the reason I have a les Paul always in D
WHITE WHALE HOLY GRAILLL
Damnnnn that was good... but the closing chugs on Where Strides the Behemoth were THE ULTIMATE FAT MONSTERS (wonder if anyone gonna dial that tone tho)
Remission guitar and bass tone is monster
OCD's are un appreciated pedals by many moder metal players, very flat eq response and lots of very natural sounding gain that blends very very well.
For all those looking to try the OCD thing on a budget, the EHX OD glove is a brilliant OCD clone, very much the same as the V2 OCD, and if you have really small budget check out the Joyo Ultimate Drive, they are OCD clones, and although not as good /close to the original as the EHX they are still quite close and cost $/£30 or close to (the EHX would be £/$ 60-90, an OCD would be £/$ 150-200)
Never clicked a video so fast
Do the crack the skye tone
Welcome to Talking, Beards and Gear. Also, can anyone else hear the hiss sound in the background or am I going crazy?
I want to hear Mastadon(or any other) metal band do covers of all of the Disney songbook,and someone HAS TO MAKE METAL VERSION OF 'SOUND OF MUSIC'.Just thinkin'...
Beard Chat with Mr. Billy K. please and thank you
best of Andresons TV
Please keep doing videos together
We texted bill, nbd. Gosh darn it!
But then they used all different gear haha so don’t get too bummed out!!
This sounds more like the intro with more gain although pretty close tonally. The sound is very different as soon as left right rhythm guitars kick in. Much thicker and dirtier, borderline muddy. Just my two cents.
god mastodons so fucking good
D standard, you HAVE to play some Death!
Man the Phishing on CZcams is getting out of control! Every single comment I've made this week was hit. This was the first one to mimic the creator by using his Profile pic though. THEY ARE EVOLVING!! F**king nuts!
The worst part of what Uncle Ben said to start was that it was true.
Personally I would’ve gone Orange, but nonetheless, you defo got the tone!! 🤘🤘
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a Les Paul into a JCM800 with an OD pedal, like every hardcore/metal band in the 2000s lmfao
A boosted jcm800 is all you really need. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
fuck yea mastadon is the shit
Now do Clayman.
Yeah close but in the original, and that caught my attention the first time i listened to it, is less distorted, almoster just overdriven a lot
Edit: I went and listen to the studio one and yes its a lot cleaner that you might think! give it a go and tell me
Uncle Ben gets around
I did exactly that for school (Studio Engineering School)
Got an A
Brunkle Flen
My mum's second husband is actually a higher standard than my dad. He works in credit card fraud and is in 3 (three(III)) tech death bands
I play it in Drop D on my Les Paul because even though my Schecter SLS Evil twin is in D Standard it feels blasphemous to play it on anything other than a vintage guitar.
Ben your face is so shiny
I like every Mastodon album, but their tones on CTS were their best and most varied, imo. It's also their best album by leaps and bounds.
Ben somehow looks 14 and 40 at the same time lol
I think the riff from "blood and thunder" was stolen from some Biohazard album! hehehe
Lol my mom's second husband is my dad
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It’s so weird seeing Uncle Ben out of character 😅
Sounds like way to much gain. The first guitar is really low gain. And the second guitar that comes in with the drums is about like the sound with the OD off. The bass adds a lot of hair to the mixed track but if you isolate the 2 guitar tracks you will notice way less gain than is perceived in the mix. The tone is good however.
Is it me or is there a constant hiss in this video all the way through?
It happens when you crank an amps volume and gain.
Tube amp
@@ChuranuQC I never notice that with my orange dual.
Also they can isolate the amp tracks on the video edit until they use the amp
@@garethm9523 Some amps are worse than others, and it seems like they kept the mic signal unmuted for the whole video.
That's cheating! You can't just text the musician, haha. 😆
^ bruh moment
Fluff! Take the top down to the wood. Thank me later
More playing, less talk
Mastodon put out the "Big 4" metal albums of our generation - Remission, Leviathan, Blood Mountain, and Crack The Skye. You can't change my mind.
However:
POST-Crack The Skye Mastodon has been aiming at writing their "Black Album" ever since.........and not quite hitting the mark.
I dunno, Once More ‘Round The Sun is so good.
I loved Emperor of Sand and Cold Dark Place
Cts is boring for me, everything after is great
The new album, Hushed and Grim, is great too
Those two are tough to watch..
"I'm Rabea! And I'm Matt! And this is Sounds Like on Anderton's TV"
Nah
Nah.
I have a question, are you guys dating?
I have an answer, I’m wearing his class ring and letter jacket as I type this.
@@BenEller Aye congrats! Happy that you guys are together! #fluffeller